
Calendar of Events
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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Friday, February 8 |
Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard University, "CEO Overconfidence and
Corporate Investment," Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12-1:30
pm
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| 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
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| Tuesday, February
12 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale, "Identification of Auction Models with
Unobserved Heterogeneity," Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
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| 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
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| 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
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| Tuesday, February
19 |
Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago, "Why Dont 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Tuesday, February
26 |
Peter Klenow, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "The Variety and Quality of a
Nations 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
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| 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 Roemers theory
of equal opportunity," Workshop on Distributive Justice (PLSC 596b)
124 Prospect, Room 102
4:00 pm
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| 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
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