Spring 2005 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:24:03 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2005

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 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
4/6/2005	Shawn Kantor UC Merced	Striking the Roots of Crime: The Impact of the New Deal on Criminal Activity
4/13/2005	Lopamudra Bannerjee Economics (Graduate Student) UCR	Of Floods and Agricultural Wage Rates in Bangladesh: Empirical evidences from the recent past
4/20/2005	Giovanni Peri UC Davis	Gains from “Diversity”: Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities
4/27/2005	Haider Khan University of Colorado, Denver	Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in Computable General Equilibrium Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments
5/4/2005	Robert Plotnick University of Washington	The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-Marital Child-Bearing
5/11/2005	Anjini Kochar Stanford University	Schooling Externalities and Public Labor Markets: Empirical Evidence from Urban India
5/18/2005	Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania	The Impact of Experimental Nutritional Interventions on Education into Adulthood in Rural Guatemala: Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis Returns to Birthweight
5/25/2005	Marc Law University of Vermont	Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
6/1/2005	Roger L. Ransom Professor of History and Economics University of California, Riverside	Historical Imagination and Economic Reality: Counterfactual History and the Civil War
6/10/2005*	President, Economic History Association *NOTE: This is a Friday	Symposium in Honor of Azizur R. Khan

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:15:01 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2005

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

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
3/28/2005	Doug Steigerwald Economics, UC Santa Barbara	Noise Reduced Realized Volatility: A Kalman Filter Approach
4/11/2005	Rossen Valkanov Finance, UCLA	Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns
4/18/2005	OPEN	OPEN
4/25/2005	Asger Lunde Aarhus School of Business, Denmark	Regular and Modified Kernal-Based Estimators of Integrated Variance: The case with Independent Noise
5/2/2005*	Andrew Ang Columbia Business School *NOTE: Two seminars by Andrew Ang	Seminar I 1:10 – 2:30 pm in Sproul 2206 The Term Structure of Real Rates and Expected Inflation Seminar II 4:10 – 5:30 pm in SPR 2206 Risk Return and Dividends
5/12/2005*	Lutz Kilian Economics, University of Michigan *NOTE: this is a Thursday seminar	How Useful is Bagging in Forcasting Economic Time Series? A Case of U.S. CPI Inflation
5/23/2005	OPEN	OPEN
5/30/2005	HOLIDAY	HOLIDAY
6/6/2005	FINALS WEEK	FINALS WEEK

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Wed, 04 May 2005 17:58:31 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2005

Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/8/2005	Linda Fernandez UCR	NAFTA Countries’ Strategies for Addressing Marine Invasive Species through Shipping.
4/15/2005	Yongsheng Xu Georgia State University	Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity
4/22/2005	David Goldbaum Rutgers University & UC San Diego	Self-Organization and the Generation of Noise in Financial Markets
4/29/2005	Donald Saari UC Irvine	Deposing Dictators
5/6/2005	No Seminar	No Seminar
5/12/2005*	Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor *NOTE: Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Economic and Social Networks: An Introduction
5/13/2005	Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor	Communication Networks with Endogenous Link Strength
5/20/2005	Donald Wittman UC Santa Cruz	Candidate Quality, Pressure Group Endorsements, and the Nature of Political Advertising Pressure Groups and Political Advertising: How Uninformed Voters Can Use Strategic Rules of Thumb
5/27/2005	Robert Russell UCR	Axiomatic Foundations of Efficiency Measurement on Convex Polyhedral Technologies
6/3/2005	Monica Das UCR	Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income Distribution, Product Composition and Trade
6/10/2005*	Symposium in honor of Azizur R. Khan *NOTE: Joint with Political Economy & Development The Symposium will be in HMNSS 1500
6/13/2005*	Aubhik Khan Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Julia Thomas University of Minnesota *NOTE: Monday 11:10-12:30 pm	Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics