PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE ALLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS JANUARY 4-6, 2013, SAN DIEGO, CA

NOTE: Everyone must register for the meeting, including speakers.

Please review your session(s) and let us know if you see anything that is amiss. Before making additions, please do a search to make sure you are not adding someone who is already scheduled at the same time.

We realize that there are some conflicts with participants. This was unavoidable due to overbooking by some of the participants. In such cases, a co-author will have to present the paper. Changes and corrections should be sent to aeainfo@vanderbilt.edu.

All sessions will be equipped with an LCD projector and screen for your presentation. ASSA will not provide computers.

Location of Sessions for 2013 in San Diego, California

The beginning and ending times of sessions is shown below, with the exception being on the last day of the meeting when the last time slot will run from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.

8:00 am - 10:00 am
10:15 am - 12:15 pm
12:30 pm - 2:15 pm
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

See also: JEL Classification System


Jan 03, 2013

Jan 03, 2013 5:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle A & B
Econometric Society
Presidential Address
Presiding: B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University)
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich) Who Owns This Firm? A Critique of Shareholder Value Maximization
Jan 03, 2013 6:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom B
Association for Social Economics
Plenary Session and Reception: The Neuroeconomics of Trust (D87)
Presiding: Jonathan Wight (University of Richmond)
The Moral Molecule
Paul J. Zak (Claremont Graduate University)

Jan 04, 2013

Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Product Variety and Pricing Outcomes under Supermarket Oligopoly (L8)
Presiding: William Allender (Arizona State University)
Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Consumer Search in Supermarket Retailing
Timothy Richards (Arizona State University)
Miguel I. Gomez (Cornell University)
Slotting Allowances and Variety Provision in Supermarket Retailing
Robert Innes (University of California-Merced)
Stephen F. Hamilton (California Polytechnic State University)
How Do Supermarkets Respond to Brand-Level Demand Shocks? Evidence from the German Beer Market
Janine Empen (University of Kiel)
Stephen F. Hamilton (California Polytechnic State University)
Discussants:
Stephen F. Hamilton (California Polytechnic State University)
William Allender (Arizona State University)
Miguel I. Gomez (Cornell University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Behavioral Approaches to Adoption of Green Technologies (Q4)
Presiding: Gary Charness (University of California-Santa Barbara)
A Generalized Impure Public Good and Linear Characteristics Model of Green Consumption
Matthew Kotchen (Yale University and NBER)
Nathan W. Chan (Yale University)
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Hunt Allcott (New York University and NBER)
Todd Rogers (Harvard University)
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Goal Setting and Energy Efficiency
Matthew Harding (Stanford University)
Alice Hsiaw (College of the Holy Cross)
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Public Goods Provision in the Presence of Heterogeneous Green Preferences
Mark Jacobsen (University of California-San Diego and NBER)
Jacob LaRiviere (University of Tennessee)
Michael Price (Georgia State University and NBER)
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Discussants:
Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)
James Andreoni (University of California-San Diego and NBER)
Lucas Davis (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Charles Sprenger (Stanford University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
College Access, College Choice, and College Success (I2)
Presiding: Trey Miller (RAND Corporation)
Percent Plans, Automatic Admissions, and College Attainment
Isaac McFarlin (University of Michigan)
Paco Martorell (RAND Corporation)
Lindsay Daugherty (RAND Corporation)
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The Consumption Value of Education: Implications for the Postsecondary Market
Kevin Stange (University of Michigan)
Brian McCall (University of Michigan)
Brian Jacob (University of Michigan)
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IMPROVING THE TARGETING OF TREATMENT: EVIDENCE FROM COLLEGE REMEDIATION
Judith Scott-Clayton (Columbia University)
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Integrity versus Access? The Effect of Financial Aid Availability on Postsecondary Enrollment
Rajeev Darolia (University of Missouri)
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Discussants:
Rodney Andrews (University of Texas-Dallas)
Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan)
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Consequences of Health Reform for Private Markets: Evidence from Public Sector Regulations (I1)
Presiding: Joseph Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Competition and Private Provision in Medicare Advantage
Mark Duggan (University of Pennsylvania)
Boris Vabson (University of Pennsylvania)
Amanda Starc (University of Pennsylvania)
Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance
Jeffrey Clemens (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
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Private Coverage and Public Costs: The Effect of Private Supplemental Insurance on Medicare Spending
Marika Cabral (University of Texas-Austin)
Neale Mahoney (Harvard University)
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Cost-Shifting or Cost-Following: How Does Medicare Affect Private Physician Pricing?
Jeffrey Clemens (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)
Discussants:
David Molitor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan)
Marit Rehavi (University of British Columbia)
Michael Dickstein (Cowles Foundation at Yale University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Emma A & B
American Economic Association
Contraception and Abortion (J1)
Presiding: Martha Bailey (University of Michigan)
How Powerful Was the Pill? Quantifying a Contraceptive Technology Shock
Kelly Ragan (Stockholm School of Economics)
Consequences of Withdrawal: Free Condoms and Birth Rates in the Philippines
J.M. Ian Salas (University of California-Irvine)
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The Impact of Legal Abortion on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from the 1970 New York Abortion Reform
Dana Rotz (Mathematica Policy Research)
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Early Childbearing in the Next Generation
Yuxiu Zhang (Yale University)
Children of the Pill: The Effect of Subsidizing Oral Contraceptives on Children's Health and Wellbeing
Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University)
Emilia Simeonova (Tufts University)
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Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Financial Literacy and Content Standards in the Schools (A2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University and National Bureau of Economic Research)
Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University)
Brigitte C. Madrian (Harvard University)
John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
William B. Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Financial Networks (G1)
Presiding: Ethan Cohen-Cole (University of Maryland)
Financial Networks and Contagions
Matthew Elliott (Microsoft Research and CalTech)
Benjamin Golub (Harvard University)
Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
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Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Asuman Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Endogenous Intermediation in Over-the-Counter Markets
Ana Babus (Imperial College London)
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Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market
Ethan Cohen-Cole (University of Maryland)
Eleonora Patacchini (La Sapienza University of Rome)
Yves Zenou (Stockholm University)
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Discussants:
Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ethan Cohen-Cole (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward B
American Economic Association
Gender in Corporate Leadership (J4)
Presiding: Amalia Miller (University of Virginia)
From Female Labor Force Participation to Boardroom Gender Diversity
Renee Adams (University of New South Wales)
Tom Kirchmaier (University of Manchester and FMG)
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When Performance Trumps Gender Bias
Iris Bohnet (Harvard University)
Alexandra van Geen (Harvard University)
Max Bazerman (Harvard University)
When All Are Aboard: Does the Gender of Directors Matter?
Miriam Schwartz-Ziv (Harvard University)
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Fatherhood and Managerial Style: How a Male CEO’s Children Affect the Wages of His Employees
Michael S. Dahl (Aalborg University)
Cristian Dezso (University of Maryland)
David Ross (Columbia University)
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Discussants:
David Matsa (Northwestern University)
Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburg)
Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
Amalia Miller (University of Virginia)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
American Economic Association
Getting Ahead (J1)
Presiding: Wendy Stock (Montana State University)
Gender and Connections Among Wall Street Analysts
Lily Fang (INSEAD)
Sterling Huang (INSEAD)
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Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets
Ian Schmutte (University of Georgia)
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Are appearances deceiving? The nature and evolution of the beauty premium
Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Olga Shurchkov (Wellesley College)
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Does Beauty Matter in Undergraduate Education?
Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Olga Shurchkov (Wellesley College)
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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Zinovyeva Natalia (Spanish Research Council (CSIC))
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Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle A
American Economic Association
High Skill Immigration in the U.S (J2)
Presiding: Sarah Turner (University of Virginia)
Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US
Jeffrey Grogger (University of Chicago)
Gordon H. Hanson (University of California-San Diego)
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
Sari Pekkala Kerr (Wellesley College)
William R. Kerr (Harvard Business School)
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Why Do High-Tech Workers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomly Allocated U.S. Visas
Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development)
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Pathways to Adjustment in Science and Engineering Labor Markets
John Bound (University of Michigan)
Sarah E. Turner (University of Virginia)
Discussants:
Giovanni Peri (University of California-Davis)
Paul Oyer (Stanford University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Housing Bubbles: Theory and Evidence (G1)
Presiding: Kevin Lansing (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Norges Bank)
Metropolitan Home Price Dynamics Untied from Observable Fundamentals and Their Linkages
Roland Füss (University of St. Gallen and Center for European Economic Research)
Bing Zhu (University of Regensburg)
Joachim Zietz (Middle Tennessee State University and European Business School)
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House Price Dynamics: Fundamentals and Expectations
Eleonora Granziera (Bank of Canada)
Sharon Kozicki (Bank of Canada)
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House Prices, Expectations, and Time-Varying Fundamentals
Paolo Gelain (Norges Bank)
Kevin J. Lansing (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Norges Bank)
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What Makes Residential Different from Non-Residential REITs? Evidence from Multi-Factor Asset Pricing Models
Daniele Bianchi (Bocconi University)
Massimo Guidolin (Bocconi University)
Francesco Ravazzolo (Norges Bank and BI Norwegian Business School)
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Discussants:
Loriana Pelizzon (University of Venice and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Berrak Bahadir (University of Georgia)
Tassos Malliaris (Loyola University Chicago)
Roland Fuss (University of St. Gallen and Center for European Economic Research)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
American Economic Association
International Trade and Investment (F1)
Presiding: Keith Maskus (University of Colorado)
The Role of MNEs' Financial Advantage in Shaping FDI: Empirical Evidence on Some Paradoxical Implications
Rodolphe Desbordes (University of Strathclyde)
Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)
Domestic Value Added in Chinese Exports: Firm-level Evidence
Hiau Looi Kee (World Bank)
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)
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Skill Premium and Trade Puzzles: A Solution Linking Production Factors and Demand
Thibault Fally (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Justin Caron (ETH Zurich)
James Markusen (University of Colorado-Boulder)
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Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms
J. Peter Neary (University of Oxford)
Monika Mrazova (University of Surrey)
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Cross-Border Price Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Quantitative Framework for Competition Policy
Holger Breinlich (University of Essex)
Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)
Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)
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Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Issues in Teacher Pensions (I2)
Presiding: Maria Fitzpatrick (Cornell University)
Pension-Induced Rigidities in the Labor Market for School Leaders
Michael Podgursky (University of Missouri)
Cory Koedel (University of Missouri)
Jason Grissom (Vanderbilt University)
Shawn Ni (University of Missouri)
Retaining a High Quality Teaching Workforce: The Effects of Pension Design
Patten Mahler (University of Virginia)
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Out with the Old: The Effect of Teacher Retirements on Student Outcomes
Kristine Brown (University of Illinois)
How Does Teacher Retirement Affect Student Achievement?
Maria Fitzpatrick (Cornell University)
Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)
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Discussants:
Maria Fitzpatrick (Cornell University)
Cory Koedel (University of Missouri)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward C
American Economic Association
Novel Approaches for Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life (J1)
Presiding: Laura Taylor (North Carolina State University)
Randomized Safety Inspections and Risk Exposure on the Job: Quasi-experimental Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Jonathan Lee (East Carolina University)
Laura Taylor (North Carolina State University)
The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Military Retention Incentives and Occupation-Specific Mortality Hazards
Stephen Ryan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Yankovich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-experiment
Chris Rohlfs (Syracuse University)
Ryan Sullivan (Naval Postgraduate School)
Thomas Kniesner (Syracuse University)
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Transportation Choices, Fatalism and the Value of Life in Africa
Gianmarco Leon (University of California-Berkeley)
Edward Miguel (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Michael Anderson (University of California-Berkeley)
Nicolai V. Kuminoff (Arizona State University)
Hendrik Wolff (University of Washington)
Raymond Guiteras (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Ford A
American Economic Association
Political Economy- India (H1)
Presiding: Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
Economic Rents, Political Competition, and Political Selection
Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College)
Who Has Voice in a Deliberative Democracy? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Parliaments in South India
Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
Vijayendra Rao (World Bank)
Radu ban (London School of Economics)
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Institutions and Literacy in the Princely States
Latika Chaudhary (Scipps College)
Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
Political Identity, Religion and Public Health Delivery in India
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)
Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School)
Guilhem Cassan (University of Namur)
Discussants:
Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College)
Ugo Troiano (Harvard University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Ford B
American Economic Association
Social Mobility over Many Generations (N3)
Presiding: Marianne Page (University of California-Davis)
What is the True Rate of Social Mobility? Evidence from the Information Content of Surnames
Gregory Clark (University of California-Davis)
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Long-run Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Distribution of Surnames
Ignacio Ortuno-Ortín (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
M Dolores Collado (Universidad de Alicante)
Andrés Romeu (Universidad de Murcia)
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On the Road to Heaven: Self-Selection, Religion, and Socioeconomic Outcomes
Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics)
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Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the U.S. and Britain, 1850-1910
Jason Long (Wheaton College)
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Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission across Multiple Generations
Gary Solon (Michigan State University)
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Discussants:
Marianne E. Page (University of California-Davis)
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Nico Voigtlaender (University of California-Los Angeles)
Steven N. Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Gary Solon (Michigan State University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
The Market for Medicines in Developing Countries (O1)
Presiding: David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard University)
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Experimental Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda
David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard University)
Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University)
Drug Quality and the Development of Private Retail Pharmacy Markets
Wesley Yin (Boston University)
Dan Bennett (University of Chicago)
Monopolistic Competition, Technology Adoption and Market Power: Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Jessica Cohen (Harvard University)
Gunther Fink (Harvard University)
William Dickens (Northeastern University)
Subsidized ACTs and RDTs through the Zambian Private Sector: Impacts on Provider and Consumer Behavior
Jed Friedman (World Bank)
Discussants:
Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University)
Jessica Cohen (Harvard University)
Wesley Yin (Boston University)
Jed Friedman (World Bank)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
The Organizational Economics of Multinational Firms (F2)
Presiding: Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)
Do Multinationals Transplant their Business Model?
Dalia Marin (University of Munich)
Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)
Linda Rousova (University of Munich)
Horizontal vs. Vertical FDI: Revisiting Evidence from U.S. Multinationals
Natalia Ramondo (Arizona State University)
Veronica Rappoport (Columbia University)
Kim Ruhl (New York University)
The Span of Control and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms
Stephen Ross Yeaple (Pennsylvania State University)
The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in International Acquisitions and the Source of Multinational Advantage
Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)
Catherine Thomas (Columbia University)
Veronica Rappoport (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School)
Paolo Conconi (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Stephen Redding (Princeton University)
Natalia Romondo (Arizona State University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Madeleine A
American Economic Association
The Political Economy of Mass Media (H8)
Presiding: Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School)
The "Berlusconi Effect": An Empirical Investigation on the Long-Term Impact of Commercial Television on Political Change in Italy
Ruben Durante (Sciences Po)
Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)
Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary, University of London)
From Public Influence to Private Return: Evidence from the Italian Advertising Market
Ruben Durante (Sciences Po)
Stefano DellaVigna (University of California-Berkeley)
Brian Knight (Brown University)
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
Media Effects in Nazi Germany
Maja Adena (Freie University of Berlin)
Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School)
Maria Petrova (New Economic School)
Veronica Santarosa (University of Michigan)
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)
Determinants of Media Capture in China
Ben Qin (IIES, Stockholm University)
Yanhui Wu (University of Southern California)
David Stromberg (IIES, Stockholm University)
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Discussants:
Ruben Durante (Sciences Po)
Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School)
Stefano DellaVIgna (University of California-Berkeley)
Maria Petrova (New Economic School)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
What Nonparametric Methods Teach Us about Linear Methods for Models with Endogeneity (C1)
Presiding: Rosa Matzkin (University of California-Los Angeles)
Instrument Variable Estimation of Nonparametric Models
Whitney K. Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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What Instrumental Variable Models Deliver with Discrete Dependent Variables
Andrew Chesher (University College London)
Adam M. Rosen (University College London)
Control Functions and Simultaneous Equations Methods
Richard Blundell (University College London)
Dennis Kristensen (University College London)
Rosa Matzkin (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Adam M. Rosen (University College London)
Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Geert Ridder (University of Southern California)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Behavioral Corporate Finance (G3)
Presiding: Malcolm Baker (Harvard Business School)
Status, Marriage, and Managers' Attitudes to Risk
Nikolai Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania)
Pavel Savor (University of Pennsylvania)
Social Norms and Corporate Peer Effects
Markku Kaustia (Aalto University)
Ville Rantala (Aalto University)
Conglomerate Investment, Skewness, and the CEO Long Shot Bias
Christoph Schneider (University of Mannheim)
Oliver Spalt (Tilburg University)
Discussants:
Terence Burnham (Chapman University)
Kelly Shue (University of Chicago)
K.J. Martijn Cremers (University of Notre Dame)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Capital Structure (G3)
Presiding: Amy Dittmar (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
As Certain as Debt and Taxes: Estimating the Tax Sensitivity of Leverage from Exogenous State Tax Changes
Florian Heider (European Central Bank)
Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University)
Growth Option Exercise and Capital Structure
Amiyatosh Purnanandam (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Uday Rajan (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Corporate Leverage, Debt Maturity and Credit Supply:The Role of Credit Default Swaps
Alessio Saretto (University of Texas-Austin)
Heather Tookes (Yale University)
Structural Models of Capital Structure: A Framework for Model Evaluation and Testing
Arthur Korteweg (Stanford University)
Michael Lemmon (University of Utah)
Discussants:
John Graham (Duke University)
Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University)
Ing-Haw Cheng (University of Michigan)
Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Corporate Governance (Empirical) (G3)
Presiding: David Yermack (New York University)
Independent Director Incentives: Where do Talented Directors Spend Their Time and Energy?
Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales)
H. Shawn Mobbs (University of Alabama)
The Independent Board Requirement and CEO Connectedness
E. Han Kim (University of Michigan)
Yao Lu (University of Michigan)
Price of Publicity
Umit Gurun (University of Texas-Dallas)
Discussants:
Ran Duchin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Augustin Landier (University of Toulouse)
David Solomon (University of Southern California)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
International Corporate Finance and Development (G3)
Presiding: Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
Political Risk and International Valuation
Geert Bekaert (Columbia University)
Campbell Harvey (Duke University)
Christian Lundblad (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Stephan Siegel (University of Washington)
The Impact of Cultural Aversion on Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Raymond Fisman (Columbia University)
Yasushi Hamao (University of Southern California)
Yongxiang Wang (University of Southern California)
Should One Hire a Corrupt CEO in a Corrupt Country?
Maxim Mironov (Instituto de Empresa Foundation)
Why Do U.S. Securities Laws Matter to Non-U.S. Firms? Evidence from Private Class-Action Lawsuits
Amar Gande (Southern Methodist University)
Darius Miller (Southern Methodist University)
Discussants:
Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago)
Bernard Yeung (NUS Business School)
Craig Doidge (University of Toronto)
Jordan Siegel (Harvard Business School)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Macro Uncertainty and Financial Volatility (G1)
Presiding: Mikhail Chernov (London School of Economics)
Systematic Volatility of Unpriced Earnings Shocks
Timothy Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jaehoon Lee (University of New South Wales)
Survey Forecasts and the Time-Varying Second Moments of Stock and Bond Returns
Pierluigi Balduzzi (Boston College)
Chunhua Lan (University of New South Wales)
Taylor Rule Uncertainty
Andrea Buraschi (The University of Chicago)
Andrea Carnelli (Imperial College London)
Paul Whelan (Imperial College London)
Local Debt Inflexibility and the Transmission of Credit Supply Shocks
Lei Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
Discussants:
Dana Kiku (University of Pennsylvania)
Christopher Polk (London School of Economics)
Stanley E. Zin (New York University)
Daniel Paravisini (London School of Economics)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Market Microstructure (G1)
Presiding: Ingrid Werner (Ohio State University)
What's Not There: The Odd-Lot Bias in TAQ Data
Chen Yao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University)
Mao Ye (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Revealing Shorts: An Examination of Large Short Position Disclosures
Charles Jones (Columbia University)
Adam Reed (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
William Waller (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Large Bets and Stock Market Crashes
Albert (Pete) Kyle (University of Maryland)
Anna Obizhaeva (University of Maryland)
Discussants:
Joel Hasbrouck (New York University)
Karl Diether (Dartmouth College)
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Bank for International Settlements: Special Panel on Property Markets, Financial Stability, and Macroprudential Policies (G01) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Frank Packer (Bank for International Settlements)
Kiyohiko Nishimura (Bank of Japan)
Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore)
Ken Kuttner (Williams College)
Timothy M. Riddiough (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Frank Warnock (University of Virginia)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Housing Policies and Regulation (R3)
Presiding: Ingrid Ellen (New York University)
Public Housing and Employment: Subsidies, Skills, and Spatial Mismatch in Postindustrial Hong Kong
Paavo Monkkonen (Hong Kong University)
Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing
Michael Eriksen (University of Georgia)
Amanda Ross (West Virginia University)
The Long-Term Dynamics of Affordable Rental Housing: A Quarter-Century Perspective
John Weicher (Hudson Institute)
Frederick Eggers (Econometrica, Inc.)
Fouad Moumen (Econometrica, Inc.)
State Response to Expanding Government Capacity: Evidence from Takings Law
Susan Yeh (University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Chen (Duke University)
Discussants:
Jiro Yoshida (Pennsylvania State University)
Edgar Olsen (University of Virginia)
Denise DiPasquale (City Research)
Geoffrey Turnbull (University of Central Florida)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Real Option and Value of Real Estate (D4)
Presiding: Daniel Quan (Cornell University)
Valuing Real Options in Real Estate: A Spatial Study of the Option to Redevelop
Henry Munneke (University of Georgia)
Kiplan Womack (University of Georgia)
Expansions and Contractions of Major US Shopping Centers
Katsiaryna Bardos (Fairfield University)
John Clapp (University of Connecticut)
Tingyu Zhou (University of Connecticut)
Risk Aversion and Urban Land Development Options
Tien Foo Sing (National University of Singapore)
Gang-Zhi Fan (Konkuk University)
Ming Pu (Southwest University of Finance and Economics)
When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? Always?
Devin Pope (University of Chicago)
Jaren Pope (Brigham Young University)
Discussants:
Robert Edelstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Tobias Muhlhofer (Indiana University)
Paul Anglin (Guelph University)
Audrey Ukhov (Cornell University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle E
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Informal and Precarious Employment in Comparative Perspective (J6)
Presiding: John Bonin (Wesleyan University)
Risk Attitudes and Informality: with an Application to Russia
John Bennett (Brunel University and IZA)
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna and IZA)
Anzelika Zaiceva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and IZA)
Firms and Informal Employment: a Comparative Perspective
Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan University and IZA)
Precarious Employment of Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Its Hidden Cost
Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA)
The Dark Side of the Moon: Informal Employment in Georgia
Norberto Pignatti (ISET and IZA)
Karine Torosyan (ISET)
Discussants:
Nancy Chau (Cornell University and IZA)
Johannes Koettl (World Bank and IZA)
David Robalito (World Bank and IZA)
Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Coronado Room
Association for Evolutionary Economics/Association for Social Economics
Finance, Distribution and the Financial Crisis (G1)
Presiding: Robert Shiller (Yale University)
Households' Knowledge of their Own Finances: Evidence from the SCF J-codes
Martha A. Starr (American University)
Household Debt and Income Distribution
Robert Scott (Monmouth University)
Steven Pressman (Monmouth University)
The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class
Edward Nathan Wolff (New York University)
Taken for a Ride: How the Bubble Economy Destroyed America's Economic Security
Christian E. Weller (Centre for American Progress and University of Massachusetts-Boston)
A Template for a Public Credit Rating Agency
Susan K. Schroeder (University of Sydney, Australia)
Discussants:
Brian Bucks (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Christopher Brown (Arkansas State University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics
Dignity, Status, and Social Exchange (D6)
Presiding: Mark White (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
Equity, Besides: Adam Smith and the Utility of Poverty
Chris Martin (University of Richmond)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Ahab and Brand: Virtue, Authenticity, Rationality, and the Disfigurement of Character
Elias L. Khalil (Monash University)
Steps Toward a Field of Law-and-Social-Economics
Mark D. White (College of Staten Island, City of New York)
Beneficence and Commerce: Adam Smith's Unfinished Project
Robert Garnett (Texas Christian University)
"The Woman Question": A History of Economic Thought Perspective
Laura Cardwell (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Ecosystems and Common-Pool Resources (Q2)
Presiding: Charles Mason (University of Wyoming)
Taming the Lionfish
David M. Kling (University of California-Davis)
James N. Sanchirico (University of California-Davis)
Evaluating the Impact of Sector Management in the New England Groundfish Fisheries
Ling Huang (University of Connecticut)
Kathleen Segerson (University of Connecticut)
Is What is Good for the Forest Good for the People: Evaluating the Impacts of Protected Areas on Ecosystem Services and Poverty in Indonesia
Daniela Miteva (Duke University)
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Duke University)
Brian Murray (Duke University)
Don't Forget to Protect Abundant Resources
Ana Espínola-Arredondo (Washington State University)
Félix Muñoz-García (Washington State University)
Discussants:
John Lynham (University of Hawaii)
Martin Smith (Duke University)
Jonah Busch (Conservation International)
Charles Mason (University of Wyoming)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Auction Theory (D4)
Presiding: John Hatfield (Stanford University)
Bribing in First-Price Auctions
Shiran Rachmilevitch (University of Haifa)
Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibrium in First-Price Auctions with Resale
Charles Zhoucheng Zheng (University of Western Ontario)
Optimal Mechanisms for Markets with Long-Lived Buyers
Hanzhe Zhang (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Maciej H. Kotowski (Harvard University)
Jihong Lee (Seoul National University)
Eiichiro Kazumori (University of Buffalo)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Information Economics (D8)
Presiding: Edward Green (Pennsylvania State University)
Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching
V. Bhaskar (University College London)
Ed Hopkins (University of Edinburgh)
Optimal Risk Sharing with Optimistic and Pessimistic Decision Makers
Aloisio Pessoa Araujo (NA IMPA and FGV)
Jean Marc Bonnisseau (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Alain Chateauneuf (CERMSEM Universite Paris 1)
Rodrigo Novinski (Ibmec Business School)
Events Concerning Knowledge
Edward Green (Pennsylvania State University)
Discussants:
Rodrigo Novinski (Ibmec Business School)
Edward Green (Pennsylvania State University)
Peter N. Sorensen (University of Copenhagen)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
International Trade and Heterogeneous Firms (F1)
Presiding: Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Different Trade Models, Different Trade Elasticities?
Ina Simonovska (University of California-Davis)
Michael E. Waugh (New York University)
Imported Intermediate Goods and Product Innovation: Evidence from India
Murat Seker (World Bank)
Fixed Costs per Shipment
Andreas Kropf (Northwestern University)
Philip Saure (Swiss National Bank)
Structural Adjustments in Production and International Trade: Theory and Evidence from China
Hanwei Huang (London School of Economics)
Jiandong Ju (University of Oklahoma and Tsinghua University)
Vivian Yue (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussants:
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Miklos Koren (Central European University)
Andreas Moxnes (Dartmouth College)
Dan Lu (Princeton University and University of Rochester)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Matching and Network Models (C5)
Presiding: Yu-Wei Hsieh (University of Southern California)
Understanding Mate Preferences from Two-Sided Matching Markets: Identication, Estimation and Policy Analysis
Yu-Wei Hsieh (University of Southern California)
Identification and Estimation of a Pairwise Regression Model with Mutual Consent and Unobservable Heterogeneity
Zhentao Shi (Yale University)
Identification and Estimation of Network Formation Games
Shuyang Sheng (University of Southern California)
Discussants:
Jeremy T. Fox (University of Michigan)
Yu-Wei Hsieh (University of Southern California)
Alfred Galichon (Ecole Polytechnique)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Product Markets (D4)
Presiding: Luis Cabral (New York University)
Durable Goods Monopoly with Stochastic Costs
Juan Matias Ortner (Princeton University)
Payoff Uncertainty, Bargaining Power, and the Strategic Sequencing of Bilateral Negotiations
Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics
Simon Board (University of California-Los Angeles)
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
Juan Matias Ortner (Princeton University)
Luis Cabral (New York University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Point Loma
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Bank Governance and Crises (G2)
Presiding: David Mayes (University of Auckland)
The Roles of Corporate Governance in Bank Failures during the Recent Financial Crisis
Allen N. Berger (University of South Carolina)
Bjorn Imbierowicz (Goethe University)
Christian Rauch (Goethe University)
Does Financial Experience Help Banks during Credit Crises?
Nuno Fernandes (IMD International)
Eliezer Fich (Drexel University)
Political Influence and Incentive: The Lending Behavior of a State-Owned Bank in the Global Financial Crisis
Chun-Yu Ho (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Dan Li (Fudan University)
Suhua Tian (Fudan University)
Takeover Targets' Decision to Market Themselves: The Role of Governance
Elijah Brewer (DePaul University)
William Jackson (University of Alabama)
Larry Wall (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Discussants:
Isil Erel (Ohio State University)
W. Scott Frame (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Gerard Caprio (Williams College)
Antonio Macias (Texas Christian University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle B
Korea-America Economic Association/American Economic Association
Capital Flows, Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policies (E2)
Presiding: Hyun Shin (Princeton University)
Macro-Prudential Policies: Lessons for and from Emerging Markets
Amar Bhattacharya (G24 Secretariat)
Stijn Claessens (International Monetary Fund)
Swati Ghosh (World Bank)
Capital Controls in Brazil: Effective? Efficient?
Marcos Chamon (International Monetary Fund)
Márcio Garcia (PUC, Brazil)
The New Economics of Prudential Capital Controls
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
Mitigating Systemic Spillovers from Currency Hedging
Kyuil Chung (Bank of Korea)
Hail Park (Bank of Korea)
Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association/International Association for Feminist Economics
Gender Inequality: New Views on Exploitation, Poverty, Pensions and Domestic Violence (J5)
Presiding: Elaine McCrate (University of Vermont)
New Forms of Exploitation: The Synthesis of Mis-recogniton and Mal-distribution
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
The Working Poor: Too Low Wage or Too Many Kids?
Sile Padraigin O'Dorchai (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Danièle Meulders (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Womens' Labor Force Participation and Marital Violence in India
Sanjukta Chaudhuri (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Catherine Emmanuelle (University of Minnesota-Duluth)
Investigating Gender Pension Gaps in Europe
Francesca Bettio (University of Siena)
Gianni Betti (University of Siena)
Platon Tinios (Panteion University)
Discussants:
Ellen Mutari (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Ownership/Governance of Firms and Employee Outcomes - LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Daniel Marschall (AFL-CIO)
A Longitudinal Analysis of Corporate-Sponsored Retirement Plans and Firm Ownership
J. Adam Cobb (University of Pennsylvania)
Governance Structures, Union Strength and Their Relation to CEO Pay
Muhammad Umar Boodoo (University of Toronto)
Green Microfinance Promoting Green Enterprise Development through Mini Cooperatives
Kazi Abdur Rouf (University of Toronto)
Industry Clusters and Employment Outcomes in Washington State
Colleen Chrisinger (University of Oregon)
Christopher S. Fowler (Pennsylvania State University)
Rachel Garshick Kleit (The Ohio State University)
Martin Kraal (Oregon Employment Department)
Discussants:
Douglas Kruse (Rutgers University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Work Hours: Flexibility, Non-standard Hours, Gradual Retirement - LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Eileen Appelbaum (CEPR)
Supply of and Demand for Gradual Retirement: Evidence from a German Policy Experiment
Peter Berg (Michigan State University)
Mary Hamman (University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse)
Matthew Piszczek (Michigan State University)
Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia)
Nonstandard Employment and Workplace Profitability
Qian (Lydia) He (University of Toronto)
Work Schedule Control and Worker Happiness: Contrasts by Salaried and Hourly Employees and Parental Status
Lonnie Golden (Pennsylvania State University-Abington)
Julia Henly (University of Chicago)
Susan Lambert (University of Chicago)
Jaeseung Kim (University of Chicago)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Institutional Structures and Strategies for Economic Growth in Indian Country (O4)
Presiding: Benjamin Simon (U.S. Department of Interior)
Political Institutions, Constitutional Change, and Economic Development: Evidence from the Constitutions of American Indian Nations
Randall Akee (Tufts University)
Miriam Jorgensen (University of Arizona)
Uwe Sunde (SEW-University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Fostering the Local Economies of Native American Communities
Leonard Greenhalgh (Dartmouth College)
The Microeconomics of a Natural Resource Boom: Evidence from a Tribal Fishery
Dominic P. Parker (Montana State University)
Randal R. Rucker (Montana State University)
Peter H. Nickerson (Nickerson and Associates)
The Challenge of Acquiring Economic Statistics on Indian Nations: Prospects for the Future
Steve Payson (U.S. Department of Interior)
Discussants:
Wendy Li (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Rachael Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Transportation & Public Utilities Group
Transportation Infrastructure (L9)
Presiding: Peter Loeb (Rutgers University-Newark)
Economic Efficiency across National Air Navigation Systems
Kenneth Button (George Mason University)
Rui Neiva (George Mason University)
Forecasting Demands for Transport Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Patrick McCarthy (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jiawen Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Land Value Capture Near Airports
Jeffrey P. Cohen (University of Hartford)
Cletus C. Coughlin (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
David A. Lopez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
John Clapp (University of Connecticut)
Static Efficiency Versus Dynamic Efficiency: An Econometric Model with an Application to the US Rail Freight Industry
Daniel Coublucq (Toulouse School of Economics)
Mark Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
Gerald McCullough (University of Minnesota)
Discussants:
Jia Yan (Washington State University)
Wim Vijverberg (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Steven Trick (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
James Peoples (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists
Marxian Circuit of Capital and Macroeconomics (B5)
Presiding: Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research)
The Rate of Profit and Macrodynamics in a Marxian Model of the Circuit of Capital
Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research)
Credit, Profitability and Instability: A Strictly Structural Approach
Paulo dos Santos (University of London)
Some Macroeconomic Results in a Marxian Circuit of Capital Model
Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Hyun Woong Park (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Interlocking Turnover Continua and the Structure of Capital
Daniel Saros (Valparaiso University)
Discussants:
Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Thomas Michl (Colgate University)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Worker Co-operatives: Key Ingredients for Viability (L2)
Presiding: Robin Hahnel (Portland State University)
Worker Cooperatives in the U.S.: What Should be Done Differently This Time?
Erik K. Olsen (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
What Do We Really Know About Workers Co-ops?
Virginie Pérotin (Leeds University Business School)
A Successful US Workers Co-op: How Was it Done?
Christopher Gunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Innovation and Assuring Competitive Quality -- Successes and Never-Ending Challenges at Mondragon
Al Campbell (University of Utah)
Discussants:
Robin Hahnel (Portland State University)
Ian Seda-Irizary (Bucknell University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
African Finance & Economics Association
The Role of African Women Economists in Africa's Development (O1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Juliet Elu (Morehouse College)
Frannie A. Léautier (Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe)
Shanta Devarajan (World Bank)
Thokozile Ruzvidzo (UN Economic Commission for Africa)
Elizabeth Asiedu (University of Kansas)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Agricultural Mechanization in Developing Countries (Q1)
Presiding: Gershon Feder (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Mechanization and Agricultural Technology Evolution, Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa: Typology of Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria
Hiroyuki Takeshima (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Alejandro Nin Pratt (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Xinshen Diao (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Is Specialization in Agricultural Mechanization Service Provision a Viable Business Model? The Case of Ghana
Nazaire Houssou (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Xinshen Diao (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Frances Cossar (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Shashi Kolavalli (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Kipo Jimah (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Patrick O. Aboagye (Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana)
Wheel of Change: Agricultural Mechanization in China
Thomas Reardon (Michigan State University)
Jin Yang (Zhejiang University)
Xiaobo Zhang (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Flexible Labor Markets, Landholding and Mechanization in Agriculture: Evidence from Asian Countries
Futoshi Yamauchi (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Yanyan Liu (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Keirjiro Otsuka (World Bank)
Hari Nagarajan (National Council of Applied Economic Research)
Discussants:
Derek Byerlee (World Bank)
Funing Zhong (Nanjing Agricultural University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Advances in Behavioral Economics (D0)
Presiding: Nicholas Barberis (Yale University)
Applications of Probability Weighting in Finance and Economics
Nicholas Barberis (Yale University)
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Integrating Psychology into Normal-Science Economics
Matthew Rabin (University of California-Berkeley)
Salience and Asset Prices
Pedro Bordalo (University of London)
Nicola Gennaioli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
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Discussants:
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
Central Bank Independence: Reality or Myth? (E5)
Presiding: Thomas Cargill (University of Nevada-Reno)
Measuring Central Bank Independence, Policy Implications, and Federal Reserve Independence
Thomas F. Cargill (University of Nevada-Reno)
Gerald O'Driscoll (Cato Institute)
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Historical Perspective of Federal Reserve Independence
Allan H. Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University and Hoover Institution)
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The Effectiveness of Central Bank Independence Versus Policy Rules
John B. Taylor (Stanford University and Hoover Institution)
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Central Bank Laws and Monetary Policy Outcomes: A Three Decade Perspective
Michael Parkin (University of Western Ontario)
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Discussants:
Robert Hetzel (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Peter Wallison (American Enterprise Institute)
Carl Walsh (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Lawrence H. White (George Mason University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Child Health in Developing Countries (I1)
Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
Long-Term Effect of In Utero Exposure to Land Reform on Academic Performance in China
Douglas Almond (Columbia University)
Hongbin Li (Tsinghua University)
Binzhen Wu (Tsinghua University)
Shuang Zhang (Cornell University)
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Cognitive Development, Achievement, and Parental Investments:Evidence from a Clean Water Reform in Mexico
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)
Atheendar S. Venkataramani (Massachusetts General Hospital)
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Religion and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from the Indian Subcontinent
Elizabeth Brainerd (Brandeis University)
Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)
High-Powered Incentives for Childhood Anemia Reduction in Rural China
Grant Miller (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Albert Park (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
T. Paul Schultz (Yale University)
Andrew Foster (Brown University)
Chih Ming Tan (Clark University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford A
American Economic Association
CSMGEP Dissertation Session
Presiding: Fernando Lozano (Pomona College)
The Treatment Effects of Pensions on the Labor Supply of Older Workers
Enrique Lopez Lira (Howard University)
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Transferability of Skills, Income Growth and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
Karla J. Diaz Hadzisadikovic (Columbia University)
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How Do Money Market Conditions Affect Shadow Banking Activity? Evidence from Security Repurchase Agreements
Karl David Boulware (University of Alabama)
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Do Geographic Deregulations of Banking Affect Product Markets? Evidence from Manufacturers
Joel Melendez (University of Houston)
Estimating the Incidence of Government Spending
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (University of California-Berkeley)
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Is There a Stepping Stone Effect in Drug Use? Separating State Dependence from Unobserved Heterogeneity within and across Illicit Drugs
Monica Deza (University of Texas at Dallas)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Emma A & B
American Economic Association
Economic Development (O1)
Presiding: Isleide Zissimos (Vanderbilt University)
Is Agricultural Training a Good Investment in Developing Countries? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Armenia
Kenneth Fortson (Mathematica Policy Research)
Randall Blair (Mathematica Policy Research)
Anu Rangarajan (Mathematica Policy Research)
Joanne Lee (Mathematica Policy Research)
Valentine Gilbert (Mathematica Policy Research)
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de Soto vs. Yunus: Microfinance, Property Rights, and Development Policy
M. Shahe Emran (Columbia University)
Forhad Shilpi (World Bank)
Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)
Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
John Strauss (University of Southern California)
Wei Huang (Harvard University)
Xiaoyan Lei (Peking University)
Geert Ridder (University of Southern California)
Yaohui Zhao (Peking University)
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Barriers to Prosperity: Parasitic Diseases, IQ and Economic Development
Jakob B. Madsen (Monash University)
Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict
Benjamin Crost (University of Colorado-Denver)
Patrick Johnston (RAND Corporation)
Joseph Felter (Stanford University)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Effects of Fiscal Policy in Deep Recessions: Simple and Hopefully Credible Empirical Evidence (H3)
Presiding: Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College)
Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund)
Daniel Leigh (International Monetary Fund)
Using State Level Pension Shocks to Estimate Fiscal Multipliers
Daniel Shoag (Harvard University)
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ARRA Spending, Job Growth and Fiscal Integration
James Feyrer (Dartmouth College)
Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College)
Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater during Periods of Slack? Evidence from 20th Century Historical Data
Michael T. Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Valerie A. Ramey (University of California-San Diego)
Sarah Zubairy (Bank of Canada)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester D
American Economic Association
Finance (G1) (Poster Session)
Presiding: Caleb Stroup (Grinnell College)
Trader Twitter Chatter and Corn Futures Price Volatility
Mindy Mallory (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Sung Won Kim (University of Oklahoma)
Deposit Insurance Reduced Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Estimates from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Gary Richardson (University of California-Irvine)
Haelim Park (University of California-Irvine)
Brian Yang (University of California-Irvine)
The Board of Directors in Hedge Fund Governance
Peter G. Szilagyi (University of Cambridge)
Chong Wei Wong (University of Cambridge)
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Do Humans Perceive Temporal Order in Asset Returns?
Jasmina Hasanhodzic (Boston University)
Andrew W. Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Emanuele Viola (Northeastern University)
Are Red or Blue Companies More Likely to Go Green? Politics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Alberta Di Giuli (ESCP Europe)
Leonard Kostovetsky (University of Rochester)
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The Roles of Corporate Governance in Bank Failures during the Recent Financial Crisis
Allen N. Berger (University of South Carolina)
Bjorn Imbierowicz (New York University)
Christian Rauch (Goethe University Frankfurt)
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High Frequency Trading and End-of-Day Manipulation
Douglas Cumming (York University)
Feng Zhan (York University)
Michael Aitken (University of New South Wales)
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Political Connections and Firm Value: Evidence from Close Gubernatorial Elections
Quoc-Anh Do (Singapore Management University)
Yen-Teik Lee (Singapore Management University)
Bang Dang Nguyen (University of Cambridge)
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Competing on Speed
Emiliano Pagnotta (New York University)
Thomas Philippon (New York University)
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Do Lending Relationships Affect Corporate Financial Policies?
Hadiye Aslan (University of Houston)
Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence from a UK Policy Experiment
Shekhar Aiyar (International Monetary Fund)
Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School)
Tomasz Wieladek (London Business School)
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Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates: Camouflage and Reckless Risk Taking by U.S. Public Plans?
Aleksandar Andonov (Maastricht University)
Rob Bauer (Maastricht University)
Martijn Cremers (Yale University)
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Liquidity Shocks, Dollar Funding Costs, and the Bank Lending Channel during the European Sovereign Crisis
Ricardo Correa (Federal Reserve Board)
Horacio Sapriza (Federal Reserve Board)
Andrei Zlate (Federal Reserve Board)
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Bank Lending Channels During the Great Recession
Viktors Stebunovs (Federal Reserve Board)
Samuel Haltenhof (Federal Reserve Board)
Seung J. Lee (Federal Reserve Board)
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How Do Frictions Affect Corporate Investment? A Structural Approach
Maria Cecilia Bustamante (London School of Economics)
CISS - A Portfolio-Theoretic Framework for the Construction of Composite Financial Stress Indices
Manfred Kremer (European Central Bank)
Marco Lo Duca (European Central Bank)
Daniel Hollo (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
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Beyond Q: Estimating Investment without Asset Prices
Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
Vito Gala (London Business School)
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How Important are Foreign Ownership Linkages for International Stock Returns?
John Griffin (University of Texas-Austin)
David Ng (Cornell University)
Sohnke Bartram (Warwick University)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Financial Intermediation and Financial Crisis (E5)
Presiding: Jianjun Miao (Boston University)
Capital Regulation and Credit Fluctuations
Hans Gersbachy (Center of Economic Research at ETH)
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich, SFI and Toulouse School of Economics)
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Banking Bubbles and Financial Crisis
Jianjun Miao (Boston University)
Pengfei Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Demand Creates its Own Supply
Christophe Chamley (Boston University)
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The Lehman Shock and the Dynamics of the Crisis
Gary Gorton (Yale University)
Andrew Metrick (Yale University)
Lei Xie (Yale University)
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Discussants:
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
John Leahy (New York University)
Simon Gilchrist (Boston University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Firms, Innovation and Productivity (O4)
Presiding: Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
Private Equity, Jobs and Productivity
Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago)
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Kyle Handley (Stanford University)
Ron Jarmin (Census Bureau)
Joshua Lerner (Harvard University)
Javier Miranda (Census Bureau)
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Does Working From Home Work? Evidence From a Chinese Experiment
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
James Liang (Ctrip.com International Ltd)
Joh Roberts (Stanford University)
Zhichun Jenny Ying (Stanford University)
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Ownership Turnover, Management Change and Productivity: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry
Serguey Braguinsky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Atsushi Ohyama (Hokkaido University)
Tetsuji Okazaki (University of Tokyo)
Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University)
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adam Sacarny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
Global Production Chains (F1)
Presiding: Kalina Manova (Stanford University)
Technology, Trade Costs, and the Pattern of Trade with Multi-Stage Production
Robert Johnson (Dartmouth College)
Andreas Moxnes (Dartmouth College)
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Firms along the Value-Added Chain: Processing Trade in China
Kalina Manova (Stanford University)
Zhihong Yu (Nottingham University)
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Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy
Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School)
Paola Conconi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Harald Hadinger (University of Vienna)
Andrew Newman (Boston University)
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Global Value Chains During the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?
Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi University)
Filippo Di Mauro (European Central Bank)
Gianmarco Ottaviano (London School of Economics)
Armando Rungi (Bocconi University)
Vincent Vicard (Banque de France)
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Discussants:
Thibault Fally (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis)
Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)
George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
How to Promote Jobs for Development? The World Bank World Development Report 2013 (O2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Anne Case (Princeton University)
Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University)
Stefano Scarpetta (OECD)
Martin Rama (World Bank)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and Bonn University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
American Economic Association
Macroeconomic Aspects of Taxation Policy (E6)
Presiding: P.J. Glandon (Kenyon College)
Deficits, Public Debt Dynamics, and Tax and Spending Multipliers
Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Identifying the Effect of Government Spending: Evidence from Political Variations in Federal Grants
Yaniv Reingewertz (George Washington University)
Macroeconomic Effects of Progressive Taxation
Tae-hwan Rhee (Samsung Economic Research Institute)
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How is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle?
Guillermo Vuletin (Colby College)
Carlos Vegh (University of Maryland and NBER)
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the US vs. Europe
Hans Aasnes Holter (Uppsala University)
Indraneel Chakraborty (Southern Methodist University)
Serhiy Stepanchuk (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
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Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Neighborhood Effects and Place-Based Policies (R2)
Presiding: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
The Long-Term Impacts of Moving to Opportunity
Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago and NBER)
Lisa Sanbonmatsu (NBER)
Greg Duncan (University of California-Irvine)
Lisa Gennetian (Brookings Institution)
Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
Ronald C. Kessler (Harvard Medical School)
Jeffrey Kling (Congressional Budget Office and NBER)
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Neighborhoods vs. Schools
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (Harvard Unviersity and NBER)
Lawrence Katz (Harvard University and NBER)
Place Based Policies and Unemployment
Enrico Moretti (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Patrick Kline (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
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Discussants:
Janet Currie (Princeton University)
Greg Duncan (University of California-Irvine)
Matthew Kahn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester G
American Economic Association
New Perspectives on Optimal Income Taxation (H2)
Presiding: Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
Eric Glen Weyl (University of Chicago)
Charles Nathanson (Harvard University)
Benjamin Lockwood (Harvard University)
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The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy
Matthew C. Weinzierl (Harvard Business School)
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Fair Income Tax with Endogenous Productivities
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
Giacomo Valletta (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics)
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Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory
Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley)
Stephanie Stantcheva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Discussants:
Florian Scheuer (Stanford University)
Alan J. Auerbach (University of California-Berkeley)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley)
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Perspectives on Inequality and Mobility in the U.S. (D3)
Presiding: Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
Income Inequality, Mobility and Turnover at the Top in the U.S., 1987 - 2009
Gerald Auten (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Geoffrey Gee (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Nicholas Turner (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
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Deconstructing income and income inequality measures: A cross walk from market income to comprehensive income
Philip Armour (Cornell University)
Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University and the University of Melbourne)
Jeff Larrimore (U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation)
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Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s
Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago and NBER)
James X. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
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Measuring the Trends in Inequality of Individuals and Families: Income and Consumption Abstract:
Jonathan Fisher (U.S. Census Bureau)
David S. Johnson (U.S. Census Bureau)
Timothy M. Smeeding (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Discussants:
James P. Ziliak (University of Kentucky)
Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward B
American Economic Association
Saving for the Common Man: Target-Date Funds, Defaults and the Design of 401(k) Plans (G2)
Presiding: Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University)
It Pays to Set the Menu: Mutual Fund Investment Options in 401(K) Plans
Irina Stefanescu (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Veronika Krepely Pool (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Clemens Sialm (University of Texas-Austin)
Choice Architecture and the Locus of Fiduciary Obligation in Defined Contribution Plans
Dana M. Muir (University of Michigan)
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Target-Date Funds: Survey and Administrative Evidence
Julie Agnew (College of William and Mary)
Lisa Szykman (College of William and Mary)
Stephen Utkus (Vanguard Center for Retirement Research)
Jean Young (Vanguard Center for Retirement Research)
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Do 401(k) Advisors Take Their Own Advice?
Tomas Dvorak (Union College)
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Discussants:
Pierluigi Balduzzi (Boston College)
John Turner (Pension Policy Center)
James J. Choi (Yale University)
Jonathan Reuter (Boston College)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward C
American Economic Association
The Economics and Economic Impact of New Screening Technologies (J7)
Presiding: Abigail Wozniak (University of Notre Dame)
Examining Stated Reservation Wages in the Context of Job Boards
Prasanna Tambe (New York University)
Peter Cappelli (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease
Ira Shoulson (Georgetown University)
E. Ray Dorsey (Johns Hopkins University)
Emily Oster (University of Chicago)
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Stigma in the Labor Market: Evidence from Juveniles Transferred to Adult Court and Occupations with Mandated Criminal Background Checks
Keith Finlay (Tulane University)
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The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime
Jennifer Doleac (University of Virginia)
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Discussants:
Amanda Pallais (Harvard University)
Luke Chicoine (DePaul University)
Abigail Wozniak (University of Notre Dame)
Peter Kuhn (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Theories of Over-the-Counter Markets (G1)
Presiding: Ana Babus (Imperial College)
The market for OTC Derivatives
Andrew Atkeson (University of California-Los Angeles)
Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Pierre-Olivier Weill (University of California-Los Angeles)
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Decentralized Exchange
Semyon Malamud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin)
Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
Semyon Malamud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Gustavo Manso (University of California-Berkeley)
Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets
Ana Babus (Imperial College London)
Peter Kondor (Central European University)
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Discussants:
Gara Afonso (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Mikhail Golosov (Princeton University)
Xavier Vives (IESE Business School)
Gustavo Manso (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Topics in Economic Education (A2)
Presiding: Nancy Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Course Requirements for Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics
William Becker (Indiana University)
William Bosshardt (Florida Atlantic University)
Michael Watts (Purdue University)
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One Essay on Dissertation Styles in Economics
John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
Wendy Stock (Montana State University)
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How Economists Allocate Time to Teaching and Research
Sam Allgood (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
William B. Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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Economic Understanding in U.S. High School Courses
William B. Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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Discussants:
David Colander (Middlebury College)
James M. Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas-Austin)
Gail Hoyt (University of Kentucky)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Work on Women's Work is Never Done (J2)
Presiding: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Women's Well-Being and Their Labor Force Participation
Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
Francine D. Blau (Cornell University)
Lawrence M. Kahn (Cornell University)
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Shocking Female Labor Supply: A Reassessment of the Impact of World War II on U.S. Women's Labor Supply
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
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Discussants:
Shelly Lundberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)
Dora L. Costa (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Banking and Financial Institutions I (G2)
Presiding: Philip Bond (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
The Effects of Bank Regulator Switching on Supervisory Ratings
Marcelo Rezende (Federal Reserve Board)
Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence from Banking
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
David Lucca (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia)
Securitization and Lending Competition
David Frankel (Iowa State University)
Yu Jin (Shanghai University)
Discussants:
Ross Levine (University of California-Berkeley)
Paola Sapienza (Northwestern University)
Christine Parlour (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Equity Risk Premia: Cross-Sectional Variation (G1)
Presiding: Nikolai Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania)
A Theory of Firm Characteristics and Stock Returns: The Role of Investment-Specific Shocks
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
Leonid Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Investment Manifesto
Xiaoji Lin (Ohio State University)
Lu Zhang (Ohio State University)
Endogenous Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips
Robert Goldstein (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Frederico Belo (University of Minnesota)
Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Columbia University)
Dynamic Networks and Asset Pricing
Andrea Buraschi (The University of Chicago)
Paolo Porchia (IE Business School)
Discussants:
Vito Gala (London Business School )
Adlai Fisher (University of British Columbia)
Lukas Schmid (Duke University)
Johan Walden (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Institutional Investors I (G2)
Presiding: Wei Jang (Columbia University)
Opaque Trading, Disclosure and Asset Prices: Implications for Hedge Fund Regulation
David Easley (Cornell University - Department of Economics)
Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management)
Liyan Yang (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management)
Does Institutional Ownership Matter for International Stock Return Comovement?
Jose Faias (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Miguel Ferreira (New University of Lisbon)
Pedro Santa-Clara (New University of Lisbon)
Pedro Matos (University of Virginia)
You're Fired! New Evidence on Portfolio Manager Turnover and Performance
Leonard Kostovetsky (University of Rochester)
Jerold Warner (University of Rochester)
Dispersion in Beliefs among Active Mutual Funds and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Hao Jiang (Erasmus University - Rotterdam School of Management)
Zheng Sun (University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business)
Discussants:
Bing Han (University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business)
Xiaoyan Zhang (Purdue University, Krannert School of Management)
Breno Schmidt (Emory University - Goizueta Business School )
Christopher Malloy (Harvard Business School)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
IPO, SEO, Equity Issuance (G3)
Presiding: William Wilhelm (University of Virginia)
The Pricing of IPO Services and Issues: Theory and Estimation
Richard Lowery (University of Texas-Austin)
Ari Kang (University of North Dakota)
Partial Adjustment to Public Information in IPO Pricing: Theory and Tests
Tore Leite (Norwegian School of Economics)
Einar Bakke (University of Gothenburg)
Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics)
Issuance Costs in Today's Equity Market: The Causal Effect of Accelerating Seasoned Equity
Matthew Gustafson (University of Rochester)
Discussants:
Zhaohui Chen (University of Virginia)
David Goldreich (University of Toronto)
Ayako Yasuda (University of California-Davis)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Limits to Arbitrage: Empirical Evidence (G1)
Presiding: Yu Yuan (University of Pennsylvania)
Time Varying Market Efficiency
Ferhat Akbas (University of Kansas)
Will Armstrong (Texas Tech University)
Sorin Sorescu (Texas A&M University)
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (University of California-Los Angeles)
Short-Term Return Reversal: The Long and the Short of It
Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
Qianqiu Liu (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Ernst Schaumburg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
When Some Investors Head for the Exit
Harrison Hong (Princeton University)
Wenxi Jiang (Yale University)
Dissecting the Profitability Premium
Huijun Wang (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Jianfeng Yu (University of Minnesota)
Discussants:
Kent Daniel (Columbia University)
Owen Lamont (Harvard University)
Jeffrey Wurgler (New York University)
Frank Zhang (Yale University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Options (G1)
Presiding: David Bates (University of Iowa)
The Economic Value of Realized Volatility: Using High-Frequency Returns for Option Valuation
Peter Christoffersen (University of Toronto)
Bruno Feunou (Bank of Canada)
Kris Jacobs (University of Houston)
Nour Meddahi (University of Toulouse)
Collateral Smile
Markus Leippold (University of Zurich)
Lujing Su (University of Zurich)
Order Flow and Expected Option Returns
Dmitriy Muravyev (Boston College)
Demand for Crash Insurance and Stock Returns
Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Scott Joslin (University of Southern California)
Sophie Ni (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Discussants:
Nicola Fusari (Northwestern University)
Lasse Pedersen (New York University)
Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Advances in House Price Modeling (R1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Daniel McMillen (University of Illinois)
Charles Leung (City University of Hong Kong)
Steven Kou (National University of Singapore)
Anthony Yezer (George Washington University)
Larry Brown (University of Pennsylvania)
Alex Levin (Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc.)
Thies Lindenthal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association/American Economic Association
Business Cycles, Household Formation, and Demographic Changes (E3)
Presiding: William Strange (University of Toronto)
The Evolution of Household Size and Parental Coresidence over the Business Cycle
Greg Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania)
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)
What Happens to Household Formation in a Recession?
Gary D. Painter (University of Southern California)
Kwan Ok Lee (National University of Singapore)
Sharing a Household: Economic Downturns and Transitions in Living Arrangements, 2001-2011
Laryssa Mykyta (U.S. Census Bureau)
Suzanne Macartney (U.S. Census Bureau)
Booms, Busts, and Fertility: Testing the Becker Model Using Gender-Specific Labor Demand
Jessamyn Schaller (University of Arizona)
Discussants:
Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles)
Donald Haurin (The Ohio State University)
Dowell Myers (University of Southern California)
Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Santa Rosa
American Risk & Insurance Association/American Economic Association
Topics in Insurance Economics (D8)
Presiding: Martin Grace (Georgia State University)
On the Relationship between the Markets for Health Insurance and Medical Malpractice Insurance
Patricia Born (Florida State University)
J. Bradley Karl (Florida State University)
W. Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt University)
Organizational Form, Ownership Structure and Top Executive Turnover: Evidence in the Property-Liability Industry
Jiang Cheng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
J. David Cummins (Temple University)
Tzuting Lin (National Taiwan University)
External Financing in the Life Insurance Industry: Evidence from the Financial Crises
Thomas R. Berry-Stolzle (University of Georgia)
Gregory P. Nini (University of Pennsylvania)
Sabine Wende (University of Cologne)
Endogeous Information and Adverse Selection under Loss Prevention
Richard Peter (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet)
Andreas Richter (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet)
Paul Thistle (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
Revisiting the Risk-Neutral Approach to Optimal Policyholder Behavior: A Study of Withdrawal Guarantees in Variable Annuities
Thorsten Moenig (University of St. Thomas)
Daniel Baurer (Georgia State University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle E
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
New Research on Economic Comparisons and Institutions (Poster Session) (P5) (Poster Session)
Presiding: Pekka Sutela (Aalto University School of Economics)
Firms' Exporting and Importing Activities: Is There a Two-Way Relationship?
David Aristei (Università di Perugia)
Davide Castellani (Università di Perugia)
Chiara Franco (University of Bologna)
Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Small Island Developing States
El-hadj Bah (University of Auckland)
Jeremy Ward (University of Auckland)
Trade Specialization Dynamics and Economic Catch-Up
Guglielmo Maria Caporale (Brunel University)
Christophe Rault (University of Orleans)
Robert and Anamaria Sova (Sorbonne University)
Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe
Richard Frensch (University of Regensburg)
Jan Hanousek (Charles University)
Evžen Kočenda (Charles University)
The Political Economy of "Financial Literacy": Globalizing Inclusion or Expanding the Rentier Frontier
Gary A. Dymski (Leeds University)
The Financial Structure of China’s Export Development and China’s Local Government Entrepreneurs
Adam S. Hersh (Center for American Progress)
What Drives Labor Market Volatility in Offshoring Industries? Evidence from Mexico
David S. Kaplan (Interamerican Development Bank)
Daniel Lederman (World Bank)
Raymond Robertson (Macalaster College)
The Crime of Tax Evasion in Transition Economies
Barbara Katz (New York University)
Joel Owen (New York University)
Does It Take Time to Travel Distance? Early Geography, Entry Timing and Knowledge Spillovers
Bruno Merlevede (Ghent University)
European Monetary Union: Convergence and Divergence
Helmut Wagner (University of Hagen)
Microfinance and Human Development: Does Institutional Structure Matter?
Ghazal Zulfiqar (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, La Costa
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Abundance Denied: Consequences of the Great Recession (E2)
Presiding: James Peach (New Mexico State University)
Abundance Denied: The Consequences of the Great Recession
James Peach (New Mexico State University)
William M. Dugger (University of Tulsa)
Abundance is Not Profitable
Glen Atkinson (University of Nevada)
Restoring Abundance through the High Efficiency
William Waller (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Felipe Rezende (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
The Great Recession, State and Local Government Finances, and Economic Abundance
Christopher Brown (Arkansas State University)
What Causes Deep Recessions?
Howard J. Sherman (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Phillip Anthony O'Hara (Global Political Economy Research Unit, Australia)
William Waller (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Glen Atkinson (University of Nevada)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Coronado Room
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Out of the Crisis: With Institutionalist and Veblenian, Evolutionary Thinking (B5)
Presiding: Kosta Josifidis (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Gramsci Meets Veblen: On the Search for a New Revolutionary Class
Hardy Hanappi (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (University of Economics of Vienna, Austria)
Institutions and the Evolving System of Innovation in Eastern Germany
John Hall (Portland State University and Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany)
Jutta Günther (Halle Institute of Economic Research, Germany)
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa (Halle Institute of Economic Research, Germany)
National Systems for Energy Provisions at the Crossroads: Comparing French with German Strategies
Pascal Petit (CRNS, University of Paris Nord)
Fear, Ontology, and Institutional Economics
Mary V. Wrenn (University of Cambridge, UK)
Neodevelopmentalism Versus Neoliberalism: Differential Institutional Structures, Crises, and Policy Responses in Brazil and Mexico
James Cypher (Universidad Automona de Zacatecas, Mexico and California State University)
Discussants:
Kosta Josifidis (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Pascal Petit (CRNS, University of Paris Nord)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics/International Association for Feminist Economics
Gender and Race Stratification: Effects of the 'Great Moderation' and the 'Great Recession' (J3)
Presiding: Tonia Warnecke (Rollins College)
Financialization, the Great Recession and the Stratification of the US Labor Market
Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge)
Aurelie Charles (University of Bath)
Giuseppe Fontana (University of Leeds)
Gender, Race/Ethnicity and the 2007-09 Great Recession: Another Look within the Household
Manuel Buitrago (American University)
Martha A. Starr (American University)
From Prison and Housing Construction to Wealth Evisceration to City Destruction: The Cumulative Cycle of Structural Race/Gender Divides in California's Central Valley
Gary A. Dymski (University of Leeds)
Jesus Hernandez (University of California-Davis)
Moving on Down: Race, Ethnicity, and Mobility in the Great Recession
William A. Darity, Jr. (Duke University)
Ryon Cobb (Florida State University)
Discussants:
Cecilia Conrad (Pomona College)
Tonia Warnecke (Rollins College)
Barbara E. Hopkins (Wright State University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Association of Christian Economists
The Case for Economic Growth: Where Does the Modern Debate Stand? (O4) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Stephen Smith (Gordon College)
Benjamin M. Friedman (Harvard University)
Robert Nelson (University of Maryland-College Park)
Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota and Oxford University)
Edd S. Noell (Westmont College)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Forests and Agriculture (Q1)
Presiding: Michael Roberts (North Carolina State University)
Agglomeration in Agriculture: A Quasi-Experiment in the Corn Belt
Michael McWilliams (University of Michigan)
Michael R. Moore (University of Michigan)
The Effect of Ground-level Ozone on US Maize Yields
Christopher Boone (Columbia University)
Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia University)
Juha Siikamaki (Resources for the Future)
Empirically Testing the Determinants of Leakage in a General Equilibrium Model of Deforestation
Payal Shah (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Kathy Baylis (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Don Fullerton (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Does Land Titling Stem Forest Damage? Native Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
Allen Blackman (Resources for the Future)
Greg Asner (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Leonardo Corral (InterAmerican Development Bank)
Erivelthon Santos (InterAmerican Development Bank)
Discussants:
Barrett Kirwan (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Michael Roberts (North Carolina State University)
Jarrod Welch (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Erica Field (Duke University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Miramar
Association of Financial Economists
Takeovers and Merger Waves (G3)
Presiding: Simi Kedia (Rutgers University)
Cash is King: Revaluation and the Medium of Exchange in Merger Bids
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Marcus M. Opp (University of California-Berkeley)
Farzad Saidi (New York University)
Financial vs. Strategic Buyers
Marc Martos-Vila (University of California-Los Angeles)
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard University)
Common Advisers in Mergers and Acquisitions: Determinants and Consequences
Anup Agrawal (University of Alabama)
Tommy Cooper (Louisiana Tech University)
Qin Lian (Louisiana Tech University)
Qiming Wang (Louisiana Tech University)
Managerial Entrenchment Waves
Kose John (New York University)
Dalida Kadyrzhanova (University of Maryland)
Discussants:
Audra L. Boone (Texas A&M University)
Matthias Kahl (University of Colorado)
Micah S. Officer (Loyola Marymount University)
Sris Chatterjee (Fordham University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle D
Chinese Economists Society
International Trade, Labor and Knowledge Capital in China since WTO (F1)
Presiding: Belton Fleisher (Ohio State University)
Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Belton M. Fleisher (Ohio State University)
William H. McGuire (Ohio State University)
Mi Zhou (Agricultural Bank of China)
Trade Reforms and Rent Sharing in China: Did Tariff Cuts Reduce Labor's Share of Income?
Fariha Kamal (U.S. Census Bureau)
Mary E. Lovely (Syracuse University)
Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)
Learning from Neighbors' Export Activities: Evidence from New Exporters' Performance
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)
Exceptional Exporter Performance? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Dan Lu (Princeton University)
Is China Climbing the Quality Ladder?
Gabor Pula (European Central Bank)
Daniel Santabarbara (Bank of Spain)
Discussants:
C.Y. Choi (University of Texas-Arlington)
William H. McGuire (Ohio State University)
Zhiqiang Liu (University at Buffalo)
Daniel Santabarbara (Bank of Spain)
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Emma C
Cliometrics Society
Public Goods Provision and the State (N4)
Presiding: Ahmed Rahman (United States Naval Academy)
A Glorious Transition: The Politics of Market Access in the Aftermath of Britain’s Glorious Revolution
Daniel Bogart (University of California-Irvine)
Robert Oandasan (Compass Lexecon)
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Who Benefits from Redistribution? Fiscal Centralization and Government Expenditure in Spanish America
Luz Marina Arias (CEACS, Juan March Institute)
Taxation and Public Goods Provision in China and Japan before 1850
Tuan-Hwee Sng (Princeton University and National University of Singapore)
Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsuashi University)
Coal, Smoke, and Death
Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University)
Alan Barreca (Tulane University)
Joel Tarr (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Discussants:
Mark Dincecco (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies)
Se Yan (Peking University)
John Parman (College of William & Mary)
John Wallis (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Bounded Rationality (D8)
Presiding: Giacomo Rondina (University of California-San Diego)
Inattentive Valuation and Reference-Dependent Choice
Michael Woodford (Columbia University)
Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Tracking Problems
Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI)
Christopher A. Sims (Princeton University)
Sparse Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Informational Fragility of Dynamic Rational Expectations Equilibria
Giacomo Rondina (University of California-San Diego)
Todd B. Walker (Indiana University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Identification in Models with Endogeneity (C2)
Presiding: Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)
Identification of Average Random Coefficients under Magnitude and Sign Restrictions on Confounding
Karim Chalak (Boston College)
Simultaneous Equations Models for Discrete Outcomes: Coherence, Completeness, and Identification
Andrew Chesher (University College London)
Adam M. Rosen (University College London)
Nonparametric Identification Using Instrumental Variables: Sufficient Conditions for Completeness
Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)
Ji-Liang Shiu (National Chung-Cheng University)
Discussants:
Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
Measuring Risk and Time Preferences (D8)
Presiding: Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley)
Parametric Recoverability of Utility
Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia)
Dotan Persitz (Tel Aviv University)
Lanny Zrill (University of British Columbia)
Measuring Time Preferences with Simple Tasks
James Andreoni (University of California-San Diego)
Michael Kuhn (University of California-San Diego)
Charles Sprenger (Stanford University)
Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty
Syngjoo Choi (University College London)
Douglas Gale (New York University)
Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley)
Recent Developments in Measuring Risk and Time Preferences
Glenn Harrison (Georgia State University)
Discussants:
Shachar Kariv (University of California-Berkeley)
Glenn Harrison (Georgia State University)
James Andreoni (University of California San Diego)
Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Modeling and Forecasting Oil Prices (Q4)
Presiding: Hilde Bjornland (Norwegian Business School)
Real-Time Analysis of Oil Price Risks Using Forecast Scenarios
Christiane Baumeister (Bank of Canada)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Forecasting the Price of Oil
Ron Alquist (Bank of Canada)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Robert J. Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
What Drives Oil Prices? Emerging versus Developed Economies
Hilde C. Bjornland (Norwegian Business School)
Knut Are Aastveit (Norges Bank)
Leif Anders Thorsrud (Norwegian Business School)
The Effect of Oil Price Shocks on the U.S. Stock Market: Do Sign and Size Matter?
Zeina Alsalman (Wayne State University)
Ana Maria Herrera (Wayne State University)
Discussants:
Knut Are Aastveit (Norges Bank)
Marcelle Chauvet (University of California-Riverside)
James D. Hamilton (University of California-San Diego)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Pricing of Health Goods in Developing Countries (D1)
Presiding: James Berry (Cornell University)
Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana
James W. Berry (Cornell University)
Greg Fischer (London School of Economics)
Raymond Guiteras (University of Michigan)
Corruption in the Delivery of Targeted Health Subsidies
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University)
Externalities from Subsidies? Evidence from Marketing of Multiple Health Products in Uganda
Greg Fischer (London School of Economics)
Dean Karlan (Yale University)
Margaret McConnell (Harvard University)
Pia Raffler (Yale University)
Nonlinear Pricing of Food in Village Economies
Orazio Pietro Attanasio (University College London)
Elena Pastorino (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota)
Discussants:
Daniel E. Keniston (Yale University)
Benjamin A. Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University)
Aprajit Mahajan (Stanford University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Solana
Economic Science Association
Motivated Agents and Incentives (C9)
Presiding: Angela de Oliveira (University of Massachusetts)
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School)
Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics)
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
How (Not) to Incentivize Motivated Agents: An Experiment with Employees from a Non-profit Organization
Leonie Gerhards (University of Frankfurt)
Rewards and Punishments in the Care Sector
Sheheryar Banuri (University of Texas-Dallas)
Angela de Oliveira (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University)
An Experimental Study of Payment Mechanisms in a Multiple Principal Agent Setting
Ellen P. Green (University of Delaware)
Discussants:
Stephen Leider (University of Michigan)
Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh)
Ernesto Reuben (Columbia University)
Marta Serra Garcia (University of Munich)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle B
Economists for Peace & Security
Up from Here? Challenges and Barriers to Recovery from the Crisis (0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: James Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin)
Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University)
Robert Gordon (Northwestern University)
Eric Laursen (Independent Journalist)
Yanis Varoufakis (University of Athens)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
Health Economics Research Organization
Contributed Papers on the Economics of Rising Health Insurance Costs, Physician Prescription Behavior, and Emergency Department Use (I1)
Presiding: J. Michael Fitzmaurice (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Costs on Compensation and Employment
Priyanka Anand (Mathematica Policy Research)
Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion on Physician Prescription Behavior
Anusua Datta (Philadelphia University)
Dhaval M. Dave (Bentley University)
Emergency Department Use among the Low-Income Uninsured after Coverage
Sabina Ohri Gandhi (Virginia Commonwealth University)
David Neumark (University of California-Irvine)
Cathy J. Bradley (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Discussants:
Robert Kaestner (University of Illinois)
Samuel Zuvekas (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Chao Zhou (University of Pittsburgh)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle A
History of Economics Society
Real Business Cycle after Three Decades: Past, Present and Future (B2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Warren L. Young and Sumru Altig (Bar Ilan University and Koc University)
Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University)
Finn Kydland (University of California-Santa Barbara)
John B. Long (University of Rochester)
Charles Plosser (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Gary D. Hansen (University of California-Los Angeles)
Thomas Cooley (New York University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Point Loma
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Trade Credit and Lines of Credit (G2)
Presiding: James Wilcox (University of California-Berkeley)
How Committed are Bank Corporate Credit Lines?
Irina Barakova (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Harini Parthasarathy (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging
Jose Berrospide (Federal Reserve Board)
Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Board)
Briana Sullivan (University of Florida)
Trade Credit Decisions of U.S. Public Firms: The Joint Effects of Supplier and Customer Financial Characteristics
Jaideep Shenoy (Tulane University)
Ryan Williams (Georgia State University)
Firms as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis
Emilia Garcia-Appendini (University of St Gallen)
Judit Montoriol-Garriga (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Discussants:
Nada Mora (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Gregory Udell (Indiana University)
Brandon Lockhart (University of Nebraska)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford B
International Health Economics Association
Health Insurance Market Innovations (I1)
Presiding: Wesley Yin (Boston University and NBER)
The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage and Provider Reimbursement on Access to Dental Care
Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan and NBER)
Sean Orzol (Mathematica Policy Research)
Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College and NBER)
The Effects of Rate Regulation in the Market for Supplemental Health Insurance
Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University and NBER)
Kate Bundorf (Stanford University and NBER)
Kosali Simon (Indiana University and NBER)
How Inert are Consumer Savings Decisions? Evidence from Health Savings Accounts
Lorens Helmchen (George Mason University)
Anthony T. LoSasso (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Discussants:
Sandra L. Decker (National Center for Health Statistics)
Dara N. Lee (University of Missouri)
W. David Bradford (University of Georgia)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Differentiation and Change in Low-wage Labor Markets (J5)
Presiding: William Rodgers III (Rutgers University)
The Changing Wage Gap Between Undocumented and Documented Farmworkers in the Context of Economic and Policy Trends
Elizabeth Nisbet (Rutgers University)
William M. Rodgers III (Rutgers University)
Home Care Work Across Settings
Candace Howes (Connecticut College)
The Presence of Black Men in Low-Wage Service Work
Algernon Austin (Economic Policy Institute)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Putting the Safety Net to the Stress Test: Assessing Private and Public Economic Security During the Great Recession (J5)
Presiding: Sarah Jane Glynn (Center for American Progress)
Inequality and Poverty in the Great Recession: The Extent and the Distribution of Mitigation through Taxes and Transfers
Jeffrey Thompson (Federal Reserve Board)
Timothy M. Smeeding (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Workers' Access to Unemployment Insurance: What Explains Policy Changes
Jeffrey Wenger (University of Georgia)
The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class
Edward Nathan Wolff (New York University)
Individual Risk Exposure and Personal Wealth Changes During the Great Recession
Christian E. Weller (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Discussants:
Sylvia A. Allegretto (University of California-Berkeley)
Bonnie Summers (BlueCross BlueShield Association)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
The Transformation of the Workplace in Japan: Globalization, Corporate Governance, and Unions (J5)
Presiding: Sanford Jacoby (University of California-Los Angeles)
Does the Loss of Spare Time Weaken Kaizen Power in the Workplace?
Jongwon Woo (Saitama University)
Empowerment at the Workplace and IR in Medium-sized Companies in Japan: Case Studies of a Food Company and a Hotel
Shin-O Hiraki (Seinan Gakuin University)
Transformation of the Workplace and Industrial Relations in the Chain Restaurant Industry
Naoki Tsuchiya (Musashi University)
The Change of Kaizen Power at the Workplace and the Role of Non-Regular Workers
Kaoru Kanai (Saitama University)
Discussants:
Teiichi Sekiguchi (Chuo University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, New York
National Association for Business Economics
The United States and Global Economic Outlook (E6) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Ken Simonson (Associated General Contractors of America)
Nayantara Hensel (National Defense University)
George A. Kahn (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Lynn Reaser (Point Loma Nazarene University)
Ken Simonson (Associated General Contractors of America)
Richard L. Wobbekind (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
Reflections on Obama Economic Policy and African Americans (H3)
Presiding: Bernard Anderson (University of Pennsylvania)
Long-Term Unemployment: The Great Recession’s Legacy for Black Americans
Valerie Rawlston Wilson (National Urban League Policy Institute)
Obama Administration Jobs Polices and African Americans
Lawrence Mishel (Economic Policy Institute)
Algernon Austin (Economic Policy Institute)
The Experience of African American Women during the Great Recession
Margaret Simms (Urban Institute)
Power to the People: A Hayekian Assessment of Obama’s Energy Strategy
Bill Dickens (Tacoma Power Company)
TBA
Susan McElroy (University of Texas-Dallas)
Discussants:
Charles L. Betsey (Howard University)
Bernard E. Anderson (University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford C
National Tax Association
Health Care Cost Containment (I1)
Presiding: David Cutler (Harvard University and NBER)
Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College and NBER)
Age-Based Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange
Keith Marzilli Ericson (Boston University and NBER)
Will Risk-Adjustment Decrease Health Care Costs? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University and NBER)
Dangerous Liquidity and the Demand for Health Care: Evidence from the 2008 Stimulus Payments
Tal Gross (Columbia University)
Jeremy Tobacman (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Discussants:
Benjamin Handel (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Jeffrey Clemens (University of California-San Diego)
Robert Town (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Timothy Moore (George Washington University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Measuring Trade in Value-Added – Data and Estimation Methods (F1)
Presiding: Bernard Hoekman (World Bank)
A Three Stage Optimization Method to Construct Time Series International Input-Output Database
Nadim Ahmad (OECD)
Zhi Wang (US International Trade Commission)
Norihiko Yamano (OECD)
The Task Content of Value-Added Trade
Sebastien Miroudot (OECD)
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas (OECD)
Domestic Value-Added in China's Exports and Its Distribution by Firm Ownership
Pieter Bottelier (Johns Hopkins University)
Hong Ma (Tsinghua University)
Zhi Wang (U.S. International Trade Commission)
Kunfu Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Johns Hopkins University)
Discussants:
William Zeile (US Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Michael Ferrantino (US International Trade Commission)
Daniel Xu (University of Western Ontario and Peking University)
Xin Li (CCER, Peking University and Beijing Normal University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Transportation & Public Utilities Group/American Economic Association
Topics in Transportation Economics (L9)
Presiding: Wesley Wilson (University of Oregon)
Implications of Carbon Taxes for Transportation Policies
Ian W.H. Parry (International Monetary Fund)
Kenneth A. Small (University of California-Irvine and Resources for the Future)
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Differential Effects of Corruption and Legal Systems on Efficiency of Government Owned vs. Privatized Airports
Jia Yan (Washington State University)
Tae Hoon Oum (The University of British Columbia)
Understanding the Determinants of Vehicle Fatalities: A Classical and Bayesian Approach
Richard Fowles (University of Utah)
Peter D. Loeb (Rutgers University-Newark)
Gail Blattenberger (University of Utah)
Maritime Transport Chains: Carrier, Port and Shipper Choice Effects
Wayne K. Talley (Old Dominion University)
Discussants:
Kenneth Button (George Mason University)
B. Starr McMullen (Oregon State University)
Thomas Zlatoper (John Carroll University)
John Bitzan (North Dakota State University)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists
Recent Developments in Latin America (O5)
Presiding: Paul Cooney (Universidade Federal do Pará-Brazil)
New Developmentalism or a Return to an Agro-export Model in Latin America's Southern Cone: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina
Paul Cooney (Universidade Federal do Pará-Brazil)
Juan Santarcángelo (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento-Argentina)
Growth and Distribution in an Open Economy with Currency Substitution
Jose Cordero (Universidad de Costa Rica)
The Investment: Theory and Evidence in Mexico
Gustavo Vargas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
For a Critique of Developmentalist Political Economy: Moving Towards Latin American Marxism
Fernando Correa Prado (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Rodrigo Castelo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Discussants:
Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College)
Al Campbell (University of Utah)
Jan 04, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Shadow Banking in the US and Europe (G2)
Presiding: Pascal Petit (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Post-Crisis Shadow Banking: Alternative Lending Channels and the Basel III Regime
Robert Gutman (Hofstra University)
Shadow Banking Differences and Similarities between Europe and the US
Esther Jeffers (University of Paris 8)
Shadow Banking, a New Form of Financial Intermediation of Neoliberal Capitalism
Dominique Plihon (Université Paris-Nord)
Regulating Shadow Banking
Sandra Rigot (Université Paris-Nord)
Discussants:
Pascal Petit (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa)
Eugenia Correa (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Food Access, Availability, and Choice: Critical Research and Policy Issues (Q1)
Presiding: Helen Jensen (Iowa State University)
Socio-Demographic and Economic Determinants of Food Deserts
Zhongyi Wang (University of Arkansas)
Pedro A. Alviola (University of Arkansas)
Rodolfo Nayga (University of Arkansas)
Michael Thomsen (University of Arkansas)
The Effect of Revised WIC Food Packages and Native American Children
Ariun Ishdorj (Texas A&M University)
Oral Capps (Texas A&M University)
Bridging the Gap: Do Farmers’ Markets Help Alleviate Impacts of Food Deserts?
Vicki A. McCracken (Washington State University)
Jeremy L. Sage (Washington State University)
Rayna A. Sage (Washington State University)
The Effects of Food Outlet Availability on Food Outlet Choice – An Empirical Analysis
Gayaneh Kyureghian (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Rodolfo Nayga (University of Arkansas)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D & E
American Economic Association/American Finance Association
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon
Presiding: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Janet L. Yellen (Federal Reserve Board) Financial System Interconnectedness and Systemic Risk: Lessons from the Crisis and Policy Implications [Presentation Transcript]
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
European Economic Association Lecture
Presiding: Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
Growth and the New Economics of Management
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Mortgage Default Risk (G2)
Presiding: Robert Van Order (George Washington University)
First Mortgages, Second Mortgages, and Their Default
James Kau (University of Georgia)
Donald Keenan (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise)
Constantine Lyubimov (Federal National Mortgage Association)
Estimating the Hazard Rate of Foreclosure: The Role of Non-Housing Wealth
Sharon O'Donnell (U.S. Census Bureau)
Edward Coulson (Pennsylvania State University)
Strategic Mortgage Default: The Effect of Neighborhood Factors
Michael Bradley (CoreLogic)
Ling Chen (CoreLogic)
Amy Cutts (Equifax)
Biplab Ghosh (CoreLogic)
The Effect of Agency on Subprime Mortgage Terminations
Richard Green (University of Southern California)
Xiaoxin Zhang (University of Southern California)
Discussants:
Nancy Wallace (University of California-Berkeley)
Xudong An (National University of Singapore)
Joseph Tracy (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle D
Chinese Economists Society
Some Issues of RMB Exchange Rates on Price Convergence, Investment, Inflation and Stock Market Responses (F3)
Presiding: Yangru Wu (Rutgers University and Central University of Finance and Economics)
On the Role of Variable Input in the Relationship between Investment and Exchange Rate Volatility: An Empirical Analysis
Guangzhong Li (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Jie Li (Zhejiang University)
Does the RMB Exchange Rate Reform Make a Difference? Evidence from Cross-Listed Chinese Companies
Jimmy Ran (Lingnan University and Central University of Finance and Economics)
Laurel Rong (EPRO Systems, Hong Kong)
Currency Devaluation and Stock Market Response: An Empirical Analysis
Dilip K. Patro (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
John K. Wald (University of Texas-San Antonio)
Yangru Wu (Rutgers University and Central University of Finance and Economics)
RMB Foreign Exchange Market Intervention and Export Competitiveness
Jie Li (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Wu-kuang Cun (Rutgers University)
Modeling the Transition Towards Renminbi’s Full Convertibility: Implications for China’s Growth and the Global Economy
Luigi Bonatti (Universita di Trento)
Andrea Fracasso (Universita di Trento)
Discussants:
Dayong Huang (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Xi Chen (Yale University)
Mary E. Lovely (Syracuse University)
Hong Ma (Tsinghua University)
Daniel Santabárbara (European Central Bank)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma C
Cliometrics Society
Housing and Urban Development (N9)
Presiding: Allison Shertzer (University of Pittsburgh)
Monetary Intervention Really Did Mitigate Banking Panics during the Early Stages of the Great Depression: Evidence Along the Atlanta Federal Reserve District Border
Andrew Jalil (Occidental College)
Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster and the Legacy of Urban Land Use
Jim Siodla (University of California-Irvine)
The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach
Alexander Field (Santa Clara University)
Discussants:
Daniel Fetter (Wellesley College)
Katharine Shester (Washington and Lee University)
Matt Jaremski (Colgate University)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Maggie
History of Economics Society
"Keynes and the International Monetary System": The Centennial of Keynes (1913) Indian Currency and Finance (B1)
Presiding: Paul Drake (University of California-San Diego)
Keynes and Kemmerer on Gold Exchange Standard
Robert W. Dimand (Brock University)
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon 2)
Keynes and the International Monetary System
Robert Mundell (Columbia University)
Keynes’s Trade-off between External and Internal Monetary Stability
Carlo Cristiano (University of Pisa)
Indian Currency and Finance: Keynes's Prismatic View of the International Monetary System
Filippo Cesarano (Bank of Italy)
Discussants:
Jérôme de Boyer (University of Paris 9)
David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
International Association for Feminist Economics
Gendered Tradeoffs: Explorations in Economic Growth and Gender Equality (J1)
Presiding: Yana Rodgers (Rutgers University)
Cross-Country Analysis of Gender and Growth: Disentangling Effects
Irene van Staveren (International Institute of Social studies, The Netherlands)
War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University)
Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)
Are Economic Giants Penny Wise But Pound Foolish? A Comparative Study of Female Statuses Pondering the Future of Economic Development in Japan, China and India
Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee (College of St. Benedict-Saint John's University)
Models of Development and Gender Outcomes in Latin America
Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University)
Stephanie Seguino (University of Vermont)
Discussants:
Alicia Giron (UNAM, Mexico)
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Point Loma
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Risk, Returns, and Runs: Banks and Countries (G2)
Presiding: Wayne Passmore (Federal Reserve Board)
The Term Structure of Euro Area Sovereign Bond Yields
Peter Hordahl (Bank for International Settlements)
Oreste Tristani (European Central Bank)
Could the U.S. Treasury Benefit by Issuing More TIPS?
Jens Christensen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
James Gillen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Does the Buck Stop Here? A Comparison of Withdrawals from Money Market Mutual Funds with Floating and Constant Share Prices
Jonathan Wittmer (Bank of Canada)
The Cost of Banking Panics in an Age before TBTF
Benjamin Chabot (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Discussants:
Michael Bauer (Federal Resereve Bank of San Francisco)
Allen Zhang (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Patrick McCabe (Federal Reserve Board)
Ellis Tallman (Oberlin College)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester A
Middle East Economic Association/American Economic Association
The Arab Spring Economies: Ramifications and Challenges (O5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: J. Craig Jenkins (Ohio State University)
Raed Safadi (OECD)
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal (Rice University)
Hassan Aly (Ohio State University)
Gouda Abdel-Khalek (Cairo University)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford B
National Association of Economic Educators
Testing the Effectiveness of Economic Education at the K-12 level (A2)
Presiding: Paul Grimes (Pittsburg State University)
Results from the Review of the Test of Economic Literacy
William B. Walstad (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Ken Rebeck (St. Cloud State University)
Roger B. Butters (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Does High School Economics affect College Performance? Evidence from Georgia's Freshmen
Christopher Clark (Georgia College)
Benjamin Scafidi (Georgia College)
John R. Swinton (Georgia College)
The Self Realization Theory: Academic Achievement Gap and Student's Loan Default
Kaustav Misra (Saginaw Valley State University)
Should We Teach About Fair Trade?
John Brock (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
Jane Lopus (California State University-East Bay)
Discussants:
Benjamin Scafidi (Georgia College)
Kristin Klopfenstein (University of Northern Colorado)
Denise Stanley (California State University-Fullerton)
Paul W. Grimes (Pittsburg State University)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Miramar
Omicron Delta Epsilon/American Economic Association
AEA/ODE Faculty Advisor Session (E6)
Presiding: Kathryn Nantz (Fairfield University)
Explaining Inflation during the Great Contraction
Robert Murphy (Boston College)
Discouraging Workers: Estimating the Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on the Search Intensity of the Unemployed
Mark Kurt (Elon University)
Stephen DeLoach (Elon University)
Tree Huggers and Road Warriors: Fuel Efficiency Regulations
Carlena Cochi Ficano (Hartwick College)
Was There an "Annika Effect" in the PGA?
Eva Marikova Leeds (Moravian University)
Discussants:
Mark Kurt (Elon University)
Robert Murphy (Boston College)
Eva Marikova Leeds (Moravian University)
Carlena Cochi Ficano (Hartwick College)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Micro Analysis of Education, Health, and Wages (D1)
Presiding: Quentin Wodon (The World Bank)
Method of Pay, Immigrant Legal Status, and Wage Gaps
Catherine Y. Co (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Ira N. Gang (Rutgers University)
Myeong-Su Yun (Tulane University)
The ACA's Extension of Coverage to Dependents and its Impact on the Health Insurance Status, Type of Coverage, and Access to Care of Young Immigrants and Natives
Mehmet Yaya (Eastern Michigan University)
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University)
Measuring the Impact of Child Marriage on Education
Minh Cong Nguyen (The World Bank)
Quentin T. Wodon (The World Bank)
Educational Credentials and Employee Job Performance: Evidence from Marine Corps Officers
Adam Clemens (CNA Corporation)
Lauren Malone (CNA Corporation)
Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Coronado Room
Union for Radical Political Economists
David Gordon Memorial Lecture (N1)
Presiding: Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College)
Rethinking Financial Capitalism and the "Information Economy"
Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research)
Discussants:
Perry Mehrling (Barnard College)
Barkley Rosser (James Madison University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Agricultural R&D, Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Q1)
Presiding: Derek Byerlee (CGIAR)
Impacts of Public Research Funding on Private R&D Investment and U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth
Sun Ling Wang (USDA-Economic Research Service)
Paul Heisey (USDA-Economic Research Service)
Wallace Huffman (Iowa State University)
Keith Fuglie (USDA-Economic Research Service)
Reducing the Environmental Efficiency Gap in Global Livestock Production: Implications for Developing Countries
Alejandro Nin Pratt (IFPRI)
The Borlaug Hypothesis Revisited: Estimates of the Impact of the Green Revolution on Land-Cover Change
Nelson Villoria (Purdue University)
James Stevenson (CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council Secretariat, UN FAO)
Derek Byerlee (Independent Scholar)
Tim Kelley (CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council Secretariat, UN FAO)
Mywish Maredia (Michigan State University)
Impact of Future Agricultural Productivity Gains on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Global Analysis
Carol A. Jones (USDA-Economic Research Service)
Ronald D. Sands (USDA-Economic Research Service)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup D
American Committee on Asian Economic Studies/American Economic Association
Empirical Assessments of International Shock Transmission for Asia (F4)
Presiding: Michael Plummer (Johns Hopkins University)
Do Foreign Banks Cut Their Bank Lending More during a Crisis?
Robert Dekle (University of Southern California)
Mihye Lee (Bank of Korea)
How Close is ASEAN to a Common Global-Currency Basket?
Reid W. Click (George Washington University)
International Transmission of Emerging Economy Supply Shocks: Analysis of a Three-Country DSGE Model
Naohisa Hirakata (Bank of Japan)
Yuto Iwasaki (Bank of Japan)
Masahiro Kawai (ADB Institute)
Do Policy-Related Shocks Affect Real Exchange Rates of Asian Developing Countries?
Taya Dumrongrittikul (Monash University)
Discussants:
Pierre L. Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Mordechai E. Kreinin (Michigan State University)
Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Steven Husted (University of Pittsburgh)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Alternative Approaches to Teaching the Principles of Economics (A2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Sam A. Allgood (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Martha L. Olney (University of California-Berkeley) Economics as a Language
Alex Tabarrok (George Mason University) Teaching the Solow Model in Principles
Robert Frank (Cornell University) The Economic Naturalist
David I. Laibson (Harvard University) A Behavioral Approach to Teaching Economics
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward B
American Economic Association
Bad Behavior (K4)
Presiding: Allen Sanderson (University of Chicago)
Misconduct in Credence Good Markets
Dylan Minor (Northwestern University)
Jennifer Brown (Northwestern University)
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Dishonesty and Charitable Behavior
Adrian Stoian (California State University-East Bay)
Doru Cojoc (University of Iowa)
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The Impact of Cartelization on Pricing Dynamics: Evidence from the German Cement Industry
Kai Hueschelrath (ZEW Centre for European Economic Research)
Tobias Veith (ZEW Centre for European Economic Research)
Competition and Corporate Fraud
Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota)
Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota)
The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
Kenneth R. Ahern (University of Southern California)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Big Data, New Data (Y1)
Presiding: Erik Brynjolfsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Theresa Kuchler (Stanford University)
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
Neel Sundaresan (EBay)
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Management in American (CENSUS)
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Erik Brynjolfsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Lucia Foster (U.S. Census Bureau)
Ron Jarmin (U.S. Census Bureau)
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
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Impact of Firm-Level Shocks on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Individual Panel Data
Scott R. Baker (Stanford University)
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Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series
Hal R. Varian (Google)
Steve Scott (Google)
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Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
Consumer Choice and Energy Demand: Empirical Policy Evaluations (Q4)
Presiding: Hunt Allcott (New York University)
Cash for Coolers
Lucas Davis (University of California-Berkeley)
Paul Gertler (University of California-Berkeley)
Alan Fuchs (University of California-Berkeley)
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The Effect of a Mandatory Time-of-Use Pricing Reform on Residential Electricity Use
David Rapson (University of California-Davis)
Katrina Jessoe (University of California-Davis)
Jeremy Blair Smith (Boston University)
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Does Conservation Targeting Work? Evidence from a Statewide Electricity Rebate Program in California
Koichiro Ito (Stanford University)
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Hunt Allcott (New York University)
Todd Rogers (Harvard University)
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Discussants:
Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania)
Peter C. Reiss (Stanford University)
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
Paulina Oliva (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle B
American Economic Association
Developments in Health and Population Economics (I1)
Presiding: Steven Stern (University of Virginia)
SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?
Delia Furtado (University of Connecticut)
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos (University of Cyprus)
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Birth Order Differences in Early Inputs and Outcomes
Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann (University of Houston)
Ana Nuevo-Chiquero (University of Barcelona)
Marian Vidal-Fernandez (University of New South Wales)
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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Mandatory School Vaccination Laws
Dara N. Lee (University of Missouri)
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Inheritances, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Accumulation of Health
Katherine Carman (Tilburg University)
Discussants:
Shelly Lundberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Steven Stern (University of Virginia)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Economics and Well-Being (D6)
Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
Can Revealed-Preference Tradeoffs Be Inferred From Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices
Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University)
Ori Heffetz (Cornell University)
Miles Kimball (University of Michigan)
Alex Rees-Jones (Cornell University)
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (University College London & Centre for Economic Performance (LSE))
Andrew J. Oswald (Warwick University and IZA)
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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
Reto Odermatt (University of Basel)
Alois Stutzer (University of Basel)
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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
Casey Boyd-Swan (Arizona State University)
Christopher M. Herbst (Arizona State University)
John Ifcher (Santa Clara University)
Homa Zarghamee (Santa Clara University)
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Discussants:
Angus S. Deaton (Princeton University)
Carol Graham (University of Maryland and Brookings Institution)
Michael I. Norton (Harvard Business School)
Guy Mayraz (University of Melbourne)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Forty Years Since the 1973 OPEC Embargo: U.S. Energy Policy and Lessons for the Future (L5)
Presiding: Severin Borenstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Energy Technologies Policy: Repeating History?
Nancy L. Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Natural Gas: From Shortages to Abundance
Paul L. Joskow (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Transportation Fuels Policy since the OPEC Embargo: Paved with Good Intentions
Christopher R. Knittel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Efficient Retail Pricing in Electricity and Natural Gas Markets: A Familiar Problem with New Challenges
Steven L. Puller (Texas A&M University)
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Discussants:
Severin Borenstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Ryan Kellogg (University of Michigan)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Gender Differences in Social Preferences (C9)
Presiding: Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Breaking the Glass Ceiling with "No": Gender Differences in Doing Favors
Linda Babcock (Carnegie Mellon University)
Brenda Peyser (Carnegie Mellon University)
M.J. Tocci (Trial Run Inc.)
Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
Amanda Weirup (Carnegie Mellon University)
Gender, Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Sherry Xin Li (University of Texas-Dallas)
Measuring Competitiveness
Uri Gneezy (University of California-San Diego)
Aniela Pietrasz Pietrasz (University of California-San Diego)
Why Do Women (Not) Give More?
Stefano DellaVigna (University of California-Berkeley)
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Gautam Rao (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Iris Bohnet (Harvard University)
Gary Charness (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jane Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
James Andreoni (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Household Saving and Retirement (E2)
Presiding: Irina Telyukova (University of California-San Diego)
A Cross-Country Analysis of Housing and Retirement
Irina A. Telyukova (University of California-San Diego)
Makoto Nakajima (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
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Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality
Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University)
Olivia S. Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania)
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Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks
Lee Lockwood (NBER)
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Social Security, Endogenous Retirement and Intrahousehold Cooperation
Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia)
Laura Turner (University of Toronto)
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Discussants:
Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Karen Kopecky (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Selahattin Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
International Macroeconomics and Finance (F3)
Presiding: Anna Pavlova (London Business School)
Financial Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies
Matteo Maggiori (New York University)
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Safe Assets: Good or Bad?
Jack Favilukis (London School of Economics)
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University)
Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
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Capital Flows and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy
Valentina Bruno (American University)
Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)
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Financial Globalization, Inequality and the Raising of Public Debt
Marina Azzimonti (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Eva de Francisco (Towson University)
Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)
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Discussants:
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University)
Tarek Hassan (University of Chicago)
Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Lucas Paradox: Why Doesn't Capital Flow in Developing Economies? (O4)
Presiding: Robert Lucas, Jr. (University of Chicago)
Public and Private MPK
Chris Papageorgiou (International Monetary Fund)
Matthew Lowe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fidel Perez-Sebastian (University of Alicante)
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Lucas and Anti-Lucas Paradoxes
Daniel Cohen (Paris School of Economics)
Orsetta Causa (OECD)
Marcelo Soto (Instituto de Análisis Económico)
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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland)
Laura Alfaro (Harvard University)
Vadym Volosovych (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
Francisco Buera (University of California-Los Angeles)
Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis)
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Discussants:
Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics)
Paul Collier (University of Oxford)
Lant Pritchett (Harvard University)
Olivier Jeanne (Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Markups, Customer Base and Business cycles (E2)
Presiding: Leena Rudanko (Boston University)
The Shopping Multiplier
Greg Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania)
Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis: Microeconomic Evidence on the Linkages between Price-Setting and Balance Sheet Conditions
Simon Gilchrist (Boston University)
Egon Zakrajsek (Federal Reserve Board)
Raphael Schoenle (Brandeis University)
Jae W. Sim (Federal Reserve Board)
Testing for Keynesian Labor Demand
Mark Bils (University of Rochester)
Peter Klenow (Stanford University)
Benjamin Malin (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Customer Capital and the Labor Wedge
Francois Gourio (Boston University)
Leena Rudanko (Boston University)
Discussants:
Robert Hall (Stanford University)
James Kahn (Yeshiva University)
Christopher House (University of Michigan)
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward C
American Economic Association
Medical Treatment (I1)
Presiding: Kathleen Carey (Boston University)
Technology Diffusion and Learning Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from New Cancer Drugs
Leila Agha (Boston University)
David Molitor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: Investigating the Determinants of Imaging Overuse
Jason Todd Abaluck (Yale University)
Leila Agha (Boston University)
Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Treatment Patterns and Patient Health?
Jeffrey Clemens (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)
Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)
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The Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications for Climate Change
Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
Martin Karlsson (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Maike Schmitt (University of Technology Darmstadt)
Workplace Interactions and Fear of Breast Cancer: Evidence from a Dynamic Natural Experiment
Giulio Zanella (University of Bologna)
Ritesh Banerjee (Analysis Group Inc.)
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Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
New Challenges for Growth in Historical Perspective (N3)
Presiding: Claude Diebolt (CNRS, University of Strasbourg)
Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Quamrul Ashraf (Williams College)
Oded Galor (Brown University)
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Social Institutions, Violence and Innovations: Did the Old Poor Law Matter?
Avner Greif (Stanford University)
Diego Sasson (Goldman Sachs)
Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado)
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick)
Ludger Woessmann (University of Munich)
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From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment
Claude Diebolt (CNRS, University of Strasbourg)
Faustine Perrin (University of Strasbourg)
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Discussants:
Ahmed Rahman (U.S. Naval Academy)
Emanuele Felice (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Jean-Luc Demeulemeester (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Mike Haupert (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
Sovereign Debt Crises and Policies: History and Future Prospects (F3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund)
Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)
Thomas Sargent (New York University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester G
American Economic Association
The Economics of Higher Education (I2)
Presiding: Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
David Deming (Harvard University)
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Lawrence Katz (Harvard University)
Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
Cory Koedel (University of Missouri)
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education
Peter Hinrichs (Georgetown University)
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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
Stacy Dale (Mathematica Policy Research)
Alan Krueger (Princeton University)
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Discussants:
Sarah Reber (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)
Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University)
Jesse Rothstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester H & I
American Economic Association
The Federal Income Tax at 100 (H2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Michael Graetz (Columbia University)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley)
Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)
John Wallis (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
The Political Economics of Momentum, Persistence and Information (D8)
Presiding: David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard University)
Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement
David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard University)
Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University)
Daniel Shoag (Harvard University)
Stan Veuger (Harvard University)
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The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11
Sharun Mukand (University of Warwick)
Ethan Kaplan (University of Maryland)
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Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis
Brian Knight (Brown University)
Patrick Hummel (Yahoo! Research)
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"The People Want the Fall of the Regime": Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy
Filipe Campante (Harvard University)
Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)
Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy
Erik Snowberg (Caltech)
Pietro Ortolova (Caltech)
Discussants:
Daniel Shoag (Harvard Universityl)
Ethan Kaplan (University of Maryland)
Brian Knight (Brown University)
Erik Snowberg (Caltech)
Filipe Campante (Harvard Universityl)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle A
American Economic Association
What Explains Divergent Productivity Growth Between the United States, Europe and Canada? (O4)
Presiding: Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards)
Technology Optimism, but Employment and Growth Uncertainty
James Manyika (McKinsey)
Martin Baily (Brookings Institution)
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Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice?
Marcello Estevao (International Monetary Fund)
Beth Anne Wilson (Federal Reserve Board)
Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?
Dan Sichel (Wellesley College)
Stephen Oliner (American Enterprise Institute and University of California-Los Angeles)
The Productivity Performance of European Economies
Bart van Ark (The Conference Board)
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Discussants:
Robert Gordon (Northwestern University)
Barbara Fraumeni (University of Southern Maine)
Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
Pascal Petit (CNRS-CEPN and Universite de Paris-Nord)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Anomalies and Inefficiency I (G1)
Presiding: Michael Cooper (University of Utah)
An Empirical Assessment of Models of the Value Premium
Huijun Wang (University of Minnesota)
Jianfeng Yu (University of Minnesota)
Asset Growth Reversals and Investment Anomalies
Full Yet Eric Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Kuo-Chiang Wei (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Investor Base, Cost of Capital, and Firm Performance: The Case of Post-Issuance Anomalies
Roger Edelen (University of California-Davis)
Ozgur Ince (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Gregory Kadlec (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Discussants:
John Griffin (University of Texas-Austin)
Dongmei Li (University of California-San Diego)
Huseyin Gulen (Purdue University )
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Corporate Finance Theory (G3)
Presiding: Robert Marquez (University of California-Davis)
The Wall Street Walk when Blockholders Compete for Flows
Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics)
Giorgia Piacentino (London School of Economics)
Shareholder Empowerment: The Right to Approve and the Right to Propose
John Matsusaka (University of Southern California)
Oguzhan Ozbas (University of Southern California)
The Idealized Electoral College Voting Mechanism and Shareholder Power
Edward Van Wesep (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Discussants:
Gustavo Manso (University of California-Berkeley)
Eitan Goldman (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Equity Risk Premium (G1)
Presiding: Jules van Binsbergen (Stanford University)
Stock Market Beta and Average Returns on Macroeconomic Announcement Days
Pavel Savor (University of Pennsylvania)
Mungo Ivor Wilson (University of Oxford)
Market Expectations in the Cross Section of Present Values
Bryan Kelly (University of Chicago)
Seth Pruitt (Federal Reserve Board)
Risk, Uncertainty, and Expected Returns
Turan Bali (Georgetown University)
Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussants:
Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago)
Stefan Nagel (Stanford University)
Viktor Todorov (Northwestern University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Macro Finance (G1)
Presiding: Ravi Bansal (Duke University)
International Asset Pricing with Recursive Preferences
Riccardo Colacito (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Mariano Croce (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Moral Hazard, Investment, and Firm Dynamics
Hengjie Ai (University of Minnesota)
Rui Li (Purdue University)
Durable Goods, Inflation Risk and the Equilibrium Term Structure
Bjorn Eraker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ivan Shaliastovich (University of Pennsylvania)
Wenyu Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Financial Intermediary Capital
Adriano Rampini (Duke University)
S. Viswanathan (Duke University)
Discussants:
Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago)
Gary Gorton (Yale University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Portfolio Choice: Theory and Evidence (G1)
Presiding: Guofu Zhou (Washington University in Saint Louis)
Optimizing the Performance of Sample Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolios
Chris Kirby (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Barbara Ostdiek (Rice University)
Implications of Long-Run Risk for Asset Allocation Decisions
Doron Avramov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona)
Optimal Consumption and Investment with Asymmetric Long-Term/Short-Term Capital Gains Taxes
Min Dai (National University of Singapore)
Hong Liu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Yifei Zhong (University of Oxford)
Portfolio Optimization Using Forward-Looking Information
Alexander Kempf (University of Cologne)
Olaf Korn (University of Göttingen)
Sven Sassning (University of Göttingen)
Discussants:
Yufeng Han (University of Colorado-Denver)
Yingzi Zhu (Tsinghua University)
Jennifer Huang (University of Texas-Austin)
Charles Cao (Pennsylvania State University )
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Santa Rosa
American Finance Association/Association of Financial Economists
Shareholder Rights and Corporate Control (G3)
Presiding: Kose John (New York University)
Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Stock Returns: Beta, Not Alpha?
K.J. Martijn Cremers (University of Notre Dame)
Allen Ferrell (Harvard University)
Reputational Concerns in the Market for Corporate Control
Audra L. Boone (Texas A&M University)
Vahap Uysal (University of Oklahoma)
Corporate Pension Funding Status and the Market for Corporate Control: The Disciplinary Role of Pension Deficits in Mergers and Acquisitions
Xin Chang (Nanyang Technological University)
Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University)
Wenrui Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
Unrelated Acquisitions
Mufaddal Baxamusa (University of St. Thomas)
Rajesh Aggarwal (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Discussants:
Dalida Kadyrzhanova (University of Maryland)
Marcin Kacperczyk (New York University)
Anzhela Knyazeva (University of Rochester)
S. Abraham Ravid (Yeshiva University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
The Pension Crisis: Public and Private (G2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Joshua Rauh (Stanford University)
Jeffrey R. Brown (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
John B. Shoven (Stanford University)
Stephen P. Zeldes (Columbia University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Commercial Real Estate (R1)
Presiding: David Geltner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Real Estate Volatility; and Exact Decomposition
William Wheaton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
What Do Commercial Real Estate Price Indexes Really Measure?
Crocker Liu (Cornell University)
Walter Boudry (Cornell University)
Edward Coulson (Pennsylvania State University)
Jarl Kallberg (Thunderbird School of Management)
Industrial Property Rents in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
Anthony Pennington-Cross (Marquette University)
David Clark (Marquette University)
Discussants:
Anthony Pennington-Cross (Marquette University)
David Geltner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sheharyar Bokhari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Housing and Education (R2)
Presiding: William Goetzmann (Yale University)
Estimating the Long-Term Economic Effects of Children's Housing: Taking Advantage of Data Density for Identification
Fredrik Andersson (Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury)
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Mark J Kutzbach (U.S. Census Bureau)
Henry Pollakowski (Harvard University)
Daniel Weinberg (US Census Bureau)
Changes in the White-Black House Value Distribution Gap from 1997 to 2005
Eric Fesselmeyer (National University of Singapore)
Kien Le (Qatar University)
Kiat Ying Seah (National University of Singapore)
Private Schools and Urban Prosperity
Stephen Sheppard (Williams College)
The Effects of Housing Prices on Child and Young Adult Outcomes
David Blau (Ohio State University)
Donald Haurin (The Ohio State University)
Discussants:
Liang Peng (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Susan Wachter (University of Pennsylvania)
Jackie Yen (Yale University)
Nancy Wallace (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Real Estate Price Dynamics (G1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Sing Tien Foo (National University of Singapore)
Ogonna Nneji (University of Reading)
Kustrim Reka (University of Geneva)
Andrew Hanson (Georgia State University)
Stefano Corradin (European Central Bank)
Jason Thomas (George Washington University)
Prakash Loungani (International Monetary Fund)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup C
American Society of Hispanic Economists
Migration and Crime Trajectories (J1)
Presiding: Alberto Davila (University of Texas-Pan American)
Immigrants and Crime Trajectories
Felix Rioja (Georgia State University)
Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University)
Marginalization, Crime, and Migration in Mexico and the U.S.
Jose N. Martinez (University of North Texas)
Willy Walter Cortez Yactayo (University of Guadalajara)
Drug Related Violence and Employment in Mexico
Manuel Reyes-Loya (New Mexico State University)
Eduardo Saucedo (University of Texas-Pan American)
Roberto Coronado (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch)
The Impact of Insecurity and Crime on Democracy and Trust in Institutions in Colombia
Luisa Blanco (Pepperdine University)
Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford)
Discussants:
Justin McCrary (University of California-Berkeley)
Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
David J. Molina (University of North Texas)
Javier Reyes (University of Arkansas)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle E
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Once Bitten Twice Shy? International Banking after the Crisis (F3)
Presiding: John Bonin (Wesleyan University)
Systemic Risks in Global Banking: What Available Data Can Tell Us and What More Data Are Needed?
Eugenio M. Cerutti (International Monetary Fund)
Stijn Claessens (International Monetary Fund)
Patrick McGuire (Bank for International Settlements)
Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Stijn Claessens (International Monetary Fund)
Neeltje van Horen (Den Nederlandsche Bank)
Changing Forces of Gravity: How the Crisis Affected Cross-Border Banking
Claudia M. Buch (University of Tübingen)
Katja Neugebauer (IAW)
Christoph Schröder (ZEW)
Bank Lending Patterns in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Exploring Differences between Latin America and Eastern Europe
John P. Bonin (Wesleyan University)
Robert Cull (World Bank)
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria (World Bank)
Discussants:
John P. Bonin (Wesleyan University)
Claudia M. Buch (University of Tübingen)
Katheryn N. Russ (University of California-Davis)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford A
Association for Economic & Development Studies in Bangladesh
Improving the Lives of Poor and Ultra-poor: Arsenic Information, Empowerment of Adolescents, Entrepreneurship, and SME (O1)
Presiding: Fahad Khalil (University of Washington)
Impacts of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Arsenic Risk Communication on Household Water Supply Choices in Bangladesh
Lori Bennear (Duke University)
Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University)
Alexander Pfaff (Duke University)
Soumya Balasubramanya (Duke University)
Kazi Matin Ahmed (University of Dhaka)
Can Entrepreneurship Programs Transform the Lives of the Poor?
Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics)
Robin Burgess (London School Economics)
Selim Gulesci (Universita Bocconi)
Imran Rasul (University College London)
Sulaiman Sulaiman (London School Economics)
Adolescent Empowerment and Female Schooling Attainment: Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
Erica Field (Harvard University)
Rachel Glennerster (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Is Micro Too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
Jonathan Bauchet (New York University)
Jonathan Morduch (New York University)
Discussants:
Pallab Mazumder (Florida International University)
Craig Mcintosh (University of California-San Diego)
Asadul Islam (Monash University)
Forhad Shilpi (World Bank)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Coronado Room
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Roundtable Session: The Great Economic and Financial Crisis, Institutional Economics and the Future of Capitalism (P1)
Presiding: Stephanie Kelton (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Institutionalist Macroeconomic Theory versus Keynesian Monetarism or MMT
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)
Can American Capitalism Survive?
James Ronald Stanfield (Colorado State University-Fort Collins)
Lesson from the Great Recession: Transform the Institutional Order
William M. Dugger (University of Tulsa)
Economics Education for a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
Janice Peterson (California State University-Fresno)
Ideas Versus Interests: The Future of Post Keynesian Institutionalism in an Era of Crisis
Charles M.A. Clark (St. John's University)
Discussants:
James K. Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin)
Phillip Anthony O'Hara (Global Political Economy Research Unit, Australia)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom C
Association for Social Economics/Society of Government Economists
Ethics and Professional Economic Practice - Next Steps? (B4) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Jonathan Wight (University of Richmond)
George F. DeMartino (University of Denver)
David Colander (Middlebury College)
David M. Levy (George Mason University)
Sandra J. Peart (University of Richmond)
Steven Payson (Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Atlanta
Association for the Study of Cuban Economy
The Cuban Economy (P2)
Presiding: Carlos Seiglie (Rutgers University-Newark)
Cuban Food Consumption during 1966-2010
Bryan W. Roberts (Nathan Associates)
Cuba: Economic Growth, Aging, and Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability
Andy Wolfe (International Monetary Fund)
The Use of Socioeconomic Indicators to Estimate PPP Adjusted Income: An Application to Cuba Circa 1959
Luis Locay (University of Miami)
Rita Ray (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Discussants:
John Devereux (Queens College)
Roger Betancourt (University of Maryland)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Association of Christian Economists
Varieties of Natural Law Economics (B4)
Presiding: Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
Economic Theory in Light of the Aristotelian Tradition
Andy Yuengert (Pepperdine University)
Economics and Thomas Aquinas
Mary Hirschfeld (Villanova University)
Natural Law Theory for Economists: Finnis and Lonergan
Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
Discussants:
Jennifer Morse (Ruth Institute)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle D
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): An Interim Progress Report (Q5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Robert Stavins (Harvard University)
Leon Clarke (Joint Global Change Research Institute)
Ottmar Edenhofer (Technical University Berlin)
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
Charles Kolstad (Stanford University)
Raymond Kopp (Resources for the Future)
Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Richels (Electric Power Research Institute)
Thomas Sterner (Environmental Defense Fund)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford C
Chinese Economic Association in North America/American Economic Association
Fiscal Policy under Macroeconomic Uncertainties (E6)
Presiding: Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
Fiscal Policy in Highly Indebted Countries
Huixin Bi (Bank of Canada)
Wenyi Shen (Indiana University)
Shu-Chun Susan Yang (International Monetary Fund)
Debt Stabilization in a Non-Ricardian Economy
Campbell Leith (University of Glasgow)
Ioana Moldovan (University of Glasgow)
Simon Wren-Lewis (University of Oxford)
Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Consumption Risk
Massimiliano Croce (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Thien Tung Nguyen (University of Pennsylvania)
Lukas Schmid (Duke University)
Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Effects of Tariffs on Economic Performance and Welfare
Yu-Ning Hwang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
Discussants:
Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University)
Pei-Ju Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Mathias Trabandt (Federal Reserve Board)
Daphne Chen (Florida State University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma C
Cliometrics Society
Issues in 19th-Century Economic Growth (N1)
Presiding: Melissa Thomasson (Miami University)
The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China before 1920
Se Yan (Peking University)
It’s All in the Mail: Information Exchange, Market Access, Amenities and the Spatial Structure of the German Empire
Florian Ploeckl (University of Oxford)
Understanding the Sources of Productivity Growth during Industrialization: An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Properties of Piece Rate Contracts
Daniel MacDonald (University of Massachusett-Amherst)
Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations in the Nineteenth Century
Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College)
Discussants:
Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
Robert Whaples (Wake Forest University)
Farley Grubb (University of Delaware)
Theresa Gutberlet (University of Arizona)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Bounded Rationality, Switching Costs and Competitive Strategies (L1)
Presiding: Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago)
We're #1: Price Wars for Market Share Leadership
Luis Cabral (New York University)
Consumer Unawareness and Competitive Strategies
Zhen Liu (SUNY-Buffalo)
Chun Martin Qiu (McGill University)
The Identification Power of the Markov Assumption in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
John Lazarev (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Paulo Somaini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago)
Jeremy T. Fox (University of Michigan)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Betsy A
Econometric Society
European Labor Markets (J4)
Presiding: Till von Wachter (Columbia University)
Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Elke Jutta Jahn (Aarhus University and IZA)
Boris Hirsch (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Do Anonymous Resumes Make the Battlefield More Even? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Luc Behaghel (Paris School of Economics)
Bruno Crepon (CREST)
Thomas Le Barbanchon (CREST)
High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
Luc Behaghel (Paris School of Economics)
Bruno Crepon (CREST)
Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics)
Discussants:
Steven Raphael (University of California-Berkeley)
Kate L. Antonovics (University of California-San Diego)
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
Till von Wachter (Columbia University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma A & B
Econometric Society
Forecasting/Financial Econometrics (C5)
Presiding: Allan Timmermann (University of California-San Diego)
Modelling Dependence in High Dimensions with Factor Copulas
Dong Hwan Oh (Duke University)
Andrew Patton (Duke University)
Inferring the Predictability Induced by a Persistent Regressor in a Predictive Threshold Model
Jesus Gonzalo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Jean-Yves Pitarakis (University of Southampton)
Economic Theory and Forecasting
Raffaella Giacomini (University College London)
Giuseppe Ragusa (LUISS)
Choice of Sample Split in Out-of-Sample Forecast Evaluation
Allan Timmermann (University of California-San Diego)
Discussants:
Yanqin Fan (Vanderbilt University)
Marcelo Moreira (FGV)
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Household, Microenterprise and Agricultural Finance in Developing Countries (D1)
Presiding: Manuel Hernandez (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Group Lending with Heterogeneous Consumer Types
Li Gan (Texas A&M University)
Manuel Alejandro Hernandez (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Yanyan Liu (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Diffusion of Microfinance
Abhijit V. Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
Interplay among Credit, Insurance and Savings for Farmers in Developing Countries
Francesca de Nicola (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Ruth Vargas Hill (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Capital Constraints in Agriculture: Evidence from Mali
Lori Beaman (Northwestern University)
Dean Karlan (Yale University)
Bram Thuysbaert (KULeuven)
Christopher Udry (Yale University)
Discussants:
Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Christopher Udry (Yale University)
Jonathan Robinson (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Greg Fischer (London School of Economics)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Nature of Labor Income Risk (E2)
Presiding: Fatih Karahan (University of Pennsylvania)
Reconciling Estimates of Income Processes in Growth Rates and Levels
Moira Daly (Copenhagen Business School)
Dmytro Hryshko (University of Alberta)
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns 1987-2006
Jason DeBacker (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Bradley T. Heim (Indiana University)
Vasia Panousi (Federal Reserve Board)
Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve Board)
On the Persistence of Income Shocks over the Life Cycle: Evidence, Theory, and Implications
Fatih Karahan (University of Pennsylvania)
Serdar Ozkan (Federal Reserve Board)
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota)
Serdar Ozkan (Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Structural Models (C5)
Presiding: Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
Interdependent Durations in Joint Retirement
Aureo de Paula (University College London)
Bo Honore (Princeton University)
Testing for Monotonicity of the Reservation Wage Function
Daniel Gutknecht (University of Warwick)
Demand Estimation for Differentiated Products: The Many Markets Case
Amit Kumar Gandhi (University of Wisconsin)
zhengtong Lu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Xiaoxia Shi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Testing for Biases Induced by Approximation Error in the Estimation of Dynamic Decision Models
Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
Discussants:
Geert Ridder (University of Southern California)
Rosa Matzkin (University of California-Los Angeles)
Matthew Shum (California Insitute of Technology)
Andriy Norets (Princeton University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Solana
Economic Science Association
Political Economy Experiments (D7)
Presiding: Leeat Yariv (Caltech)
What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs
Marina Agranov (Caltech)
Jacob K. Goeree (University of Zurich)
Julian Romero (Purdue University)
Leeat Yariv (Caltech)
Coalition Formation in a Legislative Voting Game
Nels P. Christiansen (Trinity University)
Sotiris Georganas (Royal Holloway, University of London)
John Kagel (Ohio State University)
"Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation
Ernesto Dal Bo (University of California-Berkeley)
Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)
Static and Dynamic Underinvestment: An Experimental Investigation
Guillaume Frechette (New York University)
Marina Agranov (Caltech)
Thomas Palfrey (Caltech)
Emanuel Vespa (New York University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford B
Economists for Peace & Security
Is War Over? The Economics of National Security after Iraq and Afghanistan (0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Michael Lind (New America Foundation)
Linda Bilmes (Harvard University)
Richard Kaufman (Bethesda Research Institute)
Lloyd J. Dumas (University of Texas-Dallas)
J. Paul Dunne (University of Cape Town)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, La Costa
Health Economics Research Organization
Are Health and Health Care Getting Better in the United States? (I1)
Presiding: Donald Yett (University of Southern California)
How Much Has Health Improved, and Why?
David Cutler (Harvard University and NBER)
Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis in the Medicare Population
Carrie Colla (Dartmouth College)
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College and NBER)
Productivity Trends in Hospital Care
Dana P. Goldman (University of Southern California and NBER)
John A. Romley (University of Southern California)
Neeraj Sood (University of Southern California and NBER)
Discussants:
Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University)
Joseph J. Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Maggie
History of Economics Society/American Economic Association
Writing MIT's History (B2)
Presiding: E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University)
On Charles Kindleberger
Stephen Meardon (Bowdoin College)
MIT's Textbooks
Yann Giraud (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
Afro Americans at MIT
William A. Darity, Jr. (Duke University)
Creating MIT Economics: Hiring Jewish Faculty
E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University)
Discussants:
Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba)
E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine B
International Association for Energy Economics
Advances in Energy Economics Research (Q4)
Presiding: Kevin Forbes (Catholic University of America)
Optimization of Stochastic Resources in the Electricity System
Alberto J. Lamadrid (Cornell University)
Tim Mount (Cornell University)
Ray Zimmerman (Cornell University)
Daniel Munoz (Cornell University)
Carlos Murillo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
The Effects of Policy and Strategic Factors on Investment in Fuel-Ethanol Plants
Cynthia Lin (University of California-Davis)
Oil Price Shocks: Causes and Consequences
Nathan Balke (Southern Methodist University)
Stephen Brown (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Mine Yucel (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
A Model with Spillovers in the Adaptation of Renewable Technologies
Bernardino Adao (Bank of Portugal)
Borghan Najarabad (Rice University)
Ted Temzelides (Rice University)
Discussants:
Andrea Bollino (Universita di Perugia)
Timothy Fitzgerald (Montana State University)
Xiaoyi Mu (University of Dundee)
Youngho Chang (Nanyang Technological University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Point Loma
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association/American Economic Association
Financial Frictions and Their Implications for Financial Stability (G1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Diana Hancock (Federal Reserve Board)
Viral V. Acharya (New York University) The Dark Side of Liquidity Creation and Systemic Risk
Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University) Complexity in Financial Markets
Randy Kroszner (University of Chicago) Regulatory Reforms to Reduce Financial Fragility
Wayne Passmore (Federal Reserve Board) Traditional Banks vs. Shadow Banks and Financial Stability
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
International Economic & Finance Society
International Trade (F1)
Presiding: Keith Maskus (Unversity of Colorado)
Structural Gravity and Fixed Effects
Thibault Fally (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Income-Elastic Goods and the Great Trade Collapse: Evidence from Microdata
David L. Hummels (Purdue University and NBER)
Kwan Yong Lee (Purdue University)
The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms
Ling Feng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Zhiyuan Li (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Deborah Swenson (University of California-Davis)
Heterogeneous Fixed Trade Costs and Firm-Level Exporting Performance
Luis Castro (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Ben Li (Boston College)
Keith E. Maskus (University of Colorado)
Yiqing Xie (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Discussants:
Alan Spearot (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Logan T. Lewis (Federal Reserve Board)
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)
Russell Hillberry (World Bank)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Assessing the Damage: The Emerging Consequences of the Great Recession (J5)
Presiding: Charles Jeszeck (US Government Accountability Office)
Metropolitan Economies in the Great Recession and After
Howard Wial (University of Illinois-Chicago)
U.S. Women and the Recession: How They Fared and Implications for Their Future Welfare and Retirement Security
Erin Godtland (US Government Accountability Office)
Michael Collins (US Government Accountability Office)
Jennifer Gregory (US Government Accountability Office)
The Insolvency of the UI Program: Current Problems and Future Prospects
Jeffrey Wenger (University of Georgia)
Daniel Smith (New York University)
The Social and Psychological Consequences of Unemployment during the Great Recession: Evidence from the NLSY
Michael Murray (Bemidji State University)
Discussants:
Heather Grob (Saint Martin's University)
Sharon Hermes (US Government Accountability Office)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Lessons for Employment Policy in the New Administration (J5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Thomas Kochan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Lisa M. Lynch (Brandeis University)
Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth University)
Daniel J.B. Mitchell (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Working Time Developments in Five Countries (J5)
Presiding: Sarah Jane Glynn (Center for American Progress)
Mandatory Work Hours Reduction and Work Sharing in Venezuela
Leon Fernandez Bujanda (Central Bank of Venezuela)
David Fairris (University of California-Riverside)
Hours Reduction and Assessing the Potential for Work Sharing to Promote Employment in US Industries Using VAR Analysis
Stuart Glosser (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Lonnie Golden (Pennsylvania State University-Abington)
More Time Flexibility in the Workplace? A Comparative Study of Japanese and German Corporations
Yoko Tanaka (University of Tsukuba)
Schedule Instability and Unpredictability as Sources of Underemployment Among Hourly Workers in Canada
Elaine McCrate (University of Vermont)
Susan Lambert (University of Chicago)
Julia Henly (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Deborah M. Figart (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Sarah Jane Glynn (Center for American Progress)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester D
Middle East Economic Association
MENA Economies: Diverse Topics (O1) (Poster Session)
Presiding: Hadi Esfahani (University of Illinois)
Inflation Persistence in Egypt
Hala El-Ramly (American University in Cairo)
The Penetration of China in the Mediterranean: A Brief Essay in Political Economy
Claude Berthomieu (University of NICE Sophia-Antipolis)
Anastasia RI (University of NICE Sophia-Antipolis)
Kamilya Suleymenova (University of NICE Sophia-Antipolis)
Arab Spring, Financial Crisis and Term Structure
Hussain Abusaaq (Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency)
Does Good Governance Cause Trade? Evidence from Turkey
Mehmet Babacan (Istanbul Commerce University)
The Reality of Rural Women in Iraq: Problems and Solutions
Huda Al-Sahrawardee (Friedrich-Alexander-University)
The Implication of Macroeconomic Policies on Inflation: Case of Iran and Egypt
Ida Mirzaie (Ohio State University)
Magda Kandil (International Monetary Fund)
Economic Growth Inequality and Income Distribution: Empirical Evidence from MENA Countries
Meriem Djennas (University of Amiens)
Abdeslam Bendiabdellah (Tlemcen University)
Mustapha Djennas (Tlemcen University)
Intensive and Extensive Margins in the MENA Countries
Gulcin Elif YUCEL (Istanbul Technical University)
A. Suut Dogruel (Marmara University)
Foreign Aid Allocation and the Global War on Terror: A Disaggregated Analysis
Javed Younas (American University of Sharjah)
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
The Impact of Financial Globalization on Economic Development, Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Developing Countries
Eman Selim (Tanta University-Egypt)
Parametric Reforms, Social Security Reforms, and Saving: Evidence from Turkey
Yigit Aydede (Saint Mary’s University)
Why Some Firms Export: An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Ali Fakih (Lebanese American University)
Pascal L. Ghazalian (University of Lethbridge)
Which Firms Are More Prone to Stock Market Manipulation?
Bedri Kamil Onur Tas (TOBB ETU)
Serkan Ä°misiker (TCMB)
Forecasting Energy Demand: Evidence from GCC Countries
Bassam AbuAl-Foul (American University of Sharjah)
Estimating the Import Demand for Crude Oil in Turkey, One Rolling Window at a Time
A. Talha Yalta (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
The Impact of Euro-zone Crisis on Maghreb Economies
Haroun Tahar (University of Batna -Algeria)
Merazga Aissa (University of Batna - Algeria)
What Drives Stock Returns in GCC Stock Markets? Implications for International Diversification
Riza Demirer (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Abdullah Al-Hassan (International Monetary Fund)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom A
National Association for Business Economics
Federal Reserve Independence in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Should We Be Worried? (E5) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Kevin Kliesen (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University)
James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Donald Kohn (Brookings Institution)
Allan H. Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University)
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
National Association of Forensic Economics
Forensic Economics I - Commercial Damage Session (K2)
Presiding: Craig Allen (Commonwealth Research Group, Inc.)
Compounding and Discounting: Where Are We in Commercial Litigation?
Steven J. Shapiro (New York Institute of Technology)
A Review of the Forensic Economics Literature Pertaining to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Claims
Jennifer Polhemus (Precision Research)
Compensation from BP Oil Spill: Is It Fair?
Semoon Chang (University of South Alabama)
Discussants:
Robert R. Trout (Lit.Econ, LLP)
Vickie M. Wolf (Brinig & Company, Inc.)
William Pearson (Anderson Economic Group)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
A Legacy of Marcus Alexis: Institutions that Increase the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (A2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Cecilia Conrad (Pomona College)
Cecilia Rouse (Princeton University)
Robert Otto Valdez (University of New Mexico)
Patrick Mason (Florida State University)
Marie T. Mora (University of Texas-Pan American)
Trevon D. Logan (The Ohio State University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Miramar
Omicron Delta Epsilon
The John R. Commons Award Lecture: Michael Szenberg on "American Book Publishing -- The Reshaping of an Industry" (L1)
Presiding: Joseph Santos (South Dakota State University)
American Book Publishing -- The Reshaping of an Industry
Michael Szenberg (Pace University)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, New York
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics/American Economic Association
In Memorial of Elinor Ostrom: Common-Pool Resource Dilemmas - Current Perspective (Q5)
Presiding: Amnon Rapoport (University of California-Riverside)
Time and Uncertainty in Resource Dilemmas: Equilibrium Solutions and Experimental Results
Anabela Botelho (University of Minho and NIMA)
Ariel Dinar (University of California-Riverside)
Lígia Pinto (University of Minho and NIMA)
Amnon Rapoport (University of California-Riverside)
Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas
James Cox (Georgia State University)
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University and Arizona State University)
Vjollca Sadiraj (Georgia State University)
James Walker (Indiana University)
How Uses the Position of Power in Asymmetric Commons Dilemmas?
Marco Janssen (Arizona State University)
Nathan Rollins (Arizona State University)
Jacopo Baggio (Arizona State University)
Irene Ibarra (Arizona State University)
Managing Resources with Potential Regime Shifts: Using Experiments to Explore Social–Ecological Linkages in Common Resource Systems
Therese Lindahl (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm)
Anne-Sophie Crépin (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm)
Caroline Schill (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm)
Discussants:
Amnon Rapoport (University of California-Riverside)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists/International Association for Feminist Economics
Opening the Black Box of Household Production and Exchange (B5)
Presiding: Gunseli Berik (University of Utah)
Intra-family Transfers, Remittances and Gifts – Gender Matters
Elke Holst (DIW Berlin, and Flensburg University)
Andrea Schaefer (Bremen University)
Mechthild Schrooten (University of Applied Sciences-Bremen and DIW Berlin)
Land Rights and Economic Empowerment for Women in Vietnam
Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University)
Why Economists Ignore Household Production: The Material Foundation for the Ideologies of the Ruling Class and Ruling Gender
Paddy Quick (St. Francis College-Brooklyn)
Housework, the Quality of Market Work and Men and Women's Earnings in China
Liangshu Qi (Tsinghua University-China)
Xiao-Yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg)
Discussants:
Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee (College of Saint Benedict-Saint John's University)
Laurie Nisonoff (Hampshire College)
Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Radical Analysis of Environmental Crisis (Q5)
Presiding: David Barkin (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
Radical Ecological Economics for Heterodox Analysis
David Barkin (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
Ecological Imperialism and Ecological Liberation
Haider Kahn (University of Denver)
Chiara Piovani (University of Denver)
Heterodox Cost-Benefit Analysis
Peter Dorman (Evergreen State College)
Seeking Left Unity on Climate Change Policy
Robin Hahnel (Portland State University)
Patterns of Unsustainable Growth
Torsten Heinrich (IINO, University of Bremen)
Discussants:
Paul Burkett (Indiana State University)
Robin Hahnel (Portland State University)
Jan 04, 2013 4:45 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D & E
American Economic Association
Richard T. Ely Lecture
Presiding: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University) A Nation of Gamblers: Real Estate Bubbles and America's Urban History
Jan 04, 2013 5:00 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom A
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
T.W. Schultz Memorial Lecture and Reception
Robert Townsend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 04, 2013 8:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester Foyer
American Economic Association
Music Session (Z1)
Presiding: Gary Walton (University of California-Davis)
Dedication to Hal White
Eric Maskin (Musician: piano)
West Coast Cool
Gary Walton (Musician: saxophone)
Ed Gamber (Musician: guitar)
Nick Mader (Musician: bass)
Alan Spearot (Musician: drums)
Swing/Traditional Group
Gerald Auten (Musician: trumpet)
Luis Cabral (Musician: saxophone)
Richard Levich (Musician: drums)
Nick Mader (Musician: bass)
Eric Maskin (Musician: clarinet)
Christopher A. Sims (Musician: trombone)
Stephen Wu (Musician: piano)

Jan 05, 2013

Jan 05, 2013 7:45 am, Marriott, Santa Rosa
Association for Social Economics
Presidential Breakfast
Presiding: Jonathan Wight (University of Richmond)
Martha A. Starr (American University) The Social Responsibility of Business Through a Social-Economics Lens
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Impact Evaluation Challenges of Agricultural Interventions: Uptake, Spillovers, Heterogeneity and Dynamics (Q1)
Presiding: Stephen Boucher (University of California-Davis)
Agricultural Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers: What Does LEWIE Have to Say?
J.Edward Taylor (University of California-Davis)
Matteusz Filipski (University of California-Davis)
Karen Thome (University of California-Davis)
The Heterogeneous Impact of Agro-Input Subsidies on Maize Production: A Field Experiment in Mozambique
Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Rachid Lajaaj (Paris School of Economics)
Michael Carter (University of California, Davis)
Trust, Complexity, and Heterogeneity in Impact Evaluation: The Case of Index Insurance
Conner Mullally (Inter-American Development Bank)
Stephen Boucher (University of California-Davis)
Michael Carter (University of California-Davis)
Identifying the Impact Dynamics of a Small Farmer Development Scheme in Nicaragua
Michael Carter (University of California-Davis)
Emilia Tjernstrom (University of California-Davis)
Patricia Toledo (Ohio University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
China and the World Economy (O5)
Presiding: Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago)
Misallocation or Mismeasurement? Factor Income Shares and Factor Market Distortions in China's Manufacturing Industries
Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto)
Jessie Zhenjie Qian (Tsinghua University)
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A Structural Estimation of Capital Market Distortions
Zheng (Michael) Song (University of Chicago)
Guiying (Laura) Wu (Nanyang Technological University)
The Road to Real Exchange Rate Depreciation
Qingyuan Du (Monash University)
Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)
Peichu Xie (Peking University)
The Ownership Structure of Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China
Dennis Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Liugang Sheng (University of California-Davis)
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Discussants:
Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago)
Daniel Xu (Duke University)
Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Mine Z. Senses (Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Competing Monetary Strategies, Where Do We Go from Here? (E5)
Presiding: Volker Wieland (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates
Eric T. Swanson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
John C. Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
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Output Gaps and Robust Monetary Policy Rules
Roberto M. Billi (Sveriges Riksbank)
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Real-time Model Uncertainty in the United States: Robust Policies Put to the Test
Robert J. Tetlow (Federal Reserve Board)
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The Performance of Competing Monetary Regimes under Model Uncertainty
Tobias Cwik (Federal Reserve Board)
Keith Kuester (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Volker Wieland (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Discussants:
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
Yunus Aksoy (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Michael Dotsey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
William A. Branch (University of California - Irvine)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Demand Systems and Imperfect Competition (D4)
Presiding: Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
Pass-Through and Demand Forms
Eric Glen Weyl (University of Chicago)
Michal Fabinger (Harvard University)
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Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity
Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics)
John Morrow (London School of Economics)
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Discrete Choice Cannot Generate Demand That Is Additively Separable in Own Price
Sonia Jaffe (Harvard University)
Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago)
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The Impact of Competition on Prices with Numerous Firms
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Deyuan Li (Fudan University)
Hongyi Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sidney Resnick (Cornell University)
Casper G. de Vries (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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Discussants:
Jeremy I. Bulow (Stanford University)
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Jerry A. Hausman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Timothy B. Armstrong (Stanford University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Ford A
American Economic Association
Economic History (N0)
Presiding: Katharine Shester (Washington and Lee University)
The Long-Term Consequences of Distinctively Black Names: Evidence from the American Past
Trevon D. Logan (The Ohio State University)
Lisa D. Cook (Michigan State University)
Johnathan M. Parman (College of William and Mary)
Cognitive Human Capital and Wealth Accumulation of Former Slaves
Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University)
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Fertility Responses to Infant and Maternal Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)
David Hollywood (University College London)
Atheendar S. Venkataramani (Massachusetts General Hospital)
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The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition
Jordi Vidal-Robert (Boston University)
When Autarkic China Met Expansive Europe: The Rise of Merchant-Pirates in the Sixteenth Century
James Kai-sing Kung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Chicheng Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle A & B
American Economic Association
Economics of National Security (H5)
Presiding: Martin Feldstein (Harvard University and NBER)
Energy and National Security
Robert Topel (University of Chicago)
Kevin Murphy (University of Chicago)
Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
Eli Berman (University of California-San Diego)
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Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq
Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University)
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Evaluating Economic Warfare: Lessons from Efforts to Suppress the Afghan Opium Trade
Jeffrey Clemens (Stanford University and University of California-San Diego)
Discussants:
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
Michael Meese (U.S. Military Academy at West Point)
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University)
Melissa Dell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Financial Markets and Economic Development (O1)
Presiding: Erica Field (Duke University and NBER)
Informal Risk Sharing, Index Insurance and Risk-Taking in Developing Countries
Mark R. Rosenzweig (Yale University)
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Financial Markets and the Returns to Fertilizer
Christopher Udry (Yale University)
Lori Beaman (Northwestern University)
Dean Karlan (Yale University and NBER)
Bram Thuysbaert (Yale University)
Does Savings Lead to More Investment in Microenterprises?
Christopher M. Woodruff (University of Warwick and NBER)
Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya)
Craig McIntosh (University of California-San Diego)
Discussants:
Michael Kremer (Harvard University and NBER)
Paul Niehaus (University of California-San Diego)
Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
High-Dimensional Issues in Econometrics (C1)
Presiding: Seth Pruitt (Federal Reserve Board)
The Three-Pass Regression Filter: A New Approach to Forecasting Using Many Predictors
Seth Pruitt (Federal Reserve Board)
Bryan Kelly (University of Chicago)
Constructing Factors from Continuous and Categorical Data
Serena Ng (Columbia University)
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Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection amongst High-Dimensional Controls
Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alexandre Belloni (Duke University)
Christian Hansen (University of Chicago)
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Discussants:
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge)
Allan Timmermann (University of California-San Diego)
Whitney K. Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle E
American Economic Association
Immigration Policy Analysis and Immigrants' Strategic Location Choices (F2)
Presiding: Brian Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Labor Market Adjustment During the Great Recession
Brian Cadena (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Brian K. Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
Do Local Immigration Laws Impact Employment and Wages? Evidence from the 287(g) Program
Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California)
Robert Santillano (Mathematica Policy Research)
The Impact of Mandated Employment Verification Systems on State-Level FDI
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University)
Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University)
Allan Zebedee (Clarkson University)
Discussants:
Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California)
Abigail Wozniak (University of Notre Dame)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
International Trade, Productivity, and Skill Demand (F1)
Presiding: Nico Voigtlaender (University of California-Los Angeles and NBER)
Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Ariell Reshef (University of Virginia)
James Harrigan (University of Virginia and NBER)
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Imported Inputs, Quality Complementarity, and Skill Demand
Nico Voigtlaender (University of California-Los Angeles and NBER)
Diego Saravia (Central Bank of Chile)
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International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium
Ariel Burstein (University of California-Los Angeles and NBER)
Jonathan Vogel (Columbia University and NBER)
Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Yue Ma (City University of Hong Kong)
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)
Yifan Zhang (Lingnan University)
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Discussants:
Donald R. Davis (Columbia University)
Benjamin R. Mandel (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Stephen Redding (Princeton University)
Ferdinando Monte (Johns Hopkins University)
Jaebin Ahn (International Monetary Fund)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward A & B
American Economic Association
Internet Effects (L8)
Presiding: Jonathan Lafky (Lafayette College)
The Effect of Social Interaction on Economic Transactions: An Embarrassment of Niches?
Ryan C. McDevitt (University of Rochester)
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Consumer Uncertainty and Price Discrimination through Online Coupons: An Empirical Study of Restaurants in Shanghai
Jie Zhang (Fudan University)
Scott J. Savage (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado-Boulder)
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Measuring the Impact of File Sharing on the Movie Industry: An Empirical Analysis Using a Panel of Countries
Alejandro Zentner (University of Texas-Dallas)
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The Effect of Internet Distribution on Brick-and-mortar Sales
Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
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Reputation and Adverse Selection; Theory and Evidence from eBay
Maryam Saeedi (University of Minnesota)
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Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Measuring Poverty in the United States: The Supplemental Poverty Measure (I3)
Presiding: David Johnson (U.S. Census Bureau)
The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Examining the Incidence and Depth of Poverty in the U.S. Taking Account of Taxes and Transfers in 2011
Kathleen Short (U.S. Census Bureau)
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Maintaining Consumption Levels over Economic Fluctuations and the Impact on Consumption vs. Spending-Based SPM Thresholds
Thesia I. Garner (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Marisa Gudrais (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago and NBER)
James X. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
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Estimating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) using the Survey of Income and Program Participation
John Iceland (Pennsylvania State University)
Patricia Ruggles (Orlin Research Inc.)
Discussants:
Robert T. Michael (University of Chicago)
Hilary Hoynes (University of California-Davis)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Models of Uncertainty Shocks (E3)
Presiding: Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters As Natural Experiments
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Scott R. Baker (Stanford University)
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Uncertainty Shocks: Puzzling Facts and Learning Theory
Anna Orlik (Federal Reserve Board)
Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Inflation Dynamics and Time-Varying Uncertainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation
Joseph Vavra (Yale University)
Discussants:
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
Ruediger Bachmann (RWTH Aachen University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Ford B
American Economic Association
Politics (D8)
Presiding: Henry Chappell (University of South Carolina)
On the Extent of Strategic Voting
Jorg L. Spenkuch (University of Chicago)
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Fundamental Models for Forecasting Elections
Patrick Hummel (Google)
David Rothschild (Microsoft Research)
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Ethical Voters and the Demand for Political News
Florian Schuett (Tilburg University)
Amedeo Piolatto (IEB, University of Barcelona)
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Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery
Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Berta Esteve-Volart (York University)
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Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Quasi Experimental Evidence on Gender Differences (J1)
Presiding: Shelly Lundberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
•Willingness to compete: Family matters
Ingvild Almas (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Alexander W. Cappele (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Kjell G. Salvanes (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Erik O. Sorensen (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Bertil Tungodden (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
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GENDER ROLES AND NON-COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR: FIELD EXPERIMENT ON THE EFFECT OF ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION ON INTRA-HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION IN GHANA
Carolina Castilla (Colgate University)
Thomas Walker (World Bank)
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What Happens When a Woman Wins a Close Election? Evidence from Brazil
Ugo Troiano (Harvard University)
Fernanda Brollo (U iversity of Alicante)
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Are Women Better than Men at Multitasking Household Activities? New Experimental Evidence
Gigi Foster (University of New South Wales)
Charlene Kalenkoski (Ohio University)
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Discussants:
Daniele Paserman (Boston University)
Shelly Lundberg (University of California-Santa-Barbara)
Stefano Gagliaducci (University of Rome)
Peter Kuhn (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward C
American Economic Association
Recent Developments in Consumer Bankruptcy Research (K3)
Presiding: Tal Gross (Columbia University)
Social Networks and Personal Bankruptcy
Michelle Miller (Rutgers University)
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The Impact of Health Reform on Personal Bankruptcy
Sarah Miller (University of Illinois)
The Difference a Day (Doesn't) Make: Does Giving Borrowers More Time to Repay Break the Cycle of Repeated Payday Loan Borrowing?
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University)
Susan Payne Carter (Vanderbilt University)
Justin Syndor (University of Wisconsin)
How Big a Deal was Bankruptcy Reform?
Tal Gross (Columbia University)
Ben Keys (University of Chicago)
Neale Mahoney (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Wenli Li (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago)
Neale Mahoney (University of Chicago)
Benjamin Keys (University of Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Taxation in Developing Countries (H2)
Presiding: Dina Pomeranz (Harvard University)
Property Tax Experiment in Punjab, Pakistan: Preliminary Evidence on the Role of Incentives on Tax Inspectors' Behavior
Benjamin A. Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Asim Khwaja (Harvard University)
Adnan Qadir (London School of Economics)
Tax Me if You Can: Third-party Cross-Checks and Evasion Substitution
Dina Pomeranz (Harvard University)
Monica Singhal (Harvard University)
Paul Carrillo (George Washington University)
Tax Me, But Spend Wisely: Public Finance and Government Accountability
Lucie Gadenne (University College London)
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Monitoring and Its Interaction with Punishment in Tax Enforcement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Gabriela Aparicio (George Washington University)
Shahe Emran (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
Raymond Fisman (Columbia University)
Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Technological Innovation and Climate Change (H2)
Presiding: John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University)
Antoine Dechezlepretre (London School of Economics)
David Hemous (Harvard University)
Ralf Martin (Imperial College, London School of Economics)
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market
Antoine Dechezlepretre (London School of Economics)
Raphael Calel (London School of Economics)
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Carbon Markets, Carbon Prices and Innovation: Evidence from Interviews with Managers
Ralf Martin (Imperial College, London School of Economics)
Mirabel Muuls (Imperial College, London School of Economics)
Ulrich J. Wagner (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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Energy-Saving Technical Change
Per Krusell (IIES)
John Hassler (IIES)
Conny Olovsson (IIES)
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Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle D
American Economic Association
Topics in Education Policy (I2)
Presiding: John Ham (University of Maryland-College Park and IRP)
The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School
Heather Antecol (Claremont McKenna College and IZA)
Ozkan Eren (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Serkan Ozbeklik (Claremont McKenna College)
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Getting Qualified High School Seniors to Enroll in College: An Experimental Study in New Hampshire
Scott Carrell (University of California Davis and NBER)
Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth University and NBER)
TBA
Reuben Ford (SRDC)
Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto and NBER)
Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
Jesse Rothstein (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
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Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
What Do Economists Think about Major Public Policy Issues? (A1)
Presiding: Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)
Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
Roger Gordon (University of California-San Diego)
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
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Comparing Beliefs of Economists and the Public
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
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Discussants:
James M. Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Paul Krugman (Princeton University)
Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University)
Robert Hall (Stanford University)
David Wessel (Wall Street Journal)
Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Anomalies and Inefficiency II (G1)
Presiding: Long Chen (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Horizon Pricing
Avraham Kamara (University of Washington)
Robert Korajczyk (Northwestern University)
Xiaoxia Lou (University of Delaware)
Ronnie Sadka (Boston College)
Misvaluation and Return Anomalies in Distress Stocks
Assaf Eisdorfer (University of Connecticut)
Amit Goyal (University of Lausanne)
Alexei Zhdanov (University of Lausanne)
Unknown Unknowns: Vol-of-vol and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Guido Baltussen (Erasmus University)
Sjoerd van Bekkum (Erasmus University)
Bart van der Grient (Robeco Asset Management)
Macro to Micro: Country Exposures, Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns
Ningzhong Li (London Business School)
Scott Richardson (London Business School)
Ayse Tuna (London Business School)
Discussants:
Kent Daniel (Columbia University)
Amiyatosh Purnanandam (University of Michigan)
Zhi Da (University of Notre Dame)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School )
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Bankruptcy and Distress (G3)
Presiding: Efraim Benmelech (Harvard University)
Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Jennifer Brown (Northwestern University)
David Matsa (Northwestern University)
Spillover Effects in the Supply Chain: Evidence from Chapter 11 Filings
Madhuparna Kolay (University of Utah)
Michael Lemmon (University of Utah)
Elizabeth Tashjian (University of Utah)
The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde (European University Institute)
Giacomo Rodano (Bank of Italy)
Emanuele Tarantino (University of Bologna)
Credit Ratings and Credit Risk
Jens Hilscher (Brandeis University)
Mungo Ivor Wilson (University of Oxford)
Discussants:
Bo Becker (Harvard Business School )
David Smith (University of Virginia)
Brian Melzer (Northwestern University)
Jennifer Dlugosz (Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Dividends, Repurchases, and Private Placements (G3)
Presiding: Mark Leary (Washington University-Saint Louis)
Investor Heterogeneity, Investor-Management Agreement and Open-Market Share Repurchases
Anjan Thakor (Washington University-Saint Louis)
Sheng Huang (Singapore Management University)
Buybacks Around the World
Alberto Manconi (Tilburg University)
Urs Peyer (INSEAD)
Theo Vermaelen (INSEAD)
Returns Over the Life-Cycles of Open Market Repurchase Programs
Leonce Bargeron (University of Pittsburgh)
Alice Bonaime (University of Kentucky)
Shawn Thomas (University of Pittsburgh)
Agency Implications of Equity Market Timing
Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University)
Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University)
Pengcheng Wan (Arizona State University)
Discussants:
Scott Weisbenner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Roni Michaely (Cornell University)
Yelena Larkin (Pennsylvania State University)
Jacob Oded (Tel Aviv University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Financial Regulation and Policy (G2)
Presiding: Patrick Bolton (Columbia University)
Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments
Jose-Luis Peydro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Gabriel Jimenez (Bank of Spain)
Steven Ongena (Tilburg University)
Jesus Saurina Salas (Bank of Spain)
"When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play": Does Regulation at Home Affect Bank Risk Taking Abroad?
Alexander Popov (European Central Bank)
Steven Ongena (Tilburg University)
Gregory Udell (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Dynamic Macro-Prudential Regulation
Malherbe Frederic (London Business School)
Supervising Cross-Border Banks: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Thorsten Beck (Tilburg University)
Radomir Todorov (Tilburg University)
Wolf Wagner (Tilburg University)
Discussants:
Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
David Skeie (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
Elod Takats (Bank for International Settlements)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Investment, Q, and Frictions (G3)
Presiding: Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Beyond Q: Estimating Investment without Asset Prices
Vito Gala (London Business School)
Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
Cross-Sectional Tobin's Q
Frederico Belo (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Chen Xue (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Lu Zhang (Ohio State University)
Testing Dynamic Agency Theory via Structural Estimation
Boris Nikolov (University of Rochester)
Lukas Schmid (Duke University)
Discussants:
Toni Whited (University of Rochester)
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts (G3)
Presiding: Jarrad Harford (University of Washington)
Large Wealth Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions
Eliezer Fich (Drexel University)
Tu Nguyen (Drexel University)
Micah S. Officer (Loyola Marymount University)
Hunting the Hunters: New Evidence on the Drivers of Acquirer's Announcement Returns in M&As
Ludovic Phalippou (University of Oxford)
Fangming Xu (University of Bristol)
Huainan Zhao (Nottingham University)
Structural Investigation of Acquiring Managers' Incentives in Takeovers
Di Li (Georgia State University)
Value Creation Estimates Beyond Announcement Returns: Mega-Mergers versus Other Mergers
Dinara Bayazitova (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Matthias Kahl (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Rossen Valkanov (University of California-San Diego)
Discussants:
Ran Duchin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Sandy Klasa (University of Arizona)
Andrey Malenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Bubbles and Real Estate Cycles (R2)
Presiding: Todd Sinai (University of Pennsylvania)
Integration and Contagion in US Housing Markets
John Cotter (University of Dublin)
Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles)
Richard Roll (University of California-Los Angeles)
Booms-and-Busts in House Prices Explained by Constraints in Housing Supply
Carles Vergara-Alert (IESE Business School)
Narayan Bulusu (Bank of Canada)
Jefferson Duarte (Rice University)
Bubbles in Open Economies: Theory and Evidence From New Zealand's Housing Bubble
Henri Buchsteiner (University of Cambridge)
Kirill Zavodov (University of Cambridge)
Housing Demand Through Boom and Bust
Andrew Paciorek (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussants:
Fernando Ferreira (University of Pennsylvania)
Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin)
Robert Martin (Federal Reserve Board)
Thomas Davidoff (University of British Columbia)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Location and Neighborhood (R2)
Presiding: Matthew Kahn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Slums in Developing Countries: New Evidence for Indonesia
Jan Brueckner (University of California-Irvine)
Social Interaction and Urban Location Decisions
Zackary Hawley (Georgia State University)
Geoffrey Turnbull (University of Central Florida)
Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment
Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)
Alvin Murphy (Washington University in St. Louis)
Juan Pantano (Washington University in St. Louis)
Patterns of Gentrification in U.S. Cities
Richard Martin (University of Georgia)
Discussants:
Matthew Kahn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Real Estate Investment (R3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Anthony Sanders (George Mason University)
Joseph Ooi (National University of Singapore)
Robert Edelstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Thomas Chi Chiu Lai (University of Hong Kong)
Paul Anglin (University of Guelph)
Gianluca Maarcato (University of Reading)
Norman Miller (University of San Diego)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gallery
Association for Comparative Economic Studies/American Economic Association
Social and Economic Consequences of Land Reforms in Russia (N3)
Presiding: Sergei Guriev (New Economic School)
Did Serfdom Matter? Economic Consequences of Emancipation in the Russian Empire
Andrei Markevich (New Economic School)
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and New Economic School)
Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia's Emancipation of the Serfs
Evgeny Finkel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Tricia Olsen (University of Denver)
Property Rights and Internal Migration: The Case of the Stolypin Agrarian Reform in the Russian Empire
Eugenia Chernina (Toulouse School of Economics)
Paul Castaneda Dower (New Economic School)
Andrei Markevich (New Economic School)
Revolution and Industrialization in Russia Through the Lens of Neoclassical Growth Theory
Anton Cheremukhin (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Mikhail Golosov (Princeton University)
Sergei Guriev (New Economic Schoo)
Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University)
Discussants:
Amanda Gregg (Yale University)
Paul Gregory (University of Houston)
Steven Nafziger (Williams College)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Point Loma & Solana
Association for Evolutionary Economics
European Economic and Financial Crises and Capital Flows (Ayres Visiting Scholar Session) (G3)
Presiding: James Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin)
Financial Crises and Centre-Periphery Capital Flows
Ali Tarhan (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)
Is the Euro Crisis Fuelling Europe's Evolution into Closer Unity or Just a Case of Reverse Alchemy?
Yanis Varoufakis (University of Athens, Greece, University of Texas-Austin, and Valve Corporation (Ayres Visiting Scholar 2013))
Dutch Bankers on the Financial Crisis: Views on Formal and Informal Institutions in 2012
Irene van Staveren (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands)
Sovereign Debt Crises in European Varieties of Capitalism
Klaus Nielsen (University of London, UK)
Debt Crises: Is a Global Restructuring Implementable?
David Cayla (Universite d'Angers, France)
Discussants:
Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen, Germany)
John Marangos (University of Crete, Greece)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Energy Efficiency and Consumer Behavior (Q4)
Presiding: Stephen Holland (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information, Capital Costs, and Individual Discount Rates
Richard Newell (Duke University)
Juha Siikamaki (Resources for the Future)
How Consumers Respond to Product Certification: A Welfare Analysis of the Energy Star Program
Sébastien Houde (Stanford University)
Determinants of Residential Demand for Green Energy: A Cross-Country Analysis
Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy (Umeå University)
Bengt Kriström (Swedish Agricultural University)
Regulating Hidden Attributes: Assigning Emission Factors in Low-Carbon Fuel Standards
Derek Lemoine (University of Arizona)
Discussants:
Ken Gillingham (Yale University)
David Rapson (University of California-Davis)
Arnab Mitra (University of Michigan)
Stephen Holland (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Miramar
Association of Financial Economists
Incentives, Contracts and Institutions (G3)
Presiding: Anthony Saunders (New York University)
Why is Debt Tax-Deductible? Incentives and Public Policy
Kose John (New York University)
Lemma W. Senbet (University of Maryland)
CEO Talent, CEO Compensation, and Product Market Competition
Hae Won Jung (University of Melbourne)
Ajay Subramanian (Georgia State University)
Agency Costs, Information, and the Structure of Corporate Debt Covenants
Richard Lowery (University of Texas-Austin)
Malcolm Wardlaw (University of Texas-Austin)
Discussants:
Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Illinois)
Alex Edmans (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Ford C
Chinese Economic Association in North America
Health and Economic Development (I1)
Presiding: Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Why Do the Rich Have So Few Kids?
Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)
Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California-Los Angeles)
Does Health Matter? A Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Country Income Differences
Yin-Chi Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
Cristina DeNardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
John Jones (State University of New York-Albany)
Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Wehn-Jyuan Tsai (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan)
Jin-Tan Liu (National Taiwan University)
Shin-Yi Chou (Lehigh University)
Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Discussants:
Masanori Kashiwagi (National Taiwan University)
Yi-Chan Tsai (University of Tokyo)
Minchung Hsu (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
Elaine Liu (University of Houston)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Contract Theory (D8)
Presiding: Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
Optimal Long-term Contracting with Learning
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
Bin Wei (Federal Reserve Board)
Jianfeng Yu (University of Minnesota)
Flexible Renegotation and Persistent Private Information
Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
Agency Models with Frequent Actions: A Quadratic Approximation Method
Tomasz Sadzik (New York University)
Ennio Stacchetti (New York University)
Moral Hazard and Long-Run Incentives
Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
Discussants:
Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
Jianfeng Yu (University of Minnesota)
Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)
Ennio Stacchetti (New York University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Incentive Pay and Competition (G3)
Presiding: Jean Tirole (Economics TSE)
Rising Through the Ranks: The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives, 1936-2003
Carola Frydman (Boston University)
Competitive Pay and Work Ethics
Roland Benabou (Princeton University)
Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)
The (Ir)resistible Rise of Agency Rents
Bruno Biais (Toulouse School of Economics)
Augustin Landier (Toulouse School of Economics)
Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent
Viral V. Acharya (New York University)
Marco Pagano (Universite di Napoli Federico II)
Paolo Volpin (London Business School)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
International Finance and Currency Risk (F3)
Presiding: Adrien Verdelhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Conditional Currency Risk Premia
Martin Lettau (University of California-Berkeley)
Matteo Maggiori (New York University)
Michael Weber (University of California-Berkeley)
Pass-Through, Exposure, and the Currency Composition of Debt
Michael Michaux (University of Southern California)
The Share of Systematic Variation in Bilateral Exchange Rates
Adrien Verdelhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle
David Backus (New York University)
Federico Gavazzoni (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christopher Telmer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stanley E. Zin (New York University)
Discussants:
Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago)
Veronica Rappoport (Columbia University)
Matteo Maggiori (University of California-Berkeley)
Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Nonstationary Time Series (C2)
Presiding: Jun Yu (Singapore Management University)
Co-summability: From Linear to Non-linear Co-integration
Vanessa Berenguer-Rico (University of Oxford)
Jesus Gonzalo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Regulated Variance Ratio Unit Root Tests
Mirza Trokic (McGill University)
Limits on the Linear Process of GARCH(1,1) Noises with Applications to Unit Root Tests
Chor-yiu Sin (National Tsing Hua University)
Double Asymptotics for Explosive Continuous Time Models
Xiaohu Wang (Singapore Management University)
Jun Yu (Singapore Management University)
Discussants:
Norman Swanson (Rutgers University)
Jesus Gonzalo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Benoit Perron (University of Montreal)
Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Search and Mechanisms (J6)
Presiding: Benoit Julien (University of New South Wales)
Moral-Hazard Credit Cycles with Risk-Averse Agents
Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
Buyers, Seller and Middlemen: Variations on Search-Theoretic Themes
Yuet-Yee Linda Wong (Binghamton University)
Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
Matching by Luck or Search? Empirical Evidence from Executive Labor Market
Michael Peters (University of British Columbia)
Pai XU (University of Hong Kong)
Directed Search and Moral Hazard
Benoit Julien (University of New South Wales)
Guillaume F. Roger (University of New South wales)
Discussants:
Michael Peters (University of British Columbia)
John Kennes (Aarhus University)
Gabriele Camera (Purdue University)
Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Coronado Room
Health Economics Research Organization/American Economic Association
Early Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (I1)
Presiding: Donald Yett (University of Southern California)
Did the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Provision Expand Health Insurance Coverage for Young Adults?
Joel C. Cantor (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
Alan C. Monheit (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
Derek Delia (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
Kristen Lloyd (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
An Early Look at the Preventive Care Provisions in the Affordable Care Act
Stacey McMorrow (Urban Institute)
Genevieve M. Kenney (Urban Institute)
Evaluating the Short-Run Impact of Medical Loss Ratio Regulation on the Individual and Small Group Markets
Jean M. Abraham (University of Minnesota)
Pinar Karaca-Mandic (University of Minnesota)
Kosali Simon (Indiana University)
Discussants:
Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan)
Donald Kenkel (Cornell University)
Michael E. Chernew (Harvard University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Industrial Organization Society
Empirical Behavioral Industrial Organization (L2)
Presiding: Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology)
Estimating Structural Models of Limited Strategic Thinking in the Field: The Case of Missing Movie Critic Reviews
Alex Brown (Texas A&M University)
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
Dan Lovallo (University of Sydney)
When to Exit: Limited Rationality in Firm Decisions
Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
Mo Xiao (University of Arizona)
Learning from Experience, Simply
Juanjuan Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
John Hauser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Song Lin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Multitasking and Incentive Effects: Evidence from Chinese Factories
Tanjim Hossain (University of Toronto)
Fuhai Hong (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Migiwa Tanaka (University of Toronto)
Discussants:
Christopher Snyder (Dartmouth College)
Robert Adams (Federal Reserve Board)
Jacob Gramlich (Federal Reserve Board)
Ying Fan (University of Michigan)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Credit Relationships and Constraints (G2)
Presiding: Diana Hancock (Federal Reserve Board)
On the Importance of Prior Relationships in Bank Loans to Retail Customers
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Jorg Rocholl (European School of Management and Technology)
Sascha Steffen (European School of Management and Technology)
Lending Relationships and Credit Rationing: The Impact of Securitization
Santiago Carbo-Valverde (Bangor University, UK)
Hans Degryse (University of Leuven)
Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez (University of Grenada)
Financial Constraints of Private Firms and Bank Lending Behavior
Patrick Behr (Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration)
Lars Norden (Erasmus University)
Felix North (Goethe University)
A Model of Investment Subject to Financing Constraints
Alistair Milne (Loughboroough University)
Donald Robertson (University of Cambridge)
Discussants:
Lamont K. Black (Federal Reserve Board)
Kasper Roszbach (Sveriges Riksbank)
Tara Rice (Federal Reserve Board)
Tassos Malliaris (Loyola University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Entrepreneurism, Good Jobs, Successful Enterprises, and 21st Century Prosperity (Employment Policy Research Network) (0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Thomas Kochan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adam Seth Litwin (Johns Hopkins University)
Scott Stern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association/Union for Radical Political Economists
Insights of Marxist-Radical Thought for Employment Relations Practice and Theory (J5)
Presiding: Rafael Gomez (University of Toronto)
A Marxian Critique of and Alternative to U.S. Industrial Relations Theory and Practice
Michael Hillard (University of Southern Maine)
Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island)
The Employment Relation during Economic Crisis: Unemployment, Work Intensity, Hires, and Wages
Michele Naples (College of New Jersey)
From Monopoly Capital to Universal Competition: Radicals and Classical Marxists on Industrial Relations
James Devine (Loyola-Marymount University)
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Fabian Rent Theory, and Labor Exploitation
Bruce E. Kaufman (Georgia State University)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism (J5)
Presiding: Daniel Cornfield (Vanderbilt University)
Unions and Immigrant Workers in the US and Germany
Lee Howard Adler (Cornell University)
Michael Fichter (Free University of Berlin)
Unions and Immigrant Workers in the UK and France
Lowell Turner (Cornell University)
Identities, Education, Coalition Building: A Four-Country Comparative Analysis
Gabriella Alberti (Leeds University)
Jane Holgate (University of Leeds)
Discussants:
Ana Avendano (AFL-CIO)
Stefania Marino (University of Manchester)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Madeleine C & D
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
Contrasting Policy Advice at Time of Crisis: Latin America Then, Advanced Economies Now: What Have We Learned? (E6) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Laura Alfaro (Harvard University)
Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University)
Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Carmen Reinhart (Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Middle East Economic Association
Human Capital Topics in the MENA Countries (J1)
Presiding: Hassan Aly (Ohio State University)
Geographical Concentration of Human Capital in Turkey: Testing the Link between Returns to Education and Endowments of Human Capital
Burhan Can Karahasan (Okan University)
Enrique Lopez Bazo (University of Barcelona)
Educational Outcomes of 2nd Generation Middle East Migrants to Europe and North America
Hisham Foad (San Diego State University)
Determinants of Fertility Transition in Turkey: A Panel Data Analysis
Aysit Tansel (Middle East Technical University and IZA)
Gender Inequality in the MENA: Myths versus Facts
Nezahat Kucuk (Eastern Mediterranean University)
Discussants:
Edward Sayre (University of Southern Mississippi)
Mehmet Tosun (University of Nevada-Reno)
Hisham Foad (San Diego State University)
Aysit Tansel (Middle East Technical University and IZA)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
National Association of Forensic Economics
Forensic Economics II - Treatment of Taxes and Other Issues in Forensic Economics (K1)
Presiding: Stephen Horner (Economic Consulting)
The Treatment of Income Taxes in Personal Injury Cases: A Summary of Various Rationales from the State Courts
David Schap (College of the Holy Cross)
Tax Effects on Future Income Lost to Injury or Death
Scott Gilbert (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
Millo v. Delius and Losses that Are “Not Otherwise Compensable”: Analysis of an Important 2012 Decision
Thomas R. Ireland (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Discussants:
Michael Nieswiadomy (University of North Texas)
Karen Smith (AdamsSmith Economics)
Constantine M. Boukidis (Vavoulis, Weiner & McNulty)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association/American Society of Hispanic Economists
Pathways to Adulthood: Education, Healthcare, and Wealth Accumulation (J2)
Presiding: Mark López (Pew Hispanic Center)
Empirical Evidence of the Effects of Incarceration on Wealth Accumulation
Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College)
The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
German Blanco (State University of New York-Binghamton)
Carlos Flores (University of Miami)
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (State University of New York-Binghamton)
The Effect of U.S. Amnesty on Immigrant Youth Postsecondary Educational Access
Kalena Cortes (Texas A&M University)
Health Care Usage and Health Status of Immigrant Children: The Effects of Nativity versus Citizenship
Monica Garcia-Pere (St. Cloud State University)
Discussants:
Rucker Johnson (University of California-Berkeley)
Ronald Oaxaca (University of Arizona)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Principles for Successful Investment in Indian Country (O1)
Presiding: Malka Pattison (U.S. Department of Interior)
Natural Resources on American Indian Reservations: Blessing or Curse?
Terry L. Anderson (Property and Environment Research Center)
Dominic P. Parker (Montana State University)
Indian Tribal Government Access to Tax-Exempt Bond Financing
Edith Brashares (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Siobhan O'Keefe (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Native American Participation in Value Chains
Leonard Greenhalgh (Dartmouth College)
Business Investment on American Indian Reservations: Heterogeneous Effects
Miriam Jorgensen (University of Arizona)
Randall Akee (Tufts University)
Discussants:
Judith Vergun (Consultant)
David Joulfaian (Department of the Treasury)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists
Integrating Real and Financial Determinants of Economic Crisis (B1)
Presiding: Dorene Isenberg (University of Redlands)
Real and Financial Determinants of the Profit Share of Income 1980-2006
Matthew Bezreh (Bowdoin College)
Jonathan Goldstein (Bowdoin College)
Theories of Capitalist Instability: Real and Financial Components of Accumulation
Özgür Orhangazi (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
Growth, Instability and Fragility: Collapses of Three U.S. Institutional Structures
Ray Boddy (San Diego State University)
The Current Economic Crisis in the U.S.: A Crisis of Over-Investment
David Kotz (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Financial Architectures and Development: Resilience, Policy Space and Human Development in the Global South
Ilene Grabel (University of Denver)
Discussants:
Özgür Orhangazi (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
Ilene Grabel (University of Denver)
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Labor Markets and the Great Recession (E2)
Presiding: Aaron Pacitti (Siena College)
Is a Fair Labor Market Compatible with Full Employment and Price Stability? An Empirical Analysis of the Social Bargain
Aaron Pacitti (Siena College)
From Wall Street to Bree Street: The Great Recession and Informal Employment in South Africa
Jennifer Cohen (Whitman College)
Employer of Last Resort under the “Pay As You Go” Legislation: A Fairmodel Simulation
Michael Murray (Bemidji State University)
The Great Recession and Labor Market Flows in New York State
Arindam Mandal (Siena College)
Discussants:
Michael Murray (Bemidji State University)
Arindam Mandal (Siena College)
Aaron Pacitti (Siena College)
Jennifer Cohen (Whitman College)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
African Finance & Economics Association
Issues in African Development and Economic Transformation (O1)
Presiding: Olu Ajakaiye (African Centre for Shared Development)
The Fertility Transition in South Africa: A Retrospective Panel Data Analysis
Rulof Burger (University of Stellenbosch)
Ronelle Burger (University of Stellenbosch)
Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income in Africa
Nicolás M. Depetris Chauvin (African Center for Economic Transformation, Ghana)
Guido G. Porto (Universidad de La Plata, Argentina)
Trust and Moral Hazard: An Analysis of the Motorcycle-Taxi Market in Togo and Benin
Moussa P. Blimpo (Stanford University)
Labor Markets in Swaziland: The Challenge of Youth Unemployment
Zuzana Brixiova (UNDP)
Robert Fakudze (Swaziland Ministry of Labor and Social Security)
Kumiko Imai (UNICEF)
Thierry Kangoye (UN Economic Commission for Africa and University of Auvergne)
Preferential Trade Agreements, Employment, and Productivity: Evaluating the Impacts of AGOA and Its Apparel Provisions
Francis Mulangu (African Center for Economic Transformation, Ghana)
Promoting Industrial Development in Africa: Serendipity or Good Policy?
Steve Onyeiwu (Allegheny College)
Jane Karonga (UN Economic Commission for Africa)
Discussants:
Abdoul Mijiyawa (African Center for Economic Transformation, Ghana)
John Karikari (US Government Accountability Office)
Samuel Amponsah (Tokyo International University)
Marva Corley-Coulibaly (International Labour Office, Geneva)
Elijah Obayelu (Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria)
Julius Gatune Kariuki (African Center for Economic Transformation)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
What is the Future for Biofuels? (Q4)
Presiding: David Zilberman (University of California-Berkeley)
Biofuels Without Subsidies: Oxymoron or Reality
Bruce Babcock (Iowa State University)
Challenges for Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels: Policy, Technology and Markets
Madhu Khanna (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Xiaoguang Chen (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
The Indirect Effect of Biofuels: What Can We Say?
David Zilberman (University of California-Berkeley)
Geoff Barrows (University of California-Berkeley)
Gal Hochman (Rutgers University)
Deepak Rajagopal (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Antonio Bento (Cornell University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle A & B
American Economic Association
After the Crisis: What Did We Learn, and What Should We Teach, about Monetary Policy? (A2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve Board)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Benjamin M. Friedman (Harvard University)
Mark Gertler (New York University)
Michael Woodford (Columbia University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Causes and Consequences of Split-Household Migration (O1)
Presiding: Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University)
Mexicans in America
Maria Genoni (World Bank)
Gabriela Farfan (Duke University)
Luis Rubalcava (CAMBS)
Graciela Teruel (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Duncan Thomas (Duke University)
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
John Giles (World Bank)
Ren Mu (Texas A&M University)
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics)
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney)
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
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Interaction Between Migrants and Origin Households: Evidence from Linked Data
Joyce J. Chen (The Ohio State University)
Nazmul Hassan (Dhaka University)
Discussants:
Francisca Antman (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Alan de Brauw (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development)
Mark R. Rosenzweig (Yale University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Default Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations (E3)
Presiding: Francois Gourio (Boston University)
Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang
Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gustavo Manso (University of California-Berkeley)
Distressed, but not risky: Reconciling the empirical relationship between financial distress, market-based risk indicators, and stock returns (and more)
Ali K. Ozdagli (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
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Understanding the Behavior of Distress Stocks
Yasser Boualam (University of Pennsylvania)
Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
Colin Ward (University of Pennsylvania)
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Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
Francois Gourio (Boston University)
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Discussants:
Ian Dew-Becker (Harvard University)
Dirk Hackbarth (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Lars Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon University)
Pengfei Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle D
American Economic Association
Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy (Q5)
Presiding: Don Fullerton (University of Illinois)
Measuring the General Equilibrium Benefits of Air Quality Regulation in Small Urban Areas
Constant Tra (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Helen Neill (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
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Climate Change and U.S. Electric Power
Ian Sue Wing (Boston University)
Karina Veliz Roja (Boston University)
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Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
Paulina Oliva (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Eva Arceo (CIDE)
Rema Hanna (Harvard University, NBER, and BREAD)
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The Value of Water in the U.S. Economy: Problems of Basic Inference
Nicholas E. Flores (University of Colorado-Boulder)
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Discussants:
V. Kerry Smith (Arizona State University)
Catherine Wolfram (University of California-Berkeley)
Janet Currie (Princeton University)
Michael Hanemann (Arizona State University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Extreme Wage Inequality: Evidence and Policy Responses (J3)
Presiding: John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
Extreme Wage Inequality: Pay at the Very Top
Brian Bell (London School of Economics)
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
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Family, Education, and Sources of Wealth Among the Richest Americans, 1982-2012
Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago)
Joshua Rauh (Stanford University)
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The Evolution of Top Incomes and Top Tax Rates: Evidence and Policy Implications
Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley)
Bailouts and the Optimal Taxation of Bonus Pay
Timothy Besley (London School of Economics)
Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics)
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Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Financial Frictions and Real Activity: Lessons from the Crisis (E3)
Presiding: Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-09
Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Paolo Colla (Bocconi University)
Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)
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Corporate Debt Structure and the Financial Crisis
Fiorella De Fiore (European Central Bank)
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
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Global Banks, Financial Shocks and International Business Cycles: Evidence from an Estimated Model
Robert Kollmann (European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR)
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Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch
Francisco Buera (University of California-Los Angeles)
Benjamin Moll (Princeton University)
Discussants:
Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)
Egon Zakrajsek (Federal Reserve Board)
Skander Van den Heuvel (Federal Reserve Board)
Tim Fuerst (University of Notre Dame)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Financial Policies: Lessons from Historical and Long Run Perspectives (G1)
Presiding: William Goetzmann (Yale University)
Financial Innovation in Late-Eighteenth Century Netherlands: The Case of American Land Securities
Rik Frehen (Tilburg University)
William N. Goetzmann (Yale University)
Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale University)
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A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America
John Graham (Duke University)
Mark Leary (Washigton University in St. Louis)
Michael R. Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
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A Century of Firm-Bank Relationships: Did Banking Sector Deregulation Spur Firms to Add Banks and Borrow More?
Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University)
Steven Ongena (Tilburg University)
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Economic Effects of Runs on Early "Shadow Banks": Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907
Carola Frydman (Boston University)
Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
Lily Zhou (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
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Discussants:
Peter Koudijs (Stanford University)
Anthony Saunders (New York University)
David Thesmar (HEC Paris)
Stewart Myers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward C
American Economic Association
Gender, Trade and Productivity Shocks (J1)
Presiding: Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Offshoring and Firm‐Level Task Composition: Is there a Gender Component?
Giovanni Peri (University of California-Davis)
Jennifer Poole (University of California-Santa Cruz)
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Gender Empowerment in 19thCentury Sweden: Using Historical Data to Assess the Effects of Trade Shocks on Women's Economic Empowerment
Emilia Simeonova (Tufts University)
Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University)
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Men, Women, and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality
Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston)
Gergely Ujhelyi (University of Houston)
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (University of Houston)
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The German ‘Rosie the Riveter’: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Employment and Family Formation
Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan University)
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University, IZA, and HICH)
Mutlu Yuksel (Dalhousie University and IZA)
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Discussants:
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
Melissa A. Thomasson (Miami University of Ohio)
David Dorn (CEMFI)
Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
Health Insurance and Government Mandates: A Session to Honor Amy Finkelstein, John Bates Clark Medalist for 2012 (I1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University)
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University)
Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Household Heterogeneity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy (E2)
Presiding: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley)
Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend: Cross-Sectional Evidence
Eric Sims (University of Notre Dame and NBER)
Rudi Bachmann (RWTH Aachen University, University of Michigan, NBER, CESifo, and Ifo Institute)
Tim O. Berg (Ifo Institute)
Monetary Policy and Inequality in the US
Olivier Coibion (College of William and Mary and NBER)
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Lorenz Kueng (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
John Silvia (Wells Fargo Bank)
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Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances
Michael Kumhof (International Monetary Fund)
Claire Lebarz (Paris School of Economics)
Romain Ranciere (Paris School of Economics and International Monetary Fund)
Alexander W. Richter (Indiana University)
Nathaniel A. Throckmorton (Indiana University)
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Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession
Andrew Glover (University of Texas-Austin)
Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and CEPR)
Dirk Krueger (CEPR, University of Pennsylvania, and NBER)
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, CEPR, and NBER CAERP)
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Discussants:
William A. Branch (University of California-Irvine)
James K. Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin)
Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin)
Martin Schneider (Stanford University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
International Macroeconomics (F3)
Presiding: David Backus (New York University)
The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium
Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin)
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Evaluating International Consumption Risk Sharing Gains: An Asset Return View
Karen Lewis (University of Pennsylvania)
Edith Liu (Cornell University)
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BKK the EZ Way: An International Production Economy with Recursive Preferences
Riccardo Colacito (University of North Carolina)
Max Croce (University of North Carolina)
Steve Ho (University of North Carolina)
Philip Howard (University of North Carolina)
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The Share of Systematic Risk in Bilateral Exchange Rates
Adrien Verdelhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Discussants:
Nick Roussanov (University of Pennsylvania)
Matteo Maggiori (New York University)
David Backus (New York University)
Martin Evans (Georgetown University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester D
American Economic Association
Macro/International Finance (F4) (Poster Session)
Presiding: P.J. Glandon (Kenyon College)
Rating Systems and Procyclicality, an Evaluation in a DSGE Framework
Li Lin (University of Oxford)
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New Disaggregated Data on Flow of Funds and Economic Activity in the United States, 1816-1910, from the US Postal System
Robert W. Dimand (Brock University)
Terence M. Hines (Pace University)
Thomas Velk (McGill University)
Olivia Gong (McGill University)
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Native students and the gains from exporting higher education: evidence from Australia
Li Zhou (University of Alberta)
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Unexceptional Exporter Performance in China? The Role of Processing Trade
Mi Dai (Peking University)
Miaojie Yu (Peking University)
Madhura Maitra (Columbia University)
Saving the Euro: Mitigating Financial or Trade Spillovers?
Stijn Claessens (IMF)
Hui Tong (IMF)
Igor Zuccardi (University of Maryland)
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Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Vincent Bignon (Bank of France)
Eve Caroli (Paris School of Economics)
Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po and CNRS)
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Costly Information Processing and Consumption Behavior
Michael Peters (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stefan Hoderlein (Boston College)
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Macroprudential Policy: Its Effects and Relationship to Monetary Policy
Hyunduk Suh (Indiana University and Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
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Determining the Peak and Trough of State Economic Activity
Anika R. Khan (Wells Fargo)
Azhar Iqbal (Wells Fargo)
John Silvia (Wells Fargo)
Mark Vitner (Wells Fargo)
Sarah Watt (Wells Fargo)
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The Impact of Interlinked Index Insurance and Credit Contracts on Financial Market Deepening and Small Farm Productivity
Michael R. Carter (University of California, Davis)
Lan Cheng (University of California, Davis)
Alexander Sarris (University of Athens)
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Does Monetary Policy Matter in China? A Narrative Approach
Rongrong Sun (University of Wuppertal)
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Mastering the Great Recession in Germany: Determinants of Working Time Accounts Use to Safeguard Employment during the Global Economic Crisis
Alexander Herzog-Stein (WSI in the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation)
Ines Zapf (Institute for Employment Research (IAB))
Why did Household Mortgage Leverage Rise from the mid-1980s until the Great Recession?
Sheharyar Bokhari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Walter Torous (University of California Los Angeles)
William Wheaton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Real Business Cycles with a Human Capital Investment Sector and Endogenous Growth: Persistence, Volatility and Labor Puzzles
Jing Dang (SGCC)
Max Gillman (Cardiff Business School)
Michal Kejak (CERGE-EI)
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Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Emma C
American Economic Association
Pricing Behavior (D4)
Presiding: Viplav Saini (Oberlin College)
Time- and State-Dependent Pricing: A Unified Framework
Marco Bonomo (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
Carlos Carvalho (PUC-Rio)
Rene Garcia (EDHEC Business School)
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Asymmetries in Price-Setting Behavior: New Microeconometric Evidence from Switzerland
Bo Honore (Princeton University)
Daniel Kaufmann (Swiss National Bank)
Sarah Lein (Swiss National Bank)
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Selection and Monetary Non-Neutrality in Time-Dependent Pricing Models
Carlos Carvalho (PUC-Rio)
Felipe Schwartzman (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
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Asset Pricing in Production Economies with Extrapolative Expectations
David Hirshleifer (University of California-Irvine)
Jianfeng Yu (University of Minnesota)
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Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester H & I
American Economic Association
Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve (E5)
Presiding: Alan Blinder (Princeton University)
Time Consistency and Too Big to Fail
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (University of Chicago)
Shifting Mandates: The Federal Reserve’s First Centennial
Carmen Reinhart (Harvard University)
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)
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The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn't Matter
Christina D. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
David H. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
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Discussants:
Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University)
Charles Plosser (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Donald Kohn (Brookings Institution)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Secrecy and Innovation (O3)
Presiding: Ivan Png (National University of Singapore)
Innovation Beyond Patents: Technological Complexity as a Protection against Imitation
Emeric Henry (Sciences Po)
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda (Ecole Polytechnique)
The Importance (or Not) of Patents to UK Firms
Bronwyn Hall (University of California-Berkeley)
Christian Helmers (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Vania Sena (Essex Business School)
An Ear for your Quote. Patent Citations and the Size of Patented Inventions - Evidence from Hybrid Corn.
Petra Moser (Stanford University)
Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)
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Title: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Mobility of Engineers and Scientists: Empirical Evidence
Ivan P. Png (National University of Singapore)
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Discussants:
Emeric Henry (Sciences Po)
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda (Ecole Polytechnique)
Christian Helmers (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Petra Moser (Stanford University)
Ivan P. Png (National University of Singapore)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Structural Behavioral Economics (D0)
Presiding: Stefano DellaVigna (University of California-Berkeley)
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting
John Beshears (Stanford University)
James J. Choi (Yale University)
Andreas Fuster (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Brigitte C. Madrian (Harvard University)
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Heterogeneity, Market Structure, and the Effect of Inattention in Used Vehicle Markets
Meghan Busse (Northwestern University)
Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto)
Devin Pope (University of Chicago)
Jorge Silva-Risso (University of California-Riverside)
Justin Sydnor (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Distinguishing Probability Weighting from Risk Misperceptions in Field Data
Levon Barseghyan (Cornell University)
Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
Ted O'Donoghue (Cornell University)
Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown Law School)
The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity
Stefano DellaVigna (University of California-Berkeley)
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Gautam Rao (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Dan Silverman (Arizona State University)
Benjamin Handel (University of California-Berkeley)
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford C
American Economic Association
Technological Change (O3)
Presiding: Arthur Diamond (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Credit Crunches, Asset Prices and Technological Change
Raoul Minetti (Michigan State University)
Luis Araujo (Michigan State University)
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
William R. Kerr (Harvard University)
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A Dynamic Adoption Model with Bayesian Learning: An Application to U.S. Soybean Farmers
Xingliang Ma ((International Food Policy Research Institute)
Guanming Shi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Moore's Law Goes Multicore: The Economic and Strategic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in How Computers Work
Neil C. Thompson (University of California-Berkeley)
Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
Leonid Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
Noah Stoffman (Indiana University)
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Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Maggie
American Economic Association
Trouble at the Bar: Improving Resource Allocation in Law (K3)
Presiding: Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California)
The Hidden Quartile: Disclosing High-Risk Matriculations in Law School
Ian Ayres (Yale Law School)
An Exploratory Study of the Pricing of Legal Services
Clifford Winston (Brookings Institution)
Vikram Maheshri (University of Houston)
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Improving the Bar by Lowering the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan
J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law School)
Eric B. Rasmusen (Indiana University)
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Discussants:
Roger G. Noll (Stanford University)
Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward A & B
American Economic Association
Youth Behavior (J1)
Presiding: Rebecca Judge (St. Olaf College)
Peer Effects in Microenvironments: The Benefits of Homogeneous Classroom Groups
Fangwen Lu (Renmin University of China)
Michael Anderson (University of California-Berkeley)
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Do Cell Phone Restrictions Reduce Fatal Crashes Involving Young Drivers?
Siew Hoon Lim (North Dakota State University)
Junwook Chi (University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Making the Grade: The Impact of Classroom Behavior on Academic Achievement
Jeffrey Weinstein (Syracuse University)
Kalena Cortes (Texas A&M University)
Wael Moussa (Syracuse University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Anomalies and Inefficiency III (G1)
Presiding: Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School)
Can Facebook Predict Stock Market Activity?
Yigitcan Karabulut (Goethe University-Frankfurt)
Geographic Momentum
Quoc Nguyen (University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Gradual Information Diffusion in the Stock Market: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Firms
Xing Huang (University of California-Berkeley)
Co-Momentum: Inferring Arbitrage Capital from Return Correlations
Dong Lou (London School of Economics)
Christopher Polk (London School of Economics)
Discussants:
Pengjie Gao (University of Notre Dame)
Kewei Hou (Ohio State University)
Kewei Hou (Ohio State University)
Abhiroop Mukherjee (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Empirical Methods and Estimation (G1)
Presiding: Jay Shanken (Emory University)
Do Jumps Contribute to the Dynamics of the Equity Premium?
John Maheu (University of Toronto)
Thomas McCurdy (University of Toronto)
Xiaofei Zhao (University of Toronto)
Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California)
Takashi Yamagata (University of York)
Common Errors: How to (and Not to) Control for Unobserved Heterogeneity
Todd Gormley (University of Pennsylvania)
David Matsa (Northwestern University)
Discussants:
Robert Dittmar (University of Michigan)
Cesare Robotti (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Jonathan Lewellen (Dartmouth College)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Inferential Errors in Financial Markets (AFA Lecture) (G1)
Presiding: Nicholas Barberis (Yale University)
Inferential Errors in Financial Markets
Matthew Rabin (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Institutional Investors II (G2)
Presiding: Nicolas Bollen (Vanderbilt University)
Portfolio Manager Ownership and Mutual Fund Risk Taking
Linlin Ma (Georgia State University)
Yuehua Tang (Georgia State University)
Strategic Performance Allocation in Institutional Asset Management Firms: Behold the Power of Stars and Dominant Clients
Ranadeb Chaudhuri (Oakland University)
Zoran Ivkovich (Michigan State University)
Charles Trzcinka (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Determinants and Implications of Fee Changes in the Hedge Fund Industry
Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
Sugata Ray (University of Florida)
Discussants:
Jeffrey Busse (Emory University)
Richard Evans (University of Virginia)
Christopher Schwarz (University of California-Irvine)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Liquidity, Trading, and Frictions (G1)
Presiding: Ronnie Sadka (Boston College)
Sell-Side Analysts - Responses to Mutual Fund Flow-Driven Mispricing
Kelsey Wei (University of Texas-Dallas)
Johan Sulaeman (Southern Methodist University)
Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets
Ing-Haw Cheng (University of Michigan)
Andrei Kirilenko (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?
Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Columbia University)
Vyacheslav Fos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussants:
Kent Womack (University of Toronto)
Kenneth Froot (NBER)
Robert Korajczyk (Northwestern University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Real and Nominal Term Premia (G1)
Presiding: Gregory Duffee (Johns Hopkins University)
Short-Run Bond Risk Premia
Philippe Mueller (London School of Economics)
Andrea Vedolin (London School of Economics)
Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve Board)
A Robust Analysis of the Risk-Structure of Equilibrium Term Structures of Bond Yields
Anh Le (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Kenneth Singleton (Stanford University)
Understanding Term Premia on Real Bonds
Jing-Zhi Jay Huang (Pennsylvania State University)
Zhan Shi (Pennsylvania State University)
Discussants:
Anna Cieslak (Northwestern University)
Ivan Shaliastovich (University of Pennsylvania)
Stefania D'Amico (Federal Reserve Board )
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Homeownership (R2)
Presiding: Gary Engelhardt (Syracuse University)
The Boom, The Bust, and the Future of Homeownership
Stuart Gabriel (University of California-Los Angeles)
Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University)
Valuing the Element of Control in Homeownership
Kerry Vandell (University of California-Irvine)
Financing Constraints to Homeownership in Relation to the Pre-2008 Housing Market Boom
Susan Wachter (University of Pennsylvania)
Paul Calem (Freddie Mac)
Irina Barakova (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
The Home Front: Understanding the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
Daniel Fetter (Wellesley College)
Discussants:
Karl Case (Wellesley College)
Thomas Davidoff (University of British Columbia)
Donald Haurin (The Ohio State University)
Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (G1)
Presiding: Seow Eng Ong (National University of Singapore)
Trading Activity and REIT Stock Price Volatility
Yuchiro Kawaguchi (University of Georgia)
Jay Sa-Aadu (University of Iowa)
James Shilling (DePaul University)
An Examination of Macroeconomic Effects on the Liquidity of REITs
Ran Lu (University of the Pacific)
John Glascock (University of Connecticut)
CEO Overconfidence, Corporate Investment Activity, and Performance: Evidence from REITs
Erkan Yonder (Maastricht University)
Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht University)
CEO Bonus: Alternative Performance Measure Versus Gamesmanship
Desmond Tsang (McGill University)
Crocker Liu (Cornell University)
Discussants:
Hendrik Devos (University of Texas-El Paso)
Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore)
Walter Boudry (New York University)
Nils Kok (Maastricht University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Securitization and Security Design (G1)
Presiding: Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University)
Credit Risk and Subordination Levels in Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS)
Xudong An (San Diego State University)
Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore)
Joseph Nichols (Federal Reserve Board)
Anthony Sanders (George Mason University)
CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and Regulatory-Capital Arbitrage
Nancy Wallace (University of California-Berkeley)
Richard Stanton (University of California-Berkeley)
Governance and Design of Structured Securities: Theory and Evidence
Jun Zhu (Freddie Mac)
Timothy M. Riddiough (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Rise of Securitization: A Recursive Security Design Approach
Erwan Quintin (University of Wisconsin)
Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin)
Discussants:
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
John Griffin (University of Texas-Austin)
Burton Hollifield (Carnegie Mellon University)
Barney Hartman-Glaser (Duke University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gallery
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
The Euro-Area Debt Crisis, Current Account Imbalances, and Economic Growth (F4)
Presiding: Christian Dreger (DIW Berlin)
Debt Leveraging and the Exchange Rate
Pierpaolo Benigno (LUISS Guido Carli and NBER)
Frederica Romei (LUISS Guido Carli)
Determinants of Euro Area Public Expenditure Policies
Sebastian Hauptmeier (German Ministry of Finance)
A. Jesus Sanchez-Fuentes (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Ludger Schuknecht (German Ministry of Finance)
Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area: Does Catching Up Explain the Development?
Ansgar Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Christian Dreger (DIW Berlin)
Sovereign Debt Crises and Economic Growth in Emerging European Countries
Balazs Egert (OECD)
Ali M. Kutan (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Hakan Yilmazkuday (Florida International University)
Discussants:
David Papell (University of Houston)
Nicolas Veron (Bruegel and The Peterson Institute)
David Kemme (University of Memphis)
Josef Brada (Arizona State University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Point Loma & Solana
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Long-Term Policies and Institutions for Full Employment, Quality of Life, Equitable Growth and Regional Development (H4)
Presiding: Sara Hsu (State University of New York-New Paltz)
An International Payments System Based on Keynes's Liquidity Theory and Soros's Concept of Reflexivity for Global Full Employment
Paul Davidson (Bernard Schwartz Centre for Economic Policy Analysis)
A Galbraithian Model for Shared Prosperity, Higher Quality of Life and Fewer Economic Crises
Richard P.F. Holt (Southern Oregon University)
Daphne Greenwood (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
Institutionalist Policies for Financial Inclusion
Deborah M. Figart (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA)
Budgetary Deficits and Overhanging Public Debt: Are They Obstacles or Instruments to Achieve Veritable Full Employment in Contemporary Market Economies? A Kaleckian/Institutionalist Perspective
Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Policy Convergence in Regional Economic Development
Richard V. Adkisson (New Mexico State University)
Boris Higgins (New Mexico State University)
Discussants:
Anna Klimina (St. Thomas More College, Canada)
Eric Hake (Catawba College)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics
Health, Social Exchanges, and Economic Life (Z1)
Presiding: Robert McMaster (University of Glasgow)
Kenneth Boulding: The First Social Health Economist?
Robert McMaster (University of Glasgow)
Spatial Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: The Case of Selling Blood
Xi Chen (Yale University)
Biform Matching Games: The Firm and Exchange
Roger McCain (Drexel University)
Making a Living in 21st Century America: Social Networks and New Opportunities
Daphne Greenwood (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
Student Academic Dishonesty: Capitalism and Crime in the Classroom
Peter Schuhmann (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, New York
Association for the Study of Grants Economy
Taxes, Transfers, and Inequality (H2)
Presiding: Daniel Feenberg (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Recent Trends in Top Incomes Share in Australia: Alternative Views from HILDA and Tax Record Data
Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University and University of Melbourne)
Markus Hahn (University of Melbourne)
Roger Wilkins (University of Melbourne)
Quantifying the Role of Federal and State Taxes in Mitigating Wage Inequality
Daniel Cooper (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Byron Lutz (Federal Reserve Board)
Michael Palumbo (Federal Reserve Board)
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expenditures
Ankur J. Patel (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Taxes and Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Long Panel of State-Level Data
Jon Bakija (Williams College)
William Gentry (Willams College)
Discussants:
Daniel Feenberg (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Gerald Auten (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
James X. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
William Randolph (Congressional Budget Office)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists/American Economic Association
Designing a US Carbon Tax (Q4) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Alan Krupnick (Resources for the Future)
Joe Aldy (Harvard University)
Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University)
Ian W.H. Parry (International Monetary Fund)
William Pizer (Duke University)
Roberton Williams (University of Maryland and Resources for the Future)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Miramar
Association of Financial Economists/American Economic Association
Covenants, Leverage and Banks (G2)
Presiding: Lemma Senbet (University of Maryland)
CEO Compensation and Covenant Violations
Bill B. Francis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University)
Xian Sun (Johns Hopkins University)
Bank Regulatory Capital Buffer and Liquidity: Evidence from U.S. and European Publicly Traded Banks
Isabelle Distinguin (Université de Limoges)
Caroline Roulet (OECD)
Amine Tarazi (Université de Limoges)
The Relation between Bank Credit-Risk Management Procedures and Originate-to-Distribute Mortgage Quality during the Financial Crises
Gauri Bhat (Washington University)
Jian Cai (Fordham University)
Richard Frankel (Washington University)
Xiumin Martin (Washington University)
Rethinking the Speed of Adjustment toward a Target Capital Structure: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Brian Clark (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Discussants:
Chenyang (Jason) Wei (American International Group)
Iikka Korhonen (Bank of Finland)
Akhtar Siddique (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Mingming Zhou (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Orlando
Association of Indian Economics & Financial Studies
Is There a Policy Paralysis? (O2)
Presiding: Amitrajeet Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology)
India's Long Term Growth: 1900-2010
Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading)
Simon Burke (University of Reading)
Is Your Government Closer to Its People? Worldwide Indicators on Localization and Decentralization
Anwar Shah (World Bank)
Maksym Invanyna (Michigan State University)
Can Rural Public Works Affect Rural Wages? Evidence from India
Sambit Bhattacharyya (University of Sussex)
Erlend Berg (University of Oxford)
Manjula Ramachandra (Institute for Social and Economic Change)
Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors Monitor Bank Runs?
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Rajkamal Iyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nicholas Ryan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Do Curbing Corruption Complement Financial Development in Reducing Income Inequality?
Sourav Batabyal (State University of New York-Fredonia)
Abdur Chowdhury (Marquette University)
Food Inflation in India: Causes and Cures
Pradeep Agarwal (Indian Institute of Economic Growth)
Discussants:
Kalyan Chakraborty (Emporia State University)
Keshab Bhattarai (University of Hull)
Raja Kali (HEC, Montreal)
Anil Kumar (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Kusum Mundra (Rutgers University)
Debasri Mukherjee (Western Michigan University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Dynamic Games (C7)
Presiding: Jidong Zhou (New York University)
An Aggregation Method to Solve Dynamic Games
Carlos Daniel R.A. Santos (Tilburg University)
Aggregative Games with Entry
Simon Peter Anderson (University of Virginia)
Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne)
Daniel Piccinin (Brick Court Chambers)
Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts
Jidong Zhou (New York University)
Mark Armstrong (University of Oxford)
Discussants:
Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne)
Jidong Zhou (New York University)
Carlos Daniel R A Santos (Tilburg University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
Econometrics of Derivatives Markets (C5)
Presiding: Eric Renault (Brown University)
Affine Option Pricing Model in Discrete Time
Eric Michel Renault (Brown University)
The Term Structure of Variance Swaps, Risk Premia and the Expectation Hypothesis
Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University)
Mustafa Karaman (Swiss Finance Institute, University of Zurich)
Loriano Mancini (Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL)
Parametric Inference and Dynamic State Recovery from Option Panels
Viktor Todorov (Northwestern University)
Testing for Jumps: A Delta-Hedging Perspective
Jia Li (Duke University)
Discussants:
Kris Jacobs (University of Houston)
Ian Martin (Stanford University)
David S. Bates (University of Iowa)
Torben G. Andersen (Northwestern University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Mechanism Design (D4)
Presiding: Maciej Kotowski (Harvard University)
Information Aggregation in Double Auctions with Interdependent Values
Eiichiro Kazumori (University of Buffalo)
Repeated Implementation with Finite Mechanisms and Complexity
Jihong Lee (Seoul National University)
Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge)
On Asymmetric Reserve Prices
Maciej H. Kotowski (Harvard University)
Matching with Contracts in Large Economies
John Hatfield (Stanford University)
Eduardo Azevedo (Harvard University)
Discussants:
Shiran Rachmilevitch (University of Haifa)
Hanzhe Zhang (University of Chicago)
Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario)
Jihong Lee (Seoul National University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Madeleine C & D
Econometric Society
Networks, Mechanisms, and Big Data: Economics Meets Information Science (D0)
Presiding: B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University)
Network, Crowds, and Markets
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Human Computing
Luis Von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University)
Discussants:
Hal R. Varian (Google)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Social Choice and Welfare Analysis (D6)
Presiding: Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics)
Redistributive Taxation in a Roy Model
Casey Goodfriend Rothschild (Wellesley College)
Florian Scheuer (Stanford University)
Behavioral Fair Social Choice
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
Erik Schokkaert (K U Leuven)
Endogenous Public Information and Welfare
Xavier Vives (IESE Business School)
Discussants:
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics)
Jennifer La'o (University of Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Testing (C1)
Presiding: Douglas Steigerwald (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Testing the Number of Components in Finite Mixture Models
Hiroyuki Kasahara (University of British Columbia)
Katsumi Shimotsu (University of Tokyo)
Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems
Ulrich K. Mueller (Princeton University)
Andriy Norets (Princeton University)
Asymptotic F Test in GMM Framework with Cross Sectional Dependence
Yixiao Sun (University of California-San Diego)
Min Seong Kim (Ryerson University)
On Accurate Cluster-Robust Inference
Douglas G. Steigerwald (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Andrew Carter (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Kevin Schnepel (Economics UCSB)
Discussants:
Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
Federico Bugni (Duke University)
Tim Vogelsang (Michigan State University)
Ulrich Muller (Princeton University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, La Costa
Health Economics Research Organization
Medical Interventions and Patient Offsetting Behavior (I1)
Presiding: Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER)
Does Statin Use Adversely Affect Health Behaviors?
Robert Kaestner (University of Illinois and NBER)
Michael Darden (Tulane University)
Darius N. Lakdawalla (University of Southern California and NBER)
Wesley Yin (Boston University and NBER)
Risk Compensation and Treatment for High Cholesterol
Cameron M. Kaplan (University of Pittsburgh)
Moral Hazard in Less Invasive Surgical Technology for Coronary Artery Disease: Offsetting Behavior in the HRS
Shin-Yi Chou (Lehigh University and NBER)
Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER)
Jason Hockenberry (Emory University and NBER)
Jesse Margolis (City University of New York)
Discussants:
Will Dow (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Sandra L. Decker (NCHS)
Robert Kaestner (University of Illinois-Chicago and NBER)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford B
History of Economics Society
Looking for Best Practices in Economic Journalism: Past and Present (Z1)
Presiding: Tiago Mata (University of Cambridge)
Fortune Magazine at 20: Text and Pretext
Tiago Mata (University of Cambridge)
Journalists are Suckers for a Good Economic Metaphor
Peter Coy (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Bloomberg vs. the Fed, Editors vs. Specialists
David Warsh (Economic Principals)
The Art of the Covering the Fed: Greenspan vs. Bernanke
Chris Roush (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Industrial Organization Society
Incentives and Delegation in Organizations (L2)
Presiding: Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
Delegation and Pay for Performance: Evidence from Industrial Sales Force
Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
Mrinal Ghosh (University of Arizona)
Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo (Santa Clara University)
Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing
Kristina McElheran (Harvard University)
The Value of Bosses
Christopher Stanton (University of Utah)
Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
Jennifer Brown (Northwestern University)
Dylan Minor (Northwestern University)
Discussants:
Danielle Lee (Northwestern University)
Silke Januszewski Forbes (University of California-San Diego)
Mitch Hoffman (University of Toronto)
Philip Leslie (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Malibu
International Economic & Finance Society
Exchange Rates and Prices (F3)
Presiding: Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University)
Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations
George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Sangeeta Pratap (Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center)
Vivian Yue (Federal Reserve Board)
Market Structure and Pass-Through
Raphael Schoenle (Brandeis University)
Raphael A. Auer (Swiss National Bank)
Pricing to Market in Business Cycle Models
Lukasz Drozd (University of Pennsylvania)
International Transmission through Relative Prices
Nan Li (Ohio State University)
Keyu Jin (London School of Economics)
Discussants:
Michael Sposi (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Robert J. Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
Scott Davis (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Ford A
Korea-America Economic Association
Recent Development of Structural Empirical IO (C2)
Presiding: Hyungsik Moon (University of Southern California)
An Empirical Analysis of Bidding for Used Cars under a New Online Internet Auction Mechanism
SungJin Cho (Seoul National University)
Harry Paarsch (University of Melbourne)
John Rust (Georgetown University)
Does Deliberation Trump Conflict? Partial Identification in a Strategic Deliberation Model
Matias Laryczower (Princeton University)
Xiaoxia Shi (University of Wisconsin)
Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology)
Multiproduct Nonlinear Pricing: Mobile Phone Service and SMS
Yao Luo (Pennsylvania State University)
Isabelle Perrigne (Rice University)
Quang Vuong (New York University)
Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Demand Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
Hyungsik Roger Moon (University of Southern California)
Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology)
Martin Weidner (University College London)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Persistently High Unemployment (J5)
Presiding: Sylvia Allegretto (University of California-Berkeley)
Unemployment After the Great Recession: An Update
Michael W. L. Elsby (University of Edinburgh)
Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Ayşegűl Şahіn (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Robert Valletta (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Revisiting Okun's Law
Michael Reich (University of California-Berkeley)
The Labor Market Four Years into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations
Jesse Rothstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Bhaskar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Heidi Shierholz (Economic Policy Institute)
Michael Ash (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
The Impacts of Public Sector Pay Reforms in a Context of Austerity: Evidence from Europe (J5)
Presiding: Elaine McCrate ()
Public Sector Pay Reforms in Europe and the Implications for Social Cohesion
Damian Grimshaw (University of Manchester)
Jill Rubery (University of Manchester)
Shrinking the State: The Decade of De-nationalisation in Germany
Gerhard Bosch (University of Duisberg-Essen)
The Swedish Welfare State at the Crossroads? The Impact of Decentralisation of Wage Setting and Increased Competition
Dominique Anxo (Linnaeus University)
Discussants:
Jeffrey H. Keefe (Rutgers University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Union Members as Citizens (J5)
Presiding: John Logan (San Francisco State University)
Organized Labor's Civic Niche
Rolland Zullo (University of Michigan)
Union Decline, Voter Mobilization, and the Declining Political Power of the Working Class
Jake Rosenfeld (University of Washington)
Does Workplace Voice Compliment or Substitute Civic Engagement? Evidence from Britain, Canada and the U.S.
Alex Bryson (Policy Studies Institute)
Rafael Gomez (University of Toronto)
How Political Organizations Use Experiments to Optimize Union Voter Contact: Two Examples from the Field
Jennifer Green (Analyst Institute)
Discussants:
Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota)
Marick Masters (Wayne State University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
National Association of Forensic Economics
Forensic Economics III - Worklife and Education in Forensic Economics (K1)
Presiding: Lane Hudgins (Lane Hudgins Analysis)
Recent Developments in Worklife Related Research
Gary Skoog (DePaul University)
James Ciecka (DePaul University)
Evolving Transition Probabilities and Worklives
David Rosenbaum (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Matthew Cushing (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
An Application of the Educational Attainment Model of a Minor Child for the Next Generation of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Lawrence M. Spizman (Sstate University of New York-Oswego)
John Kane (State University of New York-Oswego)
Discussants:
Thomas Roney (Thomas Roney LLC)
Jonathan S. Shefftz (JShefftz Consulting)
David Jones (Economic Consulting Services, LLC)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
What is Stratification Economics? (Z1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Warren Whatley (University of Michigan)
William A. Darity, Jr. (Duke University)
James Stewart (Pennsylvania State University)
Darrick Hamilton (The New School)
Patrick Mason (Florida State University)
Alberto Davila (University of Texas-Pan American)
Marie T. Mora (University of Texas-Pan American)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Mohsen A & B
Society for Economic Dynamics
The Great Recession and Recovery (E3)
Presiding: Henry Siu (University of British Columbia)
The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
Nir Jaimovich (Duke University)
Henry Siu (University of British Columbia)
What Explains Stock-Market Volatility in the Great Recession?
Scott R. Baker (Stanford University)
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago)
Quantifying the Forces Leading to the Collapse of GDP after the Financial Crisis
Robert Hall (Stanford University)
Manufacturing Busts, Housing Booms, and the Labor Supply of Lower Educated Men
Kerwin Charles (University of Chicago)
Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom C
Society for Policy Modeling/American Economic Association
From G7 to G20 (F4)
Presiding: Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)
How Does the Rise of Emerging Economies Change the World Macroeconomy?
Olivier Blanchard (International Monetary Fund)
Reviving Growth in the G7 and the G20
Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University)
Global Infrastructure Initiative and Global Recovery
Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University)
The Shift from G7 to G20 Increased Swings in Major Exchange Rates and Worsened Their Options
Robert Mundell (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Small Business Finance (M2)
Presiding: John Earle (George Mason University and Central European University)
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage and Salary Earnings to Launch a New Business
Christopher Goetz (Bureau of the Census)
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland, Institute for the Study of Labor, and NBER)
Monica Garcia Perez (St. Cloud State University)
Lee Kristin Sandusky (Bureau of the Census)
Racial Differences in Financial Capital Injections among New Businesses
Robert Fairlie (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Alicia Robb (University of California-Santa Cruz)
David T. Robinson (Duke University)
The Role of Credit Access in Firm Sustainability: A Comparison of the 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances
Traci L. Mach (Federal Reserve Board)
John D. Wolken (Federal Reserve Board)
Which SBA Loan Recipients Create More Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
J. David Brown (Bureau of the Census)
John S. Earle (George Mason University and Central European University)
Why Do Guaranteed SBA Loans Cost Borrowers So Much?
Flavio de Andrade (Merrill Lynch)
Deborah Lucas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussants:
John S. Earle (George Mason University and Central European University)
W. Scott Frame (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Zoltan Acs (George Mason University)
Alexey Levkov (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Transportation & Public Utilities Group
Universal Service and Openness (L9)
Presiding: David Gabel (Queens College)
Infrastructure, General Purpose Technologies, and Openness
Christiaan Hogendorn (Wesleyan University)
The Effects of USF E-rate Subsidies on Broadband Competition
Kenneth Flamm (University of Texas)
Telecommunications Demand in a Portfolio Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications
John Mayo (Georgetown University)
Household Communication Access in Developed Countries
Carolyn Gideon (Tufts University)
David Gabel (Queens College)
Discussants:
Scott Wallsten (Technology Policy Institute)
Brad Wimmer (University of Nevada)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Deindustrialization and Financialization 1970-2012 (L6)
Presiding: Özgür Orhangazi (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
Grinding Decline in the Machine Tool Sector of the Connecticut River Valley: Never Inevitable
Robert Forrant (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
Marie Duggan (Keene State College)
Thomas Dallery (Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale)
From Stability to Risk: Industrial Transformation in One Small Town, 1970-2012
Marie Duggan (Keene State College)
Financialization, Competition, and Pricing in a Post-Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution at the Level of the Firm
Thomas Dallery (Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale)
Jordan Melmiès (Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale)
The Fictions of Finance and the Instability of Financial Markets: On Marx’s Theory of the Origin, Foundation, Laws of Motion of “Fictitious Capital”
Zhun Zhao (New School for Social Research)
Discussants:
Özgür Orhangazi (Kadir Has University, Turkeyl)
Robert Forrant (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)
Marie Duggan (Keene State College)
Jan 05, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Coronado Room
Union for Radical Political Economists/American Economic Association
Inequality in America: Contending Theories (D3)
Presiding: Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College)
How Much, If At All, Does Skill-Biased Technical Change Drive Wage Inequality?
Lawrence Mishel (Economic Policy Institute)
Heidi Shierholz (Economic Policy Institute)
Power, luck and ideology -- technological and institutional parameters of the agency problem for CEOs
Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Fredrick Guy (Birkbeck College, University of London)
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A Class-Based Explanation of Increasing Income Inequality
Simon Mohun (Queen Mary, University of London)
Discussants:
David H. Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Frank Levy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Thoma (University of Oregon)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D & E
American Economic Association
Nobel Laureate Luncheon
Presiding: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Thomas Sargent (New York University)
Christopher A. Sims (Princeton University)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom A
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Presidential Luncheon
Presiding: Gary Painter (University of Southern California)
Timothy M. Riddiough (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Bayside Pavilion
Association for Evolutionary Economics
William Dugger Senior Scholars Interactive Session (SSIS) on Deep Recession, Debt Crisis, Financial Instability, and Policy (G3) (Poster Session)
Presiding: William Dugger (University of Tulsa)
Discussant:
John Hall (Portland State University and Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Fringe Banking: A Case Study of the Pay Day Loan Industry in Tennessee
Sherry Davis Kasper (Maryville College)
Moving from Necessity- to Opportunity-Based Female Entrepreneurship in the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study of China and India
Tonia Warnecke (Rollins College)
Understanding Rational Herding and Rational Greed and Business Cycles in the Real World of Asymmetric Information, Self-Regarding Preferences, Decision-Making Heuristics
Morris Altman (Victoria University of Wellington)
Current Crises Seen through the Lens of Power Relationships
Anton Oleinik (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Evolution of Functions Performed by Banks in the Russian Context: Institutional Analysis
Svetlana Kirdina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Andrei Vernikov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Dissecting the Conjunction of Capitalism's Environment-Energy-Economic Crises: The Example of One Liberal Market-Based Economy
Lynne Chester (University of Sydney, Australia)
Financial Processes, Psychology and Institutional Economics
James L. Webb (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
The Logic and Impossibility of Austerity as a Macroeconomic Policy Prescription
Gary A. Dymski (Leeds University Business School, UK)
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the EU Labour Market: A Comparative Perspective
Pasquale Tridico (University Roma Tre, Italy)
Native American Poverty and Tribal Responses during the Great Recession
Wayne Edwards (Middlebury College)
Business Cycles, Profitability and the Crisis of 2008
Erdogan Bakir (Bucknell University)
Darwin, Recessions and Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective on Firms in Recessions
Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
Institutions and Liberalized Finance: Is Financial Stability of Capitalism a Pipedream?
Faruk Ülgen (University of Grenoble 2, France)
The Great Financial Crisis and Functional Income Distribution
Antoon Spithoven (Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands)
Household Demand, Income Distribution and the Sustainability of Debt-Based-Profit-Led Regimes: Introducing Conspicuous Consumption in a Post Keynesian Model
Bernhard Schütz (University of Linz, Austria)
Jacob Kapeller (University of Linz, Germany)
The Near Death Experience of Corporate Credit Unions--And How to Avoid a Relapse
Keldon J. Bauer (Tarleton State University)
Financial Innovation, Diffusion, and Instability
William Redmond (Indiana State University)
Systemic Financial Fragility in a "Kaleidic" World
Doyoun Won (University of Utah)
The End of Neoliberalism: An Institutional Analysis of the Arab Uprisings
Fadhel Kaboub (Denison University)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, New York
Association for the Study of Grants Economy
Making Higher Education Accessible: Financial Aid and Peer Effects (I2)
Presiding: Theodore Tsukahara, Jr. (Saint Mary's College of California)
The Impact of Financial Aid on Program of Study and Educational Attainment
Benjamin Marx (Columbia University)
Lesley Turner (Univeristy of Maryland)
Does Work-Study Work? Evidence from National Data
Judith Scott-Clayton (Columbia University)
Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid
Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M University)
Harvey S. Rosen (Princeton University)
Peer Effects in Higher Education: A Look at Heterogeneous Impacts
Amanda Griffith (Wake Forest University)
Discussants:
Burton Weisbrod (Northwestern University)
Catharine Hill (Vassar College)
Fernando A. Lozano (Pomona College)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Orlando
Association of Indian Economics & Financial Studies
Innovations, Currency, Exports & Growth (F4)
Presiding: Kusum Ketkar (AIEFS)
A Multi-Region Model of Economic Growth with Human Capital and Negative Externalities in Innovation
Amitrajeet Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Peter Nijkamp (Free University)
Currency Safe Havens during Global Financial Stress: India vs. Other Emerging Markets
Valerie Cerra (International Monetary Fund)
Sweta Saxena (International Monetary Fund)
How Does Openness and Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Inflation? Evidence From Asia
Amit Ghosh (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment & Economic Growth in Export Oriented Economies: A Case Study of Fiji & Mauritius
Rajeev Sooreea (Dominican University of California)
Rukmani Gounder (Massey University)
Selection into Exporting, Market Size and Export Prices: Evidence from India and China
Sushanta Mallick (Queen Mary, University of London)
Helena Marques (University of the Balearic Islands)
Private Equity Exits: Do Multiple and Foreign PE Investors Matter?
Rama Seth (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)
Rohan Chinchwadkar (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)
Discussants:
Rasika Chikte (University of Oklahoma)
Arun Sarkar (University of Wisconsin)
Chandana Chakraborty (Montclair State University)
Kankana Mukherjee (Babson College)
Meenakshi Rishi (Seattle University)
Parul Jain (Baruch College and Macrofin Analytics)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma C
Economic History Association
Money, Banking, and Prices (N2)
Presiding: Dan Bogart (University of California-Irvine)
Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War
Jonathan Pritchett (Tulane University)
Charles Calomiris (Columbia University)
Landschaften as Credit Purveyors – The Example of East Prussia
Kirsten Wandschneider (Occidental College)
Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America
Farley Grubb (University of Delaware)
Discussants:
Peter Koudris (Stanford University)
Jean Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
Alejandro Komai (University of California-Irvine)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, La Costa
Health Economics Research Organization
Hospital Market Structure, Pricing, and Quality of Care (I1)
Presiding: Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Estimating the Price Impact of Hospital Mergers: Inova's Acquisition of Price William Hospital
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Aviv Nevo (Northwestern University)
Robert Town (University of Pennsylvania)
Subsidies and Structure: The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton on the Hospital Industry
Andrea Park Chung (Carnegie Mellon University)
Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Seth Richards-Shubik (Carnegie Mellon University)
Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
Joseph J. Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
John Graves (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sam Kleiner (Cornell University)
Discussants:
Alan Sorenson (University of Wisconsin)
Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University)
Carol Propper (Imperial College London)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Industrial Organization Society
Topics in Demand and Industry Dynamics (L1)
Presiding: Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley)
Competition and Product Innovation in Dynamic Oligopoly
Ronald Goettler (University of Chicago)
Brett Gordon (Columbia University)
Estimating the Innovator's Dilemma: Structural Analysis of Creative Destruction in the Hard Disk Drive Industry
Misuru Igami (Yale University)
An Empirical Model of Dynamic Merger Enforcement
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley)
The Welfare Effects of Intertemporal Price Discrimination: An Empirical Analysis of Airline Pricing in U.S. Monopoly Markets
John Lazarev (New York University)
Discussants:
Jiawei Chen (University of California-Irvine)
Michael Dickstein (Yale University)
Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford University)
Connan Snider (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward C
International Association for Energy Economics/American Economic Association
The Future of Energy: Markets, Technology and Policy (Q4)
Presiding: Kenneth Medlock III (Rice University)
The Future Role of Energy Efficiency and Technology
Jim Sweeney (Stanford University)
Comprehensive Tax Reform and Energy Policy
Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University)
Competition of Fuels and the Outlook for Oil and Gas
Adam Sieminski (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford C
International Network for Economic Method
Expert and Consensus in Economics (B4)
Presiding: Carlo Martini (University of Bayreuth)
Expertise and Institutional Design in Economics
Carlo Martini (University of Bayreuth)
Attributing Expertise in Uncertain Times
Maria Jiménez Buedo (UNED Madrid)
Bad Advice from Experts, Herding, and Bubbles
Mark Thoma (University of Oregon)
Searching for Keys under a Lamppost: Why Journalists Shouldn't Turn to Nobel Prize Winners for Expertise in Policy
David Colander (Middlebury College)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
International Trade & Finance Association
Round Table on the Euro (F3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Mordechai Kreinin (Michigan State University)
Sven Arndt (Claremont McKenna College)
Raul Moncarz (Florida International University)
Ronald McKinnon (Stanford University)
Michael G. Plummer (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS-Bologna)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford A
Korea-America Economic Association
Recent Development of Applied Microeconomics (D7)
Presiding: Jay Pil Choi (University of New South Wales and Michigan State University)
Communication in Bargaining Over Decision Rights
Wooyoung Lim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Relational Contacts in a Persistent Environment
Suehyun Kwon (University College London)
Lobbying for Power: A Structural Model of Lobbying in the Energy Sector
Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Endogenous Group Formation in Contests: Unobservable Sharing Rules
Kyung Hwan Baik (Sungkyunkwan University)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford B
National Association of Economic Educators
Size, Content, and Student Characteristics: What Matters in the Economics Classroom? (A2)
Presiding: John Swinton (Georgia College)
The Class Size Gap and Technology: Is Help a Click Away?
Chiara Gratton-Lavoie (California State University-Fullerton)
Denise Stanley (California State University-Fullerton)
Going Deep or Going Wide: The Economics Curriculum
Bruce K. Johnson (Centre College)
John J. Perry (Centre College)
Marie Petkus (Centre College)
Credit Cards and Credit Savvy: Financial Literacy and Credit Card Use by High School Students
Roger B. Butters (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Carlos J. Asarta (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
College Performance and Labor Market Outcomes of Native Hawaiians
Inna Cintina (University of Hawaii)
Discussants:
Christopher Clark (Georgia College)
John R. Swinton (Georgia College)
Kaustav Misra (Saginaw Valley State University)
William Bosshardt (Florida Atlantic University)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
Women and Economic Development in Africa (O1)
Presiding: Rhonda Sharpe (Bennett College)
War, Female Education and Marriage: Evidence from Nigeria
Richard Akresh (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)
Marinella Leone (University of Sussez)
Una Okonkwo Osili (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)
Sources of the Persistent Gender Wage Gap along the Unconditional Earning Distribution: Findings from Kenya
Richard U. Agesa (Marshall University)
Jacqueline Agesa (Marshall University)
Andrew Dabalen (World bank)
Foreign Aid and Gender: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Elizabeth Asiedu (University of Kansas)
Malokele Nanivazo (United Nations University—World Institute of Development Economics)
Mwanza Nkusu (Inernational Monetary Fund)
Access to Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Relevant is Gender?”
