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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 2008
MONDAY, MARCH 3
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, "Middlemen Margins and Globalization." Development Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 4
Maher Said, Yale University, "Information Revelation and Random Entry in Sequential Ascending Auctions." Micro Theory Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester, "Can A Representative Agent Model Represent a Heterogeneous Agent Economy?" (with Sungbae An and Sun-Bin Kim). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5
Jeff Ely, Northwestern University, "Critical Types." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Silvia Goncalves, University of Montreal, "Improved Methods of Inference for Realized Volatility like Statistics." Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Taiji Furusawa, Brandeis University, "A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity" (with Hitoshi Sato). Workshop in International Trade
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago, "Contextual Inference in Markets:  On the Informational Content of Product Lines." Industrial Organization Seminar
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Michael Woodford, Columbia University, Economics (visiting Yale Economics this year), "Principles and Public Policy Decisions:  The Case of Monetary Policy." LEO Workshop
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 7
Manuela Angelucci, University of Arizona, "Indirect Effects of an Aid Program:  How do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption?" Labor and Population Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 10
Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of Law, "Burden Sharing in an Age of Migration." YLS 2007-2008 James Thomas Lecture
          Room 127, YLS, Wall Street 4:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12
Cindy Alexander, Assistant Chief Economist, Office of Economic Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Visiting Research Scholar at the Yale Law School), "Corporate Finance Rulemaking at the SEC: An Economics Perspective." YLS Center for Study of Corporate Law
          Room 110, Sterling Law Building 12:15 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 20
John H. Cawley, Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management, "Raising Red Flags:  The Impact of the Federal Trade Commission Initiative to Decrease Deceptive Advertising for Weight Loss Products." Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
          Conference Room, 309 Edwards St. 2:00 – 3:00 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 24
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa." Development Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Rick Mansfield, Yale University, Therapy. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, "Continuous-Time Screening Contracts." Micro Theory Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania, "Working with Epstein-Zin Preferences: Solution and Estimation of DSGE Models with Recursive Utility." Macroeconomics Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Frank Limbrock, Yale University, "Demand for Prescription Pharmaceuticals." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
Larry Samuelson, Yale University, "Information in Repeated Games." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon – 1:15 pm
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "The Leverage Cycle in an Anxious Economy." Micro Theory Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Patrik Guggenberger, UCLA & Cowles Visitor, "The Impact of a Hausman Pretest on the Size of Hypothesis Tests and the Risk of Estimators." Econometrics Research Seminar
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Gordon Hanson, University of California-San Diego, "Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants" (with Jeffrey Grogger). Workshop in International Trade
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
Joe Vavra, Yale University, "Firm-Specific Consumer Attachment and Sticky Prices." Macro Lunch
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Santosh Anagol, Yale University, "Adverse Selection in Rural Asset Markets:  Theory and Evidence from Livestock Trading in India." Development Lunch
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon – 1:00 pm
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas, "Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Random Participation" (with Gabriel Basaluzzo). Industrial Organization Seminar
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Kathy Zeiler, Georgetown University/Law, "Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?:  An Empirical Study at the Claim Level." LEO Workshop
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley, "Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants." Labor and Population Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 31
Dean Yang, University of Michigan, "Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption:  Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi." Development Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm