Economics

Faculty News

• Associate Dean Anil Deolalikar referenced in UC newsroom article "Global health impacts California economy" about research he is doing with graduate student, Arindam Nandi, on global health
• The UCR Economics Department fared well in a recent study on the research output of 129 U.S. economics departments that offer PhD degreesOverall UCR Economics is 56th (but per faculty we are even better, 44).16th in Urban Economics, 33rd in Econometrics, and 34th in Microeconomics Read the entire article
• Richard Arnott has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the academic journal Transportation Research Part B science. The general theme of the journal is the development and solution of problems that are adequately motivated to deal with important aspects of the design and/or analysis of transportation systems.
• Richard Arnott received the 2008 WALTER ISARD AWARD from the North American Regional Science Council.This is awarded in recognition of his distinguished scholarly achievements in the field of regional science.
• Aman Ullah is honored in 2008-09 as the Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Italy.


• Professor Chauvet Op-Ed "Tumbling Dice" in the New York Times.
• Professor Chauvet uses model to assess the real time probability of an economic recession - article in the New York Times.
• Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera is one of the four faculty members who have been honored in 2006-07 with University Scholar awards, bringing to nine the total number of University Scholars on campus. Selected and awarded by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the awards recognize UCR's rising stars: early-career, tenured faculty of outstanding merit. Gonzalez-Rivera studies time series econometrics and is renowned nationally and internationally for her work in the field of volatility modeling. Her widely cited research papers appear in the top econometrics journals; one of her papers has become a "classic" in time series literature. Gonzalez-Rivera's methodological expertise has been applied to diverse research areas, including agricultural markets, developing countries, regulatory financial practice, and environmental measurement of quality of life.
• R. Robert Russell has received the UC Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer Award for the 2006-2007 academic year. This award is the highest of faculty honors within the UC Riverside campus.
• Richard Sutch has been elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005.
• Aman Ullah has been awarded the title of "Journal of Econometrics Charter Fellow", 2005.
• Jang-Ting Guo has been named "Outstanding Referee" for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005.
• Tae-Hwy Lee's paper "Diagnostic Checking for Adequacy of Nonlinear Time Series Models", Econometric Theory, Vol. 19, December 2003, 1065-1121 (co-authored with Yongmiao Hong) has been awarded the Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize 2006. This prize was established as a memorial to Tjalling C. Koopmans, the 1975 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science. The Advisory Board of the journal selects a paper every three years among the papers published in the Econometric Theory. Lee's paper is the winning article for the past three year period (2003-2005 inclusive).
• The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, has invited Prasanta Pattanaik to give a public lecture in November 2006. Created by Royal Charter in 1783, the Royal Society of Edinburgh is an educational organization with 1400 Fellows from different disciplines. One of its many functions is to organize 'lectures, debates and conferences on topical issues of lasting importance'. Pattanaik's lecture will outline how the economists' notion of social welfare has evolved over time.
• Prasanta Pattanaik has been invited to deliver the 2006 Condorcet Lectures in the University of Caen, France. Named after Marquis de Condorcet, the famous 18th century French mathematician, philosopher and voting theorist, and delivered annually, the Condorcet lectures are devoted to welfare economics and the theory of social choice. Pattanaik is the fourth lecturer in the series, the earlier lecturers being K. J. Arrow, D. Saari, and A.K. Sen. Pattanaik's lectures will be on individual rights, freedom, and social welfare.
• Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics honors Aman Ullah for Outstanding Contributions in Mathematical Sciences at the Eleventh International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics(December 27-29,2004) on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques at Sherwood College of Management, India.
• Marcelle Chauvet named committee member of Dating Business Cycles in Brazil
• Prasanta K. Pattanaik is awarded a Carnegie Centenary Professorship for Fall 2006 by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
• UCR economics professor gets USAID grant to study pathways from poverty in Brazil
• UC Riverside Earns $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant to Examine How Engineered Crop Genes Stray
• Professor Anil Deolalikar Named Director of the Public Policy Initiative
• Professor David Fairris Appointed Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs
• Economics Professor Prasanta Pattanaik to be Next President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Students in the News

• A recent graduate of our undergraduate program, Charles Ludd, Jr., was selected as a 2006-07 Judicial Administration Fellowship Program at the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State. For more information on this program, see the Program's website at: http://www.csus.edu/calst/judicial/.
• Jaehee Son has been invited to participate, as a Fellow, in the Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The program, which will consist of a course and an international conference, will be held during the period from 26 May 2005 to 13 June 2005.
• Shatakshee Dhongde, a graduate student at the Department of Economics, received one of the five Graduate Research Awards (2004-05) awarded by the Graduate Student Association, University of California, Riverside. The award intends to highlight the excellent quality of research being done at University of California Riverside (UCR) by graduate students. The awardees presented a summary of their research at the award ceremony on April 25, 2005. Chancellor France A. Córdova and Dallas Rabenstein, Dean of the Graduate Division, and other UCR faculty attended the ceremony. Shatakshee's presentation was entitled, "An Analysis of Effects of Growth and Income Distribution on Poverty". Shatakshee's dissertation co-chairs are Prasanta Pattanaik and Aman Ullah. In her dissertation, Shatakshee has decomposed and measured separately the effect of a rise in the income level and a change in the income distribution on poverty levels. This is the first ever attempt to decompose poverty levels in India across different states and over a period of time.
• David Vazquez-Guzman has been invited to attend the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Economics and Psychology in Germany in August 2005. The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Economics and Psychology is organized jointly by the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Strategic Interaction Group of the Max Planck Institute for Research into Human Systems, Jena, Germany. David is one of a small number of scholars from various countries, who have been invited to attend the Summer Institute.