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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Friday, November
15 |
Enrico Moretti, UCLA, "Mothers 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
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| 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
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| 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: Pakistans Sugar Industry
over the Last Two Decades". Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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