Archived Seminar Series
Archived Seminar Series
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Fall 2023
Friday, September 22
Luis Cabezas, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of California Los Angeles
“Large Devaluations, Heterogeneous Consumption Adjustments, and Macroeconomic Implications.”
Friday, September 29
Bessy Liao, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of California Irvine
“The Great Divergence with Frictional Labor Markets.”
Friday, October 6
Jingyi Fang, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Southern California
“Cities with Invisible Walls: Labor Liberalization and Misallocation in China.”
Friday, October 13
Yi-Ju Hung, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Southern California
“Immigration and Native Children’s Long-Term Outcomes.”
Friday, October 20
Zhongying Gan, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of California Irvine
“Inspecting the Inspectors: The Causes and Consequences of Restaurant Inspector Leniency.”
Friday, October 27
Jack Chapel, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Southern California
“The Social Spillover Effects of Policy Changes: Evidence from out-of-state Medicaid Expansions.”
Friday, November 3
Weizhao Huang, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Southern California
“Firm Outcomes and Aggregate Implications of ‘Green Finance’ Policy: Evidence from China.”
Friday, November 17
Jesper Böjeryd, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of California Los Angeles
“Should I Stay or Should I Go? Migration in Response to Changing Economic Conditions.“
Friday, December 1
Jingyan Guo, Ph.D. Candidate from the University of California Riverside
“Sleep and Fatal Vehicle Crashes: Evidence from Sunset Time in the United States.“
Spring 2023
Friday, February 10, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dario Laudati, University of Southern California
“Inequality and the rise of finance: The domestic safe asset shortage hypothesis.”
Friday, March 3, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Marco Del Angel, California State University Los Angeles
“Independent Regulators and Financial Stability: Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment.”
Friday, March 10, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Gabriela Best, California State University Fullerton
“Good Policy or Learning Evolution? A Markov-Switching Approach to Understanding the Determinants of Fed policy.”
Friday, March 17, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Alberto Rivera-Padilla, California State University Fullerton
“Cross-country income dispersion, human capital, and technology adoption.”
Friday, April 7, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dede Long, California State University Long Beach
“Work From Home, Commuting Time, and Intracity House-Price Gradients.”
Friday, April 14, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Andre Harrison, California State University Long Beach
“Gross Capital Inflows, the U.S. Economy, and the Response of the Federal Reserve.”
Friday, April 21, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Devika Hazra, California State University Los Angeles
“How does a Centralized Emergency Response System Affect Crimes Against Women? – Evidence from India.”
Friday, April 28, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Mariya Mileva, California State University Long Beach
“Trade liberalization, wage inequality, and monetary policy.”
Fall 2022
Friday, September 16, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steve Yamarik, California State University Long Beach
“The Rise of the Populist Radical Right / Left in Europe”
Friday, September 30, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Daniel Firoozi, University of California Irvine
“The Effect of Research Universities on Student Partisanship and Turnout”
Friday, October 7, 11:00 a.m. – noon.
Nicholas Roig, University of Southern California
“Adolescents Autonomy and Fertility Rates: Impacts of Argentina´s Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Plan”
Friday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Mahima Vasishth, University of California Irvine
“Local Media Reports on Sexual Crimes and Judicial Outcomes in India”
Friday, October 28, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Sayantani, University of California Irvine
“Housing Sales and Construction Responses to COVID-19 : Evidence from Shelter-in-Place and Eviction Moratoria in the U.S.”
Friday, November 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Fabian Reck, Zepplin University
“Impact of the Drug War on Regional Social Capital in Mexico”
Friday, December 9, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jaclyn Rosenquist, University of California Irvine
“Juvenile Curfew Laws and Adult Contact with the Criminal Justice System”
Fall 2021
Friday, September 10, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steve Yamarik, California State University Long Beach
“Is there a Resource Curse in the US: New Evidence from the Shale Revolution”
Friday, October 1, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Daniel Ladd, University of California Irvine
“Correlated Labor Market Risk and Housing Investment”
Friday, October 15, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Yejia (Richard) XU, University of Southern California
“Inter-firm Bundles and its Ownership Structure”
Friday, November 5, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Liqing Li, California State University Fullerton
“The effect of Urban Tree Planting on Residential Property Values and Gentrification”
Friday, November 12, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Tal Roitberg, University of Southern California
“Can’t-Wait? Urgency with Strategic Commuters and Tolled Express Lanes”
Friday, November 19, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Kyle Kole, University of California Irvine
“Alternative Benefits to Addressing Food Deserts: Evidence from an Increase in Property Values”
Spring 2021
Friday, February 19, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Yinan Li, University of Southern California
“The Value of Medicaid Long-Term Care: Evidence from the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005”
Fall 2020
Friday, September 25, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Matthew Sloogy, U.S. Forest Service
“The Localized Impacts of Stranded Public Land”
Friday, October 2, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steve Yamarik, California State University Long Beach
“The Impact of Soft Power on the Eurovision Song Contest”
Friday, October 30, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dede Long, California State University Long Beach
“Individuals’ willingness to stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic”
Friday, November 20, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Gigi Moreno, California State University Long Beach
“Social Equity Implications of Climate Resilience Policy in North Carolina: A Geospatial Analysis of Damages from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence”
Spring 2020
Friday, February 28, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Inas Kelly, Loyola Marymount University
“Economic Incentives Surrounding Fertility: Evidence from Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend”
Fall 2019
Friday, September 13, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steve Yamarik, California State University Long Beach
“The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights in U.S. Regional Trade Agreements on Industry-level Outward Foreign Direct Investment”
Friday, September 27, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Daehyun Kim, University of Southern California
“Stigma leads to mental health information avoidance: behavioral economics approach.”
Friday, October 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jingbo Wang, University of Southern California
“Nonparametric estimation of price elasticity: A heterogeneous treatment effect approach”
Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Ahmad Saboori, California State University Long Beach
“R&D, market structure, and welfare”
Friday, October 25, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Nandita Krishnaswamy, University of Southern California
“Missing and Fired: Worker Absence, Labor Regulation, and Firm Outcomes”
Friday, November 1, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Yanling Qi, California State University Long Beach
“Hospital Ownership and Health Expenditures: Evidence from Chengdu City”
Friday, November 8, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Elaine Frey and Moriah Macklin, California State University Long Beach
“The Impact of Air Pollution on Health and Income Disparity & Learning to be an Economist: The Benefits of the AEA Summer Training Program”
Friday, November 15, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Zachary Schaller, University of California Irvine
“The Decline of U.S. Labor Unions: Sectoral Shifts, Trade, and Automation.”
Friday, November 22, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Andy Zanazanian, University of California Irvine
“Evaluating the Incidence of Place-Based Policies on Land Values: Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit Program”
SPRING 2018
Friday, February 23, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Alejandra Edwards, California State University, Long Beach
“Unionization Trends: International Evidence and the case of Chile”
Friday, March 2, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jacob Meyer, Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies and California State University, Long Beach
“Does Democracy discipline credit growth?”
Friday, March 16, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jinwon Kim, California State University, Long Beach
“Estimating the social cost of congestion using the bottleneck model”
Friday, April 13, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Kilian Heilmann, UNiversity of Southern California
Friday, April 20, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Gabriela Dest, CSU Fullerton
Friday, April 27, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Nick Huntington-Klein, California State University, Fullerton
“The Effect of College Course Load on Student Performance”
Friday, May 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Michele Fioretti, University of Southern California
“Goods Through Markets: Do Charitable Auctions Work?”
FALL 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., ET 107
Julie Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
“Some Like it Hot: Assessing Long-term Labor Market Benefits from a High-pressure Economy”
Wednesday, September 20, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., CBA 114
Jonathan Hall, University of Toronto
“Is Uber a Complement or Substitute with Public Transit?”
Friday, September 22, 11:00 a.m. – noon
David Brownstone, University of California Irvine
“The Neglected Impacts of Measurement Error in Applied Microeconomics with Applications to Automobile Type Choice and Utilization”
Friday, September 29, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Debapriya Chakraborty, University of California Irvine
“Time-of-use pricing and Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior- Environmental Impact of Daytime Charging”
Friday, October 6, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jacob Meyer, California State University, Long Beach
“The Political Economy of Banking Crises”
Friday, October 13, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Tushar Bharati, University of Southern California
“Did quality deterioration limit the gains form primary school construction in Indonesia?”
Friday, October 20, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Nicholas Jenkins, California State University, Long Beach
“Which Crisis and Why?”
Friday, October 27, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Irina Zotova, University of California Irvine
Friday, November 3, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dawoon Jung, University of Southern California
Friday, December 1, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steven Yamarik, California State University, Long Beach
SPRING 2017
Friday, February 10, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Steven Yamarik, California State University Long Beach
“Do the Intellectual Property Rights of Regional Trading Arrangements Impact Foreign Direct Investment? An Empirical Examination”
Friday, March 3, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Mariya Mileva, California State University Long Beach
“Ramsey Optimal Monetary Policy in Response to Shifts in the Beveridge Curve”
Friday, March 17, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jiawei Chen, University of California Irvine
“Switching Costs and Network Compatibility”
Friday, April 7, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Ryan Abman, San Diego State University
“Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation: Evidence from Input Subsidies and Ethnic Favoritism in Malawi”
Friday, April 21, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Nicholas Jenkins, California State University Long Beach
“Becoming an Entrepreneur: The Role of Employment History and Risk”
Friday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Xiangting Hu, University of California Los Angeles
“Firm’s market choice and search quality in the vertical dimension”
Friday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Economics Department Poster Competition
FALL 2016
Friday, September 9, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Teresa Molina, University of Southern California
“Pollution, Ability, and Gender-Specific Investment Responses to Shocks”
Friday, September 23, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Brian Asquith, University of California Irvine
“Rent Control and Evictions: Evidence from San Francisco”
Friday, September 30, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Kelsey O’Connor, University of Southern California
“Happier People are Less Likely to Become Unemployed: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in the U.S. and Germany”
Friday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Ian Burn, University of California Irvine
“Pride, Prejudice, and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Models of Taste-Based Discrimination for Gay Men”
Tuesday, October 18, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Dr. Ellis Tallman, Director of Research, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
“Monetary Policy with a Large Balance Sheet: Lessons from US Financial History”
Friday, October 28, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jacob Meyer, California State University Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University
“Expectations, Adjustment, and Economic Fundamentals: Political Institutions as Financial Crisis Determinants”
Friday, November 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Elaine Frey, California State University Long Beach
“The Economics of Economic Associations”
Friday, December 2, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Yanling Qi, California State University Long Beach
“The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Expansion on Young Adults’ Health-related Outcomes”
SPRING 2016
Thursday, January 21, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Ippei Shibata, University of Chicago
“Labor Market Dynamics: A Hidden Markov Approach”
Monday, January 25, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Pao-Lin Tien, Washington University
“Do Fed Forecast Errors Matter?”
Wednesday, January 27, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Jarrod Hunt, University of Houston
“Debt, Default, and Disaggregation”
Tuesday, March 1, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Eric Fischer, University of California, Santa Cruz
“U.S. Monetary Expectations and Emerging Market Debt Flows”
Friday, March 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Rubina Verma, Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and USC Visiting Scholar
“Export Intensity and Firm Productivity”
Tuesday, March 8, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Mariya Mileva, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Comparative Advantage and Business Cycle Dynamics”
Friday, March 18, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Fynnwin Prager, CSU Dominguez Hills
“Estimating and Comparing Economic Consequences of Multiple Threats: A Computable General Equilibrium Decomposition Approach”
Wednesday, May 4, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Economics Department Poster Session
Friday, May 6, COMBINED SEMINAR 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Jinwon Kim, CSU Long Beach The City with Congested Bottlenecks” & Saba Mojtahedi, CSU Long Beach Graduate Student “The Effects of California Solar Initiative Rebates on Solar Energy Adoption”
FALL 2015
Friday, September 18, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Yaping Yang, Jinan University and CSULB Visiting Scholar
“Learning by Outward FDI: Evidence from Chinese Industry Enterprises”
Friday, October 9, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Xiyan (Jamie) Wang, University of California Irvine
“Service-competition in the U.S. Airline Industry: Schedule Robustness, Market Structure, and On-time Performance”
Friday, October 16, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Teresa Molina, University of Southern California
“Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the Progresa Experiment”
Friday, October 23, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Kim Makuch, University of California Irvine
“The External Congestion Costs of Light Trucks”
Friday, October 30, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Nazmul Ahsan, University of Southern California
“Do Parents Selectively Time Birth Relative to Ramadan? Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh”
Friday, November 6, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Inas Kelly, Queens College of the City University of New York
“The Shock of Falling Among the Elderly”
Friday, November 13, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Yutian (Kate) Chen, California State University, Long Beach
“A New Explanation for the ‘Generic Competition Paradox’: How Higher Prices Encourage Brand Loyalty”
Friday, December 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Branden Galley, Annette Kunitsa, and Michelangelo Landgrave, California State University, Long Beach
“The Role of Income as a Determinant of Mode of Transportation and Length of Commute”
SPRING 2015
Friday, February 27, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Yunson Li and Jeff Nugent, University of Southern California (USC)
“What Can Be Learned about the Employment Effects of Labor Market Deregulation from Hypothetical Questions to Firms? Evidence from the Enterprise Surveys”
Tuesday, March 10, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., including a reception
LOCATION: Beach Auditorium, University Student Union (USU)
Special seminar co-hosted by the Rho Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Kathleen McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
“50 Years of the War on Poverty: What it meant for the elderly”
Friday, March 13, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Matthew Holian, San Jose State University
“Integrating Multimodal Data into Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transportation Planning Policy”
Friday, April 10, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Quinn Keefer, California State University San Marcos
“The Sunk-Cost Fallacy and Performance Feedback: Evidence from Professional Football”
Friday, April 17, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Edward Coulson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Houses, Apartments and Condos: The Governance of Multifamily Housing”
Friday, April 24, 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
2015 CSULB Regional Economic Forum LOCATION: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
For more information, please visit the website: www.csulb.edu/economics/forum
Thursday, May 7, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
CSULB Student Research Poster Session
LOCATION: LA3, room 106
Fall 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Steve Yamarik, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
“Does Inequality Lead to Financial Crisis? Evidence from U.S. States” (with Makram El Shagi and Guy Yamashiro)
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Special seminar on urban economic sustainability co-hosted with the Department of Geography and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Matthew Kahn, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
“How Will Los Angeles Adapt to Climate Change? An Economist’s Perspective”
Friday, September 26, 2014
Alejandra Edwards, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
“The Labor Market Challenges in the Philippines”
Friday, October 17, 2014
Kip Jackson, University of California, Irvine (UCI)
“Explaining Variation in Housing Market Boom and Bust: The Role of Land Use Regulation”
Friday, October 24, 2014
Justin Jarvis, University of California, Irvine (UCI)
“Individual Determinants of Homelessness, a Revealed Preference Approach”
Friday, November 7, 2014
Elaine Frey, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
“Environmental Regulation and the Changing Composition of the U.S. Electric Generating Industry”
Friday, December 5, 2014
B.C. (Guang) Zhong, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
“Induced Innovation from CAFE Standards in the Automotive Industry: Evidence using Patent Data”
Spring 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Gregor von Schweinitz, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) & Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
“A Counterfactual Analysis of Real Effective Exchange Rates During the Euro Era”
Friday, February 28, 2014
Amanda Ross, West Virginia University
“Does the New Markets Tax Credit Attract New Businesses?”
Friday, March 21, 2014
2014 CSULB Regional Economic Forum Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
Friday, April 11, 2014
Puqiu Jing, Dean, School of Economics, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, and Visiting Scholar, the Department of Economics, California State University, Long Beach
“Is There a Dutch Disease in Resource-based Regions? A Case Analysis from Shanxi Province of China”
Friday, May 2, 2014
Puspa Amri, California State University, Long Beach, and Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies
“When is high credit growth harmful? Leverage, financial regulations, and banking crises.”
Friday, May 9, 2014
CSULB Student Research Poster Session
Fall 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Makram El-Shagi, California State University, Long Beach
“Liquidity in the EMU”
Friday, October 4, 2013
Arzu Aysin Tekindor, California State University, Long Beach
“Uniqueness in Art Market”
Friday, October 25, 2013
Pi-Han Christine Tsai, University of California, Irvine
“Fiscal Incentive and Political Budget Cycles in China”
Friday, November 8, 2013
Dan Luo, University of California, Irvine
“Airline Network-Structure Change and Consumer Welfare”
Friday, November 22, 2013
Logan Kelly, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
“The Use of Monetary Aggregates in Monetary Policy”