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Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economics of Malaria (AEA) |
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Presiding: Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University) Discussants: Vivian Hoffmann (Cornell University) Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University) Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago) Pascaline Dupas (Dartmouth College) Spillovers and Aggregate Effects of Health Capital: Lessons from the Eradication of Parasitic Disease in Southern U.S. Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago) What matters (and what does not) in households' investments in malaria prevention? Pascaline Dupas (University of California, Los Angeles and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa (India) Brian Blackburn (Stanford University) Aprajit Mahajan (Stanford University) Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University) Joanne Yoong (RAND) Download Full-Text of Paper Intra-household allocation of free and purchased mosquito nets Vivian E. Hoffmann (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: New Empirical Approaches to Decision Making under Uncertainty (AEA) |
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Presiding: Mark Machina (University of California-San Diego) Discussants: Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley) Matt Shum (Johns Hopkins University) Victor Matheson (College of the Holy Cross) Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University) Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin) Bernard Salanie (Columbia University) Francois Salanie (Toulouse School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation Matthew D. Shapiro (University of Michigan) Miles S. Kimball (University of Michigan) Claudia R. Sahm (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Robust Equilibrium Yield Curves Isaac Kleshchelski (Washington University in St. Louis) Nicolas Vincent (HEC Montreal) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Psychology of Food Consumption (AEA) |
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Presiding: Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago) Discussants: Stefano Dellavigna (University of California-Berkeley) Lisa Mancino (U.S. Department of Agriculture) John Cawley (Cornell University) Promoting Choice of Healthy Foods: Information Versus Convenience George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University) Julie Downs (Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Wisdom (Carnegie Mellon University) Interaction of Profit Motives, Food Marketing and Behavioral Food Decisions Brian Wansink (Cornell University) David Just (Cornell University) Collin Payne (New Mexico State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Food and Mood: How Food Consumption Varies with Subjective Wellbeing Diane Whitmore (University of Chicago) Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Strategic Communication (AEA) |
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Presiding: Navin Kartik (University of California-San Diego) Discussants: Joel Sobel (University of California-San Diego) Maxim Ivanov (Pennsylvania State University) Marco Battaglini (Princeton University) Wouter Dessein (University of Chicago) Iteratively Stable Cheap Talk Equilibria Sidartha Gordon (Universite de Montreal) Dynamic Strategic Information Transmission Mikhail Golosov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER,) Vasiliki Skreta (New York University) Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard University and NBER) Andrea Wilson (New York University) Wait and See: A Theory of Communication Over Time Peter Eso (Northwestern University) Yuk-Fai Fong (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Opinions as Incentives Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) Navin Kartik (University of California-San Diego) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Understanding Participant Choice in Pension Plans (AEA) |
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Presiding: Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois) Discussants: Wei Jiang (Columbia University) Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School) Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) Pierluigi Balduzzi (Boston College) Mental Acccounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect James Choi (Yale University) David Laibson (Harvard University) Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Menu Effects and Retirement Saving: The Impact of Life Cycle Funds on 401(k) Plan Portfolios Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) Gary Mottola (Vanguard) Stephen Utkus (Vanguard) Takeshi Yamaguchi (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper Why Do Individuals Choose Defined Contribution Plans? Jeffrey Brown (University of Illinois) Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois) The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the United States and Germany Thomas Post (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Helmut Gruendl (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Joan T. Schmit (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Anja Zimmer (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Completing an Economics Ph.D. in Five Years: Let the Data (Literally) Speak for Themselves (AEA) |
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Presiding: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California) Ethan Cohen-Cole (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Paul Heaton (Rand Corporation) Todd Schoellman (Clemson University) Emma Stephens (Pitzer College) Completing an Economics Ph.D. in Five Years Wendy A. Stock (Montana State University) T. Aldrich Finegan (Vanderbilt University) John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper TBA |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: How Structural Change Affects the Middle Class (AEA) |
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Presiding: Joep Konings (Katholieke University Leuven) Discussants: Catia Batista (University of Oxford) Carlos Davidson (Michigan State University) Ian King (University of Melbourne) Joep Konings (Katholieke University Leuven) Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Dorn (University of St Gallen) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach Erhan Artuc (Koc University) Shubham Chaudhuri (World Bank) John McLaren (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade, Education, and the Shrinking Middle Class Emily Blanchard (University of Virginia) Gerald Willmann (Katholieke University Leuven) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Training and Assessing the Effectiveness of Teaching Assistants in Economics (AEA) |
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Presiding: Kenneth G. Elzinga (University of Virginia) Discussants: James Gwartney (Florida State University) Gail M. Hoyt (University of Kentucky) Dirk Mateer (Penn State University) Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) Preparing Graduate Students in Economics for Teaching: Survey Findings and Recommendations William Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) William E. Becker (Indiana University) Download Full-Text of Paper Are Female and Postgraduate Teaching Assistants More Effective? An Investigation of How the Gender and Experience of Teaching Assistants Affect Students' Performance Ada Jansen (Stellenbosch University) Petronella Horn (Stellenbosch University) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Recent Ph.D. Economists Feel Prepared to Teach Economics? James McCoy (Murray State University) Martin Milkman (Murray State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Group Differences in Performance: The Effects of Teaching Assistants on Collegiate Grades Sarah Hastedt (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Genes and Economics (AEA) |
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Presiding: David Laibson (Harvard University) Discussants: Ken Chay (Brown University) David Laibson (Harvard University) Ted Joyce (City University of New York) Carlos Dobkin (University of California-Santa Cruz) Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement Jason Fletcher (Yale University) Steven Lehrer (Queen's University) Download Full-Text of Paper How Smoking, Drugs, and Obesity Affect Education, Using Genes as Instruments Edward Norton (University of Michigan) Euna Han (University of Illinois-Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Genetic Influences on Economic Outcomes Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University) Christopher Chabris (Union College) Edward Glaeser (Harvard University) David Laibson (Harvard University) Adolescents are "Different" : Addictive Behavior Under Developmental Uncertainty J. Niels Rosenquist (Harvard University) Casey Rothschild (Middlebury College) |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Effect of Tax Reforms on Economic Behavior and Tax Evasion: Cross-Country Evidence (AEA) |
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Presiding: Raj Chetty (University of California-Berkeley) Discussants: Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University) Jonathan Feinstein (Yale University) Roger Gordon (University of California-San Diego) Mark Rider (Georgia State University) Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley) Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (Georgia State University) Klara Sabirianova Peter (Georgia State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India Jagadeesh Sivadasan (University of Michigan) Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) Income Taxation and Self-Employment: The Impact of Progressivity in Countries with Tax Evasion Ioana M. Petrescu (American Enterprise Institute) Download Full-Text of Paper Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice Mihir Desai (Harvard University) Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Making the Sovereign Pay - Lessons from History (AEA) |
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Presiding: Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) Discussants: Michael Bordo (Rutgers University and NBER) Stephen Haber (Stanford University and NBER) William Summerhill (University of California-Los Angeles) Searching for Irving Fisher Kris James Mitchener (Santa Clara University University of California-Los Angeles and NBER) Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna College and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia) Download Full-Text of Paper International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30 Alan Taylor (University of California-Davis) Janine Wilson (University of California-Davis) Gunboats and Vultures: Market Perception to the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) Noel Maurer (Harvard Business School) Faisal A. Ahmed (University of Chicago) |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Household Heterogeneity and Risk (AEA) |
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Presiding: Stephen Shore (Johns Hopkins University) Discussants: Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Richard Blundell (University College London) Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) Heterogeneous Risk Preferences and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility Shane Jensen (University of Pennsylvania) Stephen Shore (Johns Hopkins University) Download Full-Text of Paper Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences Maurizio Mazzocco (Duke University) Shiv Saini (University of Wisconsin) Download Full-Text of Paper Consumption Insurance With Heterogeneous Preferences. Can Sharecropping Help Complete Markets? Pierre DuBois (Toulouse) |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: International Migration and Remittances: Empirical Innovations (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dean Yang (University of Michigan) Discussants: Joost De Laat (University of Montreal) Lori Beaman (University of California-Berkeley) Una Osili (Indiana University) Gero Carletto (World Bank) Remittance Set Asides: A Field Experiment in Mexico Dean Karlan (Yale University) Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University) Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador Dean Yang (University of Michigan) Diego Aycinena (Francisco Marroquin University) Nava Ashraf (Harvard University) Claudia Martinez (University of Chile) Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A Quasi-Experiment Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development) Satish Chand (Australian National University) Download Full-Text of Paper Preliminary Impacts of a New Seasonal Work Program on Rural Household Incomes in the Pacific David McKenzie (World Bank) John Gibson (University of Waikato) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Laws, Institutions and Corporate Governance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Frederick Tung (Emory University) Discussants: TBA () “Law and Finance” Revisited Holger Spamann (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Law, Agency Costs and Project Finance: An Empirical Analysis Krishnamurthy Subramanian (Emory University) Frederick Tung (Emory University) Xue Wang (Emory University) Download Full-Text of Paper Stealing from Thieves: Firm Governance and Performance when States are Predatory Art Durnev (McGill University) Larry Fauver (University of Tennessee) Download Full-Text of Paper A Corporate Governance Index: Convergence and Diversity of National Corporate Governance Regulations Marina Martynova (University of Sheffield) Luc Renneboog (Tilburg University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Microstructure of Exchange Rates (AEA) |
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Presiding: Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne) Discussants: Adrien Verdelhan (Boston University) Terrence Hendershott (University of California-Berkeley) Ingrid Lo (Bank of Canada) Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne) A Transaction Data Study of The Forward Bias Puzzle Francis Breedon (Imperial College London) Dagfinn Rime (Norges Bank) Paolo Vitale (Università D'Annunzio and CEPR) Download Full-Text of Paper Rise of the Machines: Algorithmic Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market Alain Chaboud (Federal Reserve Board) Erik Hjalmarsson (Federal Reserve Board) Benjamin Chiquoine (TIFF) Clara Vega (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Exchange Rate Management in Emerging Markets: Intervention via an electronic limit order book Michael Melvin (Barclays Global Investors) Lukas Menkhoff (Leibniz Universität Hannover) Maik Schmeling (Leibniz Universität Hannover) Download Full-Text of Paper Intraday Patterns in FX returns and Order Flow Francis Breedon (Imperial College London) Angelo Ranaldo (Swiss National Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Multi-Winner Contest (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dan Kovenock (Purdue University) Discussants: Daniel Arce (University of Texas-Dallas) Ken Hendricks (University of Texas-Austin) Dan Kovenock (Purdue University) Xianwen Shi (University of Toronto) Terrorism and the Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets Dan Kovenock (Purdue University) Brian Roberson (Miami University) Download Full-Text of Paper Rushes Andreas Park (University of Toronto) Lones Smith (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper All-Pay Contest Ron Siegel (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Unifying Contests: from Noisy Ranking to Ratio-Form Contest Success Functions Qiang Fu (National University of Singapore) Jingfeng Lu (National University of Singapore) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: News and Uncertainty in Business Cycles (AEA) |
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Presiding: Robert Hall (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) Discussants: Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) Eduardo Engel (Yale University) Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania) Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) News, Noise, and Fluctuations Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jean-Paul L'Huiller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Guido Lorenzoni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Really Uncertain Business Cycles Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) Max Floetotto (Stanford University) Nir Jaimovich (Stanford University) Fragile Beliefs and the Price of Model Uncertainty Lars Hansen (University of Chicago) Tom Sargent (New York University) Download Full-Text of Paper Speculative Growth and Overreaction to Technology Shocks Kevin Lansing (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Geography, Institutions, and Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Chris Stefanadis (University of Arizona) Discussants: Simon Johnson (International Monetary Fund) Chris Papageorgiou (International Monetary Fund) Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute (unconfirmed)) Factor Endowments, Appropriation Activity, and Property Rights Institutions Chris Stefanadis (University of Arizona) The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development Raphael Auer (Swiss National Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade, Institutions, and Reforms Gal Hochman (University of California-Berkeley) Chrysostomos Tabakis (New University of Lisbon) David Zilberman (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper Institutions, Geography, and Terms of Trade in Latin America: A Longitudinal Econometric Analysis Nathan Perry (University of Utah and Westminster College) Carlos E. Schonerwald (UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) Forms of democracy, autocracy, and the resource curse Anne Boschini (Stockholm University) Jan Pettersson (Stockholm University) Jesper Roine (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Lotteries and Gambling (AEA) |
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Presiding: Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Discussants: David Albouy (University of Michigan) Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Jonathan Guryan (University of Chicago) Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University) The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery Scott Hankins (University of Kentucky) Mark Hoekstra (University of Pittsburgh) Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper Preferences under Risk: The Case of State Lottery Bettors Melissa Kearney (University off Maryland) Using Lotteries to Overcome Self-Control Problems George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University) Kevin Volpp (University of Pennsylvania) Emily Haisley (Yale University) Against All Odds? National Sentiment and Wagering on European Football Sebastian Braun (Humboldt University of Berlin) Michael Kvasnicka (RWI Essen) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Heterogeneity and Credit Frictions in Macroeconomics (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Leahy (New York University) Discussants: John Leahy (New York University) B. Ravikumar (University of Iowa) On Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking and the Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Constraints Christiane Clemens (University of Hamburg) Maik Heinemann (University of Lueneburg) Download Full-Text of Paper Uncertainty Driven Business Cycle Jae Sim (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy Vasco Curdia (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Michael Woodford (Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper Heterogeneous Price Setting Behavior and Aggregate Dynamics: Some General Results Carlos Carvalho (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Felipe Schwartzman (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Inequality and a Repeated Joint Project Olivier Dagnelie (Instituto de Análisis Económico CSIC) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Online Advertising Markets (AEA) |
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Presiding: Susan Athey (Harvard University) Discussants: Ben Edelman (Harvard Business School) Glenn Ellison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford Business School) Online Ad Auctions Hal Varian (University of California-Berkeley and Google) Download Full-Text of Paper The Quest for QWERTY John Morgan (University of California-Berkeley) Tanjim Hossain (Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Sponsored Search Advertising Markets Susan Athey (Harvard University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Challenges for Healthcare (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Discussants: Victor Fuchs (Stanford University) Uwe Reinhardt (Princeton University) Mark McClellan (Brookings Institution (unconfirmed)) Douglas Staiger (Dartmouth College) Katherine Baicker (Harvard University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: International Aspects of Financial-Market Imperfections (AEA) |
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Presiding: Maurice Obstfeld (University of California-Berkeley) Discussants: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California-Berkeley) Andrew Atkeson (University of California-Los Angeles) Joshua Aizenman (University of California-Santa Cruz) The Aftermath of Financial Crises Carmen M. Reinhart (University of Maryland) Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Expropriation Dynamics Mark Aguiar (University of Rochester) Manuel Amador (Stanford University) Gita Gopinath (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008 Maurice Obstfeld (University of California-Berkeley) Jay C. Shambaugh (Dartmouth College) Alan M. Taylor (University of California-Davis) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: HIV/AIDS and Economic Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston and NBER) Discussants: Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University and NBER) Rebecca Thornton (University of Michigan) Simon Johnson (International Monetary Fund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and NBER) David Weil (Brown University and NBER) Manisha Shah (University of Melbourne) HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston and NBER) Sebnem Kalemi-Ozcan (University of Houston and NBER) Belgi Turan (University of Houston) Download Full-Text of Paper HIV/AIDS and Fertility Jane Fortson (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa Emily Oster (University of Chicago and NBER) Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Eric Werker (Harvard Business School) Amrita Ahuja (Harvard Business School) Brian Wendell (Lehman Brothers) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Politics and Finance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Art Durnev (McGill University) Discussants: TBA () Sheltering Corporate Assets from Political Extraction Mara Faccio (Purdue University) Lorenzo Caprio (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) John McConnell (Purdue University) Download Full-Text of Paper Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales Raymond Fisman (Columbia Business School) Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School) Yongxiang Wang (Columbia Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel Art Durnev (McGill University) Sergei Guriev (New Economic School) Download Full-Text of Paper Japan's Development as a Natural Resources Based "Big Push" Success Story Randall Morck (University of Alberta) Masao Nakamura (University of British Columbia) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Markets for Private Health Insurance: Plan Competition, Consumer Demand, and Health Outcomes (AEA) |
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Presiding: Daniel McFadden (University of California-Berkeley) Discussants: Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan) Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University) Estimating welfare in insurance markets: A willingness to pay approach Liran Einav (Stanford University) Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mark Cullen (Yale University) Download Full-Text of Paper Endogenous product differentiation in Medicare Part D Dana Goldman (RAND, Santa Monica) Geoffrey Joyce (RAND, Santa Monica) William Vogt (RAND, Santa Monica) The Workings of a Private Health Insurance Market: Enrollment Decisions, Plan Choice, and Adverse Selection in Medicare Part D Florian Heiss (University of Munich) Daniel McFadden (University of California-Berkeley) Joachim Winter (University of Munich) Download Full-Text of Paper The Impact of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Spending: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Helen Levy (University of Michigan) David Weir (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Collegiate Applications and Outcomes (AEA) |
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Presiding: TBA () Discussants: Bruce I Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Gordon Nora (University of California-San Diego) Why Not Apply? The Effect of Application Costs on College Applications for Low-Income Students Amanda Pallais (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of High Merit Students for Highly Selective Colleges Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University) Christopher Avery (Harvard University) Mismatch Between Students and Colleges: Evidence from the NLSY-97 Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan) Eleanor Dillon (University of Michigan) Aid and Application Awareness: Reaching High Achieving Students Christopher Avery (Harvard University) Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Administrative Micro Data from the Social Security Administration and Applications (AEA) |
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Presiding: Daniel Sullivan (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Discussants: Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University) David Stapleton (Mathematica) Daniel Sullivan (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Till Von Wachter (Columbia University) The Effect of Transfer Income on Labor Force Participation and Enrollment in Federal Benefits Programs: Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mark Duggan (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937 Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University) Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley) Jae Song (Social Security Administration) Download Full-Text of Paper Effects on Claiming Old-Age Benefits and Earnings in Response to Changes in Social Security Rules Joyce Manchester (Congressional Budget Office) Jae Song (Social Security Administration) Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession Till Von Wachter (Columbia University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The Economics of Food Consumption and Obesity (AEA) |
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Presiding: Janet Currie (Columbia University) Discussants: John Cawley (Cornell University) Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College) Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania) Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (University of Chicago) The Effect of Fast-Food Restaurants on Obesity Janet Currie (Columbia University) Stefano Dellavigna (University of California-Berkeley) Enrico Moretti (University of California-Berkeley) Vikram Pathania (University of California-Berkeley) Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? Michael Anderson (University of California-Berkeley) David Matsa (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Mindless Eating and Environmental Cues Brian Wansink (Cornell University) David Just (Cornell University) Collin Payne (New Mexico State University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Reflections on American Views of the Euro Ex Ante: What We Have Learnt 10 years Ex Post (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dale Henderson (Federal Reserve Board) Discussants: Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel) Stefan Gerlach (Goethe University Frankfurt) Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University) Skepticism about EMU: How Successfully Has It Survived? Martin Feldstein (Harvard University) Irrelevance of EMU: How Has It Mattered? Adam Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) Benefits of EMU: Has There Been Deeper Real Integration? Richard Portes (London Business School) The Euro: It Can't Happen, It's a Bad Idea, It Won't Last. U.S. Economists on EMU 1989 - 2002 Lars Jonung (European Commission) Eoin Drea (Tom Phillips and Associates, Dublin) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Household Portfolio Choice (AEA) |
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Presiding: Erik Hurst (University of Chicago) Discussants: Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) Robert Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis) Ricardo Reis (Princeton University) Thomas Davidoff (University of California-Berkeley) How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Investment Choices? John Beshears (Harvard University) James Choi (Yale University) David Laibson (Harvard University) Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Household Bargaining and Portfolio Choice Urvi Neelakantan (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Angela Lyons (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Carl Nelson (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Download Full-Text of Paper The Effect of Personal Experience on Expectations: Evidence from Micro-Data on Inflation Expectations Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley and NBER) Stefan Nagel (Stanford University and NBER) Does Mandated Financial Counseling Improve Mortgage Decision-Making? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Gene Amromin (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Itzhak Ben-David (Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University) Souphala Chomsisengphet (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Douglas Evanoff (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: David Colander (Middlebury College) Discussants: Catherine Hill (Vassar College) David W. Breneman (University of Virginia) George Daly (Georgetown University) The Economics Major and a Liberal Education: The Teagle Foundation Report David Colander (Middlebury College) Kimmarie McGoldrick (University of Richmond) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Finding Truth in More Than One Place: Improving Statistics by Integrating Survey and Administrative Data (AEA) |
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Presiding: Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland) Discussants: Richard Blundell (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) Joseph Hotz (Duke University) Lisa Dragoset (Mathematical Policy Research) Earnings Dynamics in the PSID and the LEHD: A Comparison Peter Gottschalk (Boston College) Erika McEntarfer (U.S. Census Bureau) Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University) Using Two-Sample Methods to Correct for Reporting Bias in Surveys Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) James X. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame) Download Full-Text of Paper Earnings and Payroll Taxes: An Evaluation of Administrative and Synthetic Earnings Jeffrey Liebman (Harvard University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Networks, Spillovers, and the Globalization of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (AEA) |
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Presiding: Bronwyn Hall (University of California-Berkeley) Discussants: Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University) Paula Stephan (Georgia State University) Iain Cockburn (Boston University) John McHale (Queen's University) US Ethnic Scientists and Foreign Direct Investment Placement Fritz Foley (Harvard University) William Kerr (Harvard University) How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science? Shulamit Kahn (Boston University) Megan MacGarvie (Boston University) Download Full-Text of Paper Globalization of Software: The role of local capabilities and users Ashish Arora (Carnegie Mellon University) Matej Drev (Carnegie Mellon University) Chris Forman (Georgia Institute of Technology) Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School) Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Organization and Growth (AEA) |
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Presiding: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) Discussants: Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) Per Krusell (Princeton University) Boyan Jovanovic (New York University) Research Cycles Yann Bramoullé (Universite Laval) Gilles Saint Paul (IDEI Toulouse) Download Full-Text of Paper Smithian Growth through Creative Organization Patrick Legros (ULB) Andrew Newman (Boston University) Eugenio Proto (University of Warwick) Download Full-Text of Paper Implementing Technology Diego Comin (New York University) Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Organizing Growth Luis Garicano (London School of Economics) Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Public Finance in Developing Countries (AEA) |
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Presiding: Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) Discussants: Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tax Structures in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation Roger Gordon (University of California-San Diego) Wei Li (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper The Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies: Theory and Evidence Raj Chetty (University of California-Berkeley) Adam Looney (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Informal Taxation Benjamin Olken (MIT) Monica Singhal (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Estimates and Flat Tax Predictions using the Hungarian Tax Changes in 2005 Peter Benczur (Magyar Nemzeti Bank and Central European University) Dora Benedek (Central European University and Finance Ministry) Peter Bakos (Royal Bank of Scotland) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Explaining International Trade Patterns (AEA) |
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Presiding: Steve Redding (London School of Economics) Discussants: Kei-Mu Yi (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) Kim Ruhl (University of Texas-Austin) Kalina Manova (Stanford University) James Harrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER) International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin) Jian Wang (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Download Full-Text of Paper The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level Analysis Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) Marc-Andreas Muendler (University of California-San Diego) Download Full-Text of Paper Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) Download Full-Text of Paper East is East and West is West: A Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin Model of Comparative Advantage Peter Morrow (University of Toronto) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: House Prices, Mortgage Rates, and Household Choice (AEA) |
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Presiding: Francois Ortalo-Magne (University of Wisconsin) Discussants: John Muellbauer (Nuffield College, Oxford University) Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) How Well do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices of their Homes? Hugo Benitez-Silva (State University of New York-Stony Brook) Selcuk Eren (Hamilton College) Frank Heiland (Florida State University) Sergi Jimenez-Martin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Download Full-Text of Paper Fixed and Variable-Rate Mortgages, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy Margarita Rubio (Bank of Spain) Download Full-Text of Paper Rent-Price Ratios and the Earnings Yield on Housing Yong Kim (University of Southern California) Housing over Time and over the Life Cycle: A Structural Estimation Wenli Li (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) Haiyong Liu (East Carolina University) Rui Yao (Baruch College) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Financial Integration in Asia: New Wine in Old Wineskins? (AEA/ACAES) |
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Presiding: Steven Husted (University of Pittsburgh) Discussants: Robert Owen (University of Nantes) Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide) David Cheong (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS-Bologna) Gianluigi Pelloni (University of Bologna) Toward a Regional Exchange-Rate Regime in East Asia Masahiro Kawai (ADB Institute) Optimal Sequencing Issues in Real and Monetary Integration in East Asia Mordechai E. Kreinin (Michigan State University) Michael G. Plummer (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS-Bologna) Download Full-Text of Paper The ASEAN Dollar Standard in the Post-Crisis Era Reid W. Click (George Washington University) Download Full-Text of Paper Financial integration and cooperation in Asia and the global crisis Giovanni Capannelli (Asian Development Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Gender and Labor Mobility in the Chinese Labor Market (AEA/CES) |
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Presiding: Jack W. Hou (California State University, Long Beach) Discussants: Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College) Örn Bodvarsson (St. Cloud State University) Tony Fang (York University) Xiao-Yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg) Gender and Career Mobility in the Chinese Urban Labor Market during the Transition Yueping Song (Renmin University) Xiao-Yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg) Heterogeneous Human Capital, Allocation Efficiency, and Migration: Theory, and Evidence from China C. Simon Fan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Oded Stark (Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt and Vienna) Xiaodong Wei (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) The Deregulation of People Flows in China: Did the Structure of Migration Change? Shuming Bao (University of Michigan) Örn Bodvarsson (St. Cloud State University and IZA) Jack W. Hou (California State University-Long Beach) Yaohui Zhao (China Center for Economic Research, Peking University) Download Full-Text of Paper Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Urban Women in China: 1982-2000 Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College) Maggie Maurer-Fazio (Bates College) Chen Lan (Chinese Ministry of Labor and Social Security) Lixin Tang (Bates College) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Growth in Latin America (AEA/LACEA) |
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Presiding: Mauricio Cardenas (Fedesarrollo, Colombia) Discussants: TBA () Long-Run Growth and Economic Reform in Latin America Lee Ohanian (University of California-Los Angeles) The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezeuela’s Maisanta Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of California-Berkeley) On the cross-country distribution of welfare gains from trade B. Ravikumar (University of Iowa) Michael Waugh (New York University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Learning the Wealth of Nations Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Pennsylvania State University) Francisco Buera (Northwestern University) Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Dating U.S. Business Cycle Peaks and Troughs (AEA/NABE) |
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Presiding: Kevin L. Kliesen (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) Discussants: TBA () The NBER's Determination of the December 2007 Peak Robert E. Hall (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Calling Recessions in Real Time James D. Hamilton (University of California-San Diego) TBA Edward E. Leamer (University of California-Los AngelesUniversity) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Is It Time to Change Trade Policies? (AEA/SPM) |
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Presiding: Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University) Globalization: Country and Company Interests in Conflict William Baumol (New York University and Princeton University) Ralph Gomory (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) Trade Policies in the New Area of Kaleidoscope Comparative Advantage Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University) Change the Policies of Change the Sales Pitch? Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University) Trade Policy and the Evolution of the World Economy: past Patterns and Future Problems Ronald Findlay (Columbia University) |
Saturday, January 3, 8:00 PM
| Saturday, January 3, 8:00 PM |
| Session: The Economics Humor Session in Honor of Caroline Postelle Clotfelter (AEA) |
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Presiding: R. Preston McAfee (Cal Tech) Mankiw's Principles of Economics, Translated, Three Novel Applications of the Lucas Critique, etc. Yoram Bauman (University of Washington) On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson Robert Oxoby (University of Calgary) Download Full-Text of Paper Too Smart to Run, Too Dumb to Fly Peter Orazem (Iowa State University) |
Saturday, January 3, 12:30 PM
| Saturday, January 3, 12:30 PM |
| Session: Joint Luncheon (AEA/AFA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) The Global Financial Crisis in Theory and Practice Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 12:30 PM |
| Session: ODE Graduate Student Invited Papers Session: Applied Microeconomics (AEA/ODE) |
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Presiding: Mary Ellen Benedict (Bowling Green State University) Discussants: Todd H. Kuethe (Purdue University) Xuebing Yang (University of Oklahoma) Gregory Gilpin (Indiana University) Dementia Caregiving in the US: Implications for Long-term Care Rashmita Basu (Washington State University) Robert E. Rosenman (Professor) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Firms Respond to Media Attention? A Case Study of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory Shrawantee Saha (University of New Hampshire) Regional Housing Pricing Cycles: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis Using US State Level Data Valerien Pede (Purdue University) Todd H. Kuethe (Purdue University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Air Pollution and Health around the World (AEA) |
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Presiding: Janet Currie (Columbia University) Discussants: Heather Royer (Case Western Reserve University) Matthew Neidell (Columbia University) Lucas Davis (University of Michigan) Toxic Releases and Fetal Health Janet Currie (Columbia University) Johannes Schmeider (Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy Douglas Almond (Columbia University) Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Hongbin Li (Tsinghua University) Yuyu Chen (Guanghua School of Management, Peking University) Download Full-Text of Paper Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico. Andrew Foster (Brown University) Emilio Gutierrez (Brown University) Naresh Kumar (University of Iowa) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Recent Financial Crises (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
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Presiding: Robert E. Hall (Stanford University) Discussants: Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund) Alan Blinder (Princeton University) Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Robert Shiller (Yale University) Susan Woodward (Sandhill Econometrics) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Conflict and Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) Discussants: Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Edward Miguel (University of California-Berkeley) Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances Gerard Padro I Miquel (London School of Economics) Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion After Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia James Fearon (Stanford University) Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University) Jeremy Weinstein (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Repression or Civil War? Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: 30 Years of Rapid Growth: What Lessons Does China Offer for the Developing World? (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
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Presiding: A. Michael Spence (Stanford University) Discussants: Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia Business School) Jan Svejnar (University of Michigan) Martin Feldstein (Harvard University) Gary Jefferson (Brandeis University) Lessons of China’s Transition to Economists Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) China's Integration with the World: Development as a Process of Learning, Augmenting and Upgrading Justin Y. Lin (World Bank) Yan Wang (World Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper Singularity and Replicablility in China's Developmental Experience Barry Naughton (University of California-San Diego) Download Full-Text of Paper Economic Development of A Large Economy: Lessons from China David D. Li (Tsinghua University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: The New Round of the International Comparison Project (AEA) |
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Presiding: Shaida Baidee (World Bank) Discussants: Bart Van Ark (Conference Board) Robert E. Lipsey (New York University and NBER) Lessons Learned from the 2005 ICP Fred Vogel (World Bank) Making Sense of the New World Alan Heston (University of Pennsylvania) The ICP and Poverty Measurement Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Olivier Dupriez (World Bank) New Methodological Developments for the International Comparison Program Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Obesity through the Life-Cycle (AEA) |
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Presiding: Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER) Discussants: Kosali Simon (Cornell University and NBER) Chris Ruhm (University of North Carolina-Greensboro and NBER) Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER) Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University and NBER) Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data John Cawley (Cornell University and NBER) Feng Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) Is There a Medicare-Induced Obesity Subsidy? Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University and NBER) Neeraj Sood (RAND Corporation and NBER) Is Being in School Better? Using School Starting Age to Identify the Impact of Schools on Children’s Obesity Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College and NBER) Kristin Butcher (Wellesley College) Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College and NBER) Diane Schanzenbach (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Retirement and Weight Dana Goldman (RAND Corporation and NBER) Darius Lakdawalla (RAND Corporation and NBER) Yuhui Zheng (RAND Corporation) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Disability Insurance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Richard Burkhauser (Cornell University) Discussants: Mel Stephens (Carnegie Mellon University) Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Wilbert Van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) Wallace Mok (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program Mark Duggan (University of Maryland) Robert Rosenheck (Yale University) Singleton Perry (Syracuse University) An Empirical Model of Social Security, Disability, and Retirement at the End of the Life-Cycle Hugo Benitez-Silva (State University of New York-Stony Brook) Moshe Bushinsky (University of California-Los Angeles) John Rust (University of Maryland) Disability Risk and Disability Insurance over the Life-Cycle Hamish Low (University of Cambridge) Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Topics in International Public Economics (AEA) |
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Presiding: Leora Friedberg (University of Virginia) Discussants: Leora Friedberg (University of Virginia) Kathleen McGarry (Dartmouth College) Norma Coe (Tilburg University) Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University) Gender and Investment in Privatized Social Security Markets: Evidence from Mexico Justine Hastings (Yale University) Lydia Ashton (Yale University) Crowding Out of Private Support to the Elderly: Evidence from a Demogrant in Mexico Laura Juarez (Centro de Investigacion Economica CIE-ITAM) Download Full-Text of Paper The Labor Market Effects of the Disability Grant Program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Sophie Mitra (Fordham University) Download Full-Text of Paper Quantifying Preferences for Redistribution Monica Singhal (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: U.S. Immigration Issues (AEA) |
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Presiding: Mark Hugo Lopez (Pew Hispanic Center) Discussants: Patricia Cortes (University of Chicago) Marie Mora (University of Texas-Pan American) Rakesh Kochhar (Pew Hispanic Center) Kevin Johnson (University of California-Davis) THE DEMOGRAPHY OF MEXICAN MIGRATION TO THE US Gordon Hansen (University of California-San Diego) Craig McIntosh (University of California-San Diego) Gordon Hanson (University of California-San Diego) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Immigrants Free Ride More than the Native Born? Una Okonkwo Osili (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis) Immigration Selection and the Gender Wage Gap of Immigrants in the U.S. Fernando Lozano (Occidental College) Mary Lopez (Occidental College) Immigration and Poverty in the U.S. Steve Raphael (University of California-Berkeley) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Impact of Public and Private Pensions on Retirement and Saving (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Phillips (National Institute on Aging) Discussants: Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) Alan Gustman (Dartmouth College) The Effect of Retirement Incentives on Retirement Behavior: Evidence from the Self-Employed In the United States and England Julie Zissimopoulos (RAND) Nicole Maestas (RAND) Lynn Karoly (RAND) How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation? David Blau (Ohio State Univsersity) Download Full-Text of Paper Do the Elderly Dissave Following Retirement? Michael Hurd (RAND) Susann Rohwedder (RAND) Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities Jeffrey Liebman (Harvard University) Erzo Luttmer (Harvard University) David Seif (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Scientific and Technological Competitiveness (AEA) |
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Presiding: Paula Stephan (Georgia State University) Discussants: Jeff Furman (Boston University) Subhra Saha (Cleveland State University) Samuel Kortum (University of Chicago) Paula Stephan (Georgia State University) Ethnic Inventors and the Agglomeration of US Innovation William Kerr (Harvard Business School) Research Teams and Productivity on R&D projects Richard Freeman (Harvard University) Andrew Wang (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Scientific Leadership Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University) The Fragile Foundations of Scientific Advantage: The Impact of the US Stem Cell Policy on the Geography of Scientific Discovery Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jeffrey Furman (Boston University) Fiona Murray (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Scott Stern (Northwestern University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Law and Economics of Crime (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ed Glaeser (Harvard University) Discussants: Justin Sydnor (Case Western Reserve University) Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania) Alex Tabarrok (George Mason University) Jonah Rockoff (Columbia Business School) Financial Smoking Guns: High-Frequency Links between Credit Transactions and Crime Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University) Jeremy Tobacman (University of Oxford) The Effects of Judge, Prosecutor, and Defendant Race and Gender Interactions on Defendant Outcomes J. J. Prescott (University of Michigan) Eric Laber (University of Michigan) Kathie Barnes (University of Arizona) Marc Miller (University of Arizona) Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest University) Do Police Discriminate?—Evidence from Multiple Offender Crimes Paul Heaton (Rand) Charles Loeffler (Harvard University) One for The Road: Public Transportation and Alcohol Consumption Emily Owens (Cornell University) Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Trade, Reallocation and Innovation (AEA) |
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Presiding: Stephen Redding (London School of Economics) Discussants: Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago) Peter Schott (Yale University) Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University) Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University) Stephen Redding (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective Pol Antras (Harvard University) Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology Nick Bloom (Stanford University) Mirko Draca (London School of Economics) John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper When does labor scarcity encourage innovation? Strongly labor saving technological progress Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Economics of Higher Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Kalena Cortes (Syracuse University) Paco Martorel (RAND Corporation) Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data Stacy Dale (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Providing Information and Increasing Knowledge About Post Secondary Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) Rob Oxoby (University of Calgary) Eldar Shafir (Princeton University) Alex Usher (Educational Policy Institute) College Quality and the Texas Top 10% Plan: Implications for Minority Students Kalena Cortes (Syracuse University) The Effects of Dual Enrollment on College and Labor Market Outcomes Isaac McFarlin (University of Michigan) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: New and Old Research Funding Opportunities for Economists at the National Science Foundation (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dan Newlon (National Science Foundation) Discussants: Julia Lane (National Science Foundation) Jon Leland (National Science Foundation) Dan Newlon (National Science Foundation) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: International Portfolios (AEA) |
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Presiding: Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva) Discussants: Robert Kollman (ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Hanno Lustig (University of California-Berkeley) Mick Devereux (University of British Columbia) Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva) Equilibrium Portfolios and External Adjustment under Incomplete Markets Anna Pavlova (London Business School) Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Asset Prices and Exchange Rates in a Lucas Orchard Ian Martin (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper International Portfolio Allocation under Near Rationality Pierpaolo Benigno (LUISS Guido Carli, Rome) Salvatore Nisticò (Università di Roma Tor Vergata and LUISS) When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and Assets Nicolas Coeurdacier (London Business School) Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California--Berkeley) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Institutional Constraints on Democratic Governments: Policy Outcomes and Citizen Welfare (AEA) |
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Presiding: Stephen Coate (Cornell University) Discussants: Marcelin Joanis (University of Sherbrooke) Patricia Funk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne) David Wildasin (University of Kentucky) Analyzing the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Marina Azzimonti (University of Texas-Austin) Marco Battaglini (Princeton University) Stephen Coate (Cornell University) Download Full-Text of Paper Popular Control of Public Policy John Matsusaka (University of Southern California) Download Full-Text of Paper Term Limits and Electoral Accountability Michael Smart (University of Toronto) Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan? Marius Brulhart (University of Lausanne) Mario Jametti (York University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Psychology and Household Financial Decision-Making (AEA) |
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Presiding: Zoran Ivkovich (Michigan State University) Discussants: Stefano Dellavigna (University of California-Berkeley) Daniel Bergstresser (Harvard University) Clemens Sialm (University of Texas) James Choi (Yale University) Superior Information or a Psychological Bias? A Unified Framework with Cognitive Abilities Resolves Three Puzzles George Korniotis (Federal Reserve Board) Alok Kumar (University of Texas) Download Full-Text of Paper Advertising and Portfolio Choice Henrik Cronqvist (Ohio State University) Individual Investor Mutual Fund Flows Zoran Ivkovich (Michigan State University) Scott Weisbenner (Michigan State University and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Paying to Save: Tax Withholding and Asset Allocation Among Low- and Moderate-Income Taxpayers Michael Barr (University of Michigan) Jane Dokko (Federal Reserve Board) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Implications of Household Bargaining (AEA) |
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Presiding: Donald Cox (Boston College) Discussants: Robert Pollak (Washington University) T. Paul Schultz (Yale University) The Evolutionary Biology and Economics of Sexual Behavior and Infidelity Donald Cox (Boston College) Download Full-Text of Paper Impact of Higher Level of Education on Arranged Marriage: Evidence from Vietnam Fenohasina Maret (George Washington University) Shahe Emran (George Washington University) Stephen Smith (George Washington University) The Influence of Transaction Costs and Legal Regimes on Divorce Michael Hanlon (University of Washington) Michael Hansen (University of Washington) Download Full-Text of Paper Spousal age gap and family-produced elderly care Tao Li (Stanford University & Peking University) Download Full-Text of Paper Can't Buy Me Love: A Field Experiment Exploring the Tradeoff Between Income and Caste in the Indian Matrimonial Market Subhasish Dugar (University of Calgary) Haimanti Bhattacharya (University of Utah) David Reiley (University of Arizona) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Persistent Problem of Inequality: A Roundtable on Policy Advice for the Next Administration (AEA/AFEE) |
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Presiding: Mathew Forstater (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Discussants: David Cay Johnston (The New York Times) William Greider () James K. Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin) William Darity (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Robert Reich (University of California-Berkeley) L. Randall Wray (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Stephanie Kelton (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) David Cay Johnston (The New York Times) Recovering Our Country William Greider () The Evolution of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1969-2007: Evidence from Data on Inter-industrial Earnings and Inter-regional Incomes James K. Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin) J. Travis Hale (The University of Texas at Austin) Download Full-Text of Paper Educational Policy in the Era of the New Class William Darity (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) The Economic Challenges Facing the Next Administration Robert Reich (University of California-Berkeley) Employment Policy Advice for the Next Administration L. Randall Wray (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Stephanie Kelton (University of Missouri-Kansas City) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the New Administration (AEA/AERE) |
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Presiding: Charles Mason (University of Wyoming) New Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regime, with Application to China Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper TBA Catherine Kling (Iowa State University) TBA Richard Newell (Duke University) TBA John Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) TBA James Sweeney (Stanford University) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Government Guarantees and Financial Stability (AEA/IBEFA) |
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Presiding: Randy Kroszner (Federal Reserve Board) Discussants: Robert Bliss (Wake Forest University) Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles) Alistair Milne (City University of London) Andreas Lehnert (Federal Reserve Board) The Role of Implicit Government Guarantees during Financial Crisis Wayne Passmore (Federal Reserve Board) Sean Chu (Federal Reserve Board) Andreas Lehnert (Federal Reserve Board) Federal Home Loan Bank Lending During the Subprime Liquidity Crisis Adam Ashcraft (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Morten Bech (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Scott Frame (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Credit Crunches and Small Business Loan Guarantees Diana Hancock (Federal Reserve Board) Joe Peek (University of Kentucky) James A. Wilcox (University of California-Berkeley) Why Do Guaranteed SBA Loans Cost Borrowers So Much? Deborah Lucas (Northwestern University and NBER) Flavio De Andrade, Jr. (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Housing Finance, Collateral and Financial Development (AEA/KAEA) |
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Presiding: Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University) Discussants: Guido Lorenzoni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Skeie (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University) Kyung-Whan Kim (Sogang University) Winners and Losers in Housing Markets Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University) Alex Michaelides (London School of Economics) Karin Nikolov (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity Adriano Rampini (Duke University) S. Viswanathan (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Jeonse Housing Contract: Secret of Korea's Economic Success? Se-Jik Kim (Seoul National University) Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University) Housing Finance and Wealth Accumulation in Korea Joonhyuk Song (Korea Development Institute) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Capital Controversy Revisited (AEA/URPE) |
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Presiding: Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College) Discussants: Heinz Kurz (University of Graz) Capital in the Neoclassical Theory. Some Notes; and A Reply to Professor Bliss's Comment Pierangelo Garegnani (University of Rome 3) Download Full-Text of Paper Capital Controversies Revisited: A Neoclassical Writer's Response to Justified Criticism Christopher Bliss (Oxford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Methodological Comments on the Capital Controversy Avi Cohen (University of Toronto) |
| Saturday, January 3, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Research in Economic Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: Sam Allgood (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Discussants: William Bosshardt (Florida Atlantic University) Myra Moore (University of Georgia) Julie Hotchkiss (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Does Graduate or Undergraduate Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size? William E. Becker (Indiana University) William Greene (New York University) John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper In-Class vs. Online Experiments: Is there a Difference? Tisha L. N. Emerson (Baylor University) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Living Near Classmates Help Introductory Students Get Better Grades? Jeffrey Parker (Reed College) Download Full-Text of Paper The Economics Ph.D. Pipeline: Different Predictors of Success for U.S. versus Foreign Applicants Wayne Grove (LeMoyne College) Andrew Grodner (East Carolina University) Stephen Wu (Hamilton College) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Saturday, January 3, 4:45 PM
| Saturday, January 3, 4:45 PM |
| Session: Richard T. Ely Lecture (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Richard T. Ely Lecture David Card (University of California-Berkeley) |
Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Heterogeneity in the Response of Consumption to Income (AEA) |
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Presiding: Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) Discussants: Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) Nicholas Souleles (University of Pennsylvania) Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth University) Erik Hurst (University of Chicago) Endogenous Effective Discounting, Credit Constraints, and Wealth Inequality Jeremy Tobacman (University of Pennsylvania) Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending? Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan) Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship between Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income Karen Dynan (Federal Reserve Board) Wendy Edelberg (Federal Reserve Board) Michael Palumbo (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth in the Long-Run (AEA) |
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Presiding: Nathan Rosenberg (Stanford University) Discussants: Bronwyn Hall (University of California-Berkeley) B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College) A Model of Discovery Michele Boldrin (Washington University-St. Louis) David K. Levine (Washington University-St. Louis) Download Full-Text of Paper The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues Joshua Lerner (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Challenges in Economic Measurement (AEA) |
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Presiding: Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) Discussants: Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) Carol Corrado (Conference Board) Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis) Brent Moulton (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth Robert C. Feenstra (University of California-Davis) Marshall B. Reinsdorf (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth College) Download Full-Text of Paper Accounting for R&D: An Overview Dennis Fixler (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes Kevin Fox (University of New South Wales) Lorraine Ivancic (University of New South Wales) W. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) Download Full-Text of Paper Unresolved Issues in the Measurement of User Costs Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) Paul Schreyer () |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Trade, Product Turnover and Quality (AEA) |
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Presiding: Steve Redding (London School of Economics) Discussants: Jim Tybout (Pennsylvania State University) Mark Roberts (Pennsylvania State University) Jan De Loecker (New York University) The Margins of US Trade Andrew B. Bernard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER) Stephen J. Redding (LSE, Yale School of Management and CEPR) Peter K. Schott (Yale School of Management and NBER) J. Bradford Jensen (Georgetown University and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs Pinelopi Goldberg (Princeton University) Amit Khandelwal (Columbia University) Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College) Petia Topalova (International Monetary Fund) Download Full-Text of Paper Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and An Interpretation Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University) Maurice Kugler (Center for International Development, Harvard University, and Wilfrid Laurier University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Climate Policy Options for the New Administration (AEA) |
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Presiding: Gilbert E. Metcalf (Tufts University) Discussants: Nathaniel Keohane (Environmental Defense Fund) Lawrence H. Goulder (Stanford University) Terry Dinan (Congressional Budget Office) The Design of a Carbon Tax Gilbert E. Metcalf (Tufts University) David Weisbach (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Balancing Emission and Cost Goals in Climate Change Policy Richard Newell (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper A Meaningful U.S. Cap-And-Trade System to Address Climate Change Robert N. Stavins (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Aging, Cognitive Abilities and Socio-economic Status (AEA) |
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Presiding: Franco Peracchi (Tor Vergata University) Discussants: Christina Paxson (Princeton University) Arie Kapteyn (RAND) Luigi Guiso (European University Institute) Aging, Cognitive Abilities and Education in Europe Franco Peracchi (Tor Vergata University and EIEF) Fabrizio Mazzonna (Tor Vergata University) Giuseppe De Luca (ISFOL) Download Full-Text of Paper Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey James Smith (RAND) Jack McArdle (University of Southern California) Robert Willis (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life Maarten Lindeboom (VU University Amsterdam) Gerard J. van den Berg (VU University Amsterdam) France Portrait (VU University Amsterdam) Dorly J.H. Deeg (VU University Amsterdam) Download Full-Text of Paper Cognitive Function, Numeracy and Retirement Saving Trajectories James Banks (IFS and UCL) Zoe Oldfield (IFS) Cormac o'Dea (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Barriers to Participation: Identifying the Costs of Participating in Social Insurance Programs (AEA) |
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Presiding: Janet Currie (Columbia University) Discussants: Kevin Mumford (Purdue University) Hilary Hoynes (University of California-Davis) Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College) Experimental Estimates of the Barriers to Food Stamp Enrollment Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (University of Chicago) How Costly is Welfare Stigma? Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs Colleen Manchester (University of Minnesota) Kevin Mumford (Purdue University) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Inconvenience Explain Low Take-up? Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Kevin Stange (University of Michigan) Avraham Ebenstein (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Intangible Capital (AEA) |
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Presiding: Francois Gourio (Boston University) Discussants: TBA () Switching Costs and Equilibrium Prices Luis Cabral (New York University) Download Full-Text of Paper Customer Capital Francois Gourio (Boston University) Leena Rudanko (Boston University) Specific Capital and Technological Variety Boyan Jovanovic (New York University) Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper IT and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation Hanno Lustig (University of California-Los Angeles) Chad Syverson (University of Chicago) Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Peer Effects in Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Discussants: Scott Imberman (University of Houston) Phil Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) Jane Cooley (University of Wisconsin) Victor Lavy (Hebrew University) Katrina's Children: The Effect of Peers on Student Achievement and Behavior Scott Imberman (University of Houston) Adriana Kugler (University of Houston) Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Download Full-Text of Paper Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School Victor Lavy (Hebrew University) Analia Schlosser (Tel Aviv University) Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel Kevin Lang (Boston University) Erez Siniver (College of Management, Israel) Download Full-Text of Paper Causal Inference when Assignment May Have Been Random: Peer Effects in North Carolina Elementary Schools Thomas Nechyba (Duke University) Jacob Vigdor (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession -- Dissertation Session (AEA) |
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Presiding: Marie T. Mora (University of Texas-Pan American) Discussants: Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College) Gary Dymski (University of California-Riverside) Mark Hugo Lopez (Pew Hispanic Center) Sue Stockly (Eastern New Mexico University) The Effect of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farm Expenses and the Agricultural Labor Market Belinda Acuna (University of California-Santa Barbara) Download Full-Text of Paper Health Insurance for All: An Evaluation of Mexico's Seguro Popular Program Melissa Knox (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper Citizens’ Juries and Public Goods Paul Paez (University of New Mexico) Download Full-Text of Paper Demographic Changes and Public School Sorting: Is There a Public School “Flight” from English Learners? Robert Santillano (University of California-Berkeley) |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Treatment Effects: Methodological Advances and Applications (AEA) |
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Presiding: Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (University of Florida) Discussants: Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan) Ken Chay (Brown University) Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in Saint Louis) Salvador Navarro (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Treatment Effects for Profiling Unemployment Insurance Programs: Semiparametric Estimation of Matching Methods with Fixed Effects Jose Galdo (Carleton University, Canada) Download Full-Text of Paper Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Multi-valued Treatment Effects Matias Cattaneo (University of Michigan) Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Carlos Flores (University of Miami) Oscar Mitnik (University of Miami) Download Full-Text of Paper Nonparametric Partial and Point Identification of Net or Direct Causal Effects Carlos Flores (University of Miami) Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (University of Florida) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Capital Flows Behind Global Imbalances (AEA) |
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Presiding: Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Discussants: Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University) Linda Tesar (University of Michigan) Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Globalization and the Sustainability of Large Current Account Imbalances: Size Matters Joshua Aizenman (University of California-Santa Cruz) Yi Sun (University of California-Santa Cruz) Download Full-Text of Paper Why Do Foreigners Invest in the United States? Kristin Forbes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper U.S. External Returns Pierre Olivier Gourinchas (University of California-Berkeley) Helene Rey (London Business School) Where Did All the Borrowing Go? A Forensic analysis of the U.S. External Position Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin) Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (International Monetary Fund) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (AEA) |
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Presiding: Tim Besley (London School of Economics) Discussants: Brian McManus (Washington Univeristy) Francesco Trebbi (University of Chicago) Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard University) The Economics and Politics of Corporate Social Performance David Baron (Stanford University) Maretno Harjoto (Pepperdine University) Hoje Jo (Santa Clara University) A Model of Corporate Philanthropy Raymond Fisman (Columbia University) Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University) Vinay Nair (Ada Investments) Download Full-Text of Paper Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility Matthew Kotchen (University of California-Santa Barbara) Jon Jungbien Moon (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Balassa-Samuelson, Real Exchange Rates and Implications for Monetary Policy (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jaewoo Lee (International Monetary Fund) Discussants: Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California-Santa Cruz) Jaewoo Lee (International Monetary Fund) Jiri Podpiera (Czech National Bank) Balazs Egert (OECD) Economic Growth and the Real Exchange Rate Alan M. Taylor (University of California-Davis) Yanping Chong (University of California-Davis) Oscar Jorda (University of California-Davis) Sources of Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Rigidity; A Structurally Identified Panel VAR Study Peter Pedroni (Williams College) Trade and Optimal Monetary Policy Federico Ravenna (University of California-Santa Cruz) Giovanni Lombardo (European Central Bank) Beyond Balassa-Samuelson Effect in Central and Eastern Europe Balazs Egert (OECD) Jiri Podpiera (Czech National Bank) |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Incentive Pay: Wealth-Creation or Windfalls (AEA) |
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Presiding: Edward Lazear (Stanford University) Discussants: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford University) Gregory Udell (Indiana University) Benjamin Hermalin (University of California-Berkeley) Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tractability and Detal-Neutrality in Incentive Contracting Xavier Gabiax (New York University) Alex Edmans (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper Incentives for Overconfident CEOs Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley) Geoffrey Tate (University of California-Los Angeles) Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment Camelia Kuhnen (Northwestern University) Jeffrey Zwiebel (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Motivating Loan Officers: An Analysis of Salaries and Piece-Rates Compensation Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Hefei Wang (University of Illinois) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Natural Experiments in Health (AEA) |
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Presiding: Andreea Balan-Cohen (Tufts University) Discussants: Jordan Matsudaira (Cornell University) Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University) Jeanne LaFortune (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Douglas Almond (Columbia University) Sobering Up: The Impact of the 1985-1988 Russian Anti-Alcohol Campaign on Child Health Andreea Balan Cohen (Tufts University) Download Full-Text of Paper Hierarchies or Markets? The Survival of POWs during WWII Clifford Holderness (Boston College) Jeffrey Pontiff (Boston College) Download Full-Text of Paper World War II, Missing Men, and Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing Michael Kvasnicka (RWI Essen) Dirk Bethmann (Korea University) Download Full-Text of Paper Health and the Political Agency of Women Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Education Policy and Public Economics (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jessica Howell (California State University-Sacramento) Discussants: Nora Gordon (University of California-San Diego) Jessica Howell (California State University-Sacramento) Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) Judith Scott-Clayton (Harvard University) What Happens When the Local High School Closes? Economies of Size in Illinois Sherrilyn M. Billger (Illinois State University) Download Full-Text of Paper A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the U.S. Anamaria Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University) Linnea Polgreen (University of Iowa) Download Full-Text of Paper Can State Merit Aid Programs have Unintended Consequences? A Closer Look Joydeep Roy (Georgetown University and Economic Policy Institute) Rajashri Chakrabarti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) The Impact of College Financial Aid Rules on Household Portfolio Choice Tansel Yilmazer (University of Missouri-Columbia) Patryk Babiarz (Purdue University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Economic Analysis of Politics (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jesper Roine (SITE, Stockholm) Discussants: Razvan Vlaicu (University of Maryland) Informative Campaign Promises Elena Panova (University of Quebec in Montreal) Imperfect Information, Democracy, and Populism Johannes Binswanger (Tilburg University) Jens Prufer (Tilburg University) Download Full-Text of Paper Information Transmission in Electoral Competition Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne) Download Full-Text of Paper On the Possibility of Political Change Conny Olovsson (Stockholm School of Economics) Jesper Roine (Stockholm School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Growth and Policy in Less Developed Regions (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ethan Ilzetski (University of Maryland) Discussants: Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago) Luis Serven (World Bank) Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction Ethan Ilzetzki (University of Maryland) Carlos Vegh (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper The O-Ring Sector and the Foolproof Sector: An Explanation for Cross-Country Income Differences Garett Jones (George Mason University) Download Full-Text of Paper What do Exogenous Shocks Tell Us about Growth Theories? Ilan Noy (University of Hawaii) Aekkanush Nualsri (University of Hawaii) Download Full-Text of Paper Institutions Matter, but in Surprising Ways: New Evidence on Regional Institutions in Africa Alan Green (Cornell University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Causes and Consequences of House Price Changes (AEA/AREUEA) |
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Presiding: Donald Haurin (Ohio State University) Discussants: Francois Ortalo-Magne (University of Wisconsin) Todd Sinai (University of Pennsylvania) Rui Yao (Baruch College) Patric H. Hendershott (Aberdeen University) Price and Transaction Volume in the Dutch Housing Market Erik De Wit (University of Amsterdam) Peter Englund (Stockholm School of Economics) Marc Francke (Ortax and University of Amsterdam) Download Full-Text of Paper Housing Price and Income Movements Across Markets: A General Equilibrium Analysis William Wheaton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Nai Jia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper How Housing Busts End: House Prices, User Costs and Rigidities During Down Cycles Karl E. Case (Wellesley College) John M. Quigley (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper A Taxonomy of How Household Income and Interest Rates are Capitalized into House Prices Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles) Richard Green (University of Southern California) Christian Redfearn (University of Southern California) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Coverage and Cost Implications of Health Insurance Reforms (AEA/HERO) |
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Presiding: Donald E. Yett (University of Southern California) Discussants: Katherine Swartz (Harvard University) Kosali Simon (Cornell University) Michael Chernew (Harvard University) Reducing the Number of Uninsured: Cost and Effectiveness of Alternative Approaches Bowen Garrett (Urban Institute) Lisa Clemans-Cope (Urban Institute) Surachai Khitatrakun (Urban Institute) Cindy Perry (Urban Institute) Aaron Lucas (Urban Institute) CBOs Modeling of Proposals to Expand Health Insurance Coverage David Auerbach (Congressional Budget Office) Stuart Hagen (Congressional Budget Office) Chapin White (Congressional Budget Office) Alex Minicozzi (Congressional Budget Office) Download Full-Text of Paper Consequences of a Subsidized Individual Mandate Federico Girosi (RAND) Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin (RAND) Amado Cordova (RAND) Christine Eibner (RAND) Alice Beckman (RAND) |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Congestion Pricing (AEA/TPUG) |
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Presiding: John Howard Brown (Georgia Southern University) Discussants: Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Dennis Heffley (University of Connecticut) Ken Button (George Mason University) Anming Zhang (University of British Columbia) U.S. Highway Privatization and Motorists' Heterogeneous Preferences Clifford Winston (Brookings Institution) Jia Yan (Washington State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Marginal Congestion Cost on a Dynamic Network with Queue Spillbacks Mogens Fosgerau (Technical University of Denmark) Kenneth A. Small (University of California-Irvine) Download Full-Text of Paper Pricing Congestion with Heterogenous Agglomeration Externalities and Workers Dan Graham (Imperial College London) Kurt Van Ender (University of California-Irvine and Joint Transport Research Centre ITF/OECD) Download Full-Text of Paper Manipulable Congestion Tolls Erik Verhoef (VU University Amsterdam) Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Capital Market Frictions and Liquidity (AEA) |
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Presiding: Janice Eberly (Northwestern University and NBER) Discussants: Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics and NBER) Robert Hall (Stanford University and NBER) Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University) Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago and NBER) Liquidity and Interest Rates Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University) Reallocating and Pricing Illiquid Capital Janice Eberly (Northwestern University and NBER) Neng Wang (Columbia University and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Information, Liquidity, and the Panic of 2007 Gary Gorton (Yale University and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises? Frederic S. Mishkin (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Pensions and Health Care: Fiscal Challenges for State and Local Governments (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jeffrey Brown (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Discussants: Joshua Rauh (University of Chicago) Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) Kent Smetters (University of Pennsylvania) How Should State and Local Pension Plans Invest? Deborah Lucas (Northwestern University) Stephen Zeldes (Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper Will Public Sector Retiree Health Benefit Plans Survive? Economic and Policy Implications of Unfunded Plan Liabilities Robert L. Clark (North Carolina State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Discounting State and Local Pension Liabilities Jeffrey R. Brown (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) David Wilcox (Federal Reserve Board) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Improving and Validating Labor Market Data (AEA) |
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Presiding: Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Discussants: Jay Stewart (Bureau of Labor Statistics) David Card (University of California-Berkeley) Lawrence Katz (Harvard University) Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University) THE FEASIBILITY AND IMPORTANCE OF ADDING MEASURES OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCE TO CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA COLLECTION Francine Blau (Cornell University) Lawrence Kahn (Cornell University) Download Full-Text of Paper Comparing Real-Time Data and the American Time Use Survey for the Same Sample Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Comparing Household and Establishment-Based Employment Reports Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland) John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland) Kristin Sandusky (Census Bureau) James Spletzer (Bureau of Labor Statistics) The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago) Wallace K.C. Mok (Northwestern University) James X. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The Revival of Fiscal Policy (AEA) |
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Presiding: Martin Feldstein (Harvard University) Discussants: Douglas Elmendorf (Brookings Institution) Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism Alan Auerbach (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionay Fiscal Policy John Taylor (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy Martin Feldstein (Harvard University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The Economic Impacts of Climate Change (AEA) |
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Presiding: Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Peter Klenow (Stanford University) Andrew Foster (Brown University) Douglas Almond (Columbia University) Climate Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century Melissa Dell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Benjamin Jones (Northwestern University and Harvard University) Benjamin Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand Robert Townsend (MIT) John Felkner (National Opinion Research Center) Kamilya Tazhibayeva (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Climate Change, Birth Weight and Long Run Earnings Capacit Olivier Deschenes (University of California-Santa Barbara) Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jonathan Guryan (University of Chicago) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Nobels on "Where Is the World Economy Headed?" (Roundtable) (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University) The International Market for Talent Gary Becker (University of Chicago) Forecasting Changes in the Cost of Health Care: 2000-2040 Robert Fogel (University of Chicago) Measurement of the Shift in the World's Center of Economic Gravity Lawrence Klein (University of Pennsylvania) The World Economy: Quo Vadis? Robert Mundell (Columbia University) The Uncertain Direction of the World Economy Edmund Phelps (Columbia University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Empirics of Appropriate Growth Policy (AEA) |
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Presiding: Chris Papageorgiou (IMF-Research) Discussants: Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Romain Wacziarg (Stanford University) Theo Eicher (University of Washington) Credit Constraints, Cyclical Fiscal Policy and Industry Growth Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) Enisse Kharroubi (Banque de France) Download Full-Text of Paper Which Reforms Work and under What Institutional Environment:Evidence from a New Dataset on Structural Reforms Massimiliano Onorato (Universita Bocconi) Chris Papageorgiou (IMF-Research) Alessandro Prati (IMF-Research) Growth and Structural Reforms: Non-Linearities, Complementarities and Sequencing Lone Christiansen (IMF-Research) Martin Schindler (IMF-Research) Thierry Tressel (IMF-Research) How Do Financial Reforms Affect Corporate Borrowing Costs? Evidence from Syndicated Bank Loans Senay Agca (George Washington University) Oya Celasun (IMF-Research) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Retirement and Saving: Cross-National Perspectives (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Phillips (National Institute on Aging) Discussants: Robert Willis (University of Michigan) Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University) Social Security Provisions and Retirement Around the World: Labor Force Participation of the Old and Employment of the Young Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Wise (Harvard University and NBER) Grossman's Health Threshold and Retirement Titus Galama (RAND) Arie Kapteyn (RAND) Raquel Fonseca (RAND) Pierre-Carl Michaud (RAND) Download Full-Text of Paper Housing Trajectories at Older Ages in Britain and in the United States James Banks (University College London) James Smith (RAND) Zoe Oldfiled (Institute for Fiscal Studies ) Download Full-Text of Paper Social Security, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply David Bloom (Harvard University) David Canning (Harvard University) Günther Fink (Harvard School of Public Health) Jocelyn E. Finlay (Harvard School of Public Health) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Mortality and Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh) Discussants: Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University) Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston) Matthias Doepke (University of California-Los Angeles) David Weil (Brown University) The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor Bruno Falcao (Yale University) Rodrigo Soares (PUC-Rio) Download Full-Text of Paper The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition David De La Croix (Universite Catolique de Louvain) Omar Licandro (European University Institute) Download Full-Text of Paper The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development Matteo Cervellati (Universita di Bologna) Uwe Sunde (University of St. Gallen) Download Full-Text of Paper Life Expectancy and the Wealth of Nations Juan Carlos Cordoba (Rice University) Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Economic Perspectives on Crime (AEA) |
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Presiding: Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School) Discussants: Betsey Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania) Rafael Ditella (Harvard Business School) Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care Joseph Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Welfare Payments and Crime Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School) The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths Mark Duggan (University of Maryland) Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Maryland) Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper The Effects of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws: A 50-State Analysis J. J. Prescott (University of Michigan Law School) Rockoff Jonah (Columbia Business School) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Comparing Central Banks: More Similarities or Differences, and Do They Matter? (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dale Henderson (Federal Reserve Board) Discussants: Mark Spiegel (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Central Bank Independence After Two Decades: What It Actually Measures and What It Actually Does Kenneth N. Kuttner (Williams College) Adam Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) How Close are They to Inflation Targeting: BOJ, FRB, and ECB? Takatoshi Ito (Tokyo University) The US Fed, the Eurosystem, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England: More Similarities or Differences, and Do They Matter? Dieter Gerdesmeier (European Central Bank) Francesco Paolo Mongelli (European Central Bank) Barbara Roffia (European Central Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Extrinsic Incentives and Pro-Social Behavior (AEA) |
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Presiding: John List (University of Chicago) Discussants: Rachel Croson (University of Texas-Dallas) Armin Falk (University of Bonn) Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt) Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Increasing Donations or Stealing Altruism? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior Nicola Lacetera (Case Western Reserve University) Mario Macis (University of Michigan) Robert Slonim (Case Western Reserve University) White Lies Sanjiv Erat (University of California-San Diego) Uri Gneezy (University of California-San Diego) One Last Gift: The Role of Extrinsic Incentives on Donor Card Participation Dean Karlan (Yale University) John List (University of Chicago) “Good Guys Try Harder” Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially Dan Ariely (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Anat Bracha (Tel Aviv University) Stephen Meier (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Explaining Trade Flows at the Industry and Firm Level (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dennis Novy (University of Warwick) Discussants: Costas Arkolakis (Yale University) Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College and NBER) James Harrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER) Miklos Koren (Princeton University) The Dynamics of Market Entry: Evidence from Colombian Exporters Jonathan Eaton (New York University and NBER) Marcela Eslava (Universidad de Los Andes) Maurice Kugler (Harvard University) James Tybout (Pennsylvania State University and NBER) Shipping Good Tequila Out: Investment, Domestic Unit Values and Entry of Multi-Product Plants into Export Markets Leonardo Iacovone (World Bank) Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford and CEPR) Download Full-Text of Paper Services Traders in the UK Holger Breinlich (University of Essex and CEP) Chiara Criscuolo (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach Natalie Chen (University of Warwick and CEPR) Dennis Novy (University of Warwick) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Issues in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (AEA) |
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Presiding: Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford) Discussants: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank) Amartya Sen (Harvard University) Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford) James Foster (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper Rank Robustness of Composite Indices James Foster (Vanderbilt University) Mark McGillivray (AusAID) Suman Seth (Vanderbilt University) Download Full-Text of Paper The “Missing Dimensions” of Poverty: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Application Emma Samman (University of Oxford) Setting weights in multidimensional indices of well-being and deprivation Maria Ana Lugo (University of Oxford) Koen Decanq (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Bidder Biases and Auction Design (AEA) |
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Presiding: Paul Milgrom (Stanford University) Discussants: Jacob Goeree (California Institute of Technology) Botond Koszegi (University of California-Berkeley) Bard Harstad (Northwestern University) Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology) Ascending Prices and Package Bidding: An Experimental Analysis John Kagel (Ohio State University) Yuanchuan Lien (California Institute of Technology) Paul Milgrom (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Multi-Dimensional-Dependent Preferences in Sealed-Bid Auctions - How Laboratory Experiments Differ from the Real World Andreas Lange (University of Maryland) Anmol Ratan (University of Maryland) The Bidder's Curse Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley) Han Lee (Highview Global Capital Management) Download Full-Text of Paper Understanding Overbidding: Using the Neural Circuitry of Reward to Design Economic Auctions Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland) Mauricio Delgado (Rutgers University) Andrew Schotter (New York University) Elizabeth Phelps (New York University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Public Economics and the Low Income Population (AEA) |
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Presiding: Hilary Hoynes (University of California-Davis) Discussants: Bill Evans (University of Notre Dame) Hilary Hoynes (University of California-Davis) Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan) Kosali Simon (Cornell University) Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? The Impact of the Old Age Assistance Program on Elderly Mortality in the United States Andreea Balan Cohen (Tufts University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Persistence of Tax Refunds: Evidence from Panel Data Sara Lalumia (Williams College) Download Full-Text of Paper Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in Massachusetts: Evidence Using New Data and a Stronger Model Sharon Long (Urban Institute) Karen Stockley (Urban Institute) Alshadye Yemane (Urban Institute) Download Full-Text of Paper Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999 Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College) John Ham (University of Southern California) Xianghong Li (York University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Interactive Strategies in Economic Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: Kimmarie McGoldrick (University of Richmond) Discussants: Brian Peterson (Central College) Lori D. Bell (Blackburn College) Denise Robson (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) Dirk Mateer (Pennsylvania State University) Base Groups vs. Formal Groups in Cooperative Learning Tom White (Assumption College) The Effect of Group Composition on Individual Student Performance in an Introductory Economics Course Robbie Moore (Occidental College) Download Full-Text of Paper Classroom Discussion in Intermediate Macroeconomics: Does the Use of Interpretative Question Clusters Impact Student Learning? Roisin O'Sullivan (Smith College) Download Full-Text of Paper Pseudo-Socratic Dialogue In The Teaching Of Economics Neil Sheflin (Rutgers University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Consumption and Access to Finance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Richard Blundell (University College London) Discussants: Karen Dynan (Federal Reserve Board) Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) Hamish Low (University of Cambridge and IFS) Egon Zakrajsek (Federal Reserve Board) Household External Finance and Consumption Timothy Besley (Bank of England and London School of Economics) Neil Meads (Bank of England) Paolo Surico (Bank of England) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Financial Liberalization Affect Consumption Smoothing? Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR) Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University, SIER and CEPR) Download Full-Text of Paper Using Theory and Simulation Methods to Understand the Relationship between House Prices and Consumption Growth in the UK Orazio Attanasio (University College of London and CEPR) Andrew Leicester (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Matthew Wakefield (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Access to External Finance Improve Productivity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Alexander Butler (University of Texas-Dallas) Jess Cornaggia (University of Texas-Dallas) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Exchange Rates: Determinants and Effects (AEA) |
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Presiding: Phillipe Martin (University of Paris 1) Discussants: Jean Imbs (Lausanne) Helene Rey (London Business School) Sam Kortum (University of Chicago) Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? Yu-Chin Chen (University of Washington) Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Barbara Rossi (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper Exchange rate changes and the margins of trade: theory and empirics on French firm level data Nicolas Berman (University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris School of Economics)) Philippe Martin (University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris School of Economics)) Thierry Mayer (University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris School of Economics)) Download Full-Text of Paper Linkages Between Exchange Rate Policy and Macroeconomic Performance Vladimir Sokolov (Higher School of Economics) Nelson Mark (University of Notre Dame) Byung-Joee Lee (University of Notre Dame) Download Full-Text of Paper Aggregation and the PPP Puzzle in a Sticky Price Model Carlos Carvalho (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Fernanda Nechio (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The First Ten Years of the Euro: Achievements and New Challenges (AEA/ACES) |
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Presiding: Marco Buti (European Commission) TBA Simon Johnson (International Monetary Fund) TBA Lucas D. Papademos (European Central Bank) TBA Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley) TBA Charles Wyplosz (HEI) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Comparison of International Health Care System (AEA/CEANA) |
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Presiding: Ching-To Albert Ma (Boston University) Current Issues in Health Care Joseph Newhouse (Harvard University) Lessons from Recent German Health Care Reforms Randall Ellis (Boston University) The Nordic Model for Tax-Financed Health Care under Stress Tor Iversen (University of Oslo) A Single-Payer Universal Social Insurance System in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Taiwan Experience Rachel Lu (Chang Gung University) China’s Health Care System: Opportunities and Challenges Winnie Yip (Harvard University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Health and Health Care Effectiveness (AEA/IHEA) |
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Presiding: Richard Arnould (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Discussants: Susan Ettner (University of California-Los Angeles) Matthew Neidell (Columbia University) Alan Garber (Stanford University) The Influence of Close-Knitted Physician Networks on the Diffusion of Antipsychotic Medication Marisa Domino (University of North Carolina) Richard Frank (Harvard University) Ernst Berndt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Current Levels of Air Pollution Kill? The Impact of Pollution on Population Mortality in England Katharina Janke (University of Bristol and Imperial College London) Carol Propper (University of Bristol and Imperial College London) John Henderson (University of Bristol and Imperial College London) Download Full-Text of Paper Using Small Area Variations in Procedure Rates to Identify Effects of Revascularization among the Elderly Sally Stearns (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Edward Norton (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Brett Sheridan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Sunday, January 4, 6:00 PM
| Sunday, January 4, 6:00 PM |
| Session: Business Meeting (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Business Meeting |
Sunday, January 4, 12:30 PM
| Sunday, January 4, 12:30 PM |
| Session: Luncheon Honoring the 2007 Nobel Laureates in Economics, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) TBA Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Eric Maskin (Institute for Advanced Study) Roger Myerson (University of Chicago) Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 12:30 PM |
| Session: Lecture (AEA/ European Economic Association) |
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Presiding: Ernst Fehr (IEW, University of Zurich) New Perspectives on Inflation and Unemployment Jordi Gali (CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Mirrlees Review: Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
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Presiding: Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) Background Information (Provided by the Session chair) Timothy Besley (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Optimal tax structure James Mirrlees (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Download Full-Text of Paper TBA Peter Diamond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Taxation of Income from Earnings Richard Blundell (University College London) Download Full-Text of Paper TBA James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Environmental Taxes Don Fullerton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Liquidity, Macroeconomics, and Asset Prices (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Discussants: Guido Lorenzoni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University) Liquidity Risk Hedging Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) Motohiro Yogo (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Leverage and the Central Banker's Put Emmanuel Fahri (Harvard University) Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: The Gallup World Poll (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Discussants: Richard Easterlin (University of Southern California) The World Poll: An Introduction Jim Clifton (Gallup Organization) Surveying in sub-Saharan Africa Rajesh Srinivasan (Gallup Organization) Robert D. Tortora (Gallup) The World of Happiness and Income Betsy Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania) Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper A World of Health and Happiness Angus Deaton (Princeton University) A World of Pain Alan Krueger (Princeton University) Betsy Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania) Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Health and Wealth (AEA) |
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Presiding: Erzo F.P. Luttmer (Harvard University) Discussants: Douglas Almond (Columbia University) Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College) Erik Hurst (University of Chicago) Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age Anne Case (Princeton University) Christina Paxson (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings Mariacristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) John Bailey Jones (University at Albany) Download Full-Text of Paper What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Erzo F. P. Luttmer (Harvard University) Matt Notowidigdo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Experiments on Collecting Socio-economic Household Data in Low Income Countries (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Gibson (University of Waikato) Discussants: TBA () Measuring Household Consumption: An Experiment in Tanzania Kathleen Beegle (World Bank) Joachim De Weerdt (EDI Tanzania) Jed Friedman (World Bank) John Gibson (University of Waikato) Anchoring Measures of Subjective Well-being Using Vignettes Martin Ravallion (World Bank) Kristen Himelein (World Bank) Kathleen Beegle (World Bank) Assessing Labor Statistics in a Sub-Saharan Africa Survey Experiment Andrew Dillon (Cornell University) Elena Bardasi (World Bank) The Digital Age Of Survey Enumeration: Report from Two Field Experiments Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) Joachim De Weerdt (EDI Tanzania) |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: The Effects of Financial Literacy on Financial Decision-Making (AEA) |
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Presiding: Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School) Discussants: Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University) Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) Michael Staten (University of Arizona) Karen Pence (Federal Reserve Board) If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School) Gauri Kartini Shastry (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence Justine Hastings (Yale University) Lydia Ashton (Yale University) The Impact of Financial Education in High School and College on Financial Literacy and Subsequent Financial Decision Making Lewis Mandell (University of Washington and Aspen Institute) Download Full-Text of Paper How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Exploring the Sources of Innovation: Recent Developments (AEA) |
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Presiding: Timothy Bresnahan (Stanford University) Discussants: Chad Jones (University of California-Berkeley) Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University) Scott Page (University of Michigan) Bronwyn Hall (University of California-Berkeley) On Mice and Academics: The Effect of Openness on Follow-On Research Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) Mathias Dewatripont (Université libre de Bruxelles) Julian Kolev (Harvard University) Fiona Murray (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Scott Stern (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) Mark Schankerman (University of Arizona and London School of Economics) John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link Kevin Boudreau (HEC-Paris) Nicola Lacetera (Case Western Reserve University) Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper Diseconomies of Scope between Existing Businesses and Growth Opportunities: Evidence from the History of Computing Timothy Bresnahan (Stanford University) Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University) Rebecca Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Private Schooling, Competition and the Production of Education (AEA) |
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Presiding: Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thomas Dee (Swarthmore College) Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin) School Competition & Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools Martin Dooley (McMaster University) Abigail Payne (McMaster University) David Card (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper New Evidence on the Price Elasticity of Private Schooling Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students Joseph Altonji (Yale University) Ching-I Huang (National Taiwan University) Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow? Identifying constraints on the provision of education Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College) Jishunu Das (World Bank) Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Subprime Credit: Causes and Consequences (AEA) |
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Presiding: Robert Shiller (Yale University) Discussants: Scott Frame (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley) John Leahy (New York University) Scott Schuh (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Subprime Mortgage Lending and Foreclosures Chris Foote (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Kris Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) The Effect of Information Technology on Consumer Lending Liran Einav (Stanford University) Jonathan Levin (Stanford University) Preferences for Fixed-Rate vs. Adjustable-Rate Mortgages: Evidence from a survey among Subprime Borrowers Lorenz Goette (University of Geneva) Stephan Meier (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Kristopher Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Download Full-Text of Paper Payday Loans, Uncertainty, and Discounting: Explaining Patterns of Borrowing, Repayment, and Default Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University) Jeremy Tobacman (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: New Perspectives on International Capital Flows (AEA) |
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Presiding: Karen Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) Discussants: Carlos Vegh (University of Maryland) Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California-Berkeley) Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia) Karen Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves or Net Foreign Assets Christopher Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) Olivier Jeanne (International Monetary Fund) Download Full-Text of Paper International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence Cedric Tille (University of Geneva) Eric Van Wincoop (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics Nicolas Coeurdacier (London Business School and CEPR) Robert Kollmann (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR) Philippe Martin (Paris School of Economics and CEPR) Download Full-Text of Paper Global Portfolio Rebalancing under the Microscope Harald Hau (INSEAD) Helene Rey (London Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Determinants of Student Achievement (AEA) |
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Presiding: Katherine Abraham (University of Maryland) Discussants: Lisa Barrow (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Thomas Kane (Harvard University) David Figlio (University of Florida) The long run consequences of being graded in elementary school Anna Sjogren (IFAU, Uppsala and IFN) Download Full-Text of Paper Career Concerns Incentives and Teacher Effort Michael Hansen (University of Washington) Download Full-Text of Paper No Child Left Behind: Analyzing the Effect of Sanctions versus Stigma on Public School Incentives and Performance Rajashri Chakrabarti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) One Size Fits All? The Effect of Teacher Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities on Student Achievement Erik Gronqvist (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)) Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Global Trade Liberalization (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University) Discussants: David Hummels (Purdue University) Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University) Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis) Vanessa Strauss-Kahn (INSEAD) Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization Andrew B. Bernard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER) Stephen Redding (London School of Economics) Peter Schott (Yale University & NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Credit Constraints and Export Promotion Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Andrew Newman (Boston University) Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University) Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University) Exports of Goods and Services: Complements or Substitutes? Matthieu Bussiere (European Central Bank) Cyrille Schwellnus (OECD/CEPII) |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Implementation of a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dale W. Jorgenson (Harvard University) Discussants: Bart Van Ark (Groningen University and Conference Board) David Stockton (Federal Reserve Board) Ernst R. Berndt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michael Palumbo (Federal Reserve Board) Updates on a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts Dale W. Jorgenson (Harvard University) J. Steven Landefeld (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Download Full-Text of Paper Perspectives on the New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts Michael J. Boskin (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts Michael J. Harper (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Brent Moulton (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Steven Rosenthal (Bureau of Labor Statistics) David B. Wasshausen (Bureau of Economic Analysis) Download Full-Text of Paper The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does it Presage the Financial Crisis? Jonathan Parker (Northwestern University) Michael G. Palumbo (Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC 20551) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Poster Session on Teaching Ideas and Projects (AEA) |
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Presiding: Wendy A. Stock (Montana State University) Active Learning and the Socratic Method: An Application for “Theory of Value” Rojhat B. Avsar (University of Utah) Creating an Engaging, Collaborative, Relevant, and Enjoyable Classroom Steven J. Balassi (St. Mary's College of California) Download Full-Text of Paper Practice Makes Permanent: Adapting Coaching Techniques to the Teaching of Economics Kevin Beckwith (Salem State College) Jelly Bean Economics Christopher R. Bell (University of North Carolina) Applied Research with Undergraduates: Using Contingent Valuation Analysis in the Classroom Catherine Boulatoff (Saint Lawrence University) Let�s Shift Again � An Animation Marilyn Cottrell (Brock University) Schumpeter's "Vision" and the Teaching of Principles of Principles Economics Paul Dalziel (Lincoln University) Download Full-Text of Paper Publish with your Parish: Doing Publishable Research with Undergraduate Students Aju Fenn (Colorado College) Daniel K.N. Johnson (Colorado College) Mark Smith (Colorado College) Larry Stimpert (Colorado College) Download Full-Text of Paper Turning Field Work and Guest Speakers into Golden Opportunities Aju Fenn (Colorado College) Daniel K.N. Johnson (Colorado College) Mark Smith (Colorado College) Larry Stimpert (Colorado College) Download Full-Text of Paper Homer Economicus: The Simpsons in the Economics Classroom Joshua C. Hall (Beloit College) Mark T. Gillis (Duquesne University) Download Full-Text of Paper An Analysis of Students’ Ability to Assess Their Own Knowledge of the Subject Matter Christiana Hilmer (San Diego State University) Promoting Financial Literacy in the Principles of Economics Course Eric Jamison (United States Military Academy) John Z. Smith (United States Military Academy) Using the Great Depression in Teaching Economics Valerie Kepner (King’s College) Incorporating Active Learning Strategies in an Introductory Economics Class A. Wahhab Khandker (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Download Full-Text of Paper Teaching Economic Principles with Comics Robert Lawson (Auburn University) Deal or No Deal: Leveraging the Large-Class Experience G. Dirk Mateer (Pennsylvania State University) The Use of Popular Music to Teach Introductory Economics Rod D. Raehsler (Clarion University) Download Full-Text of Paper Preconceptions versus Reality about Welfare Recipients Geetha Rajaram (Whittier College) Download Full-Text of Paper Using the Game of Bocce to Teach Market Structures Julia Sampson Frankland (Malone College) Encouraging Active Learning through a Capstone Undergraduate Research Experience Michael C. Seeborg (Illinois Wesleyan University) Game and Media in the Economics Classroom Olga N. Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Promoting Financial Literacy in the Principles of Economics Course John Z. Smith, Jr. (United States Military Academy) A Macro Data Scavenger Hunt—Helping Students Find and Use State Data in Macroeconomics Sue K. Stockly (Eastern New Mexico University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Changes in Women’s Labor Supply (AEA) |
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Presiding: Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College) Discussants: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College) Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College) Elaina Rose (University of Washington) Andrea Weber (University of California-Berkeley) Sharmila Choudhury (Social Security Administration) Suqin Ge (Virginia Tech) Fang Yang (University at Albany, State University of New York) Why Do So Few Women Work in New York (and So Many in Minneapolis)? Labor Supply of Married Women across U.S. Cities Natalia Kolesnikova (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) Dan Black (University of Chicago) Lowell Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Effect of Fertility on the Labor Supply of Married Women in Ethiopia Blen Solomon (Grand Valley State University) Jean Kimmel (Western Michigan University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Currency Risk Premia (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Heaton (University of Chicago) Discussants: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University) Anna Pavlova (London Business School) Jeremy Graveline (University of Minnesota) John Heaton (University of Chicago) Risk and Return in Bond, Currency and Equity Markets Ravi Bansal (Duke University) Ivan Shaliastovich (Duke University) Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University) Xavier Gabaix (New York University) Download Full-Text of Paper Does Business Cycle Risk Account for Systematic Returns from Currency Positioning? The International Perspective Roberto De Santis (European Central Bank) Fabio Fornari (European Central Bank) Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets Hanno Lustig (University of California-Los Angeles) Nick Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania) Adrien Verdelhan (Boston University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Consumer Choice and Merchant Acceptance of Payment Media: Theory and Empirical Investigations (AEA) |
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Presiding: Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) Discussants: James McAndrews (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) John Krainer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona) Consumer Choice and Merchant Acceptance of Payment Media Sujit Chakravorti (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Wilko Bolt (De Nederlandsche Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper Credit Cards Interchange Fees Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Toulouse) Julian Wright (National University of Singapore) Download Full-Text of Paper Consumer Homing on Payment Cards: From Theory to Measurement Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College) Christopher Snyder (Dartmouth College) Competing Technologies for Payments: ATMs, POS Terminals and the Demand for Currency Santiago Carbo-Valverde (University of Granada) Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez (University of Granada) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Banks and Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Anjan Thakor (Washington University-St. Louis) Discussants: Mark Flannery (University of Florida) Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam) Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina) "Lending by Example”: Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Banks in Emerging Markets Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics) Steven Ongena (Tilburg University) Download Full-Text of Paper Bank Mergers and Lending Relationships Judit Montoriol-Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Download Full-Text of Paper Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint, and Entrepreneurial Development M. Shahe Emran (George Washington University) Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper Financial System Architecture and the Co-evolution of Banks and Capital Markets Fenghua Song (Pennsylvania State University) Anjan Thakor (Washington University-St. Louis) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Health and Healthcare in the U.S. (AEA) |
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Presiding: Kathleen Carey (Boston University) Discussants: Darius Lakdawala (RAND) William Evans (University of Notre Dame) Emilia Simeonova (Columbia University) Ellen Meara (Harvard University) Modeling Health Claims and Out-of-Pocket Payments Caroline Carlin (University of Minnesota) Robert Town (University of Minnesota) Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care Hai Fang (University of Miami) Nolan Miller (Harvard University) John Rizzo (Stony Brook University) Richard Zeckhauser (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Ambulatory Surgery Centers and General Hospital Financial Performance Kathleen Carey (Boston University) James Burgess (Boston University) Gary Young (Boston University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Impact of Health Policy and Market Structure on Hospital Indigent Care Eunkyeong Lee (Cornell University) |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Dynamic Welfare and Global Public Goods (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Roemer (Yale University) Discussants: Todd Sandler (University of Texas-Dallas) Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University, London) Foreign Aid as Counterterrorism Policy Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) Javed Younas (Central Michigan University) Download Full-Text of Paper Discounting and Divergence of Opinion Elyès Jouini (Université Paris-Dauphine) Clotilde Napp (Université Paris-Dauphine and CREST) Jean-Michel Marin (INRIA) Download Full-Text of Paper A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet Humberto Llavador (University of Pompeu Fabra) Joaquim Silvestre (University of California-Davis) John Roemer (Yale University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Dynamics of Climate Agreements Bard Harstad (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Panel on Oil Prices and the Macroeconomy: A Return to the 1970s? (AEA/IAEE) |
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Presiding: Mine Yucel (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why Are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s? Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jordi Gali (UPF) The Oil Shock of 2008 James D. Hamilton (University of California-San Diego) Energy Price Shocks and the Macroeconomy Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Sunday, January 4, 2:30 PM |
| Session: Macroeconomic Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora (AEA/NEA) |
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Presiding: Peter Blair Henry (Stanford University) Discussants: Neville Francis (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Susan Collins (University of Michigan) William A. Darity, Jr. (Duke University) South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Two Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability Brahima Coulibaly (Federal Reserve Board) Trevon Logan (Ohio State University) Policies vs. Institutions: A Tale of Two Islands Peter Blair Henry (Stanford University) Conrad Miller (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Metals or Management? Explaining Africa’s Recent Growth Performance Laura N. Beny (University of Michigan) Lisa D. Cook (Michigan State UnIversity) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Sunday, January 4, 4:40 PM
| Sunday, January 4, 4:40 PM |
| Session: Presidential Address (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Presidential Address - Governance Institutions and Economic Activity Avinash Dixit (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Beliefs and Disagreement in Organizations (AEA) |
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Presiding: Roland Benabou (Princeton University) Discussants: Navin Kartik (University of California-San Diego) Wouter Dessein (University of Chicago) Muhamet Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Authority versus Persuasion Eric Van Den Steen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper Collective Delusion in Risk Management Augustin Landier (New York University) David Thesmar (HEC, Paris) David Sraer (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper Over My Dead Body: Bargaining and the Price of Dignity Roland Benabou (Princeton University) Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Skill Content of Jobs and the Evolution of the Wage Structure (AEA) |
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Presiding: Frank Levy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Stephen Machin (University College London) Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University) Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia) This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities using Occupational Age Structure David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Dorn (University of St. Gallen) Download Full-Text of Paper New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland) James Spletzer (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) Download Full-Text of Paper Job Polarization in Europe Maarten Goos (University of Leuven) Alan Manning (London School of Economics) Anna Salomons (University of Leuven) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Secrets of Growth: What Have We Learned from Research in the Last 25 Years? (Panel Discussion) (AEA) |
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Presiding: Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of California-Berkeley) Charles I. Jones (University of California-Berkeley) |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: New Development in Quantitative Analysis of Learning under Model Uncertainty (AEA) |
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Presiding: Jianjun Miao (Boston University) Discussants: Jianjun Miao (Boston University) Ravi Bansal (Duke University) Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Robustness, Estimation and Detection Lars Hansen (University of Chicago) Thomas Sargent (New York University) Ambiguity and Equity Premium Collard Fabrice (University of Toulouse) Sujoy Mukerji (Oxford University) Kevin Sheppard (Oxford University) Jean Marc Tallon (Paris School of Economics) Ambiguity, Learning, and Asset Returns Nengjiu Ju (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Jianjun Miao (Boston University) |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economy and Health (AEA) |
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Presiding: Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University) Discussants: Christopher Ruhm (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University) Carlos Dobkin (University of California-Santa Cruz) Why are Recessions Good for your Health? Douglas L. Miller (University of California-Davis) Marianne E. Page (University of California-Davis) Ann Huff Stevens (University of California-Davis) Mateusz Filipski (University of California-Davis) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions Mark Stabile (University of Toronto) Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia) Download Full-Text of Paper Mortality, Mass Layoffs and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data Daniel Sullivan (Federal Reserve Bank Chicago) Till Von Wachter (Columbia University) |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Analyzing the 2008 Financial Crisis (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Discussants: Phillip Swage (U.S. Department of the Treasury) Takatoshi Ito (University of Tokyo) Ricardo Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Paulson's Gift Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago) Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Will the U.S. Bank Re-Capitalization Succeed? Lessons from Japan Takeo Hoshi (University of California-San Diego) Anil K. Kashyap (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Bank Lending during the Financial Crisis of 2008 Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School) David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Charitable Giving (AEA) |
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Presiding: John List (University of Chicago) Discussants: David Reiley (University of Arizona) Catherine Eckel (University of Texas-Dallas) Dean Karlan (Yale University) Jeff Carpenter (Middlebury College) Crowding out Both Sides of the Philanthropy Market: Evidence from a Panel of Charities James Andreoni (University of California-San Diego) Abigail Payne (McMaster University) Download Full-Text of Paper Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne) Lata Gangadharan (University of Melbourne) Nikos Nikiforakis (University of Melbourne) Download Full-Text of Paper Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field Angela de Oliveira (University of Texas-Dallas) Catherine Eckel (University of Texas-Dallas) Rachel Croson (University of Texas-Dallas) Download Full-Text of Paper Why do People Give? Theory and Experimental Evidence Stefano Dellavigna (University of California-Berkeley) John List (University of Chicago) Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley) |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Interface Between Family and Work (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ronald Oaxaca (University of Arizona) Discussants: Jing Cai (Upjohn Institute) Ronald Oaxaca (University of Arizona) Debra Barbezat (Colby College) Cordelia W. Reimers (Hunter College) Time Use Patterns and Women Entrepreneurs Tami Gurley-Calvez (West Virginia University) Amelia Biehl (University of Michigan-Flint) Katherine Harper (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) Download Full-Text of Paper Effects of Employment on Marriage and Cohabitation: Evidence from a Randomized Study of the Job Corps Program Arif Mamum (Mathematica Policy Research) Family-Friendly Benefits and Subsequent Employee Turnover and Profitability Annalisa Mastri (Mathematica Policy Research) Download Full-Text of Paper An Examination of the Implementation and Utilization of “Stop the Tenure Clock” Policies in Canadian and U.S. Economics Departments Saranna R. Thornton (Hampden-Sydney College) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Globalization, Comparative Advantage and Volatility: Microeconomic Aspects and Macroeconomic Implications (AEA) |
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Presiding: Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis) Discussants: Miklos Koren (Princeton University) Fernando Broner (CREI - Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Julian Di Giovanni (International Monetary Fund) Linda Tesar (University of Michigan) Comparative Advantage, Complexity, and Volatility Pravin Krishna (Johns Hopkins University) Andrei Levchenko (University of Chicago) Growth, Volatility and Access to Finance Jean Imbs (HEC Lausanne) International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States Pravin Krishna (Johns Hopkins University) Mine Senses (Johns Hopkins University) Credit Chains and Sectoral Comovement: Does the Use of Trade Credit Amplify Sectoral Shocks? Claudio Raddatz (World Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Economics of Infectious Disease (AEA) |
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Presiding: Tomas J. Philipson (University of Chicago) Discussants: TBA () Foundations of Strategic Epidemiology: Recurrent Infection and Protection Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge and CEPR) Which Diseases Generate the Largest Epidemiological Externalities? Michael Kremer (Harvard University) Christoher Snyder (Dartmouth College) Heidi Williams (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Incomplete Information About Infection Risk Alice Mesnard (IFS, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: The Evolution of Brains, Technology, and Institutions in the Very Long Run (AEA) |
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Presiding: Gregory Dow (Simon Fraser University) Discussants: Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University) Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia) Ted Bergstrom (University of California-Santa Barbara) Gregory Clark (University of California-Davis) A Paleoeconomic Theory of Encephalization Richard Horan (Michigan State University) Erwin Bulte (Tilburg University) Jason Shogren (University of Wyoming) Download Full-Text of Paper Stagnation and Innovation Before Agriculture Gregory Dow (Simon Fraser University) Clyde Reed (Simon Fraser University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Emergence of Inequality and Hierarchy: A Network Explanation Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute) Download Full-Text of Paper Why Do Cultures Differ? Evidence from Cross-Cultural Data Matthew Baker (City University of New York) Erwin Bulte (Tilburg University) Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Institutions, Economic Policy and Natural Resources (AEA) |
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Presiding: Nicolas DePetris Chauvin (OxCarre, University of Oxford) Discussants: Gavin Wright (Stanford University) Yanchun Zhang (Office of Development Studies, UNDP) Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Gerald Nelson (International Food Policy Research Institute and University of Illinois) Natural Resource Wealth and DirectedTechnical Change Paul Segal (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Institutional Quality, Economic Policy and the Effect of Oil Shocks Across Industries Nicolas Depetris Chauvin (Dubai School of Government and OxCarre) Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse Stephen Haber (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) Victor Menaldo (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Brazilian Ethanol: A Gift or Threat to the Environment and Regional Development? Sriniketh Nagavarapu (Brown University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Fairness and Macroeconomics (AEA) |
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Presiding: Andre Kurmann (University of Quebec-Montreal) Discussants: Virgiliu Midrigan (New York University) Truman Bewley (Yale University) Joel Sobel (University of California-San Diego) Keith Kuester (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret Julio Rotemberg (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations Jean-Pierre Danthine (HEC Lausanne) Andre Kurmann (University of Quebec-Montreal) Social Preferences and the Efficiency of Bilateral Exchange Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University) Download Full-Text of Paper Bargaining, Fairness, and Price Rigidity in a DSGE Environment David Arseneau (Federal Reserve Board) Sanjay Chugh (University of Maryland) |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Credit, Housing, Consumption and the Wider Economy (AEA) |
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Presiding: John Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Discussants: Eswar Prasad (Cornell University) Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) Anil Kumar (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Adrian Blundell-Wignall (OECD) Credit, Housing Collateral and Consumption: the UK, Japan and the US John Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) John Muellbauer (Nuffield College, Oxford) Anthony Murphy (Hertford College, University of Oxford) Janine Aron (Department of Economics, Oxford University) Keiko Murata (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Sources of Fluctuations in Residential Investment: A View from a Policy-Oriented DSGE Model of the U.S. Economy Rochelle M. Edge, (Federal reserve Board) Michael T. Kiley (Federal Reserve Board) Jean-Philippe Laforte (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper Durables Spending, Financial Shocks and Household Balance Sheets Andrew Benito (International Monetary Fund) Garry Young (Bank of England) House Prices and Mortgage Market Liberalisation in Australia David Williams (New College, Oxford) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: New Developments in the Airline Industry: Airline Pricing, Entry Deterrence, Competition, Consumer Choice and Antitrust Implications (AEA) |
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Presiding: Panle Jia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Discussants: James Dana (Northeastern University) Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto) Ken Heyer (U.S. Department of Justice) Steve Puller (Texas A&M University) Testing Theories of Price Dispersion and Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry Steve Puller (Texas A&M University) Anirban Sengupta (Texas A&M University) Steven Wiggins (Texas A&M University) Internet Penetration and Capacity Utilization in the US Airline Industry James D. Dana (Northeastern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Price Discrimination through Refund Contracts in Airlines Diego Escobari (San Francisco State University) Download Full-Text of Paper Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry Steven Berry (Yale University) Panle Jia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Political Institutions and Economic Policy (AEA) |
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Presiding: Razvan Vlaicu (University of Maryland) Discussants: Bard Harstad (Northwestern University) Quoc-Anh Do (Singapore Management University) Andrea Mattozzi (CalTech) Eric Snowberg (CalTech) Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test Tomasso Nannicini (IGIER, Bocconi University) Stefano Gagliarducci (CEMFI) Paolo Naticchioni (University of Rome La Sapienza) Download Full-Text of Paper Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality Ethan Ilzetzki (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper Legislative Spending Bias, Fragmentation of Fiscal Power, and Electoral Accountability Razvan Vlaicu (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments Patricia Funk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Christina Gathmann (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Topics in Public Health (AEA) |
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Presiding: Hans Grönqvist (Uppsala University) Discussants: Janet Currie (Columbia University) Douglas Almond (Columbia University) Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College) Segregation, Health and Mortality Hans Grönqvist (Uppsala University) Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach Simon Luechinger (University of Zurich) Download Full-Text of Paper Life and Death in the Fast Lane: The Effect of Police Enforcement on Roadway Safety Gregory DeAngelo (University of California-Santa Barbara) Benjamin Hansen (University of California-Santa Barbara) Download Full-Text of Paper The Impact of Hospital Integration on Black-White Differences in Mortality: A Case Study of Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates Chao Zhou (Boston University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 8:00 AM |
| Session: Corporate Governance and Managerial Risk Taking (AEA/AFEE) |
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Presiding: Andrew Metrick (Yale University) Discussants: William L. Megginson (University of Oklahoma) Michael Lemmon (University of Utah) Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking Viral Acharya (New York University) Yakov Amihud (New York University) Lubomir Litov (Washington University in St. Louis) Download Full-Text of Paper Corporate Governance and Managerial Conservatism: Evidence from Diversifying Acquisitions Dalida Kadyrzhanova (University of Maryland) Kose John (New York University) Do Creditor Rights Increase Employment Risk? Evidence from Mass Layoffs Antonio Falato (Federal Reserve Board) Nellie Liang (Federal Reserve Board) |
Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: DATA WATCH: Data Initiatives (AEA) |
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Presiding: Martin Browning (Nuffield College, Oxford University) Discussants: Adeline Delavande (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh) James Smith (RAND) Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries: Their Measurement and Their Use Orazio Attanasio (University College London) Download Full-Text of Paper Egalitarianism and Competitiveness Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) Björn Bartling (University of Zurich) Daniel Schunk (University of Zurich) Michel André Maréchal (University of Zurich) Download Full-Text of Paper Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better Than One Expensive, Accurate One? Martin Browning (Nuffield College, Oxford University) Thomas Crossley (Cambridge University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Household Heterogeneity in Financial Markets (AEA) |
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Presiding: Monika Piazzesi (University of Chicago) Discussants: Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University) Francisco Gomes (London Business School) Luigi Guiso (European University Institute) Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households Laurent Calvet (HEC Paris) John Campbell (Harvard University) Paolo Sodini (Stocholm School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How? Estimates and Implications for Consumption Inequality Jonathan Parker (Northwestern University) Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University) Download Full-Text of Paper Momentum traders in the housing market: survey evidence and a search model Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University) Martin Schneider (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Policies for Growth: What Have We Learned? (AEA) |
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Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) Discussants: Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ross Levine (Brown University) The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development Members of the Commission on Growth and Development (Contact: Michael Spence, Chair of the Commission) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Rationality in Consumer Credit Markets (AEA) |
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Presiding: David Laibson (Harvard University) Discussants: Jon Levin (Stanford University) Nava Ashraf (Harvard University) Ted O'Donoghue (Cornell University) Beth Kiser (Federal Reserve Board) Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles? Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University) Jeremy Tobacman (University of Pennsylvania) Download Full-Text of Paper Indebted Households and Tax Rebates Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago) Adair Morse (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market Botond Koszegi (University of California-Berkeley) Paul Heidhues (University of Bonn) What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit and Avoidable Costs Victor Stango (UC, Davis) Jon Zinman (Dartmouth College) |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Human Capital Acquisition (AEA) |
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Presiding: Kristin Butcher (Wellesley College) Discussants: Lauren Malone (CNA Corporation) Deborah Reed (Public Policy Institute of California) Melinda Pitts (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Niels-Hugo Blunch (Washington and Lee University) How Do Remittances Impact Human Capital Formation of School Age Boys and Girls? A Longitudinal Analysis Using the Nepal Living Standards Survey Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University) Brian Chezum (St. Lawrence University) Download Full-Text of Paper The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education -- First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links Stacey H. Chen (Royal Holloway University of London and Academia Sinica) Yen-Chien Chen (National Taiwan University) Jin-Tan Liu (National Taiwan University and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation Amalia R. Miller (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper The Effect of Sexual Abstinence on the Educational Attainment of Females Joseph J. Sabia (University of Georgia) Daniel I. Rees (University of Colorado) |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Socioeconomic Determinants of Health (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ted Joyce (Baruch College and NBER) Discussants: Ellen Meara (Harvard University and NBER) Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University and NBER) Ted Joyce (Baruch College and NBER) Mel Stephens (Carnegie Mellon University and NBER) Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Mortality Gap: What Are the Causes? Emilia Simeonova (Columbia University) Download Full-Text of Paper Who You Are and Where You Live: Socioeconomic gradients and the Geography of Mortality Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University and NBER) Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College and NBER) Can Educational Gradients in Smoking and Obesity Explain Educational Gradients in Mortality? David Cutler (Harvard University and NBER) Fabian Lange (Yale University) Ellen Meara (Harvard University and NBER) Seth Richards (University of Pennsylvania) Christopher Ruhm (University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER) Download Full-Text of Paper Liquidity, Activity, Mortality William Evans (University of Notre Dame and NBER) Timothy Moore (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Marriage and Divorce (AEA) |
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Presiding: Robert J. Willis (University of Michigan) Discussants: Betsey Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania) Gary S. Becker (University of Chicago) Jere R. Behrman (University of Pennsylvania) Ted Bergstrom (University of California-Santa Barbara) Multidimensional Matching in Renaissance Tuscan Marriage Markets Maristella Botticini (Boston University, Collegio Carlo Alberto, and University of Torino) Child Custody after Divorce: Theory and Evidence Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) Abhinay Muthoo (University of Essex) Marriage Market Equilibrium and Bargaining in Marriage Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington) Robert A. Pollak (Washington University-St. Louis) Download Full-Text of Paper Marriage and Preferences Duncan Thomas (Duke University) |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Social Networks, Coordination, and Herd Behavior (AEA) |
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Presiding: Sharon Harrison (Barnard College, Columbia University) Discussants: Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley) Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) John Duffy (University of Pittsburgh) Christopher Carroll (Johns Hopkins University) How Homophily Affects Communication in Networks Benjamin Golub (Stanford University) Matthew Jackson (Stanford University) Download Full-Text of Paper Social Interactions and Selection Alberto Bisin (New York University) Onur Ozgur (University of Montreal) Download Full-Text of Paper On Coordination, Learning and Delay Bogachan Celen (Columbia University) Overconfidence and Informational Cascades Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley) |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Special Topics on the Housing Market (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dean Corbae (University of Texas-Austin) Discussants: Erwan Quintin (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Joao Cocco (London Business School) Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Pedro Silos (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Mortgage Innovation and the Foreclosure Boom Dean Corbae (University of Texas-Austin) Erwan Quintin (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Download Full-Text of Paper Spatial Asset Pricing: a First Step Francois Ortalo-Magne (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Andrea Prat (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper The Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Housing Wealth in General Equilibrium Jack Favilukis (London School of Economics) Sydney Ludvigson (New York University) Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University) Housing Prices, Property Taxes and Neighborhood Relocation Ethan Cohen-Cole (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Enrique Martinez-Garcia (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Jonathan Morse (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Wage Dynamics in Europe: Micro Evidence (AEA) |
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Presiding: Frank Smets (European Central Bank) Discussants: Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia) Mark Schweitzer (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) Alan Krueger (Princeton University) David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity Anabela Carneiro (Universidade do Porto) Paulo Guimarães (Darla Moore School of Business) Pedro Portugal (Bank of Portugal) Download Full-Text of Paper Understanding Sectoral Differences in Downward Real Wage Rigidity:Workforce Composition, Institutions, Technology and Competition Philip Du Caju (National Bank of Belgium) Catherine Fuss (National Bank of Belgium) Ladislav Wintr (National Bank of Belgium) Download Full-Text of Paper How Are Firm's Wages and Prices Linked? Survey Evidence in Europe Silvia Fabiani (Bank of Italy) Roberto Sabbatini (Bank of Italy) Martine Druant (National Bank of Belgium) Ana Lamo (European Central Bank) Gabor Kezdi (European Central Bank) Fernando Martins (Bank of Portugal) Download Full-Text of Paper Changes in the Wage Distributions of European Countries 1995-2002 Rebekka Chistopoulou (European Central Bank) Juan Francisco Jimeno (Bank of Spain) Ana Lamo (European Central Bank) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis (AEA) |
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Presiding: Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Discussants: Brent Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University) Scott Frame (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) Jim Wilcox (University of California-Berkeley) Mark Flannery (University of Florida) Subprime Outcomes: Risky Mortgages, Homeownership Experiences, and Foreclosures Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) Kris Gerardi (Boston University) Adam Shapiro (Boston University) The Rise in Mortgage Defaults Christopher Mayer (Columbia University) Karen Pence (Federal Reserve Board) Shane Sherlund (Federal Reserve Board) Download Full-Text of Paper The Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Financial Stability, and the Option to Repurchase Your Mortgage at Market Value Diana Hancock (Federal Reserve Board) Wayne Passmore (Federal Reserve Board) CDO Market Implosion and the Pricing of Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore) Anthony Sanders (Arizona State University) Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Productivity in Hospitals and Schools: The Role of Management Practices (AEA) |
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Presiding: Tim Besley (London School of Economics) Discussants: Carol Propper (University of Bristol) Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) Richard Freeman (Harvard University) Management Practices in Hospitals Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) Stephan Seiler (London School of Economics) John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) Carol Propper (Imperial College) Download Full-Text of Paper Managing under the Microscope: Charter School Management and Performance Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University) Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages and Performance in Schools Tim Besley (London School of Economics) Steve Machin (University College London) Principal Turnover and Effectiveness Eric Hanushek (Stanford University) Steven Rivkin (Amherst College) Gregory F. Branch (University of Texas at Dallas) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Linkages Between Macroeconomics and Finance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Stijn Claessens (International Monetary Fund) Discussants: Francis Diebold (University of Pennsylvania) Kim Ruhl (University of Texas-Austin) Kalina Manova (Stanford University) What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts? Stijn Claessens (International Monetary Fund) M. Ayhan Kose (International Monetary Fund) Marco Terrones (International Monetary Fund) Download Full-Text of Paper Sudden Stops, Financial Crises and Leverage: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q Enrique Mendoza (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper Trade and financial sector reforms: interactions and spillovers Ashley Taylor (London School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: New Thinking about Income Redistribution (AEA) |
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Presiding: Erzo F.P. Luttmer (Harvard University) Discussants: Alan Auerbach (University of California-Berkeley) Stefania Albanesi (Columbia University) Stephen Coate (Cornell University) Robin Boadway (Queen's University) The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) Matthew Weinzierl (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) Andrea Ichino (University of Bologna) Loukas Karabarbounis (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables Erzo F.P. Luttmer (Harvard University) Richard J. Zeckhauser (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Optimal Minimum Wage in Competitive Labor Markets David Lee (Princeton University) Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Displaced Workers, Unemployment, and Unemployment Insurance (AEA) |
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Presiding: Till Von Wachter (Columbia University) Discussants: Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College) Brian McCall (University of Michigan) Earnings of Displaced Workers and the Business Cycle: An Analysis Using Administrative Data Kenneth Couch (University of Connecticut) Nicholas Jolly (Connecticut Department of Labor) Dana Placzek (Connecticut Department of Labor) Taking the Most Out of Unemployment Insurance under Nonstationary Job Search: Unemployment Duration, Reemployment Wages and Job Tenure Mario Centeno (Banco de Portugal) Alvaro Novo (Banco de Portugal) Download Full-Text of Paper Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Employment Stability: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach Marco Caliendo (IZA Bonn) Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA Bonn) Arne Uhlendorff (IZA Bonn) Download Full-Text of Paper The Increase in Duration of Unemployment Benefits: Confronting Data and the Predictions of an Equilibrium Search Model Alvaro Novo (Banco de Portugal & ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Andre Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Financing Innovation and Venture Capital (AEA) |
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Presiding: Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) Discussants: Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago) Holger Mueller (New York University) Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital Robert Hall (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) Susan Woodward (Sand Hill Econometrics) Download Full-Text of Paper Learning and Uncertainty in Venture Capital Investment Linda Yuet-Yee Wong (University of Iowa and Binghamton University) The Venture Capital Cycle Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania) Rafael Silviera () Download Full-Text of Paper Technology Adoption with Exit in Imperfectly Informed Equity Markets Katrin Tinn (Stockholm School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Political Economy in Development (AEA) |
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Presiding: Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School) Discussants: Ben Olken (Harvard University) Votes and Violence: Experimental Evidence from a Nigerian Election Paul Collier (University of Oxford) Pedro Vicente (University of Oxford) Political Institutions and Human Development: Does Democracy Fulfil Its 'Constructive' and 'Instrumental' Role? Sebastian Vollmer (University of Goettingen) Maria Ziegler (University of Goettingen) Download Full-Text of Paper The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quantile Effects of Income and Education Marcus Alexander (Harvard University) Matthew Harding (Stanford University) Carlos Lamarche (University of Oklahoma) Download Full-Text of Paper Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School) Andrew Healy (Loyola Marymount University) Eric Werker (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 10:15 AM |
| Session: Empirical Investigations of Non-Neoclassical Behavior (AEA) |
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Presiding: Nicole Maestas (Rand Corporation) Discussants: Alexandre Mas (University of California-Berkeley) John DiNardo (University of Michigan ) Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University) Does It Pay To Be Nice? Personality and Earnings in the UK Guido Heineck (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Download Full-Text of Paper Ability and Self-Employment: Evidence from the NELS Ozkan Eren (University of Nevada-Las Vegas) Download Full-Text of Paper Intergenerational Correlations in Right-Wing Extremist Party Affinity Thomas Siedler (DIW Berlin and University of Essex) Download Full-Text of Paper Peer Groups and Employment Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Seo Yeon Hong (Rand Corporation) Pinar Karaca-Mandic (University of Minnesota) Nicole Maestas (Rand Corporation) |
Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Polls, Votes, and Elections (AEA) |
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Presiding: John DiNardo (University of Michigan) Discussants: Mereille Jacobson (University of California-Irvine) Heather Royer (Case Western Reserve University) Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-Election Polling Elias Walsh (University of Michigan) Sarah SDolfin@mathematica-mpr.com Dolfin (Mathematica ) John DiNardo (University of Michigan ) Download Full-Text of Paper Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election Alexandre Mas (University of California-Berkeley) Enrico Moretti (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper Learning in Investment Decisions: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Polls David Lee (Princeton University) Enrico Moretti (University of California-Berkeley) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Political Economy under Weak Institutions (AEA) |
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Presiding: Timothy Besley (London School of Economics and Bank of England) Discussants: Robert Powell (University of California-Berkeley) Gerard Padro-I-Miquel (London School of Economics) Alexandre Debs (University of Rochester) Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Georgy Egorov (Harvard University) Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Moscow) Download Full-Text of Paper Consolidation of New Democracy, Mass Attitudes, and Clientelism Adi Brender (Bank of Israel) Allan Drazen (University of Maryland) Download Full-Text of Paper The Real Swing Voters´ Curse James Robinson (Harvard University) Ragnar Torvik (University of Oslo) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Origins of the Education-Health Gradient (AEA) |
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Presiding: Michael Grossman (City University of New York and NBER) Discussants: Darius Lakdawalla (RAND Corporation) Tomas Philipson (University of Chicago) Michael Grossman (City University of New York and NBER) Vivian Ho (Rice University) The Role of Self-Management in Explaining the SES Health Gradient Among the Chronically-Ill Dana Goldman (RAND Corporation and NBER) James Smith (RAND Corporation) Endogenous Pain and Growth in the Social Security Disability Program Steven Atlas (Harvard Medical School) Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College) Why Are There Returns to Education? The Role of Cognitive Ability David Cutler (Harvard University and NBER) Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University and NBER) Effects of Education on the Selection of Individualized Medical Treatments David Meltzer (University of Chicago) Elbert Huang (University of Chicago) |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Disease and Development: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (AEA) |
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Presiding: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) Discussants: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) Urbanization, Health and Income in Malthusian Europe Gregory Clark (University of California-Davis) Download Full-Text of Paper Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, not Love Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra University) Nico Voigtlaender (University of California-Los Angeles) Download Full-Text of Paper How Relevant is Malthus for Economic Development Today? David N. Weil (Brown University) Joshua Wilde (Brown University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Monetary Policy, Liquidity, and Financial Crises (AEA) |
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Presiding: Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Discussants: Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Olivier Jeanne (International Monetary Fund) Bengt Holmstrom (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Knowledge and Liquidity Patrick Bolton (Columbia University) Jesus Santos (Columbia University) Jose Scheinkman (Princeton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Money, Liquidity and Monetary Policy Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University) Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Download Full-Text of Paper The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies Douglas Diamond (University of Chicago) Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Inequality and Democracy (AEA) |
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Presiding: Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) Discussants: TBA () Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences Pauline Grosjean (University of California-Berkeley) Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics) Download Full-Text of Paper Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information Suresh Naidu (Harvard University) Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley) Ethan Kaplan (IIES) Download Full-Text of Paper Keeping Dictators Honest: The Role of Population Concentration Quoc-Anh Do (Singapore Management University) Filipe Campante (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Early Childhood Education and Human Capital (AEA) |
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Presiding: Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) Discussants: Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) David Figlio (University of Florida) Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College) First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College) Diane Schanzenbach (University of Chicago) Download Full-Text of Paper The Lengthening of Childhood Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) David Deming (Harvard University) The Behavioral Consequences Of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth David Figlio (Northwestern University) Jeffrey Roth (University of Florida) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills (AEA) |
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Presiding: John List (University of Chicago) Discussants: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University) Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University) David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) An Economic Model of Psychological Traits Lex Borghans (Maastricht University) Bart Golsteyn (Maastricht University) James Heckman (University of Chicago) The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Adolescent and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the National Child Development Survey Pedro Carneiro (University College London) The Roles of Approach and Inhibition Systems in the Development of Self-Control in Adolescence Angela Lee Duckworth (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Macroeconomic Implications of Investment-Specific Technological Changes (AEA) |
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Presiding: Andrea Raffo (Federal Reserve Board) Discussants: Sylvain Leduc (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Andrea Raffo (Federal Reserve Board) Francois Gourio (Boston University) Lee Ohanian (University of California-Los Angeles) Technology Shocks: Novel Implications for International Business Cycles Andrea Raffo (Federal Reserve Board) Sector-Specific Technical Change Susanto Basu (Boston College) John Fernald (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Jonas, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Miles Kimball (University of Michigan) Investment-Specific Technological Change Asset Prices Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University) Investment Shocks and Business Cycles Alejandro Justiniano (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University) Andrea Tambalotti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Financial Market Developments and Global Implications After 10 Years of the Euro (AEA) |
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Presiding: Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley) Discussants: Richard Portes (London Business School) Andy Rose (University of California-Berkeley) Francis Diebold (University of Pennsylvania) Ulf Söderström (IGIER-Università Bocconi) The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Evidence on Effects of Monetary Unions among Smaller Countries? Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard University) Download Full-Text of Paper Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Cedric Tille (Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies) Download Full-Text of Paper US and Euro Bond and Stock Prices in EMU Carlo Favero (IGIER-Università Bocconi) Francesco Giavazzi (IGIER-Università Bocconi) Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank) Marcel Fratzscher (European Central Bank) Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University) Eric Swanson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Alternative Models for Monetary Policy Analysis (AEA) |
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Presiding: Samuel Reynard (Swiss National Bank) Discussants: Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) TBD () Smets Frank (European Central Bank) Surprising Comparative Properties of Monetary Models: Results from a New Monetary Model Base John Taylor (Stanford University) Volker Wieland (Frankfurt University) Download Full-Text of Paper Interest Elastic Long-Run Money Demand and Short-Run Persistent Liquidity Effects Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago) Modeling Monetary Policy Samuel Reynard (Swiss National Bank) Andreas Schabert (University of Dortmund) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: Firing Costs and Discrimination (AEA) |
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Presiding: Emily Blanchard (University of Virginia) Discussants: Hale Utar (University of Colorado) Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto) Essaji Azim (Wilfred Laurier University) Karabay Bilgehan (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) Labor Market Regulations and the Sectoral Reallocation of Workers: The Case of Trade Reforms Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto) Download Full-Text of Paper Import Competition and Employment Dynamics Hale Utar (University of Colorado) Pareto Improving Firing Costs? Bilgehan Karabay (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) John McLaren (University of Virginia) Download Full-Text of Paper Equality through Exposure? International Trade and the Racial Wage Gap Azim Essaji (Wilfrid Laurier University) Gregory Sweeney (HDRINC) Alexandros Kotsopoulos (HDRINC) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Dynamic Empirical Models of Health Care Markets (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ron Gallant (Duke University) Discussants: TBA () Measuring the Informative and Persuasive Roles of Detailing on Prescribing Decisions Andrew Ching (University of Toronto) Masakazu Ishihara (University of Toronto) Download Full-Text of Paper Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Hyperbolic Discounting, with an Application to Mammography Decisions Hanming Fang (Duke University and NBER) Yang Wang (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper Estimating a Dynamic Oligopolistic Game with Serially Correlated Unobserved Production Costs A. Ronald Gallant (Duke University) Han Hong (Stanford University) Ahmed Khwaja (Duke University) Download Full-Text of Paper Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona and NBER) Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University) Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (London School of Economics) Robert Town (University of Minnesota and NBER) |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: The Effects of Local Taxes and Regulations (AEA) |
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Presiding: David Sims (Brigham Young University) Discussants: David Sims (Boston University) Dallas Burtraw (Resources for the Future) David Albouy (University of Michigan) Erzo Luttmer (Harvard University) The Micro-Empirics of Providing Collective Goods: The Case of Business Improvement Districts Leah Brooks (University of Toronto) William Strange (University of Toronto) The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute) Aparna Mathur (American Enterprise Institute) Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts University) Download Full-Text of Paper Rent Control Rationing, Community Composition, and Residential Segregation David Sims (Brigham Young University) Download Full-Text of Paper Urban Meiosis David Frame (Baruch College, City University of New York) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Factor Adjustment with Real and Financial Frictions (AEA) |
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Presiding: Russell Cooper (University of Texas) Discussants: Adriano Rampini (Duke University) Ruediger Bachmann (University of Michigan) Andrea Eisfeldt (Northwestern University) Russell Cooper (University of Texas) Monetary Policy and Inventory Investment Louis Maccini (Johns Hopkins University) Bartholomew Moore (Fordham University) Huntley Schaller (Carleton University) Download Full-Text of Paper Lumpy Capital, Labor Market Search and Employment Dynamics over Business Cycles Zhe Li (University of Toronto) Download Full-Text of Paper An Empirical Model of Factor Adjustment Dynamics Juan Contreras (Congressional Budget Office) Download Full-Text of Paper Agency Problems And Endogenous Economic Fluctuations Giovanni Favara (HEC University of Lausanne) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Banked, Underbanked, and Unbanked (AEA) |
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Presiding: Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) Discussants: Shawn Cole (Harvard University) Jon Levin (Stanford University) Peter Tufano (Harvard University) Adair Morse (University of Chicago) Competition and Adverse Selection in Consumer Credit Markets: Payday Loans vs. Overdraft Credit Donald Morgan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Brian Melzer (Kellogg School of Management) Download Full-Text of Paper Determinants of the Locations of Payday Lenders, Pawnshops and Check-Cashing Outlets Robin Prager (Federal Reserve Board) And Banking for All? Michael Barr (University of Michigan) Jane Dokko (Federal Reserve Board) Ben Keys (University of Michigan) Download Full-Text of Paper Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences and Overindebtedness Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth College) Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School) Download Full-Text of Paper |
| Monday, January 5, 1:00 PM |
| Session: Hispanic Labor Market Outcomes and the U.S.-Mexico Border (AEA) |
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Presiding: Ronald L. Oaxaca (University of Arizona) Discussants: Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) Refugio Rochin (University of California-Davis) Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University) Susan Pozp (Western Michigan University) Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Border: A Comparative Analysis of the 1980s and 2000s Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University) Wages and Inequality of Hispanics in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region versus the U.S. Interior: Is There a Cost to Being Close to Home? David J. Molina (University of North Texas) Marie T. Mora (University of Texas-Pan American) Alberto Davila (University of Texas-Pan American) How Do Immigration Flows Respond to Labor Market Competition from Similarly Skilled Natives? Brian Cadena (University of Michigan) The Effects of Border Enforcement on Migrants' Border Crossing Choices: Diversion, or Deterrence? Carmen E. Carrion-Flores (University of Florida) Todd Sorensen (University of California-Reiverside) |