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Cowles 75th Anniversary
Conference
Policy Applications of Structural Microeconomics
June 14–15, 2007
Organizer: Steven Berry
List of Attendees |
| THURSDAY |
8:00–9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
|
9:00–9:15 |
Welcome |
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9:15–10:30 |
Andrew Sweeting, "The Costs of Product Repositioning: The Case of Format Switching in
the Commercial Radio Industry" |
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10:30–10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45–12:00 |
Justine Hastings,"Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School
Choice Lottery" (with Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger) |
|
12:00–1:30 |
Lunch |
|
1:30–2:45 |
James Heckman and Flavio Cunha, "The
Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic
Thresholds" |
|
2:45–3:00 |
Coffee Break |
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3:00–4:15 |
Melissa Tartari, "Divorce and the Cognitive Achievement of Children" |
|
4:15–4:30 |
Coffee Break |
|
4:30–5:45 |
Ariel Pakes, "An
Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on
Other Goods" (with Tim Erickson) |
|
7:00–9:00 |
Dinner, Barcelona, 155 Temple Street |
| FRIDAY |
8:00–8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
|
8:30–9:45 |
Pat Bajari, "A
Semiparametric Analysis of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
Contracts" (with Ahmed Khwaja and Han Hong) |
|
9:45–10:00 |
Coffee Break |
|
10:00–11:15 |
Michael Keane, "The
Career Decisions of Young Women" (with Ken Wolpin) |
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11:15–11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30–12:45 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya, "Bid Preference Programs and Participation in Highway Procurement
Auctions" (with Katja Seim) |
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12:45–1:45 |
Lunch |
|
1:45–3:00 |
Liran Einav, "The
Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market"
(with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf) |