Workshop on Optimal Transport in Econometrics

Workshop on Optimal Transport in Econometrics

This workshop is jointly organized by CCA and the ESOMAS Department

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that both the fundamental problem of optimal transport and the techniques developed in this literature can be of great interest to the field of econometrics (and economics in general). Interestingly, recent contributions at the intersection of these fields are not always easy to relate to each other, despite common inspiration. This workshop aims to bring together researchers in this field, in part with the hope that bridges between these different works will become more evident in the process.

Program

09:15 – 09:25 | Welcome and Registration

09:25 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks

Session 1

09:30 – 10:20 | Christophe Gallac, University of Geneva
“Linear Regressions with Combined Data”
(joint with Xavier D’Haultfœuille and Arnaud Maurel)

10:20 – 11:10 | Vincent Starck, LMU München
“Optimally-Transported Generalized Method of Moments”
(joint with Susanne Schennach)

11:10 – 11:40 | Coffee Break

Session 2

11:40 – 12:30 | Alfred Galichon, NYU
“Quantile regression via optimal transport: a survey of recent results”

12:30 – 13:40 | Lunch Break

Session 3

13:40 – 14:30 | Florian Gunsilius, Emory University
“Learning Counterfactual Dynamics via Wasserstein Parallel Transport”
(joint with Ka Yan Cheng, Wonjun Choi, and Marcelo Ortiz-Villavicencio)

14:30 – 15:20 | Guillame Pouliot, University of Chicago
“Distributionally Robust Optimal Transport”
(joint with Samuel Higbee and Omkar Katta)

15:20 – 15:50 | Coffee Break

Session 4

15:50 – 16:40 | Tommaso Coen, Bocconi University
“Partial Identification of Welfare Effects in the Presence of Demand Frictions”

16:40 – 17:30 | Yagan Hazard, CCA and ESOMAS
“Who Should Be with Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies”
(joint with Toru Kitagawa)