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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
APRIL 2008
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Alma Cohen, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University, "Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?" SOM Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Two Nonparametric Models of Household Consumption." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Cristina Arellano, University of Minnesota, "Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds."  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
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
Tomas J. Philipson, The University of Chicago, Economics and Law, "The Economics of Obesity." Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Conference Room, 309 Edwards St. 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Olivier Compte, ENPC, "Repeated Games and Limited Information Processing Preliminary and Incomplete." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Peter Robinson, London School of Economics, "Nonparametric Regression with Spatial Data." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Sheila Olmstead, Yale FES, "Cleaner or Smarter?: Strategic Compliance with Federal Drinking Water Regulations." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 – 5:30 pm
John McLaren, University of Virginia, "Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach" (with Erhan Artuc and Shubham Chaudhuri). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
Federico Gutierrez, Yale University, "Impact of Argentina's 'Plan Jefes' on Teen's School Attendance."   Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Dan Kahan, Yale Law School, "The Laws of Cultural Cognition and the Cultural Cognition of Law." YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund Lunch Series
Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building 12:15 – 1:00 pm
Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins University, "Collusion with Monitoring of Self-Reported Sales." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
Jeff Liebman, Harvard University, "Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 4 – SATURDAY, APRIL 5
The European Studies Council presents "Sources First!  Religion, Politics and Culture in Pre-Modern and Modern Russia." The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Friday, 3 – 5 pm; Saturday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 7
Xiaoxia Shi, Yale, "Inference on Models Defined by Conditional Moment Restrictions." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:20 pm
John Giles, Michigan State University, "Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security, "Confronting the Threats to Our Homeland." Yale Law School 2007-2008 Heyman Lecture
Room 127, Yale Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 8
Prashant Bharadwaj, Yale University, "Sterilization, Fertility and Household Outcomes." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Luigi Balletta, Yale University, "Optimal Taxation of Family Income: The 2x2 Case." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Laura Veldkamp, NYU Stern, "Information Acquisition and Under-Diversification" (joint with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Jake Gramlich, Yale University, "Automotive Fuel Efficiency: A Model of Firm Choice." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Stephen Holmes, New York University School of Law, "Misunderstanding Trade-Offs in the War on Terror."  2008 Jorde Symposium
Room 127, Yale Law School 4:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
Giovanni Maggi, Yale University, "On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements" (with Robert Staiger). Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 – 1:15 pm
Yossi Feinberg, Stanford University, "Testing Multiple Forecasters." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Ivana Komunjer, University of California, San Diego, "Global Identification in Nonlinear Semiparametric Models." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Seth Binder, Yale FES, "Valuation and Spatial Optimization of Ecosystem Services in the Willamette River Basin."  Environmental Economics Seminar.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 10
Carolina Silva, Yale University, "The Interaction of Minimum Wage and Severance Payments in a Search Model."  Macro Lunch.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Rachel Heath, Yale University, "Interlinked Contracts and Market Power: An Exploration of Aquaculture in Bangladesh." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Jean-Pierre Dubé, University of Chicago, "Tipping and Concentration in Markets with Indirect Network Effects" (with Günter Hitsch and Pradeep Chintagunta). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4 pm
C. Fritz Foley, Harvard/Business, "Welfare Payments and Crime." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 11
Till von Wachter, Columbia University, "Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis Using Administrative Data" (with Daniel Sullivan).   Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 14
Christian Bontemps, University of Toulouse 1, "Set Identified Linear Models" (joint with T. Magnac and E. Maurin).  Econometrics Lunch Talk.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Andrew Chesher, UCL, visiting Cowles, ""Lectures on Identification – Lecture 1:  Identification:  Principles and Practice." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:20 pm
Simon Hix, London School of Economics and Political Science, "What's Wrong with the EU and How to Fix It." The Council on European Studies
Room A001, 77 Prospect 3:30 pm
Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley (ARE), "The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay." Development Workshop, 750b.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
Juan Eberhard, Yale University, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Bonus Payments versus Efficiency Wages in the Repeated Principal-Agent Model with Subjective Evaluations." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 -1:00 pm
Chris Conlon, Yale University, TBA.  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Credit Cards & Inflation." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Andrew Chesher, UCL and Cowles Visitor, "Lectures on Identification – Lecture 2: Nonparametric identification with continuous variation." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 – 5:30 pm
Prashant Bharadwaj and Juan Eberhard, PhD candidates, Yale Economics Department, "Atmospheric Air Pollution and Birth Weight."  Environmental Economics Seminar.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas, "The Role of Multinational Production in Cross-Country Risk Sharing" (with Veronica Rappoport).   Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
Kyle Hood, Yale University, TBA.  Macro Lunch.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Paul Mahoney, University of Virginia School of Law, "The Public Utility Pyramids." Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
Room 109, Sterling Law Building 12:15 pm
Reena Badiani, Yale University, "Rural Non-Farm Growth in India: Who Gets the Non-Farm Jobs?"  Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Philip Haile, Yale University, "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers" (with Steven Berry).  Industrial Organization Seminar, 609b (joint with Econometrics Research Seminar)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
Weil, Gotshal and Manges Roundtable at YLS, The morning session will consist of two paper presentations:  “Inside the Black Box: The Role and Composition of Compensation Peer Groups,” presented by Jun Yang, Indiana University Kelley School of Business; and “The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins” and “The Divergence of Legal Procedures” presented by Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, Economics Department.  Martijn Cremers, Yale School of Management and Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School, will comment on Jun Yang’s paper, and Henry Hansmann, Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School and Paul Mahoney, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, will comment on Andrei Shleifer’s papers.
The afternoon session will be a panel discussion on the impact of the current credit crunch on corporate transactions and finance.  Panelists will include the Honorable William B. Chandler III, Chancellor, Delaware Chancery Court; Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management; Joseph Ravitch, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs and Eric Robinson, Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz.
YLS, Wall Street 10:00 am – 4 pm
David Autor, MIT, "Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 21
Andrew Chesher, UCL, visiting Cowles, "Lectures on Identification – Lecture 3: Identification under Discrete Variation." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:20 pm
Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, "The Great Discrimination: Borders as a Labor Market Barrier." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Reinier H. Kraakman, Harvard Law School, "Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure." 2007-2008 Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance
YLS Faculty Lounge, Wall Street 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 22
Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago, "Structural Estimation in International Trade:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Student Lecture
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 10:30 – 11:50 am
Richard Van Weelden, Yale University, "Candidates, Campaigns and Credible Promises." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Matt Johnson, Yale University, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota, "The International Diversification Puzzle is Not as Bad as You Think." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4 pm
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University, "Upstream Innovation and Product Selection in the Home PC Market."  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, "On Estimation of Semi/Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models."  Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Philippe Mongin, CNRS & HEC School of Management, "The Premiss-Based Approach to Logical Aggregation" (with Franz Dietrich). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Jörg Monar, University of Strasbourg, "Freedom, Security and Justice in the EU:  Developments and Challenges." The Council on European Studies & the Yale Program on European Union Studies
Room 103, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
Andrew Chesher, UCL and Cowles Visitor, "Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Douglas Gollin, Williams College, "Malaria:  Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Jonathan Eaton, New York University, and Samuel Kortum, University of Minnesota, "Global Rebalancing with Gravity:   Measuring the Burden of Adjustment" (with Robert Dekle). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
Jonathan Eaton, NYU, "Trade in Space and Time." Student Lecture
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 10:30 – 11:50 am
Rafael Melo, Yale University, "Assortative Matching in the Brazilian Labor Market." Macro Lunch.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University, "Congestion at Health Facilities and the Adoption of New Malaria Therapy." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Keith Chen, Yale University, "Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences? A Summary of Existing Evidence and a New Experiment." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University/Economics, "Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption" (with Simeon Djankov and Sandra Sequiera). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 – 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
The Todai (University of Tokyo) – Yale Initiative symposium, "Mind, Brain, and Society:  Neurocognitive Approaches to the Social Sciences." (http://www.yale.edu/tyi-symposium2008/)

The symposium, organized by Marvin Chun and Junko Kato, will feature academic collaborations between scholars at the University of Tokyo and Yale University. Presidents Richard Levin and Hiroshi Komiyama will open the symposium. Participants include Truman F. Bewley, Keith Chen, Kenji Kansaku, Koichi Hamada, Ikuo Kabashima, Hiroko Ide, Daeyeol Lee, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, Laurie Santos, Taiki Takahashi, Kensuke Okada, Frances Rosenbluth, Bruce Russett, and Shyam Sunder.
Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 9:00 am
Mike Elsby, University of Michigan, "Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Unemployment Flows." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 – 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 28
Irene Botosaru, Yale, "Duration Models with Stochastic Unobserved Heterogeneity" and Xu Cheng, Yale, "Cointegrating Rank Selection." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:20 pm
Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University, TBA. Development Workshop
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3:30 – 5:00 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 29
Steven Bednar, Yale University, "Returns to Campaign Visits." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln, Harvard University, "Explaining the Low Labor Productivity in East Germany — A Spatial Analysis." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Taeyoung Kim, Yale University, "Endogenous Switching Costs." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization, 607b.
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, "Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis." 2008 Arthur M. Okun Lecture Series
SSS114, Corner Grove and Prospect 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Raghuram G. Rajan, University of Chicago, GSB, "Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States." 2007-2008 John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture presented by YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Lounge, Wall Street 4:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30
Steven Berry, Yale University, "Empirical Models of Endogenous Market Structure." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Francoise Forges, Universite Paris-Dauphine, "Afriat's Theorem for General Budget Sets" (with Enrico Minelli). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 – 3:50 pm
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, "Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis." 2008 Arthur M. Okun Lecture Series
SSS114, Corner Grove and Prospect 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Guido Kuersteiner, University of California, Davis, "Estimator Averaging for Two Stage Least Squares." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland at College Park/Economics, "The Value of Climate Amenities in the US:  Evidence from Migration Decisions." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia" (with Maurice Kugler). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 – 5:30 pm