Econometrics Seminars Winter 2017

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee or Aman Ullah.

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
1/09/2017 No Seminar No Seminar
1/11/2017 Joseph Romano, Stanford University Randomization Tests Under An Approximate Symmetry Assumption
1/13/2017 Raffaella Giacomini, University College of London Uncertain Identification
1/16/2017 M.L. King Holiday – No Seminar, Campus Closed No Seminar
1/20/2017 Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University Identifying The Distribution Of The Gender Gap

1/23/2017

No Seminar No Seminar
1/30/2017*  Yulia Pavlova, LUKE Natural Resources Institute-Helsinki, Finland

*NOTE: (Please note that this is an Economic Theory Seminar Presentation)

International Environmental Cooperation And Dynamic Stock Effects
2/06/2017 TBA TBA
2/13/2017 No Seminar No Seminar
2/17/2017* Ruoyao Shi, UC Los Angeles

*NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)

Identification And Estimation Of Nonparametric Hedonic Equilibrium Model With Unobserved Quality
2/20/2017 No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday No Seminar-President’s Day Holiday
2/22/2017* Benjamin Gillen, California Institute of Technology

*NOTE: (Please note that this seminar is from 10-11:30am and will be held in INTS 1113)

BLP-Lasso For Aggregate Discrete Choice Models Applied To Elections With Rich Demographic Covariates
2/27/2017 Wenxiu Ma, UCR Statistics Department DNA Sequence-shape Kernel Enables Alignment-free Modeling Of Transcription Factor Binding
3/06/2017 Millie Yi Mao & Jianghao Chu, UCR PhD Candidates Millie:  Maximum Entropy Based Estimation Of Econometric Functions

Jianghao: Predicting Binary Outcomes With High Dimensional Data Using Asymmetric AdaBoost

3/13/2017 Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University Wald Tests When Restrictions Are Locally Singular
3/20/2017 Jerry Hausman, MIT Errors In The Dependent Variable of Quantile Regression Models