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Econometrics, Statistics, Computational Macroeconomics, Confusion. (Mostly the last.)

Zürich, CH
Joined June 2013
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Last week, we hosted the First Chapel Hill - Copenhagen Conference on Macroeconomics and Deep Learning @UNC_econ. The conference was jointly organized by @JeppeDruedahl, @rabinovich_stan, Will Jungerman and myself. We were honored to have a brilliant keynote by @UncertainLars.
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It's a wrap! Very proud to have hosted a fantastic workshop on new methods & models in macro. Two days, ten terrific talks, many lively debates on new models, computation, AI, rational expectation & RL, state/sequence/path space, and beyond. A thread on the talks & frontier🧵
Very much looking forward to the 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 next week! Excited to welcome an outstanding group of macroeconomists pushing the very frontier: Tom Sargent, @ben_moll, @a_auclert, @MarlonAzinovic, and many others! @Florian_Scheuer @comp_simon
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For Spring semester, I'm bringing back free weekly open office hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Tuesdays 4-6 PM Central European Time (US EST 10AM-12PM) or by appointment; sign up and drop by!
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We are very proud to present our outstanding 2025/26 cohort of job market candidates from the @UZH_en Department of Finance/Swiss Finance Institute! ✨✨✨✨✨ df.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/peo… Please find their research interests and job market papers below👇👇👇
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Updated Fall time for free weekly open office hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 3:30-5:30PM Central European Time (US EDT 10:30/EST 9:30AM) or by appointment; sign up and drop by!
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Thrilled to share that Rachel Childers @DonskerClass has joined @UZH_en as a Senior Research Associate! Her pioneering work on heterogeneous agent models with machine learning & perturbation methods has inspired much recent work. Welcome to Zurich, Rachel! donskerclass.github.io/
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מגניב. אנחנו כבר לוקחים את שיחות הוידאו כמובנות מאליהן ולא ממש נהנים מהן כתחליף לאינטראקציה רגילה, אבל הטכנולוגיה הזו פתחה אפשרויות שלא ניתן היה לדמיין בעבר. xitter.cf/DonskerClass/status/17…
Trying something new: starting next Wednesday, I will be hosting weekly Econometrics office hours free and open to anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Sign up at donskerclass.github.io/Offic…
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Thanks to participants in week 2! From next week I am opening up the video link. Please still send questions in advance via email or form if you want a considered response. donskerclass.github.io/Offic… xitter.cf/DonskerClass/status/17…
Trying something new: starting next Wednesday, I will be hosting weekly Econometrics office hours free and open to anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Sign up at donskerclass.github.io/Offic…
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With great sadness I have to report that my good friend and colleague Prof Nick Higham FRS has died of cancer. He was 62. Nick was and outstanding numerical analyst, author, and human being. He will be greatly missed, but his work is immortal.
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On behalf of the SCE, I am thrilled to announce an exciting session at the AEA on the "Macroeconomics of Climate Change", with @AdrienBilal, Felix Kubler, @HansbergRossi and Tony Smith. Don’t miss it! Join us on Friday at 2:30 at Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 8.
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The architecture design space for neural net-based #PDEs solvers is still very under-explored. In our #NeurIPS2023 paper we study the benefits of weight-tied architectures for steady-state PDEs. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.00234 Code: github.com/risteskilab/deq-n…
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Hi #EconTwitter! Looking for grad lectures on the #Econometrics of 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, with cross sectional/time series data, based on 𝐑? Check out👇this very interesting material by @DonskerClass (@CarnegieMellon) including slides and #Rstats code. Cool stuff!
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What happens when you mix #julialang automatic differentiation with #econtwitter? Faster and more robust inference of #macroeconomics DSGE models with HMC! Check out the new paper with @QuantEcon @jlperla @DonskerClass #sciml #differentiableprogramming nber.org/papers/w30573
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The "Quantitative Economics with Julia" julia.quantecon.org/ have been given a major update. See quantecon.org/2021/09/08/jul… for a discussion of some of the changes. The theme in this update is to enhance the tools required for "reproducible research" and software engineering.
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Interested in where Machine Learning & Econometrics meet? Submit work on Policy Evaluation, Instrumental Variables, ML in social systems and more to the 1st MLECON workshop @NeruIPS2021 Full Call for Papers at: sites.google.com/view/mlecon… The submission deadline is October 1st.
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Looking for a ~2 hr online control theory crash course? free tutorial offered here tomorrow: publish.illinois.edu/ids2-tr… & some prep materials: sites.google.com/view/nsc-tu…
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Free to download! 'Asymptotic analysis of statistical decision rules in econometrics' from Handbook of Econometrics 7A. Thank you to authors Keisuke Hirano @keisukehirano and Jack R Porter @WIeconomics 📚👏 authors.elsevier.com/a/1cU7S…
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Bayesian smbc-comics.com/comic/bayesi… (click for full comic) #smbc #hiveworks
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Announcing a new inter-university online econometrics seminar, the “Chamberlain Seminar” in honor of Gary Chamberlain (1948-2020). chamberlainseminar.org 1/6
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(i) How to model a pandemic in macroeconomic model? (ii) What are the effects of different fiscal policies during a pandemic? Those are the questions I try to answer in the fastest paper I have ever written (speed obviously negatively related w/ quality) 1/4
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