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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2008
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Betsey Stevenson, Wharton, UPenn, "Economic Growth and Subjective Well-being:  Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Manuel Amador, Stanford University, "Learning from Prices:  Public Communication and Welfare."  Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 - 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Roland Benabou, Princeton University, "Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets."  Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale FES, "The AEZ Model: How will Climate Change Shift Agro-Ecological Zones and Impact African Agriculture?." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Liran Einav, Stanford University, "Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices" (with Mark R. Cullen and Amy Finkelstein). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Enrichetta Ravina, New York University/Stern, "Love and Loans. The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Yuru Wang, Nankai University, "Urban Wholesale Price Change and Economic Growth in Modern China."  Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Seema Jayachandran, Stanford University, "Incentives to Teach Badly?  After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Florian Ploeckl, Yale PhD Candidate, TBA. Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Effi Benmelech, Harvard University, Economics, "Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection" (with Nittai Bergman). The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
SLB Faculty Lounge 12:15 pm
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University, "Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing" (joint with Bruno Strulovici). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Eddie Dekel, Tel Aviv University, "Menu Choices." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Kfir Eliaz, Brown University, "Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing" (with Ran Spiegler). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Daniel Rosenblum, TBA. Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1 pm
Martin Browning, University of Oxford, "Dynamic Binary Outcome Models with Maximal Heterogeneity" (with Jesus Carro). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "Task Trade between Similar Countries." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:15 - 5:45 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, "Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
James Choy, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Toni Pierenkemper, University of Cologne, "The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" [Normal labor relationship] in Germany, 1840-2010." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Quang Vuong, Penn State, "Nonparametric Identification of Risk Aversion in First-Price Auctions Under Exclusion Restrictions" (coauthored with I. Perrigne and E. Guerre). Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Ben Jones, Northwestern University, "The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Rick Hornbeck, MIT, TBA. Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Koopmans Memorial Lectures, Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Long-Term Components of Risk Prices"
Luce Hall Auditorium 4:00-5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Koopmans Memorial Lectures, Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Fragile Beliefs and Pricing." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Robert Anderson, University of California, Berkeley, "Equilibrium in Continuous-Time Financial Markets: Endogenously Dynamically Complete Markets" (with Roberto C. Raimondo). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Katsumi Shimotsu, Queens University, "Sequential Estimation of Structural Models with Fixed Point Constraint." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
William Nordhaus, Yale University/Economics, "Uncertainty." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Chad Bown, Brandeis University, "The WTO, Developing Country Exports, and Market Access:  Firm-Level Evidence from an Unlikely Trade Preference Shock" (with Guido Porto). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Prashant Bharadwaj, TBA. Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12:00 - 1 pm
Thérèse Rebière, University of Le Havre, visiting Yale, "Minimum wage, on-the-job search and employment:  on the partial and general equilibrium of the mandatory minimum wage." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 noon
Isabelle Perrigne (with Quang Vuong), Pennsylvania State University, "Nonparametric Identification on Incentive Regulation Models." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Amy Finkelstein, MIT/Economics, "Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices" (with Mark Cullen and Liran Einav). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
David Albouy, University of Michigan, TBA. Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy Experimentation." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Rafael de Melo, TBA. Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Ben Chabot, Yale University, "How Costly were the Banking Panics of the Gilded Age?" Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Kirill Evdokimov, Yale University, "Identification and Estimation of a Nonparametric Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity" and Xiaoxia Shi, Yale University, "Inference for Parameters Defined by Conditional Moment Inequalities." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "A Principal-Agent Model of Sequential Testing" (with Dino Gerardi). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
James Fenske, Yale PhD candidate, "Factor Endowments and Institutional Development: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914." Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, TBA. Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Market Structure and Product Quality in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market."  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm