Fall 2006 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Fall 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:54:41 +0000

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) HMNSS 1500 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
9/29/2006	Greg Clark (Department of Economics, UC Davis)	Capitalism in our Genes? The Malthusian Era and the Formation of Modern Preferences
10/6/2006	Mindy Marks (Department of Economics, UCR)	Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws on Minorities: Evidence from the Progressive Era
10/13/2006	Susan Carter & Richard Sutch (Economics Department, UCR)	The Economic Consequences of Immigration for Resident Workers: Perspectives from America’s Age of Mass Migration
10/20/2006	Victor Lippit (Economics Department, UCR)	Social Structures of Accumulation Theory
10/27/2006	Leah P. Boustan (Department of Economics,UCLA)	Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration
11/3/2006	Maryianne Bitler (Public Policy Inst of CA and UC Irvine)	Distribution Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project in Canada
11/11/2006	Ron Jarmin (US Census Bureau)	Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded verses Private Firms
12/1/2006	Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna)	Crash and Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents
12/8/2006	Lopamudra Banerjee (Economics Department, UCR)	Effects of Floods on Agricultural Wages in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:44:30 +0000

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

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
10/4/2006	Huiyu Huang (Department of Economics, UCR)	On Combining Forecasts (based on two papers: “To Combine Forecasts or to Combine Information? and Forecasting Output Growth and Inflation: How to Use Information in the Yield Curve”)
10/11/2006	Dennis Kristensen (Department of Economics, Columbia University)	Nonparametric Simulated Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Models (based on two papers: “Estimation of Dynamic Models with Nonparametric Simulated Maximum Likelihood” and “Estimation of Hidden Markov Models with Nonparamtric Simulated Maximum Likelihood”
10/18/2006	Aaron Smith (Dept of Agr. & Resource Economics, UC Davis)	Markov Breaks in Regression Models
10/25/2006	Canlin Li (AGSM, UCR)	Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interaction: A Generalized Nelson-Siegel Approach
11/1/2006	Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera (Economics Department, UCR)	Autocontours: A Dynamic Specification Test
11/5/2006	Jun Li (Department of Statistics, UCR)	Multivariate Thresholds for Extremes and Simultaneous Monitoring of Multiple Aviation Risk Indicators
11/15/2006	Marcelo Moreira (Department of Economics, Harvard University)	Decision Theory Applied to Linear Panel Data Models
11/29/2006	Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta)	Methods For Inference In Large Multiple-Equation Markov-Switching Models
12/6/2006	Kevin Song (Economics Department, Univ of Pennsylvania)	Testing Conditional Independence using Conditional Martingale Transforms

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:33:47 +0000

Mondays, 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
10/2/2006	Wei Li (Department of Economics, UCR)	Communication Through Intermediaries: Influence Peddling and Propaganda
10/9/2006	Ken Baerenklau (Environmental Sciences, UCR)	Effects of Nutrient Restrictions on Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Insights from A Structural Dynamic Model
10/16/2006	Irina A. Telyukova (Economics Department, UC San Diego)	A Model of Money and Credit, with Application to the Credit Card Debt Puzzle
10/23/2006	Daya Muralidharan (Economics Department, UCR)	Spacial Dynamics of Water Management in Irrigated Agriculture
10/30/2006	Igor Kopylov (Economics Department, UC Irvine)	A Parametric Model of Ambiguity Hedging
11/6/2006	Lee Ohanian (Economics Department, UCLA)	The Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, and Labor Shedding
11/13/2006	Anthony Marino (Business School, USC)	Disobedience and Authority
11/20/2006	Dean Corbae (Economics Department, Univ of Texas, Austin)	Credit Scoring and the Competitive Pricing of Default Risk
11/27/2006	David Romer (Economics Department, UC Berkeley)	The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: New Estimates Based on A New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
12/4/2006	Guillaume Vandenbroucke (Economics Department, USC)	The U.S. Westward Expansion