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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

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

Wednesday, February 5

Andrea Vindigni, Toulouse, "Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection," Junior Faculty Recruiting
          Rm. 106, 28 Hillhouse                12-1:30 pm

Thursday, February 6

Andrea Wilson, Princeton, "Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing," Junior Faculty Recruiting
          Rm. 106, 28 Hillhouse                12-1:30 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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