Spring 2010 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2010

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:19:09 +0000

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
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
4/2/2010	Giovanni Peri, UC Davis	Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
4/9/2010	Serkan Ozbeklik, Claremont McKenna College	Leadership Skills and Wages Revisited: Is There a Casual Relation?
4/16/2010	No Seminar	Applied Economics Faculty attending the So. Calif. Microeconomics Conf. at the Claremont McKenna Colleges
4/23/2010	Gustavo Gonzaga, Catholic University, Rio De Janeiro	Going Private: Public Sector Rents and Privatization in Brazil
4/30/2010	Jeffrey Nugent, University of Southern California	Midwives and Maternal Mortality: How Effective Has Indonesia’s Village Midwife Program Been?
5/7/2010*	Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution *NOTE: 1st Presentation in HMNSS 1500, 12-1:30pm	What’s Next for Latin America after the Global Crisis?
5/7/2010*	Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution *NOTE: 2nd Presentation in Sproul 2206, 4:10-5:30pm	State Capacity in Latin America
5/14/2010	Andre Portela Souza, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil	Measuring the Quality of Schools: Evidence from Brazil
5/21/2010	Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University	International Remittances and Migrant Portfolio Interests
5/24/2010*	Randy Akee, Tufts University *NOTE: (This is a Monday)	Squeezing Through the Needle’s Eye: The Effects of Income Transfers on Obesity in American Indian and Non-Indian Children
6/4/2010	Jonathan Brooks, OECD	Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:07:54 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Tae Hwy Lee & Aman Ullah.

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
3/31/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/7/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/14/2010	Geert Ridder, USC	The Aysmptotic Variance of Semiparametric Estimators with Generated Regressors
4/21/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/28/2010	Tae-Hwy Lee, UCR	Let’s Do It Again: Bagging Equity Premium Predictors
4/29/2010*	Mark Watson, Princeton University *NOTE: (Thursday) (Joint with Econ Theory) 3:30-5pm, INTS 1113	Estimating Turning Points Using Large Data Sets (Please see the Economic Theory seminar listings for the pdf of the paper associated with this seminar)
5/5/2010	Zongwu Cai, Dept. of Math. & Stat. & Econ. – University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Nonparametric Estimation and Instrument Selection in the Conditional Capital Asset Pricing Model
5/12/2010	Akio Namba, Kobe University – Japan	MSE Dominance of the Positive-Part Shrinkage Estimator when Each Individual Regression Coefficient is Estimated
5/19/2010	Alfred Galichon, Ecole Polytechnique & Chicago Business School	Matching with Trade-offs: “Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics”
5/28/2010*	Eric Hillebrand, Louisiana State University *NOTE: (This is a Friday)	Temporal Correlation of Defaults in Subprime Securitization
6/2/2010	Ivana Komunjer, UCSD	Dynamic Identification of DSGE Models

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:47:24 +0000

Mondays, 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
3/29/2010	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/5/2010	Jana Grittersova, UCR Political Science	Taming Financiers: the Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regime Determination in Transition Economies
4/12/2010	Marcelle Chauvet, UCR Economics	The Seeds of the 2007-2009 Crisis: The Housing Market and the Business Cycle
4/19/2010	David deBortoli, UC San Diego	The Macroeconomic Consequences of Unstable Monetary Policy Objectives
4/26/2010	Chandler Lutz, PhD Candidate, UCR Economics	Agent Sentiment and Stock Market Predictability
4/29/2010*	Mark Watson, Princeton University *NOTE: (Thursday, from 3:30-5pm in INTS 1113) Joint with Econometrics	Estimating Turning Points using Large Data Sets
5/3/2010	Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Credit Markets and Credit Cycles
5/10/2010	Nathan Balke, Southern Methodist University & Dallas Fed	Sectoral Effects of Aggregate Shocks
5/17/2010	Tom Palfrey, Caltech	Political Institutions and the Dynamics of Public Investment
5/26/2010*	Francisco Buera, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Wednesday)	Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
5/31/2010	No Seminar – Memorial Day Holiday	No Seminar
6/7/2010	Masanao Aoki, UCLA	Non-self Averaging Phenomena in Macroeconomics and Other Fields