2008
COWLES SUMMER CONFERENCE

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

"METHODS & POLICY APPLICATIONS
IN STRUCTURAL MICROECONOMICS"

June 12 - 13, 2008

Organizers: Philip Haile & Steve Berry

Location: Yale School of Management, Watson Center,
60 Sachem Street, Room A53

List of Attendees

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2008
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Moshe Buchinsky (UCLA), "Residential Location, Work Location, and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants In Israel" (with C. Gotlibovski)
10:00-11:00
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 John Rust (University of Maryland), "The Home Selling Problem: Theory and Evidence" (with A. Merlo and F. Ortalo-Magne)
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 Elena Krasnokutskaya (University of Pennsylvania), "Choice of Product under Government Regulation: The Case of Chile Pension System"
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:15 Jaap Abbring (VU University Amsterdam), "Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data" (with P. Chiappori and T. Zavadil)
6:00 Dinner, Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street, New Haven

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2008
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Isabelle Perrigne (Penn State University), "Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages" (with Y. Huang and Q. Vuong)
10:00-11:00 Kate Ho (Columbia University), "The Effects of Full-Line Forcing Contracts" (with J. Ho and J. Mortimer)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Bernard Salanie (Columbia University), "You Are What You Bet: Eliciting Risk Attitudes from Horse Racing" (with P. Chiappori, A. Gandhi, and F. Salanie)
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 James Heckman (University of Chicago), "Estimating the Option Value of Schooling: A Discrete Dynamic Programming Approach" (with S. Urzua)
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:15 Amil Petrin (University of Minnesota), "Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Date"
6:00 Dinner, Ibiza, 39 High Street, New Haven

ATTENDEES
Jaap Abring (University of Amsterdam)
Daniel Ackerberg (University of CA-Los Angeles)
John Asker (Stern school of Business, NYU)
Patrick Bayer (Duke University)
Lanier Benkard (Stanford University)
Moshe Bushinsky CREST)
Andrew Chesher (University College London)
Jan De Loecker (New York University)
Aureo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania)
Philippe Fevrier (CREST)
Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago)
Amit Gandhi (University of WI-Madison)
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Hidehiko Ichimura (Institute of Fiscal Studies)
Kate Ho (Columbia University)
Julie Holland Mortimer (Harvard University)
Panle Jia (MIT)
Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)
Michael Keane (New York University)
John Kennan (University of Wisconsin)		 Elena Krasnokutskaya (University of Pennsylvania)
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
Jeremy Lise (University College London)
Rosa Matzkin (Northwestern University)
Costas Meghir (University College London)
Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania)
Julie Mortimer (Harvard University)
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
Isabelle Perringe (Penn State)
Amil Petrin (University of Minnesota)
Peter Reiss (Stanford University)
Jean Marc Robin (Universite de Paris 1)
John Rust (University of Maryland)
Stephen Ryan (MIT)
Bernard Salanie (Columbia University)
Katja Seim (Wharton University of Pennsylvania)
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago)
Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University)
Sergio Urzua (Northwestern University)