University of Chicago: Department of Economics

Monday, May 20

Behavioral Science Workshop

NO WORKSHOP

Workshop in Macro/International Economics

Matteo Iacoviello (Federal Reserve Board), "Collateral Constraints and Macroeconomics Asymmeties," 11:45am, Harper Center Room C10, Chicago Booth

Applied Theory Workshop

Marina Halac (Columbia University), "Optimal Contracts for Experimentation," 1:30pm, Harper Center Room 3B, Chicago Booth

Workshop in Applications of Economics

Michael Whinston (Northwestern University), "Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk" 3:30pm, Rosenwald 329

Tuesday, May 21

Marketing Workshop

NO WORKSHOP

Center for Human Potential & Public Policy

Alejandro Ome (University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy), "identifying Good Teachers: Evidence from Teachers' Test Scores in Columbia," 12(noon), Room 224, Harris School

CHAS/Davis Seminar on Health

Leila Patel (University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration), "Gender and child sensitive social protection in South Africa," 12(noon), Room W-IA, SSA **Co-sponsored with International Social Welfare Lecture**

Operations/Management Science Workshops

Fernando Bernstein (Duke University), "Dynamic Assortment Customization with Limited Inventories," 12:10pm, Harper Center Room 3B, Chicago Booth

Workshop in Finance

NO WORKSHOP

Public Policy & Economics Workshop

Pat Kline (University of California - Berkeley), "What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adustment," 3:30pm, Room 140C, Harris School

Workshop in Economic Theory

Nicola Persico (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management), "Exchange Efficiency with Weak property Rights," 3:30pm, Rosenwald 329

Law & Economics Workshop

NO WORKSHOP

East Asia

Zhuang Liu (University of Chicago Law School LLM Candidate & Peking University Law School PhD Candidate), "What makes a Judicial Decision Convincing: Experimental Evidence of Authority, Bias and Reasoning," 4:30pm, Pick Lounge

Rational Choice Seminar

NO WORKSHOP

Wednesday, May 22

Behavioral Science Workshop

Woo-Kyoung Ahn (University of Illinois), "Flip-Flop Dualism and Its Implication for Mental Health," 11:45am, Harper Center Classroom 6, Chicago Booth

Workshop in Applied Economics

Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton), "The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities," 1:20pm, Harper Center Room 3B, Chicago Booth

Economic Policy & Public Finance Workshop

Bing Peng (Department of Political Science), "Idyll or Nightmare: What Rurality Means to Farmers in a Chinese Village?," 3:30pm, Rosenwald 329

Money & Banking Workshop

NO WORKSHOP

Thursday, May 23

Political Economy Workshop

Scott Gelhbach (Wisconsin Political Science), "TBA," 12(noon), Room 140B, Harris School

Workshop in Demography

Sandra Black (University of Texas - Austin), "This Is Only a Test?: Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout," 12(noon), Room 232/233, Harris School

EPIC Energy Policy Workshop

Joseph Cullen (Washington University in St. Louis), "Will Carbon Prices Reduce Emission in the US Electricity Industry? Evidence from the Shale Gas Experience," 12(noon), Harper Center Room C02, Chicago Booth

Econometrics & Statistics Colloquium

Matias Cattaneo (University of Michigan), "Robust Nonparametric Inferencein teh Regression Discontinuity Design," 1:20pm, Harper Center Room 3B, Chicago Booth

Econometrics Workshop

Han Hong (University of California - Los Angeles), "Estimating Price Sensitivity of Economic Agents Using Discontinuity in Nonlinear Contracts," 3:30pm, Rosenwald 329

Health Economics Workshop

Marcelo Coca-Perraillon (University of Chicago, Department of Health Studies, PhD Student), "Consumers' Response to Five-Star Ratings of Nursing Homes," 3:30pm, Room 140B, Harris School

Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona), "Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Inverse Problems: Methods and Algorithms," 4:30pm, Room 133, Ekhart Hall

Friday, May 24

Workshop on the Economics & Biodemography of Aging & Health Care

Rucker Johnson (University of California - Berkeley), "Desegregation & (Un)Equal Opportunity: The Long March from Brown to the Mobility of Brown's Grandchildren," 1:30pm, Harper Center Room 3A, Chicago Booth

Workshop in Family Economics