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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2007

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Nicolas Vincent, Northwestern University, "Market Share and Price Rigidity." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Flavio Cunha, University of Chicago, "A Time to Plant and a Time to Reap." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Patrick Kline, University of Michigan, "Understanding Sectoral Labor Markets Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis of the Oil and Gas Field Services Industry." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Steven Wallander, PhD candidate, Yale FES, "Impermanent Fixtures: Technological Change in Residential Water Demand" and Katrina Jessoe, PhD candidate, Yale FES, "Welfare Gains from Improved Drinking Water Sources:  Evidence from Rural India." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Amir Weiner, Stanford University, "Between Two Seas: Sovereignty, Governance and Violence between the Baltic and Black Seas, 1930s-1980s." The Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Room 401, HGS, 320 York Street 4:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Konstantinos Arkolakis, University of Minnesota, "Market Access Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Anup Malani, University of Chicago, Law, "Valuing Laws as Local Amenities." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12
William R. Cline, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development (Distinguished Visiting Fellow, YCSG), "Global Warming and World Agriculture." The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Room 203, Luce Hall 4:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Catarina Reis, MIT, "Taxation without Commitment." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Kareen Rozen, Princeton, "Foundations of Intrinsic Habit Formation." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University, "The Stern Review on Climate Change: An Assessment."  Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, Presentation: Sir Nicholas Stern (UK Government), Chris Hope (Cambridge), Dean Gus Speth. Discussion: William Nordhaus, William Cline (YCSG Distinguished Visiting Fellow; IIE/CGD); Robert Mendelsohn, Gary Yohe (Wesleyan), Scott Barrett (Johns Hopkins, SAIS); Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia). Ernesto Zedillo, Moderator.
Sprague Hall 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Qinqmin Liu, Stanford University, "Information Acquisition and Reputation Dynamics." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Class Size and Sorting in Marketing Equilibrium:  Theory and Evidence." Junior Recruiting Candidate
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Bengt Holmstrom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Corporate Governance in Context." The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. 2006-2007 John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture.  Reception to follow in the Alumni Reading Room.
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization, Organizational meeting.
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Carol McAusland, University of Maryland, "Regulatory Takings and Environmental Regulation in NAFTA's Chapter 11" (with Emma Aisbett and Larry Karp). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "Price Stickiness in Ss Models:  New Interpretations of Old Results" (joint with Ricardo J. Caballero).  Macro Lunch.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon
Dean Karlan, Yale University, "Measurement Effects."  Development Lunch.
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Igal Hendel, Northwestern University, "Matching in the Housing Market:  FSBO vs MLS." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Lee Epstein, Northwestern, Law, "The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Francesco Tonon Meggiolaro, Commission of the European Union, visiting the MacMillan Center at Yale, "The European Union and Russia: Problems and Prospects." The Council on European Studies
Room A002, 77 Prospect 12 noon
Jerome Adda, University College London, visiting UC Berkeley, "Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes:  A Study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US" (joint with Mark Rosenzweig). Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Jernej Copic, UCLA Economics, Cowles Visitor, "Awareness Equilibrium" (with Andrea Galeotti). Micro Theory Lunch.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 –1:15 pm
Mark Huggett, Georgetown University, "Sources of Lifetime Inequality" (joint with Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Laure Athias, University of Paris Sorbonne, "The More the Merrier? Number of Bidders, Information Dispersion, Renegotiation and Winner's Curse in Toll Road Concessions" (with Antonio Nuņez). Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Yale University, "Disease and Economic Development." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
William D. Sudderth, University of Minnesota, "Subgame Perfect Equilibria for Stochastic Games" (with Ashok P. Maitra). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Michael Jansson, UC Berkeley, "Optimal Inference for Instrumental Variables Regression with non-Gaussian Errors" (joint with Matias D. Cattaneo and Richard K. Crump). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, "Induced Technological Change: Firm Innovatory Responses to Environmental Regulation." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut, "Law and State Power: The Institutional Roots of the Strong State in Islamic History." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm