2021-2022 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:48:29 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2022

Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Xinchan Lu and Yong Ju 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
3/30/2022 *Sproul 2206	Da Gong	Cost of Zero-Covid: Effects of Anti-Contagious Policy on Labor Market Outcomes in China
4/06/2022	No Presentation
4/13/2022 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu	Liquidity, Asset Prices and Information Acquisition
4/20/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yong Ju Lee	Stochastic Frontier Model estimation under Endogeneity
4/27/2022	No Presentation
5/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ryoji Jinushi	From Sequential Equilibrium To Perfect Equilibrium 2: Sufficient Conditions of Well-Mixed Strategy Profiles
5/11/2022 *Zoom	Lea Bou Sleiman (Ecole Polytechnique – CREST)	When should urban roads be removed to lower carbon emissions ?
5/18/2022	No Presentation
5/25/2022	No Presentation
6/06/2022 Sproul 2206 2:00-3:00pm	Anh Tran	Markov Chain Factor Adjusted Naive Bayes AdaBoost with Applications to Forecasting Economic Recessions

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:45:23 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2022

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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.

No Seminar

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/01/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ketki Sheth (UC Merced)	Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
4/08/2022 *Zoom	Solomon Hsiang (UC Berkeley)	Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption and Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change
4/15/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jeff Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison)	Learning More about Teachers:Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda
4/22/2022 *Sproul 2206	Radhika Jain (Stanford)	Women left behind: Gender disparities in utilization of government health insurance in India
4/29/2022 *Zoom	Kyle Emerick (Tufts University)	Targeted Subsidies for Water Conservation in Smallholder Agriculture
5/06/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jonah Rockoff (Columbia)	Pension Reform and Teacher Labor Supply
5/13/2022 *Zoom	Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)	The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
5/20/2022 *Zoom	Rob Garlick (Duke)	Aspirations, Assets and Anti-Poverty Policies
5/27/2022	No Presentation

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:18:52 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2022

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
3/28/2022 *Sproul 2206	Romain Ranciere (USC)	International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share
4/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ed Coulson (UCI Paul Merage School of Business)	Do Appraiser and Borrower Race Affect Valuation?
4/11/2022 3:00-4:20pm Sproul 2206	Jan Brueckner (UCI)	A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?
4/18/2022	No Seminar
4/25/2022 *Sproul 2206	Bessy Liao (UCI)	Trapped on Local Labor Markets?
5/02/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jeffrey Allen (UCR/University of Redlands)	Pro-capitalist Culture and Long-Term Development
5/09/2022 *Sproul 2206	Dongwon Lee (UCR)	Terms of Trade Volatility and Industry Growth
5/16/2022 *Zoom	Monica Morlacco (USC)	Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
5/23/2022 *Sproul 2206	Miroslav Gabrovski (University of Hawaii Manoa)	The Real Effects of Financial Frictions in the Securitized Loans Market

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:22:46 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2022

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong 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
3/30/2022 *Zoom	Nicola Persico (Northwestern)	A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision
4/06/2022 *Zoom	Mingshi Kang (Western Ontario)	Sponsored Link Auctions with Consumer Search
4/13/2022 *Zoom	Alberto Bisin (NYU)	On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Elites and Civil Society
4/20/2022 *Zoom	Doron Ravid (Chicago)	Predicting Choice from Information Cost
4/27/2022 *Zoom	Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale)	Competitive Media Capture
5/04/2022 *Zoom	Weijie Zhong (Stanford GSB)	The Cost of Optimally Acquired Information
5/11/2022 *Zoom	Ron Siegel (Penn State)	Equilibrium Existence in Independent Private Value First-Price Auctions
5/18/2022 *Zoom	Can Urgun (Princeton)	Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves
5/25/2022 *Zoom	Bo Chen (Southern Methodist)	An Economic Model of (Partial) Language Acquisition
6/01/2022 *Zoom	Nina Bobkova (Rice)	Information Choice in Auctions

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:11:22 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2022

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
3/31/2022 *Zoom	Max Farrell (University of Chicago)	Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
4/07/2022 *Zoom	Jonathan Hersh (Chapman University)	Will Al Accelerate the Intra-Firm Digital Divide? Evidence From a Field Experiment on How Managers Use Explainable Al
4/14/2022 *Zoom	Daniel Jeske (UC Riverside)	Control Group versus Treatment Group Designs with Mixture Distributions
4/21/2022 *Zoom	Yehua Li (UC Riverside)	Semiparametric Functional Regression Models with Multivariate Functional Predictors
4/28/2022 *Zoom	Stefan Wager (Stanford University)	Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs
5/05/2022 *Zoom	California Econometrics Conference Stanford University, May 6-7	A modern central limit theorem for the classical augmented IPW estimator: variance inflation, cross-fit covariance and beyond
5/12/2022 Zoom Joint with Statistics Department*	Pragya Sur (Harvard University)	A modern central limit theorem for the classical augmented IPW estimator: variance inflation, cross-fit covariance and beyond
5/19/2022 *Zoom	Alex Belloni (Duke University)	Sub-vector Inference in Partially Identified Models with Many Moment Inequalities
5/26/2022 *Zoom	Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)	Cluster Robust Inference in Linear Regression Models with Many Covariates
6/02/2022 *Zoom	Yanqin Fan (University of Washington, Seattle)	Lorenz Map, Inequality Ordering and Curves Based on Multidimensional Rearrangements

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:34:56 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2022

Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dayang Li and Xinchan Lu.

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
1/12/2022 *Zoom	Dayang Li	Additive Utility Representation under Idempotent Attention
1/19/2022	No Presentation
1/26/2022	No Presentation
2/2/2022 *Zoom	Xinchan Lu	Asymmetric Information, Asset Liquidity and Monetary Policy
2/09/2022 *Zoom	Andong Yan	Dynamic Moral Hazard Problem with Limited Commitment
2/16/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
2/23/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
3/02/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
3/09/2022 *Zoom	Yongli Chen	The Unintended Impact of Fiscal Hierarchy Reforms on Local Air Quality: Evidence from China

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:13:28 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2022

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee & 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
1/03/2022	No Seminar
1/10/2022 *Zoom	Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)	Is Stock Index Membership for Sale?
1/24/2022 *Zoom	Adrien Auclert (Stanford University)	New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curve?
2/07/2022 *Zoom	Daisoon Kim (North Carolina State University)	Aggregate Fluctuations from Clustered Micro Shocks
2/14/2022 *Zoom	Steve Wu (UCSD)	Original Sin and Foreign Reserves Management
2/28/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yu-chin Chen (University of Washington)	Exchange Rate Disconnect and the General Equilibrium Puzzle
3/02/2022 Wednesday 3:30-4:50pm Sproul 2206	Lu Han (Univ of Toronto and University of Wisconsin Madison)	To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:30:21 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2022

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong and 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
1/05/2022 *Zoom	Seungjin Han (McMaster)	A Unified Approach to Equilibrium Analysis in Competing Mechanism Games.
1/12/2022 *Zoom	Fei Li (UNC)	Global Manipulation by local Obfuscation
1/19/2022 *Zoom	Rene Saran (Cincinnati)	A Dynamic Optimization Approach to Delegation with an Application to Volunteer Contracts.
1/26/2022 *Zoom	Dayang Li (UCR)	Additive Utility Representation under Idempotent Attention
2/2/2022 *Zoom	Harry Pei (Northwestern University)	Robust Implementation with Costly Information
2/09/2022 *Zoom	Weijia Li (Monash University)	Hobbesian War and Democracy
2/16/2022 *Zoom	Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Universite)	Preference aggregation under uncertainty
2/23/2022 *Zoom	Natalia Lazzati (UC Santa Cruz)	An ordinal approach to the empirical analysis of games with monotone best responses
3/02/2022 *Zoom	Victor H. Aguiar (University of Western Ontario)	A Rationalization of the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference
3/09/2022 *Zoom	John Rehbeck (Ohio State University)	Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:28:07 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2022

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact 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
1/07/2022	No Seminar
1/28/2022 *Zoom	Joseph Cummins (UCR)	Professional Development Seminar: The Publication Process from First Draft to Acceptance
2/04/2022 *Zoom	Philip Cook (Duke University)	Policing Gun Violence: Explaining Patterns and Trends in Arrest Rates
2/11/2022 *Zoom	Carolyn Sloane (UCR)	Departmental Ethics Seminar: Best Practices
2/18/2022 *Zoom	Joe Cummins (UCR)	Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects
2/25/2022 *Zoom	Kristin Kleinjans (California State University, Fullerton)	The Effects of Being Born in Interesting Times: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
3/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Sarah Cohodes (Columbia University)	Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston’s Charter Schools
3/11/2022 *Zoom	Christian Gunadi (University of California, San Diego)	On the Tragedy of Mass Shooting: the Crime Effects

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:00:29 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2022

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
1/06/2022 *Zoom	Yaojue Xu (UCR)	Forecast Encompassing and Granger Causality in Predictive Models of Expected Shortfalls and Growth Shortfalls
1/13/2022 *Zoom	Norman Swanson (Rutgers University)	Machine Learning with Big Data: New Empirical and Theoretical Findings
1/20/2022 *Zoom	Ricardo Pereira Masini (Princeton University)	Bridging Factor and Sparse Model
1/27/2022 *Zoom	Zhentao Shi (Georgia Institute of Technology)	High Dimensional Forecast Combinations Under Latent Structures
2/03/2022 *Zoom	No Seminar
2/10/2022 *Zoom	Andrii Babii (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)	High-Dimensional Granger Causality Tests with an Application to VIX and News
2/17/2022 *Zoom	Daniel Henderson (University of Alabama)	A general proposal for model-free difference-in-differences
2/24/2022 *Zoom	Saman Banafti (UCR)	Inferential Theory for Granular Instrumental Variables: Concentrated Markets and Large Dynamic Panels
3/03/2022 Zoom 9:30-10:50am*	Jesus Gonzalo (U. Carlos III de Madrid)	Climate Change Heterogeneity: A Novel Quantitative Approach
3/10/2022 *Zoom	Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)	FinTech Apps and Machine Learning in Finance: Selecting Mutual Funds from the Stocks They Hold: a Machine Learning Approach Goal Setting and Saving in the FinTech Era