These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2009 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule. For Instructions to authors of Papers & Proceedings, see http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/papers.html.
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Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM
| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Better Living Through Economics: I (AEA) |
Presiding: John Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
Using Economic Theory and Empirical Results to Improve the World We Live In
Charles Plott (California Institute of Technology)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Dynamic Bargaining and Coalition Formation (AEA) |
Presiding: Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Durability of Bargaining Power and Deadline Effect
Alp Simsek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bargaining With Arrival of New Traders
William Fuchs (University of Chicago)
Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
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Coalition Formation in Nondemocracies
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Georgy Egorov (Harvard University)
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School)
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Fixed Deadline Multilateral Bargaining with Random Arrival Times
Attila Ambrus (Harvard University)
Shih-En Lu (Harvard University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economic Effects of Informal Care around the World (AEA) |
Presiding: Courtney van Houtven (Duke University)
The Effect Of Parental Caregiving On Adult Children's Health and Wealth
Norma Coe (Tilburg University)
Courtney van Houtven (Duke University)
Do Matching Transfers Provide a Tailor-made Solution to the LTC-SI in Germany? Evidence from Social Experiments in Germany
Alexander Spearmann (ZEW-Centre for European Economic Research)
Melanie Arntz (ZEW-Centre for European Economic Research)
Stephan Thomsen (ZEW-Centre for European Economic Research)
Caring for Parents and Employment Status of European Mid-Life Women
Laura Crespo (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI))
Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Pierre-Carl Michaud (RAND Corporation)
Axel Heitmueller (London Business School and Prime Minister's Strategy Unit)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Asset Prices with Learning (AEA) |
Presiding: Klaus Adam (European Central Bank)
The Market Price of Risk and the Equity Premium: A Legacy of the Great Depression?
Timothy Cogley (University of California, Davis)
Thomas J. Sargent (New York University)
Evolving Macroeconomic Perceptions and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Athanasios Orphanides (Central Bank of Cyprus)
Min Wei (Federal Reserve Board)
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Can Perpetual Learning Explain the Forward Premium Puzzle?
Avik Chakraborty (University of Tennessee)
George Evans (University of Oregon)
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Stock Market Volatility and Learning
Klaus Adam (European Central Bank)
Albert Marcet (CREI, Pompeu Fabra, IAB)
Juan Pablo Nicolini (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Technology Adoption in Developing Countries (AEA) |
Presiding: Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption
Tavneet Suri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Technology Adoption and Network Formation: Evidence from a Horticultural Credit and Export Program in Kenya
Xavier Gine (World Bank)
Nava Ashraf (Harvard University)
Dean Karlan (Yale University)
Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Xavier Gine (World Bank)
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Causes and Consequences of Indoor Air Pollution: A Randomized Intervention Study in Bangladesh
A. Mushfiq Mobarak (University of Colorado)
Grant Miller (Stanford University)
Lynn Hildemann (Stanford University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Dynamic Tradeoffs in Health Care Decisions (AEA) |
Presiding: Hanming Fang (Yale University)
Social Smoking versus Addiction
Jerome Adda (University College London, UK)
The Impact of Unemployment on Health Investments and Risky Behaviors
John Cawley (Cornell University)
Feng Liu (Cornell University)
Dynamic Inefficiencies in Health Care Markets
Hanming Fang (Yale University)
Alessandro Gavazza (Yale University)
Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions
Ahmed Khwaja (Duke University)
Dan Silverman (University of Michigan)
Frank Sloan (Duke University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Marriage Markets: Theory and Empirics (AEA) |
Presiding: Christopher Flinn (New York University)
Social Norms and Demographic Shocks: Marriage Markets and Dowries in Medieval Tuscany
Maristella Botticini (University of Torino)
Are Working Women Good for Marriage?
Zvika Neeman (Boston University)
Andrew Newman (Boston University)
Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts
Daniela Del Boca (Univeristy of Torino)
Christopher Flinn (New York University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Neural Foundations of Simple Economic Decision Making (AEA) |
Presiding: Antonio Rangel (California Institute of Technology)
Neural Predictors of Purchases
Brian Knutson (Stanford University)
Scott Rick (Carnegie Mellon University)
Elliott Wimmer (Stanford University)
Drazen Prelec (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Neural Basis for the Computation of Decision Values in Simple Economic Choice
Hilke Plassman (California Institute of Technology)
John O'Doherty (California Institute of Technology)
Antonio Rangel (California Institute of Technology)
Losses loom larger than gains on the brain: The Neural Basis of loss aversion in decision making under risk
Craig Fox (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sabrina Tom (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chrisopher Trepel (University of California, Los Angeles)
Russell Poldrack (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Temptation and Control
David Laibson (Harvard University)
Samuel McClure (Princeton University)
Dan Ariely (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Cohen (Princeton University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: New Evidence on the Great Moderation of US Business Cycle volatility (AEA) |
Presiding: Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University)
VAR Analysis and the Great Moderation
Luca Benati (European Central Bank)
Paolo Surico (Bank of England)
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First Time Home Buyers and Residential Investment Volatility
Jonas Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Martin Gervais (University Western Ontario)
Has the Federal Reserve's Inflation Target Changed?
