Winter 2012 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2012

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:17:17 +0000

Monday, 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
1/9/2012	Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota	Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and The Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China
1/16/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
1/23/2012	Javier Santiago Ortiz, UCR PhD Candidate	The Effect of The Columbian Armed Conflict On Math and Language Learning
1/30/2012	Richard Arnott, UCR Economics	A Bathtub Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion
2/6/2012	Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona	Insurance-Based Wellness Incentives, Hospitalizations, and Medical Care Use
2/13/2012	Ozge Akinci, Columbia University	Financial Frictions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations In Emerging Economies
2/20/2012	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
2/27/2012	Ian Sue Wing, Boston University	Capital Malleability and Climate Policy Costs: General Equilibrium Analysis of the EU-ETS
3/5/2012	Dayanand Manoli, UC Los Angeles	Financial Incentives, Retirement Decisions and a Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities
3/12/2012	David Card, UC Berkeley	Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in The Risky Behavior of Friends
3/13/2012	David Card, UC Berkeley	Model Based Versus Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:10:37 +0000

Friday, 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
1/6/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/13/2012	Song Song, University of Texas at Austin	Large Vector Auto Regressions
1/20/2012	Shinchi Sakar, University of Vancouver	Instrumental Variables Estimation and Weak-Identification-Robust Inference Based On A Conditional Quantile Restriction
1/27/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/3/2012	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology	The Power of Revealed Preference Tests: Ex-Post Evaluation of Experimental Design
2/10/2012	Georgios Georgiadis, Goethe University, Frankfurt	Towards An Explanation of Cross-Country Asymmetries In Monetary Transmission
2/17/2012	Joshua Tasoo, Claremont Graduate University	Believers In Redemption: Overoptimism and Nudges In An Mail-In Rebate Experiment
2/24/2012	Keh-Shin Lii, UCR Statistics Dept	Harmonizable Time Series Analysis
3/2/2012	Andrew Patton, Duke University	Simulated Method of Moments Estimation For Copula-Based Multivariate Models
3/9/2012	Yingying Sun, UCR PhD Candidate	Multivariate Density Forecast: An Application To Multivariate Duration Models
3/16/2012	Liangjun Su, UCR PhD Candidate	Nonparametric Dynamic Panel Data Models: Kernel Estimation Testing

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:03:40 +0000

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

Questions? Contact Dave Malueg.

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
1/4/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/11/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/18/2012	Richard Smith, UCR School of Business Administration	Institutional Investors, Monitoring, and The Transformation of Underperforming Firms
1/25/2012	Stergio Skaperdas, UC Irvine	Guns, Lawyers, and Money: Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict
2/1/2012	Victor Ortego-Marti, London School of Economics & Political Science	Unemployment History and Frictional Wage Dispersion
2/8/2012	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/15/2012	Mauricio Larrain, UC Berkeley	Financial Liberlization, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and Wage Inequality
2/22/2012	Urmee Khan, UCR Economics	An Ambiguity Averse Time Consistent Precautionary Principle
2/29/2012	Daniel Kovenock, Chapman University	The All-Pay Auction With Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities
3/7/2012	Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UC Los Angeles	Relational Contracts In Competitive Labor Markets
3/14/2012	Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University	The Evolution of Theory of Mind