Winter 2024 – UCR | Department of Economics

Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2024

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:37:58 +0000

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Dongwon 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
2/28/2024	Chang He (UCLA)	Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions
3/06/2024
3/13/2024	Chenzi Xu (Stanford GSB)	EXIM’s Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies.

Christina Gnuschke — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:59:18 +0000

Thursday, 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Yeonjoo Son and Lusha Xu

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
1/25/2024	Da Huang	Asian Climate Policies and Way Forward
2/1/2024	Pete Pridanonda	Criminal Records and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. College Applications
2/8/2024
2/15/2024
2/22/2024
2/29/2024	Ryan Hodge	Efficient or Fractal? Strategic Trade under Competing Market Hypotheses
3/07/2024	Qichen Zhou	Forecasting Loan Risk of Banks with Machine Learning in Main Street Lending Program
3/14/2024

Christina Gnuschke — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:41:11 +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
01/11/2024	Departmental Seminar
01/18/2024	Departmental Seminar
01/25/2024	Departmental Seminar
02/01/2024	Departmental Seminar
02/08/2024	Fa Wang (Peking University)	Newton Raphson Method for Matrix Completion
02/15/2024 *Zoom	Jie Wei (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)	Does Principal Component Analysis Preserve the Sparsity in Sparse Weak Factor Models?
02/22/2024	No Seminar
02/29/2024	Daanish Padha (UCR)	Forecasting Economic Time Series Using Supervised Factors and Idiosyncratic Elements
03/07/2024 *Zoom	Yonghui Zhang (Renmin University of China)	A One-Covariate-at-a-Time Multiple Testing Approach to Variable Selection in Additive Models
03/14/2024 *Zoom	Shahnaz Parsaeian (University of Kansas)	Estimation and Identification of Latent Group Structures in Panel Data with Interactive Fixed Effects

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:25:25 +0000

Monday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in 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
1/29/2024	Rebecca Thornton (Baylor)	Learning More about Teachers: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda
2/05/2024	Emily Nix (USC)	Dating and Breaking Up with the Boss: Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers
2/12/2024	Chris Karbownik (Emory)	Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
2/26/2024	Brian Wheaton (UCLA)	Are Preconceptions Postconceptions? Evidence on Motivated Political Reasoning
3/04/2024	Eric Chyn (Austin)	The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux
3/11/2024	Manisha Goel (Pomona)	Shared Identity and Entrepreneurship
3/18/2024	Kelly Bedard (UCSB)	The Roles of Information and Overconfidence for College Application Behavior

Christina Gnuschke — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:41:01 +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.

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
2/16/2024 *Zoom	Weijia Li (Monash University)	An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions
2/23/2024 *Sproul 2206	Siyang Xiong (UCR)	Mechanism Design with Sequential-Move Games: Revelation Principle
3/01/2024 *Zoom	Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern)	Long Wars
3/08/2024 *Sproul 2206	Axel Niemeyer (Caltech)	Extreme Points in Multi-Dimensional Screening Problems
3/15/2024 *Sproul 2206	Wonki Cho (Korea University)	The local-global equivalence on general networks