Spring 2017 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:10:48 +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
3/29/2017	No Seminar- Spring Break	No Seminar
4/05/2017	Michael Callen, UCSD	Mobile-izing Savings With Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence On Present Bias And The Default Effect In Afghanistan
4/12/2017	Darin Christensen, UC Los Angeles	Concession Stands: How Foreign Investments In Mining Incites Protest In Africa
4/19/2017	Christian Dippel, UC Los Angeles	Outside Options, Coercion, And Wages: Removing The Sugar Coating
4/26/2017	Elaina Rose, The University of Washington	Most Likely To Succeed: Personality And Long-Run Achievement
5/03/2017	Maya Rossin-Slater, UC Santa Barbara	What Is The Added Value Of Pre-School? Long Term Impacts And Interactions With A Health Intervention
5/10/2017	Fred Finan, UC Berkeley	Money And Politics: Estimating The Effects Of Campaign Spending Limits On Political Entry And Selection
5/17/2017	Karthik Muralidharan, UC San Diego	General Equilibrium Effects Of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence From India
5/24/2017	Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University	Creating Anticommons: Historical Land Privatization And Modern Natural Resource Use
5/31/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
6/07/2017	Xiaohan Zhang, California State University, Los Angeles	Housing Market Responses To The California Top X% Policy
6/14/2017	No Seminar- Finals Week	No Seminar

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:50:57 +0000

Mondays, 4:10- 5:30pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 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
3/27/2017	NO SEMINAR – Spring Break	NO SEMINAR
4/03/2017*	Peter Robinson, London School of Economics *NOTE: (General Seminar)	Inference On Trending Panel Data
4/04/2017*	Peter Robinson, London School of Economics *NOTE: (This is a seminar primarily geared to the graduate students. Location is CHASS INTS 1113 from 4:10-5:30 pm)	Adaptive Estimation In Multiple Time Series With Independent Component Errors
4/10/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
4/17/2017	Yun Luo, UCR PhD Candidate	Prediction Regions For Interval-Valued Time Series
4/24/2017	Matthew Harding, UCI	Deep Autoencoder For Pattern Identification In High-Dimensional Consumer Purchase Data
5/01/2017	Yingying Fan USC	Model-Free Knockoffs For High Dimensional Controlled Variable Selection
5/08/2017	Emre Yoldas, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve	Financial Stress And Equilibrium Dynamics In Term Interbank Funding Markets
5/15/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
5/22/2017	Jose Lopez, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Calibrating Macroprudential Policy To Forecasts of Financial Stability
5/29/2017	Memorial Day Holiday-No Seminar, Campus Closed	No Seminar
6/05/2017	Soojin Park, UCR Graduate School of Education	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:26:10 +0000

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

Questions? Contact 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
4/07/2017	Michael Magill, USC	Banking, Crises and Unconventional Monetary Policy
4/14/2017	Snehal Banerjee, UCSD	Dynamic Information And Strategic Trading
4/21/2017	Jay Lu, UCLA	Bayesian Identification: A Theory Of State-Dependent Utilities
4/28/2017	Joel Watson, UCSD	Statistical Evidence And The Problem Of Robust Litigation
5/05/2017	Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA	Recruiting Talent
5/12/2017	Isabel Trevino, UCSD	Informational Channels Of Financial Contagion
5/19/2017	Kevin Reffett, Arizona State University	Preferences, Externalities, and Indeterminancy: A Global Characterization Of Minimal State Space Recursive Equilibria
5/26/2017	Sevgi Yuksel, UCSB	Media Competition And The Source Of Disagreement
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology	Persistence Of Power: Repeated Multilateral Bargaining
6/02/2017	Marina Agranov- CalTech (Addl Info)	On Line Material for Persistence of Power….
6/09/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
6/16/2017	Spring Finals, No Seminar	No Seminar