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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 2007
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases: Revisiting the Income Effect."   Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon
Madiha Afzal, Yale University, "Are Politicians Rewarded for Luck?" Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Christian Leuz, University of Chicago GSB, Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, "Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations around U.S. Cross-Listings." Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law & Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale School of Management. 
General Motors Room, SOM 12 noon
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School, "Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Ivo Banac, Yale, History, "EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans." The Council on European Studies
Room A002, 77 Prospect 12 noon
Derek Neal, University of Chicago, visiting Yale for the week, "Current and Future Effects of Test-Based Accountability Systems." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 –1:45 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 5
Brian Knight, Brown University, "Momentum in Presidential Primaries." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley, "Spring Cleaning:  A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College, Carroll School of Management, "The Withdrawal of Business." Storrs Lectures sponsored by the Yale Law School. Reception to follow in the Alumni Reading Room.
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 6
Achim Wambach, University of Cologne, "The Descending Auction is Not Strategically Equivalent to a First-price-sealed-bid Auction." Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol, "A Feasible Equilibrium Search Model of Individual Wage Dynamics with Experience Accumulation." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Luis Cabral, New York University and Visitor, Yale, "Dynamic Price Competition With Network Effects."  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College, Carroll School of Management, "The Implications for the Individual and Government." Storrs Lectures sponsored by the Yale Law School
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
Ennio Stacchetti, New York University, "Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation" (with Rene Caldentey).   Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Karen Fisher-Vanden, Dartmouth, "What Will a Science and Technology Takeoff in China Mean for Energy Use and Carbon Emissions?" Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Rui Esteves, Simon Fraser University, "Quis custodiet quem?  Sovereign Debt and Bondholders' Protection Before 1914."  Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Fallaw Sowell, Carnegie Mellon University, "An Improved Approximation to the Distributions in GMM Estimation." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
Carolina Silva, Yale University, "An Empirical Analysis of the minimum wage in Chile." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon
James Fenske, Yale University, "Land and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Benin."  Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University, "Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders" (with William Fuchs). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Erica Field, Harvard, Economics, TBA. LEO Workshop 
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
Amy Finkelstein, MIT, "EZ-Tax:  Tax Salience and Tax Rates." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 15
Zenichi Shishido, Seikei University School of Law, Japan, "The Turnaround of 1997: Changes in Japanese Corporate Law and Governance." YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Room 110, Sterling Law Building 12:15 pm
SUNDAY, MARCH 18 - TUESDAY, MARCH 20
2nd Cowles Foundation Workshop on Optimization
Room A-53, SOM, 60 Sachem Street 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 26
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Exeter College, University of Oxford, "Can Women be Heroes? Heroic Maidens in the Nineteenth Century German Imagination." The Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Room 401, HGS, 320 York 11:00 am
Harold Varmus, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances." Yale Law School 2006-2007 Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lecture. 
Room 127, Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 27
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University, "Reputation Effects and Equilibrium Degeneracy" (with Y. Sannikov). Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, "Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas" (with Satyajit Chatterjee). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Joshua Lustig, Yale University, "Competition between Medicare HMOs and Product Variety." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago GSB, "Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?" Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale School of Management
Room 122, Law School 12 noon
Larry Epstein, University of Rochester, "Subjective States: A More Robust Model" (with Kyoungwon Seo).  Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Juergen Gaul, University of Bonn, "A Partially Linear Approach to Modelling the Dynamics of Spot and Future Prices" (with Erik Theissen). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Jim Robinson, Harvard, and Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Industry:   Economic Implications of the French Revolution." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Joe Aldy, Resources for the Future, "Temperature Shocks, Energy Prices, and U.S. Mortality: An Assessment of the Health Impacts of Climate Change" (with Daniel Stone). Environmental Economics Seminar.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 29
Rafael de Melo, Yale, "Firm-level Separations and Wages in the Brazilian Economy." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University, "Private Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in China." Development Lunch.
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago, "What Drives Media Slant?  Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers" (with Jesse Shapiro). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Jon Klick, Florida State University, Law, "Cheap Doughnuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Price Changes on Obesity." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
Stefaan De Rynck, Commission of the European Union, "Does the EU Need a Constitution?" The Council on European Studies and the Yale Program on European Union Studies
Room A002, 77 Prospect 12 noon
Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Peers at Work." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm