Fall 2003 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:37:14 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2003

Seminars Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Keith Griffin or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2003*	Kusum Mundra SDSU *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm; Jointly with Econometrics	“Suicide Bombing As a Strategic Instrument of Protest: An Empirical Investigation”
10/3/2003	Richard A. Easterlin USC	“Building a Better Theory of Well-Being”
10/10/2003	Anil Deolalikar UCR- Economics	“Attaining the Health Millennium Development Goals in India”
10/17/2003	David Fairris UCR Economics	“The Impact of Living Wages on Employers: A Control Group Analysis of the Los Angeles Ordinance”
10/24/2003	Susan Carter UCR- Economics	“Mexican Fertility Decline in the American Mirror”
10/31/2003	David Ellerman UCR- Economics	“What Went Wrong in Foreign Aid to the FSU Transition Economies?”
11/7/2003*	Manuel Pastor UC Santa Cruz *NOTE: CANCELLED	“Social Policy in the Wake of the Financial Crises in Argentina and Mexico”
11/14/2003	Akmal Hussain Pakistan	“Poverty and Power in Pakistan”
11/21/2003	Allan Richards UC Santa Cruz	“Modernity and Economic Development: The New American Messianism”

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:26:06 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2003

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2003*	Kusum Mundra SDSU *NOTE: Jointly with PE & D	“Suicide Bombing As a Strategic Instrument of Protest: An Empirical Investigation”
10/8/2003	Dustin Chambers UCR	“A Semi-parametric Analysis of the Role of Inequality, Investment and Government Expenditure in Economic Growth”
10/15/2003	Ed Vytlacil Stanford University	“Dummy Endogenous Variables in Non-Separable Models”
10/22/2003	Ken Baerenklau UCR Environmental Sciences	“Implications of Static Modeling for Welfare Estimation and Out of Sample Predictions When the Underlying Decision Problem is Dynamic: An Application to Recreation Demand”
10/29/2003	Xingping Cui UCR	Statistics “Quantitative Trait Linkage Mapping Using yeast micro-array gene expression data”
11/5/2003	Ekaterini Kyriazdou UCLA	“Credit Constraints in the Market for Consumer Durables: Evidence from Micro Data on Car Loans”
11/12/2003	Liangjun Su UCSD	“Testing Conditional Independence Via Empirical Likelihood”
11/13/2003*	Hashem Pesaran Cambridge University &USC Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective”
11/19/2003	Dale Poirier UCI	CANCELLED “TBA”
11/26/2003	Qi Li Texas A & M	“Nonparametric Estimation of Econometric Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data”
12/3/2003	Jim Press UCR Statistics	“Respondent Generated Intervals (RGI)”
12/5/2003*	Hidehiko Ichimura UCL *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Computation of Asymptotic Distribution for Semi-parametric GMM Estimators”

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2003

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:10:46 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2003

Thursdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhyay or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
9/25/2003	Kar-Yiu Wong University of Washington	“On The Optimal Timing of Foreign Trade”
10/2/2003	Ichiro Obara UCLA	“The Full Surplus Extraction Theorem with Hidden Actions”
10/9/2003	Tom Schwartzs UCLA	Political Science “Liberating Liberalism”
10/16/2003	David Ellerman UCR	“Towards an Arbitrage Approach to Optimization Theory”
10/23/2003	Christie Byun UCR	“Habit Formation and Household Consumption”
10/30/2003	Xu Cheng UCR	Cancelled “TBA”
11/6/2003	Maurice Salles University of Caen, France	“Social Choice and Fuzzy Preferences”
11/13/2003	Hashem Pesaran UCR	“Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective”
11/20/2003	Wei Li UCR	“Mind Changes in Designing Reporting Systems”
12/4/2003	Marcelle Chauvet UCR	“Tracking and Detecting Business Cycle Fluctuations”