Projects Page for MACS 40200: Structural Estimation (Winter 2020)

This page lists the projects and project members for each project group. It also includes a sign-up for project consultations.

Monday, February 17 Project Consultation Sign-up

Time	Students
1:30p	Erin Eidschun
1:45p	Jose Cerda
2:00p	Kento Yoshizawa
2:15p	Meng Yang
2:30p	Dave Foote
2:45p*	Yutao Chen
3:00p*	Takuya Ando
3:15p*	Xiangyu Ma
3:30p*	Jesus Pacheco

• Any time slots after 2:45p will be in 247 Saieh

Project Groups and Topics

Project members	Project topic	Project sources
Takuya Ando	Calibrate labor supply in OG	Evans (2020)
Jose Cerda	Estimating firm entry and exit	Tybout, et al (2007)
Yutao Chen	Opinion dynamics	Deffuant (2006)
Erin Eidschun	Estimating trade parameters by GMM	Nyman (2008)
Dave Foote and Jesus Pacheco	Female labor participation and child care	Ribar (1995)
Xiangyu Ma	Marriage matching
Meng Yang	Banking system markups	Hortacsu (2018)
Kento Yoshizawa	Forward vs. backward inflation expectations	Gali, et al (1999)
Frederick Zhu	Sovereign default with renegotiation	Uribe, Chap 13.

Project presentation times

For project presentations on Wednesday, March 11, only the presenter(s) is (are) required to attend because the majority of presentations will be held outside of class time. Non-presenting students are also encouraged to attend the presentations, but only the presenter is required.

Wednesday, March 11

Time slot	Presenter	Topic	Location
9:00 - 9:20a	Frederick Zhu	Sovereign default	1155 E 60th St, room 222
9:25 - 9:45a	Takuya Ando	OG Labor calibration	1155 E 60th St, room 222
9:50 - 10:10a	Dave Foote and Jesus Pacheco	Fem labor part and child care	1155 E 60th St, room 222
10:15 - 10:35a	Meng Yang	Banking markups	1155 E 60th St, room 222
10:40 - 11:00a	Kento Yoshizawa	Forward v. backward infl. exp.	1155 E 60th St, room 222
1:30 - 1:50p	Jose Cerda	Firm entry and exit	Saieh Hall, room 242
1:55 - 2:15p	Erin Eidschun	Trade parameters	Saieh Hall, room 242
2:20 - 2:50p	Xiangyu Ma	Marriage matching	Saieh Hall, room 242
2:55 - 3:15p	Yutao Chen	Opinion dynamics	Saieh Hall, room 247

Project LaTeX template

I have included the following LaTeX files for your project and project presentation in this directory.

• a LaTeX project template, LaTeX_projtemplate.tex. This file will call a .bib file to use BibTeX references, and it will call the image in the images folder. I have included the compiled PDF file that results from the .tex, .bib, and image files.

• A LaTeX beamer slides template, LaTeX_slides. You can use this to create your project proposal slides and your final presentation slides.