2024-2025 – UCR | Department of Economics

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2025

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 Yang Xie & 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
04/09/2025	Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh)	Identification of Incomplete Preferences
04/16/2025	Anujit Chakraborty (UC Davis)	The Role of Interpersonal Uncertainty in Prosocial Behavior
04/23/2025	Aniruddha Ghosh (Cal Poly)	Separately Convex and Separately Continuous Preferences
04/30/2025
05/07/2025	Max Stinchcombe (University of Texas, Austin)	All Games Have Equilibria In Finitely Additive Strategies
05/14/2025	Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)	Missing Discussions
05/21/2025	Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley)	Random Rationalizability
05/28/2025 *Zoom	Joseph Warren (University of Alaska, Anchorage)	Citizen Approval Increases Information in Administrative Policymaking
06/04/2025
06/11/2025
06/18/2025

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:58:03 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2025

Tuesday, 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 Donggyu Kim

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
04/01/2025	Xiaoqian Liu (UCR Statistics)	A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion
04/08/2025 Zoom 3:30-4:50pm	Degui Li (University of Macau)	Large-Scale Curve Time Series with Common Stochastic Trends
04/15/2025	Yinglun Zhu (UCR)	Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute
04/22/2025	Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)	Can Machines Learn Weak Signals?
04/29/2025	Yuan Liao (Rutgers University)	Does Noise Hurt Economic Forecasts?
04/30/2025 *Wednesday	Yuan Liao (Rutgers University)	The Uncertainty of Machine Learning Predictions in Asset Pricing
05/06/2025 Zoom 3:30-4:50pm	Fa Wang (Peking University)	Estimation and Inference for Unbalanced Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
05/12/2025 Monday Joint with Macro	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Interest Rates, Emissions and Energy Efficiency
05/20/2025	Yuefeng Han (University of Notre Dame)	Estimation and Inference for Two-Way Matrix Factor Models
05/27/2025	Kyoo il Kim (Michigan State University)	An Instrumental Variables Approach to Testing Firm Conduct
06/03/2025

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:09 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Ajin Lee & Michael Bates & Joe Cummins & Steven Helfand

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
4/4/25	Isaac Opper (RAND)	A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Empirical Application to Grade Retention Policies
4/11/25	Katherine Meckel (UCSD)	The Trade-offs of Privatizing Benefit Distribution: Evidence from Mississippi WIC
4/18/25	SoCCAM (No seminar)
4/25/25	Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)	Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India
5/02/25	Farhan Majid (UPenn)	Parental Response to Fetal Shocks and Macroeconomic Volatility
5/9/25	David Chan (UC Berkeley)	Are Guidelines Worth Following? Treatment Decisions Under Scientific Uncertainty
5/16/25	Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz)	Real-world Eﬀectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children
5/23/25	Guojun He (HKU)	The Demand, Supply, and Market Responses of Corporate ESG Actions: Evidence from a Nationwide Experiment in China
5/30/25	Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley)	Appropriate Technology Use and Autonomy: Evidence From Mexico
6/6/25	Mitchel Hoffman (UC Santa Barbara)

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:28:28 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Spring 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Dongwon Lee

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Executive Authority and Household Bailouts

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
03/31/2025	Murilo Silva (UCR)	Climate Disaster Risk and Stock Returns
04/07/2025	Andrew Sinclair (Caltech)	Executive Authority and Household Bailouts
04/14/2025 *Zoom	Luciana Juvenal (IMF)	Commodity Prices and Fiscal (Pro)Cyclicality
04/21/2025	Munseob Lee (UC San Diego)	Land Reform, Agricultural Productivity, and Human Capital Accumulation
04/28/2025	Tomas Williams (George Washington University)	Global Investors in Local-Currency Bond Markets: Implications for Bond Yields and Exchange Rates∗
05/05/2025	Hamid Firooz (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)	Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets under Trade Uncertainty
05/12/2025	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Interest Rates, Emissions and Energy Efficiency
05/19/2025 *Zoom	Chris Papageorgiou(IMF)	Financial Stress and Economic Activity: Evidence from a New Worldwide Index
05/26/2025
06/02/2025

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:19:50 +0000

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2025

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

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
3/04/2025 *Joint seminar with Econometrics	Richard Crump (NY-FRB)	A Jackknife Variance Estimator for Panel Regressions & A Simple Diagnostic for Time-Series and Panel-Data Regressions
03/10/2025

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:34:14 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2025

Thursday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Ryan Hodge

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
02/20/2025	Da Huang	The Impact of Ultra-High Voltage Electricity Transmission: Evidence from China

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:49:49 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2025

Tuesday, 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 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
1/06/2025 *Monday	Southern California Winter Econometrics Day	Southern California Winter Econometrics Day
1/07/2025	Bin Chen (University of Rochester)	Estimation, inference, and forecast with CP tensor factor models
1/14/2025	Recruiting Seminar
1/21/2025	Allan Timmermann (UCSD)	Financial Statements and Macroeconomic Dynamics
1/28/2025	Recruiting Seminar
2/04/2025	Recruiting Seminar
2/11/2025 *Zoom	Dimitris Korobilis (University of Glasgow, UK)	Monitoring multi-country macroeconomic risk: A quantile factor-augmented vector autoregressive (QFAVAR) approach
2/18/2025	Recruiting Seminar
2/25/2025	Young Eun Choi (UCR)	What is the effect of the corporate marriage of Disney and Pixar on their films’ image quality?
3/04/2025 *Joint seminar with Macro	Richard Crump (NY-FRB)	A Jackknife Variance Estimator for Panel Regressions & A Simple Diagnostic for Time-Series and Panel-Data Regressions
3/11/2025	Graham Elliott (UCSD)	Combining Forecasts – On Why Averaging beats Optimal Linear Weights

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:52:10 +0000

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2025

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 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
1/17/2025 *Friday	Alistair Barton (NYU)	Robust Communication
1/22/2025 *Wednesday	Yuzhao Yang (BU)	An Axiomatic Model of Cognitive Dissonance
1/23/2025 *Thursday	Yijun Liu (Northwestern)	Dynamic Reward Design
1/24/2025 *Friday	Ferdinand Pieroth (Yale)	Due Diligence in Common Value Auctions
1/27/2025 *Monday	Rafael Veiel (MIT)	Limits of Global Games
2/05/2025 *Zoom	Yunus Aybas (Texas A&M)	Cheap Talk in Complex Environments
2/12/2025 *Zoom	Ce Liu (Michigan State)	Coalitions in Repeated Games
2/19/2025 *Zoom	Maria Betto (Johns Hopkins)	Cognition in Preferences and Choice
2/26/2025 *Zoom	Elchin Suleymanov (Purdue)	Robust Maximum Likelihood Updating
3/05/2025 *Zoom	David Freeman (Simon Fraser)	Nudge Me: Preferences over Default Setting Rules
3/12/2025 *Zoom	Asen Kochov (Rochester)	Recursive Utility and The Folk Theorem
3/19/2025 *Wednesday	Han Wang (Ohio State)	Contracting for Information Acquisition
3/20/2025 *Thursday	Cole Williams (Durham University)	Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:31:35 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2025

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren & Ugo Antonio Troiano

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
1/10/2025
1/17/2025
1/24/2025 *Sproul 4128	Bernardo Silveira (UCLA)	Bureaucratic Training and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Peru’s Judiciary
1/31/2025	Ricardo Perez-Truglia (UCLA)	From Flat to Fair? The Effects of a Progressive Tax Reform
2/7/2025	Amanda Agan (Cornell University)	Low-Level Leniency: The Recidivism Impacts of a Diversion and Driver’s License Reinstatement Program
2/14/2025	Estefania Saravia (UCLA)	The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children
2/21/2025	Esra Kose (UC Merced)	Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the National Archives
2/28/2025	Heather Royer (UC Santa Barbara)	Disentangling Sources of Variation in C-Section Rates
3/07/2025	Hannah Bolder (MSU)	Does Medicaid Affect Treatment Intensity and Mortality? Evidence from Inpatient Hospital Stays
3/14/2025	Serena Canaan (Simon Fraser University)	The Disparate Long-run Impacts of Academic Probation

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:24:50 +0000

Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2024

Thursday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Ryan Hodge

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
10/10/2024	Rajveer Jat	Sufficient Instruments Filter for Causal Discovery
10/17/2024
10/24/2024
10/31/2024
11/07/2024	Yifei Ding	Deep learning for individual heterogeneity with generated regressors by adversarial training
11/14/2024	Ryan Hodge	An Optimal Stop-Loss Start-Gain Strategy in Markets with Long-Range Dependence
11/21/2024
11/28/2024	No Seminar
12/05/2024
12/12/2024