Events
- Munich Econometrics Seminar
						
- Mondays, 11:00 - 12:00
 - full schedule and info on timing and location
 
 - Econometrics Reading Group
						
- Mondays, 11:00 - 12:00, when there is no Munich Econometrics Seminar
 - more info
 
 - LMU-NYU Workshop on Advances in Policy Analysis: Methods and Applications
					
- 8-9 December 2025
 - LMU Munich
 
 - cemmap masterclass by Richard Blundell (UCL)
					
- 11-12 May 2026
 - ifo Institute
 - more info
 
 - Munich Econometrics Workshop 2026
					
- 30-31 July 2026
 - LMU Munich
 
 
Affiliations
At LMU, I am the head of the Statistics and Econometrics Group in the Department of Statistics and professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Economics. In addition, I am
- Research Staff at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP)
 - Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
 - Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)
 - Research Affiliate at the Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy
 
Funding
I gratefully acknowledge funding by the European Research Council through the ERC Starting Grant MEImpact and the ERC Consolidator Grant SEMANI.
Working Papers
- Identification and Estimation of Nonparametric Panel Data Regressions with Measurement Error
					
- R&R at Review of Economic Studies
 - cemmap working paper CWP34/15
 
 - Possibly Nonstationary Cross-Validation
					
- R&R at Journal of Econometrics
 - with F. B. Bandi and V. Corradi
 - cemmap working paper CWP11/16
 
 - Testing for the Presence of Measurement Error
					
- R&R at Review of Economic Studies
 - cemmap working paper CWP48/19
 - R code
 - Stata code
 
 - Inference for Rank-Rank Regressions
 - csranks: An R Package for Estimation and Inference Involving Ranks
 - A Powerful Bootstrap Test of Independence in High Dimensions
 
Publications
- Finite- and Large-Sample Inference for Ranks using Multinomial Data with an Application to Ranking Political Parties
					
					
- journal article
 - working paper
 - R package
 - BFI Finding (non-technical summary)
 
 - Powerful t-Tests in the Presence of Nonclassical Measurement Error
 - Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility across Neighborhoods and Academic Achievements across Countries
					
					
					
					
- Stone Centre non-technical summary
 - BFI Research Brief (non-technical summary)
 
- Selected applications: 2022 PISA Report by the OECD
 - World Happiness Report 2023
 
 - Comment on "Invidious Comparisons: Ranking and Selection as Compound Decisions"
 - Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities
 - An Adaptive Test of Stochastic Monotonicity
 - Testing for the Presence of Measurement Error in Stata
 - Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials
 - Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation
 - A Simple Parametric Model Selection Test
 - Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation Under Monotonicity
 - Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Robust Generalized Methods of Moments Estimation 
					
					
- journal article
 - cemmap working paper
 - R code
 - also implemented in the R package gmm