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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 2
Leah Boustan, UCLA, "Positive selection during the age of mass migration:  Evidence from Norway" (joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson).  Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Leigh Linden, Columbia University, "The effect of proximity on school enrollment:  Evidence from an RCT in Afghanistan".    Development Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Are U.S. CEOs Overpaid?".  The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
Faculty Lounge, YLS 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 3
Richard Van Weelden, Yale University, "Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Oversight".  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Noam Yuchtman, Harvard, TBA.  Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago, "Search, Rest Unemployment, and Unionization".   Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Rich Bernstein, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and David Rosenberg, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law 
Faculty Lounge, Sterling Law Building 4:10 - 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
Juuso Valimaki, Helsinki School of Economics, "Private Information in Games of Timing" (joint with Pauli Murto, HSE).    Micro Theory Workshop.    
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Nese Yildiz, University of Rochester, "Consistent Estimation of Parametric and Non-parametric Upper-contour and Level Sets".   Econometrics Research Seminar.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Rebecca Hellerstein, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Workshop in International TradeCANCELLED.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
Alan Sorensen, Stanford University, "The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" (with Phillip Leslie).   Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
Edward Morrison, Columbia/Law, "Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy" (with Kenneth M. Ayotte).  LEO Workshop.  Please contact Deborah Sestito at x24830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu for more information.
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 23
Nick Crafts, LSE, "Making Sense of the Manufacturing Belt:  Determinants of U.S. Industrial Location, 1880-1920" (joint with Alex Klein, Warwick).  Economic History Workshop*Please note different room.
          *Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Pascaline Dupas, UCLA, "Savings Constraints and Microenterprises Development:  Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya".   Development Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
Stephanie Lau, Washington University in St. Louis, "Information Revelation and Acquisition in Bargaining".  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Ben Chabot, University of Michigan, visiting Yale, TBA.  Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "Inflation and Welfare with Nominal Rigidities" (with Ariel Burstein).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Frank Limbrock, Yale University, "Demand for Prescription Pharmaceuticals".  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
Cowles Foundation Event:  Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Christian Hellwig, UCLA, "Bubbles and Self-enforcing Debt".    Micro Theory Workshop.    
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
James Powell, University of California at Berkeley, "Identification and Estimation of `Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models for Panel Data".    Econometrics Research Seminar.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
Gerald Jaynes, Yale University, "The Macrodistribution of Income & Longrun Movements in U.S. Poverty:   1960-2001".  Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
Arnaud Dupuy, Maastricht University, "Sorting on Skills and Preferences:  Tinberger meets Sattinger".  Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, MARCH 30
Carsten Burhop, MPI Bonn, visiting Yale, "The market for patents in Imperial Germany, 1877-1913".  Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
William Easterly, NYU, TBA.   Development Workshop. CANCELLED
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
James Fenske, Yale PhD Candidate, TBA.  Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Rahul Deb, Yale University, "Optimal Contracts in a Durable Goods Monopoly with Stochastic Values".  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Marina Azzimonti, University of Texas at Austin, "Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies".  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Christopher Conlon, Yale University, "An MPEC Approach to Empirical Likelihood Demand Estimation".    Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
James P. Gorman, Co-President, Morgan Stanley, Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  YLS for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale Law and Business Society.  RSVP to john.morley@yale.edu
          Faculty Lounge, SLB 4:10 - 5:30 pm

Please send Calendar Information to Nancy King, 2-3587, Rm 203, 28 HH by Wednesday Noon