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Econometrics Seminars Fall 2025

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:16:18 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2025

Tuesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Ruoyao Shi

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/30	Saerom Lee (UCR)	Improving Forecast Combinations
10/2 (Thursday, 4:00-5:20 pm, Room TBA)	Mahrad Sharifvaghefi (Pittsburgh)	Robust GMM Estimation and Testing in a Weak Instrument Setting: Bridging Theory and Practice
10/21	Mengsi Gao (USC)	Endogenous Interference in Randomized Experiments
10/28	Max Farrell (UCSB)	Nonlinear Binscatter Methods
11/4	Keren Fang (UCR)	Inference for Moment Inequalities with Nuisance Functions
11/18	Chuqing Jin (Toulouse)	Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market
12/2	Takuya Ura (UC Davis)	PRTE with Multidimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity with Lina Zhang

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2025

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:51:05 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura and Han Wang

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/29/2025	Paulo Natenzon, Washington University in St. Louis
10/6/2025	Orestis Vravosinos, University of Chicago
10/13/2025	Paul H. Y. Cheung, University of Texas at Dallas (ZOOM)	Revealed Attentional Influence https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/23/2025 (Thurs)	Xiaoyu Cheng, Florida State University (ZOOM)	On the Monotonicity of Information Costs https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
10/27/2025	Collin B Raymond, Cornell University (ZOOM)	https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92796255307
11/3/2025	Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University (ZOOM)	Outside Options and Risk Attitude https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
11/10/2025	Jonathan A. Libgober, University of Southern California	Optimally Selecting Competing Proposals (Joint with Peiran Xiao)
11/17/2025	Teddy Kim, Emory University (ZOOM) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121	Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests (With R. Vijay Krishna and Dmitry Ryvkin)
11/24/2025	Udayan Vaidya, Duke University	Delegated Contracting https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121
12/1/2025	Teck Yong Tan, University of Rochester (ZOOM)	Profiling and Hold-up Risk (a joint work with Anh Nguyen) https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4507307121

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2025

site-admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:48:55 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Fall 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo and Victor Ortego-Marti

When available, the papers can be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/03/2025	Jeffrey Allen, UC Riverside	The Benefit of Known Unknowns: Estimating the Cost of Unplanned Power Outages on Firms in Developing Countries
10/10/2025	Ilsoo Han, UC Riverside	Educational-Specific Decompositional Effects of Skill Loss on TFP.
10/17/2025	Bessy Liao, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Search Frictions and Rent Control Policies on the Rental Market: Theory and Evidence
10/24/2025, ZOOM	Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington (ZOOM)	The Impact of Rising Oil Price on Remittances and Migrant Workers in a Small Developing Economy
10/31/2025	Yeonjoo Son, UC Riverside	Home Renovation and Search Frictions in the Housing Market.
11/7/2025	Zeliha Begum Tunc, UC Riverside	The Effect of Salary History Bans on Labor Market Reattachment
11/14/2025	Simon Margolin, UC Santa Barbara	Micro vs. Macro Corporate Tax Incidence
11/21/2025	Vincenzo Quadrini, USC Marshall School of Business	Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System
11/28/2025	No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break
12/5/2025	Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon (ZOOM)	Patriarchy and Household Labor Supply in Developing Countries Zoom Meeting ID: 955 9179 7061 Passcode: 108202

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2019

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:02:48 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2019

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan and Siyang Xiong.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/27/2019	Luciano Pomatto, California Institute of Technology	Factual and Predictive Uncertainty: Foundations for the Smooth Model
10/4/2019	Pablo Schenone, California Institute of Technology	Causality: A Decision Theoretic Foundation
10/11/2019	No Seminar
10/18/2019	Songzi Du, UCSD	Optimal Auction Design with Common Values: An Informationally Robust Approach
10/25/2019	Charles Zheng, Western Ontario	Necessity of Auctions for Optimal Redistribution
11/1/2019	Ichiro Obara, UCLA	Reputation and Information Lag
11/8/2019	No Seminar
11/15/2019	Tomasz Sadzik, UCLA	Partnership with Persistence
11/22/2019	Seungjin Han, McMaster	Pre-match investment competition with incomplete information
11/29/2019	No Seminar
12/6/2019	Victor Ortego-Marti, UCR	Endogenous TFP, Labor Market Policies and Loss of Skills

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2019

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:21:00 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2019

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Ruoyao Shi.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/30/2019	Haiqing Xu, University of Texas, Austin	Estimation of Treatment Effects under Endogenous Heteroskedasticity
10/7/2019	Jeremy Fox, Rice University	Heterogenous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion
10/14/2019	Artem Prokhorov, University of Sydney in Australia	A New Family of Copulas, with Application to Estimation of a Production Frontier System
10/21/2019	Christina Amado, University of Minho in Portugal	Modelling Time-varying Volatility Interactions with an Application to Volatility Contagion
10/28/2019	Ying Zhu, UCSD	Omitted variable bias of Lasso-based inference methods: A finite sample analysis
11/4/2019	Shujie Ma, UCR	How many communities are there in a network?
11/11/2019	No Seminar
11/19/2019* 9:00-10:20am	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Econometrics and Statistics Graduate Students lecture located in Sproul 2206	Statistical Machine Learning for Financial Prediction and Inference
11/19/2019* 3:45-4:45pm	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Statistics and Econometrics Seminar located in Glen Mor K106-K108.	Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks
11/25/2019	Shahnaz Parseaian, UCR	Optimal Forecast under Structural Breaks with Application to Equity Premium
12/2/2019	Zhipeng Liao, UCLA	Conditional Inference for GMM Model Specification Test with Applications to Asset Pricing Models

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2019

site-admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:35:28 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2019

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins and Carolyn M. Sloane.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/2/2019	Laura Wherry, UCLA	Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
10/9/2019	Emily Nix, USC	What Causes the Child Penalty and How Can It Be Reduced? Evidence from Same-Sex Couples and Policy Reforms, with Martin Andresen
10/16/2019	Lizi Yu, UCSB	Female Bosses and Female Employees’ Careers: Evidence from Lawyers in Shanghai
10/23/2019	Alice Chen, USC	Public Insurance Expansions and Labor Demand in Physician Practices
10/30/2019	Manisha Shah, UCLA	Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents
11/6/2019	Neil Bennett, UCI	Understanding Establishment-Level ICE Audits
11/13/2019	Vellore Arthi, UCI	Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine.
11/20/2019	Paulina Oliva, USC	The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2019

site-admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:52:05 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2019

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/1/2019	Mike Dong, UCR School of Business	Global Anomalies
4/8/2019	Julio Garin, Claremont McKenna Colleges	Repatriation Taxes
4/15/2019	Rod Garratt, UC Santa Barbara	Entreprenurial Incentives And The Role of Initial Coin Offerings
4/22/2019	Francois Geerolf, UC Los Angeles	The Phillips Curve: Price Levels Or Real Exchange Rates
4/29/2019	Odilon Camara, The University of Southern California	Tampering With Information
5/6/2019	William Branch, UC Irvine	Endogenously (Non-)Ricardian Beliefs
5/13/2019	Michael Gelman, Claremont McKenna Colleges	Rational Illiquidity And Excess Sensitivity: Theory And Evidence From Income Tax Witholding And Refunds
5/20/2019	Fabio Milani, UC Irvine	Evolving Beliefs And Animal Spirits In the Euro Area
5/27/2019	Memorial Day Holiday – No Seminar (Campus Closed)	NO SEMINAR
6/3/2019	Rossen Valkanov, UC San Diego	Fiscal And Foreign Account Imbalances And Asset Prices

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2019

site-admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 23:24:15 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2019

Wednesdays, 4:10- 5:30pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/3/2019	Yu-Wei Hsieh, The University of Southern California	“A Semiparametric Discrete-Choice Aggregate Demand Model” & “Prediction And Congestion In Two-Sided Markets: Economist Versus Machine Matchmakers”
4/10/2019	Yanqin Fan, The University of Washington	Uniform Inference In A Generalized Interval-Arithmetic Center And Range Model
4/17/2019	Samet Oymak, UCR Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering	Overparameterization Without Overfitting: From Compressed Sensing to Deep Learning
4/23/2019	Colin Cameron, The University of California, Davis (Seminar to Graduate Students – 4:10-5:30 pm in CHASS Humanities 1500)	Machine Learning Methods: An Overview
4/24/2019	Colin Cameron, The University of California, Davis (General Seminar to Faculty, Graduate Students and Campus seminar Guests – 4:10-5:30 pm in Sproul Hall 2206)	Machine Learning Methods in Economics
5/1/2019	Geert Ridder, The University of Southern California	Closing The Teacher Quality Gap? An Empirical Analysis Of Teacher To Classroom Assignment Problems
5/8/2019	Yi Xin, The California Institute of Technology	Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets
5/15/2019	Simon Smith, The University of Southern California	Noncommon Breaks Forecasting Panel Data With Structural Breaks And Regime-Specific Grouped Heterogeneity
5/22/2019	Xiaoting Sun, The University of California Los Angeles (This will be a joint seminar with the Economics Graduate Student Association)	Identification And Estimation Of Many-to-One Matching With An Application To The U.S. College Admissions
5/29/2019	Sarojini Hirshleifer, UCR Economics	Testing For Attrition Bias In Field Experiments
6/5/2019	James Mitchell, The University of Warwick (U.K.) & Visiting Scholar – University of Southern California	The Copula Opinion Pool: Modeling Expert Dependence

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2019

site-admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:29:22 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2019

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren or Steven Helfand.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/5/2019	Kevin Lang, Boston University	The Boss Is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Blacks
4/12/2019	Prashant Bharadwaj, The University of California, San Diego	The Effects Of Health Shocks To The Elderly On Children’s Labor Supply
4/18/2019*	Joseph Altonji, Yale University * NOTE: This seminar is on a Thursday and will be held in CHASS HMNSS 1500 from 2:10-3:30 p.m.	The Labor Market Returns To Advanced Degrees
4/26/2019	Marc Bellemare, The University of Minnesota	Producer Attitudes Toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence From The Lab And From The Field
5/3/2019	Julie Cullen, The University of California, San Diego	Performance Information And Personnel Decisions In the Public Sector: The Case Of School Principles
5/10/2019	Cory White, California Polytechnic University – San Luis Obispo	Does Access To Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
5/17/2019	Carlos Dobkin, The University of California, Santa Cruz	Health Insurance And Access To Care For The Near Elderly
5/24/2019	Leandro Carvalho, The University of Southern California	The Distributional Effects Of Education On Health
5/31/2019	Kurt Schwabe, UCR Political Science/Cooperating Faculty in Economics	Is A Gallon Conserved A Gallon Saved? The Unintended Consequences Of Water Policy On Water Recycling
6/7/2019	Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, The University of California, Berkeley	A New Engle On Price Index And Welfare Estimation

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2019

site-admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:32:11 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2019

Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

Questions? Contact Carolyn Sloane.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION