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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2005

Monday, September 5
Tarek Masoud, Yale University, "Labor Unions, Welfare States, and Religious Fundamentalism." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Peter C.B. Phillips, Yale University, "Starting Research in Econometrics." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 7
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, "Clock Games: Theory and Experiments" (with John Morgan). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
James Robinson, Harvard University, Government, "The Impact and Origins of State Capacity in Columbia." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 8
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago, "What Makes You Click? An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, September 9
James Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Incomes in South Africa since the fall of Apartheid." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, September 12
Justin Wolfers, Wharton School of Business, "Are Voters Rational? Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Brendan Beare, Yale University, "Robustifying Unit Root Tests to Permanent Changes in Innovation Variance." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University, "Is Corruption Efficient?" Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, September 13
Organizational Session: Dirk Bergemann, Yale University, "Information in Mechanism Design: A Survey." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Stephen Williamson, University of Iowa, "Monetary Policy and Distribution." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Organizational Meeting, Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30-3:50 pm
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago, "An Introduction to Two-Sided Matching Theory and Empirics."
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:20 pm
Wednesday, September 14
Tony Smith, Yale University, "Quantitative Macroeconomic Models with Heterogeneous Agents." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Federico Bandi, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, "On the Finite Sample Properties of Kernel-Based Integrated Variance Estimators," Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Rose Razaghian, Yale University, Political Science, "Financial Civil War: The Confederacy's Financial Policies, 1861-1864." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 15
George Hall, Yale University, "The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand" (with Adam Copeland, BEA), Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Mark Israel, Northwestern University, "Who Can See the Future? Information and Consumer Reactions to Future Price Discounts." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, September 16
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Cowles Foundation Workshop on Coordination on Games (joint with Micro Theory Workshop)
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
Monday, September 19
Jennifer Tobin, Yale University, "Privatized Investment Incentives and Property Rights in Developing Countries." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Yoonseok Lee, Yale University, "Nonparametric Estimation of Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed Effects." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Xavier Gine, World Bank, "Land Security in Rural Thailand: Evidence from a Property Rights Reform." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Marcello Pera, President, Italian Senate, "The Crisis in Europe: An Italian Perspective." The Council on European Studies
Auditorium, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
Tuesday, September 20
Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics, "Reputation and Asset Prices," Micro Theory Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations," Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Panle Jia, Yale University, "What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes into Town — An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retail Industry," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 21
Douglas Alexander, Parliament, United Kingdom, "Britain and the European Union." The Council on European Studies
Steinbach Hall, 52 Hillhouse 2:00 pm
Sudipto Bhattacharya, London School of Economics, "Knowledge Licensing, Patents, and Optimal Organization of Research and Development." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute, "On the Consistency of LS Estimators in Certain Nonlinear Time Series Models." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Bin Wong, UCLA, History, "Another Look at Credit Markets and Investment in China and Europe before the Industrial Revolution?" Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 22
Ruediger Bachmann, Yale University, "Job Turnover in a DSGE Model," Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Erin Mansur, Yale School of Management, "The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations" (with Sheila Olmstead, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania/The Wharton School, "Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, September 23
Joseph Doyle, MIT, "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Bargaining with Private Information: Applications to Labor Negotiations and Litigation"
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Denis Chaibi, European Commission, "European Foreign Policy: Is There an Agenda after the Referenda?." The Council on European Studies
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
Monday, September 26
Adam Przeworski, New York University, "Self-enforcing Democracy," Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Juan Carlos Hallak, University of Michigan, "Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality" (with Peter Schott). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, September 27
Dmitry Shapiro, Yale University, "Asset Price with Heterogenous Beliefs and Equity Premium Decline." Microe Theory Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Identification of Search Models using Record Statistics." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Information Asymmetry and Reputation in Auto Repair." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, September 28
George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Repeated Games with Private Monitoring: What Have We Learned?" Cowles Lunch Talk (joint with Micro Theory Workshop)
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Marc Hallin, Free University of Brussels, "The Generalized Dynamic Factor Model: Determining the Number of Factors" (with Roman Liska). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Paul Freedman, Yale University, History, "Status and Scarcity" in Fragrance, Flavor and Fashion: Spices in the Middle Ages." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 29
Jinhui Bai, Yale University, "Stationary Monetary Equilibrium with Endogenously Segmented Asset Market," Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Michael Whinston, Northwestern University, "Antitrust in Innovative Industries" (with Ilya R. Segal, Stanford University). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Steve Raphael, University of California at Berkeley/Public Policy, "The Effect of Male Incarceration Dynamics on AIDS Infection Rates Among Women & Men" (with Rucker Johnson), LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, September 30
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University, Economics, Jeff Kling, Princeton University, Economics, Special Session on What We Have Learned from the Move to Opportunity Program (a HUD initiative that enabled inner-city poor to move to more affluent areas in a randomized experiment to assess the impact of living in a lower-crime area with better schools), LEO Workshop (joint with Labor and Population Workshop)
Room 120, Law School 2:30 – 4:00 pm
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, "Repeated Bargaining with Persistent Private Information"
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:30 pm