2011-2012 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:54:25 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2012

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

Questions? Contact Steve Helfand & 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
4/2/2012	Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley	Fiscal Policy For A depressed Economy
4/12/2012	Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University	Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
4/17/2012	Steve Trejo, University of Texas at Austin	The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asisans
4/23/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/30/2012	Dean Jamison, University of Washington	Seminar Cancelled
5/7/2012	Sarah Reber, UC Los Angeles	Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in The South
5/14/2012	Yelena Takhtamanova, San Francisco Federal Reserve	Determinants
5/21/2012	Farhan M. Majid & Sheetal Bharat, UCR PhD Candidates	F: Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children’s Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Indonesia S: Where The Runners Went: Post Office Allocations In British India
5/23/2012	Chris Barrett, Cornell University	Local Food for Local Schools: An Analysis of The Impact of Local Procurement for A School Feeding Program in Burkina Faso
5/24/2012	Chris Barrett, Cornell University	The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Policy and Empirical Implications
5/28/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
6/4/2012	Vilma Sielawa-Ferreira & Aparjita Dasgupta, UCR PhD Candidates	V: An Impact Evaluation of The Programa Nacional De Credito Fundiario-A Brazilian Market Assisted Land Reform Program A: Can The Major Public Works Program in India Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood? Panel Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:48:45 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2012

Friday, 4:10- 5:30pm (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
4/6/2012	Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College	Nonparametric Estimation and Inference On Conditional Quantile Processes with An Application to The Tennessee STAR Project
4/20/2012	Maximilan Kasy, UC Los Angeles	Continuous Triangular Systems Without Functional Form Restrictions – Identification and Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation
4/27/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
5/4/2012	Zhipeng Liao, UC Los Angeles	Sieve Inference On Semi-Nonparametric Time Series Models
5/11/2012	Zhou Xi, UCR PhD Candidate	Seminar Cancelled
5/18/2012	Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona	Impossibility Results For Nondifferentiable Functionals
5/24/2012	Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University	Control Function Method in Econometrics
5/25/2012	Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University	Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Testing For Nonlinear Models with Endogenous Explanatory Variables
6/1/2012	Graham Elliott, UC San Diego	Nearly Optimal Tests When A Nuisance Parameter Is Present Under The Null Hypothesis
6/8/2012	Shu Shen, UC Davis	Applied Model Specication Tests: Theory and Application To Consumers’ Choices of Soft Drinks

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:42:39 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2012

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

Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhayay.

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
4/4/2012	Ingela Alger, University of Toulouse, France	HomoMoralis-Preference Evolution Under Imcomplete Information and Assortative Matching
4/11/2012	Maxwell Stinchcombe, University of Texas @ Austin	Descriptively Rich Sets of Priors and The Von Neumann/Morgenstern Approach to Ambiguity
4/13/2012	Maxwell Stinchcombe, University of Texas @ Austin	Genericity Analyses for Econometrics and Economic Theory
4/18/2012	Reza Oladi, Utah State University	On Foreign Direct Investment Technology Diffusion and Liberalization
4/25/2012	Dmitry Plotnikov, UC Los Angeles	Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited
5/2/2012	Igor Kopylov, UC Irvine	Models of Perfectionism and Soft Commitment
5/9/2012	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR Economics	The Ethical Bases of Public Policies: A Conceptual Framework
5/16/2012	David Malueg, UCR Economics	Group Efforts When Performance Is Determined By The “Best-Shot”
5/30/2012	Cheng-Zhong Qin, UC Santa Barbara	Cross-Holdings In Oligopoly
6/6/2012	Sourav Bhattacharya, University of Pittsburgh	Strategic Information Revelation When Experts Compete To Influence

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:17:17 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2012

Monday, 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
1/9/2012	Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota	Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and The Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China
1/16/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
1/23/2012	Javier Santiago Ortiz, UCR PhD Candidate	The Effect of The Columbian Armed Conflict On Math and Language Learning
1/30/2012	Richard Arnott, UCR Economics	A Bathtub Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion
2/6/2012	Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona	Insurance-Based Wellness Incentives, Hospitalizations, and Medical Care Use
2/13/2012	Ozge Akinci, Columbia University	Financial Frictions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations In Emerging Economies
2/20/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
2/27/2012	Ian Sue Wing, Boston University	Capital Malleability and Climate Policy Costs: General Equilibrium Analysis of the EU-ETS
3/5/2012	Dayanand Manoli, UC Los Angeles	Financial Incentives, Retirement Decisions and a Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities
3/12/2012	David Card, UC Berkeley	Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in The Risky Behavior of Friends
3/13/2012	David Card, UC Berkeley	Model Based Versus Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:10:37 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2012

Friday, 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
1/6/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/13/2012	Song Song, University of Texas at Austin	Large Vector Auto Regressions
1/20/2012	Shinchi Sakar, University of Vancouver	Instrumental Variables Estimation and Weak-Identification-Robust Inference Based On A Conditional Quantile Restriction
1/27/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/3/2012	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology	The Power of Revealed Preference Tests: Ex-Post Evaluation of Experimental Design
2/10/2012	Georgios Georgiadis, Goethe University, Frankfurt	Towards An Explanation of Cross-Country Asymmetries In Monetary Transmission
2/17/2012	Joshua Tasoo, Claremont Graduate University	Believers In Redemption: Overoptimism and Nudges In An Mail-In Rebate Experiment
2/24/2012	Keh-Shin Lii, UCR Statistics Dept	Harmonizable Time Series Analysis
3/2/2012	Andrew Patton, Duke University	Simulated Method of Moments Estimation For Copula-Based Multivariate Models
3/9/2012	Yingying Sun, UCR PhD Candidate	Multivariate Density Forecast: An Application To Multivariate Duration Models
3/16/2012	Liangjun Su, UCR PhD Candidate	Nonparametric Dynamic Panel Data Models: Kernel Estimation Testing

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:03:40 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2012

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

Questions? Contact Dave Malueg.

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
1/4/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/11/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/18/2012	Richard Smith, UCR School of Business Administration	Institutional Investors, Monitoring, and The Transformation of Underperforming Firms
1/25/2012	Stergio Skaperdas, UC Irvine	Guns, Lawyers, and Money: Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict
2/1/2012	Victor Ortego-Marti, London School of Economics & Political Science	Unemployment History and Frictional Wage Dispersion
2/8/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/15/2012	Mauricio Larrain, UC Berkeley	Financial Liberlization, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and Wage Inequality
2/22/2012	Urmee Khan, UCR Economics	An Ambiguity Averse Time Consistent Precautionary Principle
2/29/2012	Daniel Kovenock, Chapman University	The All-Pay Auction With Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities
3/7/2012	Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UC Los Angeles	Relational Contracts In Competitive Labor Markets
3/14/2012	Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University	The Evolution of Theory of Mind

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:37:36 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2011

Monday, 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
9/26/2011	No Seminar	Faculty attending Academic Integrity Workshop-UCR
10/3/2011	Todd Sorensen, UCR Economics	Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
10/10/2011	Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University	Robustness of Climate As An Instrumental Variable to Estimate Effect of GDP Declines on Political Change In Africa
10/17/2011	Gary Dymski, UCR Economics	The Global Crisis: Financial-Market Fear, Structural Imbalances, and Megabank Power In A World of Neoclassical Mechanism Design
10/24/2011	Julie Zissimopoulos, USC	Marriage and Economic Well-Being At Older Ages
10/31/2011	Lucrecia Santibanez, RAND Corporation	Effect of a School-Based Management Program In Mexico. Resources or Participatory Change?
11/7/2011	John Romley, USC	Identifying The Health Care Production Function: The Case of Hospitals
11/14/2011	Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley	Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence From Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
11/21/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2011	Manisha Shah, UC Irvine	Risk-Taking Behavior In The Wake of Natural Disasters
12/5/2011	Monica Jain, UCR PhD Candidate	India’s Struggle Against Malnutrition – Is the ICDS Program The Answer?

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:31:00 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2011

Friday, 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
9/30/2011	Wei Lin, UCR PhD Candidate	Estimating Probalistic Constrained Regression Models with Interval Data
10/07/2011	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Evaluating The Distribution Of Inflation Targeting Effect
10/14/2011	Shujie Ma, UCR Dept. of Statistics	Simultaneous Variable Selection and Estimation in Semiparametric Modeling of Longitudinal/Clustered Data
10/28/2011	Yundon Tu, UCR PhD Candidate	Model Averaging Partial Effect (MAPLE) Estimation With Large Dimensional Data
11/4/2011	No Seminar	California Econometrics Conference @ USC
11/11/2011	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/18/2011	JuanCarlos Escanciano, Indiana University	Conditional Stochastic Dominance Testing
11/25/2011	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
12/2/2011	Yun Wang, UCR PhD Candidate	Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimation of The Seemingly Un-related Regression Models: An Application On Return To Public Capital In US

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:24:17 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2011

Wednesday, 4:10-5:30pm (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
9/28/2011	Anca Sirbu, UCR PhD Candidate	News About Taxes and Expectations-Driven Business Cycles
10/5/2011	Reza Oladi, Utah State University	On The Economics of Narcotics Production and Trade
10/12/2011	Hui He, University of Hawaii at Manoa	Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care Than Europeans?
10/19/2011	Mi Lu, UCR PhD Candidate	Banking and Credit Market Frictions In An Open DSGE of US and Euro Areas
10/26/2011	Richard Burdekin, Claremont McKenna Business School	Enter The Dragon: Interactions Between Chinese, US and Asia-Pacific Equity Markets, 1995-2010
11/2/2011	Michael Owyang, St. Louis Federal Reserve	Forecast Asymmetries and The Business Cycle
11/9/2011	Pierangelo DePace, Pomona College	GDP Growth Predictions Through The Yield Spread: Time Variation and Structural Breaks
11/16/2011	Hilde Bjornland, Norwegian School of Management	The World Is Not Enough! Small Open Economies and Regional Dependence
11/23/2011	Sarah Daway, UCR PhD Candidate	On the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Raising The Retirement Age
11/30/2011	Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna Business School	America’s First Great Moderation