Spring 2022 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:48:29 +0000

Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Xinchan Lu and Yong Ju 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
3/30/2022 *Sproul 2206	Da Gong	Cost of Zero-Covid: Effects of Anti-Contagious Policy on Labor Market Outcomes in China
4/06/2022	No Presentation
4/13/2022 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu	Liquidity, Asset Prices and Information Acquisition
4/20/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yong Ju Lee	Stochastic Frontier Model estimation under Endogeneity
4/27/2022	No Presentation
5/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ryoji Jinushi	From Sequential Equilibrium To Perfect Equilibrium 2: Sufficient Conditions of Well-Mixed Strategy Profiles
5/11/2022 *Zoom	Lea Bou Sleiman (Ecole Polytechnique – CREST)	When should urban roads be removed to lower carbon emissions ?
5/18/2022	No Presentation
5/25/2022	No Presentation
6/06/2022 Sproul 2206 2:00-3:00pm	Anh Tran	Markov Chain Factor Adjusted Naive Bayes AdaBoost with Applications to Forecasting Economic Recessions

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:45:23 +0000

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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.

No Seminar

DATE	NAME	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/01/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ketki Sheth (UC Merced)	Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
4/08/2022 *Zoom	Solomon Hsiang (UC Berkeley)	Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption and Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change
4/15/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jeff Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison)	Learning More about Teachers:Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda
4/22/2022 *Sproul 2206	Radhika Jain (Stanford)	Women left behind: Gender disparities in utilization of government health insurance in India
4/29/2022 *Zoom	Kyle Emerick (Tufts University)	Targeted Subsidies for Water Conservation in Smallholder Agriculture
5/06/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jonah Rockoff (Columbia)	Pension Reform and Teacher Labor Supply
5/13/2022 *Zoom	Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)	The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
5/20/2022 *Zoom	Rob Garlick (Duke)	Aspirations, Assets and Anti-Poverty Policies
5/27/2022	No Presentation

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:18:52 +0000

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
3/28/2022 *Sproul 2206	Romain Ranciere (USC)	International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share
4/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Ed Coulson (UCI Paul Merage School of Business)	Do Appraiser and Borrower Race Affect Valuation?
4/11/2022 3:00-4:20pm Sproul 2206	Jan Brueckner (UCI)	A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?
4/18/2022	No Seminar
4/25/2022 *Sproul 2206	Bessy Liao (UCI)	Trapped on Local Labor Markets?
5/02/2022 *Sproul 2206	Jeffrey Allen (UCR/University of Redlands)	Pro-capitalist Culture and Long-Term Development
5/09/2022 *Sproul 2206	Dongwon Lee (UCR)	Terms of Trade Volatility and Industry Growth
5/16/2022 *Zoom	Monica Morlacco (USC)	Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
5/23/2022 *Sproul 2206	Miroslav Gabrovski (University of Hawaii Manoa)	The Real Effects of Financial Frictions in the Securitized Loans Market

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:22:46 +0000

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong and 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
3/30/2022 *Zoom	Nicola Persico (Northwestern)	A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision
4/06/2022 *Zoom	Mingshi Kang (Western Ontario)	Sponsored Link Auctions with Consumer Search
4/13/2022 *Zoom	Alberto Bisin (NYU)	On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Elites and Civil Society
4/20/2022 *Zoom	Doron Ravid (Chicago)	Predicting Choice from Information Cost
4/27/2022 *Zoom	Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale)	Competitive Media Capture
5/04/2022 *Zoom	Weijie Zhong (Stanford GSB)	The Cost of Optimally Acquired Information
5/11/2022 *Zoom	Ron Siegel (Penn State)	Equilibrium Existence in Independent Private Value First-Price Auctions
5/18/2022 *Zoom	Can Urgun (Princeton)	Collective Progress: Dynamics of Exit Waves
5/25/2022 *Zoom	Bo Chen (Southern Methodist)	An Economic Model of (Partial) Language Acquisition
6/01/2022 *Zoom	Nina Bobkova (Rice)	Information Choice in Auctions

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:11:22 +0000

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
3/31/2022 *Zoom	Max Farrell (University of Chicago)	Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
4/07/2022 *Zoom	Jonathan Hersh (Chapman University)	Will Al Accelerate the Intra-Firm Digital Divide? Evidence From a Field Experiment on How Managers Use Explainable Al
4/14/2022 *Zoom	Daniel Jeske (UC Riverside)	Control Group versus Treatment Group Designs with Mixture Distributions
4/21/2022 *Zoom	Yehua Li (UC Riverside)	Semiparametric Functional Regression Models with Multivariate Functional Predictors
4/28/2022 *Zoom	Stefan Wager (Stanford University)	Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs
5/05/2022 *Zoom	California Econometrics Conference Stanford University, May 6-7	A modern central limit theorem for the classical augmented IPW estimator: variance inflation, cross-fit covariance and beyond
5/12/2022 Zoom Joint with Statistics Department*	Pragya Sur (Harvard University)	A modern central limit theorem for the classical augmented IPW estimator: variance inflation, cross-fit covariance and beyond
5/19/2022 *Zoom	Alex Belloni (Duke University)	Sub-vector Inference in Partially Identified Models with Many Moment Inequalities
5/26/2022 *Zoom	Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)	Cluster Robust Inference in Linear Regression Models with Many Covariates
6/02/2022 *Zoom	Yanqin Fan (University of Washington, Seattle)	Lorenz Map, Inequality Ordering and Curves Based on Multidimensional Rearrangements