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Calendar of Events
SEPTEMBER, 2004

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Monday, September 6

Peter Phillips, Yale University, “Starting Research in Econometrics”.  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics.   
       Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                2:30-4 pm

Tuesday, September 7

Juan Moreno-Ternero, Yale University, "Bankruptcy Problems".  Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomic Theory.
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           12-1 pm

Ricardo Reis, Princeton University, “Inattentive Consumers”.  Macroeconomics Workshop, 542a. 
       Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:15-3:45 pm

Organizational meeting, Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics, 608a.
      
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, September 8

David Harris, University of Melbourne, “Panel Stationarity Tests for Purchasing Power Parity with Cross-Sectional Dependence”.  Econometrics Research Seminar, 567a. 
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              4-5:30 pm

Thursday, September 9

            Jose Rossi, Yale University, "Foreign exposure, corporate financial policies and the exchange rate               regime in emerging markets:  Evidence from Brazil".  Macro Lunch. 
                   
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12-1:30 pm

Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University, “Storable Monopoly:  The Role of Commitment" ” (with Paolo Dudine and Igal Hendel).  Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 608a (joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop).   
        Room 106, 28 Hillhouse           2:30-4:00 pm 

Christopher Woodruff, University of California at San Diego/Law, “The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size” (with Luc Laeven).  LEO Workshop. 
         Room 121, Law School           4:10-5:40 pm

Monday, September 13

Satoshi Kanazawa, London School of Economics, "Where do Cultures Come From?".
Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop. 
     Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse                    12 noon

Erik Hjalmarsson, Yale University, “Predicting Global Stock-Returns with New Methods for Pooled and Long-Run Forecasting Regressions”.  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics. 
        Room B8, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-4 pm

Christopher Udry, Yale University, “Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural Burkina Faso”.   Trade and Development Workshop. 
       Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                  3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, September 14

Dino Gerardi, Yale University, “The Folk Theorem in Dynastic Repeated Games”.  Micro Theory Reading Group, 522a. 
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           12 pm

Fatih Guvenen, University of Rochester, “Learning Your Earning:  Are Labor Income Shocks Really Very Persistent?”.  Macroeconomics Workshop, 542a. 
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                2:15-3:45 pm

Jinhui Bai, Yale University, "Monetary Equilibria in an Infinite Horizon Baumol-Tobin Economy".  Prospectus Workshop in Mathematical Economics.
      Room 108, 28 HIllhouse                     6-7:30 pm

Wednesday, September 15

Itzhak Gilboa, Yale University and Tel Aviv University, “Case-Based vs. Rule-Based Reasoning:  The Case of Real-Estate Pricing”.  Cowles Luncheon. 
       Common Room, 28 Hillhouse        12:00-1:15 pm                                        

William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin, “Excess Payoff Dynamics, Potential Dynamics, and Stable Games”.  Microeconomic Theory Seminar, 537a. 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                 2:30-3:50 pm 

Thursday, September 16

Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University, “Adjustment Costs in Capital Structure and Investment”.  Macro Lunch. 
   
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       12-1:30 pm

           John List, University of Maryland, "The Behavioralist Meets the Market:  Measuring Social Preferences              and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions”.  Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 608a. 
         
      Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                   2:30-4 pm

Friday, September 17

David Autor, MIT, “Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?”.   Labor and Population Workshop.
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                12:15-1:45 pm

Monday, September 20

Stergios Skaperdas, UC Irvine, "Globalization and Domestic Conflict."  Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop.
      Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse                 12 noon 

Vadim Marmer, Yale University, “Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity and Spurious Forecasts”.  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics.   
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse               2:30-4 pm 

Pierre-Andre Chiappori, University of Chicago, “Targeting from a collective perspective:  theory and identification”.  Trade and Development Workshop.
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, September 21

Ying Chen, Yale University, "Partially Informed Decision Makers in Games of Communication".
Micro Theory Reading Group, 522a. 
    Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12 pm 

Mike Golosov, MIT, “Menu Costs and Phillips Curves” (with Robert Lucas).  Macroeconomics Workshop, 542a. 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse         2:15-3:45 pm 

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University, “The Timing of New Technology Adoption:  The Case of MRI”.  Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics, 608a. 
       Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      2:30-3:50 pm

Andres Carvajal, Brown University, visiting Yale, “Information Constrained Pareto Optimality”.   Prospectus Workshop in Mathematical Economics, 535a. 
      Room 108, 28 Hillhouse              6-7:30 pm

Wednesday, September 22

John Roemer, Yale University, “Impartiality, solidarity and priority in the theory of justice”.  Cowles Luncheon. 
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse       12-1:15 pm

Mark Armstrong, University College, London, “Competition in Two-Sided Markets”.  Micro Theory Seminar, 537a (joint with Applied Micro Workshop, 608a). 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse           2:30-3:50 pm

Rustam Ibragimov, Yale University, “On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions”.  Econometrics Research Seminar, 567a. 
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              4-5:30 pm

Robert Evenson, Yale University and Tatiane DeMenezes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Brazil, “Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Productivity and Land Use in Brazil”.  Environmental Economics Seminar.  
     Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse     4-5:30 pm

Thursday, September 23

Daniel Mulino, Yale University, “International Capital Flows, Social Security and Demographics”.  Macro Lunch. 
    
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse    12-1:30 pm 

Friday, September 24

Rasmus Lentz, Boston University, “Productivity Growth and Worker Reallocation:  Theory and Evidence”.  Labor and Population Workshop. 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             12:15-1:45 pm 

Monday, September 27

Ryo Okui, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, “Shrinkage Methods for Instrumental Variable Estimation”.  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics.   
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              2:30-4 pm 

Irene Brambilla, Yale University, "Introduction of new varieties of goods in the Chinese manufacturing sector".  Trade and Development Workshop. 
    Room 106, 28 Hillhouse         3:30-5 pm

Tuesday, September 28

Ana Fostel, Yale University, "Emerging Markets, High Yield and Primary Market Closures."
Micro Theory Reading Group, 522a. 
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse      12 pm 

Mark Bils, University of Rochester, “Measuring Growth from Better and Better Goods”.  Macroeconomics Workshop, 542a. 
       Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:15-3:45 pm

Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, “A Test of Bargaining Theory in the Auto Retailing Industry” (with Florian Zettlemeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso).  Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics, 608a. 
      Common Room, 28 Hillhouse  2:30-3:50 pm

Wednesday, September 29

Rani Speigler, University of Tel Aviv, “Competition Over Agents with Boundedly Rational Expectations”.  Micro Theory Seminar, 537a. 
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse            2:30-3:50 pm 

Kevin Song, Yale University, “Testing Semiparametric Conditional Moment Restrictions via Conditional Martingale Transforms”.   Econometrics Research Seminar, 567a. 
     Room B8, 28 Hillhouse              4-5:30 pm 

Jochen Streb, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, “Was armament minister Albert Speer really responsible for the German "armament wonder" during World War II? New doubts arising from the annual audits of the German aircraft producers".   Economic History Workshop. 
    Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             4-5:30 pm

Thursday, September 30

Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago GSB, “How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry?  The Case of Major Airlines” (with Chad Syverson).  Applied Micro Workshop, 608a. 
    Room 106, 28 Hillhouse             2:30-4 pm

Michael Abramowicz, George Washington University/Law, “A Unified Economic Theory of Noninfringement Opinions”.  LEO Workshop.  
     Room 121, Law School           4:10-5:40 pm

Please send Calendar Information to Nancy King, 2-3587, Rm 203, 28 HH by Wednesday Noon