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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
OCTOBER 2007
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Srihari Govindan, University of Iowa, "On Forward Induction." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Pieter Gautier, Tinbergen Institute and Georgetown University, "Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:  Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?" Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Joshua Lustig, Yale University, "Adverse Selection and Risk in Privatized Medicare." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3
David Card, University of California, Berkeley, "School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Srihari Govindan, University of Iowa, "Decomposition Algorithms for Games," "A Decomposition Algorithm for N-Player Games" (with Robert Wilson), "A Canonical Decomposition Algorithm to Compute Equilibria of N-Player Games with Arbitrary Accuracy" (with Robert Wilson). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Stefan Hodserlein, Universtitat Mannheim, "Recall Errors in Survey" (with Joachim Winter). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Chris Kingston, Amherst College, "A Broker and His Network: Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Seven Years' War, 1755-1759." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
Ignacio Esponda, New York University, "Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, University of California at Los Angeles, "Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing." Finance and Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
David Card, UC Berkeley, "Does Medicare Save Lives?."  Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Nava Ashraf, Harvard Business School, "Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9
David Parkes, Harvard University, "Efficient Dynamic Incentive Mechanisms." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Boyan Jovanovic, NYU, "U.S. Investment 1901-2005:  Incumbents, Entrants, and Q" (with Peter L. Rousseau). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "Estimation of the Impact of Mergers in the Banking Industry." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Aleh Tsyvinski, Harvard University, "A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Bruno Biais, Toulouse School of Economics, "Accident Risk, Limited Liability and Dynamic Moral Hazard" (with T. Mariotti, J.-C. Rochet, and S. Villeneuve). Micro Theory Workshop (joint with Finance and Accounting Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University, "Market Access Costs and Trade Dynamics." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Simon Lee, University College London, "Testing for Stochastic Monotonicity" (with Oliver Linton and Yoon-Jae Whang). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
Coming to Terms with the Holocaust in Today's Baltic States. A workshop hosted by The European Studies Council.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall, Room 39 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Kyle Hood, Yale University, "An Equilibrium Model of Regional Evolutions." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Mark Schankerman, LSE, University of Arizona (visitor), "Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry" (with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ryozo Kato, Ambassador of Japan to the USA, "The Evolution of Japan's Involvement in the World Community Order." Yale Law School Dean's Lecture.  Refreshments will be served.
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:00 pm
Abraham Bell, Bar Ilan University/Law--Israel, Fordham University/Law, "Private Takings." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
Anthony Lynch, New York University, "Explaining the Magnitude of Liquidity Premia:  The Roles of Return Predictability, Wealth Shocks and State-dependent Transaction Costs." Finance and Accounting Workshop
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, "Arbitrage in Housing Markets." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15
Michele Tertilt, Stanford University, "Women's Liberation — What was in it for Men?" Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Bonus Payments in the Principal-Agent Model with Subjective Evaluations." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Bruce Preston, Columbia University "Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination" (with Stefano Eusepi). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Frank Limbrock, Yale University, "Demand for Prescription Pharmaceuticals." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Jonathan Weinstein, Northwestern University, "Comparative Testing of Experts" (with Nabil I. Al-Najjar).  Micro Theory Workshop, 537a.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Jim Powell, University of CA, Berkeley, "Simple Estimators for Semiparametric Multinomial Choice."  Econometrics Research Seminar, 567a.
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University, "Insurance Without Kin:  Private-Order Institutions in Gold Rush California."  Economic History Workshop, 588a.
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Arnaud Costinot, University of California, San Diego, "What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions" (with Ivana Komunjer).  Workshop in International Trade, 728a.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Ulrich Wagner, Columbia University, "Estimating Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Game of Timing:  The Case of the Montreal Protocol." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
Theodore Papageorgiou, Yale University, "Learning Your Comparative Advantage." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Daniel Rosenblum, Yale University, "Fertility Decisions and Child Investment:  Consequences for Gender Differences in Child Mortality in India."   Development Lunch.
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Bharat Anand, Harvard Business School, "Spatial Competition in Cable News:  Where are Larry King and O'Reilly located in Latent Attribute Space?" (with Dmitri Byzalov). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
Jeremy Stein, Harvard University, "Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress? Finance and Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
Shannon Seitz, Boston College, "Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
Kenneth Couch, UConn visiting Yale, "Earnings, Losses and Mass Layoffs." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Siwan Anderson, University of British Columbia, "Caste as an Impediment to Trade." Development Workshop
Room  106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute, "Public-Good Provision in a Large Economy" (with Felix Bierbrauer). Micro Theory Lunch (joint with Micro Theory Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Roberto Perotti, University of Bocconi, "In search of the transmission mechanism of fiscal policy."   Macroeconomics Workshop, 542a.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Jake Gramlich, Yale University, TBA. Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24
Peter Phillips, Yale University, "The Mystery of Trend." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Stefaan De Rynck, Commission of the European Union, "The European Union's New Reform Treaty." The Council on European Studies and The Yale Program on European Union Studies
401 HGS, 320 York Street 5:00 pm
Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD, "Interim Bayesian Nash Equilibrium on Universal Type Spaces for Supermodular Games." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University, "Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements and Private Information." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Jegan Jaganathan, Indian Statistical Institute (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Asymptotics in a Nonlinear Regression Model with Integrated Time Series and with Conditional Heteroscedasticity." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Erin Mansur, Yale SOM, "Averting Regulatory Enforcement:  Evidence from New Source Review" (with Nat Keohane and Andrey Voynov). Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25
Venkata Chari, Yale University, "De-Licensing Reform in India:  Theory and Evidence." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Gharad Bryan, "Information or Intimidation:  How Does 'Social Capital' Improve Loan Repayment?" and Federico Gutierrez, "Water Quality and Welfare in Mexico." Development Lunch.
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Botond Koszegi, University of California, Berkeley, "Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market" (with Paul Heidhues). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
Ronnie Sadka, University of Washington, "Aggregate Earnings and Asset Prices." Finance and Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
Jeffrey Matthew Weinstein, Yale University, "The Relationship Between School Characteristics and Neighborhood Characteristics:   Evidence from School Redistricting." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29
Madiha Afzal, Yale University, "Voter Rationality and Politician Incentives:  Exploiting Luck in Indian and Pakistani Elections." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Yasuyuki Sawada, University of Tokyo, "Impacts of Natural Disasters on Household Well-Being in Japan:  Cases of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake and the Chuetsu Earthquake." The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
Panel Discussion, Yale Law School and Center for the Study of American Politics, "The Myth of the Rational Voter" with panelists William Eskridge, John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Ray Fair, John M. Musser Professor of Economics, Alan Gerber, Professor of Political Science, and William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, and a response to their remarks by Bryan Caplan, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Lunch will be provided
Faculty Lounge, SLB 12:00 pm
Christian Broda, University of Chicago, GSB, "Product Creation and Destruction:  Evidence and Price Implications." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Product Choice in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Noëlle Lenoir, Of Counsel, Debevoise et Plimpton LLP, Paris and Former Minister of European Affairs, "Is the New Europe Anticompetitive?" Yale Law School Dean's Lecture. Reception to follow in Alumni Reading Room
Faculty Lounge, 127 Wall Street 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Francesco Meggiolaro, Commission of the European Union, "Can the EU Control Sovereign Wealth Funds?" The Council on European Studies
Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect 12:00 noon
Jerry Green, Harvard University, "Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement" (with Daniel Hojman). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School, "The Policy of Attraction: Colonial Rule, Property Rights, and Economic Development in the Philippines." Economic History Workshop,
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Lung-fei Lee, Ohio State University, "A Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Model with Both Time and Individual Fixed Effects" (with Jihai Yu). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale FES, TBA. Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
Christian Broda, University of Chicago, "Understanding International Price Differences:  Evidence from Barcode Data" (with David Weinstein). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm