Fall 2007 – UCR | Department of Economics

Development/Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2007

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:26:29 +0000

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

Sproul 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
10/3/2007	Todd Sorensen UCR	Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are A Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines.
10/10/2007	Anita Alves Pena Colorado State Univ.	Locational Choices of Legal and Illegal Mexican Agricultural Workers in the U.S.
10/17/2007	Christopher Carpenter UC Irvine	How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
10/24/2007	Doug Miller UC Davis	The South African pension program and the health of the elderly and their families
10/31/2007	David Vazquez-Guzman Univ. of Stirling, Scotland	Inequality in Mexico: Methodological and Empirical Issues
11/7/2007	Maurizio Mazzocco UCLA	Testing for efficient risk sharing in rural India
11/14/2007	Vijaya Ramachandran Georgetown University	What matters to Firms in Africa? Relevance of Data on Perceptions
11/21/2007	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY	NO SEMINAR
11/28/2007	Jae Hee Son UCR	The Effects of Job Training on the Wages of Korean Women
12/5/2007	Jorge Aguero & Mindy Marks UCR	Disentangling the Relationship Between Motherhood and Wages: Evidence from Latin America

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:18:57 +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
10/1/2007	TBA	TBA
10/8/2007	Zeynep Senyuz UCR	A Multivariate Dynamic Factor Analysis of Permanent & Transitory Components of the US Real Economy and the Stock Market
10/15/2007	Emre Yoldas UCR	Testing and Modeling Threshold Asymetrics in Multivariate Distributions of US Equity Returns
10/22/2007	Guiseppe Ragusa UCI	Semiparametric Efficient Estimation in Dynamic Structural Models: A Least Favorable Submodel Approach
10/29/2007	Matthew Harding Stanford	Structural Estimation of High-Dimensional Factor Models: Uncovering the Effect of Global Factors on the US Economy
11/5/2007	Mitali Das UCD	Linear Regression for Dependently Censored Panel Duration Models with Nonadditive Fixed Effects
11/12/2007	HOLIDAY	NO SEMINAR (Veterans Day Holiday)
11/19/2007	Carlos Martin-Filho Oregon State U.	TBA
11/26/2007	Carlos Mate Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid	Forecasting Histogram-Valued Time Series (HTS) in Financial Markets. Applications to Stock Indices

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:12:25 +0000

Fridays, 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
9/28/2007	NO SPEAKER
10/5/2007	Marcelle Chauvet UCR	Real Time Changes in Monetary Policy. A Nonparametric VAR Approach
10/12/2007	Richard Suen UCR	A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of The Automobile
10/19/2007	Jonathan Vogel UCLA	Spatial Competition with Heterogeneous Firms
10/26/2007	Conference	Economics Conference 10/26/07 – 10/28/07
11/2/2007	Sandwip Das & Monica Das	Distribution-Neutral Abatement Policy in a Model of Trade & Environment: Evidence from Abatement Policy in a Model of Trade and Environment
11/9/2007	Christopher Chambers California Institute of Technology	Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications joint with Fede Echenique & Eran Shmaya
11/16/2007	Xiaoyu Wu UCR	Industry-Specific Convergence: Evidence from the OECD
11/23/2007	Holiday	Thanksgiving Holiday 11/22 & 11/23
11/30/2007	Tony Atkinson London School of Economics	TBA
12/3/2007*	Morten Nielsen Cornell University *NOTE: Monday	Likelihood inference for a nonstationary fractional autoregressive model
12/7/2007	Yixiao Sun UCSD and Yale University	Optimal Bandwith Choice for Interval Estimation in GMM Regression