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Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2015

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

Questions? Contact Steven Helfand.

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
1/5/2015 No Seminar No Seminar
1/9/2015* Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School

*NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday)

 Path-Breakers? Women’s Electoral Success And Future Political Participation
1/12/2015 Jenny Aker, Tufts Fletcher School Of Law & Diplomacy Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Short And Long-Term Impacts From An Experiment In Niger
1/19/2015 No Seminar, M.L. King Holiday No Seminar
1/20/2015* Tobias Pfutze, Oberlin College

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday & seminar will be held from 4:10-5:30 in HUM 1500)

 Land Titles And Violent Conflict In Rural Mexico
1/21/2015* Qian Lu, University of Texas at Austin

*NOTE: (Please note, this is an Applied Economics seminar)

 The End Of Polarization? Technological Change And Employment In The U.S. Labor Market
1/23/2015* Michael Bates, Michigan State University

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Friday, but is an Applied Econ seminar)

 Public And Private Learning In The Market For Teachers
1/26/2015 Michael Kottelenberg, Queens University Heterogeneity In Child Development: Universal Child Care And Parental Investments
1/27/2015* Michael Muller-Smith, Columbia University

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar and will be held in Spr 2206)

 The Criminal And Labor Market Impacts Of Incarceration
1/28/2015* Jillian Carr, Texas A&M University

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, but is an Applied Econ seminar)

 The Effect Of Housing Vouchers On Crime: Evidence From A Lottery
2/2/2015 TBA TBA
2/9/2015* Robert Kaestner

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy)

 Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D
2/16/2015 No Seminar, Presidents Day Holiday No Seminar
3/2/2015* Daniel Rees

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a joint seminar with School of Public Policy; rescheduled from 2/23/15) 

 Emotional Cues and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl
3/2/2015* Boris Bravo-Ureta, University of Connecticut

*NOTE: 1:10pm to 2:30pm

 A Meta Analysis of the Agricultural Frontier Literature with a Focus on Water Studies
3/9/2015* Mike McCraken, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis

*NOTE: (Please note that this is an Econometrics seminar)

 Evaluating Conditional Forecasts from Vector Autoregressions
3/20/2015 Tim Squires, Brown University The Impact of Access to Electricity on Education: Evidence from Honduras
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Econometrics Seminars Winter 2015

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

Questions? Contact Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera.

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
 1/9/2015 Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School Path-Breakers? Women’s Electoral Success And Future Political Participation
1/16/2015 Myong-Hwal Lee, Korea Institute of Finance & UCR Visiting Scholar in Economics Analyzing The Eurozone’s Systemic Risk With The CDS Premium Data Using Principle Component,Cluster Analysis, And The Pruned Exact Linear Time (PELT) Algorithm
1/23/2015* Michael Bates

*NOTE: (Please note, that this is an Applied Econ seminar)

 Public And Private Learning In The Market For Teachers
1/30/2015 TBA TBA
2/6/2015 No Seminar No Seminar

2/13/2015

 No Seminar No Seminar
2/20/2015 TBA TBA
2/27/2015 Najrin Khanom Using Value at Risk methodologies to detect extreme risk spillover between financial markets
3/6/2015 Alexander Aue, UC Davis On the Prediction of Stationary Functional Time Series
3/9/2015* Mike McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Monday)

 Evaluating Conditional Forecasts from Vector Autoregressions
3/11/2015* Amos Golan, American University

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Wednesday, and the seminar will be from 9:10-10:30am in Sproul 2206)

 Interval Estimation: An Info-metrics Approach
3/13-15/2015 Conference in Honor of Aman Ullah Location is The Riverside Mission Inn, please see Economics Website for more information
3/20/2015 No Seminar Winter finals week, no seminar
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Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2015

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

Questions? Contact DongWon Lee or Victor Ortego Marti

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
1/7/2015 Miroslav Gabrovski, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics The Patent System – A Tool For Increasing Competition
1/13/2015* Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University

*NOTE: (Please note, this is a Tuesday, and is the graduate student presentation.  The seminar will be from 10:30am-12noon in Sproul 2206)

 Dynamic Programming: Theory And Application
1/14/2015 Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University Discounting: Investment Sensitivity And Aggregate Implications
1/21/2015* Qian Lu, University of Texas at Austin

*NOTE: (Please note that this is Applied Economics seminar)

 The End Of Polarization? Technological Change And Employment In The U.S. Labor Market
1/28/2015* Jillan Carr, Texas A&M University

*NOTE: (Please note that this is an Applied Economics seminar)

 The Effect Of Housing Vouchers On Crime: Evidence From A Lottery
2/4/2015 No Seminar No Seminar
2/11/2015 Andy Atkeson, UCLA Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
2/18/2015 Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, UC Irvine What Drives Offshoring Decisions? Selection and Escape-Competition Mechanisms
2/25/2015 Danilo Leiva-Leon, Bank of Canada Model Averaging in Markov-Switching Models: Predicting National Recessions with Regional Data?
3/4/2015 Grace Gu, UC Santa Cruz A Tale of Two Countries: Sovereign Default, Exchange Rate, and Trade
3/11/2015 Christopher Meissner, UC Davis Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
3/18/2015 No Seminar Winter finals week, no seminar
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