| Spring 2009 |
Wednesdays, 12:00–1:15, Common
Room |
| 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" |
| 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" |
