ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY/BOCCONI UNIVERSITY 2020 WORLD CONGRESS PROGRAM 8.6.20 TIME MONDAY, AUGUST 17 TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 10:00 – 12:00 AM UTC During the Congress, contributed LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A 12:00-14:00 PM CEST/Milan sessions can be accessed and viewed, Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions with continued 24-hour access 6:00 - 8:00 AM EDT/NYC throughout the Congress. Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Official Congress runs 8/17/20-8/21/20 minute blocks minute blocks minute blocks minute blocks 12:00-13:00 PM UTC *LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE POLICY SESSION LIVE Q&A LIVE MENTORING SESSION 14:00 -15:00 PM CEST/Milan Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Trade Wars and Trade Talks Live Q&A for contributed sessions Gender Mentoring Session 8:00 - 9:00 AM EDT/NYC Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Chair: Giovanni Maggi Multiple concurrent sessions of 30- Chair: Marina Halac minute blocks minutes blocks Chad Bown minutes blocks Xiaohong Chen SPECIAL END TIME 13:30 UTC *NOTE SPECIAL TIME LIVE THANK YOU GATHERING Ralph Ossa CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS Janet Currie Q&A ENDS AT 13:30 UTC Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier ALL PACs AND PCs WHO WORKED Steve Redding Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln taped-from-live presentations. taped-from-live presentations. ON WORLD CONGRESS INVITED Nezih Guner 13:00-14:00 AM UTC *LIVE WELCOME LIVE POLICY SESSION LIVE POLICY SESSION LIVE POLICY SESSION LIVE POLICY SESSION 15:00 -16:00 PM CEST/Milan Welcome Address AI and ML in Empirical Research What can economics do for racial justice? Climate Change Consumer Data/ and IT Firms 9:00 -10:00 AM EDT/NYC Orazio Attanasio, President Chair: Victor Chernozhukov Chair: Eliana La Ferrara Chair: Philippe Aghion Chair: Jacques Cremer Econometric Society Esther Duflo Kerwin Kofi Charles Per Krusell Steve Tadelis Mario Monti, President Guido Imbens Lisa Cook Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Bocconi University Vasilis Syrgkanis Imran Rasul SPECIAL TIME Leonard Wantchekon *NOTE SPECIAL TIME 13:30-14:00 UTC WELCOME BEGINS AT 13:30 UTC 15:30-16:00 CEST/Milan 9:30 am-10:00 am EDT/NYC 14:15-15:30 PM UTC LIVE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS LIVE FISHER-SCHULTZ LECTURE LIVE WALRAS-BOWLEY LECTURE LIVE COWLES MEMORIAL LECTURE LIVE FRISCH LECTURE 16:15-17:30 PM CEST/Milan Economics and measurement: Generic machine learning for heterogenous Invidious comparisons: ranking and Random networks in the theory of Individual and social welfare: a Bayesian treatment effects in randomized 10:15 - 11:30 AM EDT/NYC measuring what, measuring how? selection as compound decisions information diffusion, financial perspective experiments—and other use of machine intermediation, and disease learning tools by experimentalists transmission Robert Shimer, Introduction by Larry Orazio Attanasio Esther Duflo Roger Koenker Samuelson David Pearce Introduction by Stephen Morris Introduction by Gianmario Verona, Introduction by Victor Chernozhukov Preceded by a tribute to World Introduction by Orazio Attanasio Rector Bocconi University Congress Program Chair Emmanuel Farhi by Jean Tirole 15:30-16:00 PM UTC LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING 17:30-18:00 PM CEST/Milan 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions 11:30 AM -12:00 PM EDT/NYC Labor Economics Industrial Organization Environmental Economics International Macro & Finance History, Culute and Institutions Economic Theory Macroeconomics Finance Experimental & Behavioral Economics Microeconomics General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" 16:00-17:30 UTC LIVE CONCURRENT SESSIONS LIVE CONCURRENT SESSIONS LIVE CONCURRENT SESSIONS LIVE CONCURRENT SESSIONS LIVE CONCURRENT SESSIONS 18:00-19:30 PM CEST/Milan Contests and Contracts Beliefs in Macroeconomics Frontiers of Time Series Econometrics Macroeconomic Policy Modern Causal Inference 12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT/NYC Thomas Mariotti Nicola Gennaoioli Raffaella Giacomini Monika Piazzesi Alberto Abadie Juuso Välimäki Yuriy Gorodnichenko Anna Mikusheva Ivan Werning Christian Hansen Chair: Johannes Hörner Chair: Ivan Werning Chair: Victor Chernozhukov Chair: Ricardo Caballero Chair: Victor Chernozhukov *** *** *** *** *** Frontiers of Modern Econometrics Health as Human Capital Social Interactions and Development Topics in Microeconomic Theory Topics in Industrial Organization Stéphane Bonhomme Janet Currie Abhijit Banerjee Philippe Jehiel Leslie Marx Alfred Galichon Nick Papageorge Matt Jackson Alexander Wolitzky Volker Nocke Chair: Victor Chernozhukov Chair: Eliana La Ferrara Chair: Eliana La Ferrara Chair: Johannes Hörner Chair: Johannes Hörner Paired invited Paired invited Paired invited Paired invited Paired invited Will include Q&A Will include Q&A Will include Q&A Will include Q&A Will include Q&A 17:30-18:00 PM UTC *LIVE POLICY SESSION LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING LIVE NETWORKING *LIVE CLOSING REMARKS 19:30 - 20:00 PM CEST/Milan Inequalities Panel 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions 3 live networking sessions Closing Remarks 1:30 - 2:00 PM EDT/NYC Chair: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Time Series Econometrics Development Economics Public Economics Gianmario Verona, Rector, Bocconi University *NOTE SPECIAL TIMES Oriana Bandiera Political Economy Computational Economics International Trade Sir Richard Blundell General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" General Networking "Coffee break" Orazio Attanasio, President, The Econometric Society INEQUALITIES SESSION BEGINS AT Jan Eeckhout 18:15 UTC Debra Satz *SPECIAL TIME *SPECIAL TIME CLOSING REMARKS BEGIN AT 18:15 -19:15 UCT 17:45-18:15 UTC 17:45 UTC 20:15-21:15 CEST/Milan 19:15-20:015CEST/Milan 2:15 pm-3:15 pm EDT/NYC 1:45 pm-2:15 pm EDT 18:00-23:00 UTC *LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A LIVE Q&A 20:00-1:00 PM CEST/Milan Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions Live Q&A for contributed sessions 2:00 -7:00 PM EDT/NYC Multiple concurrent sessions Multiple concurrent sessions Multiple concurrent sessions Multiple concurrent sessions Multiple concurrent sessions of 30-minute blocks of 30-minute blocks of 30-minute blocks of 30-minute blocks of 30-minute blocks *SPECIAL TIME *NOTE SPECIAL TIME 19:30-23:00 UTC LIVE Q&A BEGINS 19:30 UTC 21:30-1:00 CEST/Milan 3:30 pm-7:00 pm EDT/NYC 23:00-11:00 UTC CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS 1:00-13:00 PM CEST/Milan Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier Watch Contributed Sessions or earlier taped-from-live presentations. taped-from-live presentations. taped-from-live presentations. taped-from-live presentations. taped-from-live presentations. 7:00 PM -7:00 AM EDT/NYC.