
News and Workshops
MONDAY, November 9
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP:
Eli Finkel (Northwestern University), "Romantic Attraction," 10:10, CDR Classroom 6, Chicago Booth
http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/workshop/index.aspx
MACRO/INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP:
Rob Feenstra (UC Davis), "Globalization, Competition, and the U.S. Price Level," 12:00 (noon), HPC 3A, Chicago
Booth
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/international/
APPLIED THEORY WORKSHOP:
Andy Skrzypacz (Stanford), "Selling Information," 1:30.HC344, Chicago Booth
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/appliedtheory/index.html
MARKETING
WORKSHOP:
Nailya Ordabayeva (INSEAD), "Leapfrogging over the Joneses: Effects of Inequality on Conspicuous and Inconspicuous Consumption," 11:40, HC 3B, Chicago Booth
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/marketing/
WORKSHOP IN APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS:
Tomas Phillipson (Univeristy of Chicago), "The Value of Life Near Its End and Terminal Care," 3:30, RO 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_applications.shtml
TUESDAY, November 10
OPERATIONS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE WORKSHOPS:
NO WORKSHOP, CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL-WIDE SEMINAR
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/omscience/index.html
THE ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE LUNCH SERIES:
Weerachart "Tee" Kilenthong (University of California-Santa Barbara), "Moral Hazard, Retrading, Externality, and Its Solution," 12:00 (noon),
RO 329 **RSVP Required**
http://enterpriseinitiative.org/Arete/Events.aspx
WORKSHOP IN FINANCE:
NO WORKSHOP, CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL-WIDE SEMINAR
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/finance/
MONEY AND BANKING WORKSHOP:
Ulrich Doraszelski (Harvard), "Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics," 3:30,
RO 329
http://enterpriseinitiative.org/Arete/Events.aspx
PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Gilbert Metcalf (Tuft
University),
"TBA," 3:30, Woodlawn Rm, Harris
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/programs/beyond/workshops/ppe.asp
LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Omri Ben-Shahar (University
of Chicago, The Law
School)
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/all/all/Law%20and%20Economics%20Workshop
EAST ASIA:
NO WORKSHOP
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/
RATIONAL MODELS SEMINAR:
NO WORKSHOP
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_choice.shtml
WEDNESDAY, November 10
WORKSHOP IN APPLIED ECONOMICS:
Stephen Ryan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School," 1:30, HC 3B, Chicago Booth
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/
ECONOMIC POLICY AND PUBLIC FINANCE WORKSHOP:
NO WORKSHOP
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_finance.shtml
ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP:
Hector Perez-Saiz (University of Chicago), "Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the US Cement Industry," 3:30, RO 301
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econometrics.shtml
POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP:
NO WORKSHOP
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/programs/beyond/workshops/polecon.asp
THURSDAY, November 11
CENTER FOR HUMAN POTENTIAL & PUBLIC POLICY:
Lia Fernald (School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley), "Ten-year Impact of Oportunidades - Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program - On Child Growth, Cognition, Language, and Behavior," 10:30, Rm 224, Harris
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/centers/chppp/workshops.asp#Fall2009
CHAS / DAVIS
SEMINAR ON HEALTH:
NO WORKSHOP
http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/chasevents.shtml
WORKSHOP IN DEMOGRAPHY:
Paula Lantz (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor),
"Socioeconomic and Behavioral Risk Factors for Morality in a National 19-Year Prospective Study of Adults," 1:20, Rm
140C, Harris
http://popcenter.uchicago.edu/events/
ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
Chris Hans (Ohio State University),
"Orthant Normal Shrinkage Priors in Regression" 1:20, HC 3B, Chicago
Booth
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/econometrics/index.html
WORKSHOP IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School/CEFIR in Moscow), "The Political Economy of Faculty Selection," 3:30, RO 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econtheory.shtml
HEALTH ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University), "Topic
TBA," 3:30, 140B, Harris
http://chess.bsd.uchicago.edu/events/hew.html
FRIDAY, November 12
WORKSHOP ON THE ECONOMICS AND BIODEMOGRAPHY OF AGING AND HEALTH CARE:
Anne Hanley (Northern Illinois Univeristy), "Public Health in São Paulo Brazil, 1834-1914," 1:30, HC 3A, Chicago Booth
http://ironwood.cpe.uchicago.edu/CPE_Workshop/index.php
