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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
APRIL 2007

MONDAY, APRIL 2
Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College, Visiting the Cowles Foundation, "Nonparametric Inference on Optimal Healthcare Expenditure:  Evidence from Medicare." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Erica Field, Harvard University, "Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 3
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Computational Inefficiency of Nonparametric Tests for Consistency of Data with Household Consumption." Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Francisco Buera, Northwestern University, "Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "Mergers with Changes of Product Qualities: An Empirical Study of the Banking Industry." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
Nicola Persico, New York University, "Factions and Political Competition" (with Jose Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Arie Beresteanu, Duke University, "Asymptotic Properties for a Class of Partially Identified Models" (with Francesca Molinari). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Debin Ma, London School of Economics, "Wages, Prices and Living Standards in China, Japan, and Europe, 1738-1925."  Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
Marnix Amand, Yale University, "Retaining Employees by Matching Outside Offers: Why Does (Almost) No One Do It?" Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University, "Child Labor and Household Health Shocks." Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Clifford Holderness, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, "Ownership Concentration around the World:  Legal, Institutional, and Cultural Explanations." YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law Luncheon Lecture
Room 110, Law School 12:15 – 1:30 pm
Tong Li, Vanderbilt University, "Entry and Competition Effects in First-Price Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Procurement Auctions" (with Xiaoyong Zheng). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 6
Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector" (with Amy Finkelstein, MIT). Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 9
Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Hours and the Slope of the Wage Profile." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University, "Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Not a Dime to Lend: Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity" (with Atif Mian and Bilal Zia). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Stephanie Lau, Washington University, Cowles Visitor, "Information Revelation in Bilateral Bargaining."  Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania, "Inflation and Unemployment." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Product Choice in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania, "The Market for Ideas." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University, "Internet Advertising and Generalized Second-Price Auction:  Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords" (with Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Eric Renault, University of North Carolina, "Efficient GMM With Nearly Weak Identification" (with Antoine Bertille). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business School, "Stock Market Development, Ownership Concentration, and Investor Protections in Brazil since 1890." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Christopher Timmins, Duke, "Roy Model Sorting and Non-random Selection in the Value of a Statistical Life" (with Thomas DeLeire). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 12
Amalavoyal Chari, Yale University, "Productivity Effects of Indian Reforms:  A Structural Approach." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon
Nathaniel Keohane, Yale University SOM, and Erin Mansur, Yale University SOM, "Averting Enforcement: Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
John Ferejohn, Stanford/Political Science and NYU/Law, "The First Superstatute: Institutionalizing Banking in the US." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago, "Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
Marcus Noland, Institute for International Economics, and Stephan Haggard, UCSD, "Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform." Economics, East Asian Studies, International Affairs Joint Seminar
Room 202, 34 Hillhouse, Luce Hall 4:00 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 16
Jeffrey Weinstein, Yale University, "Do School Characteristics Affect Neighborhood Characteristics?" Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Tong Li, Vanderbilt University, "Simulation Based Selection of Competing Structural Econometric Models."  Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Stefan Klonner, Cornell University, "Cosigners Help." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
Nicholas Barberis, Yale University - SOM, "What Drives the Disposition Effect?  An Analysis of a Long-standing Preference-Based Explanation" (with Wei Xiong, Princeton). Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Michael Reiter, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle" (with Christian Haefke). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Jake Gramlich, Yale University, "Automobile Fuel Efficiency: A Model of Firm Choice." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
Mark Armstrong, University College London, "Competitive Nonlinear Pricing and Bundling" (with John Vickers). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Erin Mansur, Yale University, "Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimates: An Empirical Estimate of the RECLAIM Market." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Peter Rossi, University of Chicago, "A Non-Parametric Bayesian Approach to the Instrumental Variable Problem" (with Tim Conley, Chris Hansen, and Rob McCulloch). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
William Sundstrom, University of Santa Clara, "From quasi-private to quasi-public:  the development of local libraries in the United States, 1870-1930" (with Michael Kevane). Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Elizabeth Roberts, St. Antony's College, Oxford, "Montengrin Nationhood Regained: The UN's Newest State." The Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 19
Kyle Hood, Yale University, "An Island Model Theory of Regional Evolutions." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Peter Rossi, University of Chicago, "Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?" (with Jean-Pierre Dubé and Günter Hitsch). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
Donna Gilleskie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes:  A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 23
Matthew Johnson, Yale University, "Uncertainty, Choices in College, and Precautionary Saving." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scott Murdock, Yale University, "Frequency Domain Empirical Likelihood for Dependent Processes." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 V 3:50 pm
Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE, "De Soto Effect: Property Rights, Social Networks and Productivity." Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5 pm
Daniel R. Fischel, Northwestern University School of Law and Kellogg School of Management and the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at the University of Chicago, "Markets and Scandals: Enron and Beyond." 2006-2007 Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Governance. Reception to follow in the Alumni Reading Room
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
Wladimir Berelowitsch, Geneva University, "Civilizing a Nation:  Educational Plans and Patterns in Eighteenth-Century Russia." The Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 24
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Bargaining over a New Welfare State: A Model of the Distribution of New Deal Funds" (with K. Thomsson). Microeconomic Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Narayana Kocherlakota, University of Minnesota, "Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates."  Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Frank Limbrock, Yale University, "Hospital Specialization and Competition." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
Joe Halpern, Cornell University, "Lower Bounds on Implementing Robust and Resilient Mediators (with Ittai Abraham and Danny Dolev). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Bill Summerhill, University of California Los Angeles, "Sovereign Credibility with Financial Underdevelopment:  The Case of Nineteenth-Century Brazil." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Sylvia Brandt, UMass-Amherst, "Willingness to Pay for Improved Children's Health: A Comparison of Stated and Revealed Preference Models" (with Michael Hanneman). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Adrian de la Garza, Yale University, "The Evolution of Sovereign Bond Markets" and Juan Eberhard, Yale University, "Assessing the impact of Immigration." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale University, "The Long Run Effects of Expanded Access to Formal Finance:  Evidence from Rural India."   Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Ken Ayotte, Columbia, Business, "Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Steven Stern, University of Virginia, "Marriage, Divorce and Asymmetric Information." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
David Cameron, Yale University, Political Science, "Is There a Democratic Deficit in the EU?" The Council on European Studies
Room A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect 12 noon
MONDAY, APRIL 30
Steve Bednar, Yale University, "Media Projection Bias." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Joe Kaboski, Ohio State University, "Testing a Structural Model of Credit Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative" (with Robert M. Townsend). Trade and Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm