Calendar of Events
APRIL 2003 |
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| Tuesday, April 1 |
George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Reputation"
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
Francesco Caselli, Harvard University, "Dynastic Management"
(with Nicola Gennaioli), Macroeconomics Workshop, 543b.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:15-3:45 pm
Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Vehicle Choice with Dynamics: VERY
Preliminary Results". Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, April 2 |
Caroline Minter-Hoxby, Yale University and Harvard University,
"Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities". Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12-1:15 pm
Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley, "Piecemeal
Preferences". Microeconomic
Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
Guido Imbens, University of California, Berkeley,
"Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-differences Models". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
(joint with Labor and Population)
Room B8, 28
Hillhouse 4-5:30 pm
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| Thursday, April 3 |
Roland Fryer, Jr., University of Chicago, "An Economic Analysis of
Names" (joint with Steve Levitt, U. Chicago). Applied Microeconomics
Workshop (joint with SOM Micro Strategy Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-
4 pm
Noel Maurer, ITAM and Yale University, "The Central Bank as Tax
Farmer: Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1889". Economic History Workshop
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley, Economics,
"Principled Paternalism". LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
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| Friday, April 4 |
George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Reputation".
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Lance Lochner, Rochester, "Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings
Regressions". Microeconomics
Workshop on Labor and Population
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
Sunil Gupta, Columbia Business School, TBA. SOM Marketing Seminar
Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse
11:30 am 1 pm
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| Monday, April 7 -
Wednesday, April 9 |
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The 16th
Annual Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture Series |
| Monday, April 7 |
Mark Kayser, Oxford and University of Rochester, "Trade and the
Timing of Elections". Leitner
International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon
Sainam Jin, Yale University, TBA. Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4 pm
Serhii Plokhy, Peter Jacyk Center at CIUS, University of
Alberta, "The Ukrainian Challenge: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Deconstruction of
Russian History". The Council on European Studies
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse
4 pm
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| Tuesday, April 8 |
Hyun Song Shin, London School of Economics, "Beauty Contests,
Bubbles and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets" (with Franklin Allen, UPENN and
Stephen Morris, Yale University). Macroeconomics Workshop (joint
with Microeconomic Theory
Workshop).
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:15-3:45 pm
- Guy Berger, Yale University, "Trade Agreements with Sunk Costs and
Uncertainty". Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics.
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
Laura Yerekesheva , Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow at Yale
University from Kazakhstan, "Foreign and Security Policy of Central Asian
Countries". The Council on European Studies.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse 4
pm
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| Wednesday, April 9 |
John E. Roemer, Yale University, "Democracy, Education, and
Equality". Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12-1:15 pm
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| Thursday, April 10 |
Koichi Hamada, Yale University, "How Can the Japanese Economy be
Lifted? By Structural Reforms or Macro Economic Polices". YCIAS, Economic Growth
Center and the Council on East Asian Studies
Room 103, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse
12-1:30 pm
Sofronis Clerides, University of Cyprus and visitor, Yale University,
"Price and Quality in International Tourism". Applied Microeconomics
Workshop, 609b (joint with SOM Micro Strategy Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30- 4 pm
Franco Moretti, Stanford University, English, "Quantitative Evidence
as a Challenge to Literary History". The Council on European Studies
Whitney Humanities, Room 208, 53 Wall Street 7
pm
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| Friday, April 11 |
Inter-University
Student Conference
Common
Room and Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 8:30 am 5:30 pm |
| Monday, April 14 |
Katsumi Shimotsu, Yale University, TBA. Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room
B8, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4 pm
Atif Mian , University of Chicago, "Incentives, Supervision, and
Organizational Hierarchy: A Loan-Level Investigation of Banking". Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5 pm
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| Tuesday, April 15 |
Andrés Velasco, Kennedy School, "Tough Policies, Incredible
Policies," Macroeconomics
Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:15-3:45 pm
Panle Jia, Yale University, "Chain Stores Location
Choice" and Matthias Schuendeln, Yale University, "Firm Dynamics
in the Presence of Credit Constraints". Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, April 16 |
Shyam Sunder, Yale University, "Stock Market as a `Beauty
Contest: Investor Beliefs and Price Bubbles sans Dividend Anchors". Cowles Lunch.
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12-1:15 pm
George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Imperfect Monitoring
and Impermanent Reputations" (with Martin W. Cripps and Larry
Samuelson). Microeconomic
Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
Yuichi Kitamura, University of Pennsylvania, "A
Likelihood-based Approach to the Analysis of a Class of Nested and Non-nested
Models". Econometrics Research
Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
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| Thursday, April 17 |
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University, "Using Mandated Speed
Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life". Applied Microeconomics
Workshop (joint with SOM Micro Strategy Workshop
and Environmental Economics Seminar)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30- 4 pm
Kris Mitchener,
Santa Clara University, "Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial
Stability". Economic History Workshop
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 4-5:30 pm
Martine Segalen, Vice President, University of Paris, Sociology,
"The European Family". The Council on European Studies
Whitney Humanities, Room 208, 53 Wall Street
7 pm
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| Friday, April 18 |
Ed Vytlacil, Stanford, "Estimating the Return to Education When it
Varies Among Individuals". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor
and Population
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| Monday, April 21 |
Shanker Satyanath, NYU, "The Political Economy of Failed Speculative
Currency Attacks". Leitner
International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon
Patrik Guggenberger, Yale University, TBA and Jong Kim,
Yale University, TBA. Prospectus
Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4 pm
Alejandro Cunat, London School of Economics, "Neoclassical Growth
and Commodity Trade". Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5 pm
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| Tuesday, April 22 |
Jeff Frankel, Kennedy School, "A Proposed Monetary Regime for Small
Commodity-Exporters: Peg the
Export Price
("PEP")." Macroeconomics
Workshop
Room
106, 28 Hillhouse
2:15-3:45 pm
Brian Dineen, Yale University, "Irish Insurance Puzzles". Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, April 23 |
COWLES FACULTY LUNCH
Room 5, 30 Hillhouse
12:00-1:15 pm
Peter Norman, University of Wisconsin, "An Efficiency Rationale for
Bundling of Public Goods" (with Hanming Fang). Microeconomic Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50
pm
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| Thursday, April 24 |
Maurice Obstfeld, UC Berkeley, The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a
Liquidity Trap" (joint with Alan J. Auerbach, UC, Berkeley). Macroeconomics Workshop
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
NOON
Daniel Raff, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "What Happened at Highland Park: A
Microeconomic History of the Coming of Mass Production". Applied Microeconomics
Workshop (joint with SOM Micro Strategy Workshop
and Economic History
Workshop).
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30- 4 pm
J. Gregory Sidak, American Enterprise Institute, "The Failure of
Good Intentions: The WorldCom Fraud and the Collapse of American Telecommunications after
Deregulation". LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40
pm
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| Monday, April 28 |
David Kang, Dartmouth and Yale, "Transaction Costs and Crony
Capitalism in Asia".
Leitner International and Comparative
Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon
Feng Zhu, Yale
University, TBA. Prospectus
Workshop in Econometrics
Room
B8, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4 pm
Richard Akresh, Yale University, "Risk, Network Quality, and Family
Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso". Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5 pm
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| Tuesday, April 29 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University, "Entry Over Time and
Across Industries in Two Austrian Towns" and Shamena Anwar, Yale
University, "Racial Profiling in Motor Vehicle Stops and Searches". Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-3:50 pm
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| Wednesday, April 30 |
Robert F. Owen, University of Nantes, visitor Yale
University, "Economic Globalization: Some Conceptual Issues," Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12-1:15 pm
Andrew Chesher, University College London,
"Instrumental Values". Econometrics
Research Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
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