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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

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

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

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

Monday, April 7 - Wednesday, April 9
           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

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

Wednesday, April 9

John E. Roemer, Yale University, "Democracy, Education, and Equality". Cowles Lunch
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                12-1:15 pm

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

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

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 Store’s 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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