ESRC Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
Demand Estimation and Modelling
12
– 14 December 2013, Boston
ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic
Analysis of Public Policy at IFS
Thursday December 12
11:00
– 12:30
Panel Data Demand
Moment Inequalities for Semi-parametric Multinomial Choice with Choice Specific Fixed Effects
Ariel Pakes and Jack Porter
Nonparametric Identification in Panels Using Quantiles
Ivan Fernandez-Val and Victor Chernozhukov
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Applied Demand I
Estimating the impact of a government information campaign on food purchases: a discrete-continuous choice model of demand with heterogeneity
Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith , Arthur Lewbel and Martin O'Connell
Keeping up with the Jones in India:
Peer Effects in Consumption and Welfare Implications
Arthur Lewbel, Sam Norris and Krishna Pendakur
3:00 – 4:30 Applied Demand II
Using Demand Analysis to Construct Confidence Interval Estimates of Social Welfare
Dale Jorgensen
Measuring the Cost of Poor Choices among Risky Prospects
Dan McFadden
4:30 – 4:45 Coffee
4:45 – 6:15 Duality and Hedonics
Duality in
Dynamic
Discrete Choice Models
Khai Chiong
,
Alfred Galichon
and Matt Shum
Identification in Multidimensional Hedonic Demand Models
Lars Nesheim

Friday December 13
9:00 – 11:15 Random Coefficients
Random Barten Scales
Arthur Lewbel
Consumer Demand with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Dennis Kristensen, Rosa Matzkin and Richard Blundell
Consumer Demand in a Triangular Random Coefficient Model
Hajo Holzmann, Stefan Hoderlein and Alexander Meister
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30
– 1:00
Discrete choice models
Estimating Aggregate Discrete Choice Models with Zero Shares
Amit Gandhi and Xiaoxia Shi
Nonparametric identification of Endogenous and Heterogeneous Discrete Choice
Models: Complements, Bundles and the Market Level
Fabian Dunker, Stefan Hoderlein and Hiro Kaido
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:15 Identification
Identification of Discrete Choice models for bundles and binary games
Jeremy Fox and Natalia Lazzati
Identifying Discrete Choice Demand Models when Firms Endogenously Choose
Product Characteristics
Amil Petrin and Boyoung Seo
Identification in a Class of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Models
Steve Berry
4:15 – 4:45 Coffee
4:45 – 6:15 Nonlinear budgets
Nonlinear Budget Sets and Unobserved Heterogeneity
Whitney Newey and Soren Blomquist
Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband
Aviv Nevo with Jonathan Williams

10:00 – 10:15
Saturday December 14
8:30 – 10:00 Dynamic demand
On consumer demand with unobserved stocks
Pierre Dubois and Thierry Magnac
A Framework for Modeling Industry Evolution in Dynamic Demand Models
Gautam Gowrisankaran and Marc Rysman
Coffee
10:15 – 12:30 Nonparametric demand
Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models: Prediction
Jorg Stoye and Yuichi Kitamura
Nonparametric Estimation of a Heterogeneous Demand Function
Richard Blundell, Joel Horowitz and Matthias Parey
Smooth Demand Analysis with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Jerry Hausman and Whitney Newey
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Revealed preference
Sharing Rule Identification for general collective consumption models
Laurens Cherchye, Arthur Lewbel, Bram de Rock , and Frederic Vermeulen
Revealed Preference and Information
Ian Crawford and Abby Adams