Winter 2011 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2011

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:03:07 +0000

Wednesdays 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
1/5/2011	Chad Sparber, Colgate	Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergarduate Students from Abroad
1/12/2011	Gordon Dahl, UCSD	Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpecrted Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
1/19/2011	Masanori Kuroki, UCR	The Deregulation of Temporary Employment and Workers’ Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Japan
1/26/2011*	Martha Bailey, University of Michigan *NOTE: Seminar Cancelled	No Seminar – Cancelled
2/2/2011	Kenneth Small, UCI	Energy Policies for Passenger Motor Vehicles
2/9/2011	Rohini Somanathan, IAS	Repayment Incentives and the Distribution of Gains from Group Lending
2/16/2011	Julie Hotchkiss, Atlanta Federal Reserve	The Wage Impact on Undocumented Workers
2/23/2011	Getachew Nigatu, UCR	The Welfare Value of “Allocate-and-Trade” in Addressing Equity and Externalities: A Case of the Eastern Nile River Basin
3/2/2011	Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel	No Seminar – Cancelled
3/9/2011*	Sandra Black, University of Texas at Austin *NOTE: (two seminars: 1st is 12:10-1:30, and 2nd is 4:10-5:30)	(1) The Economics of Discrimination (2) Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:50:19 +0000

Mondays, 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
1/3/2011	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/10/2011	Peter R. Hansen, Stanford University	Realized GARCH: A Joint Model For Returns and Realized Measures of Volatility
1/17/2011	No Seminar – MLK Jr. Birthday Holiday	No Seminar
1/20/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: Thursday 2:10-3:30pm	Estimating a Semi-Parametric Duration Model without Specifying Heterogeneity
1/21/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: Friday	Understanding Choice Intensity: A Poisson Mixture Model with Logit-based Random Utility Selective Mixing
1/24/2011	Oscar Jorda, UC Davis	Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies
1/31/2011	Thomas Kim, UCR School of Business	Distribution of Individual Stock Performances in a Mutual Fund and the Fund Manager’s Stock Picking Ability
2/7/2011	Pascale Valery, HEC Montreal – Canada	Wald-type Tests When Rank Conditions Fail: A Smooth Regularization Approach
2/14/2011	Jose Lopez, Federal Reserve, San Francisco	Extracting Deflation Probability Forecasts From Treasury Yields
2/21/2011	No Seminar – Presidents Day Holiday	No Seminar
2/28/2011	Allan Timmerman, UC San Diego	Out-Of-Sample Forecast Evaluation: Choice of Sample Split
3/7/2011	Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University – Canada	Measurement Error and Convolution Equations In Generalized Functions Spaces

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:33:10 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Richard Suen.

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
1/7/2011	No Seminar (ASSA Meetings)	No Seminar
1/14/2011	TBA	TBA
1/21/2011*	Jerry Hausman, MIT – Boston *NOTE: (This is an Econometrics Seminar)	Understanding Choice Intensity: A Poisson Mixture Model with Logit-based Random Utility Selective Mixing
1/28/2o11	TBA	TBA
2/3/2011*	Jie Zheng, Washington University, St. Louis *NOTE: This is an Econ Theory seminar and will be held from 2:10-3:30 in Sproul 2206	Strong Bubbles and Common Expected Bubbles in a Finite Horizon Model
2/4/2011	Urmee Khan, University of Texas at Austin	The Virtues of Hesitation
2/8/2011*	Justin Tumlinson, UC Berkeley *NOTE: This is an Econ Theory seminar on Tuesday, and will be held in Sproul 2206 from 5:10-6:30pm	Adverse Selection in Team Formation Under Discrimination
2/11/2011	Stefano Barbieri, Tulane University	Increasing Fundraising Success by Decreasing Donor Choice
2/18/2011	Martin Boileau, University of Colorado at Boulder	Corporate Cash Savings: Precaution versus Liquidity
2/25/2011	Qinglai Meng, Oregon State University	Sunspots and The Nature of Price Rigidity
3/4/2011	Kevin Lansing, Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco	Asset Pricing With Concentrated Ownership of Capital
3/11/2011	Elie Appelbaum, York University, Canada	No Seminar – Cancelled