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Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2005

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

Questions? Contact Susan Carter .

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
10/3/2005 Jang-Ting Guo, Richard Sutch and Susan Carter, UCR, Kerry Odell, Scripps College Katrina-nomics: What Disasters Can Teach Us About the Way the Economy Works
10/10/2005* Alan L. Olmstead UC Davis

*NOTE: with Paul Rhode

 Wait a Cotton Pickin’ Minute!: A New View of Slave Productivity
10/17/2005 Roberto Pedace Univ. of Redlands Earnings, Performance, and Nationality Discrimination in a Highly Competitive Labor Market: An Analysis of the English Professional Soccer League
10/24/2005* Elizabeth Cascio UC Davis

*NOTE: with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber

 Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
10/31/2005 Alexander J. Field Santa Clara Univ. The Impact of World War II on U.S. Productivity Growth
11/7/2005* Joseph Hotz UCLA

*NOTE: with Guido W. Imbern and Jacob A. Klerman

 Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program

The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution
11/14/2005 Gavin Wright  Stanford Figures
11/18/2005* Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development

*NOTE: Friday

 From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
11/21/2005* Steven Topik UC Irvine

*NOTE: with Mario Samper

 The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica
11/28/2005 David Fairris, and Leon Fernandez-Bujanda UCR The Dissipation of Minimum Wage Gains for Workers through Labor-Labor Substitution
12/5/2005 Lopamudra Banerjee UCR Effects of Flood on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis
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Econometrics Seminars Fall 2005

Fridays, 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
9/30/2005 Colin Cameron UC Davis Regression with Multi-Way Clustering
10/7/2005 Kairat Mynbaev Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Kazakhstan Lp-Approximate Sequence of Vectors and Limit Distribution of Quadratic Forms of Random Variables
10/14/2005 Raffaella Giacomini UCLA Detecting and Predicting Forecast
10/21/2005* Aprajit Mahajan Stanford

*NOTE: CANCELLED

 Identification and Estimation of Regression Models with Misclassification
11/4/2005 Ivan Jeliazkov  UC Irvine Estimation and Model Choice in Nonparametric Additive Regression
11/18/2005 Debopam Bhattacharya Dartmouth College Inference in Panel Data Models Under Attrition Caused By Unobservables

Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
12/2/2005 Joseph Hotz UCLA Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand
12/9/2005 Jose Gonzalo Rangel UCSD The Spine-GARCH Model for Unconditional Volatility and its Global Macroeconomic Causes
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Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2005

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206 Questions? Contact Taradas Bandyopadhyay .

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
10/5/2005* David Miller UC San Diego The dynamic cost of ex post incentive compatibility in repeated games of private information

Ratifiability of Efficient Collusive mechanisms in Second-Price Auctions with Participation Costs

*NOTE:(with Okan Yilankaya)
10/12/2005* Tan Guofu USC

*NOTE: (with Ken Hendricks and Robert Porter)

 Bidding Rings and Winner’s Curse
10/19/2005 Cheng-Zhong Qin UC Santa Barbara Bid and Guess: A Nested Mechanism for King Solomon’s Dilemma
10/26/2005 Philip Babcock UCR Bowling Alone, Revisited: Social Capital and Skill Acquisition
11/2/2005 William Branch UC Irvine Model Uncertainty and Endogenous Volatility (Co-authored with George Evans)
11/9/2005 Joseph Wang California Institute of Technology Is Last Minute Bidding Bad?
11/16/2005 Prasanta Pattanaik UCR Individual rights and liberties in welfare economics: A re-examination
11/30/2005 Rajat Deb Southern Methodist University The Proportionality Principle, the Shapley Value and the Assignment of Heterogeneous objects
12/7/2005 TBA TBA
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