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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
OCTOBER 2008
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1
David Martimort, Université de Toulouse, "Mechanism Design with Bilateral Contracting." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3: 50 pm
Yoon-Jae Whang, Seoul National University, "Bootstrap Tests of Stochastic Dominance with Asymptotic Similarity on the Boundary." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale SOM, "Returns to Electricity:  Evidence from the Geologic Replacement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil, 1960-2000." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
Pinar Keskin, "Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers:  Intersectoral Impacts of Industrial Water Demand." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Robert Daines, Stanford Law School, "Rating the Ratings:  How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?" The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
SLB, Faculty Lounge 12:15 pm
Aviv Nero, Northwestern University, "Identification with Imperfect Instruments" (with Adam M. Rosen).  Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law presents a panel discussion "What's Going on in the Financial Markets?" William Goetzmann, Yale SOM, Gary Gorton, Yale SOM, Jonathan Macey, Yale Law School and Andrew Metrick, Yale SOM
Room 127, SLB 4:10 - 6 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin, Madison, TBA. Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6
Kyle Hood, Yale University, TBA.  Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Melinda Miller, Naval Academy, "The Shadow and Blight of Slavery:  Did the Advantages of Free Land for Former Slaves Persist Until the Twentieth Century?." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Ilzna Kalnina, LSE and Cowles Visitor,  "Subsampling High Frequency Data." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Christopher Blattman, Yale University, "From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7
Gil Kalai, Yale University, "Social Indeterminacy" and "Noise Sensitivity and Chaos in Social Choice Theory." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Siona Robin Listokin, George Mason University, "Public Pension Fund Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility." The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
SLB, Faculty Lounge 12:15 pm
Gauti Eggertsson, NY Federal Reserve Bank, "Was the New Deal Contractionary?" Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University, "Upstream Innovation and Product Selection in the Home PC Market." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
Xu Cheng, Yale University, "Nonlinear Regression." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Itzhak Gilboa, Tel Aviv University, visiting Cowles, "Objective and Subjective Rationality in a Multiple Prior Model" (with Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, David Schmeidler). Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Erin Mansur, Yale  SOM, "Evaluating Emissions Trading Using a Nearest (Polluting) Neighbor Estimator."  Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
Joe Vavra, Yale, "Customer Attachment, Menu Costs, and Lumpy Price Adjustment." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Santosh Anagol, TBA. Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University, St. Louis, "First and Second Price Mechanisms in Procurement and other Asymmetric Auctions" (with Vlad Mares). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
Alexander Stremtzer, University of Bonn, Germany, "Standard Breach Remedies, Quality Thresholds and Cooperative Investments." The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Dining Hall, SLB 12:15 pm
Fernando Ferreira, Wharton, UPenn, "The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
William Bunting, TBA.  Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1: 15 pm
Latika Chaudhary, Stanford University, "Taxation and Educational Development: Evidence from British India." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Demian Pouzo, NYU, "Ramsey Taxation with Endogenous Defaults under Incomplete Markets." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Prashant Bharadwaj, Yale PhD candidate, "Fertility and Rural Labor Market Inefficiencies: Evidence from India." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14
Kaj Thomsson, Yale PhD candidate. Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 hiilhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Johannes Hörner, Yale University, "Belief-free Equilibria in Games of Incomplete Information" (joint with Stefano Lovo & Tristan Tomala). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA, "Equilibrium Default." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3: 50 pm
Jake Gramlich, Yale University, "Gas Prices and Endogeneous Product Selection in the US Auto Industry." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15
Xavier Vives, IESE Business School, "Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Pinar Keskin, Yale Economics PhD candidate, "Thirsty Factory, Hungry Farmers." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Qiying Wang, University of Sidney, "Structural Nonparametric Cointegrating Regression." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Vani Archana, Indian Council for Research International Economic Relations, "India in the Global and Regional Trade:   Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export" (with T.N. Srinivasan).  Workshop in International Trade.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Kyle Hood, Yale University, "Equilibrium Labor and Capital Flows across Local Economies: A Structural Empirical Approach." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University, "Misdiagnosis and the Low Adoption of Malaria Therapy in Tanzania."   Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Stephen Ryan, MIT, "A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients in Discrete Choice Models" (with Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox, and Kyoo il Kim).  Industrial Organization Seminar.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Joel Slemrod, Michigan/ Business, "The Coase Theorem and Tax Law" (with Kyle Logue). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Wall Street, SLB 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
Peter McHenry, Yale, "The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20
Lisa Kahn, Yale SOM, "Job Durations, Match Quality and the Business Cycle: What We Can Learn from Fixed Fixed Effects." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Philip Slavin, Yale, "On Dying Cattle, Starving Humans, and Never-dying Money: The Great Cattle Plague in England and Wales, 1319-1327." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Eric Becker, Yale University, "Multinomial choice logit withrandom coefficients:  Identification and estimation using deconvolution" and Zhipeng Liao, Yale University, "Uniform Convergence Rate and Pointwise Normality in Linear Sieve M-estimation." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Daniel Rosenblum, Yale PhD candidate, "Fertility and Child Mortality: Unintended Consequences of Family Formation in India." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21
Joseph Manning, Yale, Departments of Classics and History. Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Eduardo Faingold, Yale University, "Common Belief, Rationalizability and Proximity of Types." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota, "The Behavior of Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle" (with Larry Christiano and Patrick Kehoe). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Frank Limbrock, Yale University, "Demand for Pharmaceuticals." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota, "Sophisticated Monetary Policies" (with Andrew Atkeson, Patrick Kehoe). Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo, "Weakly Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
Carolina Silva, Yale, "The Interaction of Minimum Wage and Severance Payments in a Frictional Labor Market:  Theory and Estimation." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:30 pm
James Fenske, Yale University, "Imachi Nkwu: How Commercialization of Natural Resources Can Create Common Property." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Meghan Busse, UC Berkeley, "Pain at the Pump:  How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Purchasing" (with Chris Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota, "Myths about the Financial Crisis of 2008." Informal lunch talk.
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Guido Ferrarini, The University of Genoa, "Qualitative Indicators of Financial Collapse." The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Room 110, SLB 12:15 pm
Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University Business School, "Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality."Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27
Steven Nafziger, Williams College, "Democracy Under the Tsars?  The Case of the Zemstvo." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Irene Botosaru, Yale University, "Identification in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models with Stochastic Heterogeneity" and Eduardo Souza Rodrigues, Yale University, "Semiparametric Identification of Stopping-Times Games." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:50 - 4:10 pm
Pinar Keskin, Yale PhD candidate, "Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers: Intersectoral Impacts of Industrial Water Demand." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Davide Cantoni, Harvard, TBA.  Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Julian Jamison, Yale University, "Persona Games" (with David Wolpert). Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Robert Barro, Harvard University, "Macroeconomic Crises since 1870." Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Christopher Conlon, Yale University, "An Algorithm for Improved Numerical and Statistical Performance of Demand Estimation." Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 3:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Zen Shishido, Seikei University, Japan, " 'Enterprise Law' as the Infrastructure of an Incentive Mechanism: The Case of SOX and JSOX." YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Lounge, SLB 12:15 pm
Tomasz Sadzik, NYU, "Beliefs Revealed in Bayesian-Nash Equilibrium." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Lucas Davis, Michigan, "The Environmental Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement:  A Consumption Based Approach." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin, "Generalized Shrinkage Estimators." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Gita Gopinath, Harvard University, "Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through" (with Oleg Itshoki).   Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
Reena Badiani, TBA.  Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Rafael Melo, Yale University, "Sorting in the Labor Market:  Theory and Measurement." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Daniel Ackerberg, UCLA, "The Buy-it-now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding" (with Keisuke Hirano and Quazi Shahriar). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton/Economics, " 'Dodging Up' to College or 'Dodging Down' to Jail:  Behavioral Responses to the Vietnam Draft by Race and Class." LEO Workshop
Room 121, SLB 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
Pedro Carneiro, University College London, "A Flying Start?  Maternity Leave and Long-term Outcomes for Mother and Child." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm