2005-2006 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:39:49 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

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

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks.

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
4/10/2006	Kate Antonovics (UCSD)	A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
4/17/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
4/24/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	Cross-Cohort Changes in the Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences: Consequences on the Gender Wage Differential
5/1/2006	Heather Antecol (Claremont McKenna)	Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities
5/8/2006	Hyeok Jeong (USC)	Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth
5/15/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	TBA
5/22/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France
6/5/2006	Arin Dube (UC Berkeley)	Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings throughout the Retail Sector in Urban and Rural Counties

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:24:12 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2006

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah & Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera

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
4/12/2006*	Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 \| 2 \| 3
4/14/2006	Timo Terasvirta (Stockholm School of Economics)	Multivariate autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity with smooth transitions in conditional correlations
4/21/2006	Vassilis Polimenis (AGSM/UCR)	Skewness correction for asset pricing
4/26/2006*	James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	An Empirical Comparison of Methods for Forecasting Using Many Predictors
4/28/2006*	Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) *NOTE: joint with Economic Theory	Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks
5/5/2006	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Projection Minimum Distance:An estimator for dynamic macro models
5/12/2006	Kairat Mynbaev (Kazakhstan Inst of Mgt)	OLS Asymptotics for Vector Autoregressions with Deterministic Regressors
5/19/2006	Rosa Matzkin (Northwestern University) joint with Economic Theory	Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations
5/26/2006	Grazia Pittau (University of Rome & Columbia University)	Empirical evidence of income dynamics across EU regions
5/31/2006*	Joao Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function
6/2/2006	Hal White (UCSD)	Seminar (open to all): An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for the Estimation of Causal Effects Lecture(intended for Graduate Students although everyone is welcome): A Unified Framework for Defining and Identifying Causal Effects
6/7/2006*	Daniel Jeske (Statistics Department/UCR) *NOTE: Wednesday	The Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias Correction with Heavy Tailed Distributions

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:06:54 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2006

Wednesdays, 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
4/5/2006	Fabio Milani (Economics Department/UC Irvine)	Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence
4/12/2006	Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) joint with Econometrics	Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 \| 2 \| 3
4/19/2006	Michael J Ryan (Centre for Economic Policy Hull/University Business School)	Simple Characterizations of Contraction Consistency and Inconsistency Conditions
4/26/2006	James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) joint with Econometrics	TBA
4/28/2006*	Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) joint with Econometrics *NOTE: Friday	Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks
5/3/2006	Nicolas L. Dromel (Economics Department/University of Aix-Marseille)	Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing?
5/10/2006	Robert J. Gordon (Economics Department/Northwestern University)	Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier M
5/12/2006*	Rosa Metzkin (Economics Department/Northwestern University) joint with Econometrics *NOTE: Friday	TBA
5/17/2006	Ayse Imrohoroglu (Marshall School of Business/USC)	Secular Movements in U.S. Saving and Consumption
5/24/2006	Hanno Lustig (Economics Department/UCLA)	The Irrelevance of Idiosyncratic Income Risk for Risk Premia in Incomplete Market Models
5/31/2006*	Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) *NOTE: joint with Econometrics	Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:26:37 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2006

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

Questions? Contact Stephen Cullenberg

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
2/27/2006	Robert Pollak Washington University	Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:21:42 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2006

Fridays, 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
3/10/2006	Arnold Zellner UC Berkeley and University of Chicago	A New Approach to Macroeconometric Modeling

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:11:12 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2006

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

Questions? Contact Robert Russell

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
1/4/2006*	Kotaro Suzumura (Japan) *NOTE: (Lecture for Graduate Students)	On Initial Conferment of Individual Rights Japanese Competition Law and Competition Policy
1/5/2006*	Kotaro Suzumura (Japan) *NOTE: (Lecture for Graduate Students)	On Initial Conferment of Individual Rights Japanese Competition Law and Competition Policy
2/7/2006*	Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia, England)*NOTE: Tuesday, 12:40 – 2:00 pm	Lecture: Collective intentions and team agency
2/8/2006*	Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia, England)*NOTE: Wednesday, 4:10 – 5:30 pm	Seminar:Taking unconsidered preferences seriously

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:46:13 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2005

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

Questions? Contact Susan Carter .

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
10/3/2005	Jang-Ting Guo, Richard Sutch and Susan Carter, UCR, Kerry Odell, Scripps College	Katrina-nomics: What Disasters Can Teach Us About the Way the Economy Works
10/10/2005*	Alan L. Olmstead UC Davis *NOTE: with Paul Rhode	Wait a Cotton Pickin’ Minute!: A New View of Slave Productivity
10/17/2005	Roberto Pedace Univ. of Redlands	Earnings, Performance, and Nationality Discrimination in a Highly Competitive Labor Market: An Analysis of the English Professional Soccer League
10/24/2005*	Elizabeth Cascio UC Davis *NOTE: with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber	Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
10/31/2005	Alexander J. Field Santa Clara Univ.	The Impact of World War II on U.S. Productivity Growth
11/7/2005*	Joseph Hotz UCLA *NOTE: with Guido W. Imbern and Jacob A. Klerman	Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution
11/14/2005	Gavin Wright Stanford	Figures
11/18/2005*	Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development *NOTE: Friday	From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
11/21/2005*	Steven Topik UC Irvine *NOTE: with Mario Samper	The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica
11/28/2005	David Fairris, and Leon Fernandez-Bujanda UCR	The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers through Labor-Labor Substitution
12/5/2005	Lopamudra Banerjee UCR	Effects of Flood on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:39:18 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2005

Fridays, 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
9/30/2005	Colin Cameron UC Davis	Regression with Multi-Way Clustering
10/7/2005	Kairat Mynbaev Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Kazakhstan	Lp-Approximate Sequence of Vectors and Limit Distribution of Quadratic Forms of Random Variables
10/14/2005	Raffaella Giacomini UCLA	Detecting and Predicting Forecast
10/21/2005*	Aprajit Mahajan Stanford *NOTE: CANCELLED	Identification and Estimation of Regression Models with Misclassification
11/4/2005	Ivan Jeliazkov UC Irvine	Estimation and Model Choice in Nonparametric Additive Regression
11/18/2005	Debopam Bhattacharya Dartmouth College	Inference in Panel Data Models Under Attrition Caused By Unobservables Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
12/2/2005	Joseph Hotz UCLA	Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand
12/9/2005	Jose Gonzalo Rangel UCSD	The Spine-GARCH Model for Unconditional Volatility and its Global Macroeconomic Causes

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:30:26 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2005

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
10/5/2005*	David Miller UC San Diego	The dynamic cost of ex post incentive compatibility in repeated games of private information Ratifiability of Efficient Collusive mechanisms in Second-Price Auctions with Participation Costs *NOTE:(with Okan Yilankaya)
10/12/2005*	Tan Guofu USC *NOTE: (with Ken Hendricks and Robert Porter)	Bidding Rings and Winner’s Curse
10/19/2005	Cheng-Zhong Qin UC Santa Barbara	Bid and Guess: A Nested Mechanism for King Solomon’s Dilemma
10/26/2005	Philip Babcock UCR	Bowling Alone, Revisited: Social Capital and Skill Acquisition
11/2/2005	William Branch UC Irvine	Model Uncertainty and Endogenous Volatility (Co-authored with George Evans)
11/9/2005	Joseph Wang California Institute of Technology	Is Last Minute Bidding Bad?
11/16/2005	Prasanta Pattanaik UCR	Individual rights and liberties in welfare economics: A re-examination
11/30/2005	Rajat Deb Southern Methodist University	The Proportionality Principle, the Shapley Value and the Assignment of Heterogeneous objects
12/7/2005	TBA	TBA