2004-2005 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:24:03 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

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

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
4/6/2005	Shawn Kantor UC Merced	Striking the Roots of Crime: The Impact of the New Deal on Criminal Activity
4/13/2005	Lopamudra Bannerjee Economics (Graduate Student) UCR	Of Floods and Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh: Empirical evidences from the recent past
4/20/2005	Giovanni Peri UC Davis	Gains from “Diversity”: Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities
4/27/2005	Haider Khan University of Colorado, Denver	Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in Computable General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments
5/4/2005	Robert Plotnick University of Washington	The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-Marital Child-Bearing
5/11/2005	Anjini Kochar Stanford University	Schooling Externalities and Public Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Urban India
5/18/2005	Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania	The Impact of Experimental Nutritional Interventions on Education into Adulthood in Rural Guatemala: Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis Returns to Birthweight
5/25/2005	Marc Law University of Vermont	Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
6/1/2005	Roger L. Ransom Professor of History and Economics University of California, Riverside	Historical Imagination and Economic Reality: Counterfactual History and the Civil War
6/10/2005*	President, Economic History Association *NOTE: This is a Friday	Symposium in Honor of Azizur R. Khan

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:15:01 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2005

Seminars Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (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
3/28/2005	Doug Steigerwald Economics, UC Santa Barbara	Noise Reduced Realized Volatility: A Kalman Filter Approach
4/11/2005	Rossen Valkanov Finance, UCLA	Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns
4/18/2005	OPEN	OPEN
4/25/2005	Asger Lunde Aarhus School of Business, Denmark	Regular and Modified Kernal-Based Estimators of Integrated Variance: The case with Independent Noise
5/2/2005*	Andrew Ang Columbia Business School *NOTE: Two seminars by Andrew Ang	Seminar I 1:10 – 2:30 pm in Sproul 2206 The Term Structure of Real Rates and Expected Inflation Seminar II 4:10 – 5:30 pm in SPR 2206 Risk Return and Dividends
5/12/2005*	Lutz Kilian Economics, University of Michigan *NOTE: this is a Thursday seminar	How Useful is Bagging in Forcasting Economic Time Series? A Case of U.S. CPI Inflation
5/23/2005	OPEN	OPEN
5/30/2005	HOLIDAY	HOLIDAY
6/6/2005	FINALS WEEK	FINALS WEEK

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 17:58:31 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2005

Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/8/2005	Linda Fernandez UCR	NAFTA Countries’ Strategies for Addressing Marine Invasive Species through Shipping.
4/15/2005	Yongsheng Xu Georgia State University	Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity
4/22/2005	David Goldbaum Rutgers University & UC San Diego	Self-Organization and the Generation of Noise in Financial Markets
4/29/2005	Donald Saari UC Irvine	Deposing Dictators
5/6/2005	No Seminar	No Seminar
5/12/2005*	Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Economic and Social Networks: An Introduction
5/13/2005	Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor	Communication Networks with Endogenous Link Strength
5/20/2005	Donald Wittman UC Santa Cruz	Candidate Quality, Pressure Group Endorsements, and the Nature of Political Advertising Pressure Groups and Political Advertising: How Uninformed Voters Can Use Strategic Rules of Thumb
5/27/2005	Robert Russell UCR	Axiomatic Foundations of Efficiency Measurement on Convex Polyhedral Technologies
6/3/2005	Monica Das UCR	Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income Distribution, Product Composition and Trade
6/10/2005*	Symposium in honor of Azizur R. Khan *NOTE: Joint with Political Economy & Development The Symposium will be in HMNSS 1500
6/13/2005*	Aubhik Khan Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Julia Thomas University of Minnesota *NOTE: Monday 11:10-12:30 pm	Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:04:53 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2005

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

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar .

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
1/5/2005	Anil Deolalikar, Stephen Helfand, and Richard Sutch Economics- UCR	“How to Write a Referee Report”
1/12/2005	Edward Miguel UC Berkeley	“The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam”
1/14/2005*	Richard Sutch, Anil Deolalikar, Keith Griffin and Steven Helfand *NOTE: Friday 12:10 – 1:20 pm 1500 Humanities Building	“Round Table on South Asia Tsunami”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanaik Economics UCR *NOTE: (joint with Economic Theory Seminar)	On Some Difficulties in Standard of Living Comparisons Based on Functionings”
1/26/2005	Monica Das Economics- UCR	Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income distribution, Product composition and Trade
2/9/2005	Martha Bailey Vanderbilt	“Impact of the Pill on Female Labor Supply”
2/18/2005*	Paul David Oxford & Stanford *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 pm	“The Tale of Two Traverses: Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth”
3/2/2005	David Ellerman UCR	“Jane Jacobs on Diversification and Specialization”
3/9/2005	Anirban Dasgupta UCR	“Agrarian Reforms in West Bengal since 1977”

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:49:40 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2005

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or 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
1/3/2005	Weiping Yang, UCR	A generalized bivariate threshold autoregressive model using copula with applications in output growth and unemployment
1/10/2005	Xiao Huang, UCR	Panel VAR under cross sectional dependence
1/17/2005	Final Exam Week	Holiday
1/24/2005	Xiangdong Long , UCR	Estimation of Multivariate GARCH models
1/31/2005	Heather Tierney, UCR	Fisher Effect:A noparametric investigation
2/14/2005	Changjin Kim Economics, Korea University and University of Washington	Estimation of a Forward-Looking Monetary Policy Rule: A Time-Varying Parameter Model using Ex-Post Data
2/21/2005	Presidents Day (holiday)	Presidents Day (holiday)
2/28/2005	Jushan Bai Economics, NYU	Confidence Intervals for Diffusion Index Forecasts and Inference for Factor-Augmented Regressions
3/7/2005	Akio Namba, Kobe University	Japan A Paradox about the Estimation of the Scale Parameter in the Stein-Rule Estimator
3/14/2005	Final Exam Week	Final Exam Week
3/21/2005	Spring Break	Spring Break

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:37:26 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2005

Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)

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
1/13/2005	Joel Watson UCSD- Economics Department	“Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanik UC Riverside- Economics Department *NOTE: Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm	Joint with the PED seminar “On some difficulties in standard of living comparisons based on functionings”
1/27/2005	David Ellerman UC Riverside	“On a Difficulty in Welfare Economics: The Reversibility of the ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Equity’ Distinction in the Marshall-Pigou-Kaldor-Hicks Tradition of Non-Paretian Welfare Economics”
2/3/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/10/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/17/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/25/2005*	Michael Schwartz UC Berkeley *NOTE: Friday	“Many-to-One Bargaining over a Depreciating Object” (joint work with David McAdams)
3/3/2005*	Preston McAfee Caltech- Economics Department *NOTE: joint with Thomas Wiseman	“Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture”
3/10/2005	Hongbin Cai UCLA- Economics Department	“Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration”
3/14/2005*	Eric Maskin Princeton- Advanced Studies *NOTE: Monday	“Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting”

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:31:31 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Fall 2004 Seminars Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Anil Deolalikar .

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
9/28/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington Public Lecture *NOTE: TuesdayHumanities 1500 4:10-5:30 pm; jointly with Theory	Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?
9/29/2004	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington With Theory	Growth and Income Inequality: Tradeoffs and Policy Responses
10/6/2004	Susan B. Carter & Richard Sutch Economics Department UCR	Why Not in Australia?: Economic Growth in the Age of Mass Migration
10/13/2004	David Ellerman Visiting Economics Department UCR	Migration and (the Lack of) Source-Country Development
10/20/2004	David Kauper Economics Department UCR	Best-Practice Growth and Dynamic Efficiency
10/27/2004	Shatakshee Dhongde Economics Department UCR	Measuring the Impact of Growth and Changes in the Distribution of Income and Poverty in India
11/3/2004	Mindy Marks Economics Department UCR	Employer-Provided Health Insurance, the Minimum Wage, and the Use of Part-Time Labor
11/10/2004	Peter Lanjouw World Bank/ Visiting UC Berkley	Poverty Alleviation Through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
11/22/2004*	John Strauss USC *NOTE: Monday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) III India, Pakistan and the Future of South Asia
11/23/2004*	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Public Lecture *NOTE: Tuesday HMNSS 1500 12:00-1:30 pm	Paper 1 Paper 2 Poverty, Power and Asymmetric Markets in Pakistan
11/24/2004	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics	Paper 1 Paper 2
12/1/2004	Eustáquio Reis Applied Economics Research Institute, Brazil	Long Run Brazilian Growth: Spatial Perspectives

