Economic Methodology: Models, Measurement, and Interventions

Saturday, March 9th, Day 2

• 8:30-9:00 am Morning Coffee
• 9:00-10:30 am Session: Causal Inference
  • 9:00- 9:30 Structural Models, Potential Outcomes and the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference, Tzvetan Moev, Duke University
  • 9:30-10:00 Randomization Without Realism Or Real-Valued Losses, Conor Mayo-Willson, University of Washington
  • 10:00-10:30 The Limits of Counterfactual Reasoning: Two Case Studies from Economics, Patrick Kloessel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• 10:45-12:15 pm Session: Author-Meets-Critics
  • Book: The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, 2nd Ed.
  • Author: Dan Hausman, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
  • Critics: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University), Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia), and Nadia Ruiz (Stanford University).
• 12:15-1:45 pm Lunch Break
• 1:45-3:45 pm Session: Policy and Measurement
  • 1:45-2:15 Against Standardizing Mean Differences, Ina Jäntgen, University of Cambridge
  • 2:15-2:45 Causality Potential Outcomes, and the Policy Process Luis Mireles-Flores, University of Helsinki.
  • 2:45-3:15 Representing and Intervening for Health Economics Policy: Conceptual Challenges of Inclusion and Exclusion Metric Design Modeling Issues in the Disease Adjusted Life Year, Luciana Garbayo, University of Florida.
  • 3:15-3:45 Economics and the Border Policy Debate, Aubrial Harrington, Arizona State University
• 4:00-5:00 pm Session: Economic Modeling
  • 4:00–4:30 Model Trustworthiness and Modeler Responsibility in Economic Agent-Based Modeling Practices: a Meta-Analytical Approach, Massimo Rusconi et al., University of Insubria
  • 4:30-5:00 A Dynamic Reinterpretation of Microeconomic Theory, Sarang Shah, University of California, Berkeley 
• 5:15-6:45 pm Keynote: “Interspecific Economics: Decision-Making Across Species Boundaries,” Armin Schulz, University of Kansas
• 6:45-7:00 pm Closing Remarks: Kobi Finestone, Chapman University.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: NADIA RUIZ, KOBI FINESTONE, BENJAMIN GENTA, AND MARCOS PICCHIO