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Preliminary Program

2017 Annual Meeting

Chicago IL

January 6 – 8

The 2017 Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, IL (January 6-8, 2017 - Friday, Saturday, & Sunday). View Photos from the meeting.

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Sessions

Events

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Thursday, January 5

ES Presidential Address

Session/Event

Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Crystal B

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Plenary Session and Reception (G1)

Special Session

Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich A-C

Hosted By: Association for Social Economics

Chair: Quentin Wodon, World Bank

Friday, January 6

Shifts in Price Discovery in Commodity Markets: Implications for United States Agriculture (Q1, Q0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Montreux 1

Hosted By: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Chair: Getachew Nigatu, USDA Economic Research Service

AEA Committee on Economic Education Poster Session (A2)

Poster Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Toronto

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Steve Cobb, University of North Texas

AEA Poster Session

Poster Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 – Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Columbus Hall

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Big Data in Household Finance (G1, D1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Plaza B

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Stefan Nagel, University of Michigan

Brexit: Six Months Later (F1, F4)

Panel Discussion

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom AB

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Econometrics of Uncertainty (E0, C0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Suite 3

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Laurent Ferrara, Bank of France

Economics of Climate Change (Q5)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Michigan 3

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Roberton Williams, University of Maryland

Evaluating Behavioral Policy Applications Using Administrative Data (H0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Regency A

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Tatiana Homonoff, New York University

Field Experiments Exploring Social Information (D8, C9)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Michigan 1A & 1B

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Laura Katherine Gee, Tufts University

Firms, Productivity and Development (O1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich E

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Christopher Woodruff, University of Warwick

Income Inequality Within and Across Firms (J3, E2)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Regency C

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Christian Moser, Columbia University

Institutions and Economic Growth (N2, O4)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich C

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: David Weiss, Tel Aviv University

Labor Markets and Crime (J2, K4)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Crystal A

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Steven Levitt, University of Chicago

Migration, Access, and Educational Outcomes (J1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Suite 5

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Marie T. Mora, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

Persistent Effects of Culture and Institutions (Z1, O1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich A

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: James A. Robinson, University of Chicago

Platform Competition and Market Design (L1, G2)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich B

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Marc Rysman, Boston University

Political Economy (D7)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, New Orleans

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Katherine E. Casey, Stanford University

Pollution and Later-Life Mortality (Q5)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Randolph 1

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Janet M. Currie, Princeton University and NBER

Race, Ethnicity and the Military (J0, N0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Atlanta

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Fernando Lozano, Pomona College

School Performance: Information, Choice and Interventions (I0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Acapulco

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania

Subjective Well-Being and Utility (D6)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Michigan 2

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University

Understanding Moral Repugnance in Markets (D4)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom CD North

Hosted By: American Economic Association

Chair: Kimberly Krawiec, Duke University

AFA Panel: Capital Constraints, Public Policy and Minority Entrepreneurship (G0)

Panel Discussion

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom V

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Josh Lerner, Harvard University

AFA Poster Session (G0)

Poster Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VII

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Affiliation and Delegated Portfolios (G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom IX

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Veronika Pool, Indiana University

Analysts (G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom III

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Ing-Haw Cheng, Dartmouth College

Credit Risk (G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom II

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University

Debt and Crises (G2)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom X

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University

Executive Compensation (G3)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VIII

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Kelly Shue, University of Chicago

Liquidity and Trading in Bond and Derivatives Markets I (G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago Ballroom VI

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Francis Longstaff, University of California-Los Angeles

Media and Finance (G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Sheraton Ballroom IV

Hosted By: American Finance Association

Chair: Kenneth Ahern, University of Southern California

Housing Market in Singapore (R2, G1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Huron

Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

Chair: Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore

Issues in Mortgage Design (G2, J1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ontario

Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

Chair: Anthony Sanders, George Mason University

Well-Being, Labor Market Institutions and Income Distribution Across Countries (I3, J5)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Michigan AB

Hosted By: Association for Comparative Economic Studies

Chair: Josef C. Brada, Arizona State University

Corporations, Networks, Technology, and Access (L2, B5)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, St Gallen 2

Hosted By: Association for Evolutionary Economics

Chair: Ann E. Davis, Marist College

The Political Economy of Qualities: The Erosion of Ethics and Values in an Increasingly Iniquitous Global System (P0, H0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, St Gallen 3

Hosted By: Association for Social Economics

Chair: Rajani Kanth, Harvard University

Altruism and Risk Sharing In Development Contexts (D6, O1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Montreux 2

Hosted By: Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics

Chair: Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame

Demand for Amenities and Cost of Regulation: Methods and Applications (Q5)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Swissotel Chicago, Zurich G

Hosted By: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Chair: Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University

Advances in Econometrics (C0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Water Tower

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Chair: Vitor Augusto Possebom, EESP-Getulio Vargas Foundation

Energy Economics (Q0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Dusable

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Chair: Mar Reguant, Northwestern University

Firms and Development (O0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Field

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Chair: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Networks: Games and Markets (C0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, McCormick

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Chair: Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University

The Diffusion of Knowledge (A1)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Burnham

Hosted By: Econometric Society

Chair: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University

Experiments on Employee and Group Behavior (C9, D7)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri

Hosted By: Economic Science Association & American Economic Association

Chair: Timothy C. Salmon, Southern Methodist University

Contributed Papers in Health Economics (I0)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Plaza A

Hosted By: Health Economics Research Organization

Chair: Michael Fitzmaurice, JMF Associates

Friedman, Chile, and the Chicago Boys (B2, B3)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Soldier Field

Hosted By: History of Economics Society

Chair: Andrew Farrant, Dickinson University

Dynamics of Low-Wage Labor Markets: Implication for Minimum Wage Policy (J3)

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Columbian

Hosted By: Labor and Employment Relations Association

Chair: Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute