Winter 2013 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2013

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:42:04 +0000

Friday, 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
1/11/2013	NO SEMINAR	No Seminar
1/18/2013	Aparajita Dasgupta, UCR PhD Candidate	Can The Major Public Works Program Serve As Buffer Against Negative Shocks In Early Childhood? Evidence From Andhra Pradesh, India
1/25/2013	Monobina Mukherjee, UCR Environmental Sciences PhD Candidate	Irrigated Agricultural Adaptation To Water And Climate Variability: The Economic Value Of A Water Portfolio
2/1/2013	Jingyi Xue, Rice University	Three Representations Of Preferences With Decreasing Absolute Uncertainty Aversion
2/8/2013	Nathan Converse, London School of Economics	Uncertainty, Capital Flows, And Maturity Mismatch
2/15/2013	Fabio Ghironi, Boston College	Market Deregulation And Optimal Monetary Policy In A Monetary Union
2/21/2013*	Douglas Almond, Columbia University *NOTE: (Graduate Student presentation, 11-12:30pm, in Sproul 2206)	Fetal Origins And Anti-Poverty Policies
2/22/2013	Douglas Almond, Columbia University	Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale Of Land Reform And Sex Ratios In China with Hongbin Li and Shuang Zhang
3/1/2013	Laura Giuliano, University of Miami	Do Gifted Education Programs Work For Disadvantaged Students?
3/7/2013*	Alan Manning, London School of Economics *NOTE: (Graduate Student Presentation, 11-12:30pm in Sproul 2206)	Imperfect Competition In The Labor Market
3/8/2013	Alan Manning, London School of Economics	Minimum Wages And Wage Inequality: Some Theory And An Application To The UK
3/15/2013	Qiong Tian, UCR PhD Candidate	TBA

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:31:43 +0000

Wednesday, 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
1/7/2013*	John Galbraith, McGill University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Monday instead of a Wednesday)	Dimension Reduction, Empirical-Similarity-Weighted Regression, and the Prediction of Fine Art Prices at Auction.
1/16/2013	John Baez, UCR Mathematics Department	Network Theory
1/23/2013	TBA	TBA
1/30/2013	Hiroki Nishimura, New York University	The Transitive Core: Inference of Welfare From Nontransitive Preference Relations
2/6/2013	TBA	TBA
2/13/2013	James Dieterich, UCR Earth Sciences Department	Use Of Simulations In Earthquake Forecasts
2/20/2013	Jung Jae Park, University of Wisconsin	Contagion Of Sovereign Default Risk: The Role Of The Two Financial Frictions
2/27/2013	Stefano D’Addona, V.A.P. in Economics	Money And Currency Market Implications Of The Long Run Risk Models
3/6/2013	Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	Inference On Treatment Effects After Selection Amongst High-Dimensional Controls
3/13/2013	Eva Senra, Universidad de Alcal de Henares, Madrid Spain	From Housing Boom To Fiscal Bankruptcy: The Need To Adjust Fiscal Balances For Asset Bubbles

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:05:34 +0000

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

Questions? Contact 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
1/9/2013*	Lekha Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta University and Visiting Scholar – Stockholm Environment Institute, Davis CA *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Wednesday instead of a Monday)	Sustainable Development – A Path Dependent Analysis To The Rat Hole Coal Mining In Jaintia Hills District, India
1/14/2013	TBA	TBA
1/21/2013	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
1/28/2013	Devrim Demirel, University of Colorado at Boulder	On The Cyclicality Of Credit
2/4/2013	Wonki Jo Cho, University of Rochester, New York	Probalistic Assignment: A Two-Fold Axiomatic Approach
2/11/2013	Nathan Larson, University of Virginia	Network Security
2/18/2013	HOLIDAY	No Seminar
2/25/2013	Jana Grittersova	Foreign Banks, Reputation, and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Evidence From Transition Economies
2/27/2013	Stefano d”Addona, UCR Economics	Money And Currency Market Implications Of The Long Run Risk Models
3/4/2013	Laurent Mathevet, University of Texas at Austin	An Axiomatic Approach To Bounded Rationality In Repeated Interactions: Theory And Experiments
3/11/2013	Victor Ortego Marti, UCR Economics	Loss Of Skills And The Cyclical Behavior Of Unemployment And Vacancies
3/18/2013	Dongwon Lee, University of Washington	What Makes A Commodity Currency?