Spring 2004 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 21:01:20 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Steve Cullenberg or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2004 and 4/3/2004*	Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, Center for Ideas and Society UCR Including, Jack Amariglio, (Economics, Merrimack College), Stephen Cullenberg (UCR), Will Milberg (Economics, New School University), David Ruccio (Economics, University of Notre Dame) Martha Starr (Economics, American University and many others. *NOTE: Friday & Saturday Humanities 1500 Both days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m	Conference website: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/econrep
4/9/2004	Michael Bernstein UCSD History	“The ‘Marginalist Revolution’ in Historical Context”
4/16/2004	Feng Xiao CSU Fullerton Economics	“The Role of the Stock Market in Influencing Firm Investment in China”
4/23/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Friday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/24/2004*	Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference *NOTE: Saturday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/30/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR Economics	“A Modern Treatment of Descriptive and Normative Property Theory”
5/7/2004	Prasanta Pattanaik UCR Economics	“On the Structure of Normative Economics”
5/14/2004	Timur Kuran University of Southern Calif. Economics	“Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Develop Corporate Law through Indigenous Means”
5/21/2004	David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR	“A Theory of Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance”
5/26/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Wednesday, 2:10-3:30 p.m.	“Globalization and Marginalization: A Re-examination of Development Policy”
5/27/2004*	Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.	“Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity”
5/28/2004*	Keith Griffin *NOTE: Development Symposium for Keith Griffin 10:00 a.m	10:00 a.m. Azizur Rahman Khan Economics, UCR “Income Distribution in Post-Reform China” 2:00 p.m. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, “Gender and Water: Poverty, Mortality and Access to Water” 4:00 p.m. Jim Boyce, Economics, University of Mass., Amherst, “Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment”
6/4/2004*	Graduate Student Conference for Keith Griffin Confirmed Participants Include: Diana Alarcon, Inter-American Dev. Bank Mark Brenner, Univ. of Mass., Amherst Amber Casolari, Glendale Comm. College Savvina Chowdhury, Cal. State Univ., Bakersfield Ranjeeta Ghiara, Cal State Univ. , San Marcos Craig Gunderson, Iowa State University Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College Amy Ickowitz, Clark University Terry McKinley, United Nations Dev. Programme Bassam Yousif, Cal. State Univ. Fullerton German Zarate-Hojos, State Univ. of NY Cortland Eduardo Zepeda, United Nations Dev. Programme *NOTE: Friday 9:30a.m. to 5:30p.m.	The Challenge of Development in the 21st Century, Schedule
6/9/2004	E. Roy Weintraub Duke University Economics NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Equilibrium Proofmaking”

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 20:51:09 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Tae Hwy-Lee or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
3/31/2004	Yong Bao UCR Economics Dissertation Defense	“Essays on Finite Sample Inference and Financial Econometrics” Slide presentation
4/7/2004	Yang Yang UCR Economics	“Bagging Binary Predictors for Time Series”
4/14/2004	No seminar to be scheduled	Conference at UCSD on April 16-17
4/21/2004	No seminar to be scheduled	Conference at Caltech on April 23
4/28/2004	Patrik Guggenberger UCLA Economics	“Generalized Empirical Likelihood Estimators and Tests under Partial, Weak and Strong Identification” Figures
5/5/2004	Zhijie Xiao University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	“Quantile Regression with Integrated Processes”
5/12/2004*	Gareth James USC, Marshall School of Business *NOTE: Joint with Statistics	“Functional Adaptive Model Estimation”
5/19/2004	Atsushi Inoue North Carolina State University, Ag. Economics	“Monitoring and Forecasting Financial Crises” (Joint with Barbara Rossi)
5/26/2004	Susanne M. Schennach University of Chicago Economics	“Instrumental Variable Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models”
6/2/2004	Dale Poirier UC Irvine Economics	“What is in a Word or Two”

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2004

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 04 May 2004 20:40:35 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2004

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Copies of the paper may be available from Pam .

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/1/2004	Jenny Xu University of British Columbia & SFU	“Noise Traders and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle”
4/6/2004*	Satya P. Das Indian Statistical Institute Delhi University *NOTE: Tuesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm	“Diversity and Growth”
4/8/2004	Nick Baigent Institute of Public Economics Austria	“The Beach Party Problem”
4/15/2004	Berthold Herrendorf ASU	“Monopoly Rights Can Reduce Income Big Time”
4/22/2004*	Juan D. Carrillo Economics Department USC *NOTE: Rescheduled to May 6th	“A Theory of Influence”
4/29/2004	Prasanta Pattanaik Economics Department UCR	“On Some Measures of Deprivation”
5/6/2004	Juan D. Carrillo Economics Department USC	“A Theory of Influence”
5/13/2004	Ariel Burstein Economics Department UCLA	“International Mobility of Entrepreneurs”
5/20/2004	Eilev S. Jansen Norges BANK & Norwegian Universiity of Science and Technology & U. of Oslo	“Empirical Macroeconometric Modelling”
6/3/2004	David Ellerman World Band (retired) & UCR Economics Department	“Series-Parallel Duality in Mathematics and Economics.”