Fall 2018 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2018

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Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2018

Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

Questions? Contact: Bree Lang, 951/827-1469

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
10/2/2018	Zachary Bleemer, UC Berkeley	The Effect Of Selective Public Research University: Evidence From California
10/10/2018	Michael Bates, UC Riverside	Do Learning Communities Increase First Year Retention? Testing For External Validity In Randomized Control Trials
10/17/2018	Yoon Jae Ro, UC Riverside	The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Student Performance
10/24/2018	Taghi Farzad, UC Riverside	TBA
10/31/2018	Bree Lang, UC Riversidee	Product Differentiation And Price Discrimination In The Mortgage Markete
11/7/2018	TBA	TBA
11/14/2018	TBA	TBA
11/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2018	Matt Lang, UC Riverside	Car Accidents And 3G Coverage: An Application Of Machine Learning
12/5/2018	TBA	TBA

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2018

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Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2018

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

Questions? Contact Sarojini Hirshleifer & Richard Arnott

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
9/28/2018	Christian Gunadi, UCR Economics – Job Talk	An Inquiry On The Impact of Highly-Skilled STEM Immigration
10/5/2018	Hanbyul Ryu, UCR Economics – Job Talk	The Effects Of Changes In School Entry Age And Duration On Student Performance: Evidence From Brazilian Primary Schooling Reform
10/12/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/19/2018	Craig McIntosh, UC San Diego	Benchmarking A Child Nutrition Program Against Cash: Experimental Evidence From Rwanda
10/26/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/2/2018	Sofia Franco, UC Irvine	Living On The Edge: How Does Your House Price Respond To Urban Hazard Risks?
11/9/2018	Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley	The Impact Of Childhood Nutrition Assistance On Child Health And Well-Being: Lessons from WIC
11/16/2018	Juan Carlos Lopez, The University of Denver	State Taxes, Public Good Provision And Firm Location In A Monopolistic Competition Model With Variable Labor Supply: Gauging The Impact Of Wayfair Vs. South Dakota
11/23/2018	No Seminar-Thanksiving Day Holiday & Campus is closed	No Seminar – Campus is closed
11/30/2018	Jeff Weaver, The University of Southern California	Paper no longer available
11/30/2018*	John Zhu, The University of Pennsylvania NOTE: 5:45pm in Sproul 2206: JOB TALK for Microeconomic Theory Faculty Position*	Better Monitoring…Worse Productivity?
12/7/2018	No Applied Econ Seminar – see Economic Theory	This will be an Economic Theory Seminar. Please see the list of Economic Theory seminars for the Fall, 2018 quarter.

Econometrics Seminars Fall 2018

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Econometrics Seminars Fall 2018

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

Questions? Contact Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera or Ruoyao Shi

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
10/3/2018	Yuying Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences	How To Distinguish Abrupt Structural Breaks From Smooth Structural Changes?
10/10/2018	Zhiwei Zhang, UCR Statistics	Estimating Mann-Whitney-Type Causal Effects
10/17/2018	Yi (Millie) Mao, UCR PhD Candidate	Estimation Of High-Dimensional Dynamic Conditional Precision Matrices
10/24/2018	Kaspar Wuthrich, UC San Diego	Decentralization Estimators For Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Models
10/31/2018	Roger Moon, The University of Southern California	Nuclear Norm Regularized Estimation Of Panel Regression Models
11/7/2018	Jianghao Chu, UCR PhD Candidate	Asymmetric AdaBoost For High-Dimensional Maximum Score Regression
11/14/2018	Yun Luo, UCR PhD Candidate	A Truncated Mixture Transition Model For Interval-Valued Time Series
11/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/28/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/5/2018*	Roee Teper, The University of Pittsburgh *NOTE: JOB TALK for Microeconomic Theory Faculty Position	Exploration And Correlation

Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2018

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Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2018

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (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
10/1/2018	Saki Bigio, UC Los Angeles	A Model Of Credit, Money, Interests and Prices
10/8/2018	Taghi Farzad, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Maturity Structure And Debt Renegotiation In Sovereign Bonds
10/15/2018	Hien Nguyen, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Firm Equity Risk, Bank Lending Standards, And The Macroeconomy
10/22/2018	Kevin Lansing, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Endogenous Regime Switching Near The Zero Lower Bound
10/29/2018	David Zeke, The University of Southern California	Misallocation Costs of Digging Deeper Into The Central Bank Toolkit
11/5/2018	Mingyuan Jia, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Real-Time Tracking Of Inflation With A Mixed-Frequency Unobserved Component Model With Stochastic Volatility
11/12/2018	No Seminar-Veteran’s Day Holiday & campus is closed.	No Seminar
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Distinguished Visitor Lecture to Graduate Students in Sproul 2206	Adaptive Learning And Monetary Policy
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m., Sproul 2206	Learning To Optimize
11/26/2018	Shiyun Zhang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Why People Move Between The U.S. And Mexico: Self-Selection And Migration
11/30/2018*	John Zhu, The University of Pennsylvania *NOTE: This is a Friday	Better Monitoring…Worse Productivity?
12/3/2018	Michael Choi, UC Irvine	Money Mining And Price Dynamics
12/5/2018	Roee Teper, The University of Pittsburgh	Exploration And Correlation
12/7/2018*	David Lagakos, UC San Diego *NOTE: This is a FRIDAY from 3-4:20pm	The Aggregate Effects Of “Free” Schooling In The Developing World