Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute

政治和社会进程理论模型的发展给实证分析带来了许多挑战。事实证明，可检验假说的推导和检验假说的适当方法的设计都是具有挑战性的。许多问题是测试所有理论的共同问题，但有几个问题是新的，或者在解释战略互动和长期过程的正式理论测试中特别重要。研究人员在圣路易斯华盛顿大学的校园里提供了四个关于理论模型(EITM-2007-2010)的实证影响的暑期培训班。他们的目标是推进方法和模型的研究，并扩大该领域尖端专业知识的研究社区。每个EITM暑期学院都由四到五个研讨会组成--一个入门研讨会和几个高级研讨会。高级研讨会的讲师和主题在方案的四年期间轮换。每个高级研讨会都涉及政治学或政治经济学的实质性领域中的正式政治模型和实证研究方法之间的关系。正式模型涉及跨度博弈理论、空间理论、社会和公共选择理论以及一般均衡模型。实证方法包括基础和高级计量经济学技术、空间模型和实验技术。研讨会的教师来自华盛顿大学的教员和其他几所大学的教员。参加EITM夏季学院的华盛顿大学教师包括兰德尔·卡尔弗特、伊桑·布埃诺德·梅斯奎塔、李·爱泼斯坦、安德鲁·马丁、加里·米勒、诺曼·斯科菲尔德、伊泰·森德和史蒂文·史密斯。其他教员讲师包括查尔斯·卡梅伦、基思·克雷比尔、凯文·奎恩、托马斯·帕尔弗雷、柯蒂斯·西诺里诺和里克·威尔逊。研讨会嘉宾包括埃里克·布朗、西蒙·杰克曼、丽贝卡·莫顿、基思·普尔和巴勃罗·斯皮勒。这个奖项延续了我们过去每年25名学生参加的计划。向学生提供校内住宿，并提供旅行和住宿补贴。由华盛顿大学教职员工组成的EITM委员会继续管理该项目。更广泛的影响：这些机构为研究生提供尖端研究和教学，其方式可能对政治学学科产生变革影响。

Developments in theoretical models of political and social processes have createdmany challenges to empirical analysis. Both the derivation of testable hypotheses and design of appropriate methods for testing hypotheses have proven challenging. Many of the problems are common to testing all theories but a few are new or particularly important in the testing of formal theories that account for strategic interactions and long-term processes.The investigators present four summer institutes on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM - 2007-2010) to be offered on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Their goal is to advance the study of methods and models and to expand the research community with cutting-edge expertise in this area.Each of the EITM Summer Institutes is composed of four or five seminars ?anintroductory seminar and several advanced seminars. The instructors and the subjects addressed in the advanced seminars rotate over the four-year period of the program.Each advanced seminar concerns the relationship between formal models of politics and empirical research methods in a substantive field of political science or political economy. The formal models addressed span game theory, spatial theory, social and public choice theories, and general equilibrium models. Empirical methods include basic and advanced econometric techniques, spatial models, and experimental techniques.The faculty for the seminars is drawn from Washington University faculty andfrom faculty from several other universities. The Washington University facultyparticipating in the EITM Summer Institute include Randall Calvert, Ethan Buenode Mesquita, Lee Epstein, Andrew Martin, Gary Miller, Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, and Steven Smith. Additional faculty instructors include Charles Cameron, Keith Krehbiel, Kevin Quinn, Thomas Palfrey, Curtis Signorino, and Rick Wilson. Seminar guests include Eric Brown, Simon Jackman, Rebecca Morton, Keith Poole, and Pablo Spiller.This award continues the program with 25 student participants each year as wehave in the past. Students are offered on-campus housing and provided traveland lodging subsidies. An EITM committee composed of Washington University faculty continues to administer the program.Broader Impacts: The institutes provide cutting edge research and teaching to graduate students in a way that has a potentially transformative impact on the discipline of Political Science.