Winter 2005 – UCR | Department of Economics

Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2005

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:04:53 +0000

Wednesdays, 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
1/5/2005	Anil Deolalikar, Stephen Helfand, and Richard Sutch Economics- UCR	“How to Write a Referee Report”
1/12/2005	Edward Miguel UC Berkeley	“The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam”
1/14/2005*	Richard Sutch, Anil Deolalikar, Keith Griffin and Steven Helfand *NOTE: Friday 12:10 – 1:20 pm 1500 Humanities Building	“Round Table on South Asia Tsunami”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanaik Economics UCR *NOTE: (joint with Economic Theory Seminar)	On Some Difficulties in Standard of Living Comparisons Based on Functionings”
1/26/2005	Monica Das Economics- UCR	Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income distribution, Product composition and Trade
2/9/2005	Martha Bailey Vanderbilt	“Impact of the Pill on Female Labor Supply”
2/18/2005*	Paul David Oxford & Stanford *NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 pm	“The Tale of Two Traverses: Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth”
3/2/2005	David Ellerman UCR	“Jane Jacobs on Diversification and Specialization”
3/9/2005	Anirban Dasgupta UCR	“Agrarian Reforms in West Bengal since 1977”

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:49:40 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or 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
1/3/2005	Weiping Yang, UCR	A generalized bivariate threshold autoregressive model using copula with applications in output growth and unemployment
1/10/2005	Xiao Huang, UCR	Panel VAR under cross sectional dependence
1/17/2005	Final Exam Week	Holiday
1/24/2005	Xiangdong Long , UCR	Estimation of Multivariate GARCH models
1/31/2005	Heather Tierney, UCR	Fisher Effect:A noparametric investigation
2/14/2005	Changjin Kim Economics, Korea University and University of Washington	Estimation of a Forward-Looking Monetary Policy Rule: A Time-Varying Parameter Model using Ex-Post Data
2/21/2005	Presidents Day (holiday)	Presidents Day (holiday)
2/28/2005	Jushan Bai Economics, NYU	Confidence Intervals for Diffusion Index Forecasts and Inference for Factor-Augmented Regressions
3/7/2005	Akio Namba, Kobe University	Japan A Paradox about the Estimation of the Scale Parameter in the Stein-Rule Estimator
3/14/2005	Final Exam Week	Final Exam Week
3/21/2005	Spring Break	Spring Break

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:37:26 +0000

Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10 – 5:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)

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
1/13/2005	Joel Watson UCSD- Economics Department	“Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail”
1/19/2005*	Prasanta Pattanik UC Riverside- Economics Department *NOTE: Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm	Joint with the PED seminar “On some difficulties in standard of living comparisons based on functionings”
1/27/2005	David Ellerman UC Riverside	“On a Difficulty in Welfare Economics: The Reversibility of the ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Equity’ Distinction in the Marshall-Pigou-Kaldor-Hicks Tradition of Non-Paretian Welfare Economics”
2/3/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/10/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/17/2005	Economics Department	Department Recruitment
2/25/2005*	Michael Schwartz UC Berkeley *NOTE: Friday	“Many-to-One Bargaining over a Depreciating Object” (joint work with David McAdams)
3/3/2005*	Preston McAfee Caltech- Economics Department *NOTE: joint with Thomas Wiseman	“Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture”
3/10/2005	Hongbin Cai UCLA- Economics Department	“Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration”
3/14/2005*	Eric Maskin Princeton- Advanced Studies *NOTE: Monday	“Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting”