Fall 2004 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:31:31 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2004

Fall 2004 Seminars Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

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
9/28/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington Public Lecture *NOTE: TuesdayHumanities 1500 4:10-5:30 pm; jointly with Theory	Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?
9/29/2004	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department University of Washington With Theory	Growth and Income Inequality: Tradeoffs and Policy Responses
10/6/2004	Susan B. Carter & Richard Sutch Economics Department UCR	Why Not in Australia?: Economic Growth in the Age of Mass Migration
10/13/2004	David Ellerman Visiting Economics Department UCR	Migration and (the Lack of) Source-Country Development
10/20/2004	David Kauper Economics Department UCR	Best-Practice Growth and Dynamic Efficiency
10/27/2004	Shatakshee Dhongde Economics Department UCR	Measuring the Impact of Growth and Changes in the Distribution of Income and Poverty in India
11/3/2004	Mindy Marks Economics Department UCR	Employer-Provided Health Insurance, the Minimum Wage, and the Use of Part-Time Labor
11/10/2004	Peter Lanjouw World Bank/ Visiting UC Berkley	Poverty Alleviation Through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
11/22/2004*	John Strauss USC *NOTE: Monday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) III India, Pakistan and the Future of South Asia
11/23/2004*	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Public Lecture *NOTE: Tuesday HMNSS 1500 12:00-1:30 pm	Paper 1 Paper 2 Poverty, Power and Asymmetric Markets in Pakistan
11/24/2004	Akmal Hussain Pakistan Institute of Development Economics	Paper 1 Paper 2
12/1/2004	Eustáquio Reis Applied Economics Research Institute, Brazil	Long Run Brazilian Growth: Spatial Perspectives

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:22:18 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2004

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

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
10/4/2004	Roger Moon Economics- USC	Empirical Likelihood Estimation Based on Inequality Moment Constraints
10/11/2004	Yuying Gao Electrical Engineering- UCR	Derivative Pricing from Cellular Automata
10/18/2004	Bernard Gress Economics- UCR	Spatial Hedonic Housing Pricing Models Staying Ahead in the Innovation Race: New-product Introductions and Relative Firm Value
10/25/2004	Shuba Srinivasan AGSM- UCR	Background
11/1/2004	Wei Sun Economics- UCR	Semiparametric Analysis of Income Inequality: An Application to China Cross-Validation and the Estimation of Conditional Probability Densities Nonparametric Estimation of Distributions with Categorical and Continuous Data
11/8/2004	Jeff Racine Economics- Syracuse University	Cross-Validated Local Linear Nonparametric Regression Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects With Mixed Categorical and Continuous Data
11/15/2004	Chung-Ming Kuan Academia- Sinica Taiwan	An Unobserved Components Model with Regime Switching between Permanent and Transitory Innovations
11/17/2004*	Gautam Tripathi Economics- University of Connecticut *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Combining Datasets to Overcome Selection Caused by Censoring and Truncation in Moment Based Models
11/29/2004	Bruce Hansen Economics- University of Wisconsin	Nonparametric Conditional Density Estimation
12/6/2004	Barbara Rossi UCSD and Duke University	Expectations Hypotheses Tests and Predictive Regressions at Long Horizons
12/8/2004*	Weiping Yang Economics- UCR *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Modeling Granger-Causality and Nonlinearity in Conditional Bivariate Distribution Using Copula
12/10/2004*	Xiao Huang Economics- UCR *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	Panel VAR Under Cross Sectional Dependence

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:14:47 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2004

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

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
9/28/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department- University of Washington *NOTE: Tuesday Humanities 1500 4:10-5:30 pm; Joint with Political Economy and Development	Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?
9/29/2004*	Stephen Turnovksy Economics Department- University of Washington *NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm; Joint with Political Economy and Development	Growth and Income Inequality: Tradeoffs and Policy Responses
10/8/2004	Alan Krause Economics Department- UC Riverside	“Dynamic Tax Reform and Second-Best Pareto Optima”
10/15/2004	Selo Imrohoroglu USC- Business School	Japanese Saving Rate
10/22/2004	Alan Auerbach UC Berkeley – Economics Department	“Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control”
10/29/2004	Xu Cheng UC Riverside- Economics Department	“When Would Free Trade Lead to More Learning than Protection in the Strategic Industries with A Comparative Disadvantage?”
11/5/2004	Michelle Garfinkel UC Irvine- Economics Department	“Globalization and Domestic Conflict”
11/12/2004	Keith Knapp UC Riverside- Environmental Sciences	“Recursive Sustainability: Intertemporal Efficiency and Equality”
11/19/2004	Ping Wang Vanderbilt University- Economics Department	“Outsourcing of Innovation”
12/3/2004	Vincent Crawford UC San Diego- Economics Department	“Fatal Attraction: Focality, Naivete, and Sophistication in Experimental Hid-and-Seek Games”