2006-2007 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:59:10 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2007

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

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks , Susan Carter , and Richard Sutch

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
4/2/2007*	David Swanson University of Mississippi Dir. Center of Population Studies *NOTE: Monday (not Friday)	Assessing Katrina’s Demographic and Social Impacts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Preliminary Results
4/20/2007	Erica Field Harvard University	Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania
4/27/2007	Jorge Aguero UC Riverside	Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
5/4/2007	Latika Chaudhary (W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution)	An Economic Analysis of Education in Colonial India
5/11/2007	Jae-Hee Son UC Riverside	Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women
5/18/2007	Subhrendu Pattanayak RTI/North Carolina State	Nature’s Call: Can social mobilization promote toilet use and improve welfare? Results from a field experiment in Orissa, India
5/25/2007	Michael Steinberger Pomona College	Sexual Orientation, Earnings, and Occupational Choice
6/1/2007*	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside *NOTE: (joint w/ Political Economy & Development) CANCELLED	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia
6/8/2007	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	John Stuart Mill on welfare and public action

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:50:40 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2007

Wednesdays, 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
4/11/2007	Jorge Silva-Risso UCR AGSM	Distribution Intensity and Choice; Insights from Transaction Data on New Car Sales
4/25/2007	Bryan Graham UC Berkeley	Inverse Probability Tilting and Missing Data Problems
5/2/2007	Serena Ng University of Michigan	Instrumental Variable Estimation in a Data Rich Environment
5/9/2007	John Andersen Psychology Department UCR	Time series analysis of behavioral data
5/16/2007*	Essie Maasoumi Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX *NOTE: (Lecture intended for Graduate Students!)	Discriminating Between Distributions
5/17/2007*	Essie Maasoumi Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX *NOTE: Thursday 5:10-6:30pm	The Information Content of Propensity Scores
5/23/2007	Aprajit Mahajan Stanford University
5/30/2007	Guido Kuersteiner UC Davis
6/6/2007	Aman Ullah UCR	Testing Conditional Uncorrelatedness

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:39:34 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2007

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

Questions? Contact Wei Li

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
4/6/2007*	Hossein Farzin *NOTE: Friday (not Monday)	Social Norm of Work and the Optimality of Resource Extinction
4/9/2007	Linda Cohen UC Irvine	Competition, innovation and racing for priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
4/16/2007	Robert Russell UC Riverside	The Morishima Gross Elasticity of Substitution
4/23/2007	Prasanta Pattanaik UC Riverside	Revealed Preference and Stochastic Choices of a Competitive Consumer: A Unified Theory
4/30/2007	Scott Taylor University of Calgary, Canada	Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
5/7/2007	Peter Hammond University of Warwick, U.K.
5/14/2007	Reza Oladi Utah State University	Strategic International Outsourcing
5/25/2007*	Kurt Schwabe UC Riverside *NOTE: Friday (not Monday) (Joint w/ Political Economy & Development)	Determinants of Non-timber Forest Product Collection by Indigenous Smallholder Communities of Malaysia

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:29:18 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2007

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul 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
1/12/2007	Richard Sutch Biotechnology Impact Center & Dept of Economics UCR	Hockey Stick Graphs, The Show Corn Fallacy and The Adoption of Hybrid Corn: American Corn Yields, 1866-2002
3/2/2007	Ramanan Laxminarayan Senior Fellow at the Resources for Future (Washington DC)	Surveillance and Reporting of Disease Outbreaks: Private Incentives and WHO Policy Levers (with Anup Malani)

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:22:45 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2007

Wednesdays, 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
2/21/2007	Shinichi Sakata University of British Columbia	Testing Parameter Constancy Across Many Groups
3/7/2007	John Ham USC	Analyzing Movements over Time in Employment Status and Welfare Participation while Controlling for Seam Bias using SIPP
3/14/2007	Suzanne Schennach University of Chicago

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:17:07 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2007

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

Questions? Contact Wei Li

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
1/10/2007*	Roger Farmer Economics Department, UCLA *NOTE: Wednesday	Old Keynesian Economics
3/5/2007	Michael McBride UCI
3/12/2007	Yan Bai ASU	Capital Structure and Contract enforcement

DATE

NAME

TITLE OF PRESENTATION

1/10/2007*

Roger Farmer Economics Department, UCLA

*NOTE: Wednesday

Old Keynesian Economics

3/5/2007

Michael McBride UCI

3/12/2007

Yan Bai ASU

Capital Structure and Contract enforcement

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:54:41 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2006

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) HMNSS 1500 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
9/29/2006	Greg Clark (Department of Economics, UC Davis)	Capitalism in our Genes? The Malthusian Era and the Formation of Modern Preferences
10/6/2006	Mindy Marks (Department of Economics, UCR)	Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws on Minorities: Evidence from the Progressive Era
10/13/2006	Susan Carter & Richard Sutch (Economics Department, UCR)	The Economic Consequences of Immigration for Resident Workers: Perspectives from America’s Age of Mass Migration
10/20/2006	Victor Lippit (Economics Department, UCR)	Social Structures of Accumulation Theory
10/27/2006	Leah P. Boustan (Department of Economics,UCLA)	Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration
11/3/2006	Maryianne Bitler (Public Policy Inst of CA and UC Irvine)	Distribution Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project in Canada
11/11/2006	Ron Jarmin (US Census Bureau)	Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded verses Private Firms
12/1/2006	Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna)	Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents
12/8/2006	Lopamudra Banerjee (Economics Department, UCR)	Effects of Floods on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:44:30 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2006

Wednesdays, 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
10/4/2006	Huiyu Huang (Department of Economics, UCR)	On Combining Forecasts (based on two papers: “To Combine Forecasts or to Combine Information? and Forecasting Output Growth and Inflation: How to Use Information in the Yield Curve”)
10/11/2006	Dennis Kristensen (Department of Economics, Columbia University)	Nonparametric Simulated Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Models (based on two papers: “Estimation of Dynamic Models with Nonparametric Simulated Maximum Likelihood” and “Estimation of Hidden Markov Models with Nonparamtric Simulated Maximum Likelihood”
10/18/2006	Aaron Smith (Dept of Agr. & Resource Economics, UC Davis)	Markov Breaks in Regression Models
10/25/2006	Canlin Li (AGSM, UCR)	Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interaction: A Generalized Nelson-Siegel Approach
11/1/2006	Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera (Economics Department, UCR)	Autocontours: A Dynamic Specification Test
11/5/2006	Jun Li (Department of Statistics, UCR)	Multivariate Thresholds for Extremes and Simultaneous Monitoring of Multiple Aviation Risk Indicators
11/15/2006	Marcelo Moreira (Department of Economics, Harvard University)	Decision Theory Applied to Linear Panel Data Models
11/29/2006	Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta)	Methods For Inference In Large Multiple-Equation Markov-Switching Models
12/6/2006	Kevin Song (Economics Department, Univ of Pennsylvania)	Testing Conditional Independence using Conditional Martingale Transforms

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:33:47 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2006

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo or Richard Suen

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
10/2/2006	Wei Li (Department of Economics, UCR)	Communication Through Intermediaries: Influence Peddling and Propaganda
10/9/2006	Ken Baerenklau (Environmental Sciences, UCR)	Effects of Nutrient Restrictions on Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Insights from A Structural Dynamic Model
10/16/2006	Irina A. Telyukova (Economics Department, UC San Diego)	A Model of Money and Credit, with Application to the Credit Card Debt Puzzle
10/23/2006	Daya Muralidharan (Economics Department, UCR)	Spacial Dynamics of Water Management in Irrigated Agriculture
10/30/2006	Igor Kopylov (Economics Department, UC Irvine)	A Parametric Model of Ambiguity Hedging
11/6/2006	Lee Ohanian (Economics Department, UCLA)	The Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, and Labor Shedding
11/13/2006	Anthony Marino (Business School, USC)	Disobedience and Authority
11/20/2006	Dean Corbae (Economics Department, Univ of Texas, Austin)	Credit Scoring and the Competitive Pricing of Default Risk
11/27/2006	David Romer (Economics Department, UC Berkeley)	The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: New Estimates Based on A New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
12/4/2006	Guillaume Vandenbroucke (Economics Department, USC)	The U.S. Westward Expansion