2022-2023 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:42:52 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2023

Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

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
4/05/2023	Da Gong	COVID-19 Risk Level Dataset and Impact of China’s Zero-COVID Policy on Economic
4/12/2023	Michael Yonezawa	Library orientation for graduate students
4/19/2023	Ruinan Zhao	The Impacts of Granting Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses on Fatal Crashes
4/26/2023	Anh Tran	Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) With Many Highly Correlated Predictors
5/03/2023	Monika Baloda	The Tech Decoupling
5/10/2023	Yong Ju Lee	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity
5/17/2023	Yifei Ding	Deep learning for individual heterogeneity with generated regressors
5/24/2023	Daanish Padha	A semi-supervised predictive model in high dimensions
5/31/2023	Murilo Silva	Pricing Climate Disasters
6/07/2023	Begum Tunc	Does Training Provide Evidence on Asymmetric Employer Learning?
6/14/2023	Rajveer Jat	The Vanishing Productivity Gap

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:28:45 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2023

Mondays, 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 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
4/03/2023 *Zoom	Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University)	Pricing for Coordination
4/10/2023 *Sproul 2206	João Ramos (USC)	Political Accountability Under Moral Hazard
4/17/2023 *Zoom	Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)	Monotone Additive Statistics
4/24/2023 *Zoom	Rohit Lamba (Penn State)	Hard information design
5/01/2023 *Zoom	Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (University of Chicago)	Partisan Traps
5/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yoval Hellar (Bar-Ilan University)	Heterogeneous Noise and Stable Miscoordination
5/15/2023 *Zoom	Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburg	Persuasion in Veto Bargaining
5/22/2023 *Sproul 2206	Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)	Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium
5/29/2023	Holiday
6/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dayang Li	Satisficing under Limited Attention

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:55:58 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2023

Wednesday, 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
4/05/2023	No Seminar
4/12/2023	No Seminar
4/19/2023 *Sproul 2206	Marianne Bitler (UC Davis)	Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC
4/26/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Giuliano (UC Santa Cruz)	Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?
5/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)	Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga
5/10/2023	No Seminar
5/17/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin)	Brokering Votes with Information Spread via Social Networks
5/24/2023 *Sproul 2206	Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)	Nudging Marriage Norms through Cash Transfers
5/31/2023 *Sproul 2206	Briana Ballis (UC Merced)	Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education
6/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Anaka Aiyar (University of Nevada, Reno)	The impacts of health insurance on child health: evidence from India

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:50:24 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2023

Friday, 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

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
4/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Steve Wu (UC San Diego)	Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles
4/14/2023 *Sproul 2206	Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine)	The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations
4/21/2023 *Sproul 2206	Paul Bergin (UC Davis)	The Macroeconomic Stabilization of Tariff Shocks: What is the Optimal Monetary Response?
4/28/2023 *Sproul 2206	Oleg Itskhoki (UC Los Angeles)	Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
5/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dick Startz (UC Santa Barbara)	Recessions, Recoveries, and Leverage
5/12/2023	No seminar
5/19/2023 *Zoom	Viktoria Hnatkovska (UBC)	Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India
5/26/2023 *Zoom	Jun Ma (Northeastern)	Estimating the Interest Rate Trend in a Shadow Rate Term Structure Model
6/02/2023 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu (UC Riverside)	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
6/09/2023 *Zoom	Tony Zhang (Fed Board)	Understanding the Strength of the Dollar

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:37:17 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2023

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 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
4/06/2023 *Sproul 2206	Kirill Ponomarev (University of Chicago)	Selecting Inequalities for Sharp Identification in Models with Set-Valued Predictions
4/13/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yinchu Zhu (Brandeis University)	Phase Transition of the Monotonicity Assumption in Learning Local Average Treatment Effects
4/20/2023 *Sproul 2206	Shuyang Sheng (UCLA)	Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation
4/27/2023 *Sproul 2206	Anh Tran (UCR)	Forecasting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors
5/04/2023 *Sproul 2206	Euncheol Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)	Optimal Influence Design in Networks
5/11/2023 *Sproul 2206	Tao Wang (University of Victoria, Canada)	Distributed Learning for Kernel Mode-Based Regression
5/18/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)	Revealing Unobservables by Deep Learning: Generative Element Extraction Networks (GEEN)
5/25/2023 *Sproul 2206	TBD
6/01/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yifei Ding (UCR)	Deep learning for individual heterogeneity with generated regressors
6/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yong Ju Lee (UCR)	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 23:37:04 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2023

Friday, 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 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
1/13/2023 *Zoom	No Seminar
1/20/2023 *Sproul 2206	Natalia Bailey (Monash University)	Seasonal and Cyclical Long Memory Modeling
1/27/2023 *Zoom	Ana Maria Herrera (University of Kentucky)	When do State-Dependent Local Projections Work?
2/03/2023 *Zoom	Ana Beatriz Galvão (Warwick Business School)	Sovereign Defaults: a panel binary conditional forecasting approach
2/10/2023	No Seminar
2/17/2023 *Sproul 2206	Lutz Kilian (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)	The Role of the Prior in Estimating VAR Models with Sign Restrictions
2/24/2023 *Sproul 2206	Oscar Jorda (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)	The Longer-Run Effects of Monetary Policy
3/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Manfred Keil (Claremont McKenna) & Ed Leamer (UCLA)	Two New Ways to Forecast Recessions
3/10/2023 *Sproul 2206	James Hamilton (UCSD)	Principal Component Analysis of Nonstationary Series
3/17/2023 *Zoom	James Morley (University of Sydney)	A Structural Measure of the Shadow Federal Funds Rate

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 23:28:31 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2023

Wednesday, 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 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
1/11/2023	No Seminar
1/18/2023 *Sproul 2206	Alex Wellsjo (UC San Diego)	Simple Actions, Complex Habits: Lessons from Hospital Hand Hygiene
1/25/2023	No Seminar
2/01/2023	No Seminar
2/08/2023	No Seminar
2/15/2023	No Seminar
2/22/2023 *Sproul 2206	Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)	Understanding Gaps in College Outcomes by First-Generation Status
3/01/2023	No Seminar
3/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Jeremy Magruder (UC Berkeley)	Highly Powered Analysis Plans
3/15/2023 *Sproul 2206	Meera Mahadevan (UC Irvine)	Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:30:06 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2023

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
1/12/2023 *Zoom	Donggyu Kim (KAIST, Seoul)	Large Volatility Matrix Analysis Using Global and National Factor Models
1/19/2023 *Zoom	Ekaterina Seregina (Colby College)	Doubly Sparse Estimator for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices
1/26/2023 *Sproul 2206	Pedro Issac Chavez Lopez (UC Riverside)	High Dimensional Supervised Forecasting for Conditional Quantiles: Quantile Three Pass Regression Filter
2/02/2023 *Zoom	Qihui Chen (CUHK-Shenzhen)	Semiparametric Conditional Factor Models: Estimation and Inference
2/09/2023 Zoom 10:00am	Burak Saltoglu (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)	Analyzing Individual Risk Taking Behavior with Machine Learning: An Application with a Pension Fund Data
2/14/2023 (Tuesday) Zoom	Yundong Tu (Peking University)	Shrinkage Estimation of Multiple Threshold Factor Models
2/23/2023 *Zoom	Liangjun Su (Tsinghua University, Beijing)	Low-rank Panel Quantile Regression: Estimation and Inference
3/02/2023 Zoom 10:00am	Anders Kock (University of Oxford)	Consistency of p-norm based tests in high dimensions: characterization, monotonicity, domination.
3/09/2023 *Zoom	Bin Chen (University of Rochester)	Time-Varying Matrix Factor Model
3/16/2023	No Seminar

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:26:54 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2023

Tuesday, 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

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
1/10/2023	Xinchan Lu	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
1/17/2023	Yeonjoo Son	Housing Market: Residential Investment
1/24/2023	Begum Tunc	Asymmetric Employer Learning
1/31/2023	Rajveer Jat	Automatic Boundary Adaptive Regression Framework
2/07/2023	Ruinan Zhao	The Impacts of Granting Driver’s License to Unauthorized Immigrants on Traffic Fatalities and Crimes
2/14/2023	Dayang Li	Satisficing under Limited Attention
2/21/2023	Xinchan Lu	Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy
2/28/2023	Pete Pridanonda	Criminal Records and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. College Applications
3/07/2023	Yong Ju Lee	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity
3/14/2023	Saerom Lee	Predictor Selection in High-dimensional Linear Regression Models under a Pervasive Break
3/21/2023	No Presentation

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:38:42 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2023

Mondays, 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

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
1/09/2023 *Zoom	Shaowei Ke (Michigan)	Learning from a Black Box
1/16/2023	Martin Luther King Jr Day	No Seminar
1/23/2023 *Sproul 2206	Siyang Xiong (UC Riverside)	Maskin Meets Moore-Repullo-Sjöström
1/30/2023 *Sproul 2206	Wonki Cho (Korea University)	Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
2/06/2023 *Sproul	Denis Shishkin (UCSD)	Evidence Acquisition and Voluntary Disclosure
2/13/2023 *Zoom	Deepal Basak (Indiana)	Bargaining under Almost Complete Information
2/20/2023	Presidents’ Day holiday	No Seminar
2/27/2023 *Sproul 2206	Guofu Tan (USC)	Market Share Contracts by a Dominant Firm
3/06/2023 *Zoom	Maria Titova (Vanderbilt)	Targeted Advertising in Elections
3/13/2023 *Zoom	Yong Chao (Louisville)	The Limit of Market-share Contract