Events:
STICERD Econometrics Seminars
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Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events.
Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.
Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.
Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.
Thursday 04 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Robust Signal Maximization in Spillover Experiments
We study the optimal design and analysis of experiments for estimating spillover effects. Assuming a known (e.g., linear) exposure mapping, we characterize the treatment-assignment distribution and regression-based estim...Read more...
Kirill Borusyak (Berkeley), joint with Peter Hull and Evan Munro
This event is both online and in person
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 01 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Monday Seminar: CANCELLED
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Louise Laage (Georgetown)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 28 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
CANCELLED
TBC...Read more...
Mingli Chen (Warwick)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 21 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Cross-Fitting-Free Debiased Machine Learning with Multiway Dependence
This paper develops an asymptotic theory for two-step debiased machine learning (DML) estimators in generalised method of moments (GMM) models with general multiway clustered dependence, without relying on cross-fitting....Read more...
Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin?Madison)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 14 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies
There are many economic contexts where the productivity and welfare performance of institutions and policies depend on who matches with whom. Examples include caseworkers and job seekers in job search assistance programs...Read more...
Toru Kitagawa (Brown), joint with Yagan Hazard
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 13 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday Seminar: Regression Discontinuity Design with Spillovers
This paper studies regression discontinuity designs (RDD) when linear-in-means spillovers occur between units that are close in their running variable. We show that the RDD estimand depends on the ratio of two terms: (1)...Read more...
Yong Cai (Wisconsin)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 06 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday Seminar: Semiparametric Instrumental Variables Method
This paper proposes to construct instrumental variables by projection and expansion. As the projection and expansion process is semiparametric, we define this procedure as a semiparametric instrumental--variable (SIV) me...Read more...
Jiti Gao (Monash University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 26 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Synthetic Blips: Generalizing Synthetic Controls for Dynamic Treatment Effects
We propose a generalization of the synthetic control and interventions methods to the setting with dynamic treatment effects. We consider the estimation of unit-specific treatment effects from panel data collected under ...Read more...
Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 19 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
On the Irregular Behavior of Regularized Calibration in High Dimensions
Propensity-score weighting is widely used for treatment effect estimation, and calibrated estimation has been advocated as an alternative to maximum-likelihood fitting of logistic propensity score models, particularly wi...Read more...
Jesper Riis-Vestergaard S?rensen (Copenhagen)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 12 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Prediction Intervals for Model Averaging
A rich set of frequentist model averaging methods has been developed, but their applications have largely been limited to point prediction, as measuring prediction uncertainty in general settings remains an open problem....Read more...
Zhongjun Qu (Boston), joint with Wendun Wang and Xiaomeng Zhang
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 26 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Under the null of valid specification, pre-tests cannot make post-test inference liberal
Consider a parameter of interest, which can be consistently estimated under some conditions. Suppose also that we can at least partly test these conditions with specification tests. We consider the common practice of con...Read more...
Clement De Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 11 December 2025 15:00 - 17:30
Endogenous Weights in Spatial Autoregression
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Jungyoon Lee (Royal Holloway, University of London), joint with Offer Lieberman, Gianfranco Piras and Francesca Rossi
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 04 December 2025 14:00 - 15:30
K-means Clustering of CCPs for Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity
We propose to use k-means clustering of observed conditional choice probabilities (CCPs) to estimate latent variables that underlie unobserved heterogeneity in dynamic decision problems and dynamic games. Unobserved hete...Read more...
Sorawoot (Tang) Srisuma (National University of Singapore), joint with Abhimanyu Gupta (Essex/Queen's), Leonardo Puppi (USP), and Fabio Sanches (EESP-FGV)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 27 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Identification and Optimal Reserve Prices in Ascending Auctions, with an Application to Art
This paper proposes a novel non-parametric approach to partial identification of the distribution of the highest valuation, seller?s expected profit, and optimal reserve price in symmetric ascending auctions. Our approac...Read more...
Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 20 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
The Means of Prediction
Maximilian Kasy will present his forthcoming book, The Means of Prediction. Artificial intelligence, far from being an unstoppable force, is irrevocably shaped by human decisions?choices made to date by the ownership cla...Read more...
Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 13 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Testing Conditional Stochastic Dominance at Target Points
This paper introduces a novel test for conditional stochastic dominance (CSD) at specific values of the conditioning covariates, referred to as target points. The test is relevant for analyzing income inequality, evaluat...Read more...
Deborah Kim (Warwick)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 18 September 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Functional Partial Least-Squares: Adaptive Estimation and Inference
We study the linear regression model with a scalar response and a functional predictor, a canonical example of an ill-posed inverse problem. We show that the functional partial least-squares (PLS) estimator achieves conv...Read more...
Marine Carrasco (Montreal)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 06 June 2025 14:00 - 15:30
FRIDAY Seminar: What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify?
This paper addresses the limitations of the local projection IV (LP-IV) framework in identifying impulse responses to macroeconomic shocks. We show that an LPIV estimand may lack a causal interpretation, as it represen...Read more...
Myung Hwan Seo (Seoul National University), joint with Bonsoo Koo and Seojeong Lee
This event is both online and in person
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 05 June 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Inference for cluster-level randomized experiments (with matched pairs)
This paper studies inference in cluster randomized trials where treatment status is determined according to a ?matched pairs? design. Here, by a cluster randomized experiment, we mean one in which treatment is assigned ...Read more...
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago), joint with Yuehao Bai (Michigan), Jizhou Liu (Chicago) and Max Tabord-Meehan (Chicago)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 28 May 2025 15:30 - 17:00
WEDNESDAY 15:30PM Seminar: Difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods for random objects
There is a growing interest in causal inference for non-Euclidean outcomes. However, most existing studies focus on cases where the outcomes are functional data or distributions. In this talk, we propose the Geodesic Dif...Read more...
Daisuke Kurisu (The University of Tokyo)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH