Fall 2012 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:23:04 +0000

Friday, 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
9/28/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/5/2012	John Hoddinott, IFPRI	Cash, Food, or Vouchers? Evidence From A Randomized Experiment In Northern Ecuador
10/12/2012	Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California	Learning About Comparative Advantage In Enterpreneurship: Evidence From Thailand
10/19/2012	Abby Alpert, RAND Corporation	Perverse Reverse Price Competition: Average Wholesale Prices and Medicaid Pharmaceutical Spending
10/26/2012	Farhan Majid, UCR PhD Candidate	Does Ramadan Exposure In Utero Affect Long-Term Labor Market Behavior? Evidence From Indonesia
11/2/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/9/2012	Carlos Dobkin, UC Santa Cruz	The Mechanisms Of Alcohol Control: Evidence From Canada
11/16/2012	TBA	TBA
11/23/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/30/2012	Aashish Mehta, UC Santa Barbara	Education, Export Diversification And Path Dependent Development
12/7/2012	Bradley Franklin, UCR PhD Candidate	A Dynamic Regional Model Of Irrigated Perennial Crop Production

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:14:48 +0000

Wednesday, 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
10/3/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/10/2012	Wei Lin, UCR PhD Candidate	TBA
10/17/2012	Danilo Leiva-Leon, University of Alicante	Monitoring Synchronization of Regional Recessions: A Markov-Switching Network Approach
10/24/2012	Yue Liu, UCR PhD Candidate	A Penalized Spline Estimator For Random Effect Panel Data Model
10/31/2012	Yunjong Eo, University of Sydney	Forecasting The Term Structure Of Interest Rates With Potentially Misspecified Models
11/7/2012	Yingying Sun, UCR PhD Candidate	Evaluation Of Multivariate Count Models: Trading Activity In U.S. Large Banks
11/14/2012	Amos Golan, American University	Info-Metrics: Theory And Examples
11/21/2012	Denis Nekipelov, UC Berkeley	On Uniform Inference In Nonlinear Models With Endogeneity
11/28/2012	Zhou Xi, UCR PhD Candidate	Density Forecast Of Financial Returns Using Decomposition And Maximum Entropy
12/5/2012	Yixiao Sun, UC San Diego	Smoothed Estimating Equations For Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:03:59 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo.

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
10/1/2012	Rama Kumar, UCR PhD Candidate	Flight to Safety: An Interaction among Stock, Bond and Real Estate Markets
10/8/2012	Dongpeng Liu, UCR PhD Candidate	Education as Unemployment Insurance: A Model with Endogenous Educational Requirement for Job Application and Its Policy Implications
10/15/2012*	Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa *NOTE: presentation to faculty and students	Intermediate Goods Trade, Technology Choice and Productivity
10/16/2012*	Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa *NOTE: presentation to graduate students, 3:40-5pm in Sproul 2206	On the Political Economy of Trade
10/22/2012	Yanpin Su, UCR PhD Candidate	The Comovement between the Stock and Bond Returns
10/29/2012	Venoo Kakar, UCR PhD Candidate	Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
11/5/2012	Juan Eberhard, USC Business School	Immigration, Human Capital and the Welfare of Natives
11/12/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
11/19/2012	Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington	Currency Returns, FX Options, and Financial Crisis
11/26/2012	Gerald Daniels, UCR PhD Candidate	Growth and Convergence with a Normalized CES Production Function and Human Capital
12/3/2012	Davide Debortoli, UC San Diego	Technological Change And The Composition Of Taxes And Public Expenditures