AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

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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Yijun He (Washington State University)

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM

Session: Poster Session 2008 (AEA)

Presiding: TBA (TBA)

Estimating Capital Investment with Financial Constraints: Comparison of Tobin's q and Real Options Approaches
Hirokatsu Asano (Asia University)
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Existence of Bifurcation in Macroeconomic Dynamics: Grandmont was Right
Yijun He (Washington State University)

Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Catherine Co (University of Nebraska, Omaha)
Shuanglin Lin (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Fanying Kong (Midland Lutheran College)
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Trade, Neoclassical Growth and Heterogeneous Firms
Julian Emami Namini (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection
Christian Bayer (University of Dortmund)
Falko Juessen (University of Dortmund)

The Effect of Migration on Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Douglas Frank (INSEAD)
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Relative Status and Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths
Mary Daly (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Daniel Wilson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
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Cognitive Ability and Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Test
Garett Jones (George Mason University)
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Consumption Smoothing and Household responses: evidence from Random Exogenous Health Shocks
Manoj Mohanan (Harvard University)
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Understanding Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption
Qiang Zhang (University of Memphis)

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