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ADVANCING APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS

August 23-25, 2010 Beijing

CONFERENCE BROCHURE

SPONSORS

Center for Microdata Methods and Practice, University College London

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

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COFERENCE PROGRAM

SPONSORS

Center for Microdata Methods and Practice, University College London



ORGANIZERS

Phil Haile, Simon Lee, and Hongbin Cai

Monday (August 23rd

)

09:00 Jean-Marc Robin (University of Paris), "Marriage with Labor

Supply" (with Nicolas Jacquemet)

09:45 Donald Andrews (Yale University), "Estimation and Inference with

Weak Identification" (with Xu Cheng)

10:30 Break

11:00 Rosa Matzkin (UCLA), "Conditions for the Existence of Control

Functions in Nonseparable Simultaneous Equations Models" (with

Richard Blundell)

11:45 Joseph Altonji (Yale University), "Methods for Using Selection on

Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved

Variables" (with Timothy Conley, Todd Elder, and Christopher

Taber)

12:30 Lunch

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13:30 Joel Horowitz (Northwestern University), "Estimating a

Conditional Mean Function with a High-Dimensional Covariate"

14:30 Travel to the sites for group sightseeing

15:00 Guided tour in the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest)

15:25 Guided tour in the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube)

15:50 Travel to the Summer Palace

16:15 Guided tour in the Summer Palace

18:00 Dinner at Quan Ju De Roast Duck Restaurant

20:30 Travel back to hotel

Tuesday (August 24th

)

09:00 Ivan Fernandez-Val (Boston University), "Quantile and Average

Effects in Panel Nonseparable Models” (with Victor Chernozhukov

and Whitney Newey)

09:45 Han Hong (Stanford University), "Dynamic Entry with Cross

Product Spillovers: An Application to the Generic Drug Industry"

(with A.Ronald Gallant and Ahmed Khwaja)

10:30 Break

11:00 Steven Berry (Yale University), "Identification in Differentiated

Products Markets Using Market Level Data" (with Philip Haile)

11:45 Li-An Zhou (Peking University), "Microinsurance, Trust and

Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural

Field Experiment" (with Hongbai Cai, Yuyu Chen, and Hanming

Fang)

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12:30 Lunch

13:30 POSTER SESSION

Hongbin Cai (Peking University), "China's Land Market Auctions:

Evidence of Corruption" (with V. Henderson and Q. Zhang)

Ivan Canay (Northwestern University), "Asymptotic Distortions in

Locally Misspecified Moment Inequality Models" (with F.A. Bugni

and P. Guggenberger)

Sokbae Lee (University College London), "Testing for Marginal

Treatments" (with K Song and Y.J. Whang)

Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), "Identifying and

Testing Models of Managerial Compensation" (with G.L. Gayle)

Andriy Norets (Princeton University), "Bayesian Modeling of

Conditional Distributions"

Xun Tang (University of Pennsylvania), "Identification of

Stochastic Sequential Bargaining Models"

14:30 Travel to Tian’anmen Square for group sightseeing

15:15 Guided tour at Tian’anmen Square

15:50 Guided tour through the Forbidden City

18:00 Travel Tianjin Dumpling Restaurant for dinner

18:45 Dinner at Tianjin Dumpling Restaurant


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Wednesday (August 25th

)

09:00 Edward Vytlacil (Yale University), "Nonparametric Identification

and Estimation of a Binary Choice Model of Loan Approval Using

Only Approved Loans" (with Wei Jiang and Ashlyn Nelson)

09:45 Aureo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania), "Identification and

Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are

Ideological" (with Antonio Merlo)

10:30 Break

11:00 Yuyu Chen (Peking University), "Peer Migration in China" (with

Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue)

11:45 Richard Blundell (University College London), "Stochastic

Demand and Revealed Preference" (with Dennis Kristensen and

Rosa Matzkin)

12:30 POSTER SESSION

Debopam Bhattacharya (Oxford University), "Detecting Treatment

Misallocation"

Andrew Chesher (University College London), "Set Identifying

Models with Discrete Outcomes and Endogenous Variables" (with

K. Smolinski)

Kirill Evdokimov (Yale University), "Further Results on

Identification of Panel Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity"

Ying Fan (University of Michigan), "Financial Constraints and the

Franchising Decision" (with K.U. Kuhn and F. Lafontaine)

Wanchuan Lin (Peking University), "The Effect of Patient

Knowledge and Involvement on Antibiotic Abuse and Health Care

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Services-Evidence from an Audit Study in China" (with W. Zhang)

Christoph Rothe (Toulouse School of Economics), "Nonparametric

Regression with Nonparametrically Generate Regressors" (with E.

Mammen and M. Schienle)

13:30 Travel to the Great Wall (lunch will be provided on the coach)

15:00 Guided tour on the Great Wall

17:30 Travel back into town

19:00 Dinner at the Royal Compound


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CONFERENCE ATTENDEES

Joseph Altonji Yale University

Donald Andrews Yale University

Timothy Armstrong Stanford University

Steven Berry Yale University

Debopam Bhattacharya Dartmouth College

Richard Blundell University College London

Hongbin Cai Peking University

Ivan Canay Northwestern University

Xiaohong Chen Yale University

Yuyu Chen Peking University

Xu Cheng University of Pennsylvania

Andrew Chesher University College London

Andrew Ching University of Toronto

Aureo de Paula University of Pennsylvania

Kirill Evdokimov Yale University

Ying Fan University of Michigan

Ivan Fernandez-Val Boston University

Han Hong Stanford University

Joel Horowitz Northwestern University

Hidehiko Ichimura University of Tokyo

Sung Jae Jun Pennsylvania State University

Kyoo il Kim University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Toru Kitagawa University College London

Sokbae Simon Lee University College London

Arthur Lewbel Boston College

Wanchuan Lin Peking University

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Rosa Matzkin University of California, Los Angeles

Blaise Melly Brown University

Robert Miller Carnegie Mellon University

Andriy Norets Princeton University

Harry Paarsch University of Melborne

Juan Pantano Washington University in St. Louis

Ju Qiu Toulouse School of Economics

Jean-Marc Robin Sciences Po Paris & UCL

Christoph Rothe Toulouse School of Economics

Xiaoxia Shi Yale University

Konrad Smolinski Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice

Che-Lin Su University of Chicago

Xun Tang University of Pennsylvania

Anne Vanhems Toulouse Business School

Edward Vytlacil Yale University

Hui Wang Peking University

Yoon-Jae Whang Seoul National University

Jihai Yu Peking University

Li-An Zhou Peking University

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ABOUT THE SPONSORS

Center for Microdata Methods and Practice, University College

London

The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (Cemmap) develops

and applies methods for modeling individual behavior, the influences on

it and the impact of policy interventions.

Cemmap conducts research and organizes conferences, symposia,

workshops and training courses. Academic and professional economists

and social scientists from the UK and abroad are welcome at Cemmap

events.

Cemmap maintains an extensive network of fellows at home and abroad,

it has organized over 50 training courses, 15 masterclasses and is home

to one of the world's leading working papers series in the field of

microeconometrics with over 100 titles many now published in leading

journals.

Cemmap is a joint venture by the Department of Economics University

College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Its offices are at the

IFS in Bloomsbury in central London.


The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University

has as its purpose the conduct and encouragement of research in

economics and related fields. The Foundation seeks to foster the

development and application of rigorous logical, mathematical, and

statistical methods of analysis.

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The Cowles Foundation provides support for research and research

related activities through Research Programs in four core areas of

interest to Cowles: Econometrics, Economic Theory, Macroeconomics,

and Structural Microeconomics. Each of these broad areas has deep ties

to the Cowles tradition and provides a foundation for other fields of

inquiry in economics and related fields. Cowles Program Areas sponsor

visiting faculty and post-docs, organize conferences, and provide other

research resources at Yale.

From time to time, Cowles also sponsors shorter-term research

initiatives in areas of emerging interest. Currently, Cowles is supporting

a special initiative in Optimization.


Established in December 1993 by merging the Department of

Economics and Management, the School of Economics, and the Center

of Management Science, Guanghua was originally called the Peking

University Business School. The name was changed in 1994 to honor

the generous donation from the Guanghua Education Foundation in

Hong Kong.

Just as China is undergoing dynamic changes, the School finds itself in

the position of meeting the future challenges facing the world

economies. Through its educational initiatives, Guanghua seeks to

enable its graduates to develop and implement responsible and

innovative successful business solutions.

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SIGHTSEEING AGENDA

Aug. 23, 2010

The Olympic Park

The National Stadium hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies,

athletic events, and football final of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The

stadium cost US$423 million. The design, which originated from the

study of Chinese ceramics, implemented steel beams in order to hide

supports for the retractable roof; giving the stadium the appearance of a

"Bird's nest".

The Beijing National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the Water Cube, is an

aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium for the

swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Despite its

nickname, the building is not an actual cube, but a rectangular box.

Swimmers at the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008

Olympics.

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Summer Palace

First built in 1750, the Summer Palace is the most renowned imperial

garden of Qing Dynasty. It covers 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters

of which is Kunming Lake. The Lake was entirely manmade and the

excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill. In the Summer Palace,

one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and classical architectures. The

Palace is also renowned for its 17-Arch Bridge and Long Corridor, a

covered walkway famous for its length and more than 14,000 decoration

paintings.

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Aug. 24, 2010

Tian’anmen Square

Tian’anmen Square is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, named

after the Tian’anmen (or Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north,

separating it from the Forbidden City. Tian’anmen Square is the largest

city square in the world, covering 440,000 square meters.

Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming

Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of

Beijing, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five hundred

years, it served as the home of emperors and their households. The

palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and

has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and

elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in

1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved

ancient wooden structures in the world.

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Aug. 25, 2010

The Great Wall

The Great Wall of China, listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in

1987, winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and

plateaus, stretching approximately 8,851.8 kilometers (5,500 miles)

from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, it is

still a most appealing attraction owing to its architectural grandeur and

historical significance.

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TRANSPORTATION GUIDE

If you are taking a flight to Beijing International Airport, you might

arrive in the Terminal 1, 2, or 3. Regardless of which terminal you are,

you are suggested to take a taxi. Under normal traffic conditions, it takes

about 45 minutes to arrive at Peking University (PKU), and costs about

90-110 RMB.

Destination: Lakeview Hotel of PKU (北京大学博雅宾馆)

Address: #127, Zhongguancun North Street, Haidian District

It is important to note that we are located in the New Building of the

Guanghua School of Management (or Building #2). Just in case the taxi

driver is not familiar with the place, you can ask him/her to:

1. Drive to the west Gate of Tsinghua University.

2. Then make a U-turn and head towards the south.

3. Turn right at the first traffic light.

4. Turn right after the first block and you will arrive at the

Lakeview Hotel, which is a few minutes’ walk to the conference

venue at Room 109, New Building of Guanghua School of

Management.

There is a map of the Lakeview Hotel on the next page. The red route is

suggested.

NOTE: When taking a taxi in Beijing, always make sure the first

English letter on the car plate is “B” (e.g. “京 B 12345”). Cars with any

other kinds of plates are illegal taxis that should never be taken.

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This is the Chinese version of the Transportation Guide. You could give

it to the taxi driver if necessary.

交通指示

如果您乘坐航班到达北京国际机场，您可能从第 1、2或者 3

号航站楼出来。建议您乘坐计程车。在正常的交通情况下，大

概需要 45分种到达北京大学博雅宾馆。总共花费大概在

90-110元之间。

地点：北京大学博雅宾馆

地址：北京市海淀区中关村北大街 127 号

如果司机对此地点不甚了解，那么您可以请他：

1. 开车到清华大学西门

2. 掉头向南

3. 在第一个红绿灯处右转

4. 请在顶头处右转，即是北大博雅宾馆

下一页有博雅宾馆周边地图，红色路线是建议的出租车行车路

线。

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LOCAL CONTACTS

The local organization team at Guanghua School of Management would

like to give their warm welcome to all conference attendees and wish

you a fruitful exchange of ideas, along with a pleasant stay in Beijing!

If you need our help with regard to airport/train station transfer,

conference material, sightseeing arrangements, or in case of emergency,

please do not hesitate to contact the following conference organization

assistants.

Moyan Zhao

Mobile: (+86)130-2194-5099

Email: [email protected]

Guang Shi

Mobile: (+86)138-1165-0497


Fei Li

Mobile: (+86)138-1058-5508


Rongzhang Wang

Mobile: (+86)138-1119-1745


Qing Gong

Mobile: (+86)159-0103-0423


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