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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
APRIL 2009
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Rationally Discounting an Uncertain Future".   Micro Theory Workshop.    
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Hal White, UC, San Diego, "Retrospective Estimation of Casual Effects Through Time".  Econometrics Research Seminar.  
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School, "Optimal Debt Management and Redistribution".  Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, "The Effect of Content on Global Internet Adoption".  Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Polk Wagner, Penn/Law, "Did Phillips Change Anything?  Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit's Claim Construction Jurisprudence".  LEO Workshop. 
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
Alan Krueger, Princeton University, "Validating the American Time Use Survey (ATUS):  How Well Do People Remember What They Were Doing Yesterday?".   Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 3-4
Conference on "The Economics, Law, and Politics of the WTO", (organized by Giovanni Maggi, Kenneth Scheve, and Joanne Gowa). 
          Room A002, 77 Prospect
MONDAY, APRIL 6
Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto, "Economic Status and Reproductive Success in New France" (with Greg Clark).   Economic History Workshop.
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Jenny Aker, Tufts University and the Center for Global Development, "Cell Phones, Search Costs and Grain Markets".  Development Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 7
Phil Slavin, Yale, Economic Growth Center Postdoc, TBA.  Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Kareen Rozen, Yale University, "Need I Remind You?" (joint with David Miller, UCSD).  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Ariel Burstein, UCLA, "Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade" (with Andrew Atkeson).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Robert Rubin, Former Secretary of the United States Treasury, "The Global Crisis and Decision Making".  2009 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture. 
Auditorium, Law School, 127 Wall Street 4 - 5:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
Cowles Foundation Event:  Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk.
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Jason M. Fletcher, Yale University, School of Public Health, "Can State Level Policies Influence Children's Weight?  Evidence Using Soft Drink Taxes and Vending Machine Bans".  Rudd Center Seminar.
          Rudd Center Conference Room, 309 Edwards 2:00 pm
Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, "Belief Formation" (with Olivier Compte, Paris School of Economics).  Micro Theory Workshop.   
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota, "Trade, Growth, and Productivity" (with Claustre Bajona, Mark Gibson, and Kim Ruhl).   Workshop in International Trade. 
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Steven M. Galbraith, Limited Partner, Maverick Capital, Ltd. and Michael Lyons, Principal, Maverick Capital, Ltd., Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  YLS for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale Law and Business Society. 
         

Alumni Reading Room, SLB

 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
Philip Shaw, Fairfield University, "Educational Corruption and Economic Growth".  Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Ulrich Doraszelski, Harvard University, "R&D and Productivity:  Estimating Endogenous Productivity" (with Jordi Jaumandreu).   Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA, "Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences".  Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 13
Regina Grafe, Northwestern, "The Rise, Persistence and Decline of Merchant Guilds.  Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Pre-modern Europe".  Economic History Workshop
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
Dr. Julia Kim, RADAR, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, The IMAGE Program in South Africa:  Taking a "structural" approach to HIV prevention, through cross-sectoral NGO partnerships.  PONPO Series. 
          Room A-30, 60 Sachem Street 11:30 am  - 1 pm
Florian Ploeckl, Yale PhD Candidate, TBA.   Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Humberto Llavador, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition" (joint with Josep M. Colomer).  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Julien Prat, University of Vienna, visiting NYU, "Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes:  Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity" (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Hans-Jörg Schmerer).   Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale University, "A Dynamic Analysis of the World Shipbuilding Industry".  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Daniel L. Doctoroff, President, Bloomberg, LP, Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  YLS for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale Law and Business Society. 
          Faculty Lounge, SLB 4:10 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
David R. Cameron, Yale University, Political Science & Director, EU Studies Program, The EU and the European Economic Crisis".   The Council on European Studies.
          Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 12 noon
Adam Szeidl, University of California, Berkeley, "Fishing for Fools" (joint with Ulrike Malmendier).  Micro Theory Workshop.   
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Bryan Graham, University of California at Berkeley, "Measuring the average outcome and inequality effects of segregation in the presence of social spillovers".  Econometrics Research Seminar.  
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
Oded Galor, Brown University, "Comparative Development:  Insight from Unified Growth Theory".  Kuznets Lecture.
          SOM, Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Ronen Avraham, Northwestern/Law, "The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment:  Evidence from the Heart Patients".  LEO Workshop. 
          Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
Fifth Annual Behavioral Science Conference presented by the Yale School of Management.
          General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse 8:00 am
David Blau, Ohio State University, "How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation?".  Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 - SUNDAY, APRIL 19
Cowles Foundation Event:  Caress-Cowles Conference.
          Room A-74, SOM, 60 Sachem Street
MONDAY, APRIL 20
Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley, "Reference-dependent Thinking and Deciding".  Behavioral Economics Workshop.
          Room A-53, SOM, 60 Sachem Street 11:30 am - 1 pm
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge, "Consumption, Social Capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in Early Modern Germany".  Economic History Workshop
          Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Asim Khwaja, KSG, Harvard, "Report Cards:  The Impact of Providing School and Child Test-scores on Educational Markets".  Development Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
Jeremy Edwards, Cambridge, TBA.  Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Nick Barberis, Yale University, "A Model of Casino Gambling".    Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago, GSB, "Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium" (with Robert Shimer and Randall Wright).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, Jonathan N. Eisenberg, Bank of America, and Edward D. Herlihy, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,  Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  YLS for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale Law and Business Society. 
          Faculty Lounge, SLB 4:10 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
Cowles Foundation Event:  Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk.
          Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Bart Lipman, Harvard University, "Implementation and Partial Provability".  Micro Theory Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Peter Hansen, Stanford University, "In-Sample Fit and Out-of-Sample Fit:  Their Joint Distribution and Its Implications for Model Selection".   Econometrics Research Seminar.  
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Kim Ruhl, New York University, "New Exporter Dynamics" (with Jonathan L. Willis).   Workshop in International Trade. 
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 23
Michael Klausner, Stanford Law School, "Are Securities Class Actions 'Supplemental' to SEC Enforcement?  An Empirical Analysis".  The YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law presents the  Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance. 
          Faculty Lounge, SLB 12:15 pm
Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota, "Nonparametric and Semiparametric Analysis of a Dynamic Discrete Game" (with Victor Chernozhukov, Han Hong, and Denis Nekipelov).    Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University, "The Causal Effects on Education on Health".    Labor and Population Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University, TBA.  Micro Theory Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Veronica Santarosa, Yale PhD Candidate, TBA.   Economic History Lunch.
          Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern (visiting NYU), "Learning the Wealth of Nations" (with Francisco Buera and Alexander Monge-Naranjo).  Macroeconomics Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
Fabian Duarte, Yale University, "Essays on Health Insurance".   Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
          Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
David Levine, Washington University in St. Louis, TBA.  Micro Theory Workshop.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics, "Sequential Exporting".   Workshop in International Trade. 
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
Susanne Craig, Wall Street Journal, David Faber, CNBC, Lucas van Praag, Goldman Sachs,  Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis.  YLS for the Study of Corporate Law and Yale Law and Business Society. 
          Alumni Reading Room, SLB 4:10 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
Chris Fiore, Yale University, TBA and David Berger, Yale University, TBA.  Macro Lunch.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University, "Fuel Tax Incidence, Supply Conditions and Tax Evasion" (with Justin Marion).   Industrial Organization Seminar.
          Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm

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