Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute

政治和社会过程理论模型的发展给实证分析带来了许多挑战。可检验假设的推导和检验假设的适当方法的设计已被证明具有挑战性。许多问题是共同的测试所有的理论，但一些是新的或特别重要的正式理论，占战略互动和长期processes.Investigators测试目前四个夏季研究所的理论模型的实证影响（EITM-2007 - 2010）将提供在圣路易斯的华盛顿大学校园。他们的目标是推进方法和模型的研究，并扩大研究社区与尖端的专业知识在这一领域。每个EITM夏季学院是由四个或五个研讨会？一个介绍性研讨会和几个高级研讨会。高级研讨会的讲师和主题在该计划的四年期间轮换。每个高级研讨会都关注政治学或政治经济学实质领域的正式模型与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，一般均衡模型。实证方法包括基本和先进的计量经济学技术、空间模型和实验技术。研讨会的教员来自华盛顿大学的教员和其他几所大学的教员。参加EITM暑期班的华盛顿大学教师包括兰德尔·卡尔弗特、伊桑·梅斯基塔、李·爱泼斯坦、安德鲁·马丁、加里米勒、诺曼·斯科菲尔德、伊泰·塞内德和史蒂文·史密斯。其他教师包括查尔斯卡梅隆，基思克恩比尔，凯文奎因，托马斯帕尔弗里，柯蒂斯西格诺里诺和里克威尔逊。研讨会的嘉宾包括埃里克·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名学生参与的计划。学校为学生提供校内住宿，并提供旅行和住宿补贴。由华盛顿大学教师组成的EITM委员会继续管理该计划。更广泛的影响：研究所为研究生提供尖端的研究和教学，对政治学学科具有潜在的变革性影响。

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.