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NOVEMBER 2000

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November 2, Thursday

Tao Wu, Yale, "Macro Factors and Affine Term Structure of Nominal Interest Rates in Business Cycles." Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse, 12:00-1:00 pm

Jean-Marc Robin, INRA-LEA and CREST-INSEE, "An Equilibrium Job Search Model for Matched Employer-Employee Data." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
     Rm 106, 28 Hillhouse, 2:30-4 pm

Margaret Brinig, Iowa, Law, "Norms, Trust, Autonomy and Community." LEO Workshop
     Rm 121, Law School, 4:10-5:40 pm

November 3, Friday

Jeremy Stein, MIT, "Breadth of Ownership and Stock Return." Finance & Accounting Seminar
     Rm A-53, SOM, 11:30 am-1:00 pm

NBER Labor Group, Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population

November 6, Monday

Doron Nissim, Columbia University, "Valuation of the Debt-Tax Shield" (co-authored with Dean Kemsley). Finance & Accounting Seminar
     SOM, Room A-48, 11:30 am-1:00 pm 

Harrison Wagner, Texas, Government, "Bargaining, War, and Alliances." Political Economy Workshop
     Luce Hall, Rm 203, 12:00-1:30 pm

Peter Drysdale, Australian National University, "The New Regionalism in East Asia." Workshop in Trade and Development
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 3:30-5:00 pm

Zoran Ivkovich, Yale, SOM, "The Impact of Family Characteristics on the Inflow of Investment in the Mutual Fund Industry." Ph.D. Student Workshop
     SOM, Rm A-30, 4:00-5:00 pm

Donald J. Brown, Yale, Economics and Marten H. Wegkamp, Yale, Statistics, "Weighted Minimum Mean-Square Distance from Independence Estimation." Department of Statistics Seminar
     24 Hillhouse, Room 107, 4:15 pm

November 7, Tuesday

Guenter Hitsch, Yale, "Estimating a Model of Product Introduction." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     28 Hillhouse, Common Rm, 2:30-4:00 pm

November 8, Wednesday

Shyam Sunder, Yale, SOM, "Dynamics of Double Auctions." Faculty Workshop
     55 Hillhouse, Horchow Seminar Rm, 11:30 am-1:00 pm

Peter Jones, Yale, Mathematics, "Geometry and Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets," Cowles Foundation Lunch
     28 Hillhouse, Common Rm, 12:00-1:15 pm

Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern University, "Second Opinions and Price Competition." Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 2:30-4:00 pm

Robert Mendelsohn, Yale FES, "Agriculture and Water Availability." Workshop on Environment and Natural Resources
     28 Hillhouse,  Rm 106, 4:15-5:45 pm

November 10, Friday

Max Schanzenbach, Yale University, "The Labor Market Effects of Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will." Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 12:15-1:45 pm

Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin and Santa Fe Institute, "Growth Economics and Reality" (with William Brock, University of Wisconsin). Cowles Foundation Seminar (joint with Macroeconomics Workshop)
     28 Hillhouse, Rm B8, 2:00-3:30 pm

November 13, Monday

Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Child Health and Education: The Primary School Deworming Project in Kenya (with Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley) Workshop in Trade and Development
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 3:30-5:00 pm

November 14, Tuesday

Thomas Cooley, New York University, "Limited Enforceability, Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy." Macroeconomics Workshop
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 2:00 pm

Nickolay Moshkin, Yale University, "Competition in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry After DeRegulation." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     28 Hillhouse, Common Rm, 2:30-4:00 pm

November 15, Wednesday

John Lott, Yale, Law, TBA. Faculty Workshop. 55 Hillhouse, Horchow Seminar Rm, 11:30 am-1:00 pm

Rani Spiegler, Institute for Advanced Studies, "Experimentation and Bargaining Dynamics." Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106, 2:30-4:00 pm

In Choi, Kookmin University and Yale University, "Cointegrating Smooth Transition Regressions with Applications to the East Asian Currency Crisis." Econometrics Research Seminar
     28 Hillhouse, Rm B8           3:30-5:00 pm

Rob Gertner, Chicago GSB, "Comparables." Micro/Strategy Seminar
     55 Hillhouse,  Horchow Seminar Rm, 4:00-5:30 pm

November 16, Thursday

Oleg Melnikov, Yale, "Demand for Differentiated Durable Products:  The Case of the U.S. Computer Printer Market," Applied Microeconomics Workshop joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     28 Hillhouse, Rm 106            2:30-4:00 pm

Thomas Merrill, Northwestern, Law, "The Property/Contract Interface." LEO Workshop
     Law School, Room 121          4:10-5:40 pm

November 17, Friday

Dimitri Vayanos, MIT, "Equilibrium and Welfare in Markets with Financially Constrained Arbitrageurs." Finance & Accounting Seminar
     SOM, Room A-53                   11:30 am-1:00 pm

November 27, Monday

Randy Stevenson, Rice, Political Science, "The "Media-Model" of Public Opinion and the Economic Vote," Political Economy Workshop. Papers available from http://www.yale.edu/leitner/
     Rm. 203, Luce Hall                 12:00-1:30 pm

Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts, "Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State,"
Workshop in Trade and Development

     Rm. 106, 28 Hillhouse             3:30-5:00 pm

Clement Chan, Yale, SOM, "Estimating Continuous Choice Models with Censored Data: An Application to the Demand for Soft Drinks," Ph.D. Student Workshop
     Rm. A-30, SOM ,                    4-5:00 pm

November 28, Tuesday

Katia Seim, Yale University, "Market Structure and Geographic Differentiation in Retail Markets,"
Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           2:30-4:00 pm

November 29, Wednesday

Meghan Busse, Yale, SOM, TBA. Faculty Workshop
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse     11:30 am-1 pm

Phillippe Jehiel, ENPC, University College and Institue for Advanced Studies, "Analogy-Based Expectation Equilibrium," Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            2:30-4:00 pm

Dmitry Dubasov, Yale University, "Corporate Investment and Financing Constraints," Econometrics Seminar
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse             3:30-5:00 pm

Raphael Thomadsen, Columbia, "Price Competition and Geographic Product Differentiation," Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Micro Seminar)
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse        4:00-5:30 pm

November 30, Thursday

Yuanfeng Hou, Yale, "Asset Pricing with Fast Growing Firms:  a General Equilibrium Model,"
Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse          12:00-1:00 pm

Clement Chan, Yale University, "A Continuous Choice, Differentiated Products Model with Corner Solutions Applied to the Demand for Soft Drinks," Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics)
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-4:00 pm

YCIAS Policy Roundtable, "Can Japan Get Out of the Doldrums?" Featuring panelists:
     Koichi Hamada, Yale University;
     Matt Higgins, Merrill Lynch;
     Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
     Shinji Takagi, Osaka University and Yale University.
Moderated by Gustav Ranis, Henry R. Luce Director, YCIAS. Reception to follow.
     Rm. 203, 34 Hillhouse                   4:00 pm