Fall 2008 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2008

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:46:01 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Susan Carter & Richard Sutch

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
9/29/2008	Richard Sutch, UCR	The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage
10/6/2008	N. Edward Coulson, The Pennsylvania State University	Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On
10/13/2008	Kristen Kleinjans, University of Southern California	Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations?
10/20/2008	Rebecca Blank, Brookings Institute	The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low-Income Families
10/27/2008	Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Indentifying the Effects of Food Stamps on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program Participation is Misreported
11/3/2008	Mason Gaffney, UCR	The Great Crash of 2008
11/10/2008	Damon Clark, University of Florida	The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health Evidence from the United Kingdom
11/17/2008	Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	I Am Not Master of Events: The Speculative Activities of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
11/24/2008*	Antoni Espasa, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid *NOTE: Please note that this will be an Econometrics seminar rather than an Applied Economics seminar	Forecasting A Macroeconomic Aggregate Which Includes Components With Common Trends
12/1/2008	Nellie Lew, UC Santa Barbara	Til Laws Do us Part? The Impact of Changing Divorce Laws on Divorce Rate in Mexico

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:38:34 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee & 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
9/26/2008	Moshe Buchinsky UCLA	Residential Location, Work Location, and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Israel
10/3/2008*	Siddhartha Chib, Washington University, St. Louis *NOTE: This seminar will be from 4:10 to 5:45 p.m. Two papers.	(1) MCMC Methods for Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models (2) Casual Effects from Panel Data in Randomized Experiments with Partial Compliance
10/15/2008*	Daniel Henderson SUNY, Binghamton *NOTE: Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Estimation (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
10/24/2008	Donggyu Sul, University of Auckland	New Growth Econometrics Under Economic Transition
10/31/2008	Robert Taylor, University of Nottingham, U.K	Testing for Unit Roots in the Presence of Uncertainty over Both the Trend and Initial Condition (Paper 1 \| Paper 2)
11/7/2008	Han Hong, Stanford University	Estimating a Dynamic Oligopolistic Game with Serially Correlated Unobserved Production Costs
11/21/2008	Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University	T-Statistic Based Correlation and Heterogeneity Robust Inference
11/24/2008	Antoni Espasa, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid	Forecasting A Macroeconomic Aggregate Which Includes Components With Common Trends
12/5/2008	Shruti Kapoor, UCR	TBA
12/12/2008	Aditi Bhattacharyya, UCR	Adjustment of Inputs and Measurement of Technical Efficiency: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:26:02 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30pm (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
10/1/2008	Richard Suen, UC Riverside	Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and the Saving Rate
10/8/2008	Luca Bossi, University of Miami	Optimal Second Best Taxation of Addictive Goods
10/15/2008*	Daniel Henderson, Binghamton University *NOTE: Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Estimation (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
10/22/2008	Daniel Farhat, UC Riverside	International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics
10/29/2008	Mark Huggett, Georgetown University	How Well Does the US Social Insurance System Provide Social Insurance
11/5/2008	Giacomo Rondina, UC San Diego	Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis
11/12/2008	Andreas Blume, University of Pittsburgh	Intentional Vagueness
11/14/2008*	Aditi Bhattacharyya, UC Riverside *NOTE: Friday, Joint with Econometrics Colloquium	Adjustment of Inputs and Measurement of Technical Efficiency: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
11/19/2008	Javier Birchenall, UC Santa Barbara	A Competitive Theory of Equilibrium Mismatch
11/26/2008	NO SEMINAR	THANKSGIVING
12/3/2008*	Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University *NOTE: 3:40-5:00PM	Labor Supply in a Frictional Labor Market