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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MAY 2006

MONDAY, MAY 1
Jonathan Morduch, New York University, "Do Interest Rates Matter? Evidence from the Dhaka Slums." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, MAY 2
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Estimating Dynamic Oligopoly Models with Serially Correlated Private Shocks" and Jake Gramlich, Yale University, "Product Characteristics." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3
Abraham Neyman, Hebrew University (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Optimal Use of Communication Resources" (with Olivier Gossner and Penelope Hernandez). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Laura Chioda, Princeton University, "Optimal Conditional Inference for Instrumental Variables Regression"   (with Michael Jansson). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh, "Did the Clean Air Act Reduce Emissions? Or Did Plants Substitute across Chemicals and Media?" Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, "Corporate Ownership and Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century." Economic History Workshop
Room A001, 77 Prospect 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MAY 4
Glenn MacDonald, Washington University-St. Louis, "Do New Competitors, New Customers, New Suppliers,... Sustain, Destroy or Create Competitive Advantage?" (with Michael Ryall). Applied Micro Workshop
Room  106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, MAY 5 -- MAY 7
Macro/Labor Economics Conference
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
MONDAY, MAY 8
Orazio Attanasio, University College London, "Medium and Long Run Effects of Nutrition and Child Care: Evaluation of a Community Nursery Programme in Rural Columbia." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, MAY 9
Joel Watson, University of California, San Diego, "Open Option Contracts  — Work in progress." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Ulrich Wagner, Yale University, "Estimating a Dynamic Game of Coalition Formation: The Case of the Montreal Protocol" and Josh Lustig, Yale University, "A Proposal to Study Screening in Competitive Insurance Markets." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
Richard Smith, University of Cambridge, "Exogeneity in Semiparametric Models: Definitions and Tests." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm