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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John B. Taylor (Stanford University)

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM

Session: Better Living Through Economics: III (AEA)

Presiding: John Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)

Better Living Through Economics: Consumer Price Indexes
Michael Boskin (Stanford University)
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Better Living Through Monetary Economics
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
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Trade Liberalization and Growth in Developing Countries
Anne Krueger (Johns Hopkins University)
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Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM

Session: Growth, Productivity, and Wages in the U.S. Economy (AEA)

Presiding: Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)

Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University and NBER)
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The Productivity Riddle and 'Management'
Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)

Labor Supply and Demand in the Long Run
Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University)

U.S. Growth, Productivity and Wages during the Long Boom
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)

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