2012-2013 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:39:48 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2013

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

Questions? Contact Richard Arnott &, Dave Fairris.

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
4/5/2013	Walker Hanlon, UC Los Angeles	Necessity Is The Mother of Invention: Input Supplies And Directed Technical Change
4/12/2013	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/19/2013	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/26/2013	Gregory Clark, UC Davis	Surnames And The Law Of Social Mobility
5/3/2013	Bowman Cutter, Pomona College	The Determinants Of Nonresidential Real Estate Rents With Special Reference To Environmental Amenities
5/10/2013	Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz	Daily Needs, Income Targets And Labor Supply: Evidence From Kenya
5/17/2013	TBA	TBA
5/24/2013	Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley	Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
5/31/2013	(1) Michael Levine and (2) Dong Zhou, UCR PhD Candidates	1) The Financial Penalty For Discrimination On The Basis Of Sexual Orientation 2) The Long Term Impacts Of Cultural Revolution On Economic Performances Of Urban Residents In China
6/7/2013	Steven Levkoff, UC San Diego	A Massive Online Behavioral Experiment: Efficient Matching Of Foragers To Resources Under Varying Information Constraints

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:22:02 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2013

Wednesday, 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
4/3/2013	Hyungsik Roger Moon, USC	Inference Of VARs Identified With Sign Restrictions
4/10/2013	Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University	The Latency Advantage Of High Frequency Traders
4/11/2013*	Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University *NOTE: (2:10-3:30 in Spr 2206)	An Introduction To High Frequency Financial Econometrics
4/17/2013	Juri Marcucci, Bank of Italy	The Predictive Power Of Google Searches In Forecasting Unemployment
4/24/2013	Tiemen Woutersen, University of Arizona	Calculating Confidence Intervals For Continuous And Discontinuous Functions Of Parameters
4/29/2013*	Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank *NOTE: (this is a joint Economic Theory and Econometrics seminar to be held on a Monday)	Financial Stress And Economic Dynamics: The Transmission of Crises
5/6/2013*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: (please note this is a Monday)	Characteristic Function Based Testing For Conditional Independence: A Nonparametric Regression Approach
5/8/2013	Ru Zhang, UCR Economics PhD Candidate	Properties Of Parameter Estimation And Forecasts For ARMA And Financial Time Series Models
5/15/2013	Shujie Ma, UCR Statistics	Partial Linear Single Index Models for Repeated Measurements
5/22/2013	Sebastiano Manzan, Baruch College, New York	Forecasting The Distribution Of Economic Variables In A Data-Rich Environment
5/29/2013	Casper de Vries, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam & Chapman University	Tail Shape Homogenity, Scale Heterogeneity: Semi Parametric Tests & A Portfolio Application The Downside Risk Of Heavy Tails Induces Low Diversification
6/5/2013*	Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California *NOTE: (please note, this is an Economic Theory presentation)	Risky Investment With Limited Enforcement

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:08:09 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2013

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

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego Marti.

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
4/1/2013	Pablo Fajgelbaum, UC Los Angeles	Uncertainty Traps
4/8/2013	Greg Veramendi, Arizona State University	Labor Market Dynamics: A Model Of Search And Human Capital Accumulation
4/15/2013	Guillame Vandenbroucke, University of Southern California	Fertility And Wars: The Case Of World War I In France
4/22/2013	TBA	TBA
4/29/2013*	Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank *NOTE: this will be a JOINT Economic Theory and Econometrics seminar	Financial Stress And Economic Dynamics: The Transmission of Crises”
5/06/2013*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: (please note this is an Econometrics presentation)	Characteristic Function Based Testing For Conditional Independence: A Nonparametric Regression Approach
5/13/2013	Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Redistributive Taxation In A Partial Insurance Economy
5/20/2013	Guillaume Rocheteau, UC Irvine	Liquidity Provision, Interest Rates, And Unemployment
5/27/2013	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
6/3/2013	Cathy Zhang, UC Irvine	Paper or Plastic? Money And Credit As Means Of Payment
6/5/2013*	Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California *NOTE: (please note this is a Wednesday)	Risky Investment With Limited Enforcement

