Thursday September 23
Macro |
Richard K. Lyons (UC Berkeley)
"Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow"
Joint with Martin D.D. Evans |
Monday September 27
Applied |
Meghan Busse (UC Berkeley)
"$1000 Cash Back: Asymmetric Information in Auto Manufacturer Promotions" |
Tuesday September 28
Econometrics |
UCSD Faculty Presentations |
Thursday September 30
Macro |
Carlos Capistran (UCSD)
"Bias in Federal Reserve Inflation Forecasts: Is the Federal Reserve Irrational or Just Cautious?" |
Monday October 4
Applied |
James Rauch (UCSD)
“Neckties in the Tropics: A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity.” |
Tuesday October 5
Theory |
Steven Scroggin (UCSD)
"Prediction and Exploitation of Believers in the 'Law of Small Numbers' in Repeated Constant-Sum Games." |
Wednesday October 6
Econometrics |
Don Andrews (Yale)
"Optimal Invariant Similar Tests for Instrumental Variables Regression." |
Thursday October 7
Macro |
Bradford DeLong (UC Berkeley)
"What Should Monetary Policy Have Been After the NASDAQ Bubble?" |
Friday October 8
Applied |
Lanier Benkard (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)
“Estimating Dynamic Models of Imperfect
Competition.” |
Monday October 11
Applied |
Marc Melitz (Harvard University)
"Trading Partners and Trading Volumes."
Joint with Elhanan Helpman and Yona Rubinstein |
Wednesday October 13
Theory |
Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)
"Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design."
Joint with Peter DeMarzo and Ilan Kremer |
Thursday October 14
Theory |
David Vera
(UCSD)
"Changes in the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Evidence from Bank Mergers." |
Friday October 15
Applied |
UCSD Faculty Presentations |
Monday October 18
Applied |
Preston McAfee (Cal Tech)
"Capacity Choice Counters the Coase Conjecture."
(Please note title change.) |
Tuesday October 19
Econometrics |
Andrew Ang (USC/Columbia University)
"Stock Return Predictability: Is it There?" |
Wednesday October 20
Theory |
Preston McAfee (CalTech)
"A Theory of Bilateral Oligopoly." |
Monday October 25
Applied |
Kate Antonovics (UCSD)
"A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department." |
Tuesday October 26
Econometrics |
Giuseppe Ragusa (UCSD)
TBA |
Tuesday October 26
Theory
Extra Theory Reading Group
Location: Sequoyah Hall 244
Time: 3:30p.m. |
Steven Shavell (Harvard University Law School)
"The Appeals Process and Adjudicator Incentives." |
Wednesday October 27
Theory |
Martin Osborne (University of Toronto)
"Party Formation in Single-Issue Politics." |
Thursday October 28
Macro |
Michael B. Devereux (University of British Columbia)
"Exchange Rate Policy and Endogenous Price Flexibility." |
Friday October 29
Applied |
David Weil (Brown University)
"Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth." |
Monday November 1
Applied |
Phillip Leslie (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)
"Reputational Incentives for Restaurant Hygiene."
Updated paper - 10/29/04 |
Tuesday November 2
Econometrics |
Rossen Valkanov (UCLA)
"Estimation of Parametric Equity Portfolio Weights: Exploring Size, Book to Market and Momentum." |
Wednesday November 3
Theory |
Mark Machina (UCSD)
"Ellsberg Preferences." |
Thursday November 4
Macro |
James Hamilton (UCSD)
"What's Real About the Business Cycle?" |
Monday November 8
Applied |
Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)
"Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?" |
Tuesday November 9
Econometrics |
George Monokroussos (UCSD)
"Dynamic Limited Dependent Variable Modeling and US MonetaryPolicy." |
Wednesday November 10
Theory |
David Miller (UCSD)
"Attainable Payoffs in Repeated Games with Interdependent Private Information." |
Monday November 15
Applied |
Christopher Knittel (UC Davis)
"Incompatibility, Product Attributes and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from ATMs."
Joint with Victor Stango |
Tuesday November 16
Econometrics |
Gautam Tripath (University of Connecticut)
"Combining Datasets to Overcome Selection Caused by Censoring and Truncation in Moment Based Models."
Joint with Paul Devereux |
Wednesday November 17
Theory |
Bill Zame (UCLA)
"Marrying Markets and Contracts." |
Thursday November 18
Macro |
Carlos Vegh (UCLA)
"Optimal Monetary Policy under Asset Market Segmentation."
Joint with Amartya Lahiri and Rajesh Singh
|
Friday November 19
Macro |
Dmitriy Stolyarov (University of Michigan)
"Obsolescence of Durables and Optimal Consumption." |
Monday November 22
Applied |
Francesca Mazzolari (UCSD)
"What Accounts for Recent Declines in Welfare Caseloads in the US? The Role of Time Limits" |
Tuesday November 23
Econometrics |
Davide Pettenuzzo (Bocconi)
"Optimal Asset Allocation Under Model Instability." |
Wednesday November 24
Theory |
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi)
"Dynamic Pyschological Games." |
Monday November 29
Macro |
Adam Ashcraft (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Are Banks Really Special? New Evidence from the FDIC-induced Failure of Healthy Banks" |
Tuesday November 30
Econometrics |
Bruce Hansen (University of Wisconsin)
TBA |
Wednesday December 1
|
Amy Finkelstien (Harvard Fellows)
"The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare." |
Thursday December 2
|
Ben Olken (NBER)
"Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia." |
Wednesday January 5
Theory
|
Navin Kartik (UCSD)
"Special Interest Politics and the Quality of Governance."
Joint with B. Douglas Bernheim |
Wednesday January 12
Macro |
Eric Swanson (The Federal Reserve Board)
"The Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates to Economic News: Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models" |
Thursday January 13
Macro |
Christian Broda (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Globalization and the Gains from Variety"
Joint with David Weinstein |
Friday January 14
|
Bryan Graham (Harvard University)
"Identifying Social Interactions Through Excess Variance Contrasts" |
Wednesday January 19 |
Guido Menzio (Northwestern University)
"High Frequency Wage Rigidity" |
Thursday January 20 |
Piotr Eliasz (Princeton University)
"Optimal Median Unbiased Estimation of Coefficients on Highly Persistent Regressors" |
Friday January 21
|
Henry Siu (University of British Columbia)
"State Dependent Pricing and Business Cycle Asymmetries" |
Monday January 24
|
Rustam Ibragimov (Yale University)
"On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions" |
Tuesday January 25 |
Miklos Koren (Harvard University)
"Technological Diversification " |
Wednesday January 26 |
Kevin Song (Yale University)
"Testing Semiparametric Conditional Moment Restrictions using Conditional Martingale Transforms" |
Friday January 28 |
Kolver Hernandez (Boston College)
"State-Dependent Nominal Rigidities" |
Tuesday February 1 |
Daniel Hojman (Harvard University)
"Core and Periphery in Endogenous Networks" |
| Wednesday February 2 |
Jordan Matsudaira (University of Michigan)
"Sinking or Swimming? Evaluating the Impact of English Immersion Versus Bilingual Education on Student Achievement" |
| Thursday February 3 |
Andres Aradillas-Lopez (UC Berkeley)
"Semiparametric Estimation of a Simultaneous Game with Incomplete Information" |
| Friday February 4 |
Alexander Ueberfeldt (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Working Time Over the the 20th Century" |
| Tuesday February 8 |
Petia Topalova (MIT)
"Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty and Inequality from India" |
| Thursday February 10 |
Edward Knotek (University of Michigan)
"Convenient Prices, Currency and Nominal Rigidity: Theory with Evidence from Newspaper Prices" |
| Friday February 11 |
Lu Han (Stanford University)
"The Effects of Price Uncertainty on Housing Demand in the Presence of Lumpy Transaction Costs" |
| Monday February 14 |
Special Lunch Talk 11:40-1:00 (Sequoyah 244)
Host: Michelle White
Steve Rivkin (Amherst College)
"The Market for Teacher Quality" |
| Monday February 14 |
Thomas Chaney (MIT)
"Distorted Gravity: Heterogenous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade" |
| Tuesday February 15 |
Ran Abramitzky (Northwestern University)
"The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz" |
| Wednesday February 16 |
Alberto Martin (Columbia University)
"Endogenous Credit Cycles and Financial Dampening in an Adverse Selection Economy" |
| Friday February 18 |
Ivana Komunjer (Cal Tech)
"Efficient Conditional Quantile Estimation: The Time Series Case" |
| Tuesday February 22 |
Christian Julliard (Princeton University)
"Labor Income Risk and Asset Returns" |
| Wednesday February 23 |
Nava Ashraf (Harvard University)
"Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines" |
| Tuesday March 1 |
Arnaud Costinot (Princeton University)
"Imperfect Contract Enforcement, Form Size, and the Pattern of Trade" |
| Wednesday March 9 |
Luis Garicano (Chicago GSB)
"Organizing For Synergies: Allocating Control to Manage the Coordination-Incentives Tradeoff" |
| Thursday March 10 |
Bryan Graham (Harvard University)
"Alternative Methods of Estimation and Inference for Social Interaction Models" |
| Friday March 11 |
Shang-Jin Wei (International Monetary Fund)
"A Prism into the PPP Puzzles: The Micro-foundations of Nig Mac Real Exchange Rates" |
Thursday March 24
Macro |
Jeff Campbell (Federal reserve Bank of Chicago)
"The Role of Collateralized Household Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization" joint with Zvi Hercowitz |
Monday March 28
Applied |
Dan Ackerberg (University of Arizona)
"Structural Identification of Production Functions"
joint with Kevin Caves, and Garth Frazer |
Wednesday March 30
Theory |
David Miller (UCSD)
"Efficiency in Repeated Trade with Hidden Valuations"
joint with Susan Athey |
Thursday March 31
Macro |
Hui Tong (Bank of England)
"Disclosure Standards and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Analysts' Forecasts" |
Monday April 4
Applied |
Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley)
"Dividend Taxes and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut" joint with Raj Chetty
|
Tuesday April 5
Econometrics |
Xiaohong Chen (NYU)
"Semi-Nonparametric IV Estimation of Shape-Invariant Engel Curves"
joint with Han Hong & Alessandro Tarozzi |
Wednesday April 6
Theory |
Yossi Feinberg (Stanford University)
"Games with Incomplete Awareness" |
Thursday April 7
Macro |
Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
"International Relative Prices in New Ricardian Models of International Trade" joint with Andy Atkeson |
Friday April 8
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Jan Brueckner (UC Irvine)
"The Political Economy of Transport-System Choice" |
Monday April 11
Applied |
Bronwyn Hall (UC Berkeley)
“The Private Value of Software Patents” |
Tuesday April 12
Econometrics |
Peter Bossaerts (CalTech)
"Prices and Portfolio Choices in Financial Markets:
Theory and Experiment"
joint with Charles Plott and William R. Zame
|
Wednesday April 13
Theory |
Marc Muendler (UCSD)
"Rational Information Choice in Financial Market Equilibrium" |
Thursday April 14
Macro |
Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
"Identification of Search Models Using Record Statistics" |
Friday April 15
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Wolfram Schlenker (UCSD)
"The Use of Fixed Effects with Quadratic Functional Forms" |
Monday April 18
Applied |
Phil McCalman (UC Santa Cruz)
"Shaking All Over? International Trade and Industrial Dynamics" |
Tuesday April 19
Econometrics |
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA)
"Bias Reduction for Dynamic Nonlinear Panel Models with Fixed Effects" joint with Guido Kuersteiner |
Wednesday April 20
Theory |
Uzi Segal (Boston College)
"Calibration Results for Non-Expected Utility Preferences" |
Thursday April 21
Macro |
Sergio Rebelo (Kellogg School of Management)
"Large Devaluations and the Real Exchange Rate" joint with Ariel Burstein and Martin Eichenbaum |
Friday April 22
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Krislert Samphantharak (UCSD/IRPS)
"Mixing Familiarity with Business" joint with Marianne Bertrand, Siman Johnson and Antionette Schoar |
Monday April 25
Applied |
Elizabeth Cascio (UC Davis)
"Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Puerto Rico" |
Tueday April 26
Econometrics |
A. Ronald Gallant (Duke University)
"On the Determination of General Scientific Models "
joint with Robert E. McCulloch |
Wednesday April 27
Theory |
Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
"Multi-Object Auctions with Package Bidding: An
Experimental Comparison of iBEA and Vickrey"
joint with Kan Takeuchi |
Thursday April 28
Macro |
Fabrizio Perri (Stern School of Management)
"Does income inequality lead to consumption inequality? evidence and theory" joint with Dirk Krueger
|
Monday May 2
Applied / Macro |
James Smith (RAND)
"The Impact of SES on Health Over The Life-Course" |
Tuesday May 3
Econometrics |
Rafaella Giacomini (UCLA)
"Detecting and Predicting Forecast Breakdowns"
with Barbara Rossi
|
Wednesday May 4
Theory |
Zvika Neeman (Boston University)
"On the Generic (Im)possibility of Full Surplus Extraction in Mechanism Design." joint with Aviad Heifetz |
Thursday May 5
Macro |
Matthias Doepke (UCLA)
"Real Effects of Inflation through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth" joint with Martin Schneider |
Friday May 6
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Karim Chalak (UCSD)
“An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for the Estimation of Causal Effects.” |
Monday May 9
Applied |
Pol Antras (Harvard University)
"Contracts and the Division of Labor" |
Monday May 10
Econometrics |
James Powell (UC Berkeley)
"Censored Regression Quantiles with Endogenous Regressors"
joint with Richard Blundell |
Thursday May 12
Macro |
Nir Jaimovich (UCSD)
"Can News About the Future Drive the Business Cycle?" |
Friday May 13
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Marc Muendler (UCSD)
"Multinational Labor Demand" joint with Sascha O. Becker and Karolina Ekholm |
Monday May 16
Applied |
Mihir Desai (Harvard University)
"Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy" |
Tuesday May 17
Econometrics |
Keisuke Hirano (University of Arizona)
"Asymptotics for Statistical Treatment Rules" |
Wednesday May 18
Theory |
Jimmy Chan (Johns Hopkins University)
"Media as Watchdogs: the Role of the Media in Electoral Competition" joint with Wing Suen
(related paper: "A Spatial Theory of News Consumption and Electoral Competition") |
Thursday May 19
Macro/Micro joint seminar |
Hyeok Jeong (USC)
"Sources of TFP Growth: Occupational Choice and Financial Deepening" joint with Robert M. Townsend |
Friday May 20
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Jeffrey Lin (UCSD)
"Innovation, Cities, and the Creation of New Work" |
Monday May 23
Applied |
David Lee (UC Berkeley)
"Crime, Punishment and Myopia" joint with Justin McCrary |
| Tuesday May 24 |
Jim Andreoni (University of Wisconsin)
"Trust, Reciprocity, and Contract Enforcement: Experiments on Satisfaction Guaranteed" |
Wednesday May 25
Theory |
Andrea Wilson (University of Chicago)
"Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing" |
Thursday May 26
Macro |
Russell Cooper (University of Texas, Austin)
"Dynamics of Labor Demand: Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications"
joint with John Haltiwanger & Jonathan L. Willis |
Friday May 27
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Cory Koedel (UCSD)
TBA |
Tuesday May 31
Econometrics |
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA)
"Higher Order Efficiency of Bias Corrections"
joint with Guido Kuersteiner & Whitney Newey |
Wednesday June 1
Theory |
Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown University)
"A 'Super' Folk Theorem for Dyanstic Repeated Games"
joint with Luca Anderlini & Dino Gerardi |
Thursday June 2
Macro |
David Goldbaum (Rutgers University)
"Self-Organization and the Persistence of Noise in Financial Markets" |
Friday June 3
Applied lunch talk
hosted by Michelle White |
Jeffrey Vincent (UCSD)
TBA |
