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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2006
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Judy Chevalier and Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale, School of Management, "State Casket Sales Restrictions: A Pointless Undertaking?" LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University, "Did Highways Cause Suburbanization? Suburbanization and Transportation in the Monocentric Model." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Peter C.B. Phillips, Yale University, "Starting Research in Econometrics." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Protection for Sale to Firms: Evidence from Indonesia." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Kenneth Burdett, UPENN, "Wage-Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Melvyn Coles).  Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Donald W.K. Andrews, Yale University, "Subsample Methods in Econometrics." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College and Yale University, "Inference on Optimal Matching from Experimental Data." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Christoph Buchheim, University of Mannheim, "What Causes Successful Development: Insights from History." Economic History Workshop
Room A001, 77 Prospect 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern, Law, "Strategic Judging under the Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Meta Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Tied Transfers." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Workshop on Aggregation of Opinions
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Tarek Masoud, Yale University, "The Dividends of Exclusion:  Understanding Political Islam's Electoral Advantage." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto and Visitor Cowles Foundation, "Empirical Static and Dynamic Marriage Matching." Structural Microeconomics Overview Lectures
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 1:30 – 2:50 pm
Keli Xu, Yale University, "Empirical Likelihood Based Inference of Nonlinear Diffusions." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Pascaline Dupas, Dartmouth College, "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya." Trade and Development Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University and Visitor, Yale, "Similarity and Heuristics in Consumer Expenditures" (joint with Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Michael Woodford, Columbia, "Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near-Rational Expectations." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto and Visitor Cowles Foundation, "Understanding Gender Differences in Marriage Matching." Structural Microeconomics Overview Lectures
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 1:30 – 2:50 pm
Yuliy Sannikov, UC Berkeley, "Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30-3:50 pm
William Nordhaus, Yale University, "The Economics of Hurricanes." Environmental Economics Seminar
Wittink Lounge, 1st floor, 46 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Qiying Wang, University of Sydney and Yale University, "Long-Range Dependent Time Series Specification." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette (visiting Yale), "Usury Ceilings, Relationships and Bank Lending Behavior:  Evidence from Nineteenth Century New York." Economic History Workshop
Room A001, 77 Prospect 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Luis Cabral, New York University and Visitor, Yale, "A Theory of Asymmetric Price Adjustment" (with Arthur Fishman). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Henrich Böll Foundation, "The Merkel Government One Year After the Election." The Council on European Studies
Room 203, 8 Prospect Place 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto, "Marriage Matching, Efficient Risk Sharing and Spousal Labor Supplies." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Mike Tomz, Stanford University, "Credible Commitments in International Relations." Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Huaming Peng, Yale University, "Model Selection in Factor Using Posterior Information." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Craig McIntosh, UC San Diego, "Does Better Health Care lead to Higher AIDS Rates? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Daniel Monte, Yale University, "Reputation and Bounded Memory." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Mark Gertler, NYU, "Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining" (with Antonella Trigari). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 1:30 – 2:45 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "Mergers with Change of Product Qualities." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:20 pm
James Heckman, The University of Chicago, ECONOMETRIC POLICY EVALUATION, "Cowles Commission Structural Models, Causal Effects and Treatment Effects:  A Synthesis." Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lectures
General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
James Heckman, The University of Chicago, ECONOMETRIC POLICY EVALUATION, "Instrumental Variables: Then and Now." Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lectures (Cowles Faculty Luncheon)
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Visitor, Yale, "Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World" (with Victor Chernozukov and Muhamet Yildiz). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Jay Shimshack, Tufts, "Mandatory Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance in the Electricity Industry" (with Magali Delmas and Maria Montes-Sancho). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago and Yale University, "Stepup Procedures for Control of Generalizations of the Familywise Error Rate" (with Joseph Romano) and "On Stepdown Control of the False Discovery Proportion" (with Joseph Romano). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Nick Crafts, University of Warwick, "Total Factor Productivity Growth on Britain's Railways, 1852-1912: A Reappraisal of the Evidence." Economic History Workshop
Room A001, 77 Prospect 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Marc Rysman, Boston University, "Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods" (with Gautam Gowrisankaran). Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
James Heckman, University of Chicago, "On the Evolution of Uncertainty in the US Labor Market." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm