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Conference

2026 Conference on Econometrics

Organizers: Xiaohong Chen (Yale) and Yuejie Chi (Yale)

Presenters: upload your slides.

The Cowles Summer Conferences at Yale SOM are by invitation only. Registration details can be found in your formal invitation. All participants are expected to abide by the Cowles Foundation Code of Professional Conduct.

Thursday & Friday, June 4-5, 2026

The agenda below is tentative and subject to change.

Thursday, June 4

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:35 AM

“Classification and Diffusion-Induced Neural Density Estimators and Simulators for Generative AI”

Jianqing Fan (Princeton University)

9:35 - 10:10 AM

“Efficient Generative Modeling via Manifold-Aligned Transport”

Xinyu Tian (University of Minnesota)

10:10 - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 - 11:35 AM

“Model Self-improvement via Optimal Retraining”

Adel Javanmard (University of Southern California)

11:35 - 12:10 PM

"Forecasting Inflation with Microdata: An Adaptive Machine Learning Approach"

Lihua Lei (Stanford)

12:10 - 1:40 PM

Lunch

1:40 - 2:15 PM

"LLM Ranking as Low-Rank Completion under General Missingness: Semiparametric Efficiency and Uncertainty Quantification"

Wei Sun (Purdue)

2:15 - 2:50 PM

“Covariate Adjustment and Balancing under Interference”

Shuangning Li (University of Chicago)

2:50 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 4:05 PM

"Success Conditioning as Policy Improvement: The Optimization Problem Solved by Imitating Success"

Dan Russo (Columbia University)

4:05 - 4:40 PM

"Strategic Robustness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Tractability, Robustness, and Other Free Lunches"

Eric Mazumdar (Caltech)

6:30 PM

Dinner - Union League Café, 1032 Chapel Street

Friday, June 5

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 9:35 AM

"Identification and Inference for Algorithmic Frontiers with Selective Labels"

Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)

9:35 - 10:10 AM

"Online inference in semiparametric Models"

Elie Tamer (Harvard University)

10:10 - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 - 11:35 AM

“How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior? A Measure of their Pretrained Knowledge”

Annie Liang (Northwestern University)

11:35 - 12:10 PM

"Financial Market Fragility in the Era of AI Planning"

Winston (Wei) Dou (Wharton School of Business)

12:10 - 1:40 PM

Lunch

1:40 - 2:15 PM

"Recurrent Neural Networks for Nonlinear Time Series"

Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)

2:15 - 2:50 PM

"Dual-Channel Tensor Neural Networks: Finite-Sample Theory and Conformal Structure Selection"

Elynn Chen (New York University)

2:50 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 4:05 PM

"On the numerical approximation of minimax regret rules"

Patrik Guggenberger (Penn State)

4:05 - 4:40 PM

"Bootstrapping with AI/ML-generated labels"

Timothy Christensen (Yale University)

Participants

Isaiah Andrews
(MIT)

Nicolas Anglarill Wuthenow
(Yale University )

Andrii Babii
(UNC-Chapel Hill)

Wonwoo Bae
(Yale University)

Dirk Bergemann
(Yale University)

Irene Botosaru
(McMaster University)

Federico Bugni
(Northwestern University)

Anna Bykhovskaya
(Duke University)

Ivan Canay
(Northwestern University)

Marek Chadim
(Yale University )

Elynn Chen
(New York University)

Xiaohong Chen
(Yale University )

Yuejie Chi
(Yale University )

Timothy Christensen
(Yale University)

Max Cytrynbaum
(Yale University)

Ben Deaner
(UCL)

Olivia Ding
(Yale University)

Winston Dou
(The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Jianqing Fan
(Princeton University)

Yanqin Fan
(University of Washington)

Wayne Gao
(University of Pennsylvania)

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
(Yale School of Management)

Jiaying Gu
(University of Toronto)

Patrik Guggenberger
(The Pennsylvania State University)

Phil Haile
(Yale University)

Sukjin Han
(University of Bristol)

Marc Henry
(Penn State)

Keisuke Hirano
(Penn State)

Luis Hoderlein
(Yale University)

Jackson Howell
(Yale University)

Yingyao Hu
(Johns Hopkins University)

Hidehiko Ichimura
(University of Arizona)

Adel Javanmard
(University of Southern California)

Hiroaki Kaido
(Boston University)

Tetsuya Kaji
(University of Chicago)

Sid Kankanala
(University of Chicago)

Min Seong Kim
(University of Connecticut)

Yuichi Kitamura
(Yale University)

Soonwoo Kwon
(Brown University)

Louise Laage
(Georgetown University)

Simon Lee
(Columbia University)

Lihua Lei
(Stanford University)

Shuangning Li
(University of Chicago)

Lixiong Li
(Johns Hopkins University)

Annie Liang
(Northwestern)

Pangpang Liu
(Yale Unviersity)

Vadim Marmer
(UBC)

Matt Masten
(Duke University)

Eric Mazumdar
(California Institute of Technology)

Konrad Menzel
(New York University)

Sho Miyaji
(Yale University )

Francesca Molinari
(Cornell University)

Jose Luis (Pepe) Montiel Olea
(Cornell University)

Julia Notarangeli
(Yale University )

Daniel Russo
(Columbia University)

Azeem Shaikh
(University of Chicago)

Zhentao Shi
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Rahul Singh
(Harvard)

Suyong Song
(University of Iowa)

Joerg Stoye
(Cornell University)

Wei Sun
(Purdue University)

Elie Tamer
(Harvard University)

Sekar Tatikonda
(Yale University)

Xinyu Tian
(University of Minnesota)

Toshiki Tsuda
(Yale University)

Johan Ugander
(Yale University)

Winnie van Dijk
(Yale University)

Davide Viviano
(Harvard University)

Edward Vytlacil
(Yale University)

Bruce Wen
(Yale University)

Dacheng Xiu
(University of Chicago)

Yuepeng Yang
(Yale University)

Kohei Yata
(University of Wisconsin–Madison)

George Yin
(UConn)

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I connect to the Yale Wi-Fi network while attending a conference?

Yale provides visitors two Wi-Fi network options:

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How do I get to the conference location from the Blake Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 20 minute walk from the Blake Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Blake Hotel is to go south-east on George Street and turn left on Temple St. Temple will merge into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

How do I get to the conference location from the Omni Hotel?

The conference will be held at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Evans Hall located at 165 Whitney Ave and is about a 15 minute walk from the Omni Hotel. The easiest route to SOM from the Omni Hotel is to go north on Temple St. which merges into Whitney Avenue. SOM will be on the right side of the street across from the Peabody Museum (see map below).

What can I do in New Haven during my stay?
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