Winter 2022 – UCR | Department of Economics

Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2022

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:34:56 +0000

Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Dayang Li and Xinchan Lu.

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
1/12/2022 *Zoom	Dayang Li	Additive Utility Representation under Idempotent Attention
1/19/2022	No Presentation
1/26/2022	No Presentation
2/2/2022 *Zoom	Xinchan Lu	Asymmetric Information, Asset Liquidity and Monetary Policy
2/09/2022 *Zoom	Andong Yan	Dynamic Moral Hazard Problem with Limited Commitment
2/16/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
2/23/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
3/02/2022 *Zoom	No Presentation
3/09/2022 *Zoom	Yongli Chen	The Unintended Impact of Fiscal Hierarchy Reforms on Local Air Quality: Evidence from China

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:13:28 +0000

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
1/03/2022	No Seminar
1/10/2022 *Zoom	Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)	Is Stock Index Membership for Sale?
1/24/2022 *Zoom	Adrien Auclert (Stanford University)	New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curve?
2/07/2022 *Zoom	Daisoon Kim (North Carolina State University)	Aggregate Fluctuations from Clustered Micro Shocks
2/14/2022 *Zoom	Steve Wu (UCSD)	Original Sin and Foreign Reserves Management
2/28/2022 *Sproul 2206	Yu-chin Chen (University of Washington)	Exchange Rate Disconnect and the General Equilibrium Puzzle
3/02/2022 Wednesday 3:30-4:50pm Sproul 2206	Lu Han (Univ of Toronto and University of Wisconsin Madison)	To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets

Christina Gnuschke — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:30:21 +0000

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
1/05/2022 *Zoom	Seungjin Han (McMaster)	A Unified Approach to Equilibrium Analysis in Competing Mechanism Games.
1/12/2022 *Zoom	Fei Li (UNC)	Global Manipulation by local Obfuscation
1/19/2022 *Zoom	Rene Saran (Cincinnati)	A Dynamic Optimization Approach to Delegation with an Application to Volunteer Contracts.
1/26/2022 *Zoom	Dayang Li (UCR)	Additive Utility Representation under Idempotent Attention
2/2/2022 *Zoom	Harry Pei (Northwestern University)	Robust Implementation with Costly Information
2/09/2022 *Zoom	Weijia Li (Monash University)	Hobbesian War and Democracy
2/16/2022 *Zoom	Marcus Pivato (CY Cergy Paris Universite)	Preference aggregation under uncertainty
2/23/2022 *Zoom	Natalia Lazzati (UC Santa Cruz)	An ordinal approach to the empirical analysis of games with monotone best responses
3/02/2022 *Zoom	Victor H. Aguiar (University of Western Ontario)	A Rationalization of the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference
3/09/2022 *Zoom	John Rehbeck (Ohio State University)	Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:28:07 +0000

Fridays, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Ozkan Eren

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
1/07/2022	No Seminar
1/28/2022 *Zoom	Joseph Cummins (UCR)	Professional Development Seminar: The Publication Process from First Draft to Acceptance
2/04/2022 *Zoom	Philip Cook (Duke University)	Policing Gun Violence: Explaining Patterns and Trends in Arrest Rates
2/11/2022 *Zoom	Carolyn Sloane (UCR)	Departmental Ethics Seminar: Best Practices
2/18/2022 *Zoom	Joe Cummins (UCR)	Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects
2/25/2022 *Zoom	Kristin Kleinjans (California State University, Fullerton)	The Effects of Being Born in Interesting Times: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
3/04/2022 *Sproul 2206	Sarah Cohodes (Columbia University)	Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston’s Charter Schools
3/11/2022 *Zoom	Christian Gunadi (University of California, San Diego)	On the Tragedy of Mass Shooting: the Crime Effects

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:00:29 +0000

Thursday, 3:30-4:50 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
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
1/06/2022 *Zoom	Yaojue Xu (UCR)	Forecast Encompassing and Granger Causality in Predictive Models of Expected Shortfalls and Growth Shortfalls
1/13/2022 *Zoom	Norman Swanson (Rutgers University)	Machine Learning with Big Data: New Empirical and Theoretical Findings
1/20/2022 *Zoom	Ricardo Pereira Masini (Princeton University)	Bridging Factor and Sparse Model
1/27/2022 *Zoom	Zhentao Shi (Georgia Institute of Technology)	High Dimensional Forecast Combinations Under Latent Structures
2/03/2022 *Zoom	No Seminar
2/10/2022 *Zoom	Andrii Babii (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)	High-Dimensional Granger Causality Tests with an Application to VIX and News
2/17/2022 *Zoom	Daniel Henderson (University of Alabama)	A general proposal for model-free difference-in-differences
2/24/2022 *Zoom	Saman Banafti (UCR)	Inferential Theory for Granular Instrumental Variables: Concentrated Markets and Large Dynamic Panels
3/03/2022 Zoom 9:30-10:50am*	Jesus Gonzalo (U. Carlos III de Madrid)	Climate Change Heterogeneity: A Novel Quantitative Approach
3/10/2022 *Zoom	Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)	FinTech Apps and Machine Learning in Finance: Selecting Mutual Funds from the Stocks They Hold: a Machine Learning Approach Goal Setting and Saving in the FinTech Era