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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2006
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Richard Holden, Harvard University, "Optimal Gerrymandering." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room A48, 52 Hillhouse Avenue 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Chris Patten, Oxford University, "Cousins and Strangers:  The U.S., Britain and the EU." The Council on European Studies
Auditorium, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Jeremy Lise, Queen's University, "On-the-Job Search and Precautionary Savings:  Theory and Empirics of Earnings and Wealth Inequality." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 12:00 – 1:30 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, "The Care Sector." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Jernej Copic, Cal Tech, "Optimal Robust Bargaining Games" (with Clara Ponsati). Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 12:00 – 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Balazs Szentes, University of Chicago, "An Evolutionary Approach Towards Time Preferences."  Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse Avenue 2:30 – 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9-11
The European Studies Council, "Europe at the Crossroads: Cinema Circa 1956." Film festival and Conference at YCIAS
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Roberto Chang, Rutgers University, "Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows."   YCIAS International Finance Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Bo Rothstein, Goteborg University, Sweden, "What is Quality of Government?  Impartiality in the Exercise of Political Power?" Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Xianwen Shi, Yale University, "Contests for Status" (joint with Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn and Aner Sela, Ben Gurion University). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Organizational Meeting, Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Bernard DeMeyer, University of Paris -1(Pantheon Sorbonne) visiting the Cowles Foundation, "On the Strategic Origin of the Brownian Motion in Finance." Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse Avenue 2:30 – 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Robert Shiller, Yale University, "Indexing Taxes to Inequality" (joint with Leonard Burman and Jeffrey Rohaly, both of the Tax Policy Center, Washington, DC). Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 12:00 noon
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland, "Are Asset Price Guarantees Useful for Preventing Sudden Stops?:  A Quantitative Investigation of the Globalization Hazard-Moral Hazard Tradeoff" (joint with Ceyhun Bora Durdu).  YCIAS International Finance Seminar.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
David Laitin, Stanford, "Civil War Narratives." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue 12:00 noon
Paul Mahoney, University of Virginia School of Law, "Did the SEC Improve Corporate Disclosure? Evidence from the 1930s." Yale Law School Ralph Winter Lecture.
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Sven De Vries, Zentrum Mathematik, TU Muenchen, "On Ascending Vickrey Auctions for Heterogeneous Objects" (with James Schummer and Rakesh V. Vohra, both at Northwestern University). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Eva Nagypal, Northwestern University, "On the extent of job-to-job transitions." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Lones Smith, University of Michigan (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Caller Number Five:  Timing Games that Morph from One Form to Another" (with Andrea Park). Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 2:30-3:50 pm
Ed Vytlacil, Columbia University, "Threshold Crossing Models and Bounds on Treatment Effects:  A Nonparametric Analysis" (with A. Shaikh). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Ray Fair, Yale University, "On Modeling the Effects of Inflation Shocks." Macro Lunch
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse Avenue 12:00 noon
Hanming Fang and Michael Keane, Yale University, "Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market" (with Dan Silverman). Applied Micro Workshop
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Charles Calomiris, Columbia, International Business, "Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Ben Olken, Harvard University, "Monitoring Corruption:  Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia."   Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Yianis Sarafidis, Yale University, "Games with Time Inconsistent Players." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Aleh Tsyvinski, Harvard University, "Markets Versus Governments:  Political Economy of Mechanisms" (with Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Michael Golosov, MIT). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Michael Whinston, Northwestern University, "Principles of Vertical Contracting." Special Lecture
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm