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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" (joint 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.  **Note different time.
          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, TBA.  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
Cowles Foundation Event:  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.  Lunch will be provided.  RSVP to corporate.law@yale.edu by September 11
          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).  For further information, please contact
Deborah Sestito at (203) 432-4830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu
          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
CANCELLED   Jun Ishii, Amherst College, "Consumer Perception of Warranty as a Signal of Quality:  An Empirical Study of Power Train Warranties" (with Busik Choi).  Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization.
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.  *Note different location.
          *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.  For further information, please contact Deborah Sestito at (203) 432-4830 or deborah.sestito@yale.edu
          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
Cowles Foundation Event:  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

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