Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2018

Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified)
Sproul Hall 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
10/1/2018	Saki Bigio, UC Los Angeles	A Model Of Credit, Money, Interests and Prices
10/8/2018	Taghi Farzad, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Maturity Structure And Debt Renegotiation In Sovereign Bonds
10/15/2018	Hien Nguyen, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Firm Equity Risk, Bank Lending Standards, And The Macroeconomy
10/22/2018	Kevin Lansing, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Endogenous Regime Switching Near The Zero Lower Bound
10/29/2018	David Zeke, The University of Southern California	Misallocation Costs of Digging Deeper Into The Central Bank Toolkit
11/5/2018	Mingyuan Jia, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Real-Time Tracking Of Inflation With A Mixed-Frequency Unobserved Component Model With Stochastic Volatility
11/12/2018	No Seminar-Veteran’s Day Holiday & campus is closed.	No Seminar
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Distinguished Visitor Lecture to Graduate Students in Sproul 2206	Adaptive Learning And Monetary Policy
11/19/2018*	George Evans, The University of Oregon *NOTE: 4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m., Sproul 2206	Learning To Optimize
11/26/2018	Shiyun Zhang, UCR PhD Candidate in Economics	Why People Move Between The U.S. And Mexico: Self-Selection And Migration
11/30/2018*	John Zhu, The University of Pennsylvania *NOTE: This is a Friday	Better Monitoring…Worse Productivity?
12/3/2018	Michael Choi, UC Irvine	Money Mining And Price Dynamics
12/5/2018	Roee Teper, The University of Pittsburgh	Exploration And Correlation
12/7/2018*	David Lagakos, UC San Diego *NOTE: This is a FRIDAY from 3-4:20pm	The Aggregate Effects Of “Free” Schooling In The Developing World