2017-2018 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:27:11 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2018

Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

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
04/02/2018	No Presentation	N/A
04/09/2018	Richard Arnott, UCR Economics	The Incentive Regulation of Ridesharing Companies: Building an Interesting Model is Easy
04/16/2018	TBA	TBA
04/23/2018	Michael Bates, UCR Economics & Seolah Kim, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Estimating Population Average Effects using Per-Cluster Instrumental Variables Approaches
04/30/2018	Ruoyao Shi, UCR Economics	An Averaging Estimator Robust to Misspecification in Linear Panel Data Models.
05/07/2018	Jana Grittersova, UCR Political Science	TBA
05/14/2018	Han Ryu & Neha Agarwal, UCR PhD Candidates in Economics	TBA
05/21/2018	Carolyn Sloane, UCR Economics	TBA
05/28/2018	No Brown Bag – Memorial Day Holiday/Campus Closes	No Brown Bag
06/04/2018	Christian Gunadi, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	TBA

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:44:20 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2018

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

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins.

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
04/02/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/09/2018	David Rapson, UC Davis	Using A Natural Experiment In California To Estimate The Demand For Electric Vehicles In Low-And Middle-Income Households
04/16/2018	Gordon Dahl, UC San Diego	Intergenerational Spillovers In Disability Insurance
04/23/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/30/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
05/07/2018	Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development	Outsourcing Service Delivery In A Fragile State: Experimental Evidence From Liberia
05/14/2018	Jamie McCasland, The University of British Columbia	Light Off, Lights On: The Effects Of Electricity Shortages On Small Firms
05/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
05/28/2018	No Seminar – Memorial Day Holiday/Campus Closed	No Seminar
06/04/2018	TBA	TBA

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:22:45 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2018

Fridays, 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
04/06/2018	Todd Clark, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank	Endogenous Uncertainty
04/13/2018*	Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note that this will be an ECONOMIC THEORY seminar)	How the U.S. Lost The Rust Belt: Labor Market Conflict And Inefficient Rent Sharing
04/20/2018	Yehua Li, UCR Statistics Department	Functional Principle Component Analysis Of Spatiotemporal Point Processes With Applications In Disease Surveillance
04/27/2018	Christian Shelton, UCR Computer Science Department	Machine Learning: An Overview
05/04/2018	Dimitris Politis, UC San Diego	Predictive Inference For Locally Stationary Time Series
05/11/2018*	Oscar Jorda, UC Davis & the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank *NOTE: (Please note that this will be a joint Econometrics & Macroeconomics Seminar)	Direct, Indirect, and Composition Effects Of Monetary Policy Interventions
05/18/2018	Yulong Wang, Syracuse University	Nonparametric Spatial Threshold And Two-Dimensional Sample Splitting
05/25/2018	Ruoyao Shi, UCR Economics	An Averaging Estimator Robust To Misspecification In Linear Panel Data Model
06/01/2018	Xun Tang, Rice University	Identification And Estimation Of Large Network Games With Private Link Information
06/08/2018	Yun Luo, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	A Truncated Mixture Transition Model For Interval-valued Time Series

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:59:57 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2018

Wednesdays, 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
04/04/2018	Zhi Zhao, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Quantifying The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Mixed-Frequency Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive Regression Approach
04/11/2018	Vincenzo Quadrini, The University of Southern California	Banks Interconnectivity And Leverage
04/13/2018*	Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	How The U.S. Lost The Rust Belt: Labor Market Conflict And Inefficient Rent Sharing
04/18/2018	TBA	TBA
04/25/2018	Joel David, The University of Southern California	Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation And Misallocation
05/02/2018	Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University	Structural Transformation In Investment And Consumption: A Unified Approach
05/09/2018	Thanasis Geromichalos, UC Davis	The Liquidity-Augmented Model of Macroeconomic Aggregates
05/16/2018	Pedro Amaral, Cal State University, Fullerton	Financial Engineering And Economic Development
05/23/2018	Henry Siu, University of British Columbia	The “End of Men” And Rise Of Women In The High-Skilled Labor Market
05/30/2018	Ayse Imrohoroglu, The University of Southern California	Household Saving, Financial Constraints, And The Current Account In China
06/06/2018	Tommaso Porzio, UC San Diego	The Enduring Wall: Labor Mobility Within And Between East And West Germany

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:50:51 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2018

Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

Questions? Contact 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
01/17/2o18	Bree Lang, UCR Economics	TBA
01/24/2018	Open	TBA
01/31/2018	Carolyn Sloane, UCR Economics	TBA
02/07/2018	Hanbyul Ryu, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	TBA
02/14/2018	Yanchao Yang, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	TBA
02/21/2018	Deepshikha Batheja, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	TBA
02/28/2o18	Joseph Cummins, UCR Economics	TBA
03/07/2018	Sarojini Hirshleifer, UCR Economics	TBA
03/14/2018	TBA	TBA
03/21/2018	TBA	TBA
03/28/2018	TBA	TBA

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:39:44 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2018

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

Questions? Contact Richard Arnott or Michael Bates.

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
01/08/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
01/15/2018	No Seminar- Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday/Campus Closed	No Seminar
01/22/2o18	Stefanie Fischer, Cal Poly	The Impact Of Reduced Access To Abortion And Family Planning Services On Abortion, Births, And Contraceptive Purchases
01/29/2018	Gary Solon, University of Arizona	What Have We Learned From Thirty Years of Intergenerational Mobility Research?
02/05/2018	Larry Iannacone, Chapman University	God Games: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Superstition, And Cooperation
02/12/2018	Dan Black, University of Chicago	Simple Test For Selection Bias: Learning More From IV Estimates
02/13/2018*	Dan Black, University of Chicago *NOTE: (Grad Student presentation, will be from 2-3:40 p.m. in Sproul 2206)	Black-White Mortality Differentials At Older Ages
02/19/2018	President’s Day Holiday, No Seminar	No Seminar
02/26/2018	Supreet Kaur, UC Berkeley	Scabs: Norm-Driven Supression Of Labor Supply
03/05/2o18	Seth Gershenson, American University	The Long-Run Impacts Of Same-Race Teachers
03/12/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:20:30 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2018

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or Ruoyao Shi

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
01/12/2018	Weixin Yao, UCR Statistics Department	Covariate Information Matrix For Dimension Reduction
01/19/2018	Jinyong Hahn, UCLA	Estimation With Aggregate Shocks
01/26/2o18	Samuele Centorrino, Stony Brook University & UCR Economics Visiting Scholar	Nonparametric Estimation And Inference In Economic Experiments
02/02/2o18	Amos Golan, American University	Data Confessions With Minimal Torture: The Info-Metrics Way
02/09/2018	Verrappa K. Chetty, Boston University Medical School	Physician Workforce, Primary Care And Life Expectancy In The United States
02/09/2018	Verappa K. Chetty, Boston Univ. Med. School, continued…	Slides for the presentation
02/16/2018	Ying-Ying Lee, UCI	Regression Discontinuity Designs With A Continuous Treatment
02/23/2018	Yu-Wei Hsieh, The University of Southern California	Computing Moment Inequality Models Using Constrained Optimization
03/02/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
03/08/2018*	Hashem Pesaran, The University of Southern California *NOTE: (Graduate Student presentation, will be held in CHASS HUM 1500 from 2:10-3:30 p.m.)	Topics In Panel Data Models With Weak And Strong Cross Sectional Dependence
03/09/2018*	Hashem Pesaran, The University of Southern California *NOTE: (General Seminar in Sproul 2206)	Land Use Regulations, Migration And Rising House Dispersion In The U.S.
03/16/2018	Mark Kamstra, York University-Schulich School of Business	Momentum, Reversals, And Other Puzzles In Fama-MacBeth Cross-Sectional Regressions
03/23/2018	No Seminar – Winter Final Exams	No Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:38:49 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2018

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

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee 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
01/10/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
01/17/2018	Bo-Yu Chen, UCR PhD Candidate	International Stock Markets Linkages: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach
01/24/2018	Jean-Paul Carvalho, UCI	The Economics Of Religious Communities: Social Integration, Discrimination And Radicalization
01/31/2018	Michael McBride, UCI	Theory-Of-Mind Ability And Cooperation
02/08/2018*	Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, UCB *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Thursday, & the location is CHASS HMNSS 1500 from 4:00-5:20 p.m.)	The Economics Of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts And the Eurozone Crisis
02/14/2018	Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University	Drilling In The Drought? The Industrial Organization of Groundwater
02/21/2018	Romain Ranciere, USC	Balance-Sheet Diversification In General Equilibrium: Identification And Network Effects
02/28/2018	Stergios Skaperdas, UCI	Investing In Influence: Policy Determination Under Persuasive Lobbying
03/07/2018	Joshua Aizenman, USC	Financial Spillovers And Macroprudential Policies
03/14/2018	Andrew Rose, UCB	How Important Is The Global Financial Cycle? Evidence From Capital Flows
03/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:50:38 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2017

Mondays, 12:00-1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

Questions? Contact 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
10/02/2017	Swati Bhattacharyya, UCR Library	TBA
10/09/2017	Joseph Cummins, UCR Department of Economics	Health Expenditures: Bangladesh
10/16/2017	Carolyn Sloane, UCR Department of Economics	Rising Wage Inequality & Urban Migration
10/23/2017	Jonathan Kurzfeld, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics & Yoon Ro, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Yoon: The Early Exposure to Drinking Culture and Ipact on Educational Attainment
10/30/2017	Kevin Esterling, UCR School of Public Policy & Department of Political Science	Introduction to MCMC Bayesian Estimation with OpenBUGs
11/06/2017	Jonathan Hersh, Chapman University Department of Economics	TBA
11/13/2017	Maria Perez-Urdiales, UCR School of Public Policy	The impact of “budget-based” water rates on inefficient consumers
11/20/2017	Ali Bagherpour, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	TBA
11/27/2017	Jana Grittersova, UCR Department of Political Science	TBA
12/04/2017	Giannina Vaccaro, UCI	Using Econometric To Reduce Gender Discrimination: Evidence From a Diff-in-Disc Design
12/11/2017	TBA	TBA

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:32:53 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2017

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

Questions? Contact Carolyn Sloane & 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
10/02/2017	Neha Agarwal, UCR PhD Candidate	To Work Or Not To Work? Male Earnings And Female Labor Force Participation In India
10/09/2017	Evan Wigton-Jones, UCR PhD Candidate	Legacies Of Inequality: The Case Of Brazil
10/16/2017	Matt Freedman, UC Irvine	Is Your Lawyer A Lemon? Incentives And Selection In The Public Provision Of Criminal Defense
10/23/2017	Peter Hinrichs, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank	Affirmative Action And Racial Segregation
10/30/2017	Rodrigo Soares, Columbia University	Does Universalization Of Health Care Work? Evidence From Health Systems Restructuring And Maternal And Child Health In Brazil
11/06/2017	Jonathan Kurzfeld, UCR PhD Candidate	Prison Crowding And Violent Misconduct
11/13/2017	Vittorio Bassi, The University of Southern California	Information Frictions in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
11/20/2017	Jordan Matsudaira, Cornell University	Not So Simple? Financial Aid Simplification and the Impact of Pell Grants on College Enrollment
11/27/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2017*	Juan Pantano, University of Chicago *NOTE: (Seminar will be from 4:40-6:00 p.m. in Humanities 1500)	Healthcare Access, Costs, and Treatment Dynamics: Evidence From In Vitro Fertilization
12/04/2017	Ozkan Eren, Louisiana State University	Performance Pay, Teachers And Student Outcomes
12/11/2017	TBA	TBA