Zheng Liu (Emory University)
Daniel Waggoner (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
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How Structural are Structural Parameters? Time-Varying Parameters and the Great Moderation
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Duke University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Macroeconomic News and Financial Markets (AEA) |
Presiding: Samuel Reynard (Swiss National Bank)
Strategic Order Flow in On-the-Run and Off-the-Run Bond Markets
Paolo Pasquariello (University of Michigan)
Clara Vega (Federal Reserve Board)
Using Intraday Data to Gauge Financial Market Responses to Fed and ECB Monetary Policy Decisions
Magnus Andersson (European Central Bank)
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Global Asset Prices and FOMC Announcements
Joshua Hausman (Federal Reserve Board)
Jon Wongswan (Federal Reserve Board)
Monetary Policy, Expectations, and Financial Markets
Angelo Ranaldo (Swiss National Bank)
Samuel Reynard (Swiss National Bank)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: A Historical Perspective on Money and Payment Systems (AEA) |
Presiding: Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University)
The Evolution of the Check as a Means of Payment: a Historical Survey
Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University)
William Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
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The 'Kipper- und Wipperzeit' and the Origin of Central Banks
Isabel Schnabel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn)
Hyun Shin (Princeton University)
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Coin Inspection Technology and Commodity Money
Vincent Bignon (University of Paris 10 at Nanterre & Sciences-Po)
Richard Dutu (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economic Geography of Trade and Production (AEA) |
Presiding: Stephen Redding (London School of Economics)
The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)
Pierre-Philippe Combes (University of Aix-Marseille)
Laurent Gobillon (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques)
Diego Puga (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Sebastien Roux (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)
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Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence from German Airports
Stephen Redding (London School of Economics)
Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics)
Nikolaus Wolf (University of Warwick)
The Long Term Consequences of Regional Specialization
Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)
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The productivity, trade and institutional quality nexus: a panel analysis
Eleanor Doyle (Department of Economics, University College Cork, Ireland)
Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso (Ibero Amerika Institute for Economic Research, University of Goettingen, Germany and Department of Economics, Universitate Jaume I, Castellon, Spain)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Taxes and Factor Mobility (AEA) |
Presiding: Alicia Menendez (University of Chicago)
Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs
Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia)
Charles Blackorby (University of Warwick)
Dezsoe Szalay (University of Warwick)
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Tax Competition Among U.S. States: Racing to the Bottom or Riding on a Seesaw?
Robert Chirinko (University of Illinois at Chicago and CESifo)
Daniel Wilson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility
Marcello Estevao (International Monetary Fund)
The Impact of Payroll Taxes upon Employment, Wages, the Unemployment Rate and Informality -- Theory and Simulations for Colombia
Donald Robbins (University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia)
Daniel Salinas (University of Antioquia, Colombia)
Edison Ruiz (University of Antioquia, Colombia)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Job and Occupational Mobility (AEA) |
Presiding: Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
Firm vs. Occupation in Labor Markets: A Cross Analysis of Wage, Mobility, and Promotion
Illoong Kwon (SUNY Albany)
Eva Meyersson Milgrom (Stanford University)
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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? Money and Status in the Labor Market
Ana Rute Cardoso (IZA Bonn)
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Separation Costs and Stochastic Productivity in a Matching Model of Job Turnover
Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago)
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Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle
Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
Francis Vella (Georgetown University, Department of Economics)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Assessment of Economics in U.S. High Schools and Undergraduate Programs (AEA) |
Presiding: Wendy A. Stock (Montana University)
The National Assessment of Educational Progress in Economics: Findings for General Economics
William Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Stephen Buckles (Vanderbilt University)
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The Fourth Edition of the Test of Understanding of College Economics
William Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Kenneth Rebeck (St. Cloud State University)
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Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses
Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
William Becker (Indiana University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (AEA) |
Presiding: Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)
Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (Pennsylvania State University)
Svetlana Demidova (University of Georgia)
Peter J. Klenow (Stanford University)
Konstantinos Arkolakis (Yale University)
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Firm Heterogeneity and Export Activity: Investments in R&D of Taiwanese Firms
Bee-Yan Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
Mark Roberts (The Pennsylvania State University)
Daniel Xu (New York University)
Trade Policy Differences and Firm Characteristics: Evidence from Bangladesh
Hiau Looi Kee (World Bank)
Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Understanding School Performance (AEA) |
Presiding: Richard Murnane (Harvard University)
School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap
Eric Hanushek (Stanford University)
Steven Rivkin (Amherst College)
Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages and Performance in Schools
Timothy Besley (London School of Economics)
Stephen Machin (University College London)
Pupil-Teacher Gender Interaction Effects on Scholastic Outcomes in England and the USA
Andreas Ammermueller (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Germany)
Peter Dolton (Royal Holloway College)
Am I missing Something? The effects of absence from class on student performance
Wiji Arulampalam (University of Warwick)
Jeremy Smith (University of Warwick)
Robin Naylor (University of Warwick)
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| Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Marriage and Motherhood in Developing Countries (AEA) |
Presiding: Nancy Qian (Brown University)
Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Infertility Shocks
Jorge M. Aguero (University of California, Riverside)
Mindy Marks (University of California-Riverside)
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Prostitutes and Brides
Manisha Shah (University of Melbourne)
Raj Arunachalam (University of Melbourne)
Stress and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from terrorist attacks
Adriana Camacho (Brown University)
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Work and Marriage: Child Labor, Marriage Matches, and Bride Prices in Rural Tanzania
Rajeev Dehejia (Tufts University and NBER)
Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Roberta Gatti (World Bank and CPER)
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Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM
| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Toward the Microtheory of Entrepreneurship (AEA) |
Presiding: Robert Strom (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
Entrepreneurs in the Theory of the Firm
Daniel Spulber (Northwestern University)
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
David Audretsch (Indiana University & Max Planck Institute)
Entrepreneurial Activities: A Microeconomic Analysis
Vincy Fon (George Washington University)
Ying Lowrey (U.S. Small Business Administration & George Washington University)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The (Micro) Theory of Price and Profit
William Baumol (New York University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Convergence in Macroeconomics? (AEA) |
Presiding: Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Convergence in macroeconomics?
Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Convergence in macroeconomics?
Patrick Kehoe (Minnesota)
Convergence in macroeconomics?
Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
Convergence in macroeconomics?
Michael Woodford (Columbia University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Learning from your Colleagues? Theory and Evidence (AEA) |
Presiding: Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)
Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?
Han Kim (University of Michigan)
Adair Morse (University of Chicago)
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
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Superstar Extinction
Pierre Azoulay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Joshua Zivin (Columbia Universityand NBER)
Jialan Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Geography and Innovation: Evidence from Nobel Laureate Scientists
Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University)
First in Village or Second in Rome
Ettore Damiano (University of Toronto)
Hao Li (University of Toronto)
Wing Suen (University of Hong Kong)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Economics of Traffic Safety: Children, Teenagers and the Elderly (AEA) |
Presiding: Steve Levitt (University of Chicago)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury
Steve Levitt (University of Chicago)
Joseph Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Behavioral Impact of Graduated Driver Licensing on Teenage Driving Risk and Exposure
Pinar Karaca-Mandic (University of Minnesota)
Greg Ridgeway (RAND Corporation)
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Traffic Safety, Organ Donations and the Theory of the Second Best
Thomas Dee (Swarthmore College)
Estimating the Accident Risk of Older Drivers
David Loughran (RAND Corporation)
Seth Seabury (RAND Corporation)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Globalization and International Labor Mobility (AEA) |
Presiding: John McLaren (University of Virginia)
The Globalization of Household Production
Michael Kremer (Harvard University, Brookings Institution, Center for Global Development, and NBER)
Stanley Watt (International Monetary Fund)
Workers Without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization
Sanjay Jain (University of Virginia)
Sharun Mukand (Tufts University)
International Migration Policy
Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego and NBER)
Endogenous Migration Policy Through Majority Voting: An Empirical Investigation
Giovanni Facchini (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Universita' degli Studi di Milano and CEPR)
Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University, CEPR and IZA)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Charitable Contributions -Theory and Experimental Evidence (AEA) |
Presiding: John List (University of Chicago)
An Experimental Test of the Impure Altruism Model of Giving
Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
Mark Wilhelm (Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis)
Huan Xie (University of Pittsburgh)
Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Relationship between Norms, Social Information and Subsequent Charitable Giving
Rachel Croson (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)
Femida Handy (School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania)
Jen Shang (Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University)
Neural responses to taxation and money predict charitable giving
William Harbaugh (University of Oregon)
To whom to give or not to give - On the Interaction of fundraising activities of charities
Andreas Lange (University of Maryland)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Salience and Taxation (AEA) |
Presiding: Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence
Raj Chetty (University of California, Berkeley)
Adam Looney (Federal Reserve Board)
Kory Kroft (University of California, Berkeley)
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E-Z Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
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Schmeduling
Jeffrey Liebman (Harvard University)
Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard KSG)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: New Developments (AEA) |
Presiding: Richard Blundell (University College London)
Separating Heterogeneity from Uncertainty in an Incomplete-Market Economy
Flavio Cunha (University of Chicago)
James Heckman (University of Chicago)
Salvador Navarro (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach
Fatih Guvenen (University of Texas at Austin)
Anthony Smith (Yale University)
Income Risk and Consumption Inequality: The Role of Market Structure, Labour Supply and Durables
Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
Richard Blundell (University College London)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Matching Markets (AEA) |
Presiding: Lones Smith (University of Michigan)
What Matchings Can Be Stable? The Testable Implications of Matching Theory.
Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology)
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Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets
Robin Lee (Harvard Business School)
Michael Schwarz (Yahoo! Research and NBER)
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Two-Sided Matching with Interdependent Values
Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Archishman Chakraborty (Baruch College, CUNY)
Alessandro Citanna (HEC – Paris)
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Contagious Matching Games
Lones Smith (University of Michigan)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Technological Change, Educational Returns, and Earnings Inequality: The Experience of Growing Asian Economies (AEA) |
Presiding: Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
Explaining Rising Return to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Xuejun Liu (Beijing Normal University)
Albert Park (Oxford University)
Yaohui Zhao (Peking University)
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The Stable Wage Distribution in Japan 1982-2002: A Counter Example for SBTC?
Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Yuko Mori (Hitotsubashi University)
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Technological Change and Returns to Education: Implications for the S&E Labor Market
Jin Hwa Jung (Seoul National University)
Kang-Shik Choi (Yonsei University)
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Why Graduates Can't Find Jobs in a Soaring Economy: Rent-Seeking Migration of College-Educated Young Workers in China
Tao Li (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Micro-evidence of Corruption in Emerging Economies (AEA) |
Presiding: Fred Finnan (University of California-Los Angeles)
Is There Penalty For Crime? Corporate Scandal and Management Turnover in China
Peng Sun (Peking University)
Yi Zhang (Peking University)
Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
Frederico Finan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Claudio Ferraz (IPEA)
Profiting from Gaizhi:Management Buyouts During China's Privatization
Susan Feng Lu (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
David Dranove (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
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Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa
Pedro Vicente (University of Oxford)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Reform: For Better or for Worse? (AEA) |
Presiding: Gene Grossman (Princeton University)
Parallel Imports and Price Controls
Gene Grossman (Princeton University)
Edwin Lai (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Naercio Menezes (IBMEC Sao Paulo)
Marc-Andreas Muendler (University of California, San Diego)
Trade and Wages Revisited: The Effect of China's MFN Status on the Skill Premium in U.S. Manufacturing
Ivan Kandilov (North Carolina State University)
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Reward and Punishment under The Byrd Amendment
Benjamin Liebman (Saint Joseph's University)
Kasaundra Tomlin (Oakland University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: New Models of International Business Cycles (AEA) |
Presiding: Paolo Presenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
A New Open-Macro Interpretation of International Fluctuations
Soyoung Kim (Korea University)
Jaewoo Lee (International Monetary Fund)
Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle
Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University)
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The Long Run Determinants of the US External Imbalances
Andrea Ferrero (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Design and Reform of Institutions in LDCs and Transition Economies (AEA) |
Presiding: Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?
William Easterly (New York University)
Heterodox Reform
Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)
Self-enforcing Constitutions and Economic Prosperity
Avner Greif (Stanford University)
Yadira Gonzalez de Lara (Stanford University and University of Alicante)
Saumitra Jha (Harvard University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Expertise and Macroeconomic Policy (AEA) |
Presiding: Donald L. Kohn (Federal Reserve Board)
Amateurs versus Experts in Monetary Policy
Timothy Besley (London School of Economics)
Does Leadership Produce Better Monetary Policy? An Experimental Study
Alan Blinder (Princeton University)
John Morgan (University of California-Berkeley)
The FOMC vs. the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?
Christina D. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
David H. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Rare Disasters and Asset Markets (AEA) |
Presiding: John Campbell (Harvard University)
Consumption Disasters in the 20th Century
Robert Barro (Harvard University)
Jose Ursua (Harvard University)
Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance
Xavier Gabaix (New York University and NBER)
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Disasters and Recoveries
Francois Gourio (Boston University)
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Consumption-based Asset Pricing with Higher Cumulants
Ian Martin (Harvard University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Globalization and Its Impact on Workers (AEA) |
Presiding: Steven Davis (University of Chicago and American Enterprise Institute)
Taxes and Wages
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute)
Aparna Mathur (American Enterprise Institute)
What Happened to Employment Stability in America?
Steven Davis (University of Chicago and American Enterprise Institute)
Measuring the Scale and Scope of Services Trade
J. Bradford Jensen (Peterson Institute)
Lori G. Kletzer (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Are Globalization and Labor Standards Antipodes?
Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Political Economy in Developing Countries: Evidence from India (AEA) |
Presiding: Padma Desai (Columbia University)
Gains from a Redrawing of Political Boundaries: Evidence from State Reorganization in India
Rajashri Chakrabarti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Joydeep Roy (Georgetown University and Economic Policy Institute)
Mandated Political Representation and Public Good Provision in India
Nandini Krishnan (Boston University)
Segregation, Rent Control and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
Sujata Visaria (Boston University)
Erica Field (Harvard University)
Rohini Pande (Harvard University)
Matthew Levinson (Harvard University)
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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School)
Anandi Mani (Boston University)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Research on Undergraduate Economics Courses and Majors (AEA) |
Presiding: Michael Watts (Purdue University)
35,000 Principles Students: Some Lessons Learned
Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia)
Daniel Melaugh (Credit Suisse Securities)
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Assessing A Proficiency Based Economics Program: Weathering The Perfect Storm While Thriving In A New Environment
Steven C. Myers (University of Akron)
Michael A. Nelson (University of Akron)
Richard W. Stratton (University of Akron)
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The Economics Classroom without Grades: Promoting a Learning Environment by De-emphasizing Grades
Lester Hadsell (State University of New York, Albany)
The Impact of Aplia on Student Performance in Intermediate Microeconomics Courses
William P. O'dea (State University of New York, Oneonta)
David W. Ring (State University of New York-Oneonta)
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| Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Macroeconomic Factors Impacting Poverty and Income Distribution among African Americans (AEA/NEA) |
Presiding: Gary A. Hoover (University of Alabama)
The Impact of Monetary Policy on the Duration and Type of Unemployment by Race and Sex
William M. Rodgers III (Rutgers University)
Income, Family Structure, and Poverty Among African Americans
Rebecca M. Blank (University of Michigan)
David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
Poverty Volatility and Macroeconomic Quiescence
Philip N. Jefferson (Swarthmore College)
Non-White Poverty and the Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth
Gary A. Hoover (University of Alabama)
Walter Enders (University of Alabama)
Donald G. Freeman (Sam Houston State University)
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Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM
| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Better Living Through Economics: II (AEA) |
Presiding: John Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
The Greatest Auction in History
Preston McAfee (California Institute of Tech.)
Simon Wilkie (University of Southern California)
John McMillan (Stanford University)
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Market Design
Al Roth (Harvard University)
Air Transportation Deregulation
Elizabeth Bailey (University of Pennsylvania)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Firm Dynamics (AEA) |
Presiding: Stephen Redding (London School of Economics)
Creative Destruction in Industries
Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)
Chung-Yi Tse (University of Hong Kong)
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On the Mechanics of Firm Growth
Erzo Luttmer (University of Minnesota)
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Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University)
Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
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Multi-product Firms and Product Switching
Andrew Bernard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
Peter Schott (Yale School of Management)
Stephen Redding (London School of Economics)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Firm Size & Innovation: Solving Schumpeter's Innovation Riddle (AEA) |
Presiding: Richard Nelson (Columbia University)
Firm Size and Innovation: Evidence from European Panel Data
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Sharon Belenzon (Oxford University)
The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
David Audretsch (Indiana University & Max Planck Institute)
Max Keilbach (Max Planck Institute)
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Innovation by SMEs &Large Firms: Sector Structure and Dynamics
Wilfred Dolfsma (Utrecht School of Economics)
Gerben van der Panne (Delft University of Technology)
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University)
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Economics of Ethnic Identity and Assimilation (AEA) |
Presiding: Lisa M. Lynch (Tufts University)
The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation
Carmel U. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago and IZA)
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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
Timothy J. Hatton (Australian National University)
Andrew Leigh (Australian National University)
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Amelie Constant (Georgetown University)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and Bonn University)
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The International Asian Business Success Story: A Comparison of Chinese, Indian, and Other Asian Businesses in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom
Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Julie Zissimopoulos (RAND Corporation)
Harry Krashinsky (University of Toronto)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Prediction Markets -- New Empirical Findings (AEA) |
Presiding: Eric Zitzewitz (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Prediction Markets Inside the Firm: Evidence From Google
Bo Cowgill (Google)
Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School)
Eric Zitzewitz (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Predicting Flu: Prediction Markets vs. Biostatistical Models
Forrest Nelson (University of Iowa)
Philip Polgreen (University of Iowa)
George Neumann ()
Is Liquidity Related to Prediction Market Efficiency?
Paul Tetlock (University of Texas at Austin)
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Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup
Ricard Gil (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Steven Levitt (University of Chicago)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Consumer Bankruptcy and the Credit Market (AEA) |
Presiding: Michelle White (University of California-San Diego)
Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies
Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario)
James MacGee (University of Western Ontario)
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)
Student Debt and Bankruptcy
Sean Campbell (Federal Reserve Board)
Karen Pence (Federal Reserve Board)
Relationship Lending and Bankruptcy: Evidence from the Consumer Credit Market
Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Souphala Chomsisengphet (U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Chunlin Liu (University of Nevada-Reno)
Nicholas Souleles (University of Pennsylvania)
Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Market Competition
Astrid Dick (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Andreas Lehnert (Federal Reserve Board)
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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)
TBA
Paul Krugman (Princeton University)
TBA
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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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: International Reserves (AEA) |
Presiding: Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Financial versus Monetary Mercantilism -- Long-run View of Large International Reserves Hoarding
Joshua Aizenman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jaewoo Lee (International Monetary Fund)
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International Reserves in Emerging Market Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Olivier Jeanne (International Monetary Fund)
The Cost of Reserves
Eduardo Levy Yeyati (Universidad Di Tella)
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Allocation of International Reserves Across Asset Classes
Richard Portes (London Business School)
Elias Papaioannou (European Central Bank)
Grigorios Siourounis (London Business School)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Directed Search Models of Labor and Consumer Product Markets (AEA) |
Presiding: Michael Peters (University of British Columbia)
Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts
Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto)
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Unobservable Heterogeneity in Directed Search
Michael Peters (University of British Columbia)
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The Sorting Effect of Price Competition
Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania)
Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania)
Efficiency of Simultaneous Search
Philipp Kircher (University of Pennsylvania)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Health and Development (AEA) |
Presiding: Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Diseases and Development
Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon)
Chris Papageorgiou (International Monetary Fund)
Fidel Perez-Sebastian (University of Alicante, Spain)
Direct and Indirect Impacts of Community Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Prorgam
Romero Rocha (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Rodrigo Soares (University of Maryland and NBER)
The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States
James Feyrer (Dartmouth College)
Dimitra Politi (Brown University)
David Weil (Brown University and NBER)
Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jane Fortson (University of Chicago)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting (AEA) |
Presiding: Ann Owens (Hamilton College)
Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
Marco Del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania, NBER, CEPR)
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A Case Against Explicit Inflation Targeting
Jerry Tempelman (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Inflexibility of Inflation Targeting Revisited: Modelling the Anchoring Effect
Jan Libich (La Trobe University)
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Optimal Monetary Policy in a Financially Fragile Economy
Ufuk Devrim Demirel (University of Colorado, Boulder)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Labor Market Dynamics (AEA) |
Presiding: Robert Moffitt (John Hopkins University)
Job Chains and Wage Curves: Worker Mobility and Marshallian Surpluses in Evaluating Local Employment Growth
Joseph Persky (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Daniel Felsenstein (Hebrew University)
Wage Compression and Teacher Quality
Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
Annalisa Mastri (Stanford University)
Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
Retirement Reversals
Sewin Chan (New York University)
Ann Huff Stevens (University of California, Davis)
Earnings Volatility in the U.S.: Trends and Comparisons using Survey and Administrative Data
Peter Gottschalk (Boston College)
Robert Moffitt (The Johns Hopkins University)
Jonathan Schwabish (Congressional Budget Office)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Current and Future Institutions for the World Economy (AEA) |
Presiding: Gene Grossman (Princeton University)
The Future of the IMF and World Bank
Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago)
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Rethinking Global Environmental Governance
Daniel Esty (Yale University)
Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University and NBER)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Labor Market Flows (AEA) |
Presiding: Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment
Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics)
Barbara Petrongolo (London School of Economics)
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The Decline of Job Loss
Steven Davis (University of Chicago)
Accounting for Labor Market Flows
Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Psychology and Development: Theory and Experimental Evidence (AEA) |
Presiding: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
How high are rates of return to fertilizer: Evidence from field experiment in Western Kenya
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Jonathan Robinson (UCSC)
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Climbing out of Poverty: Long Term Decisions under Income Stress
Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
Norm Enforcement under Social Discrimination: An Experimental Investigation in India
Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Karla Hoff (World Bank)
Mayuresh Kshetramade (Affinnova, Inc.)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Panel Discussion on "What Should Be the Core of Graduate Economics?" (AEA) |
Presiding: David C. Colander (Middlebury College)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: How to Mentor Junior Economists (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
Presiding: Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas-Austin)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Innovation, Intangibles, and R&D (AEA) |
Presiding: Cynthia A. Glassman (U.S. Department of Commerce)
The Long-Run Impact of Private Equity: The Impact on Innovation
Joshua Lerner (Harvard University)
Intangible Capital and Economic Growth
Carol Corrado (Federal Reserve Board)
Charles Hulten (University of Maryland)
Daniel Sichel (Federal Reserve Board)
The Role of R&D in Economic Growth: BEA's Satellite Account
J. Steven Landefeld (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Sumiye Okubo (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Education:? Theory, Policies and Practice (AEA) |
Presiding: Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College)
Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Achievement: Evidence from Florida
Cecilia Rouse (Princeton University)
David Figlio (University of Florida)
The Impacts of Choice and Accountability on African-American versus Latino Children in Chicago
Brian Jacob (Harvard University)
Within-School Variation in the Quality of Instruction across Course Levels and Racial Groups
Ronald Ferguson (Harvard University)
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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Education and Occupational Choice (AEA) |
Presiding: Gail Hoyt (University of Kentucky)
Does Gender Influence Gains from Increased Academic Opportunities
Justine Hastings (Yale University and NBER)
Jeffrey M. Weinstein (Yale University)
Accounting for Gender Schooling Differences in the U.S.: An Overlapping Generations Analysis
Suqin Ge (Virginia Tech)
Fang Yang (State University of New York)
Faculty Compensation and Preferences: Can Differences in Job Preferences Help Explain Why Men and Women are Paid Differently?
Jennifer Thacher (University of New Mexico)
Melissa Binder (University of New Mexico)
Janie Chermak (University of New Mexico)
Kate Krause (University of New Mexico)
Missing Students: Why Girls Outperform Boys in Secondary School in India
Alaka Holla (Brown University)
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| 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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| Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Topics in Health Economics (AEA/IHEA) |
Presiding: Richard Arnould (University of Illinois)
The Effect of Medicate Part D on Dual Eligibles: Evidence from California's Medicaid Program
Mark Duggan (University of Maryland)
The Effects of Universal Coverage: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Diffusion and Productivity in Health Care
Douglas Staiger (Darmouth College)
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College)
Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation into the Role of Status in Life Expectancy
David Becker (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
Kenneth Chay (University of California-Berkeley and Brown University)
Shailender Swaminathan (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
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| Friday, January 4, 4:45 PM |
| Session: Richard T. Ely Lecture (AEA) |
Presiding: Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
Economics of Climate Change
Nicholas Stern (HM Treasury, UK Government)
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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, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Agglomeration and Wages (AEA) |
Presiding: Edward L Glaeser (Harvard University)
Agglomeration and Wages: Opening Remarks
Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University)
Skills in the City
William Strange (University of Toronto)
Marigee Bacolod (University of California-Irvine)
Bernardo Blum (University of Toronto)
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Estimating Agglomeration Effects: History and Geology
Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)
Pierre-Philippe Combes (GREQAM - University of Aix-Marseille)
Laurent Gobillon (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques)
Sebastien Roux (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)
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Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: Agglomeration Economies or Worker Heterogeneity?
Stephen L. Ross (University of Connecticut)
Shihe Fu (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Optimal Policy in New DSGE Environments (AEA) |
Presiding: Sanjay Chugh (Federal Reserve Board)
Comparing Two Variants of Calvo-Type Wage Stickiness
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Duke University)
Martin Uribe (Duke University)
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Should Monetary Policy Respond to Labor Market Rigidities?
Kai Christoffel (European Central Bank)
Keith Kuester (European Central Bank)
Tobias Linzert (European Central Bank)
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Costly Wage Bargaining
David Arseneau (Federal Reserve Board)
Sanjay Chugh (University of Maryland and Federal Reserve Board)
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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy When Money is Essential
Boragan Aruoba (University of Maryland)
Sanjay Chugh (University of Maryland)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Lab and Field Experiments on Ethnic Differences (AEA) |
Presiding: Tomomi Tanaka (California Institute of Technology)
Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experimental Evidence of the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru
Marco Castillo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ragan Petrie (Georgia State University)
Maximo Torero (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Race Differences in Competitive Attitudes
Carmit Segal (Harvard Business School)
Muriel Niederle (Stanford University)
Ragan Petrie (Georgia State University)
Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
Status, Ethnicity, and Wealth in Vietnam: Evidence from Experimental Games
Tomomi Tanaka (California Institute of Technology)
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
Quang Nguyen (University of Hawaii)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Entry and Industry Dynamics (AEA) |
Presiding: Bruce Petersen (Washington University)
A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments
Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
Chun-Yu Ho (Boston University)
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Market Structure and Industry Dynamics in Service Industries
Timothy Dunne (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Shawn Klimek (Cernter for Economic Studies, Censu Bureau)
Mark Roberts (The Pennsylvania State University)
Yi Xu (The Pennsylvania State University)
Public Entrants, Public Equity Finance and Creative Destruction in the High-Tech Sector
James Brown (Montana State University)
Bruce Petersen (Washington University)
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U.S. Investment 1901-2005: Incumbents, Entrants, and Q
Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)
Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Market Segmentation and Asset Prices (AEA) |
Presiding: Harold Cole (University of Pennsylvania)
Asset Prices and Consumption Allocations with Heterogeneous Trading Opportunities
YiLi Chien (Purdue University)
Harold Cole (University of Pennsylvania)
Hanno Lustig (University of California, Los Angeles)
Fiscal Policy, Asset Pricing and Economic Activity in a Savers-Spenders Economy
Francisco Gomez (London Business School)
Alexander Michaelides ()
Inequality, Stock Market Participation, and the Equity Premium
Jack Favilukis (London School of Economics)
Carry Trades and Currency Crisis
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Lasse Pedersen (Stern School of Business)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: International Finance and Capital Flows (AEA) |
Presiding: Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin)
In Search of Carry Trade
Mehmet Caner (University of Pittsburgh)
Steven Husted (University of Pittsburgh)
The Monetary Model Strikes Back: Evidence from the World
Valerie Cerra (International Monetary Fund)
Sweta Saxena (Bank for International Settlements)
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A New Era of International Financial Integration: Global, Market, and Regional Factors
Marco Cipriani (George Washington University)
Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University)
A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Bretton Woods, Reversed
Andrew Rose (University of California, Berkeley)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Information in General Equilibrium Models of the Business Cycle (AEA) |
Presiding: Bruce McGough (Oregon State University)
A Few Model-Based Answers to Monetary Policy Questions in the United States and the Euro-area
Ricardo Reis (Princeton University)
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Heterogeneous Information and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Christian Hellwig (University of California, Los Angeles)
Do Sticky Prices Need to Be Replaced with Sticky Information?
William Dupor (Ohio State University)
Tomiyuki Kitamura ()
Takayuki Tsuruga ()
Endogenous Inattention and Optimal Monetary Policy in General Equilibrium
Bruce McGough (Oregon State University)
William Branch (University of California, Irvine)
John Carlson (Cleveland Fed)
George Evans (University of Oregon)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: International Migration and Remittances (AEA) |
Presiding: Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Individual Ability and Selection into Migration in Kenya
Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Joan Hamory (University of California, Berkeley)
Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment with Migrant Families in El Salvador and Washington, D.C.
Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School)
Claudia Martinez (University of Michigan)
Diego Aycinena (Francisco Marroquin University)
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The Economics of International Refugee Law
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Ryan Bubb (Harvard University)
David Levine (University of California, Berkeley)
The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
David Mckenzie (World Bank)
John Gibson (University of Waikato)
Steven Stillman (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research)
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| Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Incentives and Pro-social Behavior: Evidence from Field Experiments (AEA) |
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