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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
OCTOBER 2005
MONDAY, October 3
Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern, "Federalism as Multiplication of Powers Rather Than Division: Economic Sociology versus Game Theory." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Bob Staiger, University of Wisconsin at Madison, "The GATT/WTO as an Incomplete Contract" (with Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, October 4
Hao Li, University of Toronto, "Assortative Matching." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University, "Assessing VARs" (with Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ulrich Wagner, Yale University, "Assessing Global Collective Action Under the Montreal Protocol." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, October 5
Steven Nafziger, Yale University, "Land Communes and Factor Market Imperfections: Micro-evidence from Late 19th Century Russia." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
William Nordhaus, Yale University, "Geography and Macroeconomics: New Data and New Findings." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, October 6
Kevin Kallock, Yale University, "Risk Aversion in a Search and Matching Model." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
David Cameron, Yale, Political Science, and Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Henrich Boll Foundation, Yale World Fellow, "The German Election, the New Government, and the EU". The Council on European Studies
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Hao Li, University of Toronto, "Competing for Talents" (with Ettore Damiano, University of Toronto and Wing Suen, Chinese University of Hong Kong). Applied Micro Workshop (with Micro Theory Workshop)
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Albert Choi, University of Virginia, Economics, "Optimal Successor Liability." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, October 7
Yale Law School Symposium, "Reassessing Director Elections." Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Law School, Wall Street 9:30-4:00 pm
Gianluca Violante, New York University, "Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion" (J. Heathcote and K. Storesletten). Labor and Population Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, October 10
Huaming Peng, Yale University, "Model Selection in Factor Models of Grouped Structure." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 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
David Weinstein, Columbia University, "Taking Money from Babies? Assessing the Impact of Japan’s Fiscal Reforms." Japan Colloquium Series
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, October 11
Tzachi Gilboa, Tel Aviv University, "Making Statements and Approval Voting." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
William Fuchs, Stanford University, "Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University, "Product Quality and Competition in International Trade." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, October 12
Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and Economic Behavior." Cowles Lunch Talk (joint with Micro Theory Workshop)
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Donald W.K. Andrews, Yale University, "Inference with Weak Instruments." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University/University of Western Ontario, "Income Inequality in Paris in the Heydey of the Commercial Revolution." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Nathaniel Keohane, Yale University, SOM, "Policy Design and Long-Run Technical Change." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, October 13
Santiago Bazdresch, Yale University, "Optimal Firm Behavior with Financial Non-Convexities." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Brian Viard, Stanford University, "Quantity-Based Price Discrimination using Frequency Reward Programs’ (with Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, October 14
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "Work Hours, Wages and Vacation Leave." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, October 17
Xiaotong (Vivian) Wang, Yale University, SOM, "Earnings Management, Asset Return and Return Volatility." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Jim Tybout, Penn State, "Industrial Evolution in Crisis-Prone Economies" (with Eric Bond and Hale Utar). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30-5:00 pm
TUESDAY, October 18
Marzena Rostek, Yale University, "Quantile Maximization in Decision Theory." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo, "The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ying Zhao, Yale University, "Demand Estimation of the Emergining Photo Printer Market." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, October 19
Costas Meghir, University College London, "Dynamic Models for Policy Evaluation." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University, "Socially Desirable Limits on Choice." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Yoonseok Lee, Yale University, "Nonparametric Approaches to Dynamic Panel Modeling and Bias Correction." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Anne McCants, MIT, History, "Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Martin Heintzelman, University of Michigan, Economics, Ph.D. candidate, "Community Preservation." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Edward Lincoln, Council on Foreign Relations, "Japan’s Lost Decade: What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Do Not Know". Japan Colloquium Series.
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
THURSDAY, October 20
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Modeling Income Dynamics" (with Joe Altonji and Tony Smith). Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Lanier Benkard, Stanford University, "Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Gary King, Harvard, Government, "Normative Definitions by Example and Interpersonal Incomparability by Survey." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10-5:40 pm
FRIDAY,October 21
Costas Meghir, University College London, "Career Progression and Formal versus on the Job Training." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, "Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 8:30 – 6:30 pm
SATURDAY, October 22
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, "Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 8:30 – 6:30 pm
MONDAY, October 24
Keli Xu, Yale University, "Efficient Estimation and Robust Inference of Autoregressive Models with Time-Varying Variances." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Siddharth Sharma, Yale University, "Imperfect Capital Mobility as a Constraint on Regional Industrial Growth: Evidence from India." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, October 25
Pei-Yu Lo, Yale University, "Iterative Admissibility and Common Knowledge of Language in a Sender-Receiver Game." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Giuseppe Moscarini and Bjoern Bruegemann, Yale University, "Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Gustavo Soares, Yale University, "Inference with Inequality Moment Restrictions." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, October 26
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania, "Whither Political Economy? Theories, Facts and Issues." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Adam Brandenburger, Stern School of Business, NYU, "Can Hidden Variables Explain Correlation?" (with Amanda Friedenberg, Olin School of Business). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Huaming Peng, Yale University, "Factor Model Selection and Its Asymptotics." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Herb Emery, University of Calgary, "America's Rejection of Compulsory Government Health Insurance before 1930: Was it 'Un-American' or Unnecessary?" Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Juan-Pablo Montero, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile/Harvard KSG, "Market Power in a Depletable Stock Market, with an Application to Carbon Trading." Environmental Economics Seminar
ICF Lounge, 46 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, October 27
Rafael Melo, Yale University, "Estimation of a Search Model with Learning Using Panel Data" and Santosh Anagol, Yale University, "Housing Supply." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania, "Political Careers or Career Politicians?" (with Andrea Mattozzi, California Institute of Technology). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, October 28
Xia Li, Yale University, "Women’s Labor Market Outcomes and Childbearing: New Data, Methods and Evidence." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, October 31
Harsha Thirumurthy, Yale University, "The Economics impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm