ES Presidential Address
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom A
2019 Annual Meeting
Atlanta
GA
January 4 –
6
The ASSA 2019 meeting was held January 4 - 6, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Photos from ASSA 2019 have been posted, and Webcasts of selected AEA sessions and AEA poster session videos are online, compliments of the AEA.
Thursday, January 3
ASE Plenary Session and Reception
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Salon East
- Chair: Julie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Friday, January 4
AEA Poster Session
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom CD
AFA Ph.D. Student Poster Session (G0)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom Pre-Function North
- Chair: Kenneth Singleton, Stanford University
Bringing Economic Research into Public Policy Discussions (J0, H0)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 8
- Chair: Jay Shambaugh, George Washington University and Brookings Institution
Censorship (D8, O3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 3
- Chair: Francisco Pino, University of Chile
Climate Change: Impacts and Opportunities for Adaptation (Q5, I0)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 6
- Chair: Antonio M. Bento, University of Southern California
Debt Management and Optimal Taxation (E6, H6)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 9
- Chair: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
Discrimination in Health Care (I1, J1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 4
- Chair: Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER
Energy Economics (Q4)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International C
- Chair: Misak Avetisyan, Texas Tech University
Exchange Rate Determination (F3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International B
- Chair: Collin Rabe, University of Richmond
Financial Constraints, Interest Rates and Productivity Growth (O4, E5)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M104
- Chair: Gita Gopinath, Harvard University
Financial Stability (E5, G2)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom A
- Chair: Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, IAST & UT1C
Foreign Investment, Technology Transfer, and Firm Reorganization (F2, F1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 2
- Chair: Caroline Freund, World Bank
Foundations of Belief Formation: Perceptional and Cognitive Biases, Emotional Coloring, and the Role of Memory (D8, E7)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 7
- Chair: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California-Berkeley
Gender Gaps (J1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 10
- Chair: Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago
Global Turmoil and the Developing World: The Next Two Decades (O1, F6)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom B
- Chair: Shanta Devarajan, World Bank
Heterogeneous Firms and Credit Risk (E2, G1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M302
- Chair: Giulio Seccia, Nazarbayev University
Labor Markets and the Macroeconomy (E2)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A708
- Chair: Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Measuring Gains from International Migration (F2, O1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A705
- Chair: Michael A. Clemens, Center for Global Development
Neuroeconomics (G4, D9)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M102
- Chair: Lino Guimaraes Marujo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Public Policy in the Telecommunications Industries (L5, L8)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International 5
- Chair: Jonathan Levy, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Rent Control (R3, H7)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A601
- Chair: Richard Arnott, University of California-Riverside
Studying Facets of the United States Labor Market with National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Data (J0)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A707
- Chair: Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University
The Federal Reserve Banks as Partners in Teaching and Learning Economics (A2)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M101
- Chair: Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Illinois Wesleyan University
Topics in Economic Theory I (D8, D1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A701
- Chair: Ayca Kaya, University of Miami
Uncertainty and Financial Markets (G1, E6)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M304
- Chair: Scott Ross Baker, Northwestern University
Wealth Inequality & Wealth Taxation (D3, D6)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M301
- Chair: Henrik Kleven, Princeton University
Asset Pricing Anomalies (G1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 205-206-207
- Chair: Joseph Engelberg, University of California-San Diego
Asset Pricing: Implications of Financial Constraints (G1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom A
- Chair: Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University
Behavioral Corporate Finance (G3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom B
- Chair: Geoffrey Tate, University of North Carolina
Capital Structure (Leverage) (G3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 212-213-214
- Chair: Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
Insiders and Incentives (G3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 209-210-211
- Chair: Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina
Mergers and Acquisitions (G3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom C
- Chair: Jun-Koo Kang, Nanyang Technological University
Risk and Return in Financial Intermediation (G2)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Salon West
- Chair: Stephen Dimmock, Nanyang Technological University
The Role of Media in Finance (G1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom D
- Chair: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
Cycles (O1, E3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 215
- Chair: Jiro Yoshida, Pennsylvania State University
Residential Investment (C7, I1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 217
- Chair: Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Political Selection and Intra-Party Conflicts in China (P2, H1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover D & E
- Chair: Yang Yao, Peking University
Neoliberalism and Protective Responses: Populist and Nationalist Insurgencies (B5, D7)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Crystal F
- Chair: William Redmond, Indiana State University
Cooperation, for Good or Ill (Z1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, Crystal A
- Chair: Rojhat Avsar, Columbia College Chicago
Environmental Risk, Justice, and Amenities in Housing Markets (Q5, R3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M202
- Chair: David Albouy, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Growth Efficiency & Finance (O1, Y9)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 223
- Chair: Usha Nair-Reichert, Georgia Institute of Technology
Macroeconomics and Housing (E0, R0)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 305
- Chair: Charles Ka Yui Leung, City University of Hong Kong
Trade and Economic Regimes (F1)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta, 224
- Chair: Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University
Carrots and Coercion in Labor Mobility and Economic Development (N3)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L505
- Chair: Noel Maurer, George Washington University
Asset Pricing and Volatility (C2, C5)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L508
- Chair: Jeroen Dalderop, University of Notre Dame
Credit: Empirical Macroeconomic Implications (E2, G2)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L503
- Chair: Farzad Saidi, Stockholm School of Economics
Exchange Rates and Capital Flows (F3, F4)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L506
- Chair: Alexander Rodnyansky, University of Cambridge
Individual and Social Decisions (D8, D7)
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, L507
- Chair: Bart Lipman, Boston University