C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics

Weekly Seminar Schedule: May 5 – May 9, 2008

Monday, May 5
Event:		Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes
Speaker:		Mario Rizzo (NYU)
Title:		“Little Brother is Watching You: Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes”
Time & Place:		2:00-3:30 p.m. in Room 624 of 19 West 4th Street
Coordinator:		Prof. Mario Rizzo at (212) 998-8932 or mario.rizzo-at-nyu.edu
Event:		Monday QFE Seminar Series
Speaker:		Turan Bali (Barach College, CUNY)
Title:		"Investigating ICAPM with Dynamic Conditional Correlations"
Time & Place:		12:00-1:00 pm in Room 3-120 of the Kaufman Management Center, located at 44 West 4th Street.
Coordinators:		Robert F. Engle  at  rengle@stern.nyu.edu Joel Hasbrouck  at  jhasbrou@stern.nyu.edu Xiaohong Chen  at  xiaohong.chen@nyu.edu
Tuesday, May 6
Event:	International and Development Economics Workshop **CANCELLED**
Speaker:	Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics)
Title:	TBA
Time & Place:	4:30-6:30pm in Room 517 of 19 W 4th Street
Coordinator:	Prof. Vivian Z. Yue @ zy3-at-nyu.edu Prof. Jonathan Eaton @ jonathan.eaton-at-nyu.edu
Event:	Macro Student Lunch Seminar
Speaker:	Dino Palazzo
Title:	"Firms' cash holdings and the cross--section of equity returns"
Time & Place:	12:30-1:30pm in Room 517 at 19 West 4th Street.
Coordinator:	Francisco Barillas @ (212) 998-8921 or fvb201-at-nyu.edu Steve Nicklas @ srn234-at-nyu.edu
Event:	Industrial Organization Seminar
Speaker:	Jeremy Bulow (Stanford School of Business)
Title:	“Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions?”
Time & Place:	4:00-5:30pm in Room 7-191 of the Kaufman Management Center, located at 44 West 4th Street.
Coordinator:	Eliana Guervara at eguevara-at-stern.nyu.edu
Wednesday, May 7
Event:	Micro Student Workshop
peakers:	Yilmaz Koçer
Title:	"A Boundedly Rational Theory of Choice"
Time & Place:	1:00-2:00pm in Room 624 of 19 West 4th Street
Student Coordinators:	Anja Sautmann at anja.sautmann-at-nyu.edu Gulseren Mutlu at gm590-at-nyu.edu
Supervisors:	Alessandro Lizzeri Nicola Persico
Event:	Wednesday Finance Seminar
Speaker:	Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
Title:	"The Effects of Bond Supply Uncertainty on the Leverage of the Firm"
Time & Place:	12:00-1:20pm in Room 4-80 of the Kaufman Management Center, located at 44 West 4th Street.
Coordinators:	Xavier Gabaix at xgabaix-at-stern.nyu.edu Kose John at kjohn-at-stern.nyu.edu
Event:	Econometrics Student Lunch Seminar
Speaker:	Peng Wang (pw513@nyu.edu)
Title:	"Conditional Markov Chain and Its Applications in Economic Time Series Analysis", with Jushan Bai
Time & Place:	12:00-1:00 in Room 802 of 19 W 4th Street
Coordinators:	Breno Neri @ (breno.neri@nyu.edu) and Jau-er Chen @  (jauer@nyu.edu) Jushan Bai @ jushan.bai@nyu.edu
Thursday, May 8
Event:		Computer Science Theory Seminar
Speaker:		Vijay Vazirani (George Tech- College of Computing)
Title:		“Nash Bargaining via Flexible Budget Markets”
Time & Place:		2:15pm in Room 1314 of Warren Weaver Hall, Located at 251 Mercer Street
Coordinators:		Richard Cole at cole-at-cs.nyu.edu or (212) 998-3119

Contact: anne.stubing@nyu.edu