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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2009
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University, "The WTO:  Theory and Practice".   The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy.
          Room 203, Luce Hall 12 - 1:30 pm
Steven Bednar, "The Effect of Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes".  Labor-Public Finance Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Ann Carlos, U Col Boulder, "Bankruptcy Statutes in Early Modern England".  Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Irene Botosaru, Yale University, TBA.  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Reena Badiani, Yale, job market PhD,   "Factories and Farms:  How Does Economic Growth Impact Rural Educational Investment?".  Development Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Johannes Horner, Yale, "Selling Information".  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University, "On the Optimality of a Unified Unit of Account" (with Martin Schneider, Stanford).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
CANCELLED Ted Rosenbaum, "Explaining the Decline of Michigan:  Modeling Site Selection in the Automotive Industry".   Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, "Lawyering and the Financial Crisis".  Panel discussion with Brian Daly, Raptor Group Holdings LP, Lauren Teigland-Hunt, Tiegland-Hunt LLP, David Zimmerman, Quantitative Financial Structurings, and Reshma Saujani, YLS.  Lunch will be provided.  RSVP to corp.law@yale.edu by October 28.
          Room 124, YLS 12:10 pm
Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "Changing the Food Environment by Working with Food Stores".  Rudd Center Seminars.
          Rudd Center, 309 Edwards Street 12:30 pm
Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School, TBA.   Micro Theory Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Xiaoxia Shi, Yale, "Model Selection Tests for Nonnested Moment Inequality Models".  Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University, "Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium" (with Ariel Burstein).   Workshop in International Trade
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale, FES, "Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Damages from Extreme Events".  Environmental Economics Seminar.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Camilo Dominguez, "Expectations About Returns to Education".  Development Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Guillermo Ordonez, Yale University, "Larger Crises, Slower Recoveries:  The Asymmetric Effects of Financial Frictions".   Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University, "Organize to Compete" (with Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek).   Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Kenneth R. French, Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, "Perspectives on Financial Regulation".  The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law presents the 2009-2010 Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance.
Faculty Lounge, YLS 4:30 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Research Bank of Chicago, "The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement".  Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Gary Cox, UC San Diego, "War, Moral Hazard and Ministerial Responsibility:  England after the Glorious Revolution".     The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy.
          Room 203, Luce Hall 12 - 1:30 pm
Priyanka Anand, TBA.    Labor-Public Finance Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University, "The Conditional Miracle:  Institutional Change, Fiscal Policy, Bond Markets, and Interest Rates in Holland, 1514-1713".  Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Mir Salim, Yale, job market PhD, "Revealed Objective Functions of Microfinance Institutions".  Development Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Steven Rattner, Former Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury, "Restructuring the Automobile Industry".   YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law Luncheon Lecture.   Lunch will be provided.  RSVP to corp.law@yale.edu by November 3
          Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building 12:00 pm
Tri Vi Dang, University of Mannheim, Cowles Visitor, "Opacity and the Optimality of Debt for Liquidity Provision".     Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Nir Jaimovich, Stanford University, "Reference Prices, Costs and Nominal Rigidities" (joint with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Eduardo Souza Rodrigues, "A Structural Approach to Access the Dynamic Effects of Environmental Policies".  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Boyd Swinburn, MD, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, "Drivers of the Obesity Epidemic in the U.S. and Around the Globe".    Rudd Center Seminars.
          Rudd Center, 309 Edwards Street 12:30 pm
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University, TBA.   Micro Theory Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Gary Chamberlain, Harvard University, "Bayesian Aspects of Treatment Choice".  Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Andrew King, Dartmouth, "Does Green Management Really Matter?".  Environmental Economics Seminar.
          Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Marc Melitz, Harvard University, TBA.  Workshop in International Trade
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
David Berger, Yale, "Managerial Frictions and Employment Fluctuations".  Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Treb Allen, "Optimal (Partial) Group Liability in Microfinance Lending".  Development Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Gregory Lewis, Harvard University, "Demand Estimation in Auction Platform Markets".  Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm

Jolyon Howorth,Visiting Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Wolfgang Plasa, European Commission & EU Visiting Fellow, David Cameron, Political Science and Director, European Union Studies Program, "The EU After Lisbon".   The European Studies Council. 
          Room 116, WLH, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Anne Joseph O'Connell, Berkeley/Law, TBA.   LEO Workshop.  For further information, please contact Deborah Sestito at (203) 432-4830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Conference on Financial Globalization, "Financial Globalization:  Culprit, Survivor or Casualty of the Great Crisis?".  Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the Ford Foundation.
          Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect 9:00 am
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
John Abowd, Cornell University, "How Important is Endogenous Mobility for Measuring Employer and Employee Heterogeneity?".   Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 - 15
Cowles Foundation Event:  Workshop on Simplicity & Likelihood.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Torun Dewan, London School of Economics, TBA.   The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy.
          Room 203, Luce Hall 12 - 1:30 pm
Jamin Speer, Douglas Norton, TBA.  Labor-Public Finance Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Robert Pozen, Chairman, MFS Investment Management, "How to Fix the US Financial System".   YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law Luncheon Lecture.   Lunch will be provided.  RSVP to corp.law@yale.edu by November 9
          Room 124, SLB 12:15 pm
Marc Flandreau, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, "The End of Gatekeepers:   Underwriters and the Quality of Sovereign Bond Markets, 1815-2007".  Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale, TBA.  Development Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Jaroslaw Fret, Teatr ZAR, Wroclaw, Poland, "Jaroslaw Fret, Teatr ZAR, and the Grotowski Legacy".  The European Studies Council.
          Room 202, Luce Hall 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Johannes Horner, Yale, "Recursive Methods in Stochastic Games".   Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania, "How do households respond to income shocks?" (with Fabrizio Perri).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Jorge Balat, TBA.   Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Itzhak Gilboa, University of Tel Aviv, "A Unified Model of Induction".  Micro Theory Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University, TBA.   Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Arthur Campbell, Yale SOM, "Subsidized Intermittent Technologies and Incentives for Investment".  Environmental Economics Seminar.
          Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Kalina Manova, Stanford University, "Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models".  Workshop in International Trade
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Marnix Amand, Yale, TBA.  Macro Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Muthoni Ngatia, TBA.  Development Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Juan Esteban Carranza, University of Wisconsin, TBA.  Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit and University of Chicago/Law, TBA.  LEO Workshop (joint with Legal Theory Workshop). For further information, please contact Deborah Sestito at (203) 432-4830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu
          Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20
David Blau, Ohio State University, TBA.   Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm

Please send Calendar Information to Nancy King, 2-3587, Rm 203, 28 HH by Wednesday Noon