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MARCH  2004

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Monday, March 1

Rebecca Morton , NYU, "Majority Requirements and Coordinating Voters," Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
         Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse        12:00 noon

Noelle Lenoir, French Minister for European Affairs, "A New Constitution for an Enlarged Europe," The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
        
Room 208, 53 Wall St.          2:00 pm

Christian Bender, University of Kostanz, "Integration with Respect to a Fractional Brownian Motion and the Fractional Black-Scholes Market," Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar).
         Room B8, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-4:00 pm

Chris Udry, Yale, "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in China," Workshop in Trade and Development
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse              3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, March 2

Sergio Turner, Yale University, "Pareto Improving Taxation in Incomplete Markets," Micro Theory Reading Group
         Tobin Lounge, 28 Hillhouse            12 noon

          Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, visiting Cowles, "Do Children Learn to Save from Their             Parents?" (joint with John Knowles, UPENN). Macroeconomics Workshop
              
  Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                    2:15-3:45 pm

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University, "Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games (with Martin Pesendorfer, LSE). Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse             2:30–3:50 pm

David Stark, Columbia University, Sociology, "Global Reach/Local Embeddedness: Network Evolution & Foreign Investment in Hungary," The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
      
Luce 202, 34 Hillhouse                       4 pm

Wednesday, March 3

Kfir Eliaz, New York University, "Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement" (with Debraj Ray and Ronny Razin). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                   2:30-4:00 pm

Alex Maynard, University of Toronto, "Covariance-based Orthogonality Tests for Regressors with Unknown Persistence with Application to Stock Return Predictability,"  Econometrics Research Seminar
         Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                  4-5:30 pm

Christian Schultz, University of Copenhagen, "Information, Polarization and Delegation in Democracy," Seminar in Formal Models of Politics
        
102 Brewster Hall                         4-6:00 pm

Nicholas Muller and Halla Qaddami, PhD candidates, FES, PhD prospectus presentations. Environmental Economics Seminar
      
  Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4-5:30 pm

Thursday, March 4

          Daniel Mulino, Yale University, "The impact of demographic change on capital flows and tax rates in a             multi-country OLG model,"  Macro Lunch
                 
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse   12-1:00 pm

Steven Levitt, University of Chicago, "Why are Gambling Markets Organized So Differently than Financial Markets?" Applied Microeconomics Workshop
       
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-4:00 pm

Friday, March 5

Peter Arcidiacono, Duke, "Minimum Wages and Positive Employment Effects in General Equilibrium," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse         12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, March 22

Kevin Quinn, Harvard University, "Bayesian Inference for Semiparametric Quantal Response Equilibrium Models," Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
         Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse              12:00 noon

Ann Harrison, UC-Berkeley, "The Nike Effect:   Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia," Workshop on Trade and Development
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse              3:30-5 pm

Charles King, Georgetown University, Political Science, "The Black Sea: A History," The Council on European Studies for YCIAS
           Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse                 4:30 pm

Tuesday, March 23
          Pei-Yu Lo, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Reading Group
                     
Tobin Lounge, 28 Hillhouse          12 noon

Erich Schanze L.L.M., Institut für Rechtsvergleichung, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany, "Directors’ Duties and Behavioral Economics," Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
            Room 128, Law School                12 noon

          Paul Bergin, UC Davis, "Endogenous Tradability and Macroeconomic Implications," Macroeconomics            Workshop
                       Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:15-3:45 pm

Wednesday, March 24

Penny Goldberg, Yale University, "The Effects of Extending Intellectual Property Rights Protection to Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical Market,"Cowles Lunch Talk
             
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12:00-1:15 pm

Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, "Federalism and Incentives for Success of Democracy," Microeconomic Theory Workshop (joint with Seminar on Formal Models in Politics)
           WLH 116, 100 Wall St.           4:00 pm

Thursday, March 25

Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University, "Do taxes explain low frequency movements in aggregate leverage?," Macro Lunch
          
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse          12-1:00 pm

Christa Randzio-Plath, European Parliament, Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee, "The Future of EMU & the Euro," The Council on European Studies for YCIAS
          Luce 202, 34 Hillhouse                    12:30 pm

Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Simple Estimators for Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games with Entry/Exit Examples," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:30-4:00 pm

Monday, March 29

Shyam Sunder, Yale School of Management, "The Political Economy of Corporate Accounting Failure," Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
         Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse             12:00 noon

Tony Smith, Yale University, "Generalized Indirect Inference for Discrete Choice Models" (joint with Michael Keane). Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar)
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              2:30-4:00 pm

Imran Rasul, University of Chicago, GSB, "Relative and Absolute Incentives:  Evidence on Worker Productivity," Workshop on Trade and Development
        
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse              3:30-5 pm

Loukas Stemitsiotis, Secretariat of the Economic & Financial Committee, European Commission, "Fiscal Policy in the European Monetary Union: The Case of Greece,"The Hellenic Studies Program at YCIAS
         Luce 202, 34 Hillhouse                     4:30 pm

Tuesday, March 30
          Caterina Calsamiglia, Yale University, "Equal Opportunities and Effort," MicroTheory Reading Group
                 
 Tobin Lounge, 28 Hillhouse       12 noon

Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "The Social Cost of Heterogeneous Information," Macroeconomics Workshop
       
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                  2:15-3:45 pm  

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

          J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard University, "Who Appoints Them, What Do they Do? Evidence on Outside            Directors from Japan," John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture
                 
Room 127, Law School               4:30 pm

David Heath, Carnegie Mellon, Professor of Mathematics, "HJM Interest Rate Models," Mathematical Economics Workshop
    
   Room 108, 28 Hillhouse          6:00-7:15 pm

Wednesday, March 31

David Pearce, Yale University, "Reputational Wars of Attrition with Complex Bargaining Postures" (joint with Dilip Abreu, Princeton). Cowles Lunch Talk
        Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12:00-1:15 pm

Leonardo Felli, LSE, visiting New York University, "Firm-Specific Training" (with Chris Harris). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
         Room 106, 28 Hillhouse               2:30-4:00 pm

Harold Wilensky, University of California, Berkeley, "The Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy & Performance," The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
         Luce 202, 34 Hillhouse                     4:30 pm