Spring 2025 – UCR | Department of Economics

Microeconomic Theory Seminars Spring 2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:14:00 +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 Yang Xie & 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
04/09/2025	Luca Rigotti (University of Pittsburgh)	Identification of Incomplete Preferences
04/16/2025	Anujit Chakraborty (UC Davis)	The Role of Interpersonal Uncertainty in Prosocial Behavior
04/23/2025	Aniruddha Ghosh (Cal Poly)	Separately Convex and Separately Continuous Preferences
04/30/2025
05/07/2025	Max Stinchcombe (University of Texas, Austin)	All Games Have Equilibria In Finitely Additive Strategies
05/14/2025	Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)	Missing Discussions
05/21/2025	Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley)	Random Rationalizability
05/28/2025 *Zoom	Joseph Warren (University of Alaska, Anchorage)	Citizen Approval Increases Information in Administrative Policymaking
06/04/2025
06/11/2025
06/18/2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:58:03 +0000

Tuesday, 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 Donggyu Kim

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
04/01/2025	Xiaoqian Liu (UCR Statistics)	A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion
04/08/2025 Zoom 3:30-4:50pm	Degui Li (University of Macau)	Large-Scale Curve Time Series with Common Stochastic Trends
04/15/2025	Yinglun Zhu (UCR)	Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute
04/22/2025	Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)	Can Machines Learn Weak Signals?
04/29/2025	Yuan Liao (Rutgers University)	Does Noise Hurt Economic Forecasts?
04/30/2025 *Wednesday	Yuan Liao (Rutgers University)	The Uncertainty of Machine Learning Predictions in Asset Pricing
05/06/2025 Zoom 3:30-4:50pm	Fa Wang (Peking University)	Estimation and Inference for Unbalanced Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
05/12/2025 Monday Joint with Macro	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Interest Rates, Emissions and Energy Efficiency
05/20/2025	Yuefeng Han (University of Notre Dame)	Estimation and Inference for Two-Way Matrix Factor Models
05/27/2025	Kyoo il Kim (Michigan State University)	An Instrumental Variables Approach to Testing Firm Conduct
06/03/2025

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:30:09 +0000

Friday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the 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
4/4/25	Isaac Opper (RAND)	A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Empirical Application to Grade Retention Policies
4/11/25	Katherine Meckel (UCSD)	The Trade-offs of Privatizing Benefit Distribution: Evidence from Mississippi WIC
4/18/25	SoCCAM (No seminar)
4/25/25	Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)	Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India
5/02/25	Farhan Majid (UPenn)	Parental Response to Fetal Shocks and Macroeconomic Volatility
5/9/25	David Chan (UC Berkeley)	Are Guidelines Worth Following? Treatment Decisions Under Scientific Uncertainty
5/16/25	Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz)	Real-world Eﬀectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children
5/23/25	Guojun He (HKU)	The Demand, Supply, and Market Responses of Corporate ESG Actions: Evidence from a Nationwide Experiment in China
5/30/25	Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley)	Appropriate Technology Use and Autonomy: Evidence From Mexico
6/6/25	Mitchel Hoffman (UC Santa Barbara)

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:28:28 +0000

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

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
03/31/2025	Murilo Silva (UCR)	Climate Disaster Risk and Stock Returns
04/07/2025	Andrew Sinclair (Caltech)	Executive Authority and Household Bailouts
04/14/2025 *Zoom	Luciana Juvenal (IMF)	Commodity Prices and Fiscal (Pro)Cyclicality
04/21/2025	Munseob Lee (UC San Diego)	Land Reform, Agricultural Productivity, and Human Capital Accumulation
04/28/2025	Tomas Williams (George Washington University)	Global Investors in Local-Currency Bond Markets: Implications for Bond Yields and Exchange Rates∗
05/05/2025	Hamid Firooz (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)	Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets under Trade Uncertainty
05/12/2025	Oscar Jorda (UC Davis)	Interest Rates, Emissions and Energy Efficiency
05/19/2025 *Zoom	Chris Papageorgiou(IMF)	Financial Stress and Economic Activity: Evidence from a New Worldwide Index
05/26/2025
06/02/2025