08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:15 Opening:

• Presentation of the Conference – Patrizio Tirelli – Director CefES

09:15-10:30 Room U6-01f: Keynote lecture:

• The Bark is Worse than the Bite: Why Populist Foreign Policies are Doomed to Disappoint – Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions 1

1. Room U6-01a Policy evaluation (chair: Unnikrishnan, V.*)

• Nonparametric synthetic control method – Cerulli, G.*
• Policy evaluation with interactive effects – Chan, M. K., Kwok, S.*
• Do social assistance programs targeted on elderly in India impact household welfare? – Unnikrishnan, V.*

2. Room U6-01b Factor models (chair: Trapani, L.)

• Testing for regime changes in large dimensional factor models – Massacci, D.*
• A diagnostic criterion for approximate factor structure – Gagliardini, P., Ossola, E.*, Scaillet, O.
• Determining the dimension of factor structures in nonstationary large datasets – Barigozzi, M., Trapani, L.*