Conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics

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On October 3-4, 2025, and the Center for Applied AI at the University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business are co-hosting a conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics: Methods and Applications. This annual conference brings together leading researchers across academic fields who work at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences. This year’s conference will be held in 黑料传送门 at Gleacher Center.

Confirmed plenary speakers

| MIT
| Northwestern University

For any questions, please contact caai@chicagobooth.edu.

Conference Organizers

Machine Learning Senior Economist

Christian B. Hansen

Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Senior Machine Learning Economist

Sanjog Misra

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing and Applied AI

Senior Economic Advisor and Machine Learning Economist

Agenda

Friday, October 3, 2025
9:00 - 10:00 am	Continental Breakfast \| Room 450
10:00 - 11:30 am All sessions will be held in Room 400	Session 1: LLM Applications “AI Inventions and AI Talent Migrations: US and China” \| (Univ. of Pennsylvania), (Durham University), (Tsinghua University), (Tsinghua University), Discussant: (Univ. of California, Berkeley) “A Century of Inflation Narratives” \| (Stanford University), (Univ. of 黑料传送门), (Univ. of 黑料传送门), (Northwestern University), (Northwestern University) Discussant: Leland Bybee (Univ. of 黑料传送门)
11:30am - 1:15 pm	Lunch \| Room 450
1:15 - 2:45 pm	Session 2: Finance “Economic Representations” \| Suproteem Sarkar (Univ. of 黑料传送门) Discussant: (Carnegie Mellon University) “Firm-Level Input Price Changes and Their Effects: A Deep Learning Approach” \| (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), (Georgia Institute of Technology), (Univ. of South Carolina), (Georgia Institute of Technology), (Babson College) , Discussant: Bradford Levy (University of 黑料传送门)
2:45 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 5:00 p	Session 3: Pricing “The Rise of AI Pricing: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Firm Performance” \| (Univ. of Florida), (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), (Univ. of Missouri), Discussant: (Univ. of Michigan) “Algorithmic Collusion of Pricing and Advertising on E-commerce Platforms” \| (Univ. of Pennsylvania), (Rutgers), Discussant: (Northwestern)
6:00 - 8:00 pm	Dinner & Keynote: Tamara Broderick (MIT) Room 621
Saturday, October 4, 2025
8:30 - 9:30 am	Continental Breakfast \| Room 450
9:30 - 11:45 am All sessions will be held in Room 400	Session 4: Methods “Double Descent in Time Series” \| (Univ. of Pennsylvania), (Boston College), Discussant: (Univ. of Iowa) “Anytime-Valid Inference for Double/Debiased Machine Learning of Causal Parameters” \| (Univ. of Pennsylvania), (Amazon Web Services), (Amazon Web Services) and (Carnegie Mellon University), Discussant: (Harvard University) “Pre-Training Estimators for Structural Models: Application to Consumer Search” \| (Univ. of Pennsylvania), (Univ. of Southern California), Discussant: (Rice University)
11:45am - 12:00 pm	Coffee Break
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Keynote: (Northwestern University) \| "AI and the Science of Science"
1:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch & Departure \| Room 450

Each contributed talk is assigned 45 minutes, including 25 minutes for the presenter, 10 minutes for the discussant, and 5 minutes for discussion

FAQs

Where will the conference be held?
The conference will take place at the .

Is there a preferred hotel to stay at for the conference?
Yes, please use to navigate to our group rate page.

Will there be parking available?
Yes,

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