Fall 2020 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Fall 2020

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:09:07 +0000

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
10/12/2020 *11:00 AM	Peter Lanjouw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)	Poverty Dynamics in Malaysia in the early 21st Century: Evidence from Synthetic Panels
10/19/2020	Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)	Misallocation in Indian Agriculture
10/26/2020 *11:30 AM	Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)	Intrahousehold and gendered aspects of children’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
11/02/2020	Gaurav Khanna (UCSD)	The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
11/09/2020	Diana Moreira (UCD)	Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act
11/16/2020	Chia-Lo Chen (UCR)	The Joint Dynamics of Family Housing and Childbearing Decisions
11/23/2020	Workshop for Academic Integrity in the Job Market Organizer: Hiroki Nishimura
11/30/2020 *11:00 AM	Douglas Gollin (Oxford)	Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries
12/07/2020	Kelsey Jack (UCSB)	Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sehel

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:22:55 +0000

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan

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
10/02/2020	Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)	Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information
10/09/2020	Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern Univ.)	Efficient Dynamic Allocations in Endowment Economies with Linear Utilities and Private Information
10/16/2020	Shengwu Li (Harvard)	Investment incentives in near-optimal mechanisms
10/23/2020	Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh)	Uncertainty in Mechanism Design
10/30/2020	Nageeb Ali (Penn State University)	How to Sell Hard Information
11/06/2020	Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern Univ.)	Structural Rationality in Dynamic Games
11/13/2020	Qingmin Liu (Columbia Univ.)	Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization
11/20/2020	Itai Sher (University of Mass., Amherst)	Global Consequences of Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights
12/04/2020	Larry Samuelson (Yale)	Substitutes
12/11/2020	Shahir Safi (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)	Job Market Signalling Via Social Ties

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:15:45 +0000

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact 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
10/02/2020	Ruoyao Shi (UCR)
10/09/2020	Ekaterina Seregina (UCR)	Sparse Portfolio
10/16/2020	Varlam Kutateladze (UCR)	The Kernel Trick for Nonlinear Factor Modeling
10/23/2020	Yuanyuan Wan (Univ. of Toronto)	Layered Policy analysis in Program Evaluation using the Marginal Treatment effect
10/30/2020	Gabriel Vasconcelos (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)	Mean-Variance Efficiency of a Portfolio in Ultra-High Dimensions and Cases of Maximum Out-of-Sample and Constrained Maximum Sharpe Ratios
11/06/2020	Bruce Hansen (Univ. of Wisconsin Madison)	Regression Kink with Multiple Unknown Thresholds
11/13/2020	Jiawei Chen (UCI)	An Empirical Model of the Effects of “Bill Shock” Regulation in Mobile Telecommunication Markets
11/20/2020 *11:00 AM	Toru Kitagawa (Univ. of College London)	Constrained Classification and Policy Learning
11/27/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/04/2020	Bo Honoré (Princeton University)	Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects
12/11/2020	Xu Cheng (Univ. of Pennsylvania)	Macro-Finance Decoupling: Robust Evaluations of Macro Asset Pricing Models

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:14:36 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
10/07/2020	Dongwon Lee (UCR)	International Cooperation in Foreign Reserve Policies in the Presence of Competitive Hoarding
10/14/2020	Mirewuti Muhetaer (UCR)	Currency Substitution, Price, Exchange Rate, and Welfare
10/21/2020	Kai Chen (UCR)	Commodity Currency Reactions and the Dutch Disease: The Role of Capital Control
10/28/2020	Miroslav Gabrovski (U. of Hawaii at Manoa)	Intermediation in Over-the-Counter Markets with Price Transparency
11/04/2020	Victor Ortego-Marti (UCR)	Endogenous TFP, Labor Market Policies and Loss of Skills
11/11/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/18/2020	Xiaolu Zhu (UCR)	Size-dependent Financial Frictions, Capital Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity
11/25/2020	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/02/2020	Mingming Jiang (Shandong University, China)	Financial Depth, Income Inequality, and Economic Transition
12/09/2020	Anca-Ioana Sirbu (Western Washington U.)	Changes in the Old-Age Dependency Ratio and Growth: A Decomposition of the Behavioral and Institutional Effects