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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DECEMBER 2006

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
Jean Marc Robin, University College London, "An International Comparison of Lifetime Labor Income Values and Inequality." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2
THE GREATER NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM
Common Room, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
Ivan Vidangos, Yale University, "Household Welfare, Precautionary Saving, and Social Insurance under Multiple Sources of Risk." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scott Murdock, Yale University, Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Dalia Marin, University of Munich, visiting New York University, "Corporate Hierarchies and the Size of Nations Theory and Evidence" (with Thierry Verdier). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Maher Said, Yale University, "Learning in Hidden Markov Models with Bounded Memory." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto, "Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Christopher Conlon, Yale University, "Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability and Economic Impacts of Technological Innovations in Product Availability." Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Gerard Hertig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Law and Economics. "Corporate Governance Laws in Europe, Japan and the U.S.  Ownership Regimes Explain Them All." Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Room 110, Sterling Law Building 12:15 pm
Andrea Wilson, Harvard, "Sustainable Reputations with Finite Memory." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Marc Henry, Columbia University, "Dilation Bootstrap:  A Methodology for Constructing Confidence Regions with Partially Identified Models" (with Alfred Galichon). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Gavin Wright, Stanford University, "Business and the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South:  An Economic-Historical Paradox." Economic History Workshop
Room A001, 77 Prospect 4:00 pm
Joe Aldy, Resources for the Future, "A Numerical Model of the Value of Life." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
Christopher Ksoll, Yale University, "Family Networks, Orphan Caretaking and Orphan Welfare in Tanzania."  evelopment Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Juan Eberhard, Yale University, "Assessing the impact of Immigration in Human Capital Investment and Labor Supply" and Matthew T. Johnson, Yale University, "Temptation and Credit Card Debt." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Andrew Sweeting, Northwestern University, "The Costs of Product Reconditioning: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
Seik Kim, Yale University, "Economic Assimilation of Foreign-Borns in the United States." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Annual Holiday Party
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 5:00 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University, “Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa.” Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Malgosia Madajewicz, Columbia University, "Can Information Alone Change Behavior?  Response to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania, "Regret to the Best vs. Regret to the Average"
AKW 500 3:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania, "Two Economic Models of Network Formation" Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Pascal Lavergne, Simon Fraser University, "One for All and All for One: Dimension reduction for regression checks." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Nick Muller, Yale, PhD candidate, "Price-Based Regulation of Externalities with Elastic Demand for Abatement." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14
A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University / University of Colorado at Boulder) "The Costs of Decentralization: Water Pollution Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil." Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University, "Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm