SI 2024 Forecasting & Empirical Methods

Allan Timmermann and Jonathan H. Wright, Organizers

July 9-12, 2024

Longfellow BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 9
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
Economic Methodology
8:30 am
Ulrich Müller, Princeton University
Mark W. Watson, Princeton University and NBER

Testing Coefficient Variability in Spatial Regressions (slides)
9:15 am
Laura Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Yulong Wang, Syracuse University

Binary Outcome Models with Extreme Covariates: Estimation and Prediction (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:29 am
Counterfactuals
10:30 am
Silvia Goncalves, McGill University
Serena Ng, Columbia University and NBER

Imputation of Counterfactual Outcomes when the Errors are Predictable (slides)
11:15 am
Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Simon Smith, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Inflation Dynamics During the COVID Era: A High-frequency Approach (slides)
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Wednesday, July 10
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
Causal Inference
8:30 am
Junting Duan, Stanford University
Markus Pelger, Stanford University and NBER
Ruoxuan Xiong, Emory University

Causal Inference for Large Dimensional Non-Stationary Panels with Two-Way Endogenous Treatment and Latent Confounders (slides)
9:15 am
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Tomohide Mineyama, International Monetary Fund
Dongho Song, Johns Hopkins University

Are We Fragmented Yet? Measuring Geopolitical Fragmentation and its Causal Effects
10:00 am
Break
10:29 am
Propagation of Shocks
10:30 am
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Davide Viviano, Harvard University

Propagation of Shocks in Networks: Identification and Applications
11:15 am
Martin Almuzara, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Víctor Sancibrián, CEMFI

Micro Responses to Macro Shocks
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Thursday, July 11
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
Topics in Macro Modeling
8:30 am
Christiane Baumeister, University of Notre Dame and NBER
James D. Hamilton, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Uncovering Disaggregated Oil Market Dynamics: A Full-Information Approach to Granular Instrumental Variables (slides)
9:15 am
James Mitchell, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Saeed Zaman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Distributional Predictive Content of Measures of Inflation Expectations
10:00 am
Break
10:29 am
Transmission of Macro Shocks
10:30 am
Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Innovation Powered Narrative Inference (slides)
11:15 am
Florian Huber, University of Salzburg
Massimiliano Marcellino, Bocconi University
Tommaso Tornese, Bocconi University

The Distributional Effects of Economic Uncertainty (slides)
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Friday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
High Frequency Modeling
8:30 am
Torben G. Andersen, Northwestern University and NBER
Yi Ding, University of Macau
Viktor Todorov, Northwestern University

The Granular Origins of Tail Risk
9:15 am
Isaac Baley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Javier Turen, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Lumpy Forecasts (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:29 am
Empirical Finance
10:30 am
Dacheng Xiu, and NBER
Stefano Giglio, Yale University and NBER
Dake Zhang, University of Chicago

Prediction when factors are weak
11:15 am
Svetlana Bryzgalova, London Business School
Jiantao Huang, University of Hong Kong
Christian Julliard, London School of Economics

Macro Strikes Back: Term Structure of Risk Premia and Market Segmentation
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn