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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2009
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota, "Taxation of Human Capital and Cross-Country Trends in Wage Inequality" (with Burhan Kuruscu, UT Austin and Serdar Ozkan, UPENN). Macroeconomics Workshop. CANCELLED.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
Lucas Maestri, Yale University, "Efficiency in Bargaining with Interdependent Values." Micro Theory Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University, "The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multi-Channel Television Markets" (with Greg Crawford). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 3 - 4:30 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Oliver Bunn, Yale, "Being of Two Minds: Dynamic Ambiguity-Related Behavior." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Julia Thomas, University of Rochester, "Collateral constraints, capital specificity and the distribution of production:   the role of real and financial frictions in aggregate fluctuations" (with Aubhik Khan).   Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 -3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Joel Watson, University of California San Diego, "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: General Results on the Technology of Trade and its Interaction with the Technology of Investment." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Brendan K. Beare, UCSD, "Distributional Replication." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
David Weisbach, Chicago, visiting Yale Law, "Instrument Choice is Instrumental Design." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, "Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Crop Insurance Contracts."  Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1 pm
Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University, "Inflation and Interest Rates with Endogenous Market Segmentation."   Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Stephane Straub, University of Toulouse, " `La Patria Contratista':  Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking in Paraguay" (with Emmanuelle Auriol and Thomas Flochel). Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Kirabo Jackson, Cornell University, "Peer Quality or Input Quality?: Clean Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Florian Hoffman, University of Toronto, "Earnings and Mobility Dynamics in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model:  Estimation and Applications." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Eric Becker, Yale University, "Semiparametric Estimation in Modelsof Multinominal Choice." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Stephen Broadberry,The University of Warwick, UK, "British Economic Growth, 1300-1850: Some Preliminary Estimates." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, visiting Yale, "The Shape of Temptations: Implication for the Economic Lives of the Poor." Development Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Yehuda (Yud) Izhakian, Tel Aviv University, "Decision Making in Phantom Spaces." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Treb (David) Allen, Yale, "Agency in the Peculiar Institution: Fertilty Decisions under Slavery." Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Mark Bils, University of Rochester, "Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks" (With Pete Klenow and Ben Malin). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING. Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Why Do Voters Vote the Way They Do?" Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
David Yermack, NYU Stern School of Business, "Is a Higher Calling Enough?  Incentive Compensation in the Church." The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Faculty Lounge, SLB 12:15 pm
Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, "Suboptimality, Identification and Economic Policy." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Erin Mansur, Yale SOM,  "Firms' Costs (and Benefits) of Environmental Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Emission Trading Scheme." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Ioannis Kasparis, University of Cyprus, visiting Cowles, "Dynamic Misspecification in Nonparametric  Cointegrating Regression." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India" (with Penny Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, and Petia Topalova). Workshop in International Trade
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 4:10 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Jonathan Gruber, MIT, "Consumer Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program" (joint with Jason Abaluck). Industrial Organization Seminar (joint with Labor and Population Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Joshua Greene, Harvard/Psychology, "Beyond Retribution?: Punishment and Responsibility in the Age of the Brain." LEO Workshop (joint with Legal Theory Workshop)
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Dora Gicheva, Yale University, "Working Long Hours and Career Wage Growth." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 -  SEPTEMBER 19
SYMPOSIUM ON SEARCH THEORY IN ECONOMICS
203 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Alain Bresson, University of Chicago, "The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and Quantity."  Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
Ioannis Kasparis, University of Cyprus, "Ten Years of Non-Linear Models with Integrated Time Series." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Valdis Zatlers, President of the Republic of Latvia, "Transatlantic Dynamics after the Global Economic Crisis." The Council on European Studies & the Baltic Studies Program
Room 203, Luce Hall. 34 Hillhouse 4:00 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Dina Mayzlin, Yale SOM, "Uninformative Advertising as an Invitation to Search." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Ben Chabot, Yale, "Did Robber-Barron's and Workers Share Risks? Evidence from Gilded-Age Stock Returns." Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1 pm
Kjetil Storesletten, Minneapolis Federal Reserve, "Growing like China" (with Zheng Song and Fabrizio Zilibotti). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
George Noldeke, University of Basel, "The Competitive Benchmark in Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Markets." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Juliana Wang, PhD candidate, Yale FES, "Does Competition Reduce Costs?  Evidence from the Restructuring of the Chinese Power Sector." Environmental Economics Seminar
*Wittink Lounge, 46 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Simon Lee, Cowles Foundation, "Intersection Bounds: Estimation and Inference." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Alwyn Young, London School of Economics "The African Growth Miracle." Development Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Joe Vavra, Yale, "The Price Duration Distribution and Monetary Non-Neutrality." Macro Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Joseph Cullen, Harvard University, "Dynamic Response to Environmental Regulation in the Electricity Industry." Industrial Organization Seminar
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Steven Shavell, Harvard/Law, "The Uneasy Case for Product Liability" (with A. Mitchell Polinsky). LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School 4:10 - 5:40 pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Steven Bednar, Yale University, "The Effect of Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes." Labor and Population Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12:15 - 1:45 pm
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Erica Blom, "Gender Differences and Child Production Functions" and Rebecca Edwards, "Women's Labor Supply in their Child-bearing Years." Labor-Public Finance Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:00 pm
Xiaoxia Shi, Yale University, "Model Selection Tests: Asymptotic Size of the Classical Vuong test and Vuong-type test for Moment Inequality Models." Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 4 pm
Jeremiah Dittmar, American University, "Ideas, Technology, and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press." Economic History Workshop
Room B1, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 pm
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Lucas Maestri, Yale, "Dynamic Monopoly and Renegotiation." Micro Theory Lunch
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:20 pm
Tobias Jopp, University of Hohenheim, "How to Reduce Risk?  Internal and External Growth of German Knappschaften as Risk Policy Options, 1867-1920." Economic History Lunch
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse Noon - 1:00 pm
Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University, "Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention."   Macroeconomics Workshop.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:20 - 3:50 pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Stephen Morris, Princeton University, "Illiquidity Component of Credit Risk" (with Hyun Song Shin). Cowles Foundation Lunch Talk.
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse 12 - 1:15 pm
Phil Reny, University of Chicago, "On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games." Micro Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Geoff Heal, Columbia, "The Economics of Climate Change:  A Post-Stern Perspective." Environmental Economics Seminar
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm
Anastasios Magdalinos, University of Nottingham, visiting Cowles, "Econometric Inference in the Vicinity of Unity." Econometrics Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse 4 - 5:30 pm