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Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminars Winter 2026

Thursday, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.

Questions? Contact Ryan Hodge

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
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Applied Economics Seminars Winter 2026

Wednesday, 2:00-3:20 pm
Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed two days before the seminar.

Questions? Contact Joseph Cummins, Steven Helfand &  Ajin 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
1/7/2026 No Seminar
1/14/2026 Pierre Mouganie, Simon Fraser Role Models and the Formation of Long-Run Gender Norms
1/21/2026 No Seminar
1/28/2026 Jeffrey Clemens, UCSD Health Impacts of Federal Pandemic Aid to State and Local Governments
2/4/2026      Zoom Heitor Pellegrina, Notre Dame Directed Innovation meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution
2/11/2026 Nicolás de Roux, Uniandes Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity
2/18/2026 Na’ama Shenhav, UC Berkeley Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children
2/25/2026 Jonathan Kolstad, UC Berkeley
3/4/2026 David Arnold, UCSD
3/11/2026 Distinguished Visitor (DV) in Econometrics, Xiaohong Chen (Yale)
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Econometrics Seminars Winter 2026

Tuesday, 2:00-3:20 pm  (unless otherwise is noted with *)
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
1/6/2026 *Zoom (2:00-3:20pm) Ekaterina Seregina, Colby College A Nonlinear Target-Factor Model with Attention Mechanism for Mixed-Frequency Data
1/9/2026 10:00am to 11:00am Ali Mehrabani, University of Kansas (Joint with Macroeconomics) Identifying Latent Group Structures in Spatial Panel Models with Common Shocks.
1/9/2026 2:00pm to 3:20pm Shahnaz Parsaeian University of Kansas (Joint with Macroeconomics) Mixed Frequency Panel Regressions with Sparsity and Heterogeneity.
1/13/2026 Grigory Franguridi, USC Generalized method of moments with partially missing data
1/20/2026 No Seminar
1/27/2026 Han Hong, Stanford The ROC Curve and Statistical Allocations Paper 1 Paper 2
2/3/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm)  Fuwei Jiang, Xiamen University Market Risk Premium: A Single Optimal Predictive Factor in High Dimension
2/10/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm) Xuan Leng, Xiamen University Reinforced Tail Quantile Regression
2/17/2026 Whitney Newey, MIT Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects for Nonseparable Panel Data
2/24/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm) Yundong Tu, Peking University Shattering Break Barriers: Inferential Theory for Group Factor Models Subject to Disruptive Breaks
2/27/2026  *Friday M. Hashem Pesaran, USC and Cambridge

(Joint with Macroeconomics)
 The Output Convergence Debate Revisited: Lessons from recent developments in the analysis of panel data models
3/3/2026 Tianyan Tu, UCR Optimal Tensor Portfolio
3/10/2026 Xiaohong Chen, Yale
3/11/2026 *Wednesday (2:00-3:20pm) Xiaohong Chen, Yale
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Microeconomic Theory Seminars Winter 2026

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.

Questions? Contact Siyang Xiong

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
1/12/2026 Zoom Sulagna Dasgupta, Cornell University Screening Knowledge with Verifiable Evidence
1/19/2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Day – No Seminar
1/26/2026 Yishu Zeng, York University Zoom: Randomized Promises in a Moral Hazard Model
2/2/2026 Kun Zhang , Queensland University Optimal Procurement Design: A Reduced-Form Approach
2/9/2026 Zoom Roi Orzach, BU Multi-Project Collaborations

Abstract

Paper
2/16/2026 Washington’s Birthday – No Seminar
2/23/2026 Peiran Xiao, USC
3/2/2026 Jiabin Wu, Oregon University
3/9/2026 Alistair Wilson, Pitt Zoom
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Macroeconomics Seminars Winter 2026

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

Questions? Contact Marcelle Chauvet & 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
1/9/2026 10:00am to 11:00am Ali Mehrabani, University of Kansas (Joint with Econometrics) Identifying Latent Group Structures in Spatial Panel Models with Common Shocks.
1/9/2026 2:00pm to 3:20pm Shahnaz Parsaeian University of Kansas (Joint with Econometrics) Mixed Frequency Panel Regressions with Sparsity and Heterogeneity.
1/16/2026 Chandler Lutz, University of North Carolina – Charlotte Highly Disaggregated Land Unavailability
1/30/2026 Shin Kikuchi, UC San Diego Balassa–Samuelson in the Long Run: Qualitative Success, Quantitative Limits
2/13/2026         Zoom Zeynep Senyuz, Federal Reserve Board A Tale of Demand and Supply for Central Bank Reserves
2/20/2026 Jorge Miranda-Pinto, IMF Zoom
2/27/2026 M. Hashem Pesaran, USC and Cambridge

(Joint with Econometrics)
 The Output Convergence Debate Revisited: Lessons from recent developments in the analysis of panel data models
3/6/2026 Lusha Xu, UCR
3/13/2026 Jianbin Chen, UCR
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