2010-2011 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:07 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2011

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

Questions? Contact Steve Helfand & Gary Dymski

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
3/30/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/6/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/13/2011	Stuart Gabriel, UCLA	Housing Risk and Return: Evidence from A Housing Asset-Pricing Model
4/20/2011	Robert Jensen, UCLA	Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India
4/27/2011	Minqi Li, University of Utah	Climate Change And The Implications For Economics
5/4/2011	Marlon Boarnet, UCI	Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate: Getting Smarter than Your Average Bear
5/11/2011	Leonardo Bursztyn, UCLA	The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas
5/18/2011	Michael Steinberger, Pomona Collage	Is The Motherhood Wage Penalty A Heterosexual Phenomenon?
5/25/2011*	Fernando Cardim, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro *NOTE: 12:40-2:00 (Graduate Students ONLY)	Is This It? On the Concept of Depression
5/25/2011	Fernando Cardim, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Is This It? On the Concept of Depression
6/1/2011	Roberto Pedace, Scripps College	Loss Aversion and Managerial Decisions: Evidence from Major League Baseball

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:48 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2011

Mondays, 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
3/28/2011*	Long Gao & Richard Smith, UCR AGSM *NOTE: This seminar will be held from 5:10-6:30pm	Why Does Venture Capital Performance Persist Over Time? Evidence From A Dynamic Simulation
4/4/2011	Amos Golan, American University, Washington D.C.	An Entropic Framework for Modeling Economies
4/11/2011	TBA	TBA
4/18/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/25/2011	Xu Cheng, University of Pennsylvania	Estimation and Inference With Weak, Semi-Strong, and Strong Identification
5/2/2011	Andres Santos, UCSD	Efficient Estimation of Convex Moment Inequalities
5/5/2011*	Adrian Pagan, Sydney University, Australia *NOTE: JOINT with Economic Theory, 3:40-5pm, Location is TBA	Assessing The Impact of Financial Stress Upon Business Cycles
5/9/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar – Cancelled
5/16/2011	Brendan Beare, UCSD	An Empirical Test of Pricing Kernel Monotonicity
5/23/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar – Cancelled
5/30/2011	No Seminar – Memorial Day Holiday	No Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:45:54 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2011

Fridays, 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
4/1/2011	Cynthia Lin, UCD	Do Firms Interact Strategically?: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production
4/8/2011	Gal Hochman, UCB	The Political Economy of OPEC
4/15/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
4/22/2011	Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming	Ecosystems As Natural Assets
4/29/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
5/5/2011*	Adrian Pagan, Sydney University, Australia *NOTE: JOINT with Econometrics, 3:40-5pm, location is TBA	Assessing The Impact of Financial Stress Upon Business Cycles
5/6/2011	Steven Levkoff, UCR	Decomposing NOx and SO2 Electric Power Plant Emissions in a “By-production” Framework: A Nonparametric DEA Study”
5/13/2011	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR	On Measuring Deprivation And Living Standards Of Societies In A Multi-Attribute Framework
5/20/2011	Nir Jaimovich, Duke University	Labor Market Dynamics and Technological Competence
5/27/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
6/3/2011	Thorsten Hens, University of Zurich	An International Survey on Time Discounting with Application To Household Finance and Asset Pricing

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:03:07 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2011

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

Questions? Contact Todd Sorensen & Steve Helfand.

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
1/5/2011	Chad Sparber, Colgate	Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergarduate Students from Abroad
1/12/2011	Gordon Dahl, UCSD	Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpecrted Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
1/19/2011	Masanori Kuroki, UCR	The Deregulation of Temporary Employment and Workers’ Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Japan
1/26/2011*	Martha Bailey, University of Michigan *NOTE: Seminar Cancelled	No Seminar – Cancelled
2/2/2011	Kenneth Small, UCI	Energy Policies for Passenger Motor Vehicles
2/9/2011	Rohini Somanathan, IAS	Repayment Incentives and the Distribution of Gains from Group Lending
2/16/2011	Julie Hotchkiss, Atlanta Federal Reserve	The Wage Impact on Undocumented Workers
2/23/2011	Getachew Nigatu, UCR	The Welfare Value of “Allocate-and-Trade” in Addressing Equity and Externalities: A Case of the Eastern Nile River Basin
3/2/2011	Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel	No Seminar – Cancelled
3/9/2011*	Sandra Black, University of Texas at Austin *NOTE: (two seminars: 1st is 12:10-1:30, and 2nd is 4:10-5:30)	(1) The Economics of Discrimination (2) Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:50:19 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2011

Mondays, 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
1/3/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/10/2011	Peter R. Hansen, Stanford University	Realized GARCH: A Joint Model For Returns and Realized Measures of Volatility
1/17/2011	No Seminar – MLK Jr. Birthday Holiday	No Seminar
1/20/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: Thursday 2:10-3:30pm	Estimating a Semi-Parametric Duration Model without Specifying Heterogeneity
1/21/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: Friday	Understanding Choice Intensity: A Poisson Mixture Model with Logit-based Random Utility Selective Mixing
1/24/2011	Oscar Jorda, UC Davis	Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies
1/31/2011	Thomas Kim, UCR School of Business	Distribution of Individual Stock Performances in a Mutual Fund and the Fund Manager’s Stock Picking Ability
2/7/2011	Pascale Valery, HEC Montreal – Canada	Wald-type Tests When Rank Conditions Fail: A Smooth Regularization Approach
2/14/2011	Jose Lopez, Federal Reserve, San Francisco	Extracting Deflation Probability Forecasts From Treasury Yields
2/21/2011	No Seminar – Presidents Day Holiday	No Seminar
2/28/2011	Allan Timmerman, UC San Diego	Out-Of-Sample Forecast Evaluation: Choice of Sample Split
3/7/2011	Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University – Canada	Measurement Error and Convolution Equations In Generalized Functions Spaces

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:33:10 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2011

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

Questions? Contact 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
1/7/2011	No Seminar (ASSA Meetings)	No Seminar
1/14/2011	TBA	TBA
1/21/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: (This is an Econometrics Seminar)	Understanding Choice Intensity: A Poisson Mixture Model with Logit-based Random Utility Selective Mixing
1/28/2o11	TBA	TBA
2/3/2011*	Jie Zheng, Washington University, St. Louis *NOTE: This is an Econ Theory seminar and will be held from 2:10-3:30 in Sproul 2206	Strong Bubbles and Common Expected Bubbles in a Finite Horizon Model
2/4/2011	Urmee Khan, University of Texas at Austin	The Virtues of Hesitation
2/8/2011*	Justin Tumlinson, UC Berkeley *NOTE: This is an Econ Theory seminar on Tuesday, and will be held in Sproul 2206 from 5:10-6:30pm	Adverse Selection in Team Formation Under Discrimination
2/11/2011	Stefano Barbieri, Tulane University	Increasing Fundraising Success by Decreasing Donor Choice
2/18/2011	Martin Boileau, University of Colorado at Boulder	Corporate Cash Savings: Precaution versus Liquidity
2/25/2011	Qinglai Meng, Oregon State University	Sunspots and The Nature of Price Rigidity
3/4/2011	Kevin Lansing, Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco	Asset Pricing With Concentrated Ownership of Capital
3/11/2011	Elie Appelbaum, York University, Canada	No Seminar – Cancelled

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2010

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:36:26 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2010

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

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks & Jorge Aguero.

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
9/29/2010	Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College	In Aid We Trust: Hearts and Minds and the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
10/6/2010	Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA	Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?
10/13/2010	Joseph Price, Brigham Young University	The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation
10/20/2010	Seth Seabury, RAND – Santa Monica Office	Does Malpractice Liability Reform Attract High Risk Doctors?
10/27/2010	TBA	TBA
11/3/2010	Rodrigo Soares, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
11/10/2010	Kate Choi, UCR	A Million Dollar Smile: The Impact of Medicaid Insurance Coverage on Dental Service Use
11/17/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/24/2010	Neha Raykar, UCR	Measuring the Impact of the Education Guarantee-Scheme on Schooling Outcomes for Women in India
12/1/2010	Prashant Bharadwaj, UCSD	Discrimination Begins in the Womb: Evidence of Sex Selective Prenatal Care (with Leah Nelson)

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2010

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:47:00 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2010

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
9/27/2010	Karim Chalak, Boston College	Identification of Local Treatment Effects Using a Proxy for an Instrument
10/4/2010	Patrik Guggenberger, UCSD	On the Relative Robustness of the Size of Tests to Local Model Violations
10/11/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/18/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/25/2010	Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College	Quantile Regression Analysis With Missing Response, With Applications to Inequality Measures and Data Combination
11/1/2010	Yundong Tu, UCR	Bagging Nonparametric and Semiparametric Forecasts with Economic Constraints
11/8/2010	Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin	Multi-step Forecast Model Selection Selection and Model Averaging for Nonparametric Estimation
11/9/2010*	Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin *NOTE: 3:40-5pm	Reference paper 1 Reference paper 2 Reference paper 3
11/15/2010	Hyungsik Roger Moon, USC	Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Demand Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
11/22/2010	Yun Wang, UCR	Nonparametric Regression Estimation with General Parametric Error Covariance: A More Efficient Two-Step Estimator
11/29/2010	Martin Weidner, USC	Semiparametric Estimation of Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Generalized Random Effects

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2010

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:33:08 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2010

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo.

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
9/24/2010	Richard Suen, UCR	Concave Consumption Function under Borrowing Constraints
10/1/2010	Zuzana Janko, San Francisco State University	Dynamic Small Open Economy Model with Involuntary Unemployment
10/7/2010*	Ping Wang, Washington University at St. Louis *NOTE: Thursday	Institutional and Organizational Development
10/8/2010	Ping Wang, Washington University at St. Louis	Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy
10/15/2010	Xiangbo Liu, UCR	Dynamic Effects of Skilled and Unskilled Immigration
10/22/2010	Steve Levkoff, UCR	Boundary Problems with the “Russell” Graph Measure of Technical Efficiency: A Refinement
10/29/2010	Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon	Childhood Morbidity and the Transition to Modern Economic Growth
11/5/2010	Chandler Lutz, UCR	Agent Sentiment and Stock Market Predictability
11/12/2010	Waner Grace Gu, UCR	Foreign Direct Investment, Growth and the Environment: A Pollution-Generating Production Frontier Approach
11/19/2010	Peter Rupert, UC Santa Barbara	Revisiting Wage, Earnings, and Hours Profiles
11/26/2010	Thanksgiving	NO SEMINAR
12/3/2010	Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Marshall School of Business – University of Southern California	Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach