Spring 2019 – UCR | Department of Economics

Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2019

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Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2019

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (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
4/1/2019	Mike Dong, UCR School of Business	Global Anomalies
4/8/2019	Julio Garin, Claremont McKenna Colleges	Repatriation Taxes
4/15/2019	Rod Garratt, UC Santa Barbara	Entreprenurial Incentives And The Role of Initial Coin Offerings
4/22/2019	Francois Geerolf, UC Los Angeles	The Phillips Curve: Price Levels Or Real Exchange Rates
4/29/2019	Odilon Camara, The University of Southern California	Tampering With Information
5/6/2019	William Branch, UC Irvine	Endogenously (Non-)Ricardian Beliefs
5/13/2019	Michael Gelman, Claremont McKenna Colleges	Rational Illiquidity And Excess Sensitivity: Theory And Evidence From Income Tax Witholding And Refunds
5/20/2019	Fabio Milani, UC Irvine	Evolving Beliefs And Animal Spirits In the Euro Area
5/27/2019	Memorial Day Holiday – No Seminar (Campus Closed)	NO SEMINAR
6/3/2019	Rossen Valkanov, UC San Diego	Fiscal And Foreign Account Imbalances And Asset Prices

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2019

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Econometrics Seminars Spring 2019

Wednesdays, 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
4/3/2019	Yu-Wei Hsieh, The University of Southern California	“A Semiparametric Discrete-Choice Aggregate Demand Model” & “Prediction And Congestion In Two-Sided Markets: Economist Versus Machine Matchmakers”
4/10/2019	Yanqin Fan, The University of Washington	Uniform Inference In A Generalized Interval-Arithmetic Center And Range Model
4/17/2019	Samet Oymak, UCR Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering	Overparameterization Without Overfitting: From Compressed Sensing to Deep Learning
4/23/2019	Colin Cameron, The University of California, Davis (Seminar to Graduate Students – 4:10-5:30 pm in CHASS Humanities 1500)	Machine Learning Methods: An Overview
4/24/2019	Colin Cameron, The University of California, Davis (General Seminar to Faculty, Graduate Students and Campus seminar Guests – 4:10-5:30 pm in Sproul Hall 2206)	Machine Learning Methods in Economics
5/1/2019	Geert Ridder, The University of Southern California	Closing The Teacher Quality Gap? An Empirical Analysis Of Teacher To Classroom Assignment Problems
5/8/2019	Yi Xin, The California Institute of Technology	Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets
5/15/2019	Simon Smith, The University of Southern California	Noncommon Breaks Forecasting Panel Data With Structural Breaks And Regime-Specific Grouped Heterogeneity
5/22/2019	Xiaoting Sun, The University of California Los Angeles (This will be a joint seminar with the Economics Graduate Student Association)	Identification And Estimation Of Many-to-One Matching With An Application To The U.S. College Admissions
5/29/2019	Sarojini Hirshleifer, UCR Economics	Testing For Attrition Bias In Field Experiments
6/5/2019	James Mitchell, The University of Warwick (U.K.) & Visiting Scholar – University of Southern California	The Copula Opinion Pool: Modeling Expert Dependence

Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2019

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Applied Economics Seminars Spring 2019

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

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren or Steven Helfand.

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
4/5/2019	Kevin Lang, Boston University	The Boss Is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Blacks
4/12/2019	Prashant Bharadwaj, The University of California, San Diego	The Effects Of Health Shocks To The Elderly On Children’s Labor Supply
4/18/2019*	Joseph Altonji, Yale University * NOTE: This seminar is on a Thursday and will be held in CHASS HMNSS 1500 from 2:10-3:30 p.m.	The Labor Market Returns To Advanced Degrees
4/26/2019	Marc Bellemare, The University of Minnesota	Producer Attitudes Toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence From The Lab And From The Field
5/3/2019	Julie Cullen, The University of California, San Diego	Performance Information And Personnel Decisions In the Public Sector: The Case Of School Principles
5/10/2019	Cory White, California Polytechnic University – San Luis Obispo	Does Access To Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
5/17/2019	Carlos Dobkin, The University of California, Santa Cruz	Health Insurance And Access To Care For The Near Elderly
5/24/2019	Leandro Carvalho, The University of Southern California	The Distributional Effects Of Education On Health
5/31/2019	Kurt Schwabe, UCR Political Science/Cooperating Faculty in Economics	Is A Gallon Conserved A Gallon Saved? The Unintended Consequences Of Water Policy On Water Recycling
6/7/2019	Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, The University of California, Berkeley	A New Engle On Price Index And Welfare Estimation

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2019

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Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2019

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

Questions? Contact Carolyn Sloane.

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