‘Identification and Misspecification Problems in Econometrics’ workshop

Join us for a free workshop in Liverpool to discuss recent advances, challenges, and solutions related to identification and misspecification—a critical problem in applied econometric research.

Open to: any PhD students and researchers

Cost: free, including free coffee, tea and lunch (travel and accommodation not included)

Dates: 6 May 2025

Place: University of Liverpool Management School, Chatham Street, L69 7ZH – Seminar Room 5


Event details 

Hosted by the Management School’s Economics Group, the ‘Identification and Misspecification Problems in Econometrics’ workshop is an excellent opportunity for researchers, PhD students and practitioners in the field of econometrics to learn recent theoretical and empirical developments in this area.

Through a series of sessions with leading experts and emerging researchers, this workshop aims to:

  • To explore the theoretical underpinnings of ‘’identification and misspecification’’ in
    econometrics
  • To discuss empirical methods and tools available for detecting and correcting
    misspecification
  • To facilitate collaboration and networking among researchers at different career stages.

Schedule

Time Programe

11:00-11:30 

Registration 

11:30-12:15  

James A. Duffy (University of Oxford) and Sophocles Mavroeidis (University of Oxford), Common Trends and Long-Run Identification in Nonlinear Structural VARs.

12:15-13:00  

Emmanuel Guerre (Queen Mary, University of London) and Yao Luo (University of Toronto), Nonparametric Identification of First-Price Auction with Unobserved Competition: A Density Discontinuity Framework.

13:00-14:00 

Lunch

14:00-14:45  

Claire Lebrun (University of Liverpool Management school), Evolving networks for modelling daily written media data.

14:45-15:30  

Emanuele Bacchiocchi (University of Bologna) and Toru Kitagawa (Brown University),  SVARs with breaks: Identification and inference.

15:30-16:15 

Mohamed Doukali (University of Liverpool Management school), "A regularization approach to the linear panel data model with measurement error’’

16:15-16:30   

Closing remarks

Submit your paper

If you have undertaken econometric research related to identification and misspecification, we would like to invite you to submit your full paper before 15 March 2025.

You will be notified of the outcome of your application by 21 March 2025.

Send your full paper to ulms.eco.workshop@gmail.com

In your submission, please specify your:

  • Full name
  • Affiliation.

Keynote speakers

  • Dr James DuffyAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, Oxford University
  • Dr Emmanuel Guere – Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London

Organisers

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