Calendar of Events
FEBRUARY 2003 |
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| Monday, February 3 |
Evelyne Huber, UNC, "Welfare States, Poverty and Inequality," Leitner International Political Economy
Workshop
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse
12 noon
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| Tuesday, February
4 |
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Stanford, "Housing Collateral, Consumption
Insurance and Risk Premia," Junior Faculty Recruiting
Rm. 106, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
Organizational meeting, Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, February
5 |
Andrea Vindigni, Toulouse, "Uncertainty and the Politics of
Employment Protection," Junior Faculty Recruiting
Rm. 106, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
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| Thursday, February
6 |
Andrea Wilson, Princeton, "Bounded Memory and Biases in Information
Processing," Junior
Faculty Recruiting
Rm. 106, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
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| Monday, February
10 |
Raquel Bernal, NYU, "Employment and Childcare Decisions of Mothers
and the Well-being of their Children," Junior Faculty Recruiting
Rm. 106, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
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| Tuesday, February
11 |
Manuel Amador, MIT, "A Political Model of Sovereign Debt
Repayment," Junior
Faculty Recruiting
Rm. 106, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
Juan Carranza, Yale University, "Empirical Analysis of Quality
Formation in Durable Goods Markets," Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
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| Thursday, February
13 |
James Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Productivity in a
Differentiated Products Market Equilibrium" (co-authored with Marc Melitz). Applied Microeconomics
Workshop (joint with Micro Strategy Seminar)
Horchow Seminar Room, 55
Hillhouse 2:30-4 pm
Erik Berglof, Stockholm School of Economics, "Default and Debt
Design," LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, "Holocaust Comedies in
Film," The Council on European Studies.
Rm. 208, 53 Wall St.
7 pm
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| Monday, February
17 |
Miguel Villas Boas, UC Berkeley, "Multiproduct Oligopoly and Bertrand
Supertraps," SOM Marketing
Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 11:30 am-1 pm
David Kang , Dartmouth University, "Transaction Costs and Crony
Capitalism in Asia," Leitner
International Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, 34 Hillhouse, Luce
Hall 12:00 noon
Amra Hadzimuhamedovic, Commissioner to Preserve National
Monuments in Bosnia & Herzegovina, "Destruction
& Survival of Cultural Memory in Bosnia & Herzegovina," The Council on
European Studies.
Linsly Chittenden Hall, Rm. 211, 63 High
St. 4 pm
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| Tuesday, February
18 |
Shamena Anwar, Yale University, "Racial Customer Discrimination in
the Labor Market: Evidence from the National Basketball Association (NBA)," Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, February
19 |
Cowles Luncheon.
Cowles Lounge, 30 Hillhouse
12-1:15 pm
John Chao, Yale, "Consistent Estimation with a Large Number of Weak
Instruments," Econometrics
Workshop
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
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| Thursday, February
20 |
Nicola Fuchs, Yale University, "Adjustments to Large Shocks: Do
Households Smooth Low Frequency Consumption" and Borja Gracia, Yale
University, TBA. Macro
Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00 noon
Gautam Gowrisankaran, visitor, Yale University,
"Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry"
(joint w/Daniel Ackerberg, UCLA), Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4 pm
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| Monday, February
24 |
Mark Gradstein, Ben Gurion University and World Bank, "The Political
Economy of Exclusion," Leitner
International Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, 34 Hillhouse,
Luce Hall 12:00 noon
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| Tuesday, February
25 |
John Leahy, NYU, "Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan," Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:15-3:50 pm
Andrew Lemon, Yale University, "The Peril of Implementing Export
Subsidies in the Presence of Special Interests". Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics, 607b.
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesay, February
26 |
Hannes Leeb, Temple, "Performance Limits for Estimators of the Risk
or Distribution of Shrinkage-Type Estimators, and Some General Lower Risk-Bound
Results," Prospectus
Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
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| Thursday, February
27 |
Daniel Mulino, Yale University, "Social Security and Immigration:
Bring Me Your Tired and Huddled, Working Age, Highly Skilled Masses," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12 noon
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology/Humanities & Social
Sciences, "Behavioral Game Theory: The Psychology of Strategic Thinking," LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin, Modern History, "The European
Moment between the Two World Wars," The Council on European Studies
Room 208, 53 Wall
St.
7 pm
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