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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
APRIL 2005
Friday, April 1
Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto, "The Intergenerational Consequences of Unexpected Job Loss." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, April 4
Huaming Peng, Yale University, "Model Selection in Factor Models with Group Effects." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Tavneet Suri, Yale University, "Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, April 5
Alex Lee, Yale University, "The Harm in Social Stigma: Signal Fading and Costly Signals." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Helene Rey, Princeton University, "International Financial Adjustment" (with Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Gustavo Soares, Yale University, "Learning about Market Structure with Partially Identified Models." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, April 6
Helios Herrera, ITAM-CIE, "Group Formation and Voter Participation" (C. Martinelli). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Werner Ploberger, University of Rochester and Yale University, "Optimal Estimation under Nonstandard Conditions." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, UCLA, "The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Kathy Segerson, University of Connecticut, "Collective Agreements and the Use of Less Polluting Products." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley, "Income Concentration in a Historical and International Perspective." Workshop in Political Economy
Room 117, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Thursday, April 7
Jinhui Bai, Yale University, "Stationary Monetary Equilibrium with Endogenously Segmented Asset Market." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Keith Chen, Yale University School of Management, "The Evolution of Our Preferences: Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Keith Chen, Yale University School of Management, "The Evolution of Our Preferences: Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior." Leo Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, April 8
Hoyt Bleakley, UC San Diego, "Long-Term Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Malaria: Evidence from the Malaria Eradication Campaign in Latin America." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
First Annual CARESS-Cowles Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
Monday, April 11
Keith Banting, Queens University, "Immigration and Redistribution in a Global Era: A Comparative Analysis of OECD Countries"(with Stuart Soroka, McGill University). Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Roger Koenker, UIUC, "Density Estimation by Total Variation Regularization." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Tuesday, April 12
Daniel Monte, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Martin Schneider, NYU, "Real Effects of Inflation through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth" (with Matthias Doepke, UCLA). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Wednesday, April 13
Dan Spielman, Massachusetts of Technology, "Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: the Simplex Method and Beyond." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Yossi Feinberg, Stanford Graduate School of Business, "Games with Incomplete Awareness." MicroTheory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Alan Olmstead, UC Davis, "Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute: A New View of Changing Slave Efficiency" (joint with Paul Rhode). Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University, " "Fair" Inequality? An International Comparison of Attitudes to Pay Differentials." Workshop in Political Economy
Room 117, 100 Wall 4:00 pm
Thursday, April 14
Rudiger Bachmann, Yale University, "Job Creation and Job Destruction in a DSGE Model with Endogenous Firm Size." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Daniel Benjamin, Harvard University, "Does Cognitive Ability Reduce Psychological Bias?" (with Jesse M. Shapiro). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, April 15
Hanming Fang, Yale University, "An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice on Motor Vechicle Searches: Theory and Evidence." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, April 18
Mat McCubbins, UCSD, "Agenda Power in Democratic Legislatures: Comparing Parliamentary Processes and Outcomes in the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, and Denmark." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Tiemen Woutersen, Johns Hopkins University, "A Semi-Parametric Duration Model with Heterogeneity and Time-Varying Regressors" (with J. Hausman). Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago, "How Much Does Psychology Matter? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, April 19
Melody Lo, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 pm
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University, "The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social Security: An Evaluation." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Panle Jia, Yale University, "Quantifying the Competition Effects and Network Effects – An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Industry." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, April 20
Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Evaluating a School Choice Lottery: The Importance of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Max Amarante, Columbia University, "States, Models and Unitary Equivalence: A Reconsideration of Ellsberg's Paradox." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Bryan S. Graham, Harvard University, "Identifying Social Interactions Through Excess Variance Contrasts." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, University of Cambridge, "The Occupational Structure of England during the Industrial Revolution 1750 to 1891." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Matthew Kotchen, Williams, "Explaining the Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda for Open-Space Conservation" (with Shawn M. Powers). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, April 21
Daniel Ackerberg, University of Arizona, "Structural Identification of Production Functions" (with Kevin Caves and Garth Frazer). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
K. Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Economics, "Unbundling Institutions." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, April 22
Brian Knight, Brown University, "The Political Economy of School District Mergers." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
The Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable, The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Law School, 127 Wall Street
Monday, April 25
Geert Ridder, USC, "Mean-Squared-Error Calculations for Average Treatment Effects." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley, "The Effect of Cash Transfers on Long Term Living Standard." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, April 26
Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland, "Sudden Stops in a Business Cycle Model with Credit Constraints: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin’s Q." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "A Dynamic Model of Endogenous Product Characteristics." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room B5, 30 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, April 27
Dan Levin, Ohio State University, "Experimental Economics: Possibilities and Limitations."
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA, "Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994. Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Juan Carlos Escanciano, University of Navarra and Yale University, "Model Checks Using Residual Marked Empirical Processes." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, April 28
Dan Levin, Ohio State University, "The Origin of the Winner’s Curse: A Laboratory Study" (with Gary Charness). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, April 29
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago, "Selection, Investment, and the Wage Structure since 1975." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Dan Levin, Ohio State University, "A Dialog between Theorists and Experimentalists."
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm