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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Ignez Tristao (CBO)

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM
Session: The Causes and Consequences of Medical Innovation (AEA)
Presiding: Rena Conti (University of Chicago)

Pharmaceutical Firms' Strategic Innovation Decisions and Patients' Welfare Dynamics: Innovate or Imitate?
Paris Cleanthous (New York University)
Wonjoon Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology/Yale University )
Dick Wittink (Yale University)

Does Experience Make Better Doctors? Experience from LASIK eye surgeries
Juan Contreras (CBO)
Beomsoo Kim (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Ignez Tristao (CBO)
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The Economic Value of New Treatments for Depression
Rena Conti (The University of Chicago)

Taking Pills to Work: Are Chronically Ill Middle-Aged Men Made Better Off in Labor Markets by Medical Innovations?
Bo MacInnis (University of Michigan)


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Slate Magazine recently discussed former AEA president, George Akerlof's classic behavioral research and a 2012 American Economic Review study conducted by German and Swiss researchers to explore how gifting can motivate some employees more than cash incentives do in the workplace.

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