Fall 2011 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:37:36 +0000

Monday, 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
9/26/2011	No Seminar	Faculty attending Academic Integrity Workshop-UCR
10/3/2011	Todd Sorensen, UCR Economics	Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
10/10/2011	Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University	Robustness of Climate As An Instrumental Variable to Estimate Effect of GDP Declines on Political Change In Africa
10/17/2011	Gary Dymski, UCR Economics	The Global Crisis: Financial-Market Fear, Structural Imbalances, and Megabank Power In A World of Neoclassical Mechanism Design
10/24/2011	Julie Zissimopoulos, USC	Marriage and Economic Well-Being At Older Ages
10/31/2011	Lucrecia Santibanez, RAND Corporation	Effect of a School-Based Management Program In Mexico. Resources or Participatory Change?
11/7/2011	John Romley, USC	Identifying The Health Care Production Function: The Case of Hospitals
11/14/2011	Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley	Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence From Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
11/21/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2011	Manisha Shah, UC Irvine	Risk-Taking Behavior In The Wake of Natural Disasters
12/5/2011	Monica Jain, UCR PhD Candidate	India’s Struggle Against Malnutrition – Is the ICDS Program The Answer?

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:31:00 +0000

Friday, 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
9/30/2011	Wei Lin, UCR PhD Candidate	Estimating Probalistic Constrained Regression Models with Interval Data
10/07/2011	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Evaluating The Distribution Of Inflation Targeting Effect
10/14/2011	Shujie Ma, UCR Dept. of Statistics	Simultaneous Variable Selection and Estimation in Semiparametric Modeling of Longitudinal/Clustered Data
10/28/2011	Yundon Tu, UCR PhD Candidate	Model Averaging Partial Effect (MAPLE) Estimation With Large Dimensional Data
11/4/2011	No Seminar	California Econometrics Conference @ USC
11/11/2011	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/18/2011	JuanCarlos Escanciano, Indiana University	Conditional Stochastic Dominance Testing
11/25/2011	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
12/2/2011	Yun Wang, UCR PhD Candidate	Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimation of The Seemingly Un-related Regression Models: An Application On Return To Public Capital In US

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:24:17 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet.

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
9/28/2011	Anca Sirbu, UCR PhD Candidate	News About Taxes and Expectations-Driven Business Cycles
10/5/2011	Reza Oladi, Utah State University	On The Economics of Narcotics Production and Trade
10/12/2011	Hui He, University of Hawaii at Manoa	Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care Than Europeans?
10/19/2011	Mi Lu, UCR PhD Candidate	Banking and Credit Market Frictions In An Open DSGE of US and Euro Areas
10/26/2011	Richard Burdekin, Claremont McKenna Business School	Enter The Dragon: Interactions Between Chinese, US and Asia-Pacific Equity Markets, 1995-2010
11/2/2011	Michael Owyang, St. Louis Federal Reserve	Forecast Asymmetries and The Business Cycle
11/9/2011	Pierangelo DePace, Pomona College	GDP Growth Predictions Through The Yield Spread: Time Variation and Structural Breaks
11/16/2011	Hilde Bjornland, Norwegian School of Management	The World Is Not Enough! Small Open Economies and Regional Dependence
11/23/2011	Sarah Daway, UCR PhD Candidate	On the Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Raising The Retirement Age
11/30/2011	Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna Business School	America’s First Great Moderation