We have an exciting new workshop opportunity coming up this late February and early March. Ariel Pakes from Harvard and Gortmaker (a fifth year PhD student at Harvard) will be teaching a three day workshop at Mixtape Sessions on demand estimation. For those of you who are in IO, have interests in core ideas of applied microeconomics, wanting to bridge reduced form to structural or simply wanting to become somewhat more well rounded, I highly encourage you to check this out. Here’s a little bit about both speakers:
And here is the schedule:
We are truly excited and grateful that Jeff and Ariel would come to the platform to provide this service for everyone. This will be a hands on workshop. Jeff has written a widely regarded python package for estimating demand including the famous BLP model so you will not only get a deeper understanding of the econometrics, you will get practically trained in using this python code for demand estimation spread over three well thought out assignments/e…
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