Spring 2011 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:07 +0000

Wednesdays, 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
3/30/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/6/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/13/2011	Stuart Gabriel, UCLA	Housing Risk and Return: Evidence from A Housing Asset-Pricing Model
4/20/2011	Robert Jensen, UCLA	Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India
4/27/2011	Minqi Li, University of Utah	Climate Change And The Implications For Economics
5/4/2011	Marlon Boarnet, UCI	Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate: Getting Smarter than Your Average Bear
5/11/2011	Leonardo Bursztyn, UCLA	The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas
5/18/2011	Michael Steinberger, Pomona Collage	Is The Motherhood Wage Penalty A Heterosexual Phenomenon?
5/25/2011*	Fernando Cardim, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro *NOTE: 12:40-2:00 (Graduate Students ONLY)	Is This It? On the Concept of Depression
5/25/2011	Fernando Cardim, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Is This It? On the Concept of Depression
6/1/2011	Roberto Pedace, Scripps College	Loss Aversion and Managerial Decisions: Evidence from Major League Baseball

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:48 +0000

Mondays, 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
3/28/2011*	Long Gao & Richard Smith, UCR AGSM *NOTE: This seminar will be held from 5:10-6:30pm	Why Does Venture Capital Performance Persist Over Time? Evidence From A Dynamic Simulation
4/4/2011	Amos Golan, American University, Washington D.C.	An Entropic Framework for Modeling Economies
4/11/2011	TBA	TBA
4/18/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/25/2011	Xu Cheng, University of Pennsylvania	Estimation and Inference With Weak, Semi-Strong, and Strong Identification
5/2/2011	Andres Santos, UCSD	Efficient Estimation of Convex Moment Inequalities
5/5/2011*	Adrian Pagan, Sydney University, Australia *NOTE: JOINT with Economic Theory, 3:40-5pm, Location is TBA	Assessing The Impact of Financial Stress Upon Business Cycles
5/9/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar – Cancelled
5/16/2011	Brendan Beare, UCSD	An Empirical Test of Pricing Kernel Monotonicity
5/23/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar – Cancelled
5/30/2011	No Seminar – Memorial Day Holiday	No Seminar

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:45:54 +0000

Fridays, 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
4/1/2011	Cynthia Lin, UCD	Do Firms Interact Strategically?: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production
4/8/2011	Gal Hochman, UCB	The Political Economy of OPEC
4/15/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
4/22/2011	Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming	Ecosystems As Natural Assets
4/29/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
5/5/2011*	Adrian Pagan, Sydney University, Australia *NOTE: JOINT with Econometrics, 3:40-5pm, location is TBA	Assessing The Impact of Financial Stress Upon Business Cycles
5/6/2011	Steven Levkoff, UCR	Decomposing NOx and SO2 Electric Power Plant Emissions in a “By-production” Framework: A Nonparametric DEA Study”
5/13/2011	Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR	On Measuring Deprivation And Living Standards Of Societies In A Multi-Attribute Framework
5/20/2011	Nir Jaimovich, Duke University	Labor Market Dynamics and Technological Competence
5/27/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar (Cancelled)
6/3/2011	Thorsten Hens, University of Zurich	An International Survey on Time Discounting with Application To Household Finance and Asset Pricing