2008-2009 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:48 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2009

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

Questions? Contact Jorge Aguero, Mindy Marks, & Todd Sorensen.

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
5/30/2009	Monica Das, Skidmore College	Income Inequality; Income Transfers and Growth in the US States
4/6/2009	Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton University	The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa
4/13/2009	Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona	New Market Power Models and Sex Differences in Pay
4/14/2009*	Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar, LOCATION TBA	The Econometrics of Wage Decompositions
4/15/2009*	Amnon Rapoport, UCR *NOTE: Joint seminar with Economic Theory	Information Effects in Congested Traffic Networks
4/20/2009	Josh Angrist, MIT	Autonomy and Decentralization in Public Schools: New Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots
4/24/2009*	Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University *NOTE: FRIDAY, 3-4:30 in Sproul 2206	Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination
4/27/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: This is an Econometrics Presentation	Asset Return Predictability over Different Time Horizons: A Nonparametric Approach
4/28/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar, location is Sproul 2206 from 5:10-6:30pm. This is also an Econometrics Presentation	The Martingale theory in economics and finance: An Econometric Perspective
5/4/2009	Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania	Seminar Cancelled
5/11/2009	Sonia Bhalotra, University of Bristol, GB	Seminar Cancelled
5/18/2009	Amalia Millier, University of Virginia	Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black & Female Employment in Law Enforcement
5/25/2009	No Seminar, Memorial Day Holiday	NO SEMINAR
6/1/2009	(1) Trinidad Beleche (2) Arindam Nandi UCR Graduate Students (3) Encarna Esteban Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain	(1) Intra-Family Violence Laws & Acts of Domestic Violence in Mexico (2)Sex-selective Abortion and Child Sex Ratio in India: Evidence from a Exogenous Policy Change in Selective Indian States (3) Regulating water quantity and quality. The case of Ebro basin and Western “La Mancha” aquifer, Spain.

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:21:43 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2009

Fridays, 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
4/3/2009	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/10/2009	No Seminar due to Business Cycle Conference 4/10 & 11, 2009	No Seminar
4/16/2009*	Lung-Fei Lee, Ohio State Univeristy * Graduate student seminar, Sproul 2206 from 5:10 – 6:30 pm	Estimation of Spatial Autroregressive Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects
4/17/2009*	Lung-Fei Lee, Ohio State University * Joint seminar with Applied Economics	Some Recent Developments in Spatial Panel Data Models
4/24/2009*	Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University *THIS WILL BE AN APPLIED ECONOMICS SEMINAR	Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination
4/27/2009	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University	Asset Return Predictability over Different Time Horizons: A Nonparametric Approach”
4/28/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *Graduate student seminar, Sproul 2206 from 5:10 – 6:30pm	The Martingale theory in economics and finance: An Econometric Perspective” Paper 1 \| Paper 2
5/1/2009	Yundong Tu, UCR	“Forecasting Using Supervised Factor Models”
5/8/2009	Jeffrey Racine, McMaster University, Canada	Constrained Nonparametric Kernel Regression: Estimation and Inference
5/15/2009	Hyungsik Roger Moon, University of Southern California	Likelihood Expansion for Panel Regression Models with Factors
5/22/2009	Aman Ullah, UCR	(1) Expectations of Quadratic Forms in Normal and Non-normal Errors with Econometric Applications (2) Skewness and Kurtosis of Econometric Estimators
5/29/2009	Aman Ullah, UCR	(1) Estimation and Forecasting of Dynamic Conditional Covriance: A Semi-parametric Multivariate Model (2) Semi-parametric Estimator of Time Series Conditional Varinance
6/5/2009	No Seminar	No Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:06:29 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2009

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

Questions? Contact Victoria Umanskaya.

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
4/1/2009	Geir Asheim, University of Oslo	Intergenerational Equity
4/8/2009	Mark Jacobsen, UC San Diego	Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases per Mile in the Presence of National CAFE Standards
4/15/2009*	Amnon Rapoport, UCR AGSM *NOTE: Joint with Applied Economics	TBA
4/22/2009	Charles Mason, University of Wyoming	Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation
4/23/2009*	Charles Mason, University of Wyoming *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar will be from 11:15am – 12:30 pm in HMNSS 1500	How Much will Gas Cost Next Year? Thoughts on the Market for Crude Oil
4/29/2009	Priya Ranjan, UC Irvine	Search and Offshoring in the Presence of Animal Spirits
5/6/2009*	Matthew Kahn, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: This is an Applied Economics presentation	Seminar Cancelled
5/13/2009	Robert Feenstra, UC Davis	Monopolistic Competition and the Gains from Trade
5/20/2009	Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University	Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary Business Cycle Model
5/27/2009	Kalina Manova, Stanford University	Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
6/3/2009	Cynthia Lin, UC Davis	How Should Standards be Set and Met?: On the Allocation of Regulatory Power in a Federal System

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:16:58 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2009

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

Questions? Contact Richard Arnott & Todd Sorensen

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
1/5/2009	Richard Arnott, UCR	Curbside Parking Time Limits
1/12/2009	TBA	TBA
1/19/2009	NO SEMINAR	Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
1/26/2009	Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine	A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries
2/2/2009	Jeff Wooldrige, Michigan State University	CANCELLED
2/9/2009	Paul Schultz, Yale University	How Does Family Planning Promote Development?: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh – 1977-1996
2/16/2009	NO SEMINAR	President’s Day Holiday
2/23/2009	Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan	Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents in the UK
3/2/2009	TBA	TBA
3/9/2009	Keith Knapp, UCR	TBA

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:06:52 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2009

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

Questions? Contact 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
1/2/2009	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
1/9/2009	TBA	TBA
1/16/2009	Yundong Tu, UCR Graduate Student	Efficient Local Polynomial Estimation of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Models
1/23/2009	TBA	TBA
1/30/2009	TBA	TBA
2/2/2009*	Jeff Wooldridge, Michigan State University *NOTE: MONDAY	CANCELLED
2/6/2009	James Flegal, UCR Statistics	Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Can We Trust the Third Significant Figure?
2/13/2009	TBA	TBA
2/20/2009	Doug Steigerwald, UC Berkeley	Subsample Tests For Regime Switching
2/27/2009	Rescheduled	TBA
3/6/2009	Bryan Graham, UC Berkeley	Identification and Estimation of Irregular Correlated Random Coefficient Models

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:56:44 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2009

Wednesdays, 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
2/4/2009	Wei Li, UCR	Misinformation
2/11/2009	Ricardo Alonso, USC Marshall School of Business	Organize to Compete
2/18/2009	Hao Li, University of Toronto	Optimal Deadline for Agreements
2/25/2009	Edward Schlee, Arizona State University	Optimal Insurance with Adverse Selection
3/4/2009	Joel Sobel, UC San Diego	Information Aggregation and Group Decisions
3/11/2009	Dave Malueg, UCR	Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2008

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:46:01 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2008

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

Questions? Contact Susan Carter & 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
9/29/2008	Richard Sutch, UCR	The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage
10/6/2008	N. Edward Coulson, The Pennsylvania State University	Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On
10/13/2008	Kristen Kleinjans, University of Southern California	Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations?
10/20/2008	Rebecca Blank, Brookings Institute	The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low-Income Families
10/27/2008	Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Indentifying the Effects of Food Stamps on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program Participation is Misreported
11/3/2008	Mason Gaffney, UCR	The Great Crash of 2008
11/10/2008	Damon Clark, University of Florida	The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health Evidence from the United Kingdom
11/17/2008	Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	I Am Not Master of Events: The Speculative Activities of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
11/24/2008*	Antoni Espasa, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid *NOTE: Please note that this will be an Econometrics seminar rather than an Applied Economics seminar	Forecasting A Macroeconomic Aggregate Which Includes Components With Common Trends
12/1/2008	Nellie Lew, UC Santa Barbara	Til Laws Do us Part? The Impact of Changing Divorce Laws on Divorce Rate in Mexico

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2008

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:38:34 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2008

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

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee & 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
9/26/2008	Moshe Buchinsky UCLA	Residential Location, Work Location, and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Israel
10/3/2008*	Siddhartha Chib, Washington University, St. Louis *NOTE: This seminar will be from 4:10 to 5:45 p.m. Two papers.	(1) MCMC Methods for Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models (2) Casual Effects from Panel Data in Randomized Experiments with Partial Compliance
10/15/2008*	Daniel Henderson SUNY, Binghamton *NOTE: Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Estimation (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
10/24/2008	Donggyu Sul, University of Auckland	New Growth Econometrics Under Economic Transition
10/31/2008	Robert Taylor, University of Nottingham, U.K	Testing for Unit Roots in the Presence of Uncertainty over Both the Trend and Initial Condition (Paper 1 \| Paper 2)
11/7/2008	Han Hong, Stanford University	Estimating a Dynamic Oligopolistic Game with Serially Correlated Unobserved Production Costs
11/21/2008	Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University	T-Statistic Based Correlation and Heterogeneity Robust Inference
11/24/2008	Antoni Espasa, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid	Forecasting A Macroeconomic Aggregate Which Includes Components With Common Trends
12/5/2008	Shruti Kapoor, UCR	TBA
12/12/2008	Aditi Bhattacharyya, UCR	Adjustment of Inputs and Measurement of Technical Efficiency: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2008

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:26:02 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2008

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo & 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
10/1/2008	Richard Suen, UC Riverside	Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and the Saving Rate
10/8/2008	Luca Bossi, University of Miami	Optimal Second Best Taxation of Addictive Goods
10/15/2008*	Daniel Henderson, Binghamton University *NOTE: Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Estimation (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
10/22/2008	Daniel Farhat, UC Riverside	International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics
10/29/2008	Mark Huggett, Georgetown University	How Well Does the US Social Insurance System Provide Social Insurance
11/5/2008	Giacomo Rondina, UC San Diego	Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis
11/12/2008	Andreas Blume, University of Pittsburgh	Intentional Vagueness
11/14/2008*	Aditi Bhattacharyya, UC Riverside *NOTE: Friday, Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Adjustment of Inputs and Measurement of Technical Efficiency: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
11/19/2008	Javier Birchenall, UC Santa Barbara	A Competitive Theory of Equilibrium Mismatch
11/26/2008	NO SEMINAR	THANKSGIVING
12/3/2008*	Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University *NOTE: 3:40-5:00PM	Labor Supply in a Frictional Labor Market