2003-2004 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 21:01:20 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Steve Cullenberg or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

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

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2004 and 4/3/2004*	Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, Center for Ideas and Society UCR Including, Jack Amariglio, (Economics, Merrimack College), Stephen Cullenberg (UCR), Will Milberg (Economics, New School University), David Ruccio (Economics, University of Notre Dame) Martha Starr (Economics, American University and many others. *NOTE: Friday & Saturday Humanities 1500 Both days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m	Conference website: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/econrep
4/9/2004	Michael Bernstein UCSD History	“The ‘Marginalist Revolution’ in Historical Context”
4/16/2004	Feng Xiao CSU Fullerton Economics	“The Role of the Stock Market in Influencing Firm Investment in China”
4/23/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Friday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/24/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Saturday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/30/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR Economics	“A Modern Treatment of Descriptive and Normative Property Theory”
5/7/2004	Prasanta Pattanaik UCR Economics	“On the Structure of Normative Economics”
5/14/2004	Timur Kuran University of Southern Calif. Economics	“Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Develop Corporate Law through Indigenous Means”
5/21/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR	“A Theory of Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance”
5/26/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Wednesday, 2:10-3:30 p.m.	“Globalization and Marginalization: A Re-examination of Development Policy”
5/27/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.	“Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity”
5/28/2004*	Keith Griffin *NOTE: Development Symposium for Keith Griffin 10:00 a.m	10:00 a.m. Azizur Rahman Khan Economics, UCR “Income Distribution in Post-Reform China” 2:00 p.m. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, “Gender and Water: Poverty, Mortality and Access to Water” 4:00 p.m. Jim Boyce, Economics, University of Mass., Amherst, “Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment”
6/4/2004*	Graduate Student Conference for Keith Griffin Confirmed Participants Include: Diana Alarcon, Inter-American Dev. Bank Mark Brenner, Univ. of Mass., Amherst Amber Casolari, Glendale Comm. College Savvina Chowdhury, Cal. State Univ., Bakersfield Ranjeeta Ghiara, Cal State Univ. , San Marcos Craig Gunderson, Iowa State University Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College Amy Ickowitz, Clark University Terry McKinley, United Nations Dev. Programme Bassam Yousif, Cal. State Univ. Fullerton German Zarate-Hojos, State Univ. of NY Cortland Eduardo Zepeda, United Nations Dev. Programme *NOTE: Friday 9:30a.m. to 5:30p.m.	The Challenge of Development in the 21st Century, Schedule
6/9/2004	E. Roy Weintraub Duke University Economics NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Equilibrium Proofmaking”

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 20:51:09 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Tae Hwy-Lee or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
3/31/2004	Yong Bao UCR Economics Dissertation Defense	“Essays on Finite Sample Inference and Financial Econometrics” Slide presentation
4/7/2004	Yang Yang UCR Economics	“Bagging Binary Predictors for Time Series”
4/14/2004	No seminar to be scheduled	Conference at UCSD on April 16-17
4/21/2004	No seminar to be scheduled	Conference at Caltech on April 23
4/28/2004	Patrik Guggenberger UCLA Economics	“Generalized Empirical Likelihood Estimators and Tests under Partial, Weak and Strong Identification” Figures
5/5/2004	Zhijie Xiao University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	“Quantile Regression with Integrated Processes”
5/12/2004*	Gareth James USC, Marshall School of Business *NOTE: Joint with Statistics	“Functional Adaptive Model Estimation”
5/19/2004	Atsushi Inoue North Carolina State University, Ag. Economics	“Monitoring and Forecasting Financial Crises” (Joint with Barbara Rossi)
5/26/2004	Susanne M. Schennach University of Chicago Economics	“Instrumental Variable Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models”
6/2/2004	Dale Poirier UC Irvine Economics	“What is in a Word or Two”

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 20:40:35 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

Copies of the paper may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/1/2004	Jenny Xu University of British Columbia & SFU	“Noise Traders and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle”
4/6/2004*	Satya P. Das Indian Statistical Institute Delhi University *NOTE: Tuesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Diversity and Growth”
4/8/2004	Nick Baigent Institute of Public Economics Austria	“The Beach Party Problem”
4/15/2004	Berthold Herrendorf ASU	“Monopoly Rights Can Reduce Income Big Time”
4/22/2004*	Juan D. Carrillo Economics Department USC *NOTE: Rescheduled to May 6th	“A Theory of Influence”
4/29/2004	Prasanta Pattanaik Economics Department UCR	“On Some Measures of Deprivation”
5/6/2004	Juan D. Carrillo Economics Department USC	“A Theory of Influence”
5/13/2004	Ariel Burstein Economics Department UCLA	“International Mobility of Entrepreneurs”
5/20/2004	Eilev S. Jansen Norges BANK & Norwegian Universiity of Science and Technology & U. of Oslo	“Empirical Macroeconometric Modelling”
6/3/2004	David Ellerman World Band (retired) & UCR Economics Department	“Series-Parallel Duality in Mathematics and Economics.”

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:02:59 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2004

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206 Questions? Contact David Fairris or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

Copies of papers may be available from Pam

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/16/2004	Mason Gaffney UCR	“Housing and Income”
2/20/2004	Dorene Isenberg University of Redlands Department of Economics	“Depository Institutions and Deregulation: A Political Economy Approach” The political economy of financial reform: the origins of the US deregulation of 1980 and 1982 The national origin of financial liberalization: The US
2/27/2004	Ranjeeta Ghiara Cal State San Marcos College of Arts and Sciences	“A Tale of Two Cities: Impact of Trade Liberalization on Labor Markets in Mexico”
3/5/2004	Gordon Hanson UC San Diego Department of Economics	“Emigration and Educational Attainment in Mexico”
3/12/2004	Jonathan Hiskey UCR Department of Political Science	“The Recovery Consequences of an Uneven Regime: A Sub-national Analysis of Mexico’s 1995 Economic Crisis”

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:54:27 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2004

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

Questions? Contact Tae Hwy-Lee or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/12/2004*	Jesus Gonzalo University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Monday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Persistence and Asymmetries” Threshold Stochastic Unit Root Models (TARSUR) The case of stock prices
1/14/2004	Jesus Gonzalo University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Distinguished Visitor	Threshold Integrated Moving Average Models (Does size matter? may be so)
1/21/2004	Yong Bao UCR	“Finite Sample Moments of Econometric Estimators with Non-IID Observations,”
1/28/2004	Jinseo Cho Victoria University of Wellington School of Economics & Finance	“Testing For Independent And Identical Distributions”
3/3/2004	Xiaohong Chen NYU	“Estimation and Model Selection of Semi-parametric Copula-based Multivariate Dynamic Models under Copula Misspecification”
3/10/2004*	Marcelle Chauvet UCR *NOTE: Joint with Theory	“Tracking and Forecasting Business Cycle Fluctuations”

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:45:59 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2004

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

Questions? Contact Robert Russell or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

Copies of the paper may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/8/2004	Mark R. Johnson Arizona State	“The Structure and Two Complexities of Economic Choice Semiautomata”
1/15/2004	Craig B. McLaren UCR	“Beyond Preferences and Utility: What The Marginalists Really Meant” (please see Pam for a copy of this paper)
2/19/2004*	Alan Krause UCR *NOTE: Thursday Sproul 2206 3:40-5:00 pm	“The Dynamic Process of Tax Reform”
2/26/2004	Martine Quinzii UC Davis	“Demography and the Long Run Predictability of the Stock Market”
3/4/2004	Roger Gordon UCSD	“Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity: Theory and Evidence for the U.S.” Tables
3/10/2004*	Marcelle Chauvet UCR *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm; Joint with Econometrics	“Tracking and Forecasting Business Cycle Fluctuations”
3/11/2004	Charles Blackorby Warwick Distinguished Visitor	“Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redisribution”

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:37:14 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2003

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

Questions? Contact Keith Griffin or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2003*	Kusum Mundra SDSU *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm; Jointly with Econometrics	“Suicide Bombing As a Strategic Instrument of Protest: An Empirical Investigation”
10/3/2003	Richard A. Easterlin USC	“Building a Better Theory of Well-Being”
10/10/2003	Anil Deolalikar UCR- Economics	“Attaining the Health Millennium Development Goals in India”
10/17/2003	David Fairris UCR Economics	“The Impact of Living Wages on Employers: A Control Group Analysis of the Los Angeles Ordinance”
10/24/2003	Susan Carter UCR- Economics	“Mexican Fertility Decline in the American Mirror”
10/31/2003	David Ellerman UCR- Economics	“What Went Wrong in Foreign Aid to the FSU Transition Economies?”
11/7/2003*	Manuel Pastor UC Santa Cruz *NOTE: CANCELLED	“Social Policy in the Wake of the Financial Crises in Argentina and Mexico”
11/14/2003	Akmal Hussain Pakistan	“Poverty and Power in Pakistan”
11/21/2003	Allan Richards UC Santa Cruz	“Modernity and Economic Development: The New American Messianism”

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:26:06 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2003

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2003*	Kusum Mundra SDSU *NOTE: Jointly with PE & D	“Suicide Bombing As a Strategic Instrument of Protest: An Empirical Investigation”
10/8/2003	Dustin Chambers UCR	“A Semi-parametric Analysis of the Role of Inequality, Investment and Government Expenditure in Economic Growth”
10/15/2003	Ed Vytlacil Stanford University	“Dummy Endogenous Variables in Non-Separable Models”
10/22/2003	Ken Baerenklau UCR Environmental Sciences	“Implications of Static Modeling for Welfare Estimation and Out of Sample Predictions When the Underlying Decision Problem is Dynamic: An Application to Recreation Demand”
10/29/2003	Xingping Cui UCR	Statistics “Quantitative Trait Linkage Mapping Using yeast micro-array gene expression data”
11/5/2003	Ekaterini Kyriazdou UCLA	“Credit Constraints in the Market for Consumer Durables: Evidence from Micro Data on Car Loans”
11/12/2003	Liangjun Su UCSD	“Testing Conditional Independence Via Empirical Likelihood”
11/13/2003*	Hashem Pesaran Cambridge University &USC Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective”
11/19/2003	Dale Poirier UCI	CANCELLED “TBA”
11/26/2003	Qi Li Texas A & M	“Nonparametric Estimation of Econometric Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data”
12/3/2003	Jim Press UCR Statistics	“Respondent Generated Intervals (RGI)”
12/5/2003*	Hidehiko Ichimura UCL *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Computation of Asymptotic Distribution for Semi-parametric GMM Estimators”

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:10:46 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2003

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

Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhyay or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/25/2003	Kar-Yiu Wong University of Washington	“On The Optimal Timing of Foreign Trade”
10/2/2003	Ichiro Obara UCLA	“The Full Surplus Extraction Theorem with Hidden Actions”
10/9/2003	Tom Schwartzs UCLA	Political Science “Liberating Liberalism”
10/16/2003	David Ellerman UCR	“Towards an Arbitrage Approach to Optimization Theory”
10/23/2003	Christie Byun UCR	“Habit Formation and Household Consumption”
10/30/2003	Xu Cheng UCR	Cancelled “TBA”
11/6/2003	Maurice Salles University of Caen, France	“Social Choice and Fuzzy Preferences”
11/13/2003	Hashem Pesaran UCR	“Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective”
11/20/2003	Wei Li UCR	“Mind Changes in Designing Reporting Systems”
12/4/2003	Marcelle Chauvet UCR	“Tracking and Detecting Business Cycle Fluctuations”