Yale Department of Economics

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MAY 2007

TUESDAY, MAY 1
Keith Gamble, UC Berkeley Economics, "Limited Depth of Reasoning and Trading Behavior." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto, "How Important is Human Capital?   Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality" (with Andrés Erosa and Tatyana Koreshkova). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:15 - 3:45 pm
Alon Eizenberg, Yale, "Upstream Innovation and Vertical Contracting in the Home PC Market", and Chris Conlon, Yale University, "Share Buybacks and Tender Auctions." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
William Zame, UCLA, "Incentives, Contracts and Markets: A General Equilibrium Theory of Firms." Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Katrin Jordan, Free University of Berlin, visiting Yale FES, "First-Mover Advantage and Renewable Energy Policy." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MAY 3
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Learning Your Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Investigation." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 noon
Mir Salim, Yale University, "Microfinance Institutions." Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12 -1:00 pm
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College, "The Economics of Open-Access Journals" (with Mark McCabe).  Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, MAY 4
The Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable at Yale Law School sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
YLS, 127 Wall Street 9:00 am
Marcos Rangel, University of Chicago, "Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 -1:45 pm
MONDAY, MAY 7
Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College, "An IV-based Analysis of Optimal Healthcare Expenditure Using Medicare Data" (with Amitabh Chandra and Xiaohong Chen). Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, MAY 8
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "Optimal Dynamic Contest." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
Martin Shubik, Yale University, "The Viability of Players in Repeated Games." Cowles Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Ignacio Lobato, ITAM, "A Consistent Specification Test for Models Defined by Conditional Moment Restrictions" (with Manual A. Dominguez). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MAY 10
Prashant Bharadwaj, Yale University, "Impacts of Sterilizations." Development Lunch
Room 16, 27 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Michael Greenstone, MIT/Economics, "Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation:  Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, MAY 11
15th Panel Meeting of Economia, Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, LACEA. (Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12).
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 1:15 - 6:45 pm
Steve Pischke, London School of Economics, visiting MIT, "Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, MAY 14
Peter McHenry, Yale University, "The Relationship between School Quality Inputs and Local Wage Structures." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, MAY 15
Richard Van Weelden, Yale University, TBA. Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, MAY 22
Maher Said, Yale University, "A Model of Sequential Auctions with Entry." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm