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Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER 2002

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Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2

Cowles Foundation Conference on
Estimation of Dynamic Demand Models
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse

Friday, November 1

Amy Verdun, University of Victoria, Canada, "EMU and the Euro: Past and Future". The Council on European Studies
     Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse     12 noon

Valerie Lechene, Oxford University, "Tests of Income Pooling in Household Decisions".   Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                      12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, November 4

John Freeman, University of Minnesota, "Democratization and Globalization in Emerging Market Countries: An Econometric Study". Leitner International Political Economy Workshop
     Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse        12 noon

Ashok Rai, Harvard University (visitor, Yale University), "Collateral Substitutes in Microfinance" (with Philip Bond, Northwestern University). Workshop in Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                     3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, November 5

Christopher Otrok, University of Virginia, "A Generalized Volatility Bound for Dynamic Economies". Macroeconomics Workshop
    
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                  2:15-3:45 pm

Harsha Thirumurthy, Yale University, "Returns to Apprenticeship Training in West Africa" and Andrew Lemon, Yale University, "Bounded Rationality and Redistributive Trade Policies". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, November 6

Don Brown, Yale University and Ravi Kannan, Yale University "Estimating the Probability of Perfect Competition". Cowles Lunch   
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse             12-1:15 pm

Rajiv Vohra, Brown University, "The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in the Absence of Wealth Effects". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                     2:30-4 pm

Thomas Hubbard, Chicago GSB, "Specialization, Firms and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms". Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Micro Workshop)
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse      4-5:30 pm

Yuri Slezkine, University of California, Berkeley, "The Soviet Intelligentsia and the Jews". Council on European Studies at YCIAS
    
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse            4:30 pm

Thursday, November 7

David Love, Yale University, "Free Money: 401(k)’s, Vesting and Unemployment Insurance". Macro Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                 1-2 pm

Richard Brooks, Northwestern University, Law, "Covenants and Conventions". LEO Workshop
    
Room. 121, Law School                          4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, November 8

Michael Keane, Yale University, "A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
    
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                         12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, November 11

Sharun Mukand, Tufts University, "In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance". Leitner International Political Economy Workshop
    
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse            12 noon

Patrik Guggenberger, Yale University, "Generalized Empirical Likelihood Tests under Partial, Weak, and Strong Identification". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                              4:00-5:30 pm

Gustav Ranis, Yale University, "Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth" (with Michael Boozer, Yale University). Workshop in Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                            3:30-5:00 pm

Tuesday, November 12

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University, "Estimation of Discrete Games" and Panle Jia, Yale University, "Fixed Cost Distribution Estimation in Entry Models". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                   2:30-3:50 pm

David R. Cameron, Yale, Political Science, "The Challenges of Accession for Post-Communist Europe". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
     Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse              4 pm

Wednesday, November 13

Michael Magill, visitor, Yale University and Martine Quinzii, visitor, Yale University, "Demography and the Long-Run Predictability of the Stock Market". Cowles Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                 12-1:15 pm

Colin Campbell, Rutgers University, "Implementation and Orderings of Public Information". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                          2:30-4 pm

Katsumi Shimotsu, University of Essex, "Exact Local Whittle Estimation of Fractionally
Cointegrated Systems". Econometrics Research Seminar
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                            4-5:30 pm

Thursday, November 14

Sangin Park, SUNY, Stony Brook, "An Empirical Evaluation of the 1986 Semiconductor Trade Arrangement". Applied Microeconomics Workshop
    
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                              2:30- 4 pm

Antoinette Schoar, MIT, Sloan School of Management, "Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies". LEO Workshop
     Room. 121, Law School                              4:10-5:40 pm

Ute Frevert, University of Bielefeld, History, "On ‘Good Europeans’ and Who Might Be Afraid of Them". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
    
Room 208, 53 Wall St.                             7 pm

Friday, November 15

Enrico Moretti, UCLA, "Mother’s Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                       12:15-1:45 pm

Robert Hall, Stanford University, "Dynamics of Corporate Earnings". Cowles Seminar (joint with Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                          2-3:30 pm

Monday, November 18

Helen Milner , Columbia University, "Why the Rush to Free Trade? Democratization and Trade Liberalization in the LDCs". Leitner International Political Economy Workshop
    
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse        12 noon

Noel Maurer, ITAM, (Visitor, Yale University), "Do Institutions Matter in Extractive Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1880-1930". Workshop in Trade and Development (joint with Economic History Workshop)
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                        3:30-5 pm

Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, "State Weakness as a Source of Instability in Southeastern Europe". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS.
    
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse            4 pm

Tuesday, November 19

Laurent Calvet, Harvard, "Idiosyncratic Production Risk, Growth, and the Business Cycle". Macroeconomics Workshop
    
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                          2:15-3:45 pm

Steven Nafziger, Yale University, "Landlords, Peasants, and Communal Institutions in 19th Century Russia" and Farooq Naseer, Yale University, "Government Policy and Market Structure: Pakistan’s Sugar Industry over the Last Two Decades". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, November 20

Anthony Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, "Revisiting the Welfare Effects of Eliminating Business Cycles". Macroeconomics Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                         12-1:30 pm

Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn, "Potentials and Implementation: A Generic Impossibility Theorem". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                          2:30-4 pm

George Korniotis, Yale University, "Testing External Habits in U.S. State Consumption". Econometrics Research Seminar
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                           4-5:30 pm

Andras Simonyi, Ambassador of Hungary to the U.S., "The Enlargement of the EU: A Roundtable Discussion" with David Cameron, Political Science, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Political Science, and Thierry Vissol, European Commission Visiting Fellow. The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
   
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse               4 pm

Thursday, November 21

Amil Petrin, Chicago, GSB, "Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data". Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with Micro/Strategy Seminar)
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                            2:30-4 pm

Friday, November 22

Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University, "Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students’ College Choices?" (joint with Chris Avery). Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population.
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                           12:15-1:45 pm