Fall 2013 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:22:37 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Todd Sorensen.

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
10/2/2013	Leonardo Bursztyn, UC Los Angeles	Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence From A Field Experiment On Financial Decisions
10/9/2013	Pedro Aratanha, UCLA PhD Candidate in Economics	Unintended Effects Of Microlending On Child Time Allocation: Evidence From CrediAmigo, Brazil
10/16/2013	Gabriela Rubio, UCLA PhD Candidate in Economics	How Love Conquered Marriage: Theory And Evidence On the Disappearance Of Arranged Marriages
10/23/2013	Todd Sorensen, UCR Economics	Flight Of The H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility And Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
10/30/2013	Trevon Logan, Ohio State University	Segregation (Forever?): Measuring Segregation And Its Long Term Effects
11/6/2013	Indrani Chatterjee, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Evaluating International Water Treaty Impacts & Risks: The Albufeira Convention And the Spanish Experience
11/13/2013	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/20/2013	Nicholas Rada, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Assessing India’s Post-Green Revolution Agricultural Performance
11/27/2013	Sanval Nasim, UCR PhD Candidate in Environmental Sciences	Allocative Inefficiency And Tenure Arrangements In Irrigated Agriculture In Pakistan
12/4/2013	Till Von Wachter, UC Los Angeles	The Causal Effect Of Unemployment Duration On Wages: Evidence From Unemployment Insurance Extensions
12/11/2013	Fall Finals Week, No Seminar	No Seminar

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:13:14 +0000

Mondays, 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
9/30/2013	Madhu Mohanty, California State University, Los Angeles	Two Determinants of Happiness: A Case For Value Education
10/7/2013	Jie Wei, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Inference Of Risk Aversion In First-Price Auctions With Endogenous Entry
10/14/2013	Ru Zhang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Estimation And Feasible Conditional Forecasts Properties From The Predictive Regressions
10/21/2013	Melissa Wang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Efficient Estimation For Nonparametric Regression With General Covariance: Application To Nonparametric Panel With Random Effects
10/28/2013	Amos Golan, American University	On the Value of Information
11/04/2013	Matthew Harding, Georgetown University	A Bayesian Semiparametric Competing Risk Model With Unobserved Heterogeneity: Applications To Unemployment Insurance And Environmental Justice
11/11/2013	Holiday, No Seminar	Veterans Day Holiday – No Seminar
11/18/2013	Weiqiang Qian, Amazon.com	Modeling Demand Elasticity To Web Traffic Referral Incentives Using Online Sales Data
11/25/2013	Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University	Nonparametric Functionals As Generalized Functions
12/2/2013	Demian Pouzo, UC Berkeley	Sieve Quasi Likelihood Ratio Inference On Semi/Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models
12/9/2013	Fall Finals Week, No Seminar	No Seminar

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:05:00 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Dave Malueg.

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
9/27/2013	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/4/2013	David Malueg, UCR Economics	The Best-Shot All-Pay (Group) Auction With Complete Information
10/11/2013	Zhiming Fu, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Fiscal Policies In A Search Model With Heterogenous Households
10/18/2013	Simon Board, UC Los Angeles	Revenue Management With Forward-Looking Buyers
10/25/2013	Mingming Jiang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Openness, Government Size, And International Business Cycles
11/1/2013	Theofanis Tsoulouhas, UC Merced	Do Tournaments Solve The Adverse Selection Problem?
11/8/2013	Joel Watson, UC San Diego	Contractual Chains
11/15/2013	Nicholas Shunda, University of Redlands	Are Sports Teams Profit- Or Win Maximizers? An Evolutionary Answer
11/22/2013	Cheng Jiang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	The Asymetric Effects Of Monetary Policy On Stock Market
11/29/2013	Thanksgiving Holiday, No Seminar	No Seminar
12/6/2013	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/13/2013	Fall Finals Week, No Seminar	No Seminar