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Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:10:35 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2020

The Economics Department has cancelled all seminars for the month of April due to the coronavirus. We will update as conditions evolve.

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

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee and Yang Xie

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
04/03/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/10/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/17/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/24/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/29/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Writing a Referee Report
05/01/2020	TBA
05/08/2020	TBA
05/15/2020	TBA
05/20/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Visualizing Dynamic Treatment Effects
05/22/2020	Graduate Student Professional Development	The Job Market
05/29/2020	Zhuozhen Zhao (UCR)	Does AMD Stimulate Intel Innovate More and Release Sooner
06/05/2020	TBA

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:07:39 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2020

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

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego-Marti

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
01/10/2020	Ugo Troiano, University of Michigan	SOCIAL CAPITAL, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND GROWTH
01/17/2020	No Seminar
01/24/2020	Neha Bairoliya, USC Marshall	Demographic Transition, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
01/31/2020	Ariel Burstein, UCLA	Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations
02/07/2020	Florian Madison, Claremont McKenna College	Entrepreneurial Finance, Home Equity and Monetary Policy
02/14/2020	No seminar
02/21/2020	Paul Jackson, UC Irvine	Equilibrium Underemployment
02/28/2020	Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, UCSC	Increasing the Cost of Informal Workers: Evidence from Mexico
03/06/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
03/13/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

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

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

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2019

site-admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:52:02 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2019

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

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura.

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
1/7/2019	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/9/2019*	Siyang Xiong, The University of Bristol *NOTE: This is a Wednesday	Commitment Design
1/14/2019	In-Koo Cho, The University of Illinois	Advertisement And Design
1/21/2019	No Seminar, Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday-Campus Closed	No Seminar-Campus Closed
1/28/2019	Laura Doval, The California Institute of Technology	Mechanism Design With Limited Commitment
2/4/2019	Charles Sprenger, The University of California, San Diego	Direct Tests Of Cumulative Prospect Theory
2/11/2019	Kota Saito, The California Institute of Technology	Repeated Choice: A Theory Of Stochastic Intertemporal Preferences
2/18/2019	No Seminar, President’s Day Holiday-Campus Closed	No Seminar-Carmpus Closed
2/25/2019	Xu Tan, The University of Washington	Locally Bayesian Learning In Networks
3/4/2019	Igor Kopylov, The University of California, Irvine	Minimal Rationalizations
3/11/2019	Jonathan Libgober, The University of Southern California	Informational Robustness In Intertemporal Pricing

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2018

site-admin — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:32:56 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2018

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo.

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
10/1/2018	Saki Bigio, UC Los Angeles	A Model Of Credit, Money, Interests and Prices
10/8/2018	Taghi Farzad, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Maturity Structure And Debt Renegotiation In Sovereign Bonds
10/15/2018	Hien Nguyen, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Firm Equity Risk, Bank Lending Standards, And The Macroeconomy
10/22/2018	Kevin Lansing, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Endogenous Regime Switching Near The Zero Lower Bound
10/29/2018	David Zeke, The University of Southern California	Misallocation Costs of Digging Deeper Into The Central Bank Toolkit
11/5/2018	Mingyuan Jia, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Real-Time Tracking Of Inflation With A Mixed-Frequency Unobserved Component Model With Stochastic Volatility
11/12/2018	No Seminar-Veteran’s Day Holiday & campus is closed.	No Seminar
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Distinguished Visitor Lecture to Graduate Students in Sproul 2206	Adaptive Learning And Monetary Policy
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m., Sproul 2206	Learning To Optimize
11/26/2018	Shiyun Zhang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Why People Move Between The U.S. And Mexico: Self-Selection And Migration
11/30/2018*	John Zhu, The University of Pennsylvania *NOTE: This is a Friday	Better Monitoring…Worse Productivity?
12/3/2018	Michael Choi, UC Irvine	Money Mining And Price Dynamics
12/5/2018	Roee Teper, The University of Pittsburgh	Exploration And Correlation
12/7/2018*	David Lagakos, UC San Diego *NOTE: This is a FRIDAY from 3-4:20pm	The Aggregate Effects Of “Free” Schooling In The Developing World

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:59:57 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2018

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

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego Marti.

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
04/04/2018	Zhi Zhao, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Quantifying The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Mixed-Frequency Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive Regression Approach
04/11/2018	Vincenzo Quadrini, The University of Southern California	Banks Interconnectivity And Leverage
04/13/2018*	Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	How The U.S. Lost The Rust Belt: Labor Market Conflict And Inefficient Rent Sharing
04/18/2018	TBA	TBA
04/25/2018	Joel David, The University of Southern California	Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation And Misallocation
05/02/2018	Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University	Structural Transformation In Investment And Consumption: A Unified Approach
05/09/2018	Thanasis Geromichalos, UC Davis	The Liquidity-Augmented Model of Macroeconomic Aggregates
05/16/2018	Pedro Amaral, Cal State University, Fullerton	Financial Engineering And Economic Development
05/23/2018	Henry Siu, University of British Columbia	The “End of Men” And Rise Of Women In The High-Skilled Labor Market
05/30/2018	Ayse Imrohoroglu, The University of Southern California	Household Saving, Financial Constraints, And The Current Account In China
06/06/2018	Tommaso Porzio, UC San Diego	The Enduring Wall: Labor Mobility Within And Between East And West Germany

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:38:49 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2018

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

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee or Yang Xie.

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
01/10/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
01/17/2018	Bo-Yu Chen, UCR PhD Candidate	International Stock Markets Linkages: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach
01/24/2018	Jean-Paul Carvalho, UCI	The Economics Of Religious Communities: Social Integration, Discrimination And Radicalization
01/31/2018	Michael McBride, UCI	Theory-Of-Mind Ability And Cooperation
02/08/2018*	Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, UCB *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Thursday, & the location is CHASS HMNSS 1500 from 4:00-5:20 p.m.)	The Economics Of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts And the Eurozone Crisis
02/14/2018	Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University	Drilling In The Drought? The Industrial Organization of Groundwater
02/21/2018	Romain Ranciere, USC	Balance-Sheet Diversification In General Equilibrium: Identification And Network Effects
02/28/2018	Stergios Skaperdas, UCI	Investing In Influence: Policy Determination Under Persuasive Lobbying
03/07/2018	Joshua Aizenman, USC	Financial Spillovers And Macroprudential Policies
03/14/2018	Andrew Rose, UCB	How Important Is The Global Financial Cycle? Evidence From Capital Flows
03/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:08:06 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2017

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

Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhyay.

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
10/04/2017	Hiroki Nishimura, UCR Economics Faculty	Rationalizability Of Partial Consumption Data
10/11/2017	Urmee Khan, UCR Economics Faculty	Moral Hazard, Uncertain Technologies And Linear Contracts
10/18/2017	Cheng-Zhong Qin, UC Santa Barbara	On The Anti-Collusive Effect Of Cross-Holdings In Repeated Cournot Competitions
10/25/2017	Amihai Glazer, UC Irvine	Why High Level Executives Earn Less Than In The Private Sector
11/01/2017	Miroslav Gabrovski, UCR PhD Candidate	Coordination Frictions And Economic Growth
11/08/2017	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR Economics	Institutions And Their Ethical Evaluation
11/15/2017	Martin Dumav, Carlos III University of Madrid	Continuous-Time Contracting With Ambiguous Perceptions
11/22/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/29/2017	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics Faculty	Housing Market Dynamics With Search And Credit Frictions
12/06/2017	There will be an Econometrics Seminar on this date	Please see the Econometrics Seminar listing
12/13/2017	No Seminar- Finals Week	No Seminar- Finals Week

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:26:10 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2017

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

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura.

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
4/07/2017	Michael Magill, USC	Banking, Crises and Unconventional Monetary Policy
4/14/2017	Snehal Banerjee, UCSD	Dynamic Information And Strategic Trading
4/21/2017	Jay Lu, UCLA	Bayesian Identification: A Theory Of State-Dependent Utilities
4/28/2017	Joel Watson, UCSD	Statistical Evidence And The Problem Of Robust Litigation
5/05/2017	Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA	Recruiting Talent
5/12/2017	Isabel Trevino, UCSD	Informational Channels Of Financial Contagion
5/19/2017	Kevin Reffett, Arizona State University	Preferences, Externalities, and Indeterminancy: A Global Characterization Of Minimal State Space Recursive Equilibria
5/26/2017	Sevgi Yuksel, UCSB	Media Competition And The Source Of Disagreement
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology	Persistence Of Power: Repeated Multilateral Bargaining
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov- CalTech (Addl Info)	On Line Material for Persistence of Power….
6/09/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
6/16/2017	Spring Finals, No Seminar	No Seminar