Winter 2009 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2009

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:16:58 +0000

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul 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
1/5/2009	Richard Arnott, UCR	Curbside Parking Time Limits
1/12/2009	TBA	TBA
1/19/2009	NO SEMINAR	Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
1/26/2009	Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine	A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries
2/2/2009	Jeff Wooldrige, Michigan State University	CANCELLED
2/9/2009	Paul Schultz, Yale University	How Does Family Planning Promote Development?: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh – 1977-1996
2/16/2009	NO SEMINAR	President’s Day Holiday
2/23/2009	Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan	Evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents in the UK
3/2/2009	TBA	TBA
3/9/2009	Keith Knapp, UCR	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:06:52 +0000

Fridays, 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
1/2/2009	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
1/9/2009	TBA	TBA
1/16/2009	Yundong Tu, UCR Graduate Student	Efficient Local Polynomial Estimation of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Models
1/23/2009	TBA	TBA
1/30/2009	TBA	TBA
2/2/2009*	Jeff Wooldridge, Michigan State University *NOTE: MONDAY	CANCELLED
2/6/2009	James Flegal, UCR Statistics	Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Can We Trust the Third Significant Figure?
2/13/2009	TBA	TBA
2/20/2009	Doug Steigerwald, UC Berkeley	Subsample Tests For Regime Switching
2/27/2009	Rescheduled	TBA
3/6/2009	Bryan Graham, UC Berkeley	Identification and Estimation of Irregular Correlated Random Coefficient Models

Christina Gnuschke — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:56:44 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Wei Li

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
2/4/2009	Wei Li, UCR	Misinformation
2/11/2009	Ricardo Alonso, USC Marshall School of Business	Organize to Compete
2/18/2009	Hao Li, University of Toronto	Optimal Deadline for Agreements
2/25/2009	Edward Schlee, Arizona State University	Optimal Insurance with Adverse Selection
3/4/2009	Joel Sobel, UC San Diego	Information Aggregation and Group Decisions
3/11/2009	Dave Malueg, UCR	Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game