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:42:04 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2013

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

Questions? Contact 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
1/11/2013	NO SEMINAR	No Seminar
1/18/2013	Aparajita Dasgupta, UCR PhD Candidate	Can The Major Public Works Program Serve As Buffer Against Negative Shocks In Early Childhood? Evidence From Andhra Pradesh, India
1/25/2013	Monobina Mukherjee, UCR Environmental Sciences PhD Candidate	Irrigated Agricultural Adaptation To Water And Climate Variability: The Economic Value Of A Water Portfolio
2/1/2013	Jingyi Xue, Rice University	Three Representations Of Preferences With Decreasing Absolute Uncertainty Aversion
2/8/2013	Nathan Converse, London School of Economics	Uncertainty, Capital Flows, And Maturity Mismatch
2/15/2013	Fabio Ghironi, Boston College	Market Deregulation And Optimal Monetary Policy In A Monetary Union
2/21/2013*	Douglas Almond, Columbia University *NOTE: (Graduate Student presentation, 11-12:30pm, in Sproul 2206)	Fetal Origins And Anti-Poverty Policies
2/22/2013	Douglas Almond, Columbia University	Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale Of Land Reform And Sex Ratios In China with Hongbin Li and Shuang Zhang
3/1/2013	Laura Giuliano, University of Miami	Do Gifted Education Programs Work For Disadvantaged Students?
3/7/2013*	Alan Manning, London School of Economics *NOTE: (Graduate Student Presentation, 11-12:30pm in Sproul 2206)	Imperfect Competition In The Labor Market
3/8/2013	Alan Manning, London School of Economics	Minimum Wages And Wage Inequality: Some Theory And An Application To The UK
3/15/2013	Qiong Tian, UCR PhD Candidate	TBA

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:31:43 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2013

Wednesday, 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
1/7/2013*	John Galbraith, McGill University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Monday instead of a Wednesday)	Dimension Reduction, Empirical-Similarity-Weighted Regression, and the Prediction of Fine Art Prices at Auction.
1/16/2013	John Baez, UCR Mathematics Department	Network Theory
1/23/2013	TBA	TBA
1/30/2013	Hiroki Nishimura, New York University	The Transitive Core: Inference of Welfare From Nontransitive Preference Relations
2/6/2013	TBA	TBA
2/13/2013	James Dieterich, UCR Earth Sciences Department	Use Of Simulations In Earthquake Forecasts
2/20/2013	Jung Jae Park, University of Wisconsin	Contagion Of Sovereign Default Risk: The Role Of The Two Financial Frictions
2/27/2013	Stefano D’Addona, V.A.P. in Economics	Money And Currency Market Implications Of The Long Run Risk Models
3/6/2013	Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	Inference On Treatment Effects After Selection Amongst High-Dimensional Controls
3/13/2013	Eva Senra, Universidad de Alcal de Henares, Madrid Spain	From Housing Boom To Fiscal Bankruptcy: The Need To Adjust Fiscal Balances For Asset Bubbles

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:05:34 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2013

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

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan.

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
1/9/2013*	Lekha Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta University and Visiting Scholar – Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis CA *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Wednesday instead of a Monday)	Sustainable Development – A Path Dependent Analysis To The Rat Hole Coal Mining In Jaintia Hills District, India
1/14/2013	TBA	TBA
1/21/2013	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
1/28/2013	Devrim Demirel, University of Colorado at Boulder	On The Cyclicality Of Credit
2/4/2013	Wonki Jo Cho, University of Rochester, New York	Probalistic Assignment: A Two-Fold Axiomatic Approach
2/11/2013	Nathan Larson, University of Virginia	Network Security
2/18/2013	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
2/25/2013	Jana Grittersova	Foreign Banks, Reputation, and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Evidence From Transition Economies
2/27/2013	Stefano d”Addona, UCR Economics	Money And Currency Market Implications Of The Long Run Risk Models
3/4/2013	Laurent Mathevet, University of Texas at Austin	An Axiomatic Approach To Bounded Rationality In Repeated Interactions: Theory And Experiments
3/11/2013	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics	Loss Of Skills And The Cyclical Behavior Of Unemployment And Vacancies
3/18/2013	Dongwon Lee, University of Washington	What Makes A Commodity Currency?

