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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

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

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

February 8, Thursday

Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell, Law, "Inside the Judicial Mind," LEO Workshop
     Room 121, Law School                             4:10-5:40 pm

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

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

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

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 Yale’s 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, "Japan’s 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