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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2005

Tuesday, November 1
Dino Gerardi, Yale University, "Aggregation of Expert Opinions." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University, "Optimal Taxation of Risky Capital with Private Information." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "Retail Agglomeration." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, November 2
Johannes Horner, Northwestern University, "The Folk Theorem for Games with Private Almost-Perfect Monitoring" (with Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern University). Micro Theory Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
Xiaohong Chen, New York University, "Principal Components and the Long Run" (with Lars Peter Hansen and José A. Scheinkman). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Stephen Ryan, MIT, "The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, November 3
Yedan Zhang, Tulane University, "R&D competition and modes of Foreign Entry with Country-Specific Spillover." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
John Donohue, Yale University Law School, "Witness to Deception: An Insider’s Look at the Disney Case." Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
Faculty Lounge, Law School, Wall Street 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota, "The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, November 4
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, "The Effect of Transfer Programs on Labor Supply under Preference Heterogeneity and Variable Takeup." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, November 7
Gustavo Soares, Yale University, "Inference with Inequality Moment Constraints." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Alan de Brauw, Williams College, "Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 8
Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "The Economics of Relationships." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Matteo Iacoviello, Boston College, "Household Debt and Income Inequality, 1963-2003." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Estimating Discrete-Continuous Models with Aggregate Data" and Garry Gabison, Yale University, "Effect of Competiton on Choice Menus, the Case of Savings Account." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Wednesday, November 9
Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin, "Optimal Bunching without Optimal Control" (with Georg Nöldeke, University of Bonn). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Taisuke Otsu, Yale University, "Minimax Estimation and Testing for Moment Condition Models via Large Deviations" (with Yuichi Kitamura). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia, "Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth-Century Castile." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn, Yale FES, "African Livestock Management and Climate Change." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, November 10
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Youth Unemployment and Mismatch." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Panle Jia, Yale University, "What Happens when Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Industry." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Kevin Davis, New York University, Law, "Clarifying Property Rights" (co-authored with Katrina Wyman) LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Friday, November 11
Shamena Anwar, Yale University, "Testing for Cultural Affinity Using Data from the Game Show `Street Smarts’." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, November 14
Koichi Hamada and Shyam Sunder, Yale University, "Why Do Economists Favor Free Trade but Politicians Don’t?" Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. Political Economy Seminar Series
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon
P. Jeganathan, Indian Statistical Institute (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Some Asymptotics for Nonlinear Time Series Models." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Garth Frazer, University of Toronto, "Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 15
Daniel Monte, Yale University, "Reputation and Bounded Memory." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Jeffrey J. Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, "NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges." Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Betts House Parlor, 393 Prospect St. 12:00 noon
Noah Williams, Princeton University, "Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Marek Weretka, Yale University, "Endogenous Market Power." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, "The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise." 2004-2005 John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
Wednesday, November 16
Richard Blundell, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, "How Revealing is Reveals Preference?" Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Francesco Squintani, University College London, "Preemption Games with Private Information" (with Hugo Hopenhayn). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
Joanna Haddock, Yale University, "Economic Forecasting with End of Sample Tests." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina, "Manipulating Political Stock Markets: A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Valerie Mueller, Columbia and Univ. of Miami and Daniel Osgood, Columbia, "Is ‘Doing Nothing’ a Better Coping Strategy to Climate Risk than Migrating?" Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm
Thursday, November 17
Gianluca Violante, NYU, "Frictional Wage Inequality: A Puzzle? (with A. Hornstein and P. Krusell). Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Matthew Shum, Johns Hopkins University, "Interpreting Intra-firm Wage Differentials using Tournament Models." Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Friday, November 18
Richard Blundell, University College London, "Earned Income Tax Credit Policies: Impact and Optimality." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Monday, November 28
Xiaotong (Vivian) Wang, Yale University (SOM), "Stock Return Dynamics Under Earnings Management", and Yoonseok Lee, Yale University, "Nonparametric Estimation of Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed Effects." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Yale University, "Whither Quality? Incentives in the Sugarcane Market in Pakistan." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 29
Philip J. Reny, University of Chicago, "Existence of Nash Equilibria in Discontinuous Games: A Tutorial." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Ricardo Lagos, NYU, "Asset Prices and Liquidity in an Exchange Economy." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Xianwen Shi, Yale University, "Measuring Peer Effect in Academic Achievement" (with Seik Kim). Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
ISPS, Room B012, 77 Prospect 2:30-3:50 pm
Wednesday, November 30
Douglas Gale, New York University, "Decision Making under Uncertainty" (with Syngjoo Choi, New York University, and Ray Fisman, Columbia). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Rosa Matzkin, Northwestern University, "Identification in Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations" and "Nonparametric Consumer Demand." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Christopher Meissner, University of Cambridge, "The Late Nineteenth Century Trade Boom: Declining Trade Costs versus Economic Expansion." Economic History Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale FES and Nicholas Muller, Yale FES, The Damages Due to Air Pollution in the United States." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:40 pm