2016-2017 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:10:48 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2017

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

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins or Yang Xie.

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
3/29/2017	No Seminar- Spring Break	No Seminar
4/05/2017	Michael Callen, UCSD	Mobile-izing Savings With Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence On Present Bias And The Default Effect In Afghanistan
4/12/2017	Darin Christensen, UC Los Angeles	Concession Stands: How Foreign Investments In Mining Incites Protest In Africa
4/19/2017	Christian Dippel, UC Los Angeles	Outside Options, Coercion, And Wages: Removing The Sugar Coating
4/26/2017	Elaina Rose, The University of Washington	Most Likely To Succeed: Personality And Long-Run Achievement
5/03/2017	Maya Rossin-Slater, UC Santa Barbara	What Is The Added Value Of Pre-School? Long Term Impacts And Interactions With A Health Intervention
5/10/2017	Fred Finan, UC Berkeley	Money And Politics: Estimating The Effects Of Campaign Spending Limits On Political Entry And Selection
5/17/2017	Karthik Muralidharan, UC San Diego	General Equilibrium Effects Of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence From India
5/24/2017	Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University	Creating Anticommons: Historical Land Privatization And Modern Natural Resource Use
5/31/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
6/07/2017	Xiaohan Zhang, California State University, Los Angeles	Housing Market Responses To The California Top X% Policy
6/14/2017	No Seminar- Finals Week	No Seminar

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:50:57 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2017

Mondays, 4:10- 5:30pm (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
3/27/2017	NO SEMINAR – Spring Break	NO SEMINAR
4/03/2017*	Peter Robinson, London School of Economics *NOTE: (General Seminar)	Inference On Trending Panel Data
4/04/2017*	Peter Robinson, London School of Economics *NOTE: (This is a seminar primarily geared to the graduate students. Location is CHASS INTS 1113 from 4:10-5:30 pm)	Adaptive Estimation In Multiple Time Series With Independent Component Errors
4/10/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/17/2017	Yun Luo, UCR PhD Candidate	Prediction Regions For Interval-Valued Time Series
4/24/2017	Matthew Harding, UCI	Deep Autoencoder For Pattern Identification In High-Dimensional Consumer Purchase Data
5/01/2017	Yingying Fan USC	Model-Free Knockoffs For High Dimensional Controlled Variable Selection
5/08/2017	Emre Yoldas, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve	Financial Stress And Equilibrium Dynamics In Term Interbank Funding Markets
5/15/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
5/22/2017	Jose Lopez, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Calibrating Macroprudential Policy To Forecasts of Financial Stability
5/29/2017	Memorial Day Holiday-No Seminar, Campus Closed	No Seminar
6/05/2017	Soojin Park, UCR Graduate School of Education	TBA

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:26:10 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2017

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

Questions? Contact 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
4/07/2017	Michael Magill, USC	Banking, Crises and Unconventional Monetary Policy
4/14/2017	Snehal Banerjee, UCSD	Dynamic Information And Strategic Trading
4/21/2017	Jay Lu, UCLA	Bayesian Identification: A Theory Of State-Dependent Utilities
4/28/2017	Joel Watson, UCSD	Statistical Evidence And The Problem Of Robust Litigation
5/05/2017	Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA	Recruiting Talent
5/12/2017	Isabel Trevino, UCSD	Informational Channels Of Financial Contagion
5/19/2017	Kevin Reffett, Arizona State University	Preferences, Externalities, and Indeterminancy: A Global Characterization Of Minimal State Space Recursive Equilibria
5/26/2017	Sevgi Yuksel, UCSB	Media Competition And The Source Of Disagreement
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology	Persistence Of Power: Repeated Multilateral Bargaining
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov- CalTech (Addl Info)	On Line Material for Persistence of Power….
6/09/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
6/16/2017	Spring Finals, No Seminar	No Seminar

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:42:49 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Steven Helfand or Sarojini Hirshleifer.

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
1/11/2017	Joseph Romano, Stanford University	Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption
1/18/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/25/2017	Robert Kaestner, UC Riverside	Early Childhood Health Shocks And Adult Wellbeing: Evidence From Wartime Britain
2/1/2017	Yongxiang Wang, The University of Southern California	Access To Migration For Rural Households
2/8/2017	Dan Bennett, The University of Southern California	The Marriage Market For Lemons: HIV Testing And Marriage In Rural Malawi
2/15/2017	Shihe Fu, Southwest Univ. of Economics & Finance	Air Quality And Labor Productivity: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms
2/22/2017*	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology *NOTE: from 10:00-11:30 am in INTS 1113 (Please note, this is an Econometrics seminar)	BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates
2/22/2017	Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley	Inequality Of Educational Opportunity? Schools As Mediators Of The Intergenerational Transmission Of Income
3/01/2017	Monica Singhal, UC Davis	Dodging The Taxman: Firm Misreporting And Limits To Enforcement
3/08/2017*	SungJun Huh, UCR PhD Candidate *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar, but is being given on a Wednesday)	The Equity Premium And The Financial Accelerator
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics seminar)	Informational Constraints On Antipoverty Programs: Evidence For Africa
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please see line above)	Paper #2 for the seminar title listed above.
3/11/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (this is the keynote address at the PacDev Conference)	Interventions Against Poverty In Poor Places
3/15/2017	David Lagakos, UC San Diego	In Search Of A Spatial Equilibrium In The Developing World
3/22/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:54:58 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee or 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
1/09/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/11/2017	Joseph Romano, Stanford University	Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption
1/13/2017	Raffaella Giacomini, University College of London	Uncertain Identification
1/16/2017	M.L. King Holiday – No Seminar, Campus Closed	No Seminar
1/20/2017	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Identifying The Distribution Of The Gender Gap
1/23/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/30/2017*	Yulia Pavlova, LUKE Natural Resources Institute-Helsinki, Finland *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar Presentation)	International Environmental Cooperation And Dynamic Stock Effects
2/06/2017	TBA	TBA
2/13/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/17/2017*	Ruoyao Shi, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)	Identification And Estimation Of Nonparametric Hedonic Equilibrium Model With Unobserved Quality
2/20/2017	No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday	No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday
2/22/2017*	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)	BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates
2/27/2017	Wenxiu Ma, UCR Statistics Department	DNA Sequence-shape Kernel Enables Alignment-free Modeling Of Transcription Factor Binding
3/06/2017	Millie Yi Mao & Jianghao Chu, UCR PhD Candidates	Millie: Maximum Entropy Based Estimation Of Econometric Functions Jianghao: Predicting Binary Outcomes With High Dimensional Data Using Asymmetric AdaBoost
3/13/2017	Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University	Wald Tests When Restrictions Are Locally Singular
3/20/2017	Jerry Hausman, MIT	Errors In The Dependent Variable of Quantile Regression Models

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:26:20 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet or 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
1/13/2017	Rafaella Giacomini, University College of London	Uncertain Identification
1/20/2017	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Identifying The Distribution Of The Gender Gap
1/27/2017*	Fei Jia, Michigan State University *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar will be held from 2-3:30pm in INTS 1111)	Exploring Additional Moment Conditions In Non-separable Minimum Distance Estimation With An Application To Pseudo Panels
01/30/2017*	Yulia Pavlova, LUKE Natural Resources Institute, Helsinki Finland *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Monday)	International Environmental Cooperation And Dynamic Stock Effects
2/03/2017	Walmir Silva, University of Brasilia & Visiting Scholar-UCR	An Analysis Of The Literature On Systemic Financial Risk: A Survey
2/10/2017	Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College	Analysis Of Stigma And Bank Behavior
2/17/2017*	Ruoyao Shi, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (from 10:00 am – 11:30 am (Please note, this in an Econometrics seminar to be held in INTS 1113)	Identification And Estimation Of Nonparametric Hedonic Equilibrium Model With Unobserved Quality
2/17/2017	Ricardo Fernholz, Claremont McKenna College	Empirical Methods For Dynamic Power Law Distributions In The Social Sciences
2/24/2017	Joseph McMurray, Brigham Young University	Polarization And Pandering In Common-Value Elections
3/03/2017	Eric Swanson, UC Irvine	Measuring The Effects Of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance And Asset Purchases On Financial Markets
3/08/2017*	SungJun Huh, UCR PhD Candidate *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Wednesday, but is an Economic Theory Seminar)	The Equity Premium And The Financial Accelerator
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics Seminar)	Informational Constraints On Antipoverty Programs: Evidence For Africa
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please see line just above)	Paper #2 for the seminar listed above
3/17/2017	Zeynep Senyuz, Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System	Effects Of Changing Monetary And Regulatory Policy On Overnight Money Markets

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2016

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:51:08 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2016

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

Questions? Contact Michael Bates or Carolyn Sloane.

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
9/28/2016	Ruixue Jia, UC San Diego	Access To Elite Education, Wage Premium And Social Mobility: The Truth And Illusion Of China’s College Entrance Exam
10/05/2016	Rebecca Myerson, University of Southern California	The Impact Of State-Varying Components Of The Affordable Care Act In Prescription Fills For Diabetes And Hypertension
10/12/2016	Deepak Singhania, UCR PhD Candidate	Decentralization Synergies And Their Welfare Effects In Indonesia
10/19/2016	Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland	Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
10/26/2016	Leah Boustan-Platt, UC Los Angeles	Inter-generational Transmission Of Wealth Shocks: Evidence From The US Civil War
11/02/2016	Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston	Gender Homophily And Segregation Within Neighborhoods
11/09/2016	Anthony D’Costa, University of Melbourne	Why Are ‘Good’ Jobs So Hard To Come By? Institutional Perspectives On Employment In India
11/15/2016*	Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia *NOTE: (This is a Tuesday) Seminar in 4128 from 3:34-5:30 pm	Skills, Occupation, And Wage Inequality
11/16/2016	Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia	The Minimum Wage Turnover, And The Shape Of The Wage Distribution
11/23/2016	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/30/2016	Sara Reber, UC Los Angeles	The Impact of Virtual College Advising On Disadvantaged Students’ College Enrollment: Evidence From A Random Assignment Field Experiment
12/07/2016	Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University	Scientific Education And Innovation: Evidence From An Expansion Of University STEM Majors

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2016

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:40:34 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2016

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
9/26/2016	Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University	Testing Endogeneity With Possibly Invalid Instruments And High Dimensional Covariates
10/3/2016	He Wang, UCR PhD Candidate	The Second-Order Bias And MSE Of Quantile and Expectile Estimator
10/10/2016	Bai Huang, UCR PhD Candidate	A Combined Semi-Parametric Estimator For Panel Model
10/17/2016	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/24/2016	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology	Subset Optimization For Asset Allocation
10/31/2016	Akio Namba, Kobe University & Visiting Scholar-UCR Economics	A Sufficient Condition For The MSE Dominance Of The Positive-Part Shrinkage Estimator When Each Individual Regression Coefficient Is Estimated In a Misspecified Linear Regression Model
11/7/2016	Esra Kurum, UCR Department of Statistics	Joint Modeling Of Longitudinal Binary And Continuous Responses
11/14/2016	Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University	Partial identification Of The Distribution Of Treatment Effects
11/21/2016	Hao Xu, UCR PhD Candidate	GMM Estimation With Many Instruments That Are Possibly Irrelevant Or Invalid
11/28/2016	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
12/05/2016	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2016

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:15:57 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2016

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
9/23/2016	Matan Tsur, University of Vienna	Financial Contract, Bargaining and Security Design
9/30/2016	Nir Jaimovich, University of Southern California	Disappearing Routine Jobs: Who, How, And Why?
10/07/2016	Francois Geerolf, UCLA	A Theory of Pareto Distributions
10/14/2016	William Branch, UCI	Labor Market Dynamics When Households Lack Commitment
10/21/2016	Yang Xie, UCR	Machiavellian Experimentation
10/28/2016	Paul Bergin, UCD	Beyond Competitive Devaluations: The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage
11/04/2016	Gabriele Camera, Chapman University	Money And The Scale Of Cooperation
11/11/2016	Veteran’s Day Holiday – No Seminar	No Seminar
11/18/2016	Bruce McGough, University of Oregon	Stable Sunspot Equilibria And The MSV-Principle
11/25/2016	Thanksgiving Day Holiday – No Seminar	No Seminar
12/2/2016	Yiwei Liu, UCR PhD Candidate	Dynamic Pricing With Opaque Sales: Role Of Intermediary In Forming Consumer Loyalty
12/9/2016	No Seminar – last day of finals week and Fall quarter	No Seminar