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OCTOBER 2003

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Wednesday, October 1

Philip Haile, Yale University, "Testing for Common Values in Auctions". Cowles Lunch
         Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12-1:15 pm

Elchanan Ben-Porath, Hebrew University, Israel, "Rationalizable Expectations" (joint with Aviad Heifetz). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            2:30-3:50 pm

          Tim Vogelsang, Cornell University, "A New Asymptotic Theory for Heteroskedasicity-Autocorrelation              Robust Tests". Econometrics Research Seminar   
                  
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse               4-5:30 pm 

Thursday, October 2

Marco Oviedo, Yale University, "Optimal Maturity Debt Structure under Revenue Uncertainty". Macro Lunch
      
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         12-1 pm

Sean Nicholson, The Wharton School, "Barriers to Medical Specialties". Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with SOM Workshop)
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse              2:30-4 pm

Michelle White, University of California, San Diego/Economics, "Understanding the Asbestos Crisis". LEO Workshop
         Room 121, Law School               4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, October 3

Josh Angrist, MIT, "Treatment Effect". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar)
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, October 6

Bruno Frey, University of Zurich, "The Future of Democracy: More Direct Citizen Participation". Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
        Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse              12:00 noon

Tuesday, October 7

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania, "Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory". Macroeconomics Workshop
      
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse       2:15-3:45 pm

Matthias Schuendeln, Yale University, "Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Financing Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
      
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, October 8

David Levine, UCLA, "Steady State Learning and Hammurabi" (joint with Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-3:50 pm

Feng Zhu, Yale University, "Central Bank Balanced Sheet Concerns, Monetary and Fiscal Rules, and Macroeconomic Instability". Econometrics Research Seminar
    
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                   4-5:30 pm

Thursday, October 9

Feng Zhu, Yale University, "Central Bank Balance Sheet, Monetary and Fiscal Policies, and Macroeconomic Stability". Macro Lunch
     
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12-1:30 pm

Sergio Turner, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Lunch
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         2 pm

Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University, "Is there a Daily Discount Rate? Evidence from the Food Stamp Nutrition Cycle". Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with SOM Workshop)
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                   2:30-4 pm

Friday, October 10

Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania, "Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                    12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, October 13 - Wednesday, October 15

2003 Arthur M. Okun Lecture Series, Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University.

Monday, October 13
          Yasheng Huang , MIT, "A Tale of Two Provinces: Institutional Environment and Foreign Ownership in             China". Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
                   Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse              12:00 noon

Paul Gertler, Berkeley, "Lost Presents and Presence: How Parental Death Affects Children". Workshop in Trade and Development
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            3:30-5 pm

Vadim Marmer, Yale University, "The Log-Periodogram Regression for Integrable Functions of Integrated Time Series". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
         Room B8, 28 Hillhouse             4-5:30 pm

Tuesday, October 14

Rohini Pande, Yale University, "On Coordinating Coordination Failures". Micro Theory Lunch
        Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       12 noon

Monika Piazzesi, UCLA, "Housing, Consumption, and Asset Pricing". Macroeconomics Workshop
      
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:15-3:45 pm

Mainak Sarkar, Yale University, "Estimating Diffusion Models Using Repeated Cross-sections: Quantifying the Digital Divide". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
      
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse          2:30-3:50 pm

Katerina Ierodiakonou, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, "Is Ethics a Science? Two Byzantine Views". Council on European Studies at YCIAS
     
202 Luce, 34 Hillhouse                   4:30 pm

Wednesday, October 15

John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "How the Mortgage Market Works". Cowles Lunch
      
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse            12-1:15 pm

Muhamet Yildiz, MIT and Yale University, "Rationalizability and Impact of Higher-Order Beliefs on Equilibrium Actions". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                    2:30-3:50 pm

Sainan Jin, Yale University, "Discrete Choice Modeling with Nonstationary Panels". Econometrics Research Seminar
        
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                    4-5:30 pm

Thursday, October 16

Steven Tadelis, Stanford University, "Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis" (joint with Patrick Bajari and Robert McMillan). Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with SOM)
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:30-4 pm

Vincent Crawford, University of California, San Diego/Economics, "Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games (with Miguel Costa-Gomes). LEO Workshop
        Room 121, Law School                 4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, October 17 - Sunday, October 19

Northeast Universities Development Consortium

Monday, October 20

Daron Acemoglu, MIT, "The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic vs. Democratic Societies". Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
           Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse               12:00 noon

David McKenzie, Stanford University, "The effect of migration on inequality in the sending communities: evidence from Mexico". Workshop in Trade and Development
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            3:30-5 pm

Rustam Ibragimov, Yale University, TBA. Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
           Room B8, 28 Hillhouse             4-5:30 pm

Tuesday, October 21

Hanming Fang, Yale University, "Multidimensional Private Value Auctions". Micro Theory Lunch
           Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12 noon

Chad Syverson, University of Chicago, "Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?". Macroeconomics Workshop.
         
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:15-3:45 pm

Wednesday, October 22

Peter Eso, Northwestern University, "Optimal Information Disclosure in Auctions: The Handicap Auction" (with Balazs Szentes, University of Chicago). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-3:50 pm

Dietmar Bauer, UT Wien (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Subspace Methods for the Estimation of ARMA Models". Econometrics Research Seminar
           
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                 4-5:30 pm

Thursday, October 23

Hui Wang, Yale University, "Stock Price Interactions and Momentum: A Model with Borrowing Constraints". Macro Lunch
         
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse   12-1:30 pm

Holger Sieg, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, "Identification of Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions". Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with SOM)
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-4 pm

Friday, October 24

Renzo Comolli, Yale University, "LGB Wage gap and endogeneity of sexual orientation disclosure on the job". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, October 27

Jordan Milev, Yale University, "Search for Structural Specification of the Earnings-Returns Relation". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              4-5:30 pm

Garance Genicot, Georgetown, "Contracts and Externalities:  How Things Fall Apart" ( with Debraj Ray). Workshop in Trade and Development
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, October 28

Andrea Prat, Yale University, "Trading Volume with Career Concerns" (joint with Amil Dasgupta). Micro Theory Lunch
         Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12 noon

Andrew Abel, Wharton School, UPENN, "Investment, Valuation, and Growth Options" (joint with Janice Eberly, Northwestern). Macroeconomics Workshop
        
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:15-3:45 pm

Panle Jia, Yale University, "The Effects of Extending Intellectual Property Rights Protection to Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical Market". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     
  Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, October 29

Robert Shiller, Yale University, "Is There a Housing Bubble?". Cowles Lunch
        Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       12-1:15 pm

P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute, "Asymptotics in Some Nonlinear Cointegrated Models". Econometrics Research Seminar
        
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                    4-5:30 pm

Thursday, October 30

Jose Rossi, Yale University, "Risk Management, Balance Sheet Effects and Exchange Rate Regimes: the Brazilian Experience". Macro Lunch
       
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12-1 pm

Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, "The Effect of Information and Institutions on Price Negotiations: Evidence from Matched Survey and Auto Transaction Data" (with Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso). Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with SOM)
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                      2:30-4 pm

Friday, October 31

Sonia Pereira, visiting Yale, "Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the UK and Germany". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
           Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                   12:15-1:45 pm