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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 2005

Tuesday, March 1
Juan Moreno-Ternero, Yale University, "Impartiality, Solidarity, and Priority in the Theory of Justice." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Luigi Guiso, visitor, University of Chicago, "Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange" (with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ulrich Wagner, Yale University, "Assessing Global Collective Action under the Montreal Protocol." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B-5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, March 2
Paolo Siconolfi, Columbia University, "General Equilibrium in Economies with Asymmetric Information." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Masao Ogaki, Ohio State University, "Structural Spurious Regressions and a Hausman-Wu-Type Cointegration Test." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, "Is Increasing Inequality in China a Price Worth Paying for Poverty Reduction?" Workshop in Political Economy
Room 117, Harkness Hall, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Thursday, March 3
Judy Chevalier, Yale University School of Management, "Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks" (with Austan Goolsbee). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Mark Roe, Harvard/Law, "Delaware’s Politics." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Wall Street, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, March 4
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, March 21
Daniel Ho, Yale University, Two papers: (1) "Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference" and (2) "Evaluating Affirmative Action in American Law Schools: Does Attending a Better Law School Cause Black Students to Fail the Bar?" Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Werner Ploberger, University of Rochester and Yale University, "Optimal Tests for Markov Switching." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Jenny Lanjouw, UC Berkeley, "Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 22
Harald Uhlig, Humboldt University, "Macroeconomics and Asset Markets: Some Mutual Implications." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Induced-Demand in Auto Repair: A Field Experiment" and "Contract Arrangements and Moral Hazard in New York City Taxicabs." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B-5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, March 23
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Grading Exams: 100, 99, ..., 1 or A, B, C? Incentives in Games of Status" (Pradeep Dubey). Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Alvaro Sandroni, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, "Testing Knowledge." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Whitney Newey, MIT, "Improved Inference for GMM with Many Moments." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
David Hancock, University of Michigan, "Excerpts from Oceans of Wine, Empires of Commerce-Merchants into Capitalists: Madeira Wine and the Developing Atlantic Economy, 1640-1815." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Sheila Olmstead, Yale FES, "Are Brown Lawns the Right Drought Policy? The Welfare Impacts of Non-Price Water Demand Management" (with Erin Mansur). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Michael Wallerstein, Yale University, "Why Has Pay Inequality Increased in Developed Countries?" Workshop in Political Economy
Room 117, Harkness Hall, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Thursday, March 24
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University, "Investment and Financing with Non-Convex Costs." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Rob Porter, Northwestern University and Visitor, Yale, "A Structural Analysis of Bidding in Ohio School Milk Auctions." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor/Harvard, "What do We Want from a Theory of Justice?." LEO Workshop.
Room 121, Wall Street, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, March 25
Robert Topel, University of Chicago, "The Value of Health and Longevity" (with Kevin M. Murphy). Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, March 28
Joerg Baten, University of Tuebingen, Germany, "The Technical Component of Human Capital, Schooling and Long-Run Growth in 55 Countries, 1880-1990." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Yoonseok Lee, Yale University, "Misspecified Large Dynamic Panel Models with Individual Effects." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Rohini Pande, Yale University, "Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India" (with Tim Besley and Biju Rao). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 29
Colin Stewart, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Graciela Kaminsky, George Washington University, "When It Rains, It Pours: Procyclical Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Policies." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Emily Zhao, Yale University, "A Study of the Photo Printing Industry." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B-5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, March 30
David Cass, CARESS and University of Pennsylvania, "Multiple Equilibria and Sunspots in Securities Markets with Investment Restrictions" (with Suleman Basak, Juan Manuel Licari, and Anna Pavlova). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Roy Tirthankar, Yale University, "Agricultural Labor and Economic Transition in Colonial India: Lessons from Wage Data." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Halla Qaddumi, Yale FES, PhD student, "The Efficiency of Informal Institutions for Allocating Natural Resources: A Case Study of Water Use in the Vaigai River Basin." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, March 31
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Uncertainty and Risk in Individual Income: Estimating Nonlinear Models of Income Dynamics" (with Joseph Altonji and Tony Smith). Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Rosa Matzkin, Northwestern University, "Identification and Estimation in Structural Nonparametric Models." Applied Microeconomics Workshop (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Juliet Schor, Boston College/Sociology, "When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children be Protected?" LEO Workshop (joint with Legal Theory Workshop)
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm