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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2009
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Marianne H. Wanamaker, Northwestern University, "Slave Emancipation as a Natural Experiment in American Fertility." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Russ Feingold, United States Senator, "Where Law is King:  Restoring the Rule of Law After the Bush Administration." 2008-2009 Sam and Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Public Service
Room 127, YLS 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Stephen Choi, NYU School of Law and Jill E. Fisch, UPenn Law School, "Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors." Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance
Faculty Lounge, SLB 12:15 pm
Gregory J. Fleming, former President & COO, Merrill Lynch & Co., "Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis". YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building 4:10 - 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Greg Kaplan, New York University, "Moving Back Home:  Insurance Against Labor Market Risk." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, Sociology, "The Impacts of Consumer Culture on Children's Well-Being."  Rudd Center Seminars.
Rudd Center, 309 Edwards Street 12:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Connan Snider, University of Minnesota, "Predatory Incentives and Predation Policy: The American Airlines Case." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Damon Jones, Stanford University, "Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Judith Scott, General Counsel, Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC, "Standing up for the Real Joe the Plumbers: Social Justice Lawyering in the Age of Obama." YLS 2008-2009 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture
Room 127, Law School 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Richard Crump, University of California, Berkeley, "Optimal Conditional Inference in Nearly-Integrated Autoregressive Processes." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, "Hard Lessons:  The Iraq Reconstruction Experience". Yale Law School.
Faculty Lounge, YLS 7:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Mathis Wagner, University of Chicago, "Understanding the Labor Market Impact of Immigration." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Martin Wolf, Financial Times, "Fixing Global Finance." Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse 4:30 pm
James Snyder, MIT/Political Science and Economics, "The Returns to Political Office in the United States, 1850-1870." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable at YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation
Law School 9:00 am - 4 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Konrad Menzel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Estimation and Inference with Many Moment Inequalities." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Frederico Finan, UCLA, "Motivating Politicians:  The impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance" (with Claudio Ferraz). Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "The Future of Securities Regulation." The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law presents the 2008-2009 John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture
Faculty Lounge. SLB 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Georgy Egorov, Harvard University, "Political Accountability under Special Interest Politics." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Emily Oster, University of Chicago, "The Power of TV: Women's Status in India and the Role of Cable TV." PONPO Speaker Series
Room A30, 60 Sachem Street 11:30 am - 1 pm
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, Blackrock, Inc., "Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis." YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Room 127, YLS 4:10 - 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Toru Kitagawa, Brown University, "Testing for Instrument Independence in the Selection Model." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Stefania Garetto, Princeton University, "Input Sourcing and Multinational Production." Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Amanda Kowalski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care." Junior Faculty Recruiting
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:30 pm
Carine Germond, German Historical Institute, Paris, France, "Sarkozy and the French Presidency of the EU." The Council on European Studies
Room 102, 124 Prospect, Brewster Hall 4:00 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Todd Stinebrickner, University of Western Ontario, "Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Frank Lewis, Queens University, Canada, "Capital Constraints and European Migration to Canada in the 1920s:  Evidence from the Passenger Lists." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton, "The effects of rural electrification on employment:  New evidence from South Africa." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Melissa Dell, MIT, TBA. Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA, "Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics" (with Bruno Biais). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Jorge Balat, Yale University, "Set Identification in Multi-Unit Auctions" and Elan Fuld, Yale University, "Testing for Differential Information in Common Value Auctions". Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Edward Vytlacil, Yale University  "Instrumental Variables, Monotonicity Conditions, and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect." Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
David Wallinga, University of Minnesota, Director, Food & Health Program Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, "Overfed and Undernourished:  Downstream Impacts of a Flawed Farm Policy?" Rudd Center Seminars
Conference Room, 309 Edwards Street 12:30 pm
Nicolas Vielle, HEC Paris, "Dynamic Sender Receiver Games." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Dennis Kristensen, Columbia University & Bernard Salanie, Columbia University, "Higher Order Improvements for Approximate Estimators." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Richard Craswell, Stanford/Law, "When is a Willful Breach `Willful' ?  The Link Between Definitions and Damages." LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Francis Kramarz, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, "Labor Market Outcomes and the Enforcement of the Employment Protection Legislation." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm