LUNCH TALKS, 1996–2012

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| Past Seminars (1956–2004) | Current Schedule |
2013 February 15 Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Trade Liberalization and Firm Heterogeneity: Dynamics, Efficiency, and Welfare"
February 27 Manuel Arellano, CEMFI Madrid, "Random Effects Quantile Regression" (with Stephane Bonhomme)
March 6 Elena Krasnokotskaya, Johns Hopkins University, "The Role of Quality in Service Markets Organized as Multi-Attribute Auctions"
March 27 Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania, "Estimating a Coordination Game within the Classroom" (with Kenneth I. Wolpin)
April 10 Orazio Attanazio, University College London, "Aggregating Elasticities: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Female Labour Supply"
April 24 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "Mathematical Institutional Economics: An Overview"
2012 February 15 Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo, "Identification and Estimation of a Nonparametric Transformation Model" (with Simon Lee, Seoul National University) [Slides]
February 29 Costas Meghir, Yale University, "Equilibrium Effects of Education Policies by B. Abbott, G. Gallipoli, C. Meghir and G. Violante"
March 21 Bill Nordhaus, Yale University, "The Climate-Change Wars"
April 4 Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Medicaid, Medical Spending, and the Savings of the Elderly" (with Mariacristina De Nardi, John Bailey Jones)
April 18 Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute, "Quo vadis, Euroland? European Monetary Union between Crisis and Reform" [Slides]
May 2 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "From Cournot to Schumpeter"
September 5 Gerry Jaynes, Yale University, "Empirical Tests of a Behavioral Theory of Differences in Black-White Family Structure"
September 19 Monica Piazzesi, Stanford University, "Banks' Risk Exposures"
October 3 Johannes Hörner, Yale University, "Recursive Methods in Dynamic Bayesian Games"
October 24 Richard Blundell, University College London, "Consumption Inequality and Family Labour Supply"
October 31 CANCELLED -- Richard Rogerson, Princeton University, "Labor Supply with Frictions"
November 14 Tony Smith, Yale University, "A Global Economy-Climate Model with High Regional Resolution"
December 5 Jean Tirole, Toulouse, Second of the Two Koopman Memorial Lectures: "Bonus Culture" (with Ronald Bénabou, Princeton)
2011 February 16 Martin Cripps, University College London, "Large Double Auctions: A Strategic Theory of Markets"
March 2 CANCELLED Andres Velasco, Harvard University, "Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Economy"
March 23 Jon Levin, Stanford University, "Some New Developments in Auction Design" [Slides]
April 6 Kei Hirano, University of Arizona, "Applications of Asymptotic Statistical Decision Theory in Econometrics" (with Jack Porter) [Slides]
April 13 V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota, "Adverse Selection, Reputation, and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets"   [Slides]
April 20 Dirk Bergemann, Yale University, "Robust Prediction in Games with Incomplete Information" (with Stephen Morris) [Slides]
September 7 Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University, "Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time" (with Charles I. Jones)
September 21 Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University, "A Theory of Asset Pricing Based on Heterogeneous Investor Information and Limits to Arbitrage" [Slides]
October 5 Avinash Dixit, Princeton University, "Reciprocal Insurance among Kenyan Pastoralists" (with Daniel Rubenstein) [Slides]
October 19 Yuichi Kitamura, Yale University, "Nonparametric Analysis of Stochastic Rationality" (with Joerg Stoye) [Slides]
November 2 Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, "Timing, Risk, and Self-control" [Slides]
2010 February 17 Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Experimental Component Indices for the CPI" [Slides]
March 3 Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "The Macroeconomics of Lumpy Adjustment" [Slides]
March 31 Juuso Välimäki, Helsinki School of Economics, "Private and Social Learning" [Slides]
April 14 Philip Haile, Yale University, "Identification in Differentiated Products Markets" [Slides]
April 28 Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley, "Economic Jury Recruitment and Management" [Background Paper1, Paper2]
May 5 James Heckman, University of Chicago, "Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy" [Slides]
September 8 Penny Goldberg, Yale University, "Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-through and Pricing-to-Market: A Micro Perspective"
September 22 Oliver Linton, London School of Economics, "Semiparametric Modeling of Financial Time Series and Panel Data"
October 6 Lee Ohanian, UCLA, "Depressions, Crises, and Economic Policy: The 1930s and Today"
October 22 Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, "Semi-nonparametric Time Series Models: A Selective Review"
November 3 Koopmans Memorial Lecture, Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania, "The Limits of Inference without Theory"
November 17 Larry Samuelson, Yale University, "Prices and Investment Incentives" [Slides]
December 1 Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University, "Earnings, Consumption and Life Cycle Choices"
2009 February 25 Edward Vytlacil, Yale University  "Instrumental Variables, Monotonicity Conditions, and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect" [Slides]
March 25 Sergei Guriev, New Economics School, Moscow, "Economics of the Resource Curse" [Related papers: "The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel" (with Art Durnev) and "Media Freedom in Dictatorships" (with Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin)]
April 8 John Roemer, Yale University, "The Ethics of Intergenerational Distribution in a Warming Planet"
April 22 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "Beyond General Equilibrium: A Change in Paradigm"
September 16 Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Why Do Voters Vote the Way They Do?"
September 30 Stephen Morris, Princeton University, "Illiquidity Component of Credit Risk" (with Hyun Song Shin)
October 14 Robert Shimer, University of Chicago, "Search and Macroeconomics"
October 28 Keith Chen, Yale University, " Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences? Theorems and New Experimental Evidence"
November 11 Mikhail Golosov, Yale University, "Dynamic Public Finance: Theory and Policy"
December 2 Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "David, Goliath, and the Business Cycle"
December 9 Daniel Spielman, Yale University, "Adventures with Graphs and Networks"
2008 February 20 Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Theory and Empirical Work in Industrial Organization" (Sections 4-6 on Moment Inequalities)
March 5 Jeff Ely, Northwestern University, "Critical Types"
March 26 Larry Samuelson, Yale University, "Information in Repeated Games"
April 9 Giovanni Maggi, Yale University, "On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements" (with Robert Staiger)
April 23 Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, "On Estimation of Semi/Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models"
April 30 Steven Berry, Yale University, "Empirical Models of Endogenous Market Structure"
September 17 Eddie Dekel, Northwestern University & Tel Aviv University, "Menu Choices"
September 24 Koopmans Memorial Lectures, Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, "Fragile Beliefs and Pricing"
October 22 V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota, "Sophisticated Monetary Policies" (with Andrew Atkeson, Patrick Kehoe)
November 5 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Solving the Present Crisis and Managing the Leverage Cycle"
November 19 Robert Shiller, Yale University, "The Sub-prime Solution"
December 10 Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Why Unemployment Is So High in South Africa and What to Do About It"
2007 February 28 Daron Acemoglu, MIT & Yale University, "Disease and Economic Development"
April 11 Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania, "The Market for Ideas"
May 9 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "The Viability of Players in Repeated Games"
September 26 Michael Woodford, Columbia University, "Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy"
October 3 David Card, University of California, Berkeley, "School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools"
October 10 Aleh Tsyvinski, Harvard University, "A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation"
October 24 Peter Phillips, Yale University, "The Mystery of Trend"
November 14 Johannes Hörner, Northwestern University, "Efficiency in the Prisoner's Dilemma Under Private Monitoring"
December 12 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Subprime Mortgages"
2006 February 22 Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Mobility and Economic Growth in a Traditional, Network-Based Economy"
March 1 Mike Whinston, Northwestern University, "Exclusionary Vertical Contracts"
March 29 Lones Smith, University of Michigan (visiting the Cowles Foundation), with Jussi Keppo, University of Michigan, "Tony Blair Meets Black-Scholes"
April 12 Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, "Game Theory on the Universal Type Space, Part 1"
April 26 Yuichi Kitamura, Yale University, "Empirical Likelihood Methods in Econometrics: Theory and Practice"
September 13 Donald W.K. Andrews, Yale University, "Subsample Methods in Econometrics"
September 27 James Heckman, University of Chicago, "Instrumental Variables: Then and Now"
October 18 Jordi Gali, CREI, "What's So New About New Keynesian Economics?"
October 25 William Nordhaus, Yale University, "The Economics of Hurricanes and Global Warming"
November 8 John Rust, University of Maryland, "Bad Decisions"
November 29 Jean-Marc Robin, Université de Paris 1, "Microeconometric Search-Matching Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data"
December 13 Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania, "Two Economic Models of Network Formation"
2005 February 16 Rob Porter, Northwestern, "Collusions and Auctions"
February 23 Martin Shubik, Yale, "An Economist's Reminiscences"
March 23 John Geanakoplos, Yale, "Grading Exams: 100, 99, ..., 1 or A, B, C?  Incentives in Games of Status" (with Pradeep Dubey)
April 13 Dan Spielman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: The Simplex Method and Beyond"
April 20 Justine Hastings, Yale University, "Evaluating a School Choice Lottery: The Importance of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects"
September 14 Tony Smith, Yale University, "Quantitative Macroeconomic Models with Heterogeneous Agents"
September 28 George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania, "Repeated Games with Private Monitoring: What Have We Learned"
October 12 Matthew Jackson, California Institute of Technology, "Social Networks and Economic Behavior"
October 19 Costas Meghir, University College London, "Dynamic Models for Policy Evaluation"
October 26 Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania, "Whither Political Economy? Theories, Facts and Issues"
November 16 Richard Blundell, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, "How Revealing Is Revealed Preference?"; also based on "Best Nonparametric Bounds on Demand Responses" (with Martin Browning)
December 7 Rosa Matzkin, Northwestern University, "Nonparametric Methods for Models with Nonadditive Unobservables"
2004 March 24 Penny Goldberg, "The Effects of Extending Intellectual Property Rights Protection to Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical Market"
March 31 David Pearce, "Reputational Wars of Attrition with Complex Bargaining Postures" (with Dilip Abreu, Princeton)
April 7 Ray Fair, "A Comparison of Aging Effects Across Athletic Events"
April 14 Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew University, "Inconsistent Beliefs and Bayesian Equilibrium"
April 28 Martin Shubik, "Endogenous Bureaucracy and the Enforcement of Contract"
May 5 Michael Keane, "Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers" (with Hanming Fang)
September 15 Itzhak Gilboa, Yale University and Tel Aviv University, "Case-Based vs. Rule-Based Reasoning: The Case of Real-Estate Pricing"
September 22 John Roemer, Yale University, "Impartiality, Solidarity and Priority in the Theory of Justice"
October 13 Herb Scarf, Yale University, "Professional Reiniscences"
November 3 Barry Nalebuff, Yale University, "Bundling as a Way to Leverage Monopoly"
November 17 Barry O'Neill, UCLA and Yale University, "The Concepts of Good Faith in Public Affairs"
2003 February 26 Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute, "Employing Reputation in Webs of Trust"
March 26 Roland Benabou, Princeton, "Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics"
April 2 Caroline Minter–Hoxby, Yale & Harvard, "Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities"
April 9 John E. Roemer, Yale University, "Democracy, Education, and Equality"
April 16 Shyam Sunder, Yale University, "Stock Market as a 'Beauty Contest': Investor Beliefs and Price Bubbles sans Dividend Anchors"
September 17 Roger G. Kennedy, Director Emeritus, National Park Services and National Museum of American History, "Migration into Danger: Incentives and the Environment"
October 1 Philip Haile, Yale University, "Testing for Common Values in Auctions"
October 15 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "How the Mortgage Market Works"
October 29 Robert Shiller, Yale University, "Is There a Housing Bubble?"
November 12 Michael Riordan, Yale and Columbia Universities, "Capital Markets Constrain Industry Scale"
December 3 Judith Chevalier, School of Management, "Economics of the College Textbook Industry"
2002 September 18 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Inflationary Bias: The Harmonic Fisher Equation"
October 2 William Nordhaus, Yale University, "The Alchemist Fallacy and the New Economy"
October 16 Gerald Jaynes, Yale University, "Public Benefits of an Affirmative Action Program"
November 6 Don Brown and Ravi Kannan, Yale University, "Estimating the Probability of Perfect Competition"
November 13 Michael Magill, University of Southern California, "Demography and the Long-run Predictability of the Stock Market"
December 4 Joseph Altonji, Yale University, "The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth"
2001 February 14 David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer and Dean Takahashi, Senior Director, Investments, Yale, "Exploiting Market Inefficiencies in Managing Yale's Endowment"
February 28 Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "Inequality and the Nature and Boundaries of Collective Organizations"
March 21 Jeremy Bulow, Chief, Federal Trade Commission, "The Use and Non-use of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission"
April 4 John Rust, Economics, Yale University, "Middle Men versus Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive Exchange" (with George Hall)
October 2 John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "Liquidity, Default, and Crashes"
October 10 Duncan Watts, Columbia University, "Small Worlds"
October 24 Mike Todd, Cornell University, "The Many Facets of Linear Programming"
November 7 Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "Privatizing Highways"
2000 February 23 George Hall and John Rust, Yale, "How the Market for Steel Really Works: A Q&A Session with Executives in the Steel Service Center Industry"
March 29 Jerry Green, Harvard, "What Should Be Taught in First Year Graduate Microeconomics?"
