Winter 2021 – UCR | Department of Economics

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2021

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:03:33 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
1/13/2021	Marcelle Chauvet (UCR)	A Time Series Model of the Covid-19 Recession
1/20/2021	Phillippe Goulet Coulombe (University of Pennsylvania)	The Macroecononomy as a Random Forest
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
1/27/2021	Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins University)	Real Effects of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Housing Portfolio Channel
2/03/2021	Pete Klenow (Stanford University)	A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents
2/10/2021	Chad Jones (Stanford University)	Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
2/17/2021	Michael Kiley (Federal Reserve Board)	Financial Conditions and Economic Activity: Insights from Machine Learning
2/24/2021	Eric Sims (Notre Dame University)	Bury the Gold Standard? A Quantitative Exploration
3/03/2021	Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley)	Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
3/10/2021	Martin Einhenbaum (Northwestern University)	How do People Respond to Small Probability Events with Large, Negative Consequences?

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:27:33 +0000

Fridays, 2:30-3:50 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Hiroki Nishimura

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
1/08/2021	No Seminar
1/15/2021	Christopher P. Chambers (Georgetown University)	Preference Identification
1/22/2021	Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Maryland)	Progressive Random Choice
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
1/29/2021	Matthew Kovach (Virginia Tech)	Minimum Distance Belief Updating with General Information
2/05/2021	Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)	Caution and Reference Effects
2/12/2021	Yoram Halevy (University of Toronto)	Randomize at your own risk: on the observability of ambiguity aversion
2/19/2021	Jawwad Noor (Boston University)	Intuitive Priors
2/26/2021	Efe A. Ok (New York University)	Inferential Choice Theory
3/05/2021	David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)	Allocation Mechanisms Without Reduction
3/12/2021	John K.-H. Quah (Johns Hopkins University)	Comparative statics with linear objectives: normal demand, monotone marginal costs, and ranking multi-prior beliefs

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:20:36 +0000

Mondays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

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
1/11/2021	Lisa Kahn (Rochester)	Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
2/01/2021	Jessamyn Schaller (CMC)	Family Support in Hard Times: Dynamics of Intergenerational Exchange after Adverse Events
2/08/2021	Engy Ziedan (Tulane University)	The Effects of School Reopenings on COVID-19 Hospitalizations
2/22/2021	Chris Walters (University of California, Berkley)	The Long-Run Effects of Universal Pre-K in Boston
3/01/2021	Aprajit Mahajan (Princeton)	Expanding Financial Access Via Credit Cards: Evidence from Mexico
3/08/2021	Till von Wachter (University of California, Los Angeles)	Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession
3/15/2021	Neha Agarwal (University of Otago)	Son Preference, Maternal Health, and Women’s Survival- A Cross-Cultural Analysis
3/22/2021	No Seminar	No Seminar
3/29/2021	Opinder Kaur (University of California, Riverside)

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:32:16 +0000

Fridays, 4:00-5:20 pm
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Tae-hwy Lee

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
01/08/2021	Ali Mehrabani (UCR)	Estimation and Identification in Panel Data with Latent Structures
01/15/2021	Andrew Patton (Duke University)	Testing Forecast Rationality for Measures of Central Tendency
01/22/2021	Liyuan Cui (City University, Hong Kong)	Large positive definite covariance estimation for high frequency data via sparse and low-rank decomposition
1/25/2021 *Monday	Workshop : Ethics Presentation Organizer: Carolyn Sloane
01/29/2021	Saman Banafti (UCR)	Inferential Theory for Granular IVs in High Dimensions
02/05/2021	Yaojue Xu (UCR)	Higher Order Elicitability and Forecast Encompassing for Volatility Forecasts
02/12/2021	Xinwei Ma (UCSD)	Local Regression Distribution Estimators
02/19/2021	Chu-An Liu (Academia Sinica, Taipei)	Model Averaging Prediction by K-Fold Cross-Validation
02/26/2021	Xinyu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)	Some topics on least squares model averaging
03/05/2021	Yongmiao Hong (Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)	Consistent Testing for Structural Changes in Time Series Regression Models via Discrete Fourier Transform
03/12/2021	Qiankun Zhou (Louisiana State University)	Estimation and Statistical Inference for Short Panel Models with both Interactive Effects and Threshold Effects