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:23:04 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2012

Friday, 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
9/28/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/5/2012	John Hoddinott, IFPRI	Cash, Food, or Vouchers? Evidence From A Randomized Experiment In Northern Ecuador
10/12/2012	Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California	Learning About Comparative Advantage In Enterpreneurship: Evidence From Thailand
10/19/2012	Abby Alpert, RAND Corporation	Perverse Reverse Price Competition: Average Wholesale Prices and Medicaid Pharmaceutical Spending
10/26/2012	Farhan Majid, UCR PhD Candidate	Does Ramadan Exposure In Utero Affect Long-Term Labor Market Behavior? Evidence From Indonesia
11/2/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/9/2012	Carlos Dobkin, UC Santa Cruz	The Mechanisms Of Alcohol Control: Evidence From Canada
11/16/2012	TBA	TBA
11/23/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/30/2012	Aashish Mehta, UC Santa Barbara	Education, Export Diversification And Path Dependent Development
12/7/2012	Bradley Franklin, UCR PhD Candidate	A Dynamic Regional Model Of Irrigated Perennial Crop Production

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:14:48 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2012

Wednesday, 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
10/3/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/10/2012	Wei Lin, UCR PhD Candidate	TBA
10/17/2012	Danilo Leiva-Leon, University of Alicante	Monitoring Synchronization of Regional Recessions: A Markov-Switching Network Approach
10/24/2012	Yue Liu, UCR PhD Candidate	A Penalized Spline Estimator For Random Effect Panel Data Model
10/31/2012	Yunjong Eo, University of Sydney	Forecasting The Term Structure Of Interest Rates With Potentially Misspecified Models
11/7/2012	Yingying Sun, UCR PhD Candidate	Evaluation Of Multivariate Count Models: Trading Activity In U.S. Large Banks
11/14/2012	Amos Golan, American University	Info-Metrics: Theory And Examples
11/21/2012	Denis Nekipelov, UC Berkeley	On Uniform Inference In Nonlinear Models With Endogeneity
11/28/2012	Zhou Xi, UCR PhD Candidate	Density Forecast Of Financial Returns Using Decomposition And Maximum Entropy
12/5/2012	Yixiao Sun, UC San Diego	Smoothed Estimating Equations For Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:03:59 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2012

Monday, 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
10/1/2012	Rama Kumar, UCR PhD Candidate	Flight to Safety: An Interaction among Stock, Bond and Real Estate Markets
10/8/2012	Dongpeng Liu, UCR PhD Candidate	Education as Unemployment Insurance: A Model with Endogenous Educational Requirement for Job Application and Its Policy Implications
10/15/2012*	Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa *NOTE: presentation to faculty and students	Intermediate Goods Trade, Technology Choice and Productivity
10/16/2012*	Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa *NOTE: presentation to graduate students, 3:40-5pm in Sproul 2206	On the Political Economy of Trade
10/22/2012	Yanpin Su, UCR PhD Candidate	The Comovement between the Stock and Bond Returns
10/29/2012	Venoo Kakar, UCR PhD Candidate	Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
11/5/2012	Juan Eberhard, USC Business School	Immigration, Human Capital and the Welfare of Natives
11/12/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/19/2012	Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington	Currency Returns, FX Options, and Financial Crisis
11/26/2012	Gerald Daniels, UCR PhD Candidate	Growth and Convergence with a Normalized CES Production Function and Human Capital
12/3/2012	Davide Debortoli, UC San Diego	Technological Change And The Composition Of Taxes And Public Expenditures