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:22:18 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2004

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah.

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
10/4/2004	Roger Moon Economics- USC	Empirical Likelihood Estimation Based on Inequality Moment Constraints
10/11/2004	Yuying Gao Electrical Engineering- UCR	Derivative Pricing from Cellular Automata
10/18/2004	Bernard Gress Economics- UCR	Spatial Hedonic Housing Pricing Models Staying Ahead in the Innovation Race: New-product Introductions and Relative Firm Value
10/25/2004	Shuba Srinivasan AGSM- UCR	Background
11/1/2004	Wei Sun Economics- UCR	Semiparametric Analysis of Income Inequality: An Application to China Cross-Validation and the Estimation of Conditional Probability Densities Nonparametric Estimation of Distributions with Categorical and Continuous Data
11/8/2004	Jeff Racine Economics- Syracuse University	Cross-Validated Local Linear Nonparametric Regression Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects With Mixed Categorical and Continuous Data
11/15/2004	Chung-Ming Kuan Academia- Sinica Taiwan	An Unobserved Components Model with Regime Switching between Permanent and Transitory Innovations
11/17/2004*	Gautam Tripathi Economics- University of Connecticut *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Combining Datasets to Overcome Selection Caused by Censoring and Truncation in Moment Based Models
11/29/2004	Bruce Hansen Economics- University of Wisconsin	Nonparametric Conditional Density Estimation
12/6/2004	Barbara Rossi UCSD and Duke University	Expectations Hypotheses Tests and Predictive Regressions at Long Horizons
12/8/2004*	Weiping Yang Economics- UCR *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Modeling Granger-Causality and Nonlinearity in Conditional Bivariate Distribution Using Copula
12/10/2004*	Xiao Huang Economics- UCR *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Panel VAR Under Cross Sectional Dependence

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:14:47 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2004

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah .

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
9/28/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department- University of Washington *NOTE: Tuesday Humanities 1500 4:10-5:30 pm; Joint with Political Economy and Development	Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?
9/29/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department- University of Washington *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm; Joint with Political Economy and Development	Growth and Income Inequality: Tradeoffs and Policy Responses
10/8/2004	Alan Krause Economics Department- UC Riverside	“Dynamic Tax Reform and Second-Best Pareto Optima”
10/15/2004	Selo Imrohoroglu USC- Business School	Japanese Saving Rate
10/22/2004	Alan Auerbach UC Berkeley – Economics Department	“Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control”
10/29/2004	Xu Cheng UC Riverside- Economics Department	“When Would Free Trade Lead to More Learning than Protection in the Strategic Industries with A Comparative Disadvantage?”
11/5/2004	Michelle Garfinkel UC Irvine- Economics Department	“Globalization and Domestic Conflict”
11/12/2004	Keith Knapp UC Riverside- Environmental Sciences	“Recursive Sustainability: Intertemporal Efficiency and Equality”
11/19/2004	Ping Wang Vanderbilt University- Economics Department	“Outsourcing of Innovation”
12/3/2004	Vincent Crawford UC San Diego- Economics Department	“Fatal Attraction: Focality, Naivete, and Sophistication in Experimental Hid-and-Seek Games”