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MARCH 2002

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Friday, March 1

Amy Finkelstein, MIT, "Minimum Standards in Insurance Regulation: Evidence from the Medigap Market," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse       12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, March 4

Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania, "Power Politics, Credible Commitments, and Free Trade: Explaining Major-Power Trade Flows, 1907-1998," Leitner Political Economy Workshop
          Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse           12:00 noon

Keijiro Otsuka, GRIPS, "Industrial Growth Without Significant Productivity Growth: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry in Taiwan," Workshop in Trade and Development
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, March 5

Juan Carranza, Yale, "Durable Goods and Innovation: Stylized Facts from the Market of Digital Photo Cameras," and Marco Oviedo, Yale, "Marginal Cost Recovering from Optimal Bidding Behavior: The PJM Electricity Market Case," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
        
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       2:30 pm

Wednesday, March 6

Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia, "Naturalistic theories of justice: What we cannot learn from game theory." Workshop on Distributive Justice (PLSC 596b)
          Brewster Hall, 124 Prospect, Room 102       4:00 pm

Ray Fisman, Columbia, "Tax Rates & Tax Evasion: Evidence from Missing Imports in China," Micro/Strategy Seminar
          Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse        4:00-5:30 pm

Thursday, March 7

Moshe Buchinksy, Brown University, "Interim Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S. (with Denis Fougere, Francis Kramarz, Rusty Tchernis), Applied Microeconomics Workshop
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                  2:30-4:00 pm

Jose Cutileiro, Institute for Advanced Study, "Minding Other People’s Business: Bosnia, Kosovo and the International Community," YCIAS Council on European Studies
         
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse        4:00 pm

Stephen Ross, UConn, Economics, "Loan Denied: What is Known About Discrimination in Mortgage Lending" (co-authored with John Yinger), LEO Workshop
           Room 121, Law School                4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, March 8

Mark Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania, "Democratization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
          
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, March 25

Carol Mershon, University of Virginia, "On the Empirical and Normative Implications Parliamentary Party Fluidity Or, Is There a Second Italian Republic?," Leitner Political Economy Workshop
           Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse        12:00 noon

Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin, "Exchange Rates and Fundamentals," Workshop in Trade and Development
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, March 26

Christian Gollier, Université de Toulouse, "Time Horizon and the Discount Rate" AND "Transitory Shocks to GNP and the Consumption-Based Term Structure of Interest Rates," Macroeconomics Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse         2:30-3:50 pm

Paris Cleanthous, Yale University, "Estimating the Welfare Implications of New Product Introduction in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Case of Antidepressants," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse     2:30 pm 

Eran Hanany, Northwestern University, "The Ordinal Nash Social Welfare Function," Topics in Game Theory, 523b
         
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse               6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 27

Zhijie Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Efficient Regression in Time Series Partial Linear Models," Econometrics Research Seminar
           Room B8, 28 Hillhouse     2:30-4:00 pm

Justine Hastings, Dartmouth, "Vertical Integration and Competition in Gasoline Markets," Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
            Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse     4:00-5:30 pm

Thursday, March 28

Zorina Khan, Bowdoin University, "Innovations in Patent Systems from an International Perspective," Workshop in Economic History
            Room 106, 28 Hillhouse      4:00-5:30 pm

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Yale, Management, "Courts: the Lex Mundi Project," LEO Workshop 
           
Room 121, Law School      4:10-5:40 pm

Friday,  March 29

Martin Ravellion, World Bank, "Assisting the Transition from Workforce to Work: A Randomized Experiment" AND "Do Work Participants Recover Quickly From Retrenchment," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        12:15-1:45 pm