Fall 2022 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:07:03 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 4128.

Questions? Contact Xinchan Lu and Yong Ju Lee

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
10/05/2022	Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez	Quantile Three Pass Regression Filter
10/12/2022	Xinchan Lu	Asset Liquidity, Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
10/19/2022	Anh Tran	Forecasting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors
10/26/2022	Yaojue Xu	Machine Learning and Forecast Encompassing Principle in High Dimensional Predictive Models of Growth-at-Risk and Growth-Shortfalls
11/02/2022 *3:40pm-4:40pm	Nitish Kumar	The Correlation between Rental and Housing Market Variables
11/09/2022 *5:10pm-6:10pm	Zhuoyu Qiu	The Impact of Marriage Tax Bonus and Penalty on Marital Decisions in the U.S.
11/16/2022	Da Gong and Andong Yan	COVID Risk Level Dataset and Zero Covid Policy in China
11/23/2022 *12:30pm-1:30pm	Fan Bu	Employment Polarization and Recession
11/30/2022 *3:40pm-4:40pm	Jingyan Guo	Sleep and Fatal Vehicle Crashes: Evidence from Sunset Time in the United States
12/07/2022 *5:00pm-6:00pm	Lusha Xu	CBDC and Commercial Banks

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:35:14 +0000

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
9/28/2022 *Sproul 2206	Dong Woo Hahm (USC)	A Dynamic Framework of School Choice: Effects of Middle Schools on High School Choice
10/05/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yongli Chen (UCR)	Long-Run Impacts of Public Investments in Children’s Nutrition on Education: Evidence from Rural China
10/12/2022 *Sproul 2206	Rick Mansfield (University of Colorado, Boulder)	The Skill and Sectoral Incidence of the China WTO Shock among U.S. Workers: an Equilibrium Matching Approach
10/19/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yotam Shem-Tov (UCLA)	The Impact of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings
10/26/2022 *Sproul 2206	Itzik Fadlon (UCSD)	Measuring Valuation of Liquidity with Penalized Withdrawals
11/02/2022 *Sproul 2206	Opinder Kaur (UCR)	Intergenerational Health Effects of Adult Learning Programs: Evidence from India
11/09/2022 *Zoom	Lancelot Henry de Frahan (University of Chicago)	The Welfare Effect of Sales Taxes in the US
11/16/2022 *TBD
11/23/2022	No presentation (Thanksgiving)
11/30/2022 *TBD

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:34:25 +0000

Mondays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura

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
9/26/2022 *Zoom	Mira Frick (Yale)	Learning Efficiency of Multi-Agent Information Structures
10/03/2022 *Sproul 2206	Emanuel Vespa (UCSD)	Mental Models and Learning: The case of Base-Rate Neglect
10/10/2022 *Sproul 2206	Peter Caradonna (Caltech)	Preference Regression
10/17/2022 *Zoom	Alexander Bloedel (UCLA)	Insurance and Inequality with Persistent Private Information & Persistent Private Information Revisited
10/24/2022 *Zoom	Gerelt Tserenjigmid (UC Santa Cruz)	Inertial Updating
10/31/2022 *Zoom	Henrique Oliveira (FGV EESP)	Robust Merging of Information
11/07/2022 *Zoom	Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland)	The Thrill of Gradual Learning
11/14/2022 *Sproul 2206	TBD
11/21/2022 *Sproul 2206	TBD
11/28/2022 *Zoom	Tommaso Denti (Cornell University)	Blackwell correlated equilibrium

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:00:22 +0000

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Tae-hwy Lee

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
9/22/2022	No seminar (first day of the Fall quarter)
9/29/2022 *Zoom	Ye Luo (University of Hong Kong, Business School)	Self-fulfilling Bandits: Dynamic Selection in Algorithmic Decision-making
10/06/2022 *Zoom	Anna Bykhovskaya (Duke)	Cointegration in high-dimensional VARs
10/13/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yaojue Xu (UCR)	New Approaches to Predictor Selection in High-dimensional Predictive Regression Models
10/20/2022 *Sproul 2206	Denis Chetverikov (UCLA)	Spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models
10/27/2022 *Zoom	Cheng Chou (University of Leicester UK)	Dynamic Discrete Choice Demand Estimation Leveraging Overlapping Groups of Consumers
11/03/2022 *Sproul 2206	Maria Dolores Gadea Rivas (Lola Gadea) (University of Zaragoza, Spain)	Heterogeneous Warming: Why does it matter
11/10/2022 *Sproul 2206	TBD
11/17/2022 *Sproul 2206	TBD
11/24/2022	No seminar (Thanksgiving)
12/01/2022 *Sproul 2206	TBD

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:42:43 +0000

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
9/23/2022 *Zoom	Martin Uribe (Columbia University)	What Do Long Data Tell Us About r* and pi*
9/30/2022 *Sproul 2206	Neha Bairoliya (USC)	Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions
10/07/2022 *Zoom	Sharon Harrison (Barnard College)	Believe it or Not: Experimental Evidence on Sunspot Equilibria with Social Networks
10/14/2022 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu (UCR)	Asset Liquidity, Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
10/21/2022 *Zoom	Bruce McGough (University of Oregon)	Restricted Perceptions Equilibria in Non-linear Economies
10/28/2022 Zoom 2:00pm-3:10pm	Eungsik Kim (University of Kansas)	Preference Heterogeneity, Aggregate Risk and the Welfare Effects of Social Security
11/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA)	Sequential Search for Corporate Bonds
11/09/2022 Sproul 2206 3:30pm-4:50pm	Nir Jaimovich (UCSD)	The Empirical Distribution of Firm Dynamics and its Macro Implications
11/11/2022	Veterans Day Observed	No Seminar
11/18/2022 *Zoom	Brian Greaney (University of Washington)	The Distributional Effects of Uneven Regional Growth
11/25/2022	Thanksgiving Observed	No Seminar
12/02/2022 *Sproul 2206	William Branch (UCI)	Identifying the Impact of Inflation Expectations