2020-2021 – UCR | Department of Economics

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:37:57 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2021

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
04/02/2021	Tao Wang (UC Riverside)	SPLVC Modal Regression with Error-Prone Linear Covariate
04/09/2021	Hashem Pesaran (USC)	Matching Theory and Evidence on Covid-19 using a Stochastic Network SIR Model
04/16/2021	Amos Golan (American University)	Effect of policy-relevant factors on COVID-19 patient survival probability: An information-theoretic analysis
4/23/2021	Essie Maasoumi (Emory University)	Dynastic View of Intergenerational Mobility : Measures and Methods
04/30/2021	Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)	Kernel-weighted test statistics under general distributions
05/07/2021	Vira Semenova (UC Berkeley)	Machine learning for set-identified linear models
05/14/2021	Yixiao Sun (UC San Diego)	Support Vector Decision Making
05/21/2021	Shuheng Zhou (UC Riverside)	Tensor Models for High Dimensional Data with Complex Dependencies
05/28/2021	Justin Dang (UC Riverside)	Generalized Two Step Kernel Regularized Least Squares Estimator with Parametric Error Covariance
06/04/2021	Zhuozhen Zhao (UC Riverside)	Competition and Innovation of Two-Product Firms with Unobserved Choices

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:17:09 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2021

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dongwon 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
4/07/2021	Nelson Mark (University of Notre Dame)	Temperature Shocks and Real Exchange Rates
4/14/2021	Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin)	Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates
4/21/2021	Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia)	Trade Wars, Currency Wars
4/28/2021	Pierangelo De Pace (Pomona College)	Comovement and Instability in Cryptocurrency Markets
5/05/2021	Menzie David Chinn (University of Wisconsin)	The New Fama Puzzle
5/12/2021	Robert Dekle (University of Southern California)	Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese Product and Firm Level Data
5/19/2021	Sergio Schmukler (World Bank)	Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses
5/26/2021	Francis Warnock (University of Virginia)	The Natural Level of Capital Flows
6/02/2021	Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University)	Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Help Counties Most Affected by the Great Recession?

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:31:15 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2021

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren 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
3/29/2021	Opinder Kaur (UC Riverside)	Does Making Mothers Literate Improve Their Little One’s Health? Evidence from India
4/05/2021 *11:00am	Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario)	Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
4/12/2021 *11:00am	Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus University)	Academic Achievement and Wellbeing of Dual Language Learners: Evidence from a Busing Program
4/19/2021 *11:00am	Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)	Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
4/26/2021	TBD	TBD
5/03/2021 *11:00am	Dan Bjorkegren (Brown University)	(Machine) Learning what Policymakers Value
5/10/2021	Damon Clark (UC Irvine)	How do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers.
5/17/2021 *11:00am	Chris Woodruff (Oxford University)	Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico’s Labor Courts
5/24/2021	Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)	Does Public Participation Matter? Evidence from a National-Scale Experiment on the Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:02:35 +0000

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2021

Tuesdays, 5:00 – 6:00 pm (unless otherwise stated)
Zoom presentations

Questions? Contact Zhuozhen Zhao.

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
03/30/2021	Dayang Li	An Additive Utility Representation under Limited Attention
04/06/2021	Opinder Kaur	Does Making Mothers Literate Improve Their Little One’s Health? Evidence from India
04/13/2021	Xinchan Lu	Learning and International Portfolio Choice Dynamics
04/20/2021	Justin Dang	Smoothed Nonparametric Derivative Estimation using Random Forest Based Weighted Difference Quotients
04/27/2021	Chuan Zhang	Can we disagree forever?
05/04/2021	Da Gong	Famine, Clan and Social Capital
05/11/2021	Andong Yan	Why do Autocrats Grant Privileges? A Principal-Agent Problem With Limited Commitment
05/18/2021	Zhuozhen Zhao	Competition and Innovation of Two-product Firms with Unobserved Choices
05/25/2021	Ryoji Jinushi	From Sequential Equilibrium to Perfect Equilibrium

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:03:05 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2021

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact 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
4/02/2021	Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia)	A theory of elite-initiated democratization, illustrated with the case of Myanmar
4/09/2021	James Fearon (Stanford University)	Armed Conflict Bargaining
4/16/2021	Steve Callander (Stanford University)	Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
4/23/2021	Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado, Boulder)	A Theory of Cultural Revivals
4/30/2021 *4:00pm	Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)	The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
5/07/2021	Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)	The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
5/14/2021	Weijia Li (Monash University)	Targeted Media, Voter Suppression, and the Rise of Populism.
5/21/2021	Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University)	Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia
5/28/2021	Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)	Networks and Limits on Authoritarian Propaganda
6/04/2021	Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University)	The Allocation of Political Authority when Power Corrupts

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:03:33 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2021

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet

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
1/13/2021	Marcelle Chauvet (UCR)	A Time Series Model of the Covid-19 Recession
1/20/2021	Phillippe Goulet Coulombe (University of Pennsylvania)	The Macroecononomy as a Random Forest
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
1/27/2021	Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins University)	Real Effects of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Housing Portfolio Channel
2/03/2021	Pete Klenow (Stanford University)	A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents
2/10/2021	Chad Jones (Stanford University)	Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
2/17/2021	Michael Kiley (Federal Reserve Board)	Financial Conditions and Economic Activity: Insights from Machine Learning
2/24/2021	Eric Sims (Notre Dame University)	Bury the Gold Standard? A Quantitative Exploration
3/03/2021	Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley)	Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
3/10/2021	Martin Einhenbaum (Northwestern University)	How do People Respond to Small Probability Events with Large, Negative Consequences?

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:27:33 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2021

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
1/08/2021	No Seminar
1/15/2021	Christopher P. Chambers (Georgetown University)	Preference Identification
1/22/2021	Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Maryland)	Progressive Random Choice
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
1/29/2021	Matthew Kovach (Virginia Tech)	Minimum Distance Belief Updating with General Information
2/05/2021	Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)	Caution and Reference Effects
2/12/2021	Yoram Halevy (University of Toronto)	Randomize at your own risk: on the observability of ambiguity aversion
2/19/2021	Jawwad Noor (Boston University)	Intuitive Priors
2/26/2021	Efe A. Ok (New York University)	Inferential Choice Theory
3/05/2021	David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)	Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction
3/12/2021	John K.-H. Quah (Johns Hopkins University)	Comparative statics with linear objectives: normal demand, monotone marginal costs, and ranking multi-prior beliefs

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:20:36 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2021

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Michael Bates and Caroline 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
1/11/2021	Lisa Kahn (Rochester)	Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
2/01/2021	Jessamyn Schaller (CMC)	Family Support in Hard Times: Dynamics of Intergenerational Exchange after Adverse Events
2/08/2021	Engy Ziedan (Tulane University)	The Effects of School Reopenings on COVID-19 Hospitalizations
2/22/2021	Chris Walters (University of California, Berkley)	The Long-Run Effects of Universal Pre-K in Boston
3/01/2021	Aprajit Mahajan (Princeton)	Expanding Financial Access Via Credit Cards: Evidence from Mexico
3/08/2021	Till von Wachter (University of California, Los Angeles)	Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession
3/15/2021	Neha Agarwal (University of Otago)	Son Preference, Maternal Health, and Women’s Survival- A Cross-Cultural Analysis
3/22/2021	No Seminar	No Seminar
3/29/2021	Opinder Kaur (University of California, Riverside)

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:09:07 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2020

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Steven Helfand and 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
10/12/2020 *11:00 AM	Peter Lanjouw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)	Poverty Dynamics in Malaysia in the early 21st Century: Evidence from Synthetic Panels
10/19/2020	Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)	Misallocation in Indian Agriculture
10/26/2020 *11:30 AM	Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)	Intrahousehold and gendered aspects of children’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
11/02/2020	Gaurav Khanna (UCSD)	The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
11/09/2020	Diana Moreira (UCD)	Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act
11/16/2020	Chia-Lo Chen (UCR)	The Joint Dynamics of Family Housing and Childbearing Decisions
11/23/2020	Workshop for Academic Integrity in the Job Market Organizer: Hiroki Nishimura
11/30/2020 *11:00 AM	Douglas Gollin (Oxford)	Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries
12/07/2020	Kelsey Jack (UCSB)	Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sehel

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:22:55 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Fall 2020

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
10/02/2020	Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)	Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information
10/09/2020	Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern Univ.)	Efficient Dynamic Allocations in Endowment Economies with Linear Utilities and Private Information
10/16/2020	Shengwu Li (Harvard)	Investment incentives in near-optimal mechanisms
10/23/2020	Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh)	Uncertainty in Mechanism Design
10/30/2020	Nageeb Ali (Penn State University)	How to Sell Hard Information
11/06/2020	Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern Univ.)	Structural Rationality in Dynamic Games
11/13/2020	Qingmin Liu (Columbia Univ.)	Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization
11/20/2020	Itai Sher (University of Mass., Amherst)	Global Consequences of Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights
12/04/2020	Larry Samuelson (Yale)	Substitutes
12/11/2020	Shahir Safi (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)	Job Market Signalling Via Social Ties