Keisuke Hirano

Contact Information

• 520.621.6065 office
• 520.621.8450 fax
• hirano@eller.arizona.edu
• McClelland Hall 401PP

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Associate Professor and APS Fellow
Econometrics

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998

Current Courses

• ECON 520, Theory of Quantitative Methods in Economics
• ECON 697, Empirical Workshop

Research Interests

• Econometrics

Current Research

Keisuke Hirano develops methods for analyzing economic data and assessing the impact of economic policies.   His current work focuses on the design of social experiments, decision-theoretic methods for assigning individuals to policy interventions, and econometric analysis of behavior in auctions and other settings with strategic interactions. 

Publications

• "Design of Randomized Experiments to Measure Social Interaction Effects," (with J. Hahn), 2009, forthcoming in Economics Letters.
• Adaptive Design of Multiple Stage Experiments Using the Propensity Score," (with J. Hahn and D. Karlan), 2009, forthcoming in Journal ofBusiness and Economic Statistics.
• “Asymptotics for Statistical Treatment Rules,” (with J.R. Porter), 2009, Econometrica, 77(5): 1683-1701.
• “Decision Theory in Econometrics,” 2008, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan.
• “The Propensity Score with Continuous Treatments,” (with G. Imbens), 2004, in Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives, ed. A. Gelman and X. L. Meng, New York: Wiley.
  
• “Asymptotic Efficiency in Parametric Structural Models with Parameter-Dependent Support,” (with J. Porter), 2003 Econometrica 71,1307-1338.
• “Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects using the Estimated Propensity Score,” (with G. Imbens and G. Ridder), 2003, Econometrica 71, 1161-1189.
• “Semiparametric Bayesian Inference in Autoregressive Panel Data Models,” 2002, Econometrica 70, 781-799.
• “Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples,” (with G. Imbens, G. Ridder, and D. Rubin), 2001, Econometrica 69, 1645-1659.
• “Estimation of Causal Effects using Propensity Score Weighting: An Application to Data on Right Heart Catheterization,” (with G. Imbens), 2001, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 2:259-278.
• “Assessing the Effect of an Influenza Vaccine in an Encouragement Design with Covariates,” (with G. Imbens, D. Rubin, and X. Zhou), 2000, Biostatistics 1, 69-88.
• “Predictive Distributions based on Longitudinal Earnings Data,” (with G. Chamberlain), 1999, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 55-56, 211-242.
• “A Semiparametric Model for Labor Earnings Dynamics,” in Practical Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Statistics, ed. D. Dey, P. Mueller, D. Sinha, New York: Springer--Verlag, 1998.

Working Papers

• "Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals" (with J. R. Porter), 2009.
• “The Buy-It-Now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding,” (with D. Ackerberg and Q. Shahriar), 2007.