2019-2020 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:04:22 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2020

The Economics Department has cancelled all seminars for the month of April due to the coronavirus. We will update as conditions evolve.

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Steven Helfand and 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
04/01/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/06/2020 *Monday	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/15/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/22/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/29/2020	Graduate Student Professional Development	Writing a Referee Report
5/6/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
05/13/2020	Quanfeng Zhou (UCR)	Instructional Spending in Higher Institutions and Student Earnings
05/20/2020	Graduate Student Professional Development	Visualizing Dynamic Treatment Effects
05/22/2020 *Friday	Graduate Student Professional Development	The Job Market
05/27/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
06/03/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:23:46 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2020

The Economics Department has cancelled all seminars with external visitors for the month of April due to the coronavirus. We will update as conditions evolve.

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 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
03/30/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/08/2020 *Wednesday	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/13/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/20/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/27/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/29/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Writing a Referee Report
05/04/2020	Ran Wang (UCR)	Unsupervised Feature Extraction Clustering for Crisis Prediction
05/11/2020	Mingyu (Max) Joo (UCR)	A Hybrid Approach to Counterfactual Demand Predictions Using Machine Learning Methods
05/18/2020	Ruoyao Shi (UCR)	Peer Effects in Endogenous Networks
05/20/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Visualizing Dynamic Treatment Effects
05/22/2020 *Friday	Graduate Student Professional Development	The Job Market
05/25/2020	Memorial Day – NO SEMINAR	No Seminar
06/01/2020	Rosa Matzkin (UCLA)	Multivariate Nonseparable Hedonic Models
06/08/2020	Matthew Harding (UCI) & Gabriel Vasconcelos (UCI)	Boosting Smooth Trees for Partial Effect Estimation in Nonlinear Regressions & Managers vs Algorithms: Can Algorithms Replicate Human Intuition?

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:10:35 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2020

The Economics Department has cancelled all seminars for the month of April due to the coronavirus. We will update as conditions evolve.

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee and 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
04/03/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/10/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/17/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/24/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/29/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Writing a Referee Report
05/01/2020	TBA
05/08/2020	TBA
05/15/2020	TBA
05/20/2020 *Wednesday	Graduate Student Professional Development	Visualizing Dynamic Treatment Effects
05/22/2020	Graduate Student Professional Development	The Job Market
05/29/2020	Zhuozhen Zhao (UCR)	Does AMD Stimulate Intel Innovate More and Release Sooner
06/05/2020	TBA

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:07:39 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2020

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
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
01/10/2020	Ugo Troiano, University of Michigan	SOCIAL CAPITAL, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND GROWTH
01/17/2020	No Seminar
01/24/2020	Neha Bairoliya, USC Marshall	Demographic Transition, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
01/31/2020	Ariel Burstein, UCLA	Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations
02/07/2020	Florian Madison, Claremont McKenna College	Entrepreneurial Finance, Home Equity and Monetary Policy
02/14/2020	No seminar
02/21/2020	Paul Jackson, UC Irvine	Equilibrium Underemployment
02/28/2020	Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, UCSC	Increasing the Cost of Informal Workers: Evidence from Mexico
03/06/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
03/13/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:06:18 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2020

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Michael Bates and Ozkan Eren.

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
1/8/2020	Janet Currie, Princeton	What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality
1/15/2020	Grant Jacobsen, University of Oregon	Are Resource Booms a Blessing or a Curse? Evidence from People (not Places)
1/22/2020	No seminar
1/29/2020	No seminar
2/5/2020	Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina	Hunger Pains? SNAP Timing and Emergency Room Visits
2/12/2020	Nick Huntington-Klein, CSU Fullerton	Instruments with Heterogeneous Effects: Bias, Monotonicity, and Localness
2/19/2020	Isaac Sorkin, Stanford	Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
2/26/2020	Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA	Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
3/04/2020	Daniel MacDonald, CSU San Bernardino	Do Mating Strategies Drive Consumption Decisions? Evidence for the Lipstick Effect During the Great Recession
3/11/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
3/18/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:04:14 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2020

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 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
1/6/2020	Jie Wei, HUST, Wuhan, China	A Panel Probit Model with Time-Varying Individual Effects
1/13/2020	Resul Cesur, University of Connecticut	Did the War on Terror Ignite a Veteran Opioid Epidemic?
1/24/2020	Seolah Kim, UCR (NOTE: Seminar is FRIDAY, 01/24 2:30 – 3:50 p.m.)	A Consistent Nonparametric Test for Endogeneity
1/27/2020	Ali Mehrabani, UCR	Efficient Shrinkage Estimation in Heterogeneous Panel Data Models with Application to Returns to Scale for U.S. Banks
2/3/2020	Jim Powell, UC Berkeley	Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data
2/10/2020	No Seminar
2/17/2020	No Seminar
2/24/2020	Aaron Smith, UC Davis	Causality in Structural Vector Autoregressions: Science or Sorcery?
3/2/2020	Shu Shen, UC Davis	Dynamic Regression Discontinuity
3/9/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
3/16/2020	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:29 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2020

Wednesdays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm (unless otherwise stated)
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong.

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
02/26/2020	Ritesh Jain, Academia Sinica	A Systematic Test of the Independence Axiom: Around Certainty
03/11/2020	Chuan Zhang, UCR	TBA
03/18/2020	Andong Yan, UCR	TBA

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2019

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:54:39 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2019

Wednesdays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm
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
10/09/2019	Christian Gunadi, UCR	Does Immigrant Legalization Affect Crime? Evidence from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the United States
11/06/2019	Yoon Jae Ro, UCR *Time 12:00-1:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	The Effects of Teacher Performance Measures on Student Achievement
11/13/2019	Deepshikha Batheja, UCR *Time 12:00-1:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	Gender Peer Effects in the Labor Market: Evidence from Indian Call Centers
12/04/2019	Peng Zhao, UCR *Time 4:00-5:20pm Location: Sproul 2206	The Natural Rate of Structure Depreciation: Decoupling Capital Gains and Maintenance Improvement from Property Value Variation

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2019

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:02:48 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2019

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan and Siyang Xiong.

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
9/27/2019	Luciano Pomatto, California Institute of Technology	Factual and Predictive Uncertainty: Foundations for the Smooth Model
10/4/2019	Pablo Schenone, California Institute of Technology	Causality: A Decision Theoretic Foundation
10/11/2019	No Seminar
10/18/2019	Songzi Du, UCSD	Optimal Auction Design with Common Values: An Informationally Robust Approach
10/25/2019	Charles Zheng, Western Ontario	Necessity of Auctions for Optimal Redistribution
11/1/2019	Ichiro Obara, UCLA	Reputation and Information Lag
11/8/2019	No Seminar
11/15/2019	Tomasz Sadzik, UCLA	Partnership with Persistence
11/22/2019	Seungjin Han, McMaster	Pre-match investment competition with incomplete information
11/29/2019	No Seminar
12/6/2019	Victor Ortego-Marti, UCR	Endogenous TFP, Labor Market Policies and Loss of Skills

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2019

site-admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:21:00 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2019

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact 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
9/30/2019	Haiqing Xu, University of Texas, Austin	Estimation of Treatment Effects under Endogenous Heteroskedasticity
10/7/2019	Jeremy Fox, Rice University	Heterogenous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion
10/14/2019	Artem Prokhorov, University of Sydney in Australia	A New Family of Copulas, with Application to Estimation of a Production Frontier System
10/21/2019	Christina Amado, University of Minho in Portugal	Modelling Time-varying Volatility Interactions with an Application to Volatility Contagion
10/28/2019	Ying Zhu, UCSD	Omitted variable bias of Lasso-based inference methods: A finite sample analysis
11/4/2019	Shujie Ma, UCR	How many communities are there in a network?
11/11/2019	No Seminar
11/19/2019* 9:00-10:20am	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Econometrics and Statistics Graduate Students lecture located in Sproul 2206	Statistical Machine Learning for Financial Prediction and Inference
11/19/2019* 3:45-4:45pm	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University *NOTE: This is a Tuesday, and is part of the joint Statistics and Econometrics Seminar located in Glen Mor K106-K108.	Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks
11/25/2019	Shahnaz Parseaian, UCR	Optimal Forecast under Structural Breaks with Application to Equity Premium
12/2/2019	Zhipeng Liao, UCLA	Conditional Inference for GMM Model Specification Test with Applications to Asset Pricing Models