News and Workshops

MONDAY, May 5

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP:
Hazel Markus (Stanford University), "Culture and Choice," 10:10, HPC 6
http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/workshop/index.aspx

MACRO/INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP:
Philippe Aghion, "Exploiting States' Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Higher Education on Growth," 12:00, HPC 3A
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/international/index.html

WORKSHOP IN THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS:
No meeting
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/theoryoforgs/index.html

MARKETING WORKSHOP:
Kristin Diehl (University of Southern California), "Great Expectations?! Assortment Size, Expectations and Satisfaction," 3:10, HPC 3B
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/marketing/index.html

WORKSHOP IN APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS:
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University), "Regulation and Distrust," 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_applications.shtml

TUESDAY, May 6

WORKSHOP IN FINANCE:
Mark Grinblatt (UCLA), "Are Mutual Fund Fees Competitive? What IQ-Related Behavior Tells Us," 1:20, HPC 3
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/finance/index.html

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Marie Tomarelli Petkus, "Market Structure and Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Solid Waste Industry, 1:30, Ro 015

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Natalia Kovrijnykh, "Debt Contracts with Short-Term Commitment", 1:30, Ro 329

MONEY AND BANKING WORKSHOP:
Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago), "Fund Managers and Defaultable Debt," joint with Peter Kondor, 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_banking.shtml

PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Alicia Menendez (Harris School), "Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa," 3:30, Harris School, Woodlawn room
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Academic/workshops/ppe.asp

LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
No meeting
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/workshops.html

EAST ASIA:
No meeting
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/

RATIONAL MODELS SEMINAR:
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University), The Evolution of a Legal Rule," joint with Anthony Niblett and Richard Posner, 7:30 pm, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_choice.shtml

WEDNESDAY, May 7

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Seung Mo Choi,  "Sources of Growth and Sources of Knowledge", 11:00, Harper 125

CHAS / DAVIS SEMINAR ON HEALTH:
Emanuel Eziekiel (NIH) "Beyond Band Aids": How to fix America's ailing health care system, 12:00, SSA room W-IV
http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/chasevents.shtml

ECONOMIC POLICY AND PUBLIC FINANCE WORKSHOP:
No meeting
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_finance.shtml

WORKSHOP IN APPLIED ECONOMICS:
Al Roth (Harvard University), "Kidney Exchange," 1:30, HPC 3B
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/index.html

ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP:
Philip Haile (Yale University), "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers," 3:30, Ro 301
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econometrics.shtml

POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP:
Ebonya Washington (Yale University) "Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Income on Support for Redistribution and Other Proposals," 4:00, Harris School, 140B
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Academic/workshops/polecon.asp

THURSDAY, May 8

CENTER FOR HUMAN POTENTIAL & PUBLIC POLICY:
Julia Henly and Susan Lambert, "Building Predictability into Low Wage Jobs: Early Results from the Work Scheduling Study," (WG), 10:30 NORC 224
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Centers/chppp/workshops.asp

WORKSHOP IN DEMOGRAPHY:
Ofer Malamud (University of Chicago), "The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes," 12:00, NORC 140C
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/prc/events.php

OPERATIONS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE WORKSHOPS:
Bill Zangwill (GSB), To be announced  
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/omscience/index.html

ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
Andrew Patton (University of Oxford) "Data-Based Ranking of Realised Volatility Estimators," 1:20, HPC 5
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/econometrics/index.html

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Babur Ivan De los Santos Flores, "Consumer Search on the Internet", 1:30, Ro 329

WORKSHOP IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State University), "On the Benefits of Costly Voting," 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econtheory.shtml

HEALTH ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
No Meeting
http://chess.bsd.uchicago.edu/CCEHPE/healtheconworkshop.html

FRIDAY, May 9

WORKSHOP ON THE ECONOMICS AND BIODEMOGRAPHY OF AGING AND HEALTH CARE:
Mark Guglielmo (University of Chicago), "Illinois Banking during the Great Depression," 1:30, HPC 3A
http://ironwood.cpe.uchicago.edu/CPE_Workshop/index.php

TGIF: No Meeting