Spring 2023 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Spring 2023

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:42:52 +0000

Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

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
4/05/2023	Da Gong	COVID-19 Risk Level Dataset and Impact of China’s Zero-COVID Policy on Economic
4/12/2023	Michael Yonezawa	Library orientation for graduate students
4/19/2023	Ruinan Zhao	The Impacts of Granting Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses on Fatal Crashes
4/26/2023	Anh Tran	Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) With Many Highly Correlated Predictors
5/03/2023	Monika Baloda	The Tech Decoupling
5/10/2023	Yong Ju Lee	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity
5/17/2023	Yifei Ding	Deep learning for individual heterogeneity with generated regressors
5/24/2023	Daanish Padha	A semi-supervised predictive model in high dimensions
5/31/2023	Murilo Silva	Pricing Climate Disasters
6/07/2023	Begum Tunc	Does Training Provide Evidence on Asymmetric Employer Learning?
6/14/2023	Rajveer Jat	The Vanishing Productivity Gap

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:28:45 +0000

Mondays, 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 Urmee Khan

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
4/03/2023 *Zoom	Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia University)	Pricing for Coordination
4/10/2023 *Sproul 2206	João Ramos (USC)	Political Accountability Under Moral Hazard
4/17/2023 *Zoom	Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)	Monotone Additive Statistics
4/24/2023 *Zoom	Rohit Lamba (Penn State)	Hard information design
5/01/2023 *Zoom	Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (University of Chicago)	Partisan Traps
5/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yoval Hellar (Bar-Ilan University)	Heterogeneous Noise and Stable Miscoordination
5/15/2023 *Zoom	Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburg	Persuasion in Veto Bargaining
5/22/2023 *Sproul 2206	Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)	Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium
5/29/2023	Holiday
6/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dayang Li	Satisficing under Limited Attention

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:55:58 +0000

Wednesday, 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 Ozkan Eren

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
4/05/2023	No Seminar
4/12/2023	No Seminar
4/19/2023 *Sproul 2206	Marianne Bitler (UC Davis)	Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC
4/26/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Giuliano (UC Santa Cruz)	Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?
5/03/2023 *Sproul 2206	Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)	Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga
5/10/2023	No Seminar
5/17/2023 *Sproul 2206	Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin)	Brokering Votes with Information Spread via Social Networks
5/24/2023 *Sproul 2206	Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)	Nudging Marriage Norms through Cash Transfers
5/31/2023 *Sproul 2206	Briana Ballis (UC Merced)	Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education
6/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Anaka Aiyar (University of Nevada, Reno)	The impacts of health insurance on child health: evidence from India

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:50:24 +0000

Friday, 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 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
4/07/2023 *Sproul 2206	Steve Wu (UC San Diego)	Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles
4/14/2023 *Sproul 2206	Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine)	The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations
4/21/2023 *Sproul 2206	Paul Bergin (UC Davis)	The Macroeconomic Stabilization of Tariff Shocks: What is the Optimal Monetary Response?
4/28/2023 *Sproul 2206	Oleg Itskhoki (UC Los Angeles)	Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
5/05/2023 *Sproul 2206	Dick Startz (UC Santa Barbara)	Recessions, Recoveries, and Leverage
5/12/2023	No seminar
5/19/2023 *Zoom	Viktoria Hnatkovska (UBC)	Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India
5/26/2023 *Zoom	Jun Ma (Northeastern)	Estimating the Interest Rate Trend in a Shadow Rate Term Structure Model
6/02/2023 *Sproul 2206	Xinchan Lu (UC Riverside)	Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy
6/09/2023 *Zoom	Tony Zhang (Fed Board)	Understanding the Strength of the Dollar

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:37:17 +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 Ruoyao Shi

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
4/06/2023 *Sproul 2206	Kirill Ponomarev (University of Chicago)	Selecting Inequalities for Sharp Identification in Models with Set-Valued Predictions
4/13/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yinchu Zhu (Brandeis University)	Phase Transition of the Monotonicity Assumption in Learning Local Average Treatment Effects
4/20/2023 *Sproul 2206	Shuyang Sheng (UCLA)	Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation
4/27/2023 *Sproul 2206	Anh Tran (UCR)	Forecasting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors
5/04/2023 *Sproul 2206	Euncheol Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)	Optimal Influence Design in Networks
5/11/2023 *Sproul 2206	Tao Wang (University of Victoria, Canada)	Distributed Learning for Kernel Mode-Based Regression
5/18/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)	Revealing Unobservables by Deep Learning: Generative Element Extraction Networks (GEEN)
5/25/2023 *Sproul 2206	TBD
6/01/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yifei Ding (UCR)	Deep learning for individual heterogeneity with generated regressors
6/08/2023 *Sproul 2206	Yong Ju Lee (UCR)	Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity