AEAweb: AEA 2011 Annual Meeting PapersJan 07, 2011
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Conflict: Beginnings, Ends, and Aftermaths
(O1)
Presiding:
Eva Vivalt
(University of California-Berkeley)
Interethnic Inequality and Participation in the Rwandan Genocide Peacekeeping: What Is It Good For? Poverty Traps and Conflict: The Consequences of Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda Warfare and Social Preferences in Children: Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Georgia [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Patricia Justino
(University of Sussex)
Ioana Petrescu
(American Enterprise Institute)
Gianmarco Leon
(University of California-Berkeley)
Pauline Grosjean
(University of San Francisco)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Education in Developing Countries: Results from Randomized Control Trials in China
(O1)
Presiding:
Paul Glewwe
(University of Minnesota)
The Impact of Eyeglasses on the Academic Performance of Primary School Students: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural China [Download Preview] Nutrition and Educational Performance in Rural China's Elementary Schools:
Results of a Randomized Control Trial in Shaanxi Province [Download Preview] Information, College Decisions and Financial Aid: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Control Trial in China [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Esther Duflo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Karthik Muralidharan
(University of California-San Diego)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Effects of Institutions on Wages
(J5)
Presiding:
Stephen Shore
(Johns Hopkins University)
Productivity, Restructuring, and the Gains from Takeovers [Download Preview] Right-to-Work Laws and the State-Level Economic Outcomes: Evidence Using Synthetic Control Method [Download Preview] Union Wage Setting and the Distribution of Employees' Earnings: Evidence from Certification Elections [Download Preview] Is Doing the Chores Bad for Your Earnings? The Housework Wage Penalty for Full-time Workers [Download Preview] Looking Beyond the Bridge: The Effect of Temporary Agency Employment on Labor Market Outcomes [Download Preview] Fraternities and Labor Market Outcomes [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Evaluating Empirical Tools for Horizontal Merger Analysis
(L4)
Presiding:
Daniel Hosken
(U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
Details Matter: Measurement of Merger Price Effects More Evidence on the Performance of Merger Simulations [Download Preview] In Search of the Truth: Challenges in Merger Simulation Analysis [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Michael A Salinger
(Boston University)
Michael R Baye
(Indiana University)
Han Hong
(Stanford University)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Evidence on Asset Price Bubbles
(E3)
Presiding:
Jonas Fisher
(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Mortgage Choices and Housing Speculation [Download Preview] Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency [Download Preview] Fuzzy Capital Requirements Risk Shifting and the Risk Taking Channel of Monetary Policy [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Frontiers of Matching Theory
(C7)
Presiding:
Muriel Niederle
(Stanford University)
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets [Download Preview] School Choice in San Francisco: Top Trading Cycles and Diversity Identification in Matching Games Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Itai Ashlagi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
John William Hatfield
(Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Federico Echenique
(Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology)
Utku Unver
(Department of Economics, Boston College)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Health Insurance and Public Policy
(I1)
Presiding:
Amitabh Chandra
(Harvard University)
Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts [Download Preview] Individually Mandated Health Insurance and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform [Download Preview] Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Robert Town
(University of Minnesota)
Amitabh Chandra
(Harvard University)
Claudio Lucarelli
(Cornell University)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Outcomes
(J6)
Presiding:
Sandra Black
(University of Texas-Austin)
British, American, and British-American Social Mobility: Intergenerational Occupational Change Among Migrants and Non-Migrants in the 19th Century [Download Preview] O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from ImmigrantsO Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants [Download Preview] Who’s on the Bus? The Role of Schools as a Vehicle to Intergenerational Mobility Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Sandra Black
(University of Texas-Austin)
Marianne Page
(University of California-Davis)
Bhashkar Mazumder
(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Nathan Grawe
(Carleton College)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association K-12 Economic and Financial Literacy Education
(A2)
Presiding:
Richard MacDonald
(St. Cloud State University)
Teacher and Student Characteristics as Determinants of Success in High School Economics Classes [Download Preview] It Takes a Village: Determinants of the Efficacy of Financial Literacy Education for Elementary and Middle School Students Economics Understanding of Albanian High School Students: Student and Teacher Effects and Specific Concept Knowledge Lecture and Tutorial Attendance and Student Performance in the First Year Economics Course: A Quantile Regression Approach [Download Preview]
Discussants:
George Vredeveld
(University of Cincinnati)
John Swinton
(Georgia College & State University)
James O'Neill
(University of Delaware)
King Banaian
(St. Cloud State University)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Labor Market, Labor Decisions, and Production Cycles
(E2)
Presiding:
Manuel Toledo
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
The Labor Market in the Great Recession [Download Preview] Production Cycles of U.S. Manufacturing: Phase Shifts and Comovement [Download Preview] The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life-Cycle: Facts and Theory The Cyclicality of the User Cost of Labor with Search and Matching [Download Preview] Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Manuel Toledo
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Marianna Kudlyak
(Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Yongsung Chang
(University of Rochester)
Gueorgui Kambourov
(University of Toronto)
Aysegul Sahin
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Motor Vehicle Fuel
(Q5)
Presiding:
Jonathan Edward Hughes
(University of Colorado)
High Gas Prices as a Cause of the Financial Crisis: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence The Land-Use Change Effect of Ethanol Plants in Iowa: 1997-2009 [Download Preview] Consumer Choice Between Gasoline and Sugarcane Ethanol [Download Preview] An Economic Estimation of the Cost of Automotive Fuel Economy Improvement Conspicuous Conservation and the Prius Premium: Willingness to Pay for Environmental Bona Fides [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Moving Beyond Deregulation
(L5)
Presiding:
Nancy Rose
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Why Can't U.S. Airlines Make Money? [Download Preview] Comparing the Costs of Intermittent and Dispatchable Electricity Generation [Download Preview] Financial Regulatory Reform: Challenges Ahead [Download Preview] Tradeoffs in the Design of Pricing Structures in Restructured Electricity Supply Industries
Discussants:
Catherine Wolfram
(University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Nancy L. Rose
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Savoy
American Economic Association Price Dynamics and Price Rigidity
(E3)
Presiding:
John Leahy
(New York University)
The Roles of Price Points and Menu Costs in Price Rigidity [Download Preview] Inventories, Markups and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models [Download Preview] Shrinking Goods and Sticky Prices: Theory and Evidence [Download Preview] State-Dependent Pricing in the Chain of Production
Discussants:
Avichai Snir
(Bar-Ilan University and Humboldt University)
Jonathan Willis
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Edward S Knotek II
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Oleksiy Kryvtsov
(Bank of Canada)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Prices and Inflation
(E3)
Presiding:
Gregory E. Givens
(Middle Tennessee State University)
Multiproduct Firms and Price-Setting: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Producer Prices [Download Preview] Price Stickiness, and the Hazard Rate for Price Changes: Evidence from Qualitative Survey Data [Download Preview] Seasonality in a Menu Cost Model [Download Preview] Inflation and Welfare with Search and Price Dispersion [Download Preview] Differential Interpretation in the Survey of Professional Forecasters [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Recessions and Retirement
(J2)
Presiding:
Scott Weisbenner
(University of Illinois)
Recessions, Retirement, and Social Security [Download Preview] What Explains Changes in Retirement Plans during the Great Recession? [Download Preview] Time to Retire? The Effect of State Fiscal Policies on Retirement Decisions [Download Preview] Crash and Wait? The Impact of the Great Recession on the Retirement Plans of Older Americans [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
(University of Minnesota)
Scott Weisbenner
(University of Illinois)
Jon M. Bakija
(Williams College)
Purvi Sevak
(Hunter College)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 9
American Economic Association Rethinking the Core
(A2)
Presiding:
Avinash Dixit
(Princeton University)
Some Suggestions from Gradaute Students for Changing the Core [Download Preview] Adding A Bit More Creativity to the Graduate Economics Core [Download Preview]
Discussants:
John List
(University of Chicago)
Michael Woodford
(Columbia University)
James Heckman
(University of Chicago)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Subprime Lending - Causes and Consequences
(G2)
Presiding:
Karlyn Mitchell
(North Carolina State University)
Bank Corporate Loan Pricing Following the Subprime Crisis [Download Preview] Impact of Subprime Crisis on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Financing: The Case of Japan The Impact of Banks' Technology Adoption on Mortgage Lending to Marginal Borrowers Correlated Leverage and Its Ramifications [Download Preview] Credit Supply and the Price of Housing
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association The Benefit-Cost Analysis of Social Policy
(D6)
Presiding:
Richard Zerbe
(University of Washington)
General Equilibrium Benefit Analyses for Social Programs [Download Preview] Behavioral Economics, Distribution, and Benefit-Cost Analysis [Download Preview] Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analyses of Early Childhood Interventions [Download Preview] The Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public Safety and Crime [Download Preview] The Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public Health Preparedness and Pandemic Mitigation [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Mark Cohen
(Resources for the Future)
Mary Kokoski
(University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Trade and Finance
(F1)
Presiding:
C. Fritz Foley
(Harvard Business School)
Exports and Financial Shocks [Download Preview] Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices Trade and Sudden Stop Crises International Trade and Institutional Change [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Arnaud Costinot
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Marc Auboin
(WTO)
Robert Johnson
(Dartmouth College)
Kalina Manova
(Stanford University)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Banks, Credit Constraints and International Business Cycles
(F3)
Presiding:
Michael Devereux
(University of British Columbia, CEPR and NBER)
Leverage Constraints and the International Transmission of Shocks International Credit Constraints, Trade and Financial Markets Linkages and the Output Correlation Puzzle Banks and International Business Cycles Financial Frictions, Financial Integration and the International Propagation of Shocks
Discussants:
Sylvain Leduc
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Ivan Jaccard
(European Central Bank)
Viktoria Hnatkovska
(University of British Columbia)
Gernot Mueller
(University of Bonn)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Causal Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Health and Welfare
(I1)
Presiding:
Charlie Brown
(University of Michigan)
Long-term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: New Estimates Using Social Security Data [Download Preview] PTSD Among Vietnam Veterans Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries [Download Preview] The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household and Family Formation and Stability
Discussants:
Daniel Eisenberg
(University of Michigan)
Joseph Doyle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Abigail Wozniak
(University of Notre Dame)
Chris Rohlfs
(Syracuse University)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Design and Incentive Effects of Certification and Disclosure Programs
(L5)
Presiding:
Silke Forbes
(University of California-San Diego)
Inspection Design and Inspector Performance Do Firms Game Quality Ratings? Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure of Airline On-Time Performance [Download Preview] LEED Adopters: Public Procurement and Private Certification [Download Preview] Label Confusion: The Groucho Effect of Uncertain Standards [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Mara Lederman
(University of Toronto)
Severin Borenstein
(University of California-Berkeley)
Silke Januszewski Forbes
(University of California-Berkeley)
Ken Corts
(University of Toronto)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Economic Underpinnings of Recycling and Waste Disposal Policies
(Q5)
Presiding:
Charles Kolstad
(University of California-Santa Barbara)
The Effect of Bottle Laws on Income: New Empirical Results [Download Preview] Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives [Download Preview] Global Reuse and Optimal Waste Policy [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Don Fullerton
(University of Illinois)
Robert Innes
(University of California-Merced)
Ted Gayer
(Brookings Institution)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 14
American Economic Association Economics as a Moral Science
(A2)
Presiding:
B. Douglas Bernheim
(Stanford University)
The Restoration of Welfare Economics [Download Preview] Markets and Morality Economics: Religious Origins, Moral Implications [Download Preview] Economists as Worldly Philosophers [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Economics of Immigration
(J2)
Presiding:
Mathis Wagner
(Collegio Carlo Alberto)
The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women [Download Preview] Immigration and Product Diversity [Download Preview] The Heterogeneous Labor Market Effects of Immigration [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Albrecht Glitz
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Kevin Lang
(Boston University)
Jessica Pan
(National University of Singapore)
Stephen Trejo
(University of Texas-Austin)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Financial Markets and State and Local Government Borrowing
(H7)
Presiding:
James Poterba
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Build America Bonds: A New Approach to Municipal Finance Fiscal Imbalances and Borrowing Costs: Evidence from State Investment Losses Portfolio Substitution and the Revenue Cost of Exempting State and Local Government Interest Payments from the Federal Income Tax [Download Preview] Elected vs. Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Kim Rueben
(Urban Institute)
John Chalmers
(University of Oregon)
Andrew Biggs
(American Enterprise Institute)
David Joulfaian
(U.S. Treasury Department)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Five Unrelated but Interesting Papers
(??)
Presiding:
Allen Sanderson
(University of Chicago)
Driving Under the (Cellular) Influence [Download Preview] Do Public Subsidies Sell Green Cars? Evidence from the U.S. Cash for Clunkers Program [Download Preview] A History of Violence: The "Culture of Honor" as a Determinant of Homicide in the U.S. South [Download Preview] The Lion's Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria [Download Preview] White Men Can't Jump, But Would You Bet on It? [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Household Behavior and Child Outcomes
(D1)
Presiding:
Mark Rosenzweig
(Yale University)
Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and
Adolescents [Download Preview] Early Health Shocks, Parental Responses, and Child Outcomes Household Choices and Child Development [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Wilbert van der Klaauw
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Robert Sauer
(University of Bristol)
John Ham
(University of Maryland)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association International and Regional Economic Integration
(F1)
Presiding:
Stephen Redding
(London School of Economics)
Trade, Growth, and Employment Dynamics of French Firms A Trapped Factor Model of Innovation [Download Preview] On the Limits of Innovation Policy The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Oleg Itskhoki
(Princeton University)
C. Fritz Foley
(Harvard Business School)
Arnaud Costinot
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Don Davis
(Columbia University)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association International Transmission of Business Cycles
(E5)
Presiding:
Patrick Van Horn
(University of Michigan-Dearborn)
Crisis? What Crisis? Currency vs. Banking in the Financial Crisis of 1931 [Download Preview] International Transmission of the German Financial Crisis of 1931: Evidence from the Central Money Market of New York City International Business Cycle Transmission in the Interwar Period [Download Preview] A New History of Banking Panics in the United States, 1825-1929: Construction and Implications [Download Preview] Business Cycle Synchronization since 1880 [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Michael Bordo
(Rutgers University)
Peter Temin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
George Chouliarakis
(University of Manchester)
Gary Richardson
(University of California-Irvine)
Warren Weber
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Neighborhood Effects
(R2)
Presiding:
Amy Schwartz
(New York University)
Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Neighborhood Gentrification, and Environmental Justice: Evidence from Restricted Access Census Block Data [Download Preview] The Impact of Financial Development on Homeownership and Housing Quality: Evidence from Turkey Is the ‘Shop Around the Corner’ a Luxury or a Nuisance? The relationship between income and neighborhood retail patterns [Download Preview] Homebuilders, Affiliated Financing Arms and the Mortgage Crisis
Discussants:
Andrew Haughwout
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Peter Zorn
(Freddie Mac)
Claudia Sitgrave
(New York University)
Jonah Rockoff
(Columbia University)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Noncognitive Factors in Gender Labor Markets Outcomes
(J3)
Presiding:
Wayne Grove
(Le Moyne College)
The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital: Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes [Download Preview] Explaining Gender Differences in Occupational Choice: Do Women Place Relatively Less Weight on Wages and More Weight on Social Status Than Men? Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages [Download Preview] The Role of Psychological Traits for the Gender Gap in Employment and Wages: Evidence from Germany [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Stephan L. Thomsen
(University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Lex Borghans
(Maastricht University)
Anne E. Winkler
(University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Nicole M. Fortin
(University of British Columbia)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Optimal Fiscal Policy
(H2)
Presiding:
Alexander Gelber
(University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Taxation of Family Firms Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Health Insurance Policy when People may make Mistakes Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Matthew Weinzierl
(Harvard Business School)
Damon Jones
(University of Chicago)
John Friedman
(Harvard University)
Alexander Gelber
(University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Majestic Ballroom
American Economic Association Sovereign Credit Risk
(E6)
Presiding:
Viral Acharya
(New York University)
Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults A Pyrrhic Victory? - Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk [Download Preview] Sovereign Risk Premia
Discussants:
Olivier Jeanne
(Johns Hopkins University)
Luigi Zingales
(University of Chicago)
Juan Carlos Hatchondo
(Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Using Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics
(Q5)
Presiding:
John List
(University of Chicago)
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Promote Water Conservation: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment Can Tailored Communications Motivate Environmental Volunteers? A Natural Field Experiment [Download Preview] Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Hunt Allcott
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University)
Margaret McConnell
(Harvard University)
Jeffrey Carpenter
(Middlebury College)
Lint Barrage
(Yale University)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association What's Wrong (and Right) with Economics? Implications of the Financial Crisis
(A1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
John Quiggin
(University of Queensland, Australia)
Brad DeLong
(University of California-Berkeley)
Lessons for Keynesians
Tyler Cowen
(George Mason University)
Lessons for Libertarians
Scott Sumner
(Bentley University)
A defense of the Efficent Markets Hypothesis
James K. Galbraith
(University of Texas-Austin)
Mainstream economics after the crisis
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Youth Health Conditions
(I1)
Presiding:
Charles Courtemanche
(University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Do Physical Education Requirements Influence Childhood Obesity and Student Achievement? Obesity and Academic Achievement Does Smoking Make One Dumber? Evidence from Teenagers in Rural China [Download Preview] From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland [Download Preview] The Effect of Deregionalization on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Neonatal Intensive Care [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 6
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists/American Economic Association Non-market Valuation Twenty Years after the Exxon Valdez: The Current State of the Art for Informing Benefit Cost Analysis
(Q5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Catherine Kling
(Iowa State University)
Kevin Boyle
(Virginia Tech)
Richard Carson
(University of California-San Diego)
Kerry Smith
(Arizona State University)
John List
(University of Chicago)
Joseph Herriges
(Iowa State University)
Ted McConnell
(University of Maryland)
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 5
International Association for Energy Economics/American Economic Association Environment, Climate Change, and Economic Growth
(Q5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Andre Plourde
(University of Alberta)
Pantelis Capros
(National Technical University of Athens)
Costs and Economic Growth Implications of European GHG Emissions Reductions
Philippe Aghion
(Harvard University)
Inducing Green Technology
Jean Tirole
(Toulouse School of Economics)
Economic Implications of Alternative Post-Copenhagen Climate Policy Architecture
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D & E
Society for Policy Modeling/American Economic Association The Dollar, the Euro, the Yuan and the International Monetary System
(F3)
Presiding:
Dominick Salvatore
(Fordham University)
The Role of Currency Realignments in Eliminating the US and China Current Account Imbalanaces [Download Preview] Beyond the Dollar [Download Preview] Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Interest Rate Policies [Download Preview] Exchange Rate Adjustments in the Global Recession and Recovery The Political Economy of Surges in Capital Inflows
Jan 07, 2011 12:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association European Economic Association Lecture
(O3)
Presiding:
Stefano DellaVigna
(University of California-Berkeley)
Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition and Innovation [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 12:30 pm, Sheraton, Grand Ballroom
American Economic Association/American Finance Association Joint Luncheon
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
John Taylor
(Stanford University)
Jan 07, 2011 12:30 pm, Marriott, Mattie Silks
International Banking Economics & Finance Association/American Economic Association Macro-prudential Supervision of Systemically-Important Financial Institutions
(G1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Diana Hancock
(Federal Reserve Board)
George Pennachi
(University of Illinois)
Wayne Passmore
(Federal Reserve Board)
Viral Acharya
(New York University)
Randall S. Kroszner
(University of Chicago)
Markus K. Brunnermeier
(Princeton University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Beyond GDP, Beyond Sarkozy? Towards A National Success Indicator
(H8)
Presiding:
Carol Graham
(Brookings Institution)
Economic Policy Implications of the Sarkozy Report [Download Preview] Supplementing Per-Capita GDP as Measure of Well-Being [Download Preview] Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: A Proposed National Success Indicator After the Sarkozy Report [Download Preview] Happiness Measures as a Guide to Development Policy? Promise and Potential Pitfalls [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Determinants and Consequences of Human Capital Investment
(J2)
Presiding:
Jens Ludwig
(University of Chicago)
The Perils of Pre-School? The Effect of Child Care on Academic Performance FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on
Academic Achievement Does Staying in School (and Not Working) Prevent Teen Smoking and Drinking? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Jens Ludwig
(University of Chicago)
Nora Gordon
(Georgetown University)
Jacob Vigdor
(Duke University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Theory: A Discussion of the Role of the Entrepreneur in the Theory of the Firm
(L2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Robert Strom
(Kauffman Foundation)
William J. Baumol
(New York University)
Simon C. Parker
(University of Western Ontario)
Daniel F. Spulber
(Northwestern University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Entry, Exit and Pricing
(L8)
Presiding:
Adam Rennhoff
(Middle Tennessee State University)
Will Universal Health Insurance Enhance Entrepreneurship Activity? Branding and Spatial Preemption: An Application to the Hospitality Industry [Download Preview] Spin-offs: Theory and Evidence from the Early U.S. Automobile Industry [Download Preview] Making Friends with Your Neighbors? Agglomeration and Tacit Collusion in the Lodging Industry [Download Preview] Do Sellers' Brokers Raise or Reduce Home Prices? Evidence of Agency Costs from an Unusual Real Estate Market [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Exchange Rate Modelling
(F3)
Presiding:
Philippe Bacchetta
(University of Lausanne)
On the Unstable Relationship between Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Fundamentals [Download Preview] Order Flow and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set [Download Preview] Phoenix Taylor Rule Exchange Rate Forecasting During the Financial Crisis [Download Preview] The Scapegoat Model of Exchange Rates: An Empirical Test
Discussants:
Ken Kasa
(Simon Fraser University)
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan Groen
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Nelson Mark
(University of Notre Dame)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Field Experiments on Financial Decisions Among the Poor
(D1)
Presiding:
Erica Field
(Harvard University)
Discounting and Defaulting: Evidence from Choice Experiments Matched to Administrative Credit Data Competition as a Saving Incentive: A Field Experiment with the Homeless Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies Check Cashing: Time Preferences, Income Variability and Rationality among the Unbanked
Discussants:
Ernesto Reuben
(Columbia University)
Paige Marta Skiba
(Vanderbilt University)
Margaret McConnell
(Harvard University)
Ebonya Washington
(Yale University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Growing New Ph.D. Economists
(A2)
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics Ph.D. Programs [Download Preview]
Discussants:
David Colander
(Middlebury College)
Gregory Mankiw
(Harvard University)
James Poterba
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Melissa McInerney
(College of William and Mary)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association House, Homeownership, and Life Cycle Impacts
(R2)
Presiding:
Amy Cutts
(Freddie Mac)
Owner-Occupied Housing: Life-Cycle Implications for the Household Portfolio [Download Preview] Housing Prices and Marital Stability [Download Preview] Life Shocks and Homelessness [Download Preview] Superstition in the Housing Market [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Marsha Courchane
(Charles River Associates)
Rajeev Darolia
(Charles River Associates)
Cynthia Holmes
(York University, Canada)
Andrea Heuson
(University of Miami)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Intellectual Property and Innovation
(L1)
Presiding:
Koleman Strumpf
(University of Kansas)
Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome [Download Preview] Technology Morphing: Standard-Setting Organizations, Patent Pools, and New Technologies Racing for Priority: Patents and Publications in Knowledge Competitions The Effect of File Sharing on Movies
Discussants:
Timothy Bresnahan
(Stanford University)
John Van Reenen
(London School of Economics)
Timothy Simcoe
(Boston University)
Julie Mortimer
(Harvard University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Labor Market Shocks
(E2)
Presiding:
Chris Stoddard
(Montana State University)
Business Cycles and Labor Market Flows with Sequential Screening [Download Preview] On the Persistence of Income Shocks over the Life Cycle: Evidence and Implications [Download Preview] From Wages to Welfare: Decomposing Gains and Losses from Rising Inequality [Download Preview] Asset Pricing with Concentrated Ownership of Capital [Download Preview] Risk Aversion and the Labor Margin in Dynamic Equilibrium Models [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Law and Economics
(K0)
Presiding:
Henry Farber
(Princeton University)
Corrective Taxation versus Liability [Download Preview] Optimal Proof Burdens, Deterrence, and the Chilling of Desirable Behavior [Download Preview] Explaining Trust in Public Institutions Predicting and Preventing Violent Death
Discussants:
Christopher Snyder
(Dartmouth College)
Philip Cook
(Duke University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Majestic Ballroom
American Economic Association Lessons for Economics from the Great Recession
(E3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Robert Hall
(Stanford University)
David Autor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robert Gordon
(Northwestern University)
Mark Gertler
(New York University)
Alan Krueger
(Princeton University and US Treasury)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association New Empirics of Public Policy and Fertility in the U.S.
(J1)
Presiding:
Juan Pantano
(Washington University in St. Louis)
How Contraceptive and Abortion Policy Shaped the Second Demographic Transition Marriage and Emancipation in the Age of the Pill The Unwanted: Negative Outcomes Over the Life Cycle [Download Preview] Do Pregnant Teens Respond to Improved Opportunities? An Evaluation of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Discussants:
Melissa Kearney
(University of Maryland)
Robert Pollak
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Marianne Bitler
(University of California-Irvine)
V. Joseph Hotz
(Duke University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Savoy
American Economic Association Savings Experiments in Developing Countries
(O1)
Presiding:
Dean Yang
(University of Michigan)
The ABCs of Financial Literacy -- Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior and Cognitive Biases [Download Preview] Sources of Time Preference and Time-Inconsistency: Evidence from the Field Do Simple Savings Accounts Help the Poor to Save? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nepal Intra-personnel and Inter-personnel Barriers to Savings and Health Investments: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Discussants:
Kartini Shastry
(Wellesley College)
James Andreoni
(University of California-San Diego)
Santhosh Anagol
(University of Pennsylvania)
Nava Ashraf
(Harvard Business School)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Taxes
(H2)
Presiding:
Robert Bohm
(University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
The Comparison of Ad Valorem and Specific Taxes under Incomplete Information [Download Preview] Do Wages Rise When Corporate Tax Rates Fall? Evidence from the German Business Tax Reform 2000 [Download Preview] Job Creation Tax Credits and Job Growth: Whether, When, and Where? [Download Preview] The Welfare Cost of Capital Income Taxes Under Uncertainty [Download Preview] Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Teaching Undergraduate Economics
(A1)
Presiding:
Kenneth Elzinga
(University of Virginia)
Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics: Class and Instructor Characteristics [Download Preview] Web 2.0 and Economic Education The Principles of Economics Textbook [Download Preview] Assessing Student Learning with Rubrics
Discussants:
Kenneth G. Elzinga
(University of Virginia)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association The Economics of Civil War, Violence and Conflict
(F5)
Presiding:
Ioana Petrescu
(American Enterprise Institute)
Bases, Bullets and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia [Download Preview] Peace and War with Endogenous State Capacity Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long-Term Effects of Political Violence in Peru [Download Preview] Rethinking Economic Sanction Success: Sanctions as Deterrents [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Eli Berman
(University of California-San Diego)
Eva Vivalt
(University of California-Berkeley)
Richard Akresh
(University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Radha Iyengar
(London School of Economics)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association The Economics of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program
(I1)
Presiding:
Jonathan Gruber
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Heterogeneity in Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Prescription Drug Plan Choice [Download Preview] Part D Formulary and Benefit Design as a Risk-Steering Mechanism? Imperfect Consumer Choice and Pricing in Medicare Part D Are Drugs Substitutes or Complements for Intensive (and Expensive) Medical Treatment? Evidence from Geographic Variation in Medicare Medical and Drug Spending
Discussants:
David Laibson
(Harvard University)
Claudio Lucarelli
(Cornell University)
Wesley Yin
(Boston University)
Marty Gaynor
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association The Future of Monetary Policy
(E5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Benoit Mojon
(Banque de France)
Charles Evans
(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Jean-Pierre Landau
(Banque de France)
Kiyohiko Nishimura
(Bank of Japan)
Frank Smets
(European Central Bank)
Michael Woodford
(Columbia University)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Agglomeration Economics
(R1)
Presiding:
Edward Glaeser
(Harvard University)
Urban Accounting and Welfare [Download Preview] Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection and Agglomeration [Download Preview] Urbanization and Structural Transformation [Download Preview] Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History [Download Preview] Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D & E
Association for Comparative Economic Studies/American Economic Association Disentangling the Effects of History, Culture, and Institutions
(O1)
Presiding:
Gérard Roland
(University of California-Berkeley)
The Historical Origins of Cultural Differences in Gender Roles: Women and the Plough Civic Capital as the Missing Link Disentangling the Effects of Legal and Political Development on Economic Growth - An Example From Entrepreneurship in Ancient Rome The Coevolution of Culture and Institutions in Seventeenth Century England [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Gérard Roland
(University of California-Berkeley)
Daniel Berkowitz
(University of Pittsburgh)
Rodrigo Soares
(PUC-Rio)
Judith Hellerstein
(University of Maryland)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall G
Chinese Economic Association in North America/American Economic Association Industrial Organization
(L2)
Presiding:
Serena Ng
(Columbia University)
Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks [Download Preview] An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market [Download Preview] The Use of FLF contracts in the Video Rental Industry [Download Preview] Selling in Department Stores: An Analysis of Manufacturer-Retailers Contracts
Discussants:
Matt Shum
(California Institute of Technology)
Han Hong
(Stanford University)
Panle Jia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Andrew Ching
(University of Toronto)
Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 5
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association/American Economic Association Micro Pricing Research in Emerging Markets
(E3)
Presiding:
Roberto Rigobon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Argentina's Great Depression through the Lens of Product-Level Data Scraped Data and Sticky Prices [Download Preview] A State-Dependent Model of Intermediate Goods Pricing The Distribution of the Size of Price Changes [Download Preview]
Jan 07, 2011 4:45 pm, Sheraton, Grand Ballroom
American Economic Association Richard T. Ely Lecture
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
Janet Currie
(Columbia University)
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences
Jan 07, 2011 8:00 pm, Sheraton, South Convention Lobby
American Economic Association Music Session
(Z1)
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
8:00 pm, The (Neo)classical Trio 9:00 pm, Outliers - Jazz 10:00 pm, Contractions – Rock Jan 08, 2011
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Colorado
American Committee on Asian Economic Studies/American Economic Association Global Rebalancing and Asia
(F4)
Presiding:
Raed Safadi
(OECD)
A Commercial Policy Package for Rebalancing the Global Economy? Implications for Asia [Download Preview] Achieving Inclusive, Balanced, Sustained Growth in the Asia-Pacific Global Rebalancing: Effects on Trade Flows and Employment
in China and Other Emerging Economies Global Trade Imbalances, Structural Change and China: What Scope for Fundamental Adjustment?
Discussants:
Frank Hsiao
(University of Colorado)
Mordechai E. Kreinin
(Michigan State University)
Ricardo Cavazos
(OECD)
Richard Pomfret
(University of Adelaide)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Advances in International Macroeconomics
(F4)
Presiding:
Enrique Mendoza
(University of Maryland and NBER)
Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk [Download Preview] News and Sovereign Default Risk in Small Open Economies Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis [Download Preview] Recovery Before Redemption: A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt
Renegotiations [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Bora Durdu
(Federal Reserve Board)
Pablo D'Erasmo
(University of Maryland)
Anton Korinek
(University of Maryland)
Vivian Yue
(New York University)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Banking Regulation and Risk Sharing
(G2)
Presiding:
Robert DeYoung
(University of Kansas)
The Optimality of Interbank Liquidity Insurance [Download Preview] The Effects of Usury Laws: Evidence from the Online Loan Market [Download Preview] Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation - Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage [Download Preview] The Welfare Cost of Liquidity Requirements TARP Investments: Financials and Politics [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Determinants of Corporate Investment and Innovation
(G3)
Presiding:
Bruce Petersen
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up [Download Preview] Do Financing Constraints Matter for R&D? New Tests and Evidence [Download Preview] Corporate Investment: Propensities and Constraints [Download Preview] Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Bruce C Petersen
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Joseph P. Ogden
(University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Tracy Yue Wang
(University of Minnesota)
Gustav Martinsson
(Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Ethnicity, Identity, and the Labor Market
(J1)
Presiding:
Laura Argys
(University of Colorado-Denver)
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange [Download Preview] A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority [Download Preview] Family Values and the Regulation of Labor [Download Preview] Ethnic Identity and Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Discussants:
Ulf Rinne
(IZA)
Randall Akee
(Tufts University)
Murat Iyigun
(University of Colorado-Boulder)
Robert W. Fairlie
(University of California-Santa Cruz)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 14
American Economic Association Financial Crises and Macroeconomics (AEJ-Macro Session)
(E3)
Presiding:
Steven Davis
(University of Chicago)
Anxious and Crisis Economies Financial Crises in Developed and Emerging Market Economies The Optimal Conduct of Monetary Policy with Interest on Reserves [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Gender and Social Policy
(J7)
Presiding:
Shirley Johnson-Lans
(Vassar College)
Have Gender Gaps in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Narrowed Under Health Reform? Findings from Massachusetts [Download Preview] Does Free Primary Education Narrow Gender Differences in Schooling? Evidence from Kenya [Download Preview] Women and Drug Crime: The Role of Welfare Reform [Download Preview] Women's Work as Represented in the American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings Issue
Discussants:
Anne Winkler
(University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Ann Mari May
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Tracy Falba
(Duke University)
Paul Glewwe
(University of Minnesota)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Global Financial Contagion
(F3)
Presiding:
Stijn Claessens
(International Monetary Fund)
Financial Cycles: What? When? How? [Download Preview] Bilateral Financial Linkages and Global Imbalances: A View on the Eve of the Financial Crisis [Download Preview] When the Rivers Run Dry: Liquidity and the Use of Wholesale Funds in the Transmission of the U.S. Subprime Crisis [Download Preview] How Do U.S. Monetary Shocks Affect Global Stock Markets? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Carmen Reinhart
(University of Maryland)
Menzie Chinn
(University of Wisconsin)
Marcel Fratzscher
(European Central Bank)
Kenneth Kuttner
(Williams College)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Plaza Court 1
American Economic Association Grand Challenges for Social Science Research: The Perspectives of Economists
(H1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Myron Gutmann
(National Science Foundation)
Nicholas Bloom
(Stanford University)
Esther Duflo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robert Hall
(Standford University)
James Poterba
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Emmanuel Saez
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Household Finance -- Consumer Credit
(G1)
Presiding:
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
(Northwestern University)
The Impact of Information Technology on Consumer Lending [Download Preview] Benefits of Relationship Banking: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets The Timing of Paychecks: Implications for Household Expenditure and Indebtedness Consumer Credit: Learning Your Customer's Default Risk from What (S)he Buys
Discussants:
Vikrant Vig
(London Business School)
Manju Puri
(Duke University)
Ulrike Malmendier
(University of California-Berkeley)
Justine Hastings
(Yale University)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Marriage and Divorce: Perspectives from Four Countries
(J1)
Presiding:
Daniel Hamermesh
(University of Texas-Austin)
Personality and Marital Surplus [Download Preview] Women’s Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility Marriage Subsidies and Divorce: An Analysis of Marginal Marriages [Download Preview] Projection Bias in Divorce [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Jungmin Lee
(Florida International University and Sogang University)
Martin Halla
(University of Linz)
Shelly Lundberg
(University of Washington)
Betsey Stevenson
(University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association New Approaches for Modeling Risk in Macroeconomics
(E3)
Presiding:
Helene Rey
(London Business School)
Solving Optimal Portfolio Models around a Risky Steady State Market Sentiment: A Tragedy of the Commons [Download Preview] Disasterization: A Simple Way to Fix the Asset Pricing Properties of Macroeconomic Models [Download Preview] Regulating Asset Price Risk [Download Preview] Leverage and the Financial Accelerator in a Liquidity Trap [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Cédric Tille
(HEI Geneve)
Nicolas Coeurdacier
(London Business School)
Karel Mertens
(Cornell University)
Tarek Hassan
(University of Chicago)
Philippe Bachetta
(University of Lausanne)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Nordic Financial Crises: Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
(E3)
Presiding:
Bengt Holmstrom
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Iceland Story: From Boom to Bust, Big Time [Download Preview] The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden in the 1990s: The Dynamics of Boom, Bust and Recovery [Download Preview] The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the Norwegian Banking Crisis in the 1990s [Download Preview] Lessons from the Nordic Financial Crisis [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Michael M. Hutchison
(University of California-Santa Cruz)
Michael D. Bordo
(Rutgers University)
Clas Wihlborg
(Chapman University)
Frederic Holm-Hadulla
(European Central Bank)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Political Economy
(P1)
Presiding:
Patrick Warren
(Clemson University)
The Political Resource Curse [Download Preview] Economic Growth and the Rise of Political Extremism: Theory and Evidence [Download Preview] The Tuesday Advantage of Candidates Endorsed by American Newspapers [Download Preview] Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and Government Intervention in the Economy: The Bailout of the U.S. Financial Sector [Download Preview] Lipset Reconsidered: A Rational Theory of the Stability of Democracy [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association Popular Economics
(A1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Peter Dougherty
(Princeton University Press)
Robert Shiller
(Yale University)
Robert Frank
(Cornell University)
Diane Coyle
(Manchester University)
Steve Levitt
(University of Chicago)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Reciprocity, Trust and Social Ties
(A1)
Presiding:
Raghuram Rajan
(University of Chicago)
Reciprocity in a Model of Informal Finance Circles of Trust [Download Preview] Measuring Trust in Peruvian Shantytowns
Discussants:
Alberto Bisin
(New York University)
Gustavo Manso
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Giacomo de Giorgi
(Stanford University)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Schools
(I2)
Presiding:
Peter McHenry
(College of William & Mary)
Uncertain Outcomes and Child-Parent Decision Making in Curriculum Choice: What Data Do We Need To Tell Them Apart? [Download Preview] Are Charter Schools Perceived to be Better than Regular Public Schools? Evidence from Michigan The Effect of No Child Left Behind on Public Schools: The Role of Sanctions versus Stigma The Headmaster Ritual [Download Preview] A Non-Experimental Evaluation of Curricular Effectiveness in Math [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association The Bank Capital Crunch and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: Micro-evidence from Europe
(E5)
Presiding:
Gregory Udell
(Indiana University)
Credit Crunch, Flight to Quality and Evergreening: An Analysis of Bank-Firm Relationships After Lehman [Download Preview] Interbank Liquidity Crunch and the Firm Credit Crunch: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Crisis Credit Supply: Identifying Balance-Sheet Channels with Loan Applications and Granted Loans Cross-Border Banking and the International Transmission of Financial Distress During the Crisis of 2007-2008 [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Rajkamal Iyer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gregory Udell
(Indiana University)
Ugo Albertazzi
(Banca d'Italia)
Jose-Luis Peydro
(European Central Bank)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association The Economics of Skyscrapers and Land Use
(R1)
Presiding:
Arthur O’Sullivan
(Lewis & Clark College)
Skyscrapers and Skylines: New York and Chicago, 1885-2007 [Download Preview] Skyscraper Height and the Macroeconomy Why are Skyscrapers so Tall? Land Use and the Spatial Location of Buildings in New York [Download Preview] Sclerosis of the City: Inefficiency and the Assembly of Urban Land [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Edward Glaeser
(Harvard University)
Andrew Haughwout
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Cletus Coughlin
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Robert Helsley
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Majestic Ballroom
American Economic Association The United States in the World Economy
(F4) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Dominick Salvatore
(Fordham University)
William Baumol
(New York University)
Education, Innovative Entrepreneurship, and Economic Prospects for the U.S.
Dale Jorgenson
(Harvard University)
The Rise of Developing Asia and the Decline of Industrialized Economies
[Download Preview]
Douglass C. North
(Washington University)
Where Are We Going? An Economic Historian Explores the Future
Edward C. Prescott
(Arizona State University)
Technology Capital and Openness
John Lipsky
(International Monetary Fund)
U.S. Fiscal Policy and the Global Outlook
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Understanding the Effects of War on Poverty Programs
(I3)
Presiding:
Robert Margo
(Boston University)
The Long-Term Effects of Family Planning Programs on Poverty The Long-Term Effects of Head Start on Criminal Behavior The War on Poverty and Educational Opportunity in the South Long Run Impacts of Early Life Exposure to Food and Nutrition Programs [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Phillip Levine
(Wellesley College)
Jacob Vigdor
(Duke University)
Robert Margo
(Boston University)
Rucker Johnson
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Bailouts, Incentives, and Regulation
(E6)
Presiding:
Thomas Philippon
(New York University)
Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection [Download Preview] Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts Illiquidity Seeking Banks and Financial Regulation [Download Preview] Bailouts, Time Inconsistency and Optimal Regulation [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Behavioral Economics and Consumer Regulation
(D0)
Presiding:
David Leonhardt
(New York Times)
Informing Consumers about Themselves: Electronic Disclosure in Markets Pitfalls and Potential of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest The Financial Education Fallacy [Download Preview]
Discussants:
David Laibson
(Harvard University)
Ulrike Malmendier
(University of California-Berkeley)
Annamaria Lusardi
(Dartmouth College)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association Economic Impacts of the September 11 Attacks: A Ten-Year Retrospective
(H8)
Presiding:
Adam Rose
(University of Southern California)
World Trade Center Tenant Relocation Patterns after September 11th, 2001 [Download Preview] Calculating the Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of September 11 TOTAL ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORIST ATTACKS: INSIGHTS FROM 9/11 [Download Preview] New Empirics of Transnational Terrorism and Its Impact on Economic Growth [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Martin Feldstein
(Harvard University and NBER)
Edward Glaeser
(Harvard University)
Alan Krueger
(Princeton University)
Bryan Roberts
(Dept of Homeland Security)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Economics of the Arts
(Z1)
Presiding:
Jianping Mei
(Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Sale Rates and Price Movements in Art Auctions [Download Preview] Rock and Roll Bands, (In)complete Contracts and Creativity [Download Preview] Art and Money [Download Preview] Optimal Learning Patterns for Creativity Generation in a Field [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Benjamin Mandel
(Federal Reserve Board)
Marie Connolly Pray
(University of Quebec-Montreal)
Bruce Weinberg
(Ohio State University)
Cedric Ceulemans
(ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles )
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Empirics of Growth
(O4)
Presiding:
Daron Acemoglu
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time [Download Preview] Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Competition [Download Preview] Innovation, Reallocation and Growth Taxation and Innovation
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Frontier Issues in Utility Regulation
(Q4)
Presiding:
Erin Mansur
(Dartmouth College and NBER)
Designing markets for pollution when damages vary across sources : Evidence from the NOx Budget Program [Download Preview] Wind Power Investment How Do Energy Prices, and Labor and Environmental Regulations Affect Local Manufacturing Employment Dynamics? A Regression Discontinuity Approach [Download Preview] Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing [Download Preview] Information and Energy Efficiency Policy
Discussants:
Ryan Kellogg
(University of Michigan)
Steve Puller
(Texas A&M University)
Stephen Ryan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Joseph Cullen
(Harvard University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Gender and Labor Markets
(J7)
Presiding:
Nicole Fortin
(University of British Columbia)
Gender Segregation in Occupations: The Role of Tipping and Social Interactions [Download Preview] Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment [Download Preview] Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership [Download Preview] Is the Risk Worth the Reward for Top Female Executives? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Joyce Jacobsen
(Wesleyan University)
Wayne Grove
(Le Moyne College)
Saranna Thornton
(Hampden-Sydney College)
Kai Li
(University of British Columbia)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Colorado
American Economic Association Household Borrowing and the Financial Crisis
(E2)
Presiding:
Enrichetta Ravina
(Columbia University)
Consumer Credit, Financial Frictions, and Long-term Relationships Risk and Default: Understanding Macro Drivers of Bankruptcy Skin in the Game: Evidence from the Online Social Lending Market [Download Preview] Bankruptcy and Mortgage Default
Discussants:
Victoria Ivashina
(Harvard University)
Adair Morse
(University of Chicago)
Arnoud Boot
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Vikrant Vig
(London Business School)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Incentive Compensation
(G3)
Presiding:
Kevin Murphy
(University of Southern California)
What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value? [Download Preview] Agency and Compensation: Evidence from the Hotel Industry [Download Preview] CEO Compensation and Political Connectedness Are Bureaucrats Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? [Download Preview] Monitoring Managers through Corporate Compliance Programs [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Innovative Teaching Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Economics
(A2)
Presiding:
B. Douglas Bernheim
(Stanford University)
In-Class vs. Online Experiments: Is There a Difference? Teaching with Case Studies...Hyperinflation: What Can Zimbabwe Teach Us? Do Daily Clicker Questions Predict Course Performance? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Steven J. Balassi
(Saint Mary's College of California)
Jennifer Imazeki
(San Diego State University)
Mariah Ehmke
(University of Wyoming)
Cynthia Bansak
(St. Lawrence University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Plaza Court 1
American Economic Association Intergenerational Transfers
(J2)
Presiding:
Arthur Diamond
(University of Nebraska-Omaha)
The Correlation Between Subjective Parental Longevity and Intergenerational Transfers [Download Preview] Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Magical Transition? Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Rural China from 1988 to 2002 [Download Preview] The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and noncognitive abilities [Download Preview] The Importance of Bequest Motives: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and the Pattern of Saving [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Labor Supply Effects of Disability Insurance
(H5)
Presiding:
Mark Duggan
(University of Maryland)
The Impact of Stricter Criteria for Disability Insurance on Labor Force Participaton [Download Preview] Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt [Download Preview] How Common is Parking Among Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries? Evaluation of the 1999 Increase in Substantial Gainful Activity on Earnings and Benefits [Download Preview] Spousal Labor Supply Responses to Government Programs: Evidence from the Disability Insurance Program
Discussants:
Hilary Hoynes
(University of California-Davis)
John Bound
(University of Michigan)
Richard Burkhauser
(Cornell University)
Julie Cullen
(University of California-San Diego)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Majestic Ballroom
American Economic Association Measuring Financial Capacity and Risk: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
(G1)
Presiding:
James Poterba
(NBER and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Americans' Financial Capability [Download Preview] The Effects of the Financial Crisis on the Wellâ€Being of Older Americans: Evidence from the Cognitive Economics Study [Download Preview] Households@Risk: US Households' Capacity to Cope with Risk [Download Preview] Risk Topography
Discussants:
Arthur Kennickell
(Federal Reserve Board)
John Phillips
(Social Security Administration)
Arie Kapteyn
(Rand Corporation)
Anil Kashyap
(University of Chicago)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Monetary Policy
(E3)
Presiding:
Peter Rousseau
(Vanderbilt University)
Confidence and the Transmission of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Shocks [Download Preview] Trusting the Bankers: Another Look at the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Financial Frictions, the Financial Immoderation, and the Great Moderation [Download Preview] Financial Market Segmentation, Stock Market Volatility and the Role of Monetary Policy [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 9
American Economic Association/Peace Science Society International Peace Science and Regional Science Economics (In Memory of Walter Isard)
(Y8)
Presiding:
Solomon Polachek
(Binghamton University)
Econometric Developments in Peace Science: Relevance as a Latent Variable in Dyadic Analysis of Conflict Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability Splitting an Uncertain (Natural) Capital To be announced To be announced To be announced To be announced To be announced To be announced
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Predicting Exchange Rates
(F3)
Presiding:
David Papell
(University of Houston)
Factor Model Forecasts of Exchange Rates [Download Preview] Yield Curve Predictors of Foreign Exchange Returns What Moves Real Exchange Rates? Countercyclical Currency Risk Premia
Discussants:
David Papell
(University of Houston)
Jan Groen
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Jian Wang
(Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Magnus Dahlquist
(Stockholm University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Race, Property, and Segregation in Historical Perspective
(J1)
Presiding:
William Collins
(Vanderbilt University)
Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present [Download Preview] Covenants Without Courts: Enforcing Residential Segregation with Legally Unenforceable Agreements [Download Preview] The New Deal, Race, and Housing in the 1920s and 1930s [Download Preview] One Farm Bought, One House Built: The Enduring Effect of Free Land on Black Property Ownership [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Fred H. Smith
(Davidson College)
Trevon D. Logan
(Ohio State University)
Thomas Cvrcek
(Clemson University)
Joseph P. Ferrie
(Northwestern University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association School Accountability and Student Outcomes: The Impact of No Child Left Behind
(I2)
Presiding:
Jonah Rockoff
(Columbia Business School)
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement [Download Preview] Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in
Schools under NCLB [Download Preview] Assessing the Impacts of Closing Persistently Failing Schools No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes
Discussants:
David Figlio
(Northwestern University)
Steven G. Rivkin
(Amherst College)
Bruce Sacerdote
(Dartmouth College)
Brian A. Jacob
(University of Michigan)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Stratification Economics (A Roundtable): An Emerging Subfield
(Z1)
Presiding:
William Darity, Jr.
(Duke University)
Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity [Download Preview] Stratification Economics and Wealth Inequality Stratification Economics and Immigration Theory Stratification Economics and the Racial Achievement Gap The Economic Breeding-Out of Surplus Blacks? The Political Economy of Eugenic Sterilization And Genocide In North Carolina [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association The Economics of Blood, Stem Cell and Organ Donation
(I1)
Presiding:
Ted Bergstrom
(University of California-Santa Barbara)
Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race [Download Preview] Will There be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors [Download Preview] The Effect of Cadaveric Kidney Donations on Living Kidney Donations [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Douglas Hough
(Johns Hopkins University)
Steven Leider
(University of Michigan)
Susanne Neckermann
(ZEW - University of Mannheim)
Lan Shi
(University of Washington)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association The Policy Response to the Financial Crisis
(E5)
Presiding:
Veronica Guerrieri
(University of Chicago)
The Central-Bank Balance Sheet as an Instrument of Monetary Policy [Download Preview] Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings and the Liquidity Trap [Download Preview] The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed's Non-Standard Policies [Download Preview] Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Perspective [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Olivier Jeanne
(Johns Hopkins University)
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
(Princeton University)
Guido Lorenzoni
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Woodford
(Columbia University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Who Bears the Corporate Income Tax? An Empirical Approach to Assessing Incidence
(H2)
Presiding:
Alan Auerbach
(University of California-Berkeley)
Spatial Tax Competition and Domestic Wages [Download Preview] The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax On Wages [Download Preview] Labor and Capital Shares of The Corporate Tax Burden: International Evidence [Download Preview] Corporate Taxes and Wages: Evidence from the 50 States
Discussants:
Alan Auerbach
(University of California-Berkeley)
Alison Felix
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
li Liu
(Rutgers University)
Dhammika Dharmapala
(University of Illinois)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall G
History of Economics Society/American Economic Association Irving Fisher and Modern Economics: 100 Years After The Purchasing Power of Money
(B3)
Presiding:
David Laidler
(University of Western Ontario)
Irving Fisher and Index Number Theory Irving Fisher and Chicago Economics [Download Preview] Irving Fisher, Debt Deflation, and Crises [Download Preview] Irving Fisher and the Quantity Theorists of his Time
Discussants:
Alice Orcutt Nakamura
(University of Alberta)
David E. W. Laidler
(University of Western Ontario)
Robert W. Dimand
(Brock University)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Capitol
Korea-America Economic Association/American Economic Association Recent Development in Microeconomics
(D8)
Presiding:
In-Koo Cho
(University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Measuring Media Influence on U.S. State Courts [Download Preview] Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Endogenous Forcing Variable and an Application to Contracting in Health Care Endogenous Market Segmentation for Lemons [Download Preview] A de Finetti Theorem for Capacities: Ambiguity about Correlation [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Biltmore
Transportation & Public Utilities Group/American Economic Association Recent Developments in Transportation
(L9)
Presiding:
Wesley Wilson
(University of Oregon)
Trade Growth and Its Effect on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Transport [Download Preview] Recent Developments in the Analysis of Transportation Costs and Productivity [Download Preview] Effects of Government Quality and Institutional Choice on the Efficiency of Airports in the United States [Download Preview] Recent Developments in Transportation Demand and Choice Modeling
Discussants:
Bruce A. Blonigen
(University of Oregon and NBER)
Clifford Winston
(Brookings Institution)
James Peoples
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Jeffrey Cohen
(University of Hartford)
Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 3
Union for Radical Political Economists/American Economic Association Macroeconomics after the Crisis
(E3)
Presiding:
Fred Moseley
(Mount Holyoke College)
Is the Fundamental Science of Macroeconomics Sound? [Download Preview] Real World Macroeconomics: Financial Market Liquidity and Money Contract Obligations [Download Preview] A Monetary Minsky Model of the Great Moderation and the Great Recession [Download Preview] Macroeconomic Theory after the Crisis [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Benjamin Friedman
(Harvard University)
Robert Gordon
(Northwestern University)
Kevin Hoover
(Duke University)
Jan 08, 2011 12:30 pm, Sheraton, Grand Ballroom
American Economic Association Nobel Laureate Luncheon Honor the 2009 Nobel Laureates in Economics
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
Avinash Dixit
(Princeton University)
Jan 08, 2011 12:30 pm, Marriott, Nat Hill
Association of Financial Economists/American Economic Association Regulating Bank Leverage
(G2)
Presiding:
Rene Stulz
(Ohio State University)
The Dark Side of Liquidity Creation: Leverage and Systemic Risk [Download Preview] A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions [Download Preview] Liquidity Requirements as a Macro-Prudential Tool
Discussants:
Paolo Fulghieri
(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Kose John
(New York University)
Andrew Winton
(University of Minnesota)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Can Fiscal Adjustments Contribute to Solve Global Imbalances?
(F4)
Presiding:
Fabrizio Perri
(University of Minnesota)
External Imbalances and Fiscal Policy [Download Preview] Fiscal Deficits and Current Account Deficits [Download Preview] Fiscal Policy and the Current Account [Download Preview] Fiscal policy in open economy: estimates for the euro area [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Morten O. Ravn
(University College London)
Luca Guerrieri
(Federal Reserve Board)
Roel Beetsma
(Amsterdam School of Economics)
Robert Kollmann
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Crossing the United States Border
(J1)
Presiding:
Stephen Trejo
(University of Texas-Austin)
The Impact of Mexican Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Migrant Flows Driven by Rainfall Shocks Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants The Economics of Border Crossings [Download Preview] Mexican-Americans in U.S. Schools [Download Preview] Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Economic Policy Responses to Climate Change
(Q5)
Presiding:
Kenneth Judd
(Hoover Institution)
Addressing International Emissions Leakage in Domestic Climate-Change Policy Sensitivity of Global Carbon Emissions [Download Preview] Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Analysis of Climate Change Policies Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Policies in Stochastic Environments
Discussants:
Sam Kortum
(University of Chicago)
Kenneth Judd
(Hoover Institution)
Todd Munson
(Argonne National Laboratories)
David Weisbach
(University of Chicago)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Energy Conservation and Electricity Demand
(Q4)
Presiding:
Dora Costa
(University of California-Los Angeles and NBER)
The Diffusion of Energy Efficiency in Building [Download Preview] An Experimental Comparison of Critical Peak and Real-Time Pricing Energy Conservation “Nudges” and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment
Discussants:
Paul Joskow
(Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Erin Mansur
(Dartmouth College and NBER)
Catherine Wolfram
(University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Experimenting with Organizations
(D2)
Presiding:
Stefano Dellavigna
(University of California-Berkeley)
Incentives and Commitments for Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Corporate Employees How Do Extrinsic Incentives Motivate Pro-Social Behavior? Natural Field Experiments in Blood Donation The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Experiments Rankings and Social Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussants:
Joseph Price
(Brigham Young University)
Stefano Dellavigna
(University of California-Berkeley)
Kirabo Jackson
(Cornell University)
Stephen Meier
(Columbia University)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Financial Crises, Systemic Risk and Macroprudential Regulation
(E6)
Presiding:
Markus Brunnermeier
(Princeton University)
Systemic Risk Charges Systemic Risk and Inefficient Debt Maturity [Download Preview] Booms, Busts and Growth
Discussants:
Anton Korinek
(University of Maryland)
Vito Gala
(London Business School)
Guido Lorenzoni
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Financial Innovation and Securitization
(G2)
Presiding:
Douglas Diamond
(University of Chicago)
Neglected Risks, Financial Innovation, and Financial Fragility [Download Preview] Renegotiation of Securitized Debt 620 FICO, Take II: Securitization and Screening in the Subprime Mortgage Market Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default
Discussants:
Gary Gorton
(Yale University)
Anil Kashyap
(University of Chicago)
Atif Mian
(University of California-Berkeley)
Karen Pence
(Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Financial Market Reactions to News
(G1)
Presiding:
Douglas Pearce
(North Carolina State University)
Asset Prices in a News Driven Real Business Cycle Model [Download Preview] Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets [Download Preview] Financial Expertise as an Arms Race Investors' Horizons and the Amplification of Market Shocks [Download Preview] Investor and Central Bank Uncertainty and Fear Measures Embedded in Index Options [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association History, Crisis, Institutions and Economic Analysis
(A1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Oliver Williamson
(University of California-Berkeley)
Charles Calomiris
(Columbia University)
Banking Crises and the Rules of the Games
Paul David
(Stanford University)
Path Dependent Economics and the Micro-Dynamics of Institutional Reform
Benjamin Friedman
(Harvard University)
What Did We Learn from the Financial Crisis?
Robert Owen
(University of Nantes)
History, News and the Analysis of Evolutionary Economic Processes
Robert Shiller
(Yale University)
Responses to the Financial Crisis: What are the Most Fundamental Institutional Changes?
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Microfinance
(O1)
Presiding:
Ariane Szafarz
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
You Can Pick Your Friends' Loans, As Long as You Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment [Download Preview] The Role of Joint Liability Contracts and Guarantor Contracts in microfinance [Download Preview] On the Efficiency Effects of Subsidies in Microfinance: An Empirical Inquiry [Download Preview] Discrimination by Microcredit Officers: Theory and Evidence on Disability in Uganda [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Rients Galema
(University of Groningen)
Marc Labie
(Université de Mons)
Robert Lensink
(University of Groningen)
Bruce Wydick
(University of San Francisco)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Forecasts
(E5)
Presiding:
Kajal Lahiri
(University at Albany)
Arbitrage-Free Model Forecasts of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Global Equilibrium Real Interest Rates How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Term Structure of Inflation Forecasts? Predictability of output growth and inflation: A multi-horizon survey approach [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Todd Clark
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Ruslan Bikbov
(Federal Reserve Board)
Min Wei
(Federal Reserve Board)
Arturo Estrella
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Monetary Policy in Financial Crises
(E5)
Presiding:
Robin Greenwood
(Harvard Business School)
Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts [Download Preview] A Comparative Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity [Download Preview] The Financial-Market Effects of the Federal Reserve's Large-Scale Asset Purchases [Download Preview] Balance Sheet Adjustments in the 2008 Crisis
Discussants:
Tobias Adrian
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Wei Xiong
(Princeton University)
Eric Swanson
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Viral Acharya
(New York University)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Plaza Foyer
American Economic Association Poster Session: Active Learning Strategies for the Undergraduate Economics Curriculum
(A2) (Poster Session)
Presiding:
Wendy Stock
(Montana State University)
Do Voting Schemes Matter? [Download Preview] The Psychology of Price Bubbles [Download Preview] Teaching Statistical Inference with Multiple Decls of Cards [Download Preview] Demonstrating a Central Tenet of the New Institutional Economics Using a Classroom Experiment Developing Quality Undergraduate Research Experiences in Economics: Tools, Tips, and Ideas from the Starting Point Economics Pedatogic Portal Project [Download Preview] Connecting to Your Heritage: Making Economics Personal Understanding Strategic Behavior in an Oligopoly Model Using Classroom Clickers Engaging a Diverse Set of Students in Healthcare Economics [Download Preview] Twitternomics: Using Tweets to Teach [Download Preview] Perfect in an Imperfect World Teaching Externalities with the Performance-Enhancing Drug Game: An Experimental Approach [Download Preview] Improving Undergraduate Teaching and Community Outreach through a State University Economic Research Center Teaching Effectiveness of Macroeconomic Policy using Interactive Spreadsheets [Download Preview] Teaching Exchange Rates using Currency Offer Curves: The U.S. China Example [Download Preview] Landmine Clearance as a Case for Principles of Economics Bite Size Pieces Taste Better [Download Preview] Mocknell Baskerball League Player Auction How to Assess Student Success for Students Working with Internet Learning Applications Starting Point: Pedagogical Resources for Teaching and Learning Economics [Download Preview] Using Live Question for Assist Learning in Economics There Is No Such Thing as a Free Textbook [Download Preview] Self-Guided Learning: The Value of Self-Directed Projects in Statistics for Business and Economics Large Classes in a Small College Setting: Achieving Economics of Scale and Pedagogical Success in Teaching Principles of Microeconomics A Web-Based Final Exam in Economics: Can We Help Students Learn to Identify and Explain Economics in Everyday Life? Teaching "Externalities" with Dynamic Graphs in Microsoft Excel [Download Preview] Economics Network: Ten Major Successes from the Past Ten Years [Download Preview] Use of Student-Authored Study Guide to Teach Principles of Microeconomics Closing the Grade Gap between 9 and 10am Introductory Microeconomic Course by Using Active Learning Examples [Download Preview] Simulating Oligopoly to Enhance Student Learning [Download Preview] Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Assessing the Effectiveness of Predict, Experience, and Reflect in Economics Instruction [Download Preview] A Classroom Experiment Illustrating the Law of Demand [Download Preview] Peer Instruction the Economics Way: A Modification of Peer Instruction Designed for a Large Enrollment Principles of Economics Classroom An Instructional Exercise in Price Controls: Product Quality and Public Policy [Download Preview] Using Generative Learning Strategies for Assessment of Student Understanding in a Principles of Microeconomics Course [Download Preview] Understanding Inflation: The Consumer Price Index The Economic Naturalist Walk [Download Preview] Thinking Like an Economist [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association/Women in Real Estate Network Re-Thinking House Price Models
(R1)
Presiding:
Marsha Courchane
(Charles River Associates)
Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% plan on Property Values State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidencefrom China [Download Preview] The Relationship between Willingness-to-Pay Estimates in the Hedonic and Discrete Choice Models [Download Preview] A Dynamic Model of Property Value Hedonics: Incorporating Forward-Looking Behavior into the Hedonic Approach
Discussants:
David Harrison
(Texas Tech University)
Tsur Somerville
(University of British Columbia)
John Clapp
(University of Connecticut)
Tom Thibodeau
(University of Colorado)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Regression, Reweighting, or Both?
(C1)
Presiding:
David Card
(University of California-Berkeley)
Blinder Oaxaca as a Reweighting Estimator [Download Preview] Robust Estimates of the Average Treatment Effect Flexible Estimation of Treatment Effect Parameters [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Joshua Angrist
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Edward Vytlacil
(Yale University)
Kei Hirano
(University of Arizona)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Social Protection Programs in Latin America
(H7)
Presiding:
Alicia Menendez
(University of Chicago)
Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-Being Effects of a Non-contributory Social Security Program [Download Preview] Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment [Download Preview] Informality and the Expansion of Social Protection Programs: The Case of Mexico [Download Preview] Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility: Detection, Explanations and Consequences for Empirical Research [Download Preview] Participation of the Poorest and Distributional Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs [Download Preview]
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Technological Innovation to Tackle Climate Change
(O3)
Presiding:
Nicholas Stern
(London School of Economics)
The Environment and Directed Technical Change Carbon taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry [Download Preview] Directed Technical Change: Energy vs. Capital and Labor Directing Technological Change While Reducing the Risk of (Not) Picking Winners: The Case of Renewable Energy [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Nick Stern
(London School of Economics)
Mike Greenstone
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Daron Acemoglu
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robin Burgess
(London School of Economics)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 14
American Economic Association The Great Trade Collapse of 2008-2009
(F1)
Presiding:
Gene Grossman
(Princeton University)
The "Collapse in Quality" Hypothesis [Download Preview] Trade Finance and the Great Trade Collapse [Download Preview] US Trade and Inventory Dynamics [Download Preview] Vertical Linkages and the Collapse of Global Trade [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Brent Neiman
(University of Chicago)
Kalina Manova
(Stanford University)
Jonathan Eaton
(Pennsylvania State University)
Gene Grossman
(Princeton University)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association The Stability of Preferences Across Contexts
(D1)
Presiding:
Amy Finkelstein
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
How General are Risk Preferences? Choices under Uncertainty in Different Domains [Download Preview] Why Do Defaults Work? The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Benjamin Handel
(Northwestern University)
Ulrike Malmendier
(University of California-Berkeley)
Botond Koszegi
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Marriott, Denver Suite I & II
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association/American Economic Association Agglomeration and Entrepreneurship
(O4)
Presiding:
Stuart Rosenthal
(Syracuse University)
Entrepreneurs and Cities: Complexity, Thickness and Balance [Download Preview] Entrepreneurship, Mines, and Urban Growth [Download Preview] The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities Do State Taxes Affect Entrepreneurship? Estimates from a Border Model with Agglomeration Economies [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
(Princeton University)
Curtis Simon
(Clemson University)
Francois Ortalo-Magne
(University of Wisconsin)
Jan Brueckner
(University of California-Irvine)
Jan 08, 2011 4:40 pm, Sheraton, Grand Ballroom
American Economic Association Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Presiding:
Orley Ashenfelter
(Princeton University)
Robert E. Hall
(Stanford University)
The Long Slump
Jan 08, 2011 8:00 pm, Sheraton, South Convention Lobby
American Economic Association The Economics Humor Session in Honor of Caroline Postelle Clotfelter
(Z1)
Presiding:
N. Gregory Mankiw
(Harvard University)
"Limericks Economiques" by Dr. Goose Supplying Justice, Demanding Vengeance: The Economics of Comic Books The Economics of the Simpsons CBO versus OMB...OMG! Jan 09, 2011
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association AEA Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession--Dissertation Session
(Y9)
Presiding:
Ngina Chiteji
(Skidmore College)
The Impact of Smoking Bans on Birth Weight: Is Less More? [Download Preview] Estimating the Effect of a Dual Language Program on Student Achievement: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Banking Efficiency and Remittances: The Mexican Case [Download Preview] Do Housing Prices Account for School Accountability? [Download Preview] Do Minimum Salaries Shorten Firm Tenure or Career Length? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Patrick Mason
(Florida State University)
Mark Hugh Lopez
(Pew Hispanic Center)
Darrick Hamilton
(The New School)
Maria Mora
(University of Texas-Pan American)
Sue Stockly
(Eastern New Mexico University)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Asset Prices
(E2)
Presiding:
Sheng Guo
(Florida International University)
An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search A Dynamic Model of Subprime Mortgage Default: Estimation and Policy Implications Default: Bankruptcy or Delinquency? Collateral Shortages, Asset Price and Investment Volatility with Heterogeneous Beliefs [Download Preview] How Did the Housing Boom Change the Wealth Accumulation Patterns of Cohorts? [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Chatting, Bonding, Bribing - How Social Interaction Affects Other-Regarding Behavior
(D6)
Presiding:
Ernst Fehr
(University of Zuerich)
The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism [Download Preview] Conspicuous Generosity [Download Preview] An Experimental Investigation of Delegation, Voting and the Provision of Public Goods [Download Preview] You Owe Me
Discussants:
Colin Camerer
(CalTech)
Steven Tadelis
(University of California-Berkeley)
Rachel Crosson
(University of Texas-Dallas)
George Loewenstein
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Consumer Financial Protection
(K2)
Presiding:
Luigi Zingales
(University of Chicago)
Consumer Financial Protection [Download Preview] Who Selected Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Evidence from the 1989-2007 Surveys of Consumer Finances How (Not) to Pay for Advice: A Framework for Consumer Financial Protection [Download Preview] Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, and Financial Decision-Making [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Augustin Landier
(University of Toulouse)
Kristóf Madarász
(London School of Economics)
David Sraer
(Princeton University)
Marcus Opp
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Critical Issues in National Climate Policy Design
(Q5)
Presiding:
Robert Stavins
(Harvard University)
Interactions of National and Sub-National Climate Change Policies The Role of Trade and Competitiveness Measures in U.S. Climate Policy [Download Preview] Vertical Targeting: Issues in Implementing Upstream versus Downstream Regulation [Download Preview] Imperfectly Enforced Pollution Limits and Offsets: Implications for Climate Policy [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Brian Murray
(Duke University)
Meredith Fowlie
(University of California-Berkeley)
Dallas Burtraw
(Resources for the Future)
Matthew Kahn
(University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Experiments in Firms
(L2)
Presiding:
John Van Reenen
(London School of Economics)
The Importance of Being Nice: Supervisory Skills Training in the Cambodian Garment Industry Does Management Matter: Evidence from India [Download Preview] Estimating the Response of consumer Demand to Prices and Giveaways Management, Capital and Firm Organization among Small-Scale Enterprises in Ghana
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Family Economics: New Results on Mothers' Labor Market Success and Children's Long-Run Wellbeing
(J1)
Presiding:
Joshua Angrist
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants [Download Preview] Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits [Download Preview] A Flying Start? Long-Term Consequences of Time Investments in Infants in Their First Year of Life [Download Preview] Maternity Leave and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Betsey Stevenson
(University of Pennsylvania)
David Blau
(Ohio State University)
Rafael Lalive
(University of Lausanne and CEPR)
Joshua D. Angrist
(angrist@mit.edu)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 9
American Economic Association Frontiers of Productivity and Output Measurement
(O4)
Presiding:
Matthew Shapiro
(University of Michigan)
A Bright Idea for Measuring Economic Growth [Download Preview] Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food Assessing the Productivity of Healthcare Spending on Chronic Disease: Evidence from Diabetes Treatment, 1997-2009
Discussants:
Charles Jones
(Stanford University)
Emi Nakamura
(Columbia University)
Ana Aizcorbe
(Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Game Theory and Auctions
(C7)
Presiding:
Artie Zillante
(University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Identification and Testing in Ascending Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity [Download Preview] First-Price Auctions with Resale: The Case of Many Bidders [Download Preview] Finding a Good Price in Opaque Over-the-Counter Markets [Download Preview] 'Friendship-based' Games [Download Preview] Sequential Disappearance of Reputations in Two-Sided Incomplete-Information Games [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Global Trade Dynamics in an Integrated World
(F1)
Presiding:
Jonathan Eaton
(New York University)
Relocating the Value Chain: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy [Download Preview] Matches between Buyers and Sellers in Foreign Trade Demand Composition and the Trade Collapse of 2008-09 Gravity for Value Chains
Discussants:
Andres Rodriguez-Clare
(Pennsylvania State University)
Steven J. Matusz
(Michigan State University)
Leonardo Iacovone
(World Bank)
David Hummels
(Purdue University)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 14
American Economic Association How Economic Measurement Was Invented
(C4)
Presiding:
James Heckman
(University of Chicago)
Origins of the Unemployment Rate [Download Preview] The Lerner Index of Monopoly Power: Origins and Uses [Download Preview] Real Wage Index Numbers [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Peter Temin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robert Hall
(Stanford University)
Robert A. Pollak
(Washington University-St. Louis)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Innovation and Mechanism Design
(L5)
Presiding:
Hugo Hopenhayn
(University of California-Los Angeles)
Prizes and Patents: Using Market Signals to Provide Incentives for Innovations [Download Preview] Mechanism Design for Efficient R&D Competition Optimal Patent Policy with Recurrent Innovators [Download Preview] Ideas and Innovations: Which should be subsidized? [Download Preview] Sequential Innovation, R&D Intensity, and Patent Policy [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association International Financial Regulation - What Next?
(F3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Lord John Eatwell
(Cambridge University)
Andrew Haldane
(Bank of England)
Raghuram Rajan
(University of Chicago)
Hyun Shin
(Princeton University)
Willem Buiter
(Citibank)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association International Investments and Returns
(F3)
Presiding:
Ariane Szafarz
(Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Home Bias Revisited [Download Preview] Foreign Stock Holdings: The Role of Information [Download Preview] Country Insurance and Corporate Risk-taking [Download Preview] The Predictability of European Mutual Fund Performance [Download Preview] Emerging Market Business Cycles Revisited: Learning about the Trend [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Political Economy of the Financial Crisis
(G2)
Presiding:
Simon Johnson
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006 [Download Preview] Three’s Company: Washington, Wall Street, and K Street Banking on Politics [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Anton Korinek
(University of Maryland)
Joshua Rauh
(Northwestern University)
Paola Sapienza
(Northwestern University)
Serdar Dinc
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Relative Concerns and the Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences
(D8)
Presiding:
Ed Hopkins
(University of Edinburgh)
The Evolution of Decision and Experienced Utilities [Download Preview] Skill Versus Luck in Social Comparisons: Causes of Social Reward Differences Encoded in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Status, Intertemporal Choice and Risk-Taking [Download Preview] Inequality and Risk-Taking Behavior [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Research on Teaching Practices of Economics Faculty
(A2)
Presiding:
Randall S. Kroszner
(University of Chicago)
Results from a Faculty Development Program in Teaching Economics Teaching and Assessment Methods in Undergraduate Economics: A Fourth National Quinquennial Survey [Download Preview] Student Performance in Undergraduate Economics Courses [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Kristina M. Lybecker
(Colorado College)
Tisha L.N. Emerson
(Baylor University)
Sam Allgood
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association School Choice and School Quality
(I2)
Presiding:
Simon Burgess
(University of Bristol)
What Parents Want:School Preferences and School Choice [Download Preview] Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan [Download Preview] The Effects of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges
Discussants:
Brian Jacob
(University of Michigan)
Sandra Black
(University of California-Los Angeles)
Steve Rivkin
(Amherst College)
Jacob Vigdor
(Duke University)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association The Effects of Socioeconomic Status in Childhood on Adolescent Health and Labor Outcomes
(I3)
Presiding:
Gerard van den Berg
(University of Mannheim)
Critical Periods in the Development of Cognitive Skills - A Study on Immigrant Siblings Child Height, Health and Human Capital: Evidence using Genetic Markers [Download Preview] Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy [Download Preview] Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Randall Akee
(Tuft University)
Gerard van den Berg
(University of Mannheim)
Emilia Simeonova
(Tufts University)
Mark Rosenzweig
(Yale University)
Jan 09, 2011 8:00 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Welfare Gains from Trade
(F1)
Presiding:
Costas Arkolakis
(Yale University)
Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics and the Effects of Trade Liberalization [Download Preview] Firm Entry Trade and Welfare in Zipf's World [Download Preview] Is Selection in Productivity a Third Gain from Trade New Trade Models, Same Old Gains? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Karem Cosar
(University of Chicago)
Stefania Garetto
(Boston University)
Kathreen Russ
(University of California-Davis)
Ariel Burstein
(University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Silver
American Economic Association Consumer Responses to Financial Market Incentives
(D1)
Presiding:
Xavier Gabaix
(New York University)
Why Do Banks Reward Their Customers to Use Their Credit Cards? [Download Preview] Attention and Household Finance: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Overdraft Fees Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data [Download Preview] Is There a Pecking-Order of Consumer Default?
Discussants:
Jeremy Tobacman
(University of Pennsylvania)
Brad Barber
(University of California-Davis)
Wilko Bolt
(De Nederlandsche Bank)
Paige Marta Skiba
(Vanderbilt University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 14
American Economic Association Credit Ratings and the Financial Crisis
(G2)
Presiding:
Patrick Bolton
(Columbia University)
Disagreement, Opacity and Rating Shopping in Structured Finance Markets Ratings Quality over the Business Cycle [Download Preview] Did Credit Rating Agencies Make Unbiased Assumptions on CDOs? [Download Preview] Credit Ratings and the Evolution of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Marcus Opp
(University of California-Berkeley)
Marco Pagano
(University of Naples Federico II)
Chester Spatt
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Effi Benmelech
(Harvard University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Economic History
(N4)
Presiding:
Linda Carter
(Baylor University)
Mergers and Acquisitions in British Banking: Forty Years of Evidence from 1885 until 1925 [Download Preview] Trade, Taxes, and Terroir: Market Integration and the Rise of the French Regulatory State During the Third Republic [Download Preview] Does Social Norm Reduce Civil Conflict? An Empirical Analysis of Confucianism on Banditry in Late Imperial China, 1644-1910 Export Commodity Booms, Labor Coercion, and the Historical Containment of Education How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa? [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 9
American Economic Association Economics of Ancient Societies
(N4)
Presiding:
Carmine Guerriero
(University of Amsterdam)
Slavery and Freedom: Reasons and Consequences of the Use of Rewards for Slaves in Ancient Rome [Download Preview] Deterrence of Wrongdoing in Ancient Law The Origin of Democracy in Athens [Download Preview] How Tyranny Paved the Way to Wealth and Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece [Download Preview] Price Behaviour in the Roman Empire [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Peter Temin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
(University of Amsterdam)
F. Andrew Hanssen
(Colby College)
Bryan C. McCannon
(Wake Forest University)
Francesco Parisi
(University of Minnesota)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Columbine
American Economic Association Entrepreneurship and Job Creation
(J2)
Presiding:
William Baumol
(New York University)
Estimating Entrepreneurial Jobs: Business Creation is Job Creation [Download Preview] Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government [Download Preview] University Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth [Download Preview] The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis [Download Preview]
Discussants:
William Baumol
(New York University)
Paul Reynolds
(George Mason University)
Jie Yang
(Georgetown University)
William Kerr
(Harvard University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Exchange Rates
(F3)
Presiding:
Cornelis Los
(University of Lethbridge)
Portfolio Reallocation and Exchange Rate Dynamics [Download Preview] Model Selection Testing for Diffusion Processes with Applications to Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Models [Download Preview] What Determines European Real Exchange Rates? [Download Preview] Limits to Arbitrage During the Crisis: Funding Liquidity Constraints and Covered Interest Parity [Download Preview] What Drives the Dollar-Oil Correlation? [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Financial Crises and Systemic Runs
(G1)
Presiding:
Gorton Gary
(Yale University)
Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo [Download Preview] Repo Runs [Download Preview] Crises in Repo Markets with Adverse Selection [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Til Schuermann
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Douglas Gale
(New York University)
Sudipto Bhattacharya
(London School of Economics)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Fiscal Interventions
(E6)
Presiding:
Stephen Buckles
(Vanderbilt University)
Quantifying the Distortionary Fiscal Cost of the 'Bailout' [Download Preview] Net Fiscal Stimulus During the Great Recession [Download Preview] The Effectiveness of Government Expenditures During Crisis:
Evidence from Regional Government Spending in Japan 1990-2000 [Download Preview] Lumpy Investment and Corporate Tax Policy [Download Preview] Banking Globalization and International Business Cycles [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Vail
American Economic Association Fiscal Limits
(E6)
Presiding:
Eric Leeper
(Indiana University)
Understanding Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Great Recession: Some Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic [Download Preview] Fiscal Risk in a Monetary Union [Download Preview] Inflation and the Fiscal Limit [Download Preview] The Role of Fiscal Policy in the Inflation of the 1970's
Discussants:
Klaus Adam
(Mannheim University)
Jon Faust
(Johns Hopkins University)
Bruce Preston
(Columbia University)
Todd Walker
(Indiana University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Gender and the Economics of the Household and Family
(J4)
Presiding:
Shoshana Grossbard
(San Diego State University)
Care Provision to Elderly Parents and Women's Hours Worked in the Labor Market [Download Preview] International Migration, Spousal Control, and Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Household Resources [Download Preview] What's yours is ours, and what's mine is mine? Identifying Income-Hiding between Spouses in Rural Ghana [Download Preview] Marriage and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Robert Pollak
(Washington University)
Olivia Mitchell
(University of Pennsylvania)
Shelly Lundberg
(University of Washington)
Nabanita Datta Gupta
(Aarhus University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Health Care: Raising Quality or Lowering Costs
(I1)
Presiding:
Irina Grafova
(University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
Do Electronic Medical Record Systems Improve the Quality of Health Care? [Download Preview] The Effect of Closure on Quality: The Case of Rural Nursing Home Closures [Download Preview] Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures [Download Preview] Does Proactive Disclosure of Medical Error Prompt or Prevent Medical Malpractice Suits? Is More Better? Economic Returns to Treatment Intensity [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Immigration and Education
(I2)
Presiding:
Aimee Chin
(University of Houston and NBER)
Closing the Gaps for English Language Learners: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Bilingual and ESL Programs Peer Effects from Students with Limited English Proficiency: How Does Sharing a Classroom with LEP Students Affect Native English Speakers? [Download Preview] Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation The Effects of Limited English Programs on Academic Performance
Discussants:
Joshua Angrist
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Aimee Chin
(University of Houston and NBER)
Kevin Lang
(Boston University and NBER)
Kalena Cortes
(Syracuse University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Information Processing Constraints
(E2)
Presiding:
Kasper Roszbach
(Bank of Sweden)
The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment [Download Preview] Does Lumpy Investment Matter for Business Cycles? [Download Preview] Consumption and Information: A Study of Consumer Behavior using Daily Data [Download Preview] Beliefs Shock and the Macroeconomy [Download Preview] The Economic Effect of Sentiment [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association Micro Linkages During a Crisis: Lessons from Past for Future
(F4)
Presiding:
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
(University of Houston)
Trade and Sudden Stop Crises Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, Diffusion and Productivity [Download Preview] Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight and Retrenchment [Download Preview] What Hinders Investment in the Aftermath of the Financial Crises: Insolvent Firms or Illiquid Banks? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Laura Alfaro
(Harvard University and NBER)
Andrei Levchenko
(University of Michigan and NBER)
Elias Papaioannao
(Dartmouth College)
Philipp Schnabl
(New York University and NBER)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities
(J2)
Presiding:
Robert Hall
(Stanford University)
Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities [Download Preview] Labor Supply Elasticities with Coordinated Working Times [Download Preview] Labour Supply Responses and the Extensive Margin [Download Preview] A Labor Supply Elasticity Accord? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Robert Shimer
(University of Chicago)
Joseph Altonji
(Yale University)
Steve Davis
(University of Chicago)
David Card
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Savoy
American Economic Association New Approaches to Measuring Household-Level Finances
(D1)
Presiding:
Angus Deaton
(Princeton University)
Improving the Measurement of Household-Level Spending and Income [Download Preview] The Trajectory of Household Spending during the Financial Crisis Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Thesia Garner
(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Michael Palumbo
(Federal Reserve Board)
Alan Krueger
(U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association Preferences of the Poor: Field Experiments
(C9)
Presiding:
Dean Karlan
(Yale)
Measuring Preferences and Predicting Outcomes Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America [Download Preview] Mothers, Fathers and Education: What Motivates Them Solidarity Among the Poor [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Erin Krupka
(University of Michigan)
Tanya Rosenblat
(Iowa State University)
Margaret McConnell
(Harvard University)
Hernán Bejarano
(Pennsylvania State University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Prospects for the Global Trading System
(F1)
Presiding:
Bernard Hoekman
(World Bank)
From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth [Download Preview] The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why? [Download Preview] The Resort to Protectionism During the Great Recession: Which Factors Mattered? [Download Preview] Protectionist Responses to the Crisis
Discussants:
Peter Neary
(Oxford University)
Ann Harrison
(Columbia Business School)
Patrick Low
(World Trade Organization)
Bernard Hoekman
(World Bank)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Responses to Environmental Regulation
(Q5)
Presiding:
Michael Greenstone
(MIT)
Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health [Download Preview] Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation [Download Preview] Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Joshua Graff Zivin
(University of Southern California)
Olivier Deschenes
(University of California-Santa Barbara)
Lucas Davis
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Plaza Court 3
American Economic Association Social Structure
(O1)
Presiding:
Bruce Sacerdote
(Dartmouth College)
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia [Download Preview] Innovation and the Resilience of Religion [Download Preview] Social Ties and Economic Development [Download Preview] The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification [Download Preview] Social Relationships and Trust [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Majestic Ballroom
American Economic Association The Budget Deficit
(H6) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Gregory Mankiw
(Harvard University)
Alan Auerbach
(University of California-Berkeley)
Douglas Elmendorf
(Congressional Budget Office)
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Donald Marron
(Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Georgetown University)
David Wessel
(Wall Street Journal)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association The Economics of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
(J2)
Presiding:
James Heckman
(University of Chicago)
IQ, Achievement and Personality A Study of Trader Attributes and Trader Performance The Correlates of Impulsivity: Does the Marshmallow Task Predict Economic Behavior in Mid-life? The Changing Comparative (Dis-)Advantage of Males in Industrialized Economies
Discussants:
Frank Levy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Deborah Cobb-Clark
(Australian National University)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Topics in Wine Economics
(Q1)
Presiding:
Karl Storchmann
(New York University)
Wine Retail Price Dispersion in the United States [Download Preview] Climate, Grapevine Phenology, Wine Production and Prices: Bordeaux (1800-2009) [Download Preview] Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility [Download Preview] The Value of Terroir: Hedonic Estimation with Data on Vineyard Sale Prices [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Joyce Jacobson
(Wesleyan University)
Victor Ginsburgh
(University of Brussels)
Bronwyn Hall
(University of California-Berkeley)
Charles Mason
(University of Wyoming)
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 5
Association for Social Economics/American Economic Association The Ethics of Professional Economic Practice
(A1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator:
Martha Starr
(American University)
Dean Baker
(Center for Economic and Policy Research)
Applying Economics to Economists: Good Governance at the International Financial Institutions
David Colander
(Middlebury College)
A Three-Word Ethical Code for Economists
George DeMartino
(University of Denver)
The Economist's Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics
Deirdre McCloskey
(University of Illinois-Chicago)
Humanomics: Taking All the Virtues (and Vices) Seriously
Jan 09, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 7
Health Economics Research Organization/American Economic Association Health Care Reform Issues
(I1)
Presiding:
Donald Yett
(University of Southern California)
National Lessons from the Massachusetts Health Reform Effort The Impact of Health Care Reform on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts [Download Preview] Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality and How Health Reform Could Affect Them [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Joseph Newhouse
(Harvard University)
Martin Gaynor
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Jon Gruber
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Savoy
American Economic Association Contests: Theory and Experiments
(D7)
Presiding:
Nicholas Shunda
(University of Redlands)
Competing Contests with Reimbursement [Download Preview] Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study [Download Preview] Increasing Effort Through Softening Incentives in Contests [Download Preview] Evolutionarily Stable Behavior in Winner-Pay Contests [Download Preview]
Discussants:
James W. Boudreau
(University of Texas-Pan American)
John Cadigan
(Gettysburg College)
Dylan B. Minor
(University of California-Berkeley)
Roman M. Sheremeta
(Chapman University)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row J
American Economic Association Culture, Institutions and Development
(Z1)
Presiding:
Gérard Roland
(University of California-Berkeley)
Which Dimensions of Cuture Matter for Long Run Growth? [Download Preview] The Historical Origins of Cultural and Institutional Change in Sub-Saharan Africa The Weight of History on European Cultural Integration: A Gravity Approach [Download Preview] Social Preferences and Fairness Norms as Informal Institutions: Experimental Evidence
Discussants:
Luigi Zingales
(University of Chicago)
Edward Miguel
(University of California-Berkeley)
Paola Giuliano
(University of California-Los Angeles)
Laura Schecter
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Terrace
American Economic Association Economics of Education
(I2)
Presiding:
Sarah Turner
(University of Virginia)
Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training: Evidence from Vacancy Data [Download Preview] Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment [Download Preview] Can State Merit Aid Programs Have Unintended Consequences? A Closer Look Who Leaves and Who Stays: An Analysis of Teachers' Behavioral Response to Retirement Incentives [Download Preview] The Today and Tomorrow of Kids [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 17
American Economic Association Economics of the Automobile Sector
(L9)
Presiding:
James Sallee
(University of Chicago)
Are Consumers Affected by Durable Goods Makers' Financial Distress? The Case of Auto Manufacturers [Download Preview] On the Road to Paternalism: A Welfare Assessment of Behavioral Rationales for Fuel Economy Policy Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety [Download Preview] Forecasting Gasoline Prices Using Consumer Surveys [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Florian Zettelmeyer
(Northwestern University)
Liran Einav
(Stanford University)
Erich Muehlegger
(Harvard University)
Severin Borenstein
(University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 16
American Economic Association Education Production Functions: Inputs and Outputs
(I2)
Presiding:
Joshua Angrist
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Course Work [Download Preview] When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement [Download Preview] Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom? [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Julie Berry Cullen
(University of California-San Diego)
Jeffrey Smith
(University of Michigan)
Richard Murnane
(Harvard University)
David Figlio
(Northwestern University)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Gold
American Economic Association Export Entry and Growth
(F1)
Presiding:
Ignatius Horstmann
(University of Toronto)
Export Entry and Exit: The Role of Capacity and Investment in Explaining Export Behavior Preparing to Export [Download Preview] A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics Sequential Exporting [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row H
American Economic Association Gender Differences
(J7)
Presiding:
Alexandra Bernasek
(Colorado State University)
Under Pressure: Gender Differences in Output Quality and Quantity under Competition and Time Constraints [Download Preview] Trade Reforms and Gender Empowerment in India Competition and Prejudice: Foreign Firms and Women's Labor Market Outcomes The Changing of the Boards: The Value Effect of a Massive Exogenous Shock Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently? [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Century
American Economic Association Global Production, Sourcing and FDI: Causes and Effects
(F2)
Presiding:
Laura Alfaro
(Harvard Business School and NBER)
Multi-Product Firms at Home and Away: Cost- Versus Quality-Based Competence [Download Preview] Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing [Download Preview] Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance [Download Preview] The Global Operations of European Firms [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Marc Muendler
(University of California-San Diego and NBER)
James Markusen
(University of Colorado-Boulder and NBER)
Laura Alfaro
(Harvard Business School and NBER)
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
(University of Houston and NBER)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Spruce
American Economic Association Infrastructure in Developing Countries
(O1)
Presiding:
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
(University of California-Berkeley)
Urban infrastructure and economic development: Experimental evidence from street pavement [Download Preview] How does mobile phone coverage affect farm-gate prices? Evidence from West Africa [Download Preview] The Impact of Electricity on Work and Health: Evidence from a Blackout in Zanzibar [Download Preview] New Cell-Phone Networks in Malawi: Correlates of Service Rollout and Effects on Employment [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Patrick Kline
(University of California-Berkeley)
Tavneet Suri
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sheetal Sekhri
(University of Virginia)
Maximo Torero
(International Food Policy Research Institute)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Plaza Court 1
American Economic Association International Trade and Prices
(F3)
Presiding:
Ergys Islamaj
(Vassar College)
International Menu Costs and Price Dynamics [Download Preview] International Asset Pricing with Risk-Sensitive Rare Events [Download Preview] Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement [Download Preview] Firm Heterogeneity and Ricardian Trade: The Impact of Domestic Competition on Export Performance [Download Preview] Trade Elasticities [Download Preview]
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Colorado
American Economic Association Long-Run Influences of the Early Childhood Environment in Developing Countries
(I1)
Presiding:
Douglas Almond
(Cornell University)
The Long Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure: Evidence from the Arrival of Sulfa Drugs in America [Download Preview] Early Childhood Malnutrition and Adult Obesity: Evidence from the 1959-61 China Famine [Download Preview] Effects of Early Childhood Health on Adolescent Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Matlab in Bangladesh [Download Preview] The Intergenerational Spillover of Early Life Conditions in Developing Countries [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Tania Barham
(University of Colorado-Boulder)
Atheender Venkataramani
(Washington University-St Louis and Yale University)
Winnie Fung
(Harvard University)
Karen Marcous
(Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row E
American Economic Association Minorities in Eastern Europe
(J1)
Presiding:
Daniel Hamermesh
(University of Texas-Austin)
Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities [Download Preview] The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary [Download Preview] Learn English, not the Local Language! Ethnic Russians in the Baltic States [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Lise Vesterlund
(University of Pittsburgh)
Glenn Loury
(Brown University)
Jan Svejnar
(University of Michigan)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Director's Row I
American Economic Association Mobility and Monopsony in the Labor Market
(J6)
Presiding:
Ronald Oaxaca
(University of Arizona)
Monopsony, Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay [Download Preview] Teacher Mobility Responses to Wage Changes: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment [Download Preview] Job Mobility and Negative Returns to Seniority Across the Program Quality Distribution [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Lars Lefgren
(Brigham Young University)
Barry Hirsch
(George State University)
William Boal
(Drake University)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Denver
American Economic Association New Advances in the Econometrics of Foreclosure
(L4)
Presiding:
John Reenen
(London School of Economics)
Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets [Download Preview] Technological Tying and the Intensity of Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the Video Game Industry [Download Preview] Exclusive Dealing and Entry Barriers in the Automobile Sector Leveraging Monopoly Power by Limiting Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from the Computer Market [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Kai-Uwe Kuhn
(University of Michigan)
Frank Verboven
(Catholic University of Leuven)
Timothy Derdenger
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Christopher Knittel
(University of California-Davis)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 10
American Economic Association Professional Licensing
(L5)
Presiding:
Morris Kleiner
(University of Minnesota and NBER)
Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists [Download Preview] Regulating the Supply of Informal Child Care in the U.S. Regulating Direct Cremations: The Cost of Tweaking Licensing Regulations [Download Preview] The Impact of Potential Labor Supply on Licensing Exam Difficulty in the U.S. Market for Lawyers [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Charles Wheelan
(University of Chicago)
Marc Law
(University of Vermont)
Mindy Marks
(University of California-Riverside)
Daniela Del Boca
(University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 11
American Economic Association Risk and Expectations in Higher Education
(I2)
Presiding:
Caroline Hoxby
(Stanford University)
The Education Risk Premium [Download Preview] The formation of expectations: Competing theories and new evidence [Download Preview] Risky Human Capital and Alternative Bankruptcy Regimes for Student Loans [Download Preview] College Risk and Return [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Caroline Hoxby
(Stanford University)
Geni Dechter
(University of New South Wales)
Bruce Sacerdote
(Dartmouth College)
Stacey Chen
(Royal Holloway University of London and IFS/UCL)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 9
American Economic Association The Economics of Sickness Absence
(J2)
Presiding:
Nicolas Ziebarth
(German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin))
Temperature Inversion, Air Pollution and Health The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System [Download Preview] The Case for Presenteeism [Download Preview] Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [Download Preview] Peers and Work Absence [Download Preview]
Discussants:
Martin Karlsson
(TU Darmstadt)
Peter Nilsson
(Uppsala Center for Labor Studies)
Nicolas Ziebarth
(DIW Berlin)
Per Johansson
(Instiutute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation)
Knut Roed
(The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)
Jan 09, 2011 1:00 pm, Sheraton, Governor's Square 12
American Economic Association What Role for Industrial Policy? Perspectives from Around the World
(O2)
Presiding:
Yifu Lin
(World Bank)
Industrial Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Growth Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries [Download Preview] Industrial Policy in Historical Perspective [Download Preview] Growth Identification and Facilitation [Download Preview]
Discussants:
James Levinsohn
(Yale University)
Chang-Tai Hsieh
(University of Chicago)
Sofia Villas-Boas
(University of California-Berkeley)
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