Spring 2018 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2018

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:27:11 +0000

Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 4128

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
04/02/2018	No Presentation	N/A
04/09/2018	Richard Arnott, UCR Economics	The Incentive Regulation of Ridesharing Companies: Building an Interesting Model is Easy
04/16/2018	TBA	TBA
04/23/2018	Michael Bates, UCR Economics & Seolah Kim, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Estimating Population Average Effects using Per-Cluster Instrumental Variables Approaches
04/30/2018	Ruoyao Shi, UCR Economics	An Averaging Estimator Robust to Misspecification in Linear Panel Data Models.
05/07/2018	Jana Grittersova, UCR Political Science	TBA
05/14/2018	Han Ryu & Neha Agarwal, UCR PhD Candidates in Economics	TBA
05/21/2018	Carolyn Sloane, UCR Economics	TBA
05/28/2018	No Brown Bag – Memorial Day Holiday/Campus Closes	No Brown Bag
06/04/2018	Christian Gunadi, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:44:20 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins.

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
04/02/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/09/2018	David Rapson, UC Davis	Using A Natural Experiment In California To Estimate The Demand For Electric Vehicles In Low-And Middle-Income Households
04/16/2018	Gordon Dahl, UC San Diego	Intergenerational Spillovers In Disability Insurance
04/23/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
04/30/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
05/07/2018	Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development	Outsourcing Service Delivery In A Fragile State: Experimental Evidence From Liberia
05/14/2018	Jamie McCasland, The University of British Columbia	Light Off, Lights On: The Effects Of Electricity Shortages On Small Firms
05/21/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
05/28/2018	No Seminar – Memorial Day Holiday/Campus Closed	No Seminar
06/04/2018	TBA	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:22:45 +0000

Fridays, 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
04/06/2018	Todd Clark, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank	Endogenous Uncertainty
04/13/2018*	Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note that this will be an ECONOMIC THEORY seminar)	How the U.S. Lost The Rust Belt: Labor Market Conflict And Inefficient Rent Sharing
04/20/2018	Yehua Li, UCR Statistics Department	Functional Principle Component Analysis Of Spatiotemporal Point Processes With Applications In Disease Surveillance
04/27/2018	Christian Shelton, UCR Computer Science Department	Machine Learning: An Overview
05/04/2018	Dimitris Politis, UC San Diego	Predictive Inference For Locally Stationary Time Series
05/11/2018*	Oscar Jorda, UC Davis & the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank *NOTE: (Please note that this will be a joint Econometrics & Macroeconomics Seminar)	Direct, Indirect, and Composition Effects Of Monetary Policy Interventions
05/18/2018	Yulong Wang, Syracuse University	Nonparametric Spatial Threshold And Two-Dimensional Sample Splitting
05/25/2018	Ruoyao Shi, UCR Economics	An Averaging Estimator Robust To Misspecification In Linear Panel Data Model
06/01/2018	Xun Tang, Rice University	Identification And Estimation Of Large Network Games With Private Link Information
06/08/2018	Yun Luo, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	A Truncated Mixture Transition Model For Interval-valued Time Series

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:59:57 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Victor Ortego Marti.

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
04/04/2018	Zhi Zhao, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Quantifying The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: A Mixed-Frequency Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive Regression Approach
04/11/2018	Vincenzo Quadrini, The University of Southern California	Banks Interconnectivity And Leverage
04/13/2018*	Lee Ohanian, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday)	How The U.S. Lost The Rust Belt: Labor Market Conflict And Inefficient Rent Sharing
04/18/2018	TBA	TBA
04/25/2018	Joel David, The University of Southern California	Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation And Misallocation
05/02/2018	Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University	Structural Transformation In Investment And Consumption: A Unified Approach
05/09/2018	Thanasis Geromichalos, UC Davis	The Liquidity-Augmented Model of Macroeconomic Aggregates
05/16/2018	Pedro Amaral, Cal State University, Fullerton	Financial Engineering And Economic Development
05/23/2018	Henry Siu, University of British Columbia	The “End of Men” And Rise Of Women In The High-Skilled Labor Market
05/30/2018	Ayse Imrohoroglu, The University of Southern California	Household Saving, Financial Constraints, And The Current Account In China
06/06/2018	Tommaso Porzio, UC San Diego	The Enduring Wall: Labor Mobility Within And Between East And West Germany