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FEBRUARY 2004

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Monday, February 2

Vince Crawford, UCSD, "Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games" (with Miguel Costa-Gomes). SOM Seminar
      
Room A46, SOM                  11:30 am-12:50 pm

Alexandre Mas, Princeton, "Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             12-1:30 pm

Tuesday, February 3

Yuliy Sannikov, Stanford, "Games with Imperfectly Observable Actions in Continuous Time". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               12-1:30 pm

David R. Cameron, Yale, Political Science, "The Constitutional Stalemate in the EU". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
    
202 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse          4 pm

Wednesday, February 4

Ulrich Doraszelski, Northwestern, "Advertising Dynamics and Competitive Advantage". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse          12-1:30 pm

Thursday, February 5

Nir Jaimovich, Northwestern, "Firms’ Dynamics, Markup Variations, and the Business Cycle". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse          12-1:30 pm

David Miller, Stanford, Economics, "The Dynamic Costs of Ex-Post Incentive Compatibility in Repeated Games of Private Information". Yale SOM Eli Seminar
     
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30-4:00 pm

David Engerman, Brandeis, History, "Knowing the Cold War Enemy". The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
      Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse              5:15 pm

Friday, February 6

Seema Jayachandran, Harvard, "Wage Volatility and Development: How Poor Workers Respond to Productivity Shocks". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12-1:30 pm

Monday, February 9

Fabian Lange, U Chicago, "The Returns to Schooling and AFQT-Score During the Early Career: Evidence on Job Market Signaling, Employer Learning and Post-School Investments". Junior Faculty Recruiting
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12-1:30 pm

Rafaela Dancygier, Yale University, "Ethnic Diversity, Public Goods and Local Taxation in England, 1998-2001". Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
      Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse           12 noon

Stephen Morris, Yale University, "Robust Mechanism Design." Micro Theory Reading Group
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse           6:00-7:15 p.m.

Wednesday, February 11

Yoon-Jae Whang, Korea University, "Consistent Testing for Stochastic Dominance under General Sampling Schemes". Econometrics Research Seminar
      
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse         4-5:30 pm

Thursday, February 12

Naomi Lamoreaux, UCLA, Economics, "The Public-Private Distinction in American History: The Privatization of the Corporation and the Problem of Minority Shareholders" (with Ruth Bloch). LEO Workshop
       Room 121, Law School      4:10-5:40 pm

Monday, February 16

Mark Hallerberg, University of Pittsburgh, "Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU". Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
       Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon

Tuesday, February 17

Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, "Consumption Commitments and Preferences for Risk." Micro Theory Reading Group
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12 noon

George Hall, "Price Discrimination in the Steel Market". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         2:30 pm

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics". Kuznets Lectures.
       Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                   2:30-4:00 pm

Marek Weretka, Yale University, "Conjectural Equilibrium". Math-econ Workshop
       Room 108, 28 Hillhouse                    6:00-7:00 pm

Wednesday, February 18

Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, "Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices". Microeconomic Theory Workshop
       Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:30-4:00 pm

Philippe de Donder, University of Toulouse, "Environmental taxation with policy motivated parties". Seminar in Formal Models of Politics.
     
102 Brewster Hall                           4-6 pm

Nat Keohane, Yale SOM, "Who Gained from Environmental Regulation?  Low-Sulfur Coal and the 1990 Clear Air Act" (with Meghan Busse), Environmental Economics Seminar 
    
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse       4-5:30 pm  

Thursday, February 19

Galina Hale, Yale University, "Courage to Capital: The Effect of Rating Agencies on Sovereign Debt Rollover". Macro Lunch
     
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse             12-1:00 pm

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics". Kuznets Lecture Series
     
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                       2:30-4:00 pm

Friday, February 20

Marina Pavan, Boston College, "Consumer Durables and Risky Borrowing: the Effects of Bankruptcy Protection". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                    12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, February 23

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Inequality, Growth and Trade Policy". Kuznets Lecture Series
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                   3:30 pm

Tuesday, February 24

Fabio Ghironi, Boston College & European University Institute, "International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Marc Melitz, Harvard University). Macroeconomics Workshop
    
  Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             *12-1:30 pm

Ana Fostel, Yale University, "Offsetting Distortions, Non-Monotone Inefficiencies and Liquidity under Provision." Micro Theory Reading Group
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12 noon

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics". Kuznets Lecture Series
     
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                       2:30-4:00 pm

Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Adverse Selection in the Used Car Market". Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
     
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse                2:30–3:50 pm

Paul Milgrom, Stanford University, "Ascending Auctions with Package Bidding". Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lecture
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         4:00-6:00 pm

Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, TBA. Math-econ Workshop.
    
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse                   6:00-7:00 pm

Wednesday, February 25

Paul Milgrom, Stanford University, "Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand" (with John William Hatfield). Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lecture/Micro Theory Workshop
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                     2:30-4:00 pm

          Dietmar Bauer, Vienna University of Technology, "State Space Representations for Rational Unit Root            Processes". Econometrics Research Seminar
              
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                         4-5:30 pm

Thursday, February 26

Marco Oviedo, Yale University, "The effects of oil revenue on fiscal policy: the case of Mexico". Macro Lunch
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse         12-1:00 pm

Jonathan Levin, Stanford University, "Matching and Price Competition" (joint with Jeremy Bulow, Stanford University). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse     2:30-4:00 pm

          George Triantis, University of Virginia, Law, "Embedded Options and the Irrelevance of the Compensation             Principle in Contract Remedies". LEO Workshop
                Room 121, Law School                  4:10-5:40 pm

Friday, February 27

Miguel Urquiola, (Columbia University), "The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools". Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             12:15-1:45 pm