Fall
09/27/24
Speaker: Michael Adjemian (University of Georgia), Host: Economics.
Title: Decomposing Food Price Inflation into Supply and Demand Shocks
10/11/24
Speaker: Keaton Ellis (Berkeley Simons Institute), Host: Economics.
Title: The Value of Who and What When Predicting Choice Under Risk
10/18/24
Speaker: Alejandro Rivera (UT Dallas), Host: Finance.
Title: Contracting with a Present-Biased Agent: Sannikov meets Laibson
10/25/24
Speaker: Asaf Bernstein (UC Boulder Leeds), Host: Finance.
Title: The Marginal Value of Public Pension Wealth: Evidence From Border House Prices
11/08/24
Speaker: Gagan Ghosh (Cal State Fullerton), Host: Economics.
Title: Ambiguity Aversion And The Declining Price Anomaly: Theory And Estimation
12/06/24
Speaker: Ahmed Alaa (UC Berkeley and UCSF), Host: Economics.
Title: Conformal Meta-learners for Predictive Inference of Individual Treatment Effects
Winter
01/17/25
Speaker: Peter Rupert (UCSB), Host: Economics. Title: Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home
01/31/25
Speaker: Jonathan Libgober (USC), Host: Economics.
Title: The Dynamics of Verification when Searching for Quality
02/07/25
Speaker: Ryan Oprea (UCSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Behavioral Attenuation
02/14/25
Speaker: José Penalva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Host: Finance.
Title: Payment for Order Flow Can Create an Oligopoly in Market-Making
03/07/25
Speaker: Pascal Michaillat (UCSC), Host: Economics.
Title: Has the Recession Started?
Spring
04/04/25
Speaker: Abhishek Ananth (Emory), Host: Economics.
Title: Sharp Identification Regions for Network Formation Models with Bounded Depth and Degree
04/18/25
Speaker: Benjamin Schoefe (Berkeley), Host: Economics.
Title: What does Consulting Do?
05/02/25
Speaker: Shakeeb Khan (Boston College), Host: Economics.
Title: Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
05/09/25
Speaker: Dean Karlan (Northwestern), Host: Economics.
Title: Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
05/16/25
Speaker: Kathleen Ngangoue (UCLA), Host: Economics.
Title: The Resolution of Uncertainty in the Value and Probability Domainse
05/23/25
Speaker: Isaac Hacamo (Indiana University), Host: Finance.
Title: Financing Growth with Future Taxes: Evidence from TIF
05/30/25
Speaker: Kevin Reffett (Arizona State), Host: Economics.
Title: Dynamic Complementarities and Multiple Equilibria in Open Economies with Collateral Constraints
Fall
09/29/23
Speaker: Wolfgang Keller (UC Boulder), Host: Economics.
Title: Intangible Assets, Multinationals, and the Evolution of Firm Heterogeneity
10/20/23
Speaker: Manisha Shah (Berkeley Public Policy), Host: Economics.
Title: Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors
11/03/23
Speaker: Pedro Amaral (Cal State Fullerton), Host: Economics.
Title: Cross-country income dispersion, human capital, and technology adoption
12/01/23
Speaker: Vira Semenova (Berkeley Economics), Host: Economics.
Title: Adaptive Estimation of Intersection Bounds
12/08/23
Speaker: Benjamin Ouvrard (Université Grenoble Alpes), Host: Economics.
Title: Fair Pricing and Farm Supply
Winter
02/16/24
Speaker: Asaf Bernstein (Leeds School of Business), Host: Finance. Title: The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets
02/23/24
Speaker: Abigail Wozniak (Minneapolis Fed), Host: Economics.
Title: A Shock by Any Other Name? Reconsidering the Impacts of Local Demand Shocks
03/15/24
Speaker: Laura Doval (Columbia Business School), Host: Economics.
Title: The Core of Bayesian Persuasion
Spring
04/12/24
Speaker: Angela Zhou (USC Marshall School of Business), Host: Economics.
Title: Optimal and Fair Encouragement Policy Evaluation and Learning
04/19/24
Speaker: Hashem Pesaran (USC and University of Cambridge), Host: Finance.
Title: High Dimensional Forecasting with Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
04/26/24
Speaker: Brigham Frandsen (BYU), Host: Economics.
Title: The Incredible Shrinking Instruments: Precision for Free with Many Instruments
05/03/24
Speaker: Mark Daniel Bernhardt (UIUC), Host: Finance.
Title: Simplifying Auction Design via Market Feedback
05/10/24
Speaker: Isabelle Cohen (University of Washington), Host: Economics.
Title: Pathways to Choice: A Bundled Intervention Against Child Marriage
05/17/24
Speaker: Heitor Almeida (UIUC), Host: Finance.
Title: Are Share Repurchases Really Flexible?
06/17/24
Speaker: Conrad Miller (Berkeley Haas), Host: Economics.
Title: The Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record
Fall
10/07/22
Speaker: Eduardo Zambrano (Cal Poly), Host: Economics.
Title: Egalitarian Equivalent Treatment Effect Estimation
10/21/22
Speaker: Danny Klinenberg (UCSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Selling Violent Extremism: The Oath Keepers as a Profit Maximizing Firm
11/18/22
Speaker: Isaac Hacamo (Kelley School of Business — Indiana), Host: Finance.
Title: Priced-out: Affordable Housing and Labor Markets
12/22/22
Speaker: Marcelo Villena (USM - Chile), Host: Economics.
Title: On Market Power in Financial Markets
Winter
01/13/23
Speaker: Michael Rubens (UCLA), Host: Economics.
Title: Colluding Against Workers
02/10/23
Speaker: Robert Metcalfe (USC), Host: Economics.
Title: Welfare and Congestion
02/24/23
Speaker: Michael Bates (UC Riverside), Host: Economics.
Title: Teacher Labor Market Policy and the Theory of Second Best
03/03/23
Speaker: Stathis Tompaidis (McCombs School of Business), Host: Finance.
Title: Collateral Competition: Evidence from Central Counterparties
03/10/23
Speaker: Evan Munro (Stanford GSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium
Spring
04/21/23
Speaker: Francis Annan (Berkeley ARE), Host: Economics.
Title: Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information
04/28/23
Speaker: Sanjiv Das (Leavey School of Business - Santa Clara University), Host: Finance.
Title: Multimodal AI/ML for Finance
05/12/23
Speaker: Dmitry Livdan (Berkeley Haas), Host: Finance.
Title: Quote Competition in Corporate Bonds
05/19/23
Speaker: Matthew Harding (UCI), Host: Economics.
Title: Evaluating Behavioral Energy Conservation at Scale
05/26/23
Speaker: Erik Sverdrup (Stanford GSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects With Right-Censored Data Via Causal Survival Forests
Fall
11/05/21
Speaker: Ryan Abman (San Diego State University)
Title: Agriculture and Deforestation
11/12/21
Speaker: Tim Richards (Arizona State University)
Title: Dollar Store Entry
12/03/21
Speaker: Kaspar Wuthrich (UCSD)
Title: (When) Should You Adjust Inferences for Multiple Hypothesis Testing?
Winter
02/04/22
Speaker: Alexander Rodivilov (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Title: Incentives for Contract Designers
02/11/22
Speaker: Yashar Barardehi (Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University)
Title: Internalized Retail Order Flow: Informed Trading or Liquidity Provision?
02/25/22
Speaker: Anujit Chakraborty (UC Davis)
Title: Future Self-Proof Elicitation Mechanisms
03/04/22
Speaker: Christopher Jones (USC)
Title: Return Extrapolation Around the Clock
Spring
04/01/22
Speaker: Kristian Lopez Vargas (UCSC)
Title: Disentangling Risk Attitudes and Other-Regarding Preferences: Theory and Experiment
04/08/22
Speaker: Sarah Johnston (University of Wisconsin)
Title: An Empirical Analysis of US Generator Interconnection Policy
05/06/22
Speaker: Eric Lewis (Texas A&M)
Title: The Economics of Time-Limited Development Options: The Case of Oil and Gas Leases
05/13/22
Speaker: Kadee Russ (UC Davis)
05/27/22
Speaker: Jeremy West (UCSC)
Title: Dirty Business: Principal-Agent Problems in Hazardous Waste Redemption
Fall
10/11/19
Speaker: Marcella AIsan (Harvard, visiting UCSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities
10/25/19
Speaker: Emanuel Vespa (UCSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect
11/01/19
Speaker: Terry Marsh (UC Berkeley), Host: Finance.
Title: Equity Premiums, Midterm Election, and the Resolution of Political Uncertainty
11/15/19
Speaker: Katherine Eriksson (UC Davis), Host: Economics.
Title: Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1910
11/22/19
Speaker: Gaurav Khanna (UCSD, visiting UCSB), Host: Economics.
Title: Why Do Youth in Medellin Join Gangs? The Role of Access to Employment
Winter
01/07/20
Speaker: Abby Alpert (U Penn), Host: Economics.
Title: Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts
01/10/20
Speaker: Hamed Ghoddusi (Stevens Institute of Technology), Host: Finance.
Title: Hedging Value of Low-Quality Capital Assets
01/13/20
Speaker: Yahui Wang (Columbia University), Host: Finance.
Title: Tracing the Distributional Effects of Trade Policy on Firm Value
01/17/20
Speaker: Anna Abdulmanova (University of New Mexico), Host: Finance.
Title: Political Diversity within the Boardroom: Its Effect on Corporate Investment, Performance, and Value
01/24/20
Speaker: Annabelle Doerr (University of Basel, visiting UC Berkeley), Host: Economics.
Title: Collaborative Tax Evasion in the Provision of Services to Consumers: A Field Experiment
01/31/20
Speaker: Xing Huang (Washington University in St. Louis), Host: Finance.
Title: The "Jackpot" Question: How Do Cash Windfalls Affect Small Business Growth?
Spring
02/27/20
Speaker: Robert Fairlie (UCSC), Host: Economics.
Title: What Can Random Assignment Solve and Not Solve in Estimating Peer Effects: Evidence from a Field Experiment of One-to-One Interactions in a Required Gateway Course in the Science
02/28/20
Speaker: Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA), Host: Economics.
Title: Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
04/10/20
Speaker: Katheryn Russ (UC Davis), Host: Economics.
Title: What you don't know about the Codex and the WHO
04/17/20
Speaker: Steven Wu (Purdue University, visiting Cal Poly), Host: Economics.
04/23/20
Speaker: Dario Pozzoli (Copenhagen Business School), Host: Economics.
04/24/20
Speaker: Amir Kermani (UC Berkeley), Host: Economics.
Title: Two Tales of Debt
05/22/20
Speaker: Scott Carrell (UC Davis), Host: Economics.
5/29/20
Speaker: Laura Doval (Cal Tech), Host: Economics.
Fall
09/21/18
Speaker: Tomas Reyes (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Host: Finance.
09/28/18
Speaker: Laura Giuliano (UC Santa Cruz), Host: Economics
Title: Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
10/12/18
Speaker: Johannes Spinewijn (London School of Economics), Host: Economics
Title: Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration-Dependence, and Bias
10/26/18
Speaker: Hannes Schwandt (Northwestern), Host: Economics
Title: Diesel Emissions, Pollution, and Health Outcomes
11/02/18
Speaker: Daniel Seiver (Cal Poly SLO), Host: Economics
Title: A Study of Major Impact: Assortative Mating Among US College Graduates
11/30/18
Speaker: Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara), Host: Finance
Title: Goals-Based Wealth Management
Winter
01/24/19
Speaker: Daniel Heymann (University of Buenos Aires), Host: Economics
Title: Macroeconomic Crises
01/25/19
Speaker: Teevrat Garg (UC San Diego), Host: Economics
Title: Distribution of Environmental Damages: The Case of the Temperature-Violence Relationship in Mexico
02/01/19
Speaker: Paige Patrick (University of Washington), Host: Finance
Title: Investor-Driven Governance Standards and Firm Value
02/08/19
Speaker: Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara), Host: Economics
Title: Poverty, Seasonal Scarcity, and Exchange Asymmetries: Evidence from Small-Scale Farmers in Rural Zambia
02/22/19
Speaker: Mohsen Mazaheri (Capital Markets Consulting), Host: Finance
Title: Expected Global Convexity: Risk-Adjusted Investment Performance Analysis for General Return Distributions and Value-Added Risk Management
03/01/19
Speaker: Meredith Startz (Stanford), Host: Economics
Title: Cutting out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation
03/01/19
Speaker: Alisa Tazhitdinova (UC Santa Barbara), Host: Economics
Title: Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
Spring
04/12/19
Speaker: Hilary Hoynes (UC Berkeley), Host: Economics
Title: Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
04/19/19
Speaker: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois), Host: Finance
Title: Do Firms Hedge During Distress?
04/25/19
Speaker: Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich), Host: Economics
Title: Genetics and Health Insurance: How Genes and Insurance Status Affect Smoking Decisions after Health Shocks
04/26/19
Speaker: Rob Innes (UC Merced), Host: Economics
Title: Extortion Aversion and Optimal Law Enforcement
05/03/19
Speaker: Mehrnoush Shahhosseini (University of San Francisco), Host: Finance
Title: Capital Requirements and Banks' Behavior: Evidence from Bank Stress Tests
05/31/19
Speaker: Alan Barreca (UCLA), Host: Economics
Title: Shifts in Daily Birthrates Reveal the Broad Impact of Extreme Heat on Gestation in the United States
Fall
08/25/17
Speaker: Anthony Stritmatter (University of St. Gallen), Host: Economics
Title: Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach
09/22/17
Speaker: Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter), Host: Economics
Title: Turning an Institution from 'Inclusive' to 'Extractive': The Case of The European Union's Free Movement of Persons
09/29/17
Speaker: Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco), Host: Economics
Title: The Competitive Woman
10/06/17
Speaker: Youssef Benzarti (UCLA), Host: Economics
Title: What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value Added Taxes
10/13/17
Speaker: Tom Ahn (Naval Postgraduate School), Host: Economics
Title: Cracking Under Pressure: The Information Gap and the Suboptimal Responses of First-Generation College Students to Academic and Financial Pressures
10/27/17
Speaker: Brian Wright (UC Berkeley), Hosts: Finance/Economics
Title: Spurious Commodity Price Persistence
11/03/17
Speaker: Hadi Esfahani (University of Illinois), Host: Finance
Title: Rash Credit Injection, Hasty Job Creation, and Firm Bifurcation in Iran's Manufacturing, 2003-2013
Winter
01/12/18
Speaker: Stephen Billings (University of Colorado), Host: Economics
02/09/18
Speaker: Daniel Benjamin (USC), Host: Economics
03/16/18
Speaker: Josh Graff Zivin (UC San Diego), Host: Economics
Spring
04/06/18
Speaker: Tom Davidoff (UBC), Host: Finance
04/13/18
Speaker: Yingying Dong (UC Irvine), Host: Economics
04/20/18
Speaker: Isabelle Brocas (USC), Host: Economics
05/04/18
Speaker: Fabrizio Ferri (Columbia University), Hosts: Accounting/Finance
05/11/18
Speaker: Mark Anderson (Montana State University), Host: Economics.
Fall
9/30/16
Speaker: Matthew Lang (UC Riverside), Host: Economics
Title: Medicaid Eligibility Expansions and Privately Insured Patients
10/7/16
Speaker: Rodrigo Pinto (UCLA), Host: Economics
Title: Learning from Noncompliance: The Case of Moving to Opportunity
10/14/16
Speaker: Isaac Hacamo (Indiana University), Host: Finance
Title: Finding Success in Tragedy: Forced Entrepreneurs after Corporate Bankruptcy
10/21/16
Speaker: Paulo Issler (UC Berkeley), Host: Finance
Title: Durability and the Consumption Cycle
10/28/16
Speaker: Jason Pearcy (Groupon), Host: Economics
Title: Steam Coal at an Arms Length: An Evaluation of Proposed Reform Options for US Coal Used in Power Generation
12/2/16
Speaker: Ajay Shenoy (UC Santa Cruz), Host: Economics
Title: Do Voters or Politicians Choose the Outcomes of Elections? Evidence from the Struggle to Control Congressional Redistricting
12/9/16
Speaker: George Pennacchi (University of Illinois), Host: Finance
Title: Syndicated Loan Risk: The Effects of Covenants and Collateral
Winter
3/3/17
Speaker: Hamed Ghoddussi (Stevens Institute of Technology), Host: Finance
Title: The Option Value of Mortgage Interest Tax Deductibility
3/17/17
Speaker: Sally Sadoff (UC San Diego), Host: Economics
Title: Skin in the Game: The Effect of Recipient Contribution on Charitable Giving
Spring
4/7/17
Speaker: Matthew Kovach (ITAM and CIE), Host: Economics
Title: Satisficing with a Variable Threshold
4/14/17
Speaker: Alan Spearot (UC Santa Cruz), Host: Economics
Title: Optimal Tariff Discrimination: Theory and Evidence from the Generalized System of Preferences
4/21/17
Speaker: Greg Wright (UC Merced), Host: Economics
Title: Information, Perceptions and Exporting: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
4/28/17
Speaker: Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver), Host: Economics
Title: Taste-Based Discrimination and the Labor Market Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Men in the United States
5/5/17
Speaker: Andres Donangelo (University of Texas Austin), Host: Finance
Title: Labor Leverage and the Value Premium
5/12/17
Speaker: Bree Lang (UC Riverside), Host: Finance
Title: Cell Phone Coverage and Traffic Accidents: New Evidence Using Cell Phone Towers
5/26/17
Speaker: Sebastian Martinez (IADB), Host: Economics
Title: Is Results-Based Aid More Effective than Input-Based Aid? Evidence from the Health Sector in El Salvador
6/9/17
Speaker: Jiakai Chen (University of Hawaii), Host: Finance
Title: LIBOR's Poker
Fall
9/25/15
Speaker: Jonathan James (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: The Path to College Education: Are Verbal Skills More Important than Math Skills?
10/9/15
Speaker: Petra Persson (Stanford), Host: Economics
Title: The Long-Run Consequences of Grade Inflation
11/6/15
Speaker: Teny Shapiro (Santa Clara University), Host: Economics
Title: Academic Achievement Across the Day: Evidence from Randomized Class Schedules
11/13/15
Speaker: Vincent Requillart (Toulouse), Host: Economics
Title: Quality Standards versus Nutritional Taxes: Health and Welfare Impacts with Strategic Firms
12/4/15
Speaker: Sevgi Yuksel (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement
Winter
1/22/16
Speaker: Robert Innes (UC Merced), Host: Economics
Title: Lying Through Others: Does Delegation Promote Deception?
1/29/16
Speaker: Hashem Pesaran (Cambridge/USC), Host: Finance
Title: Country-Specific Oil Supply Shocks and the Global Economy: A Counterfactual Analysis
2/5/16
Speaker: Michael Jay Stutzer (Colorado), Host: Finance
Title: Entropic Diagnostics for Asset Pricing SDFs: A Critique
3/4/16
Speaker: Marianne Page (UC Davis), Host: Economics
Title: The Effects of Aggregate and Gender-Specific Labor Demand Shocks on Child Health
Spring
4/8/16
Speaker: Dmitry Livdan (UC Berkeley), Host: Finance
Title: Relationship Trading in OTC Markets
4/22/16
Speaker: Joseph Sabia (San Diego State), Host: Economics
Title: Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
4/29/16
Speaker: Jill McCluskey (Washington State), Host: Economics
Title: The Market for Sustainable and Organic Wine
5/6/16
Speaker: Marcus Opp (UC Berkeley), Host: Finance
Title: Bank Capital Regulation, Risk-Taking, and Borrower Heterogeneity
5/20/16
Speaker: Heitor Almeida (Illinois), Host: Finance
Title: Risk Management with Supply Contracts
6/3/16
Speaker: Bradyn Breon-Drish (Stanford), Host: Finance
Title: Strategic Trading and Return Predictability
Fall
10/17/14
Speaker: Ben Gillen (Cal Tech), Host: Economics
Title: Demand Estimation with High-Dimensional Product Characteristics
10/24/14
Speaker: Scott Webster (Arizona State), Host: Economics
Title: Interventions for an Artemisinin-Based Malaria Medicine Supply Chain
10/31/14
Speaker: Margaret Slade (UBC), Host: Economics
Title: Investment and Uncertainty with Time to Build
11/7/14
Speaker: Eric Aldrich (UCSC), Host: Finance
Title: The Random Walk of High-Frequency Trading
11/14/14
Event: Cal Poly-Santa Clara Finance Conference, Host: Finance.
11/21/14
Speaker: Helen Popper (Santa Clara University), Host: Economics.
Winter
2/13/15
Speaker: Karl Storchman (NYU), Host: Economics
Title: Climate Change and Viticulture in Europe
2/20/15
Speaker: Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA), Host: Finance
Title: Dynamic Agency and Real Options
2/27/15
Speaker: Heitor Almeida (Illinois), Host: Finance
Title: A New Perspective on Bank Dependency
3/6/15
Speaker: Brian Bolton (Portland State), Host: Economics
Title: Size, Leverage, and Risk-Taking of Financial Institutions
Spring
4/10/15
Speaker: Marianne Bitler (UC Irvine), Host: Economics
Title: Experimental Evidence on the Distributional Effects of Head Start
4/24/15
Speaker: Nick Flores (University of Colorado), Host: Economics
Title: Non-parametric Testing of Contingent Valuation Double-bounded Data
5/1/15
Speaker: Carlos Dobkin (UC Santa Cruz), Host: Economics
Title: The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Morbidity in the US
5/8/15
Speaker: Juan Pantano (Washington University), Host: Economics
Title: Policy Interventions When Medical Treatment Dynamics Matter: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization
6/5/15
Speaker: Alfredo Burlando (University of Oregon), Host: Economics.
Fall
9/27/13
Speaker: Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)
Title: How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistributive Policies and in Returns?
10/11/13
Speaker: Koichi Yonezawa (Arizona State)
Title: Risk Aversion and Preference for Store Price Format
10/18/13
Speaker: Eric Aldrich (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: GPU Computing in Economics
11/8/13
Speaker: Will Olney (Williams College)
Title: The Composition of Exports and Human Capital Acquisition
12/6/13
Speaker: Thanasis Geromichalos (UC Davis)
Title: A Search-Theoretic Model of the Term Premium
Winter
1/24/14
Speaker: David Card (UC-Berkeley)
Title: Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
2/7/14
Speaker: Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University)
Title: Social Network Modeling in Finance
2/21/14
Speaker: David Reinstein (University of Essex)
2/28/14
Speaker: Eduardo Zambrano (Cal Poly)
Title: A Left-Right Theory of the Mixed Economy
Spring
4/4/14
Speaker: Simon Kwan (SF Fed)
Title: Effects of earnings management and delays in loss recognition on bank opacity
4/11/14
Speakers: Isho Tama-Sweet and Lisa Eilen (CSU Fullerton)
Title: The impact of accounting disclosures and the regulatory environment on the information content of earnings announcements
4/25/14
Speaker: George Bulman (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: College in High School: The Long Run Effects of Advanced Placement
5/2/14
Speaker: Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford)
Title: Departures from Best Response in Market-like Link Formation: An experimental study
5/16/14
Speaker: Amir Kermani (UC Berkeley)
Title: Does Skin-in-the-game Affect Security Performance? Evidence from the Conduit CMBS Market
Fall
9/28/12
Speaker: Simon Board (UCLA), Host: Economics
Title: Revenue Management with Forward Looking Buyers
10/26/12
Speaker: Heather Royer (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Using Incentives and Commitments to Overcome Self-Control Problems with Exercise: Evidence from a Workplace Field Experiment
11/9/12
Speaker: Herbert Hunt (Long Beach State), Host: Accounting
Title: Additional Evidence on Analysts' Decision to Issue Disaggregated Earnings Forecasts: Strategic Biasing
11/30/12
Speaker: Jeff Danes (Cal Poly), Host: Marketing
Title: Bayesian Models of Expected Price Given Factors of Price Sensitivity
Winter
1/11/13
Speaker: Herve Roche (Cal Poly)
Title: Rent-to-Own Usurers? Theory and Empirical Evidence
2/1/13
Speaker: Terrance Odean (UC Berkeley)
Title: Bubbling With Excitement: An Experiment
2/15/13
Speaker: Tom Chang (USC), Host: Economics
Title: Looking for Someone to Blame: Delegation, Cognitive Dissonance and the Disposition Effect
Spring
4/8/13
Speaker: Jesse Zinn (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: Modelling Biased Judgement with Weighted Updating
4/26/13
Speaker: Jesse Cunha (Naval Postgraduate School), Host: Economics
5/3/13
Speaker: Chandra Seethamraju, Host: Accounting
Title: The Association Between Analysts' Earnings Forecasts Bias and GDP Forecast Bias
5/10/13
Speaker: Johan Walden (UC Berkeley), Host: Finance
Title: Trading, Profits, and Volatility in a Dynamic Information Network Model
5/31/13
Speaker: Stephan Kroll (Colorado State University), Host: Economics
Fall
10/7/11
Speaker: Asher Curtis (University of Utah)
Title: Dynamics of the Relation Between Prices and Fundamentals
10/21/11
Speaker: Axel Leijonhufvud (UCLA)
Title: Economics of the Crisis and the Crisis of Economics. Crisis Policies and Crisis Politics
11/4/11
Speaker: Tim Richards (Arizona State University)
Title: Variety Pass-Through: An Examination of the Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereal Market
11/18/11
Speaker: Ichiro Obara (UCLA)
Title: On Bertrand Competition with Asymmetric Firms
12/2/11
Speaker: Peter Rupert (UCSB)
Title: Housing Dynamics
Winter
2/10/12
Speaker: Olivier Deschenes (UCSB)
Title: Defending Against Environmental Insults: Drugs, Emergencies, Deaths, and the NOX Emissions Markets
2/24/12
Speaker: Nicolae Gärleanu (UC Berkeley)
Title: Young, Old, Conservative, and Bold: The Implications of Heterogeneity and Finite Lives for Asset Pricing
3/2/12
Speaker: Janine Empen (University of Kiel)
Title: Regional Aspects of Retail Pricing: A Case Study for German Beer
Spring
4/6/12
Speaker: Homa Zarghamee (Santa Clara University)
Title: Positive Affect and Overconfidence: A Laboratory Investigation
4/13/12
Speaker: Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University)
Title: The Evolution of Theory of Mind
4/20/12
Speaker: James Wilcox (UC Berkeley)
Title: Commercial Real Estate: Underwriting, Mortgages, and Prices
5/25/12
Speaker: Edward Schlee (Arizona State University)
Title: Surplus Maximization and Optimality
6/1/162
Speaker: Edmund Van Winkle (Arizona State University)
Title: The Incremental Value of Qualitative Fundamental Analysis to Quantitative Fundamental Analysis: A Field Study
Fall
9/24/10
Speaker: Morton Pincus (UC Irvine), Host: Accounting
Title: Pricing of Book-Tax Differences: Evidence from Short Arbitrage
11/5/10
Speaker: Burkhard Schipper (UC Davis), Host: Economics
Title: Unbeatable Imitation
11/19/10
Speaker: Erik Snowberg (Cal Tech), Host: Economics
Title: Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
12/3/10
Speaker: Christopher Costello (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries
Winter
1/14/11
Speaker: Robert Innes (UC Merced), Host: Economics
Title: Is Dishonesty Contagious?
1/28/11
Speaker: Eduardo Zambrano (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: The United Nations' Measurement of Human Development in Theory and in Practice
2/4/11
Speaker: Steve Hamilton (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: Emissions Standards and Ambient Environmental Quality Standards in Stochastic Receiving Media
2/26-27/11
Event: Southwest Economic Theory Conference.
3/11/11
Speaker: Larry Fauver (University of Tennessee), Host: Finance
Title: The Impact of International Governance Reforms on Domestic and Cross-Listed Firms: A Multi-Country Examination
Spring
4/8/11
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Fouque (UCSB), Host: Finance
Title: Multiscale Stochastic Volatility for Equity, Interest-Rate and Credit Derivatives
4/15/11
Speaker: Gary Charness (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Overconfidence, Self-Esteem, and Strategic Deterrence
4/22/11
Speaker: Mary Evans (Claremont McKenna), Host: Economics
Title: Abatement, Care, and Compliance by Firms in Financial Distress
5/6/11
Speaker: Jaksa Cvitanic (Cal Tech), Host: Finance
Title: Complete Market Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents
5/20/11
Speaker: Helen Popper (Santa Clara University), Host: Economics
Title: Trilemma Stability and International Macroeconomic Archetypes in Developing Countries
6/3/11
Speaker: Marigee Bacolod and Lisa Wise Consulting (APE and Lisa Wise Consulting), Host: Economics
Title: Beyond Incentives: Do Schools Use Accountability Rewards Productively?
Fall
9/25/09
Speaker: Javier Birchenall (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Chance and Irrationality in Demand Theory
10/8/09
Speaker: Chuck Mason (University of Wyoming), Host: Economics
Title: On the Economics of Eco-Labeling
10/9/09
Speaker: Ryan Oprea (UCSC), Host: Economics
Title: A Continuous Dilemma
10/23/09
Speaker: Eduardo Zambrano (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: A Solution to Proebsting’s Paradox, or: How to Skim a Bettor if You Must
11/6/09
Speaker: Dongsoo Shin (Santa Clara University), Host: Economics
Title: Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives
11/20/09
Speaker: Yaniv Konchitchki (USC), Host: Accounting
Title: To Know or Not to Know: Stock Market Implications of Firms with Superior Knowledge Management
Winter
1/22/10
Speaker: Steve Hamilton (Cal Poly), Host: Economics
Title: Long-Term Contracts, Storage Incentives, and Conjunctive Use: The Case of Central and West Coast Basins of Los Angeles County
2/5/10
Speaker: Justin Marion (UCSC), Host: Economics
Title: The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements, and Relational Subcontracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement Auctions
2/19/10
Speaker: Eric Fisher (Cal Poly), Host: Finance
Title: Which Sectors of a Modern Economy Are Most Central?
3/5/10
Speaker: Judson Caskey (UCLA), Host: Accounting
Title: Leverage, Excess Leverage, and Future Returns
3/12/10
Speaker: Max Auffhammer (UC Berkeley), Host: Economics
Title: Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality
Spring
4/2/10
Speaker: Ujjayant Chakravorty (University of Alberta), Host: Economics
Title: Think Globally, Act Locally? Stock vs. Flow Regulation of a Fossil Fuel
4/16/10
Speaker: Branislav Slantchev (UCSD), Host: Political Science
Title: War Finance and Coercive Bargaining
4/23/10
Speaker: Jennifer Poole (UCSC), Host: Economics
Title: Business Travel as an Input to International Trade
4/30/10
Speaker: Herve Roche (Cal Poly), Host: Finance
Title: Speculative Risk-Averse Investor Behavior in a Pure Exchange Economy
5/14/10
Speaker: Alexander Nekrasov (UC Irvine), Host: Accounting
Title: Using Earnings Forecasts to Simultaneously Estimate Firm-Specific Cost of Equity and Growth Rate
5/28/10
Speaker: Fernando Zapatero (USC), Host: Finance
Title: Rational Bias and Herding in Analysts’ Recommendations
6/4/10
Speaker: Isabelle Brocas (USC), Host: Economics
Title: Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information
Fall
10/3/08
Speaker: Ed Coulson (Penn State), Host: Economics
Title: Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On
10/17/08
Speaker: Jesus Sierra (USC), Host: Finance
Title: Imperfect Financial Integration, Uncovered Interest Parity, and Central Bank Foreign Exchange Reserves
10/24/08
Speaker: Satish Thosar, Eric Fisher, and Phil Cohl
Title: An Open Forum on the Global Financial Crisis
11/14/08
Speaker: Tim Richards (ASU), Host: Economics
Title: Promotion and Fast Food Demand
12/4/08
Speaker: Rod Garratt (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Which Bank is the "Central" Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System
Winter
1/16/09
Speaker: Herve Roche (Cal Poly), Host: Finance
Title: Optimal Consumption and Investment Strategies under Wealth Ratcheting
1/29/09
Speaker: Jonathan Robinson (UCSC), Host: Economics
Title: Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
2/13/09
Speaker: Stathis Tompaidis (UT Austin), Host: Finance
Title: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Effect of Commitment and Competition on Mutual Fund Allocations
2/27/09
Speaker: Nicholas Flores (University of Colorado), Host: Economics
Title: Public Goods Referenda without Perfectly Correlated Prices and Quantities
3/13/09
Speaker: Matthew Kotchen (UCSB), Host: Economics
Title: Green Clubs
Spring
4/3/09
Speaker: Till Requate (University of Kiel), Host: Economics
Title: Investment Incentives under Emission Trading: An Experimental Study
4/10/09
Speaker: Jacob S. Sagi (Vanderbilt University), Host: Finance
Title: Time Varying Corporate Capital Stocks, the Cross Section and Intertemporal Variation in Stock Returns
5/1/09
Speaker: Dean Foster (Wharton)
Title: Gaming Performance Fees by Portfolio Managers
5/15/09
Speaker: Pete Klenow (Stanford), Host: Economics
Title: Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
5/22/09
Speaker: Russell Lundholm (University of Michigan), Host: Accounting
Title: Fundamental Analysis and Hedge Trading in a Disagreement Model
6/5/09
Speaker: Lucile Faurel (UC Irvine), Host: Accounting
Title: Do Investors Use CEOs' Stock Options as Signals for Future Firm Performance?
Fall
9/28/07
Speaker: Robert Innes (University of Arizona)
Title: Editorial Favoritism
10/12/07
Speaker: Kathryn Marshall (Cal Poly)
Title: The Empirical Validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
10/26/07
Speaker: Stephen Leroy (UCSB)
Title: Liquidity
11/2/07
Speaker: Peter Docherty (Chalmers University of Technology)
Title: Socially Sustainable Work-Organization Development
11/16/07
Speaker: David Reid (Seattle University)
Title: Win the China IP War and Gain Globally
11/30/07
Speaker: Samuel Culbet (UCLA)
Title: Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work
Winter
1/11/08
Speaker: Eric Fisher (Cal Poly)
Title: The Structure of the American Economy
1/25/08
Speaker: Dan Friedman (UCSC)
Title: Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment
2/1/08
Speaker: Andrew Abel (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Optimal Capital Income Taxation.
2/15/08
Speaker: Doug Steigerwald (UCSB)
Title: Accurately Sized Test Statistics with Misspecified Conditional Homoskedasticity
2/22/08
Speaker: Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University)
Title: Credit Risk with Hybrid Models
2/29/08
Speaker: Massimiliano De Santis (Dartmouth College)
Title: Excess Volatility Meets Irreversible Investment, Demystifying the Equity Premium
3/7/08
Speaker: Eduardo Zambrano (Cal Poly)
Title: The Credibility Problem in Politics
Spring
4/4/08
Speaker: Jeff Danes (Cal Poly)
Title: Eliciting Thoughtful Evaluation of Ideas
4/25/08
Speaker: Steven Rosefielde (University of North Carolina)
Title: The Illusion of Westernisation in Russia and China
5/2/08
Speaker: Thomas Davidoff (UC Berkeley)
Title: Illiquid Housing as Self-Insurance: the Case of Long-Term Care, Housing, Health, and Annuities
5/9/08
Speaker: Federico Echenique (CalTech)
Title: On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications
5/23/08
Speaker: Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA)
Title: Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare
5/29/08
Speaker: Raanan Lipshitz (University of Haifa)
Title: Paradigms and Mindfulness in Decision Making: Why the Israel Defense Force (I.D.F.) Failed in the Second Lebanon War