Yale Department of Economics

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2008

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University, "The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Kyoungwon Seo, Rochester University, "Ambiguity and Second-Order Belief." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Joyee Deb, Northwestern University, "Cooperation and Community Responsibility: A Folk Theorem for Repeated Matching Games with Names." Junior Faculty Recruiting (joint with SOM)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7
David Lagokos, UCLA, "Superstores or Mom and Pops? Market Size, Technology Adoption and TFP Differences." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Tom Miles, University of Chicago/Law, "Strategic Judging Under the Voting Rights Act" (with Professor Adam Cox). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University, "Latin American Growth Strategies:  What Next?" Co-sponsored by The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Economic Growth Center
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Oleksandr Shcherbakov, University of Arizona, "Measuring consumer Switching Costs in the Television Industry." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University, "Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets."  Junior Faculty Recruiting (joint with SOM)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Federico Bugni, Northwestern University, "Bootstrap Inference in Partially Identified Models." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Jee-Hyeong Park, Seoul National University, "Private Trigger Strategies in the Presence of Concealed Trade Barriers." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Charles R. Plott, California Institute of Technology, Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science.  Yale Symposium on Law and Management
Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Organizational Meeting, Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Theory and Empirical Work in Industrial Organization" (Sections 4-6 on Moment Inequalities).  Cowles Lunch Talk.
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Quantile and Probability Curves without Crossing" (with Ivan Fernandez-Val and Alfred Galichon). Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Jean-Francois Houde, University of Wisconsin, "Spatial Differentiation in Retail Markets for Gasoline." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Erica Field, Harvard University/Economics, "Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Alex Mas, UC Berkeley, "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999" (with David Lee).  Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Junior Operations Conference presented by Yale School of Management.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Alice Klynge, "The Returns to Literacy, Creativity, and other Competencies." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Qingmin Liu, Stanford University, "Repeated Settlement Bargaining and Reputation." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1:00 pm
George-Marios Angeletos, MIT, "Policy with Dispersed Information." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Navin Kartik, University of California - San Diego, "Opinions as Incentives" (with Yeon-Koo Che). Micro Theory Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Ricard Gil, University of California-Santa Cruz, "Why Does Popcorn Cost so Much at the Movies? An Empirical Analysis of Metering Price Discrimination?" (with Wesley R. Hartmann). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth:  Implications for Adult Outcomes" (with Fabian Lange & Prashant Bharadwaj). Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm