Spring 2006 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:39:49 +0000

Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2006

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

Questions? Contact Mindy Marks.

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
4/10/2006	Kate Antonovics (UCSD)	A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
4/17/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
4/24/2006	Marigee Bacolod (UCI)	Cross-Cohort Changes in the Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences: Consequences on the Gender Wage Differential
5/1/2006	Heather Antecol (Claremont McKenna)	Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities
5/8/2006	Hyeok Jeong (USC)	Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth
5/15/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	TBA
5/22/2006	Noel Johnson (Cal State Long Beach)	Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France
6/5/2006	Arin Dube (UC Berkeley)	Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings throughout the Retail Sector in Urban and Rural Counties

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:24:12 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2006

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah & Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera

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
4/12/2006*	Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 \| 2 \| 3
4/14/2006	Timo Terasvirta (Stockholm School of Economics)	Multivariate autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity with smooth transitions in conditional correlations
4/21/2006	Vassilis Polimenis (AGSM/UCR)	Skewness correction for asset pricing
4/26/2006*	James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	An Empirical Comparison of Methods for Forecasting Using Many Predictors
4/28/2006*	Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) *NOTE: joint with Economic Theory	Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks
5/5/2006	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Projection Minimum Distance:An estimator for dynamic macro models
5/12/2006	Kairat Mynbaev (Kazakhstan Inst of Mgt)	OLS Asymptotics for Vector Autoregressions with Deterministic Regressors
5/19/2006	Rosa Matzkin (Northwestern University) joint with Economic Theory	Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations
5/26/2006	Grazia Pittau (University of Rome & Columbia University)	Empirical evidence of income dynamics across EU regions
5/31/2006*	Joao Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) *NOTE: Wednesday; joint with Economic Theory	Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function
6/2/2006	Hal White (UCSD)	Seminar (open to all): An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for the Estimation of Causal Effects Lecture(intended for Graduate Students although everyone is welcome): A Unified Framework for Defining and Identifying Causal Effects
6/7/2006*	Daniel Jeske (Statistics Department/UCR) *NOTE: Wednesday	The Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias Correction with Heavy Tailed Distributions

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2006

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:06:54 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2006

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet.

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
4/5/2006	Fabio Milani (Economics Department/UC Irvine)	Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence
4/12/2006	Kajal Lahiri (Economics Department/SUNY, Albany) joint with Econometrics	Limits to Forcasting: How fast do we adapt to news? How far ahead can we forecast? Papers: 1 \| 2 \| 3
4/19/2006	Michael J Ryan (Centre for Economic Policy Hull/University Business School)	Simple Characterizations of Contraction Consistency and Inconsistency Conditions
4/26/2006	James Stock (Economics Department, Harvard Univeristy) joint with Econometrics	TBA
4/28/2006*	Allan Timmermann (Economics Department/UCSD) joint with Econometrics *NOTE: Friday	Predictability of stock returns and asset allocation under structural breaks
5/3/2006	Nicolas L. Dromel (Economics Department/University of Aix-Marseille)	Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing?
5/10/2006	Robert J. Gordon (Economics Department/Northwestern University)	Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier M
5/12/2006*	Rosa Metzkin (Economics Department/Northwestern University) joint with Econometrics *NOTE: Friday	TBA
5/17/2006	Ayse Imrohoroglu (Marshall School of Business/USC)	Secular Movements in U.S. Saving and Consumption
5/24/2006	Hanno Lustig (Economics Department/UCLA)	The Irrelevance of Idiosyncratic Income Risk for Risk Premia in Incomplete Market Models
5/31/2006*	Victor Issler (Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics) *NOTE: joint with Econometrics	Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function