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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DECEMBER 2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
Stephen Ross, UConn visiting Yale, "The Effects of Public School Choice on Those Left Behind:  Evidence from Durham, NC." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor, The Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, "India's Financial Sector Reforms:  Fostering Growth While Containing Risk."  South Asia Studies Council, The International Center for Finance (SOM) and Center for Globalization
          Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4
Richard Van Weelden, Yale University, "Partisanship, Cascades & the Value of Oversight." Micro Theory Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, "Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings" (with Iourii Manovskii). Macroeconomics Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Taeyoung Kim, Yale University, "Costly Search with Heterogeneous Preferences" and Fabian Duarte, Yale University, "Nonparametric Estimation of a Dynamic Auction." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ivo Banac, Yale History, Verena Knaus, Yale World Fellow, David Cameron, Yale Political Science, "The EU and the Western Balkans: European Soft Power and the Long Road to Membership." The Council on European Studies
          Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Holger Mueller, Stern School of Business, New York University, "Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?" Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance.
          Room 113, Law School 12:15 pm
Vasiliki Skreta, NYU, "Transparency and Commitment." Micro Theory Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, "Transportation Revolution Revisited:  Towards a New Mapping of America's Transportation Network in the 19th Century." Economic History Workshop
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Rohit Deo, New York University - Stern, "Reduced Bias Estimation and Accurate Likelihood Based Hypothesis Testing in Autoregressive Models and Predictive Regressions using the Restricted Likelihood."   Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Juliana Wang, PhD candidate, Yale FES, "The Effects of Electricity Blackouts on Chinese Firm Productivity and the Environment." Environmental Economics Seminar
          Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:40 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
Carolina Silva, Yale University, "Modelling the interaction of labor market policies." Macro Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Rachel Heath, Yale, "Decentralization and Collective Action:  the Case of Nicaragua's Autonomous Public Schools." Development Lunch
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University, "Estimation of the Impact of Mergers in the Banking Industry." Industrial Organization Seminar
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Abraham Wickelgren, Northwestern University, "Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits" (with Warren F. Schwartz). LEO Workshop
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University, "The Joy of Giving and the Greater Joy of Receiving:  Estimating Multiple-Discrete Choice Models of Philanthropic Giving." Labor and Population Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School, "CORRUPTION." The Yale Law and Business Society and Yale Law Women
          Room 128, SLB 3:30 - 5:00 pm
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
David McKenzie, World Bank, "A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations About Incomes Abroad?" Development Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 - 5:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Subprime Mortgages." Cowles Lunch
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:15 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
Santosh Anagol, Yale University, "Adverse Selection in Asset Markets:  Theory and Evidence from Dairying in Rural India." Development Lunch
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Joshua Lustig, Yale University, "The Welfare Effects of Adverse Selection in Privatized Medicare."  Industrial Organization Seminar
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20
Pinar Keskin, Yale, "Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers?  The Indian Experience" and Vis Taraz, Yale, "Bargaining Over Fertility." Development Lunch
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm