Spring 2009 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:48 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2009

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

Questions? Contact Jorge Aguero, Mindy Marks, & Todd Sorensen.

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
5/30/2009	Monica Das, Skidmore College	Income Inequality; Income Transfers and Growth in the US States
4/6/2009	Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton University	The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa
4/13/2009	Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona	New Market Power Models and Sex Differences in Pay
4/14/2009*	Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar, LOCATION TBA	The Econometrics of Wage Decompositions
4/15/2009*	Amnon Rapoport, UCR *NOTE: Joint seminar with Economic Theory	Information Effects in Congested Traffic Networks
4/20/2009	Josh Angrist, MIT	Autonomy and Decentralization in Public Schools: New Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots
4/24/2009*	Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University *NOTE: FRIDAY, 3-4:30 in Sproul 2206	Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination
4/27/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: This is an Econometrics Presentation	Asset Return Predictability over Different Time Horizons: A Nonparametric Approach
4/28/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar, location is Sproul 2206 from 5:10-6:30pm. This is also an Econometrics Presentation	The Martingale theory in economics and finance: An Econometric Perspective
5/4/2009	Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania	Seminar Cancelled
5/11/2009	Sonia Bhalotra, University of Bristol, GB	Seminar Cancelled
5/18/2009	Amalia Millier, University of Virginia	Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black & Female Employment in Law Enforcement
5/25/2009	No Seminar, Memorial Day Holiday	NO SEMINAR
6/1/2009	(1) Trinidad Beleche (2) Arindam Nandi UCR Graduate Students (3) Encarna Esteban Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain	(1) Intra-Family Violence Laws & Acts of Domestic Violence in Mexico (2)Sex-selective Abortion and Child Sex Ratio in India: Evidence from a Exogenous Policy Change in Selective Indian States (3) Regulating water quantity and quality. The case of Ebro basin and Western “La Mancha” aquifer, Spain.

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:21:43 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2009

Fridays, 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
4/3/2009	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/10/2009	No Seminar due to Business Cycle Conference 4/10 & 11, 2009	No Seminar
4/16/2009*	Lung-Fei Lee, Ohio State Univeristy * Graduate student seminar, Sproul 2206 from 5:10 – 6:30 pm	Estimation of Spatial Autroregressive Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects
4/17/2009*	Lung-Fei Lee, Ohio State University * Joint seminar with Applied Economics	Some Recent Developments in Spatial Panel Data Models
4/24/2009*	Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University *THIS WILL BE AN APPLIED ECONOMICS SEMINAR	Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination
4/27/2009	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University	Asset Return Predictability over Different Time Horizons: A Nonparametric Approach”
4/28/2009*	Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University *Graduate student seminar, Sproul 2206 from 5:10 – 6:30pm	The Martingale theory in economics and finance: An Econometric Perspective” Paper 1 \| Paper 2
5/1/2009	Yundong Tu, UCR	“Forecasting Using Supervised Factor Models”
5/8/2009	Jeffrey Racine, McMaster University, Canada	Constrained Nonparametric Kernel Regression: Estimation and Inference
5/15/2009	Hyungsik Roger Moon, University of Southern California	Likelihood Expansion for Panel Regression Models with Factors
5/22/2009	Aman Ullah, UCR	(1) Expectations of Quadratic Forms in Normal and Non-normal Errors with Econometric Applications (2) Skewness and Kurtosis of Econometric Estimators
5/29/2009	Aman Ullah, UCR	(1) Estimation and Forecasting of Dynamic Conditional Covriance: A Semi-parametric Multivariate Model (2) Semi-parametric Estimator of Time Series Conditional Varinance
6/5/2009	No Seminar	No Seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:06:29 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2009

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

Questions? Contact Victoria Umanskaya.

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
4/1/2009	Geir Asheim, University of Oslo	Intergenerational Equity
4/8/2009	Mark Jacobsen, UC San Diego	Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gases per Mile in the Presence of National CAFE Standards
4/15/2009*	Amnon Rapoport, UCR AGSM *NOTE: Joint with Applied Economics	TBA
4/22/2009	Charles Mason, University of Wyoming	Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation
4/23/2009*	Charles Mason, University of Wyoming *NOTE: Graduate Student Seminar will be from 11:15am – 12:30 pm in HMNSS 1500	How Much will Gas Cost Next Year? Thoughts on the Market for Crude Oil
4/29/2009	Priya Ranjan, UC Irvine	Search and Offshoring in the Presence of Animal Spirits
5/6/2009*	Matthew Kahn, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: This is an Applied Economics presentation	Seminar Cancelled
5/13/2009	Robert Feenstra, UC Davis	Monopolistic Competition and the Gains from Trade
5/20/2009	Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University	Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary Business Cycle Model
5/27/2009	Kalina Manova, Stanford University	Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
6/3/2009	Cynthia Lin, UC Davis	How Should Standards be Set and Met?: On the Allocation of Regulatory Power in a Federal System