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Calendar of Events
MAY 2002

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Wednesday, May 1

Philippe Henrotte, HEC, "On Pricing Kernels and Dynamic Portfolios," Micro Theory Workshop
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse        2:30 – 4:00 pm

Severin Borenstein, Berkeley, "Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California’s Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market," Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Micro Workshop)
        Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse      4:00 – 5:30 pm

Jyoti Parikh, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, "Linking indoor and outdoor air pollution and health in India," Workshop on Environment and Natural Resources
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               4:15 pm

Thursday, May 2

Nicola Fuchs, Yale University, "Precautionary Savings and Self-Selection Bias -- An Empirical Test Based on the ‘German Reunification Experiment’" (with Mathias Schuenden). Macro Lunch
        Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12:00 – 1:00 pm

Bart van Ark, Yale University and University of Groningen, "Technology Regimes and Growth in the Netherlands, An Empirical Record of Two Centuries," Workshop in Economic History
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse              4:00 – 5:30 pm

Friday, May 3

Lena Edlund, Columbia University, "Growth: What's Love Got to do with It?" Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               12:15 – 1:45 pm

4th Roundtable sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. The morning session will consist of paper presentations by

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (Yale School of Management) on Investor Protection and Corporate Governance Around the World, and

Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School) on Legal Entities, Asset Partitioning, and the Evolution of Organizations. Copies of their papers will be available on the Center’s website http://www.yale.edu/law/ccl/

The afternoon session will be a panel discussion on The Relation of Corporate Governance to Economic Development
        Room 122, Law School              10:00 am – 4:15 pm

Tuesday, May 7

David Cameron, Political Science, Pierre Landry, Political Science, and John Merriman, History, "The French Elections: What Happened? What Now?" The YCIAS, Council on European Studies, & The Program on European Union Studies
        Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse         12 noon

Thursday, May 9

Alvin Roth, Harvard University, "Timing in Internet Auctions: Combining Field Data and Experiments," Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse   2:30 – 4:00 pm

Gideon Parchomovsky, Fordham/ Law, "Towards an Integrated Theory of Intellectual Property".    LEO Workshop
        Room 121, Law School       4:10 – 5:40 pm

Monday, May 13

John Geweke, University of Iowa, "Bayesian Methods and Decision Making: The Econometrician Gets a Seat at the Table," Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse        3:30 – 5:00 pm

Tuesday, May 14

John Geweke, University of Iowa, "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and the Revolution in Bayesian Statistics," Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse          3:30 – 5:00 pm

Wednesday, May 15

John Geweke, University of Iowa, "Compound Markov Mixture Models with Applications in Finance," Econometrics Research Seminar
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse         3:30 – 5:00 pm