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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2005

Tuesday, February 1
Sebastian Ludmer, Princeton, "Illiquid Assets and Self Control." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Wednesday, February 2
Alessandro Gavazza, New York University, "Leasing and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aircraft." SOM Job Talk
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 2:30 –  4:00 pm
Thursday, February 3
Mark Franklin, Trinity College, International Politics, "The Economy and the Vote in the EU." The Council on European Studies at YCIAS
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis/Political Science, "On the Priority of Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach to Political-Economic Institutions and the Burden of Justification." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Wall Street, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Monday, February 7
Dean Karlan, Princeton, "Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment" (with Jonathan Zinman). Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Jude Hays, University of Michigan, "Empirical Models of Taxation in Open Economies: Specifying and Estimating the Spatial Interdependence in Tax Policy." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Tuesday, February 8
Andrei Hagiu, Princeton, "Two-Sided Platform: Pricing and Social Efficiency." SOM Job Talk
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 11:30 – 1:00 pm
Xianwen Shi, Yale University, "Split Award Auctions with Entry." Micro Theory Lunch.
Tobin Lounge, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics, Organizational Meeting
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, February 9
Larry Bartels, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School, "Economic Inequality and Political Representation" "Partisan Politics and the U.S. Income Distribution." Workshop in Political Economy/Political Economy Workshop Series
117 Harkness Hall 4:00 pm
Thursday, February 10
Christian Julliard, Princeton, "Labor Income Risk and Asset Returns." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Friday, February 11
Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Estimating Demand for School Quality: Evidence from a School Choice Experiment." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Tuesday, February 15
Andres Carvajal, Yale University, "Identification of Fundamentals from Market Data: May Lack of Information be the Invisible Hand?." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University, "A Unified Bayesian Theory of Equity ‘Puzzles’." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Wednesday, February 16
Rob Porter, Northwestern, "Collusions and Auctions." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Rajnish Mehra, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Junior is Rich." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Wolfram Schlenker, UCSB/Princeton, "An Error Correction Approach to Reconciling Historical Records on Fish Stocks" (with Richard T. Carson, Clive Granger, and Jeremy Jackson). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, February 17
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Currency Unions and FDI: The Case of the Euro." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Adam Copeland, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and visitor, Yale, "Prices, Production, and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year" (with Wendy Dunn and George Hall). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Charles Shipan, University of Iowa/Political Science, TBA. LEO Workshop
Room 121, Wall Street, Law School 4:10-5:40 pm
Friday, February 18
Dan Silverman, University of Michigan, "Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, February 21
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality, and the Evaluation of Financial Systems." Kuznets Lecture Series
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, February 22
Marzena Rostek, Yale University, "Fatalistic Reasoning in Games." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Cédric Tille, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Financial Integration and the Wealth Effect of Exchange Rate Fluctuations." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality, and the Evaluation of Financial Systems." Kuznets Lecture Series
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, February 23
Martin Shubik, Yale University, "An Economist’s Reminiscences." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality, and the Evaluation of Financial Systems." Kuznets Lecture Series
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis, "Growing Public: Is the Welfare State Mortal or Exportable?." Workshop in Political Economy
Room 117, Harkness Hall, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Ruben Lubowski, USDA, "Decoupling Payments from Production: Did the 1996 Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act Correct a Distortion?." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, February 24
Christian Bayer, European University Institute, "Investment dynamics with fixed capital adjustment cost and capital market imperfections." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Patrick Bajari, Duke University, "Identification and Estimation of Discrete Games of Complete Information" (with Han Hong and Stephen Ryan). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Elisabeth Guigou, French National Assembly, "The Future of Europe." The Council on European Studies
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse 4:15 pm
Friday, February 25
John Ham, Ohio State University, "Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, February 28
Lane Kenworthy, Emory University, "Jobs with Equality." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Gautam Tripathi, University of Connecticut, "Optimally Combining Censored and Uncensored Datasets." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University, "Volatility and Growth: Implications for Macropolicy." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30-5:00 pm