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