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Yellow Pad Research Seminar Series

All Yellow Pad seminars take place during 12:00 noon ~ 1:30 pm time period unless otherwise indicated

Academic Year 2012-2013

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, April 10	Nicholas Wilson	Williams College	Is Sex Like Driving? HIV Prevention and Risk Compensation	Lucas 201
Wednesday, April 17	Rhys Bidder	San Francisco Fed	Doubt and Variability	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 1	Josh Tasoff	Claremont Craduate University	Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 15	Gonçalo Pina	Santa Clara University	Feedback and Performance in Tournaments: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment	Lucas 201
Wednesday, June 5	Johanna Francis	Fordham/Visiting UC Santa Cruz		Lucas 201
Wednesday, June 12	Arunima Sinha	Santa Clara University		Lucas 108

Winter 2013

Seminars for the Winter 2013 quarter will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.unless otherwise indicated

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Monday, January 14	Marcella Alsan	NBER	The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development	Lucas 125
Wednesday, January 16	Vikram Maheshri	University of Houston	Do "Broken Windows" Matter? Identifying Dynamic Spillovers in Criminal Behavior	Lucas 108
Wednesday, January 23	Willa Friedman	UC Berkeley	Antiretroviral Drug Access and Behavior Change	Lucas 301
Friday, January 25	Marissa Beck	Stanford University	Incentives for Overbidding in Minimum-Revenue Core-Seleting Auctions	Lucas 301
Monday, February 4	Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio	Universite Catholique Louvain	On Ranking Intergenerational Allocations in Risky Environments	Lucas 301
Wednesday, February 6	Laura Gee	UC San Diego	Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Transmission On Facebook's Social Network	Lucas 301
Friday, February 8	Teny Maghakian Shapiro	UC, Merced	What a Difference a Day Makes: Quantifying the Effects of Birth Timing Manipulation on Infant Health	Lucas 201
Wednesday, February 13 10:30-12:00	Jaqueline Oliveira	Yale University	The Value of Children: Intergenerational Transfers, Fertility and Human Capital	Lucas 201
Friday, February 15 10 - 11:30 a.m.	Javier Cravino	UCLA	Exchange Rates, Aggregate Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of International Trade	Lucas 205
Monday, March 4	Christian Helmers	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	My precious! The location and diffusion of scentific research: evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source	Lucas 108
Wednesday, March 6	Ayca Kaya	University of Iowa	Transparency and Price Formation	Lucas 125

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, September 26	Alex Whalley	University of California, Merced	Private Gains from Public University Research: The Case of Productivity: Spillovers from Agricultural Experiment Stations	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 3	Marianne Bitler	University of Califonia, Irvine	Experimental Evidence on Distribution Effects of Head Start	Lucas 201
Monday, October 8	Andrea Matranga	Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Mankind's Best Mistake: How the Frist Farmers Accepted Subsistence Living in Exchange for Stability	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 24	Michael Bauer	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	The Signaling Channel for Federal Reserve Bond Purchases	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 7	Bill Sunstrom Michael Kevane	Santa Clara University	Public libraries and political participation, 1870-1930	Lucas 201
Wednesday,N ovember 14	Stephan Seiler	Stanford Graduate School of Business	Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 28	Thomas Wu	University of California, Santa Cruz	Familiarity and Surprises in International Financial Markets: Bad news travels like wild.re, good news travels slow	Lucas 201

Academic Year 2011-2012

Winter and Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, March 7	Michael Bordo	Rutgers & Hoover	Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record	Lucas 201
Wednesday, March 14	Noam Yuchtman	University of California, Berkeley -- Haas	Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution	Lucas 201
Wednesday, April 4	Alessandra Cassar	University of San Francisco	Institutions, Culture and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo on the Causal Effect of Legal Institutions	Lucas 201
Wednesday, April 18	Dongsoo Shin	Santa Clara University	Agency Problem as a Self-Disciplining Device	Lucas 201
Wednesday, April 25	Stephen Salant	University of Michigan	Experimental Departures from Self-Interest when Competing Partnerships Share Output	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 2	Rick Hornbeck	Harvard University	Railroads and American Economic Growth: "A Market Access" Approach	Lucas 201
Monday, May 7	Galina Hale	San Francisco Federal Reserve	Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 16	Bill Sundstrom	Santa Clara University	Did the Great Depression Leave a Scar? Long-Run Impact of Exposure to Very High Unemployment Early in the Career	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 23	Arunima Sinha	Santa Clara University	Expectations from the Term Structure	Lucas 201
Wednesday, May 30	Jaesoo Kim	IUPU	Price Discrimination via Information Provision	Lucas 201
Wednesday, June 6	Kanda Naknoi		The Risk Premium and Long-Run Global Imbalances	Lucas 201
Wednesday, June 13	John Morgan (Chair's Research Series)	University of California, Berkeley and Yahoo! Research	A Model of Flops	Lucas 201

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, September 21	Fred Foldvary	Santa Clara University	Why Rent Matters: Explaining wage and output stagnation with the classical determination of wages and rent	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 5	Katheryn Russ	University of California, Davis	All Banks Great, Small, and Global: Loan pricing and foreign competition	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 12	Michael Kevane	Santa Clara University	Robustness of climate as an instrumental variable to estimate effect of GDP declines on political change in Africa	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 19	Alan Barreca	Tulane University	Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 26	Jesse Cunha	Naval Postgraduate School	The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 9	Alexander Field	Santa Clara University	The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 16	Fernanda Nechio	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Are people aware of the Taylor rule?	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 30	Thomas Jeischo (Chair's Research Series)	Michigan State University	Endogenous Entry in Markets with Adverse Selection	Lucas 125

Academic Year 2010-2011

Spring 2011

Lilia Maliar Serguei Maliar	A Cluster-Grid Projection Method: Solving Problems With High Dimensionality
Michael Bar	Longevity, Schooling and Lifetime Labor Supply
Jiawei Chen	How do Switching Costs Affect Market Concentration and Prices in Network Industries?
Mario Belotti	World Food Production and Population Growth: The Next 40 years - Can We Feed the Next 2 Billion People?
Desmond Lo	A Theory of Bargaining Costs and Price Terms in the Absence of Specific Investments
Helen Popper	Trilemma Stability and International Macroeconomic Archetypes
Adina Ardelean	Trade Liberalization and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Data

Winter 2011

Ricardo Fernholz	Exchange Rate Manipulation and Constructive Ambiguity: The Meaning of Transparency
Samuel Pienknagura	Financial Development, R&D and Growth
Alessandro Barattieri	Comparative Advantage, Service Trade, and Global Imbalances
David Rothschild	Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations
John Ifcher	Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random- Assignment Experiment
Andrea Ajello	Financial Intermediation, Investment Dynamics and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Jane Zhang	Do Girls in China Compete Just As Much As Boys? Evidence from an Experiment that Predicts Educational Choice

Fall 2010

George Chacko	An Index-Based Measure of Liquidity
Dongsoo Shin	Voluntary Quality Disclosure under Price-Signaling Competition
Martha Bailey	The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages
Alexander Field	The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression Era Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Sector
Jason Lepore	Demand Uncertainty Leads to Diverse Collusive Dynamics
John Ifcher	Economic Growth and Subjective Well Being Inequality: Evidence from the World Value Survey

Academic Year 2009-2010

Spring 2010

Latika Chaudhary	Private to Public Ownership: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
Jennifer Poole	Business Travel as an Input to International Trade
Carolyn Evans Adina Ardelean	Electoral Systems and Protectionism: An Industry-Level Analysis
Olivier Armantier	A Reverse Auction for Toxic Assets
John Rasmus	How Fragile is the Epic Recession: Prelude To Global Depession

Winter 2010

Luigi Pascali	Recruitment seminar Banks and Development: Jewish Communities in the Italian Renaissance and Current Economic Performance
Ryan Banerjee	Recruitment seminar Which coutries receive aid as insurance and Why? A theory of optimal aid policy
Arunima Sinha	Recruitment seminar Learning and the Yield Curve
Pym Manopimoke	Recruitment seminar Trend Inflation and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Sebastian Fossati	Recruitment seminar Dating U.S. Business Cycles with Macro Factors
Ilan Noy	Recruitment seminar Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

Fall 2009

Kathryn G. Marshall	Consistent Cross-Country Estimates of Labor Productivity
Dongsoo Shin	Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives Click here for abstract
Jill Luoto	Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya
Alex Field	Do Economic Downturns have a Silver Lining?
Jose Julian Cao-Alvira	Financial Frictions and Money-Driven Variability in Velocity Note on Velocity: Solution to a cash-in-advance economy using finite elements and a parameterized expectations algorithm
Linda Kamas	Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men?

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