April 12 Herbert Scarf, Yale University, "S-s Revisited"
April 19 Günter Wagner, Yale, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, "Evolution of Evolvability: Fact or Mirage"
April 26 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "Money"
September 13 Kai Nagel, Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich, "Traffic Jams and Self-Organized Criticality: Large Scale Transportation Simulations"
September 27 John Roemer, Yale, "Why the Poor Don't Expropriate the Rich: Some New Explanations"
October 11 Joan Feigenbaum, Computer Science, Yale, "Sharing the Cost of Multicast Transmissions"
November 8 Peter Jones, Mathematics, Yale, "Geometry and Analysis of High Dimensional Data Sets"
December 6 Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute, "Market Making from a Control Theory Perspective"
1999 February 4 Tim Guinnane, Yale University, "Information and Credit Cooperatives: Germany 1850-1914"
February 18 Peter Jones, Yale University, "Brownian Motion and Large Scale Computation: A Painless Introduction to Wavelet and (Wiener's) Chaos"
March 4 Chris Avery, Yale University and Harvard University, "Is the College Admission Process Unravelling Toward Early Admission"
April 1 Myron Scholes, "Long Term Investment Capital"
April 22 James Tobin, Yale University, "Unemployment, Vacancies and Money Wages"
May 6 Martin Shubik, Yale University, "Some Experimental Games for Teaching and Research"
September 29 Ray Fair, Yale University, "Fed Policy and the Stock Market"
October 13 Christopher Udry, Yale, "Learning About Institutions: The Role of Field Research in Development Economics"
October 27 Ravindran Kannan, Yale, "Linear Algebra and Web Search"
November 10 Robert Shiller, Yale, "Irrational Exuberance"
December 8 Martin Shubik, Yale, "An Exploratorium and Museum of Money and Financial Institutions"   Faculty and students invited
1998 February 26 William Nordhaus, Yale University, "We're Richer Than We Think"
March 26 Michael Montias, Yale University, "The Art Market, Then and Now"
April 2 Gerald Jaynes, Yale University, "Post Industrial Poverty and Social Dissidence"
April 16 Don Brown, Yale University and Chris Shannon, University of California, Berkeley, "Tatonnement Stability and Comparative Statistics"
October 1 Ariel Pakes, Yale University, "A Framework for Dynamic Analysis in Empirical and Applied I.O."
October 14 William N. Goetzmann, Yale University, "Hedge Funds"
October 28 Barry Nalebuff, Yale University, "Bundling"
November 11 John Rust, Yale University, "Measuring the Size of Type 1 and 2 Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process"
December 2 Stephen Kellert, Yale University, "Biophilia Hypothesis"
1997 October 1 Bruce Akerman and Ann Alstott, Yale University Law School, "The Stakeholder Society"
October 15 David Pearce, Yale University, "Behavior Bias in Bargaining Model with Endogenous Types"
October 29 Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University, "Wald Revisited: The Optimal Level of Experimentation"
November 12 Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University, "A Multifractal Model of Asset Returns"
December 3 John Rust, Yale University, "Dealing with Complexity of Economic Calculations"
1996 October 6 John Geanakoplos, Yale University "Promises, Promises: Default and Collateral on Wall Street"
October 12 Truman Bewley, Yale University, "A Field Study in Wage Rigidity"
October 30 Robert Shiller, Yale University, "Why Are People So Indifferent to Indexation?"
November 12 Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Yale University, "Rational Choice Models in Social Sciences?"
December 4 Mark Gertler, New York University, "Government Debt and Social Security"
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