Spring 2015 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 18:00:56 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2015

Mondays, 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
3/30/2015	TBA	TBA
4/6/2015	TBA	TBA
4/13/2015	TBA	TBA
4/20/2015*	Gaurab Aryal, University of Chicago *NOTE: (This is an Economic Theory Seminar)	TBA
5/1/2015*	Travis Lybbert, University of California, Davis *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	Experimental Markets for Micronutrient Supplements to Prevent Undernutrition: Estimating Household Demand Persistence in Rural Burkina Faso
5/4/2015	Anaka Aiyar, UCR	The impact of health insurance in developing countries: A study of Vietnam’s child health insurance program
5/11/2015	Alex Anas from the University at Buffalo, New York with Debarshi Indra, UCR	Rationality and exuberance in land prices and the supply of new housing
5/18/2015	Stephen D. O’Connell, Graduate Center – CUNY	Political Inclusivity and the Aspirations of Young Constituents: Identifying the Effects of a National Empowerment Policy
5/25/2015	No Seminar	Memorial Day Holiday, no seminar
5/29/2015*	Sofia Franco, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	Downtown Parking Supply, Work Trip Mode Choice And Urban spatial Structure
6/1/2015	Steve Raphael, Goldman School at UC Berkeley	Incarceration And Crime: Evidence From California’s Realignment Sentencing Reform
6/2/2015*	Steve Raphael, Goldman School at UC Berkeley *NOTE: (This is the graduate student seminar, from 12:45-2:00pm in Sproul Hall, room 2206)	Why Are So Many Americans In Prison?
6/5/2015*	Agne Suziedelyte, Monash University *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday from 2-3:30pm in Sproul 2206)	Mental Health Stigma
6/8/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:39:28 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2015

Fridays, 4:10- 5:30pm (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
4/3/2015	Ji Hyung Lee, University of Washington, Seattle	Econometric inference in predictive mean/quantile regression models (Paper 1 \| Paper 2)
4/10/2015	Shujie Ma, UCR Statistics	A concave pairwise fusion approach to subgroup analysis
4/17/2015	Yan Ge, UCR Economics	Comparing Nested Predictive Regression Models with Persistent Predictors
4/24/2015	Shuyang Sheng, UC Los Angeles	Estimation of Large Network Formation Games
4/27/2015*	Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University *NOTE: (This is a Monday)	Wald-type tests when rank conditions fail: a smooth regularization approach
4/28/2015*	Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University *NOTE: (This is a Tuesday, 2:10-3:30pm, SPR 2206)	Exogeneity tests and IV estimation: is the cure worse than the illness?
4/29/2015*	Marine Carrasco, University of Montreal *NOTE: (This is a Wednesday)	Functional linear regression with functional response
5/1/2015*	Travis Lybbert, UC Davis *NOTE: (This is Applied Economics Seminar)	Experimental Market For Micronutrient Supplements To Prevent Undernutrition: Estimating Household Demand Persistence In Rural Burkina Faso
5/8/2015	Denis Chetverikov, UC Los Angeles	Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation Under Monotonicity
5/15/2015	Weixin Yao, UCR Statistics	Semiparametric Extensions Of Mixture Models
5/22/2015	Dalia Ghanem, UC Davis	Testing Indentifying Assumptions In Nonseparable Panel Data Models
5/29/2015*	Sofia Franco, Nova School of Business & Economics, Portugal *NOTE: (This will be an Applied Economics Seminar)	Downtown Parking Supply, Work Trip Mode Choice And Urban Structure
6/5/2015	Myong-Hwal Lee, Korea Institute of Finance & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics	Estimating Global Systemic Risk With The G-SIFI’s CDS Data: The Vine Copula Approach
6/12/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2015

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:26:16 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2015

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

Questions? Contact Urmee Khan or Hiroki Nishimura

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
4/1/2015	Christopher Chambers, UC San Diego	Dynamic Elicitation of Unobservable Information
4/8/2015	Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology	Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations
4/15/2015*	TBA *NOTE: (This is an Applied Economics Seminar)	TBA
4/20/2015*	Gaurab Aryal, University of Chicago *NOTE: (This is a Monday)	Identifying a Screening Model with Multidimensional Private Information
4/22/2015	Pete Klenow, Stanford University	How Destructive is Innovation?
4/29/2015*	Marine Carrasco, University of Montreal *NOTE: (This is an Econometrics Seminar)	Functional Linear Regression With Functional Response
5/6/2015*	Matt Jackson, Stanford University *NOTE: (11:30-12:30pm, SPR 4128) Graduate Students; (4:10-5:30pm, SPR 2206) Seminar	Gossip and Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network Graduate Student Title: Networks And Economic Behaviors
5/13/2015	Ichiro Obara, UC Los Angeles	Repeated Games with General Time Preferences
5/20/2015	Yilmaz Kocer, USC	Dynamic Matching With Learning
5/27/2015	Emanuel Vespa, UCSB	Dynamic Games and Markov Perfection: Putting the “conditional” in cooperation
6/3/2015	TBA	TBA
6/10/2015	No Seminar	Spring finals week, no seminar