2014-2015 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 18:00:56 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2015

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

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
3/30/2015	TBA	TBA
4/6/2015	TBA	TBA
4/13/2015	TBA	TBA
4/20/2015*	Gaurab Aryal, University of Chicago *NOTE: (This is an Economic Theory Seminar)	TBA
5/1/2015*	Travis Lybbert, University of California, Davis *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	Experimental Markets for Micronutrient Supplements to Prevent Undernutrition: Estimating Household Demand Persistence in Rural Burkina Faso
5/4/2015	Anaka Aiyar, UCR	The impact of health insurance in developing countries: A study of Vietnam’s child health insurance program
5/11/2015	Alex Anas from the University at Buffalo, New York with Debarshi Indra, UCR	Rationality and exuberance in land prices and the supply of new housing
5/18/2015	Stephen D. O’Connell, Graduate Center – CUNY	Political Inclusivity and the Aspirations of Young Constituents: Identifying the Effects of a National Empowerment Policy
5/25/2015	No Seminar	Memorial Day Holiday, no seminar
5/29/2015*	Sofia Franco, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	Downtown Parking Supply, Work Trip Mode Choice And Urban spatial Structure
6/1/2015	Steve Raphael, Goldman School at UC Berkeley	Incarceration And Crime: Evidence From California’s Realignment Sentencing Reform
6/2/2015*	Steve Raphael, Goldman School at UC Berkeley *NOTE: (This is the graduate student seminar, from 12:45-2:00pm in Sproul Hall, room 2206)	Why Are So Many Americans In Prison?
6/5/2015*	Agne Suziedelyte, Monash University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday from 2-3:30pm in Sproul 2206)	Mental Health Stigma
6/8/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:39:28 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2015

Fridays, 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
4/3/2015	Ji Hyung Lee, University of Washington, Seattle	Econometric inference in predictive mean/quantile regression models (Paper 1 \| Paper 2)
4/10/2015	Shujie Ma, UCR Statistics	A concave pairwise fusion approach to subgroup analysis
4/17/2015	Yan Ge, UCR Economics	Comparing Nested Predictive Regression Models with Persistent Predictors
4/24/2015	Shuyang Sheng, UC Los Angeles	Estimation of Large Network Formation Games
4/27/2015*	Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University *NOTE: (This is a Monday)	Wald-type tests when rank conditions fail: a smooth regularization approach
4/28/2015*	Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University *NOTE: (This is a Tuesday, 2:10-3:30pm, SPR 2206)	Exogeneity tests and IV estimation: is the cure worse than the illness?
4/29/2015*	Marine Carrasco, University of Montreal *NOTE: (This is a Wednesday)	Functional linear regression with functional response
5/1/2015*	Travis Lybbert, UC Davis *NOTE: (This is Applied Economics Seminar)	Experimental Market For Micronutrient Supplements To Prevent Undernutrition: Estimating Household Demand Persistence In Rural Burkina Faso
5/8/2015	Denis Chetverikov, UC Los Angeles	Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation Under Monotonicity
5/15/2015	Weixin Yao, UCR Statistics	Semiparametric Extensions Of Mixture Models
5/22/2015	Dalia Ghanem, UC Davis	Testing Indentifying Assumptions In Nonseparable Panel Data Models
5/29/2015*	Sofia Franco, Nova School of Business & Economics, Portugal *NOTE: (This will be an Applied Economics Seminar)	Downtown Parking Supply, Work Trip Mode Choice And Urban Structure
6/5/2015	Myong-Hwal Lee, Korea Institute of Finance & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics	Estimating Global Systemic Risk With The G-SIFI’s CDS Data: The Vine Copula Approach
6/12/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:26:16 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2015

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

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan or Hiroki Nishimura

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
4/1/2015	Christopher Chambers, UC San Diego	Dynamic Elicitation of Unobservable Information
4/8/2015	Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology	Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations
4/15/2015*	TBA *NOTE: (This is an Applied Economics Seminar)	TBA
4/20/2015*	Gaurab Aryal, University of Chicago *NOTE: (This is a Monday)	Identifying a Screening Model with Multidimensional Private Information
4/22/2015	Pete Klenow, Stanford University	How Destructive is Innovation?
4/29/2015*	Marine Carrasco, University of Montreal *NOTE: (This is an Econometrics Seminar)	Functional Linear Regression With Functional Response
5/6/2015*	Matt Jackson, Stanford University *NOTE: (11:30-12:30pm, SPR 4128) Graduate Students; (4:10-5:30pm, SPR 2206) Seminar	Gossip and Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network Graduate Student Title: Networks And Economic Behaviors
5/13/2015	Ichiro Obara, UC Los Angeles	Repeated Games with General Time Preferences
5/20/2015	Yilmaz Kocer, USC	Dynamic Matching With Learning
5/27/2015	Emanuel Vespa, UCSB	Dynamic Games and Markov Perfection: Putting the “conditional” in cooperation
6/3/2015	TBA	TBA
6/10/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:16:25 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2015

