Spring 2021 – UCR | Department of Economics

Econometrics Seminars Spring 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:37:57 +0000

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact 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
04/02/2021	Tao Wang (UC Riverside)	SPLVC Modal Regression with Error-Prone Linear Covariate
04/09/2021	Hashem Pesaran (USC)	Matching Theory and Evidence on Covid-19 using a Stochastic Network SIR Model
04/16/2021	Amos Golan (American University)	Effect of policy-relevant factors on COVID-19 patient survival probability: An information-theoretic analysis
4/23/2021	Essie Maasoumi (Emory University)	Dynastic View of Intergenerational Mobility : Measures and Methods
04/30/2021	Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)	Kernel-weighted test statistics under general distributions
05/07/2021	Vira Semenova (UC Berkeley)	Machine learning for set-identified linear models
05/14/2021	Yixiao Sun (UC San Diego)	Support Vector Decision Making
05/21/2021	Shuheng Zhou (UC Riverside)	Tensor Models for High Dimensional Data with Complex Dependencies
05/28/2021	Justin Dang (UC Riverside)	Generalized Two Step Kernel Regularized Least Squares Estimator with Parametric Error Covariance
06/04/2021	Zhuozhen Zhao (UC Riverside)	Competition and Innovation of Two-Product Firms with Unobserved Choices

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:17:09 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dongwon 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
4/07/2021	Nelson Mark (University of Notre Dame)	Temperature Shocks and Real Exchange Rates
4/14/2021	Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin)	Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates
4/21/2021	Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia)	Trade Wars, Currency Wars
4/28/2021	Pierangelo De Pace (Pomona College)	Comovement and Instability in Cryptocurrency Markets
5/05/2021	Menzie David Chinn (University of Wisconsin)	The New Fama Puzzle
5/12/2021	Robert Dekle (University of Southern California)	Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese Product and Firm Level Data
5/19/2021	Sergio Schmukler (World Bank)	Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses
5/26/2021	Francis Warnock (University of Virginia)	The Natural Level of Capital Flows
6/02/2021	Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University)	Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Help Counties Most Affected by the Great Recession?

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:31:15 +0000

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
3/29/2021	Opinder Kaur (UC Riverside)	Does Making Mothers Literate Improve Their Little One’s Health? Evidence from India
4/05/2021 *11:00am	Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario)	Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
4/12/2021 *11:00am	Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus University)	Academic Achievement and Wellbeing of Dual Language Learners: Evidence from a Busing Program
4/19/2021 *11:00am	Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)	Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
4/26/2021	TBD	TBD
5/03/2021 *11:00am	Dan Bjorkegren (Brown University)	(Machine) Learning what Policymakers Value
5/10/2021	Damon Clark (UC Irvine)	How do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers.
5/17/2021 *11:00am	Chris Woodruff (Oxford University)	Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico’s Labor Courts
5/24/2021	Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)	Does Public Participation Matter? Evidence from a National-Scale Experiment on the Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:02:35 +0000

Tuesdays, 5:00 – 6:00 pm (unless otherwise stated)
Zoom presentations

Questions? Contact Zhuozhen Zhao.

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
03/30/2021	Dayang Li	An Additive Utility Representation under Limited Attention
04/06/2021	Opinder Kaur	Does Making Mothers Literate Improve Their Little One’s Health? Evidence from India
04/13/2021	Xinchan Lu	Learning and International Portfolio Choice Dynamics
04/20/2021	Justin Dang	Smoothed Nonparametric Derivative Estimation using Random Forest Based Weighted Difference Quotients
04/27/2021	Chuan Zhang	Can we disagree forever?
05/04/2021	Da Gong	Famine, Clan and Social Capital
05/11/2021	Andong Yan	Why do Autocrats Grant Privileges? A Principal-Agent Problem With Limited Commitment
05/18/2021	Zhuozhen Zhao	Competition and Innovation of Two-product Firms with Unobserved Choices
05/25/2021	Ryoji Jinushi	From Sequential Equilibrium to Perfect Equilibrium

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:03:05 +0000

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Yang Xie

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
4/02/2021	Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia)	A theory of elite-initiated democratization, illustrated with the case of Myanmar
4/09/2021	James Fearon (Stanford University)	Armed Conflict Bargaining
4/16/2021	Steve Callander (Stanford University)	Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
4/23/2021	Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado, Boulder)	A Theory of Cultural Revivals
4/30/2021 *4:00pm	Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)	The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
5/07/2021	Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)	The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
5/14/2021	Weijia Li (Monash University)	Targeted Media, Voter Suppression, and the Rise of Populism.
5/21/2021	Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University)	Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia
5/28/2021	Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)	Networks and Limits on Authoritarian Propaganda
6/04/2021	Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University)	The Allocation of Political Authority when Power Corrupts