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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Amund Holmsen, Director, Monetary Policy Department, Norges Bank, "Implementing and Communicating Optimal Monetary Policy" (with Jan F. Qvigstad and Oistein Roisland). Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Reena Badiani, Yale University, "Coping with Risk: Temporary Migration and Off-Farm Labor Responses to Shocks." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Steven Puller, Texas A&M University, "Measuring Evidence of Peak-Load Pricing and Consumer Heterogeneities in Airline Pricing." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Glenn Loury, Brown University, Economics, "Valuing Identity:  The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Programs (with Roland Fryer, Harvard). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Alan Manning, LSE, visiting MIT, "The Plant Size-place Effect: Agglomeration and Monopsony in Labour Markets." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Michael Johannes, Columbia University, "Sequential Learning About Predictability." Finance and Accounting Workshop
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Immigrants' Access to Financial Services and Asset Accumulation." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University, "Credit Constraints, Job Mobility and Entrpreneuship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Luigi Balletta, Yale University, "Optimal Taxation of Family Income: An Application of Multidimensional Screening." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, GSB, "Decomposing Lifecycle Expenditure" (with Mark Aguiar). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University, "Upstream Innovation in the Home PC Market:  An Empirical Analysis."  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization, 606a.
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsyvlania, "The Sorting Effect of Price Competition" (with Jan Eeckhout). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Yingyao Hu, Johns Hopkins University, "Estimating First-Price Auctions with Unknown Number of Bidders:  A Misclassification Approach" (with Matt Shum). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Don Davis, Columbia University, "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Molly Lipscomb, PhD candidate, University of Colorado, "Inter-jurisdictional Bargaining over Natural Resources:  Special Interest Group Control over Outcomes." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Rafael Melo, Yale University, "The Allocation of Workers to Firms: A Model of the Labor Market and Facts from a Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Dataset." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Bank Crises and Investor Confidence: Learning from the Experience of U.S. Immigrants"  (with Una Osili). Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Wei Tan, State University of New York at Stony Brook, "Predatory Advertising:  Theory and Evidence in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Peter Tufano, Harvard University, "Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures." Finance and Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
Daniele Paserman, Boston University/Hebrew University, "Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Frederico Finan, UCLA, "Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University, "Uniform Topology on Types and Strategic Convergence" (with Alfredo Di Tillio, Bocconi University). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Ricardo Reis, Princeton University, "Relative Goods' Prices and Pure Inflation" (with Mark W. Watson). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Christopher Conlon, Yale University, "Investment in Retail Outlets." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Johannes Hörner, Northwestern University, "Efficiency in the Prisoner's Dilemma Under Private Monitoring." Cowles Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Haluk Ergin, Washington University (St. Louis), "A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation" (with Todd Sarver). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Lee Alston, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Oliver Linton, London School of Economics (visiting the Cowles Foundation), "Efficient Estimation of a Semiparametric Characteristic-Based Factor Model of Security Returns" (with Gregory Connor and Matthias Hagmann). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado, "Tariffs, Trains, and Trade:  The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets" (with Carol H. Shiue). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Irene Botusaru, Yale, "Competing Risks Models: Motivation for a Semiparametric Estimation Technique" and Mark Klee, Yale, "Skill Utilization and Occupation Mobility." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University, "The Impacts of Adult Deaths on the Elderly in Tanzania."   Development Lunch.
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago, "Testing for Common Values in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence from Canadian Treasury Auctions" (with Jakub Kastl). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Dean Lueck, University of Arizona/Economics, "The Rectangular Survey versus Metes and Bounds:  Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation" (with Gary D. Libecap). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Murillo Campello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the Technology Bubble." Finance and Accounting Seminar
Room A-53, SOM 11:35 am - 12:50 pm
Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona, "Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform Effects?  Evidence from Connecticut's Jobs First Experimente." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Andrew Metrick, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, "The Economics of Private Equity Funds."  Inaugural Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance. Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Lounge, Law School 4:30 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Richard Mansfield, Yale University, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale University, "Financial Development and Human Capital Accumulation:  Evidence from Rural India." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Continuous-Time Screening Contracts." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Michael Woodford, Columbia University, "Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale University, "From Market Shares to Consumer Types:  Duality in Differentiated Products Demand Estimation." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3 - 4:00 pm
Verena Knaus, Yale World Fellow and Senior Analyst for Turkey, "Turkey and the EU:  Facts and Fears."  The Council on European Studies & The Yale Program on European Union Studies
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Marco Ottaviani, LSE, "Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets" (with Peter Norman Sorensen). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont, "Guano, Credible Commitments and Finances in 19th century Peru." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Joerg Stoye, New York University, "More on Confidence Intervals for Partially Identified Parameters." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Amalavoyal Chari, Yale University, "License Reform in India: Theory and Evidence." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Katrina Jessoe, Yale, FES, PhD candidate, "Improved Source, Improved Quality? Demand for Clean Drinking Water in Rural India." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Adrian de la Garza, Yale, "Job Satisfaction and Happiness:  New Evidence from Japanese Union Workers." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Stephen Redding, London School of Economics, "Multi-product Firms and Product Switching" (with Andrew Bernard and Peter Schott). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Anders Björklund, Stockholm University, "Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm