
Calendar of Events
FEBRUARY 2001 |
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| February 2,
Friday |
Randy Bucklin, UCLA, "A Model of Web Site Browsing Behavior
Estimated on Clickstream Data," Marketing Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Richard Stanton, Berkeley, "EMM Estimation of Affine and Nonaffine
Term Structure Models," Finance &
Accounting Seminar
Room B60, SOM
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Rene Caldentey, MIT, "Revenue Management of a Make-to-Stock
Queue," Eli Seminar
Room A-30, SOM
2:00-3:30 pm
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| February 6,
Tuesday |
Stuart Feldman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, TBA. IT in Management
Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
10:00-11:30 am
Leeat Yariv, Harvard University, "I'll See It When I
Believe It - A Simple Model of Confirmatory Bias and Cognitive Dissonance," Junior
Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:30 pm
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| February 7,
Wednesday |
Art Swersey , Yale, "Decision Models for Prostrate Cancer
Detectjion and Treatment," Faculty Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55
Hillhouse 11:30 am-1:00 pm
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| February 8,
Thursday |
Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell, Law, "Inside the Judicial
Mind," LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
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| February 9,
Friday |
S. Viswanathan, Duke, "Financing Auction Bids." Finance &
Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Dino Gerardi, Northwestern, "Unmediated Communication in Games with
Complete and Incomplete Information," Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:30 pm
Patricia Anderson*, Dartmouth College, Where the Boys Aren't: Recent Trends
in U.S. College Enrollment Patterns, Microeconomics
Workshop on Labor and Population
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00 pm
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| February 12,
Monday |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Stanford, Hoover Institution, " When is Bad
Policy Good Politics?," Political Economy Workshop. Papers available from http://www.yale.edu/leitner
Room 203, Luce Hall
12:00-1:30
pm
Masahiro Watanabe, Yale, "Volatility and Comovements in
Overlapping-Generations Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium," Ph.D. Student
Research Workshop
Room A-30, SOM
4:00-5:00 pm
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| February 13,
Tuesday |
Stuart Feldman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, TBA. IT in Management
Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
10:00-11:30 am
Hanming Fang, Yale, Measuring
Time Inconsistency: Evidence from Work-Welfare Decisions in NLSY, Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30 pm
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| February 14,
Wednesday |
David Collis, Yale, "The Size and Role of Corporate Headquarters: An
International Comparison," Faculty Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
11:30 am-1:00 pm
David Swensen, Yale, Chief Investment Officer, and Dean Takahashi,
Yale, Senior Director, Investments, "Exploiting Market Inefficiencies in Managing
Yales Endowment," Cowles
Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:15 pm
Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, University of Alicante, Economics, "Public
Funding of Political Parties," Political Economy Workshop
70 Sachem St.
NOON
Bill Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "N-person Games of
Survival," Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
In Choi, Yale University, "Cointegrating Smooth Transition
Regressions with Applications to the Asian Currency Crisis," Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
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| February 15,
Thursday |
Jennifer Berdahl, Berkeley, "Dominant Norms: Gender and Emergent
Leadership Structures in Groups Over Time," Organizational Behavior Seminar
Room A-46, SOM
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Nicola Fuchs, Yale, "Welfare loss and precautionary savings due
to uninsured idiosyncratic labor risk," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:00 pm
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| February 16,
Friday |
David Card, University of California at Berkeley, Cohort Relative Supplies of Education
and the Rising Return to Education among Young Workers (with Thomas Lemieux,
University of British Columbia and NBER), Microeconomics
Workshop on Labor and Population
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
Alessandro Pavan, MIT, "Optimal Design of Privacy Policies," Junior
Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| February 19,
Monday |
Ashok Guha, JNU/Yale University, "Disguised and Open Unemployment in
Backyard Agriculture: A Reconciliation," Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5:00 pm
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| February 20,
Tuesday |
Rupa Athreya, Yale, "Price Dispersion in the Wholesale Market for
Steel," Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30 pm
Stuart Feldman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, TBA. IT in Management
Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
10:00-11:30 am
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| February 21,
Wednesday |
Matt Spiegel, Yale, TBA. Faculty Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Menahem Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "A Credit Market a la
David Hume," Cowles
Foundation Seminar and Microeconomic Theory
Workshop
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| February 22,
Thursday |
Alberto Alesina, Harvard, Economics, "Inequality and Happiness: Are
Europeans and Americans Different?," LEO Workshop. Papers available at http://www.yale.edu/law/leo/
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
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| February 23,
Friday |
Raj Singh, University of Minnesota, "Optimal Imprecision &
Ignorance," Finance &
Accounting Seminar
Room B60, SOM
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Joel Huber, Duke and Wharton, "Expressing Preferences in a
Principal-Agent Task: A Comparison of Choice, Rating and Matching," Marketing
Seminar
Room A30, SOM
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, Monopoly Power and Distribution in
Fragmented Markets: The Case of Groundwater (with Rinku Murgai and Saeed
Ur Rehman), Microeconomics Workshop on
Labor and Population (joint with Workshop in
Trade and Development)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| February 26,
Monday |
Philip Keefer, World Bank, "Institutions, Information and Banking
Crises," Political Economy Workshop. Papers available form http://www.yale.edu/leitner
Room 203, Luce Hall
12:00-1:30 pm
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Educational Policy and the Economics
of the Family," Workshop in Trade and
Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5:00 pm
Steve Strauss, Yale, "Coordinating Channels Under Price and
Non-Price Competition in the Presence of the Internet," Ph.D. Student Research
Workshop
Room A-30, SOM
4:00-5:00 pm
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| February 27,
Tuesday |
Per Krusell, Rochester, "Temptation and Taxation" (joint with
Burhanettin Kuruscu and Anthony Smith). Macroeconomics
Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:00 pm
Jennifer Murdock, Yale, "A Panel Discrete Choice Model of Outdoor
Recreation Behavior: Capturing Heterogeneity, Variety Seeking Behavior, and Unobserved Site
Characteristics," Prospectus Workshop
in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30 pm
Dmitry V. Mosyakov, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Russian Policy in
East and Southeast Asia," Council on European Studies at YCIAS
Room 117, 100 Wall St., WLH
4:00 pm
Garry Brewer, University of California, Berkeley, "Finding the right
balance: rethinking the nuclear energy option," Eli Seminar
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect
4:00 pm
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| February 28,
Wednesday |
Steve Latham, Yale, "Which Efficient Transactions are
Ethical?," Faculty Workshop
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, ""Inequality and
the Nature and Boundaries
of Collective Organizations," Cowles Foundation Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:15 pm
James Snyder, MIT, Political Science and Economics, "An information
rationale for political parties," Political Economy Workshop
70 Sachem St.
NOON
Ilya Segal, Stanford University, "Collusion, Exclusion, and
Inclusion in Random-Order Bargaining," Microeconomic
Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
Sam Thompson, Harvard University, "Specification Tests for
Conditional Distributions, with an Application to Models for the Spot Interest Rate,"
Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
Shinji Takagi, University of Osaka and Yale University,
"Japans Restrictive System of Trade and Payments: Operation, Effectiveness, and
Liberalization, 1950-1964," Workshop in
Economic History
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
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