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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
OCTOBER 2004

Friday, October 1
David Card, University of California-Berkeley, "Racial Segregation and the Black-White Score Gap." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, October 4
Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, "Robust Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar)
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Peter Schott, Yale University, "Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, October 5
Caterina Calsimiglia, Yale University, "Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity." Micro Theory Reading Group
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, UPENN, "A, B, C's (and D)'s for Understanding VARs" (with Juan Rubio and Tom Sargent), Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Guy Berger, Yale University, "The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on Multilateral Trace Liberalization: Building Blocs or Stumbling Blocs?" Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, "Modelling Optimal Instrumental Variables for Dynamic Panel Data Models". Econometrics Workshop
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania, "The Deutsche Bank and Nazi Gold." The Council on European Studies at YCIAS and the Department of History
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 6
Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich, visiting Yale, "Contracts, Fairness, and Incentives" (joint with Ernst Fehr and Alexander Klein), Micro Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University, "Technical Change and U.S. Economic Growth: the Interwar Period and the 1990s." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, October 7
Borja Gracia, Yale University, "Fixed Pegs and Delayed Stabilizations or When the Central Bank Divorces the Treasury." Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley, "Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes? Preliminary Evidence form the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut" (with Raj Chetty). Applied Micro Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, October 8
Randi Pintoff, Yale University, "The Impact of Incarceration on Juvenile Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach," Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Cowles Conference on Uncertainty in Economic Theory
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
Monday, October 11
Rustam Ibragimov, Yale University, "On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Nikos Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University, "Greeks Peddling Salvation in Russia: Reflections on Indulgences in the Seventeenth Century," Hellenic Studies Program at YCIAS
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
Tuesday, October 12
Andrew Lemon, Yale University, "Who Should We Vote For?: Flip-floppers or Hard-liners and Other Election-year Showdowns." Micro Theory Reading Group
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Randi Pintoff, Yale University, "The Impact of Incarceration on Juvenile Crime: A Regression Discontinuity Approach." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, October 13
Herb Scarf, Yale University, "Professional Reminiscences," Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Pierpaolo Battigalli, University of Bocconi, visiting NYU, "Dynamic Psychological Games" (with Martin Dufwenberg), Micro Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Vadim Marmer, Yale University, "Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity, and Spurious Forecasts," Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Francesca Trivellato, Yale, Department of History, "Merchant Letters across Geographical and Cultural Boundaries," Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Nat Keohane, Yale University, SOM, "Do Costs and Benefits Matter in Setting Standards? Evidence from State Regulation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, October 14
Marco Oviedo, Yale University, "Beyond Optimal Extraction: Oil-revenue Policy Lessons under the Mexican Experience, 1986-2003." Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Amitabh Chandra, Dartmouth College, "Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks" (with Douglas Staiger). Applied Micro Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Heather Tookes, Yale/School of Management, "Information, Trading and Product Market Interactions: Cross-Sectional Implications of Insider Trading." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, October 15
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University, "Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle," Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, October 18
James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, "The Evolution of Inequality under Globalization: Some Fresh Facts for a Stalemated Debate." Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
211 HGS, 320 York Street 12 noon
Kevin Song, Yale University, "Testing Semiparametric Conditional Moment Restrictions via Conditional Martingale Transforms". Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, "Public Address on Globalization," Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
Tuesday, October 19
Deran Ozmen, Yale University, "Dynamic Information Selling." Micro Theory Reading Group
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Allan Drazen, University of Maryland, "Political Budget Cycles." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ulrich Wagner, Yale University, "Assessing Collective Action for the Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, October 20
Hector Chade, Arizona State University, "Simultaneous Search" (with Lones Smith), Micro Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Erik Hjalmarsson, Yale University, "Predicting Global Stock-Returns with New Methods for Pooled and Long-Run Forecasting Regressions," Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Christoph Buchheim, University of Mannheim, "The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University, "A New World Order." Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
Nicholas Muller, Yale University, F&ES, "Using a Modified Hedonic Model to Value Man-Made Lakes." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, October 21
Kevin Kallock, Yale University, "Risk Sharing and Nondecreasing Wages in a Search and Matching Model," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Joel Waldfogel, Wharton School, "Piracy on the High C’s: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare" (with Rafael Rob). Applied Micro Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, October 22
Joseph G. Altonji, Yale University, "Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, October 25
Oliver Linton, London School of Economics, "Efficient Estimation in a Nonparametric Regression with Autocorrelated Errors." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Long run impacts of income shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th century France". Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, October 26
Rosa Argenziano, Yale University, "Differentiated Networks: Equilibrium and Efficiency." Micro Theory Reading Group
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Chris House, University of Michigan, "Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation" (with Matthew Shapiro), Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ryo Okui, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, TBA, Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Wednesday, October 27
Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University, visiting NYU, "Information Dynamics and Equilibrium Multiplicity in Global Games of Regime Change" (with G.M. Angelotos and C. Hellwig), Micro Theory Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Oliver Linton, London School of Economics, "Nonparametric Estimation of Homothetic and Homothetically Separable Functions." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Carol H. Shiue, University of Texas, Austin, "Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Mohan Munasinghe, Munasinghe Inst. for Development, visiting at F&ES, "Environmental Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development." Environmental Economics Seminar
Lounge, ICF, 46 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, October 28
Ana Fostel, Yale, "A Supply Story: Emerging Markets, High yield and Market Closures." Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Friday, October 29
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Estimating Spillovers in the Classroom with Panel Data." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm