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FEBRUARY 2002

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Monday, February 4

Andrew Patton, University of California, San Diego, "Modelling Time-Varying Exchange Rate Dependence Using the Conditional Copula," Junior Faculty Recruiting
   Room 106, 28 Hillhouse      12:00-1:30 pm

Devashish Mitra, Florida International University, "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation," Leitner Political Economy Workshop (joint with Trade & Development Workshop)
   Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse        12:00 noon

Tuesday, February 5

Sokbae "Simon" Lee, University of Iowa, "Semiparametric Estimation of a Panel Data Proportional Hazards Model with Fixed Effects," Junior Faculty Recruiting
   Room 106, 28 Hillhouse      12:00-1:30 pm

Sheila Cavanagh, PhD, Harvard, JFK School of Government, 2002, "Estimating the Demand for Water," Workshop in Economics and Natural Resources
   Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect     5:00 pm

Wednesday, February 6

Hiroyuki Kasahara, University of Wisconsin, "Temporary Increases in Tariffs and Machine Replacement: the Chilean Experience, 1980-1996," Junior Faculty Recruiting
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse      12:00-1:30 pm

Oliver Linton, London School of Economics, "Limit Theorems for Estimating the Parameters of Differentiated Product Demand Systems," Econometrics Research Seminar
  
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse         2:30-4:00 pm

Larry Temkin, Rutgers University, "Equality or priority," Workshop on Distributive Justice (PLSC 596b)
   124 Prospect, Room 102       4:00 pm

Thursday, February 7

Stefano Della Vigna, Harvard, "Contract Design and Self-Control: Theory and Evidence" and "Self-Control in the Market: Evidence from the Health Club Industry," SOM Job Market Candidate.
  
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse    4-5:30 pm

Gary Libecap, Univ. of Arizona, Economics, "Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s," LEO Workshop
  
Room 121, Law School          4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, February 8

Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard University, "CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment," Junior Faculty Recruiting
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        12-1:30 pm

Monday, February 11

James Alt, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Institutions and Corruption in American States," Leitner Political Economy Workshop
   Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse            12:00 noon

Oliver Linton, London School of Economics, "Estimating Semiparametric ARCH(inf) Models by Kernel Smoothing Methods," Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
  
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse          3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, February 12

Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale, "Identification of Auction Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity,"    Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
  
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse    2:30 pm

Friday, February 15

Galina Hale, University of California, Berkeley, "Bonds or Loans? On the Choice of International Debt Instrument by Emerging Market Borrowers," Junior Faculty Recruiting
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            12:00-1:30 pm

Panel Discussion moderated by Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, "The Enron Situation: A View from the Professions," Panel includes William T. Allen, NYU, Law; Rick Antle, Yale, SOM; Richard Ippolito, George Mason University, Law; Eugene A. Ludwig, Promontory Financial Group; Roberta Romano, Yale, Law; and Michael Shepherd, The Bank of New York Company, Inc.
   Room 120, Law School              2:00-4:00 pm

Monday, February 18

Gordon Hanson, University of California at San Diego, "International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States." Workshop in Trade and Development
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, February 19

Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago, "Why Don’t Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data" (with Judith Chevalier and Peter Rossi). Macroeconomics Workshop
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, February 20

Peyton Young, Johns Hopkins University, "On the evolutionary stability of fairness norms," Workshop on Distributive Justice (PLSC 596b)
   Brewster Hall, 124 Prospect       4:00 pm

Thursday, February 21

Christopher Timmins, Yale University, "Endogenous Land Use and the Ricardian Valuation of Climate Change," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
   Room 106, 28 Hillhouse      2:30-4:00 pm

Katharina Pistor, Harvard University, Kennedy School, "Incomplete Law: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework" (jointly with Chenggang Xu, Department of Economics, LSE). LEO Workshop
  
Room 121, Law School        4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, February 22

Steve Machin, MIT and University College London, "Minimum Wage Effects Where the Minimum Bites Hard:  The Introduction of a National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sectort,"   Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse       12:15-1:45 pm

Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Statistical Learnability and Rationality of Choice," Cowles Foundation Seminar
   Room B8, 28 Hillhouse        1:30-3:00 pm

Monday, February 25

Carles Boix, University of Chicago, "Democracy, Inequality and Country-Specific Wealth," Leitner Political Economy Workshop
  
Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse         12:00 noon

Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam," Workshop in Trade and Development
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse         3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, February 26

Peter Klenow, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "The Variety and Quality of a Nation’s Trade," (with David Hummels). Macroeconomics Workshop
  
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        2:30-3:50 pm

Luis Madrazo, Yale University, "Institutional Inertia: Ideology," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
  
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        2:30 pm

Wednesday, February 27

Offer Lieberman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technolgy, "High-Order Theory of Fractional Gaussian Processes," Econometrics Research Seminar
   Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-4:00 pm

Sara Ellison, MIT,  "Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals," Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
   Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse           4:00-5:30 pm

Alex Voorhoeve, University College London, "On Roemer’s theory of equal opportunity," Workshop on Distributive Justice (PLSC 596b)
   124 Prospect, Room 102                4:00 pm

Thursday, February 28

Price Fishback, University of Arizona, "The Origins of Modern Housing Finance: The Impact of Federal Housing Programs During the Great Depression," Workshop in Economic History
   Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                4:00-5:30 pm