These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania)

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Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM
Session: Disaster Economics: A Roundtable on Climate Change, Hurricane Katrina and Related Issues (AEA)
Presiding: James K. Galbraith (The University of Texas at Austin and Economists for Peace and Security)

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Paul Krugman (Princeton University)

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Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)

Providing Protection Against Natural Disasters in the 21st Century
Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania)
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Risk, Inequality and the Economics of Disaster
Marcellus Andrews (Barnard College)
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