Winter 2017 – UCR | Department of Economics

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:42:49 +0000

Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Steven Helfand or Sarojini Hirshleifer.

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
1/11/2017	Joseph Romano, Stanford University	Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption
1/18/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/25/2017	Robert Kaestner, UC Riverside	Early Childhood Health Shocks And Adult Wellbeing: Evidence From Wartime Britain
2/1/2017	Yongxiang Wang, The University of Southern California	Access To Migration For Rural Households
2/8/2017	Dan Bennett, The University of Southern California	The Marriage Market For Lemons: HIV Testing And Marriage In Rural Malawi
2/15/2017	Shihe Fu, Southwest Univ. of Economics & Finance	Air Quality And Labor Productivity: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms
2/22/2017*	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology *NOTE: from 10:00-11:30 am in INTS 1113 (Please note, this is an Econometrics seminar)	BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates
2/22/2017	Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley	Inequality Of Educational Opportunity? Schools As Mediators Of The Intergenerational Transmission Of Income
3/01/2017	Monica Singhal, UC Davis	Dodging The Taxman: Firm Misreporting And Limits To Enforcement
3/08/2017*	SungJun Huh, UCR PhD Candidate *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar, but is being given on a Wednesday)	The Equity Premium And The Financial Accelerator
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics seminar)	Informational Constraints On Antipoverty Programs: Evidence For Africa
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please see line above)	Paper #2 for the seminar title listed above.
3/11/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (this is the keynote address at the PacDev Conference)	Interventions Against Poverty In Poor Places
3/15/2017	David Lagakos, UC San Diego	In Search Of A Spatial Equilibrium In The Developing World
3/22/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:54:58 +0000

Econometrics Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee or Aman Ullah.

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
1/09/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/11/2017	Joseph Romano, Stanford University	Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption
1/13/2017	Raffaella Giacomini, University College of London	Uncertain Identification
1/16/2017	M.L. King Holiday – No Seminar, Campus Closed	No Seminar
1/20/2017	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Identifying The Distribution Of The Gender Gap
1/23/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/30/2017*	Yulia Pavlova, LUKE Natural Resources Institute-Helsinki, Finland *NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar Presentation)	International Environmental Cooperation And Dynamic Stock Effects
2/06/2017	TBA	TBA
2/13/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar
2/17/2017*	Ruoyao Shi, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)	Identification And Estimation Of Nonparametric Hedonic Equilibrium Model With Unobserved Quality
2/20/2017	No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday	No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday
2/22/2017*	Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)	BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates
2/27/2017	Wenxiu Ma, UCR Statistics Department	DNA Sequence-shape Kernel Enables Alignment-free Modeling Of Transcription Factor Binding
3/06/2017	Millie Yi Mao & Jianghao Chu, UCR PhD Candidates	Millie: Maximum Entropy Based Estimation Of Econometric Functions Jianghao: Predicting Binary Outcomes With High Dimensional Data Using Asymmetric AdaBoost
3/13/2017	Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University	Wald Tests When Restrictions Are Locally Singular
3/20/2017	Jerry Hausman, MIT	Errors In The Dependent Variable of Quantile Regression Models

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2017

Christina Gnuschke — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:26:20 +0000

Economic Theory Seminars Winter 2017

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet or 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
1/13/2017	Rafaella Giacomini, University College of London	Uncertain Identification
1/20/2017	Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University	Identifying The Distribution Of The Gender Gap
1/27/2017*	Fei Jia, Michigan State University *NOTE: (Please note that this seminar will be held from 2-3:30pm in INTS 1111)	Exploring Additional Moment Conditions In Non-separable Minimum Distance Estimation With An Application To Pseudo Panels
01/30/2017*	Yulia Pavlova, LUKE Natural Resources Institute, Helsinki Finland *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Monday)	International Environmental Cooperation And Dynamic Stock Effects
2/03/2017	Walmir Silva, University of Brasilia & Visiting Scholar-UCR	An Analysis Of The Literature On Systemic Financial Risk: A Survey
2/10/2017	Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College	Analysis Of Stigma And Bank Behavior
2/17/2017*	Ruoyao Shi, UC Los Angeles *NOTE: (from 10:00 am – 11:30 am (Please note, this in an Econometrics seminar to be held in INTS 1113)	Identification And Estimation Of Nonparametric Hedonic Equilibrium Model With Unobserved Quality
2/17/2017	Ricardo Fernholz, Claremont McKenna College	Empirical Methods For Dynamic Power Law Distributions In The Social Sciences
2/24/2017	Joseph McMurray, Brigham Young University	Polarization And Pandering In Common-Value Elections
3/03/2017	Eric Swanson, UC Irvine	Measuring The Effects Of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance And Asset Purchases On Financial Markets
3/08/2017*	SungJun Huh, UCR PhD Candidate *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Wednesday, but is an Economic Theory Seminar)	The Equity Premium And The Financial Accelerator
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please note that this is a Friday, but is an Applied Economics Seminar)	Informational Constraints On Antipoverty Programs: Evidence For Africa
3/10/2017*	Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University *NOTE: (Please see line just above)	Paper #2 for the seminar listed above
3/17/2017	Zeynep Senyuz, Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System	Effects Of Changing Monetary And Regulatory Policy On Overnight Money Markets