Fall 2009 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:52 +0000

Fridays, 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
9/25/2009	No Seminar	All UC Econometrics Conference hosted by UCR, 9/25 & 9/26/09
10/2/2009	Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University	Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Access to Fertility Control on the 19th Century Demographic Transition
10/9/2009	Doug Miller, UC Davis	Why Are Recessions Good For Your Health? Understanding Procyclical Mortality
10/16/2009	Melissa Famulari, UC San Diego	Remedial Writing and Collegiate Performance: Using Placement Exam Graders’ Failing Tendencies to Identify Casual Effects
10/23/2009	Suresh Naidu, Harvard University	2:10 – 3:30pm: Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
10/23/2009	Nzinga Broussard, The Claremont-McKenna Colleges	4:10 – 5:30pm: Food Aid and Adult Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia
10/30/2009	Arindrajit Dube, UC Berkeley	Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
11/6/2009	Trinidad Beleche, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	What’s Law Got To Do With It? Bargaining, Intra-Family Violence Laws and Acts of Domestic Violence in Mexico
11/13/2009	Karthik Muralidharan, UC San Diego	Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence From India
11/20/2009	Shruti Kapoor, UCR	CANCELLED (due to a faculty conference)
11/27/2009	No Seminar, Thanksgiving Holiday	NO SEMINAR
12/4/2009	Stephen Lewis, Jr., Carleton College	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:30:09 +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
9/30/2009	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
10/7/2009	Nan Shao, UCR Department of Statistics	Modeling Periodicity in Point Processes
10/14/2009	No Seminar	Seminar “Bagging Constrained Forecasts” by Dr. Tae-Hwy Lee will be rescheduled to the Winter 2010 quarter.
10/21/2009	Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Nested Forecast Model Comparisons: A New Approach to Testing Equal Accuracy
10/28/2009	Deniz Baglan, UC Riverside	Efficient Estimation of a Partially Linear Dynamic Panel Data Model with Fixed Effects: Application to Unemployment Dynamics in the U.S.
11/4/2009	Ivan Fernandez-Val, Boston University	Inference on Counterfactual Distributions
11/11/2009	NO SEMINAR, Veterans Day Holiday	NO SEMINAR
11/18/2009	Jonathan Wright, Johns Hopkins University	Comparing Greenbook and Reduced Form Forecasts using a Large Realtime Dataset
11/25/2009	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
12/2/2009	Jinchi Lv, USC Marshall School of Business	A Unified Approach to Model Selection and Sparse Recovery Using Regularized Least Squares

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:21:25 +0000

Mondays, 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
9/28/2009	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/5/2009	Maria Casanova, UCLA	Happy Together: A Structural Model of Couples’ Retirement Choices
10/12/2009	Marcelle Chauvet, UCR	A Joint Dynamic Bi-Factor Model of the Yield Curve and the Economy as a Predictor of Business Cycles
10/19/2009	Guofu Tan, University of Southern California	Nash Bargaining Theory with Non-Convexity and Unique Solution
10/26/2009	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR	Choice, Internal Consistency, and Rationality
11/2/2009	Wing Yu Leung, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	Credit Market Imperfections and the Business Cycle
11/9/2009	Jie Li, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	Regime Switching, Monetary Policy and Agents’ Beliefs in US Business Cycles
11/16/2009	S. Nageeb Ali, UC San Diego	Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies
11/23/2009	Cheng-Zong Qin	An Explicit Approach to Modeling Finite-Order Type Spaces and Applications
11/30/2009	Guillaume Rocheteau, UC Irvine	Liquidity Constraints