Fall 2023 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Fall 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:27:12 +0000

Thursday, 12:45 – 1:45 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Lusha Xu and Yeonjoo Son

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
10/05/2023	Yeonjoo Son	Home-renovation and search frictions in the housing market
10/12/2023 *1:00-2:00pm	Huyen Le	Escaping Poverty Through Non-Agricultural Employment: Insights from Vietnam
10/19/2023	Xinchan Lu	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
10/26/2023	Rajveer Jat	Distribution Learning
11/02/2023	Xinchan Lu	Information Disclosure and Private Information Acquisition
11/07/2023 *Tuesday	Yifei Ding	Continuous Treatment: Methods Comparison
11/16/2023	David Ford	Traffic Stop Bias Surrounding Fatal Shootings
11/23/2023	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/30/2023	Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez	Sufficient Dimension Reduction in Supervised Forecasting with Many Predictors
12/07/2023	No Presentation

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:59:56 +0000

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

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
10/05/2023	Anh Tran (UCR)	Predicting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors
10/12/2023	Rajveer Jat	A LASSO-Based Multivariate Maximum Entropy Density Estimator
10/19/2023	Yuehao Bai (USC)	On the Efficiency of Finely Stratified Experiments
10/26/2023	No Seminar
11/02/2023	Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez (UCR)	High Dimensional Supervised Forecasting for Conditional Quantiles: Quantile-Covariance Three-Pass Regression Filter
11/09/2023	Patrik Guggenberger (Penn State)	More results on finite sample minimax regret rules
11/16/2023	Yifei Ding (UCR)	Continuous Treatment: Methods Comparison
11/23/2023	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)
11/30/2023	Yong Ju Lee (UCR)	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity
12/07/2023

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:54:29 +0000

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in 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
10/04/2023	Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley)	Deadwood Labor: The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection
10/11/2023	Xinchan Lu (UC Riverside)	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
10/20/2023 3:30-4:50pm	Miroslav Gabrovski (University of Hawai, Manoa)	The Real Effects of Financial Disruptions in a Monetary Economy
10/25/2023	Pascal Michaillat (UC Santa Cruz)	u* = √uv
11/01/2023	Gabriele Camera (Chapman University)	Truth-telling in fully decentralized systems: An impossibility theorem and experimental evidence
11/08/2023	Fan Liang (Loyola Marymount University)	Adverse Selection and Small Business Finances
11/15/2023	Miguel Zercero (UC Irvine)	Union and Firm Labor Market Power
11/22/2023
11/29/2023	Jeffrey Allen (UCR)	Informality, Entry Costs, and the Differential Effectiveness of Public Goods
12/06/2023	Nitish Kumar (UCR)	A Search and Matching Model of Housing and Rental Market Interactions

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:58:22 +0000

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in 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
10/02/2023	Siddharth Kishore (UCR)	Impact of Dust Exposure on Farmland Market: An Application of the Ricardian Model
10/09/2023	Da Gong (UCR)	Formation and Evolution of Beliefs: Famine Experience and Trust in Neighbors
10/16/2023	Jingyan Guo (UCR)	Sleep and Fatal Vehicle Crashes: Evidence from Sunset Time in the United States
10/23/2023	Andong Yan (UCR)	Crisis Control in a Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China’s Zero-Covid Policy
10/30/2023	Mark Hoekstra (Baylor)	Are American juries racially discriminatory? Evidence from over a quarter million felony grand jury cases
11/06/2023	No Seminar
11/13/2023	Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford)	Effects of Caste-Based Affirmative Action in Governance on Socio-Economic Networks and Resource Provision
11/20/2023	Augustin Bergeron (USC)	Does Collecting Taxes Erode the Accountability of Informal Leaders? Evidence from the DRC
11/27/2023	Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)	Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
12/04/2023	Felipe Goncalves (UCLA)	Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:54:07 +0000

Fridays, 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 Siyang Xiong

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
9/29/2023 *Zoom	Charles Zheng (Western Ontario)	A General Condition to Characterize Reduced-Form Auctions
10/06/2023 *Zoom	Ayca Kaya (Miami)	Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure
10/13/2023 *Zoom	Nima Haghpanah (Penn State)	A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations
10/20/2023 *Zoom	Krishna Dasaratha (Boston)	Equity Pay in Networked Teams
10/27/2023 *Zoom	Xiao Lin (Pennsylvania)	Correlation-robust Information Aggregation
11/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Bo Chen (Southern Methodist)	Extremal Equilibria of Repeated Oligopoly with Entry
11/10/2023	Veteran’s Day holiday
11/17/2023 *Zoom	Benjamin Bernard (Wisconsin)	Continuous-Time Stochastic Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring
11/24/2023	Thanksgiving holiday
12/01/2023 *Zoom	No Seminar
12/08/2023 *Zoom	Boli Xu (Iowa)	Strategic Exits in Stochastic Partnerships: The Curse of Profitability