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

Questions? Contact Steven 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
1/5/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/9/2015*	Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday)	Path-Breakers? Women’s Electoral Success And Future Political Participation
1/12/2015	Jenny Aker, Tufts Fletcher School Of Law & Diplomacy	Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Short And Long-Term Impacts From An Experiment In Niger
1/19/2015	No Seminar, M.L. King Holiday	No Seminar
1/20/2015*	Tobias Pfutze, Oberlin College *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday & seminar will be held from 4:10-5:30 in HUM 1500)	Land Titles And Violent Conflict In Rural Mexico
1/21/2015*	Qian Lu, University of Texas at Austin *NOTE: (Please note, this is an Applied Economics seminar)	The End Of Polarization? Technological Change And Employment In The U.S. Labor Market
1/23/2015*	Michael Bates, Michigan State University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday, but is an Applied Econ seminar)	Public And Private Learning In The Market For Teachers
1/26/2015	Michael Kottelenberg, Queens University	Heterogeneity In Child Development: Universal Child Care And Parental Investments
1/27/2015*	Michael Muller-Smith, Columbia University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar and will be held in Spr 2206)	The Criminal And Labor Market Impacts Of Incarceration
1/28/2015*	Jillian Carr, Texas A&M University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar)	The Effect Of Housing Vouchers On Crime: Evidence From A Lottery
2/2/2015	TBA	TBA
2/9/2015*	Robert Kaestner *NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy)	Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D
2/16/2015	No Seminar, Presidents Day Holiday	No Seminar
3/2/2015*	Daniel Rees *NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy; rescheduled from 2/23/15)	Emotional Cues and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl
3/2/2015*	Boris Bravo-Ureta, University of Connecticut *NOTE: 1:10pm to 2:30pm	A Meta Analysis of the Agricultural Frontier Literature with a Focus on Water Studies
3/9/2015*	Mike McCraken, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Econometrics seminar)	Evaluating Conditional Forecasts from Vector Autoregressions
3/20/2015	Tim Squires, Brown University	The Impact of Access to Electricity on Education: Evidence from Honduras

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:02:19 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2015

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
1/9/2015	Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School	Path-Breakers? Women’s Electoral Success And Future Political Participation
1/16/2015	Myong-Hwal Lee, Korea Institute of Finance & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics	Analyzing The Eurozone’s Systemic Risk With The CDS Premium Data Using Principle Component,Cluster Analysis, And The Pruned Exact Linear Time (PELT) Algorithm
1/23/2015*	Michael Bates *NOTE: (Please note, that this is an Applied Econ seminar)	Public And Private Learning In The Market For Teachers
1/30/2015	TBA	TBA
2/6/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/13/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/20/2015	TBA	TBA
2/27/2015	Najrin Khanom	Using Value at Risk methodologies to detect extreme risk spillover between financial markets
3/6/2015	Alexander Aue, UC Davis	On the Prediction of Stationary Functional Time Series
3/9/2015*	Mike McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Monday)	Evaluating Conditional Forecasts from Vector Autoregressions
3/11/2015*	Amos Golan, American University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, and the seminar will be from 9:10-10:30am in Sproul 2206)	Interval Estimation: An Info-metrics Approach
3/13-15/2015	Conference in Honor of Aman Ullah	Location is The Riverside Mission Inn, please see Economics Website for more information
3/20/2015	No Seminar	Winter finals week, no seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:36:52 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2015

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

Questions? Contact DongWon Lee or 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
1/7/2015	Miroslav Gabrovski, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	The Patent System – A Tool For Increasing Competition
1/13/2015*	Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday, and is the graduate student presentation. The seminar will be from 10:30am-12noon in Sproul 2206)	Dynamic Programming: Theory And Application
1/14/2015	Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University	Discounting: Investment Sensitivity And Aggregate Implications
1/21/2015*	Qian Lu, University of Texas at Austin *NOTE: (Please note that this is Applied Economics seminar)	The End Of Polarization? Technological Change And Employment In The U.S. Labor Market
1/28/2015*	Jillan Carr, Texas A&M University *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Applied Economics seminar)	The Effect Of Housing Vouchers On Crime: Evidence From A Lottery
2/4/2015	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/11/2015	Andy Atkeson, UCLA	Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
2/18/2015	Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, UC Irvine	What Drives Offshoring Decisions? Selection and Escape-Competition Mechanisms
2/25/2015	Danilo Leiva-Leon, Bank of Canada	Model Averaging in Markov-Switching Models: Predicting National Recessions with Regional Data?
3/4/2015	Grace Gu, UC Santa Cruz	A Tale of Two Countries: Sovereign Default, Exchange Rate, and Trade
3/11/2015	Christopher Meissner, UC Davis	Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
3/18/2015	No Seminar	Winter finals week, no seminar

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2014

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:26:32 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2014

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

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins or Mindy Marks.

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
10/6/2014	Dong Zhou, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	The Long Term Impacts Of The Cultural Revolution On Economic Performance Of Urban Residents In China
10/13/2014	Marc Law, University of Vermont	Local Government Autonomy And City Growth: Evidence From China
10/20/2o14	Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles	Household Income Changes And The Evolution Of Child Psychological Well-Being And Personality Traits
10/27/2014	Jessamyn Schaller, University of Arizona	Short-Run Effects Of Job Loss On Health Conditions, Health Insurance, And Health Care Utilization
11/3/2014	Amber Qureshi Urrutia, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	College Major And The Economy: The Impact Of Labor Market Conditions On Field Of Study
11/10/2014	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/17/2014	David Simon, University of Connecticut	The Impact Of Business Cycles On Child Health
11/21/2014*	Maya Rossin-Slater, UC Santa Barbara *NOTE: (Please note: This is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics seminar)	Parental Responses To Child Support Obligations: Causal Evidence From Administrative Data
11/24/2014	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/1/2014	Pallavi Panda, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Does Trade Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
12/8/2014	Dennis Tai, Cornell University	TBA
12/15/2014	No Seminar	Fall finals week, no seminar

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2014

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:03:00 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2014

Fridays, 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
10/3/2014	Yan Ge, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Comparing Predictive Accuracy And Model Combination Using Encompassing Test For Nested Quantile Models
10/10/2014	Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California, Irvine	Likelihood Specification And Inference In Discrete Simultaneous Equation Models
10/17/2014	Richard Startz, University of California, Santa Barbara	Choosing The More Likely Hypothesis
10/24/2014	Yingying Dong, University of California, Irvine	An Alternative Assumption To Identify LATE In Regression Discontinuity Designs Jump or Kink? Identification Of Binary Treatment Regression Discontinuity Design Without The Discontinuity
10/31/2014	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/5/2014	Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College	Estimating Effects Of English Rule On Litigation Outcomes
11/7/2014	Carlos Martins-Filho, University of Colorado, Boulder	Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Value-At-Risk And Expected Shortfall Based On Extreme Value Theory Technical Supplement to Paper
11/14/2014*	David Lagakos, University of California, San Diego *NOTE: (Please note, this is an Economic Theory Presentation)	Average Hours Worked In the Cross-Section Of Countries
11/21/2014*	Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California, Santa Barbara *NOTE: (Please note, this is an Applied Economics seminar)	Parental Responses To Child Support Obligations: Causal Evidence From Administrative Data
11/28/2014	No Seminar	Thanksgiving Day Holiday, No Seminar
12/5/2014	James Marshall Flegal, University of California Riverside Department of Statistics	Relative Fixed-Width Stopping Rules For Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations
12/12/2014	TBA	TBA
12/19/2014	No Seminar	Finals Week, no Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2014

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:46:03 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2014

Wednesdays, 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
10/8/2014	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics	The Cyclical Behavior Of Unemployment And Vacancies With Loss Of Skills During Unemployment
10/15/2014*	Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison *NOTE: (General Seminar Presentation)	Sticky Prices And Costly Credit
10/16/2014*	Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison *NOTE: (Graduate Student Presentation, 12:40-2pm in 4128 Sproul Hall)	An Overview Of New Monetarist Economics
10/22/2014	Michael Michaux, University of Southern California Business School	Houses As ATMs? Mortgage Refinancing And Macroeconomic Uncertainty
10/29/2014*	David Ahn, University of California, Berkeley *NOTE: (Please note, this seminar will be from 3:30-4:50pm)	Foundations For Comparative Naivete And Sophistication
11/5/2014*	Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College *NOTE: (Please note – this is an EconometricsPresentation)	Estimating Effects Of English Rule On Litigation Outcomes
11/12/2014	Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics & Political Science	The Curse Of Inflation
11/14/2014*	David Lagakos, University of California, San Diego *NOTE: (Please note, this is a FRIDAY)	Average Hours Worked in the Cross-Section of Countries
11/19/2014	John Duffy, University of California, Irvine	An Experimental Test Of The Lucas Asset Pricing Model
11/26/2014	Wen Kong, University of California, Riverside PhD Candidate in Economics	Economic And Political Equilibrium For A Renewable Natural Resource With International Trade
12/3/2014	Mehdi Naji, University of California Riverside PhD Candidate in Economics	New Keynesian Models, Dual Roles Of Durable Goods And Capital Stock
12/10/2014	Huiling Zhang, University of California Riverside PhD Candidate in Economics	Information Acquisition In Asymmetric One-Sided Information Setting
12/17/2014	No Seminar	Fall finals week, no seminar