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Calendar of Events
DECEMBER 2002

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Monday, December 2

Edward Miguel, UC-Berkeley, "Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence from Kenya".   Workshop in Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse           3:30-5 pm

P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute, "Asymptotic Inference in Nonlinear Cointegrated Time Series with Fractionally Integrated and Possibly Heavy Tailed Errors". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              4-5:30 pm

Tuesday, December 3

Carlos Vegh, UCLA, "On the Non-Monotonic Relation between Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate" (joint with Amartya Lahiri). Macroeconomics Workshop
    
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:15-3:45 pm

Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Estimating a Dynamic Model of Household Vehicle Purchases", and Talia Bar, Yale University, "Defensive Publications in a Patent Race". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, December 4

Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth". Cowles Lunch.
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12-1:15 pm

Attila Ambrus, Harvard University and Yale University, "Coalitional Rationality in Normal and Extensive Form Games". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                  2:30-4 pm

P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute, "Convergence of Functionals of Sums of Fractionally Integrated Processes".  Econometrics Research Seminar  
      Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                    4-5:30 pm

Marianne Bertrand, Chicago GSB, "Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination". Micro/Strategy Seminar (joint with Applied Micro Workshop)
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse        4-5:30 pm

Thursday, December 5

Thierry Vissol, visiting Fellow, European Union Commission, "The Euro as Element & Outcome of European Integration". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
   
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.      7 pm

Friday, December 6

Mark Rosenzweig, Harvard University, "Parental Wealth and Adult Children's Welfare in Marriage". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                        12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, December 9

David Stasavage, London School of Economics, "Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State". Leitner International Political Economy Workshop
     Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse           12 noon

Peter Schott, Yale University, "Survival of the Best Fit: Low Wage Competition and the (Uneven) Growth of the US Manufacturing Plants". Workshop in Trade and Development.
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                          3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, December 10

Will Bunting, Yale University, TBA and Brian Dineen, Yale University, "Testing for Asymmetric Information and Learning Effects in Insurance Markets: The Irish Experience". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                2:30-3:50 pm

Alec Stone Sweet, Fellow, Nuffield College, visiting Yale Law School, "The European Court & Market Integration". The Council on European Studies
      Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse           4 pm 

Wednesday, December 11

Francoise Forges, Cergy-Pontsoise, "The Ex-Ante Incentive Compatible Core of the Assignment Game". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                      2:30-4 pm

P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute, "Asymptotic Inference in Nonlinear Conintegrated Time Series with Fractionally Integrated and Possibly Heavy Tailed Errors" and "Asymptotic Inference in A Non-Linear Cointegrated Model." Econometrics Research Seminar
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                          4-5:30 pm

Daniel Kaufmann, World Bank, "Rethinking Governance: What Empirics Tell on Capture, Influence, and Corruption Around the Globe". Latin American Policy Seminars.
    
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse          6 pm

Thursday, December 12

Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale University, "Identification and Estimation in Highway Procurement Auctions under Unobserved Auction Heterogeneity". Applied Microeconomics Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                         2:30-4 pm

Daniel Kessler, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton and Law School, "Detecting Medicare Abuse". LEO Workshop.
     Room. 121, Law School                     4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, December 13

Christopher Tabor, Northwestern University, "An Empirical Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Labor Market, 1970-2000". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                       12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, December 16

Stephen Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania, "International Productivity Differences, Infrastructure, and Comparative Advantage" (joint w/Stephen Golub, Swarthmore College). Workshop in Trade and Development.
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                          3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, December 17

Shamena Anwar, Yale University, "Racial Customer Discrimination in the Labor Market: Evidence from the National Basketball Association", and Nancy Epling, Yale University, "Price Discrimination amid Heterogeneous Switching Costs: A Competitive Tactic of the Telephony Resale Fringe". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                  2:30-3:50 pm

Thursday, December 19
Paris Cleanthous, Yale University, "Patient Welfare Implications of Innovation in the U.S. Antidepressant Market". Applied Microeconomics Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                            2:30-4 pm