MITRE provides funding to host visiting scholars on a short-term or long-term basis to engage with peers on campus, begin or continue joint research with U-M faculty, present public lectures, and teach graduate and undergraduate students. These visits are often coordinated with one or more of our regular seminar series.
Hal Varian gave the 2016 Woytinsky Lecture entitled, "Google Tools for Data." The lecture was co-sponsored by MITRE. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google and was previously a professor and interim chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan.
Our Fall 2014 Woytinsky Lecture, co-sponsored by MITRE, was given by Professor Susan Athey. Her Woytinsky Lecture was entitled, “The Internet and the News Media.” Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and was previously on the economics faculty at MIT, Stanford and Harvard.
The MITRE sponsored public lecture, “Finance and the Good Society,” was presented on April 18, 2012, by Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
A MITRE Visiting Scholar lecture, “United States then, Europe now,” was given on April 9, 2012, by Thomas J. Sargent, the W. R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University and 2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics. He returned in 2013; on October 9, he gave a talk titled "Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars."
2016 - 2017 Academic Year Visitors
Visits of at least one month
Soren Anderson, Michigan State University
Visits of less than one month
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeff Ely, Northwestern University
Ben Faber, UC-Berkeley
Marc Henry, Pennsylvania State University
Han Hong, Stanford University
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago
Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University
Reka Juhasz, Columbia University
Elena Manresa, MIT
Stephen Morris, Princeton University
Whitney Newey, MIT
Imran Rasul, University College London
Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago
Elie Tamer, Harvard University
Jim Tybout, Pennsylvania State University
Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
Chris Woodruff, Oxford University
Hal Varian, Google
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
2015 - 2016 Academic Year Visitors
Visits of at least one month
Kfir Eliaz, Tel-Aviv University
Visits of less than one month
Anna Aizer, Brown University
Jose Diogo Barbosa, UC-Berkeley
Lanier Benkard, Stanford University
Antonio Bento, Cornell University
Sebastian Calonico, University of Miami
Victor Chernozhukov, MIT
Peter Crampton, University of Maryland
Gordon Dahl, UC-San Diego
David Drukker, Stata Corporation
Seda Ertac, Koc University
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Tom Holmes, University of Minnesota
Hilary Hoynes, UC-Berkeley
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
Jiangtao Li, National University of Singapore
Peter Lindert, UC-Davis
Heng Liu, University of Rochester
Rohini Pande, Harvard University
Petra Persson, Stanford University
Per Pettersson-Lidbom, Stockholm University
Jimmy Roberts, Duke University
Andres Rodriguez-Claire, UC-Berkeley
Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University
Steve Salant, University of Michigan Emeritus Faculty
Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Scott Taylor, University of Calgary
Till von Wachter, UCLA
Nat Wilcox, Chapman University
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University
Thomas Winberry, The University of Chicago Booth
2014 - 2015 Academic Year Visitors
Visits of at least one month
Linchun Chen, UC-San Diego
Kfir Eliaz, Tel-Aviv University
Jihong Lee, Seoul National University
Emil Ozbay, University of Maryland
Erkut Ozbay, University of Maryland
Jean Marie Viaenne, Erasmus University
Assaf Zimring, Stanford University
Visits of less than one month
Don Andrews, Yale University
Gary Chamberlain, Harvard University
Kalyan Chatterjee, Penn State
Varanya Chaubey, UC-Berkeley
In-Koo Cho, University of Illinois
Thomas D. Cook, Northwestern University
Paul David, Stanford University
David Drukker, Stata Corporation
Graham Elliott, UC-San Diego
Garance Genicot, Georgetown University
Dalia Ghanem, UC-Davis
Bryan S. Graham, UC-Berkeley
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Roger Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
Heng Liu, University of Rochester
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA
Marcelo Moreira, Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Andriy Norets, Brown University
Don Rubin, Harvard University
Elizabeth A. Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard School of Public Health
Frank Wolak, Stanford University
Randall Wright, Wisconsin School of Business
2013 - 2014 Academic Year Visitors
Visits of at least one month
Brian Baisa, Amherst College
Kai Carstensen, University of Munich
Kfir Eliaz, Tel-Aviv University
Mark Jacobsen, UC-San Diego
Jacques Mistral, Institut Français des Relations International
Asha Sundaram, University of Cape Town
Assaf Zimring, Stanford
Visits of less than one month
Susan Athey, Stanford University
Pranab Bhardan, UC-Berkeley
Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University
Shari Eli, University of Toronto
James Fenske, University of Oxford
Meredith Fowlie, UC-Berkeley
Julian di Giovanni, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Johannes Haushofer, MIT
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University
Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Rosa Matzkin, UCLA
Dierdre McCloskey, University of Illinois
Anna Mikusheva, MIT
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
Thomas Sargent (Nobel-laureate), New York University
Matt Shum, Cal Tech
Eliana Garces Tolon, European Commission
Joel Watson, UC-San Diego
Sarit Weisburd, Hebrew University
Jidong Zhou, New York University
2012 - 2013 Academic Year Visitors (all short-term)
James Andreoni, UC-San Diego
In-Koo Cho, University of Illinois
Angus Deaton, Princeton University
Peter Dolton, London School of Economics
Mehmet Ekmekci, University of Wisconsin
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin
Gene Grossman, Princeton University
Sergei Guriev, New Economic School
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University
Cheng Hsiao, USC
Andres Aradillas Lopez, University of Wisconsin
Robert Margo, Boston University
Sanjog Misra, UCLA
Ryan Opera, University of British Columbia
Attila Raftai, Central European University
Thomas Sargent (Nobel-laureate), New York University
Yuya Sasaki, Johns Hopkins
Robert Shiller (Nobel-laureate), Yale University
Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago Booth
Oliver Tercieux, Paris School of Economics
Chris Timmins, Duke University
Lesley Turner, University of Maryland
Takuro Yamashita, Toulouse School of Economics
MITRE also funded a workshop on the theory of auctions, paying for travel and lodging for 10 external faculty participants.
