Preliminary program: SESSION I - Peter HANSEN (European University Institute), Guillaume Horel (Stanford University) "Limit Theory for the Long Run Variance of Finite Markov Chains" - Alexei ONATSKI (University of Cambridge) "Local Asymptotic Normality of the Spectrum of High-Dimensional Spiked...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...