Elizabeth Asiedu (University of Kansas)
Isaac Kanyama (University of Johannesburg)
Leonce Ndikumana (University of Massachusetts)
Akwasi Nti-Addae (University of Kansas)
Gender and Earnings in Manufacturing: The Case of Tanzania
Juliet Elu (Morehouse college)
Linda Loubert (Morgan State University)
The Role of Gender in Development: Where Do Boys Count?
Frannie A. Léautier (African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe)
Dieynaba Tandian (African Capacity Building Foundation)
Discussants:
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (University of South Florida)
John Karikari (Government Accountability Office)
Akwasi Nti-Addae (University of Kansas)
Leonce Ndikumana (University of Massachusetts)
Ruth Uwaifo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Roland Pongou (University of Ottawa)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom C
Society for Policy Modeling
The Euro Crisis: Prospects for Its Resolution (F3)
Presiding: Lucjan Orlowski (Sacred Heart University)
The Euro and the Process of Deleveraging in the Eurozone
A. G. Malliaris (Loyola University Chicago)
Macroprudential Policy Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Euro Area
Lucjan Orlowski (Sacred Heart University)
The Euro: A Crisis Waiting to Happen
Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)
Discussants:
Fred Campano (Fordham University)
Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Transportation & Public Utilities Group
Regulation and Contemporary Systems (L9)
Presiding: Carolyn Gideon (Tufts University)
Are Public Utility and Common Carrier Proper Constructs for What Happens Next?
Mark Jamison (University of Florida)
Janice Hauge (University of North Texas)
The Effect of Electricity Pricing on the Use of Nuclear Power
Daniel Karney (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Why is Deregulation So Easy and Reregulation So Hard?
Doug Jones (Ohio State University)
Commissioner Selection and Deregulation of Gas Utilities
Vladimir Hlasny (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Discussants:
Eric Ralph (Federal Communication Commission)
Catherine McDonough (ISO New England)
Kent Currie (AT&T Services)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Capital Controls and the International Monetary System (F3)
Presiding: Carmen Reinhart (Harvard University)
Dealing with the Trilemma: Capital Controls and Government Spending
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Ivan Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Capital Controls and Currency Wars
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
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Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls
Kristin Forbes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Marcel Fratzscher (European Central Bank)
Thomas Kostka (European Central Bank)
Roland Straub (European Central Bank)
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Multilateral Aspects of Managing the Capital Account
Jonathan D. Ostry (International Monetary Fund)
Atish R. Ghosh (International Monetary Fund)
Anton Korinek (University of Maryland)
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Discussants:
Robert Kollmann (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Nicolas Coeurdacier (SciencesPo)
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland)
Jeromin Zettelmeyer (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Determinants of Time Preferences (D9)
Presiding: David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
The Effect of Education on Time Preferences
Francisco Perez-Arce (RAND)
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Working Over Time: Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Taks
Ned Augenblick (University of California-Berkeley)
Muriel Niederle (Stanford University)
Charles Sprenger (Stanford University)
The Effects of Savings on Risk-Taking and Intertemporal Choice Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Leandro Carvalho (RAND)
Silvia Prina (Case Western Reserve University)
Justin Sydnor (University of Wisconsin)
Cognitive Limits, Apparent Impatience, and Monthly Consumption Cycles: Theory and Evidence from the South African Pension
Dean Spears (Princeton University)
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Discussants:
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Daniel Silverman (University of Michigan)
Shane Frederick (Yale University)
Stefano DellaVigna (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester D
American Economic Association
Economics Education Poster Session (A2) (Poster Session)
Presiding: Steven L. Cobb (University of North Texas)
Staying Relevant: The Best Media for Teaching and Learning Economics in the Last Five Years
G. Dirk Mateer (Pennsylvania State University)
Kim Holder (University of West Georgia)
Competitive Analysis for a Firm Using Current Market Conditions
Brian W. Sloboda (University of Phoenix and U.S. Postal Service)
Areerat Kichkha (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)
Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Getting to the Reflection Step
Rochelle Ruffer (Nazareth College)
Mark Maier (Glendale Community College)
The Use of Service Learning Projects to Teach Introductory Consumer Economics
Rod D. Raehsler (Clarion University)
Enhancing Teachers' Classroom Effectiveness in Economics: GIGEL as an Alternative Model
Joseph C. Onuoha (University of Nigeria)
Njideka D. Eneogu (University of Nigeria)
Using Competition as a Pedagogical Device in Large Principles of Economics Classes
Peter F. Orazem (Iowa State University)
Creating Connections: Exploring Economic Issues through Cyclic Concept Mapping
Njideka D. Eneogu (University of Nigeria)
Joseph C. Onuoha (University of Nigeria)
A Futures Trading Project to Promote Active Learning in Agricultural Economics Courses
Max St. Brown (Washington State University)
Jared Woolstenhulme (Washington State University)
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Market Making with i-clikers
Elisabeth Oltheten (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Virginia Grace France (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Learning by Doing: Getting Students to "Discover" Answers
Ranganath Murthy (Western New England University)
Using Newspaper Articles and Documentary Films for Applications in Principles of Economics Courses
Elizabeth Breitbach (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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The Labour Market
Marilyn Cottrell (Brock University, Canada)
Rent-A-Car: Teaching Managerial Economics with a Team-Based Interactive Case Study
Dmitriy Chulkov (Indiana University-Kokomo)
Dmitri Nizovtsev (Washburn University)
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What Works in Principles of Macro Classes: Enrollment 700 or Enrollment 30
Martha L. Olney (University of California-Berkeley)
Learning about the Economic Impact of a Sports Arena
John F.R. Harter (Eastern Kentucky University)
Cheat Sheet: Is It Worth It? The Effectiveness of the Quality of Cheat Sheet Used in Undergraduate Econometrics Courses
Leila Farivar (Ohio State University)
Power-Up Smartphones to Access Knowledge and Electrify Class Participation
Howard H. Cochran, Jr. (Belmont University)
Marieta Velikova (Belmont University)
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Using Creative Video Clips Projects as Active Learning, Strategies in Economics Courses
Jennjou Chen (National Chengchi University)
Tsui-Fang Lin (National Taipei University)
Revise and Resubmit: Using Exams as Teaching Tools
Kathryn Birkeland (University of South Dakota)
Teaching Intermediate Microeconomics in "The Inside-Out Classroom"
James Bruehler (Eastern Illinois University)
Linda S. Ghent (Eastern Illinois University)
Alan Grant (Baker University)
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Employing Regional Survey Data in Teaching Students on the Price Index Calculation and Cost of Living Concept
Maureen Dunne (Framingham State University)
Donald MacRitchie (Framingham State University)
Martha Meaney (Framingham State University)
Fahlino Sjuib (Framingham State University)
Uisng Extra Credit in a Student Game Theory Simulation
Jamie Volz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Economics of the Internet (D1)
Presiding: Hal Varian (Google)
How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online
Alejandro Zentner (University of Texas-Dallas)
Michael D. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University)
Cuneyd Kaya (University of Texas-Dallas)
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Consumer Tracking and Efficient Matching in Online Advertising Markets
Susan Athey (Harvard University)
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)
Emilio Calvano (Bocconi University)
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Supply-Side Responses to Privacy Protection
Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
Catherine Tucker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Discussants:
Feng Zhu (University of Southern California)
Hal R. Varian (Google)
Jeffrey Prince (Indiana University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford A
American Economic Association
Effects of Education and Access to Education (I2)
Presiding: Peter McHenry (College of William & Mary)
The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes
Marta Lachowska (Upjohn Institute and Stockholm University)
Timothy J. Bartik (Upjohn Institute)
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
Julian Cristia (Inter-American Development Bank)
Pablo Ibarraran (Inter-American Development Bank)
Santiago Cueto (Grupo de Apoyo para el Desarrollo)
Ana Santiago (Inter-American Development Bank)
Eugenio Severin (Inter-American Development Bank)
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The Effect of Early-Life Education on Later-Life Mortality
Dan A. Black (University of Chicago)
Yu-Chieh Hsu (NORC, University of Chicago)
Lowell J. Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University)
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The effect of education on old age health and cognitive abilities - does the instrument matter?
Fabrizio Mazzonna (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy)
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Wise Up: Get Educated, Quit Smoking
Adam Cook (University at Buffalo)
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Looking Beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation
Benjamin L. Castleman (Harvard University)
Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University)
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Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward A & B
American Economic Association
Financial Economic History (N1)
Presiding: Matthew Jaremski (Colgate University)
When Did the Dollar Overtake Sterling as the Leading International Currency? Evidence from the Bond Markets
Livia Chitu (European Central Bank)
Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley)
Arnaud Jerome Mehl (European Central Bank)
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Politics on the Road to the U.S. Monetary Union
Peter L. Rousseau (Vanderbilt University)
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Keynes the Stock Market Investor
David Chambers (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Elroy Dimson (London Business School)
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Identifying Fiscal Policy (In)effectiveness from the Differential Adoption of Keynesianism in the Interwar Period
Gregor W. Smith (Queen's University)
Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Universite de Sherbrooke)
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Income Taxation and Business Incorporation: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century
Li Liu (University of Oxford)
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Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Global Macro Policy and the Great Recession (F4)
Presiding: Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan)
The mystique surrounding the central bank's balance sheet, applied to the European crisis
Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)
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Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy
Alan J. Auerbach (University of California-Berkeley)
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California-Berkeley)
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Forecasting the Great Recession: This Time is Different
Kathryn Dominguez (University of Michigan)
Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan)
Discussants:
Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Allen Sinai (Decision Economics)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Health Economics in Developing Countries (I1)
Presiding: Shelley White-Means (University of Tennessee)
When to Invest in Early Childhood: Medium-Term Effects of the Nicaraguan Conditional Cash Transfer on Cognitive Functioning and Educational Attainment
Tania Barham (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
John Maluccio (Middlebury College)
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Can the Major Public Works Program in India Serve as Buffer against Negative Shocks? A Panel Study from Andhra Pradesh, India
Aparajita Dasgupta (University of California-Riverside)
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Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-up in Zambia
Adrienne M. Lucas (University of Delaware)
Nicholas L. Wilson (Williams College)
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Women's Land Rights and Child Well-Being in Vietnam
Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University)
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Discussants:
Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California-Los Angeles)
Erica Field (Duke University)
Frank Sloan (Duke University)
Marjorie B. McElroy (Duke University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Heterogeneity of Income Responses to Taxation (H2)
Presiding: Len Burman (Syracuse University)
How the Rich Respond to Tax Rate Increases: Evidence from High-Income Taxpayer Responses to the 1993 Tax Act
Gerald Auten (U.S. Treasury Department)
Laura Kawano (U.S. Treasury Department)
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Taxes and the Size and Composition of Executive Compensation
Seth Giertz (University of Nebraska)
Nada Eissa (Georgetown University)
William Jack (Georgetown University)
Jake Mortenson (Georgetown University)
Heterogeneity in the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains
Tim Dowd (Joint Committee on Taxation)
Robert McClelland (Congressional Budget Office)
Athiphat Muthitacharoen (Congressional Budget Office)
The Fixed-Bracket Average Treatment Effect: A Constructive Alternative to LATE Analysis for Tax Policy
Caroline Weber (University of Oregon)
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Discussants:
Len Burman (Syracuse University)
Jon Bakija (Williams College)
Jeff Larrimore (Joint Committee on Taxation)
David Joulfaian (U.S. Treasury Department)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
HIV and Behavior Change (I1)
Presiding: Douglas Miller (University of California-Davis)
HIV Risk and Adolescent Behaviors in Africa
Anne Case (Princeton University)
Christina Paxson (Princeton University)
Learning from Others' HIV Testing: Updating Beliefs and Responding to Risk
Susan Godlonton (University of Michigan)
Rebecca Thornton (University of Michigan)
Do Sex Workers Respond to Disease? Evidence from the Male Market for Sex
Manisha Shah (University of California-Irvine and NBER)
Discussants:
Emily Oster (University of Chicago)
Paul Gertler (University of California-Berkeley)
Dana P. Goldman (University of Southern California)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle D
American Economic Association
Intangible Capital and Asset Prices (G1)
Presiding: Hengjie Ai (Duke University)
Organization Capital and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
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Customer Capital
Francois Gourio (Boston University)
Leena Rudanko (Boston University)
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Intangible Assets and Cross-Sectional Stock Returns: Evidence from Structural Estimation
Laura Liu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Erica Li (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
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Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital
Hengjie Ai (Duke University)
Mariano Croce (University of North Carolina)
Kai Li (Duke University)
Discussants:
Lu Zhang (Ohio State University)
Leonid Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
John Heaton (University of Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester H & I
American Economic Association
International Policy Coordination (F4)
Presiding: Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)
International Policy Coordination in the Eurozone
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University)
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International Policy Coordination and Transmission
Robert Mundell (Columbia University)
International Macroeconomic Policy Coordination with Debt Overhang
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)
International Monetary Coordination and the Great Deviation
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
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International Policy Coordination in the Euro Area: Towards an Economic and Financial Federation
Jean-Claude Trichet (Banque de France)
Discussants:
Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University)
Martin Feldstein (Harvard University)
Robert Mundell (Columbia University)
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)
John B. Taylor (Stanford University)
Jean-Claude Trichet (Banque de France)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
International Trade and Labor Markets (F2)
Presiding: Gordon Hanson (University of California-San Diego and NBER)
A Trapped Factor Model of Innovation
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University and NBER)
Paul Romer (Stanford University and NBER)
Stephen Terry (Stanford University)
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and NBER)
Sources of Wage Inequality
Anders Akerman (Stockholm University)
Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University and NBER)
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University and NBER)
Marc Muendler (University of California-San Diego and NBER)
Stephen Redding (Princeton University and NBER)
The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
David H. Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
David Dorn (CEMFI and IZA)
Gordon H. Hanson (University of California-San Diego and NBER)
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Discussants:
Charles Jones (Stanford University and NBER)
Jonathan Eaton (Pennsylvania State University and NBER)
Lawrence Katz (Harvard University and NBER)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Labor Market Networks (J2)
Presiding: Patrick Bayer (Duke University)
Why Don't Women Get Job Referrals? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi
Lori Beaman (Northwestern University)
Jeremy Magruder (University of California-Berkeley)
Niall Keleher (Innovations for Poverty Action)
Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?
Judith K. Hellerstein (University of Maryland)
Mark J. Kutzbach (U.S. Census Bureau)
David Neumark (Univesity of California-Irvine)
Workplace Agglomeration and Social Network Segregation: Labor Market Returns by Race.
Elizabeth Ananat (Duke University)
Shihe Fu (Xiamen University)
Stephen L. Ross (University of Connecticut)
Peer Effects in Program Participation
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
Katrine Loken (University of Bergen)
Magne Mogstad (University College London, Statistics Norway and ESOP)
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Discussants:
Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University)
Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Kevin Lang (Boston University)
Alexandre Mas (Princeton University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
Models or Muddles: How the Press Covers Economics and the Economy (A0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Alan Blinder (Princeton University)
Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)
Adam Davidson (National Public Radio and New York Times)
Kelly Evans (CNBC)
Chrystia Freeland (Reuters)
David Wessel (Wall Street Journal)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Plan Choice and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Market (I1)
Presiding: Yuting Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
Choosing Prescription Drug Plans: Do Elders Get Better Over Time?
Jason Todd Abaluck (Yale University)
Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Measuring Switching Costs in the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market
Chao Zhou (University of Pittsburgh)
Yuting Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
Health Plan Response to Risk Adjustment: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Disenrollment
M. Kate Bundorf (Stanford University)
Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection
Benjamin Handel (University of California-Berkeley)
Jonathan Kolstad (University of Pennsylvania)
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Discussants:
Cameron M. Kaplan (University of Pittsburgh)
Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Kosali Simon (Indiana University)
Amanda Kowalski (Yale University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Randle E
American Economic Association
The Impact of Cash Transfer Programs on Environmental Outcomes in Developing Countries (Q5)
Presiding: Annette Brown (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))
The Leakage and Livelihood Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services: Evidence from Malawi
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
Impacts of Conditional versus Unconditional Transfers on Livelihood and Conservation Outcomes
Erwin Bulte (Wageningen University)
Andreas Kontoleon (University of Cambridge)
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Ty Turley (University of Chicago)
Maarten Voors (Wageningen University)
Two-Dimensional Evaluation: The Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Mexico's Payments for Hydrological Services Program
Jennifer Alix-Garcia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Katharine Sims (Amherst College)
Patricia Yanez-Pagans (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Volker Radeloff (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Elizabeth Shapiro (Duke University)
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Effects of Payment for Environmental Services and Decentralized Forest Management on Environmental and Human Welfare Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
Larry Chavis (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Parashar Kulkarni (New York University)
Laura Paler (Center for Global Development)
Cyrus Samii (New York University)
Birte Snilstveit (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))
Discussants:
Thomas de Hoop (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))
Annette Brown (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))
Jennifer Alix-Garcia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Maarten Voors (Wageningen University)
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma A & B
American Economic Association
The Impacts of Great Society Programs (N3)
Presiding: Gavin Wright (Stanford University)
Valuing the Vote: the Redistribution of voting rights and state funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ebonya Washington (Yale University)
Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College)
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The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans
Martha Bailey (University of Michigan)
Andrew Goodman-Bacon (University of Michigan)
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The 1966 FLSA Amendments, Hospital Costs and Employment, and Medicare
Kenneth Chay (Brown University)
Shailender Swaminathan (Brown University)
School Quality and the Long-Run Effects of Head Start
Rucker Johnson (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University)
Robert Margo (Boston University)
David Deming (Harvard University)
Jordan Matsudaira (Cornell University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Whither Affirmative Action? (D6)
Presiding: James Heckman (University of Chicago)
Can Affirmative Action be Rendered Unnecessary?
James J. Heckman (University of Chicago)
The Role of Affirmative Action in Egalitarian Social Policies
Steven N. Durlauf (University of Wisconsin)
Designing for Diversity: Implementing Affirmative Action Policies through Matching
Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago)
Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College)
The Superficial Morality of Color-Blindness: Why Equal Opportunity May Not Be Enough
Glenn Loury (Brown University)
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Discussants:
Steven N. Durlauf (University of Wisconsin)
Kerwin Charles (University of Chicago)
Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University)
Larry Blume (Cornell University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Agency Problems (G3)
Presiding: Dirk Jenter (Stanford University)
Do Managers Do Good with Other Peoples' Money?
Ing-Haw Cheng (University of Michigan)
Harrison Hong (Princeton University)
Kelly Shue (University of Chicago)
Fortune Favors the Bold
Costanza Meneghetti (West Virginia University)
Ryan Williams (University of Arizona)
Does the Director Labor Market Offer Ex Post Settling-Up for CEOs? The Case of Acquisitions
Robert Schonlau (Brigham Young University)
Jarrad Harford (University of Washington)
Discussants:
Vicente Cunat (London School of Economics)
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard Business School)
Jeffrey Coles (Arizona State University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Banking and Financial Institutions II (G2)
Presiding: Viral Acharya (New York University)
Covenant Violations, Loan Contracting, and Default Risk of Bank Borrowers
Felix Freudenberg (Goethe University-Frankfurt)
Bjorn Imbierowicz (Goethe University-Frankfurt)
Anthony Saunders (New York University)
Sascha Steffen (European School of Management and Technology)
Loan Officer Incentives and the Limits of Hard Information
Tobias Berg (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Jorg Rocholl (European School of Management and Technology)
Do Changes in the Timeliness of Loan Loss Recognition Affect Bank Risk Taking?
Manuel Illueca Munoz (Universitat Jaume I)
Lars Norden (Erasmus University)
Gregory Udell (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Discussants:
Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
Rainer Haselmann (University of Bonn)
Jose-Luis Peydro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Behavioral Finance-Individuals (G1)
Presiding: Brad Barber (University of California-Davis)
Stock Market Returns and Annuitization: A Case of Myopic Extrapolation
Alessandro Previtero (University of Western Ontario)
Financial Overconfidence Over Time - Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors
Christoph Merkle (University of Mannheim)
Paying Attention: Investor Account Look-Ups and Information - Dependent Utility
Duane Seppi (Carnegie Mellon University)
George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)
Nachum Sicherman (Columbia University)
Stephen Utkus (The Vanguard Group, Inc.)
Facebook Finance: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing
David Simon (Brandeis University)
Rawley Heimer (Brandeis University)
Discussants:
Jeffrey R. Brown (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Simon Gervais (Duke University)
James J. Choi (Yale University)
Bing Han (University of Texas-Austin)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Corporate Finance and Product Markets (G3)
Presiding: Murillo Campello (Cornell University)
Globalization, Product Market Competition and Investment
Mengying Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Antonio Mello (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
A Project-Level Analysis of Value Creation in Firms
Jonathan Cohn (University of Texas-Austin)
Umit Gurun (University of Texas-Dallas)
Rabih Moussawi (University of Pennsylvania)
Does Debt Make Firms Weak Competitors? Evidence Using U.S. Stock Returns
Rogerio Mazali (Tulane University)
Jaideep Shenoy (Tulane University)
Sheri Tice (Tulane University)
The Financial Implication of Corporate Fraud
Chen Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Frank Song (University of Hong Kong)
Zengyuan Sun (University of Hong Kong)
Discussants:
Senay Agca (George Washington University)
Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell University)
Gordon Phillips (University of Southern California)
Sudheer Chava (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association/American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Exploring the Link Between Regulation, Credit Markets, and Real Estate (G2)
Presiding: Christopher Mayer (Columbia University)
Subprime Mortgage Defaults and Credit Default Swaps
Eric Arentsen (The TCW Group, Inc.)
David Mauer (Texas A&M University)
Brian Rosenlund (The TCW Group, Inc.)
Feng Zhao (University of Texas-Dallas)
Harold H. Zhang (University of Texas-Dallas)
Banks' Liability Structure and Mortgage Lending During the Financial Crisis
Jihad Dagher (International Monetary Fund)
Kazim Kazimov (International Monetary Fund)
How Do Regulators Influence Mortgage Risk? Evidence from an Emerging Market
John Campbell (Harvard University)
Tarun Ramadorai (University of Oxford)
Did Affordable Housing Legislation Contribute to the Subprime Securities Boom?
Ruben Hernandez-Murillo (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Andra Ghent (Arizona State University)
Michael T. Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Discussants:
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University )
Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia)
Charles Calomiris (Columbia University)
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
International Financial Markets (G1)
Presiding: Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Share of Systematic Variation in Bilateral Exchange Rates
Adrien Verdelhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Exchange Rates and International Risk Sharing
Craig Burnside (Duke University)
Jeremy Graveline (University of Minnesota)
Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe
Andrew Ang (Columbia University)
Francis Longstaff (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Andrew Ang (Columbia University)
Adrien Verdelhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Craig Burnside (Duke University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
House Price Index and Forecast (R3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Stephen Malpezzi (University of Wisconsin)
Zhenguo Lin (California State University-Fullerton)
Robert Pace (Louisiana State University)
James Follain (State University of New York-Albany)
Pedro Saffi (University of Cambridge)
Eli Beracha (East Carolina University)
Yong Tu (National University of Singapore)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Mortgage Market Crisis Post-Mortem (G2)
Presiding: Michael Lea (San Diego State University)
The Subprime Virus: Theory and Evidence
Brent Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University)
Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Yildiray Yildirim (Syracuse University)
Costly Screening, Self Selection and the Existence of a Pooling Equilibrium in Credit Markets
Pingkang Yu (George Washington University)
Three Years After Takeover, How Have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Benefited the U.S. Housing Market?
James Shilling (DePaul University)
The Effects of Mortgage Broker Licensing on Loan Origination Standards and Default: Evidence From U.S. Mortgage Market 2000-2007
Lan Shi (University of Washington)
Discussants:
Vincent Yao (Fannie Mae)
Wayne Archer (University of Florida)
Kevin Villani (University Financial Associates)
Susan Woodward (Sand Hill Econometrics)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Gallery
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
State and Financial Sector Development (E6)
Presiding: Iikka Korhonen (Bank of Finland)
Corporate Bailouts: The Role of Costly External Finance and Operating Performance
Yulia Davydova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Vladimir Sokolov (Higher School of Economics)
Do Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Going Public Process in China
Bill B. Francis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University)
Xian Sun (Johns Hopkins University)
Mingming Zhou (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs)
The Influence of Bank Ownership on Credit Supply: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis
Zuzana Fungacova (Bank of Finland)
Risto Herrala (Bank of Finland)
Laurent Weill (University of Strasbourg)
Prolonged Reserves Accumulation, Credit Booms, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in Asia
Andrew J. Filardo (BIS)
Pierre L. Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Discussants:
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School)
Karolin Kirschenmann (Aalto University)
Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University)
Anders Aslund (Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Bayside Pavilion
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Paul Davidson Senior Scholars Interactive Session (SSIS) on Deep Recession, Debt Crisis, Financial Instability and Policy (G3) (Poster Session)
Presiding: Paul Davidson (University of Tennessee)
Discussant:
Daphne Greenwood (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)
The Role of Securities Financing Arrangements in the Credit Structure: An Application of the Financial Instability Hypothesis
Fiona Maclachlan (Manhattan College)
Through Economic Crises to a Progressive Society: Possible Roles for Institutional Regimes of State Capitalism
Anna Klimina (St. Thomas More College, Canada)
Teaching the Greek Crisis from the Perspectives of Competing Models
John Harvey (Texas Christian University)
Varieties of Policy Reactions to the Financial Crisis 2008 ff.: An Analysis of Networks of Institutions and "National Systems of Policies"
Shuanping Dai (University of Bremen, Germany)
Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen, Germany)
Identity and Unsustainable Consumption
Barbara E. Hopkins (Wright State University)
Credit and Capital Formation: Lessons of Mexican Migrant Entrepreneurs in the US Financial Crisis
Eugenia Correa (UNAM, Mexico)
Alicia Giron (UNAM, Mexico)
Inequality and the Great Recession
Kellin Chandler Stanfield (DePauw University)
Private Equity, Climate Change, the Current Financial Crisis and the Shifting of Global Economic Superpowers
Jack Reardon (Hamline University)
Policy Responses to Economic Crises -- Learning from Developing Countries' Experiences
Henning Schwardt (University of Bremen, Germany)
Realistic Economic Development Policy Today: What Does Really Matter?
John Marangos (University of Crete, Greece)
Nikolaos Karagiannis (Winston-Salem State University)
Resource Abundance, Monetary Policy and Long-Term Stability
Jing Chen (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
Consuming Less and Caring More: Creating Economic Policy for Social Provisioning
Valerie K. Kepner (King's College)
Paula M. Cole (University of Denver)
Knowledge, Care and Maintenance Work
Carol Scotton (Knox College)
Crisis, Recovery and the Role of the State in the Periphery: The Cases of Argentina and Brazil
Ramon Garcia Fernandez (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)
Pedro Caldas Chadarevian (Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil)
Marcelo Milan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Schumpeter and an Institutional Analysis of the U.S. Housing Crisis
Bruce A. McDaniel (University of Northern Colorado)
What the Financial Collapse of 2008 Can Tell Us about Forecasting the Future
Thomas Swanke (Morningside College)
The Great Crisis and Development Economics: The Vision of Celso Furtado
Gregorio Vidal Bonifaz (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa)
Wesley Colin Marshall (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa)
Policies and Institutions to Moderate Deep Recession, Debt Crises and Financial Instability
Phillip Anthony O'Hara (Global Political Economy Research Unit, Australia)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics
Plural Perspectives on Labor Markets: Behavioral, Feminist, Institutional, and Empirical (J7)
Presiding: Bruce Kaufman (Georgia State University)
Insights of Behavioral and Experimental Economics on How Labor Markets Work
Morris Altman (Victoria University of Wellington)
Modeling Labor Markets: A Feminist Economics Perspective
Deb Figart (Stockton College)
Ellen Mutari (Stockton College)
Marilyn Power (Sarah Lawrence College)
The Labor Market Model in Institutional Economics and Industrial Relations
Bruce E. Kaufman (Georgia State University)
Modeling Labor Markets: Conclusions from 30+ Years of Research and Investigation
Richard Freeman (Harvard University and NBER)
Discussants:
Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
Paula B. Voos (Rutgers University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, New York
Association for the Study of Grants Economy/International Association for Feminist Economics
Child Care, Mother's Time, and Familial Well- being (J1)
Presiding: Agneta Stark (Dalarna University)
The Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers’ Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia)
Maya Rossin-Slater (Columbia University)
Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)
If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands: How Do We Actually Feel about Child Caregiving?
Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College)
Jean Kimmel (Western Michigan University)
Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
Christopher M. Herbst (Arizona State University)
Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University)
Defining Child Care: Evidence from the ATUS 2003-2010
Jooyeoun Suh (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Discussants:
Resul Cesur (University of Connecticut)
Ye Zhang (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis)
Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Katie Genadek (University of Minnesota)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Climate Change and Valuation (Q5)
Presiding: Andrew Plantinga (Oregon State University)
Climate, Ecosystem Resilience and the Slave Trade
Namrata Kala (Yale University)
James Fenske (Oxford University)
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To Learn or To Change: Optimal R&D Investments under Uncertainties of Climate Change
Ruiqing Miao (Iowa State University)
David A. Hennessy (Iowa State University)
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On the Bias/Efficiency Tradeoff in Contingent Valuation
Sapna Kaul (Virginia Tech)
Kevin J. Boyle (Virginia Tech)
Michael Hanemann (Arizona State University)
Nicolai V. Kuminoff (Arizona State University)
Risk Premia and the Social Cost of Carbon: A Decomposition Analysis
David Anthoff (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Andrew Plantinga (Oregon State University)
Daniel Kaffine (Colorado School of Mines)
Tim Haab (Ohio State University)
Soren Anderson (Michigan State University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine C & D
Chinese Economists Society
Challenges for the Chinese Labor Market (J3)
Presiding: Klaus Zimmermann (Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA))
Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China
Peter Kuhn (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Kailing Shen (Xiamen University)
Cognitive Skills, Non‐Cognitive Skills, and the Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China
Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota)
Qiuqiong Huang (University of Minnesota)
Albert Park (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Minimum Standards of Living, Income and Positional Concerns in Mid‐reform Urban China
Jeffrey Zax (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Kirby Rattenbury (Deloitte)
Remittances and Well‐Being among Rural‐to‐Urban Migrants in China
Alpaslan Akay (IZA)
Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
Juan David Robalino (Cornell University)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA)
Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: Blood Plasma Donation, Peer Effects and Status Seeking
Xi Chen (Yale University)
Discussants:
Jeffrey Zax (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
Kailing Shen (Xiamen University)
Albert Park (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Peter Kuhn (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Credit and Bankruptcy (G3)
Presiding: TengTeng Xu (Bank of Canada)
Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Policies
Kurt Mitman (University of Pennsylvania)
Dynamic Poaching in Credit Card Lending
Lukasz Drozd (University of Pennsylvania)
Ricardo Serrano-Padial (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Default Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity
Aubhik Khan (The Ohio State University)
Tatsuro Senga (The Ohio State University)
Julia K. Thomas (The Ohio State University)
Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
TengTeng Xu (Bank of Canada)
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge and University of Southern California)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Emerging Issues in Commodity Markets (G1)
Presiding: Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
Investor Flows and the 2008 Boom/Bust in Oil Prices
Kenneth Singleton (Stanford University)
Risk Premia in Crude Oil Futures Prices
James D. Hamilton (University of California-San Diego)
Jing Cynthia Wu (University of Chicago)
The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil
Daniel Patrick Murphy (University of Michigan)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets
Ing-Haw Cheng (Ross School of Business University of Michigan)
Andrei Kirilenko (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
Discussants:
Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University)
Neil Pearson (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Michael Sockin (Princeton University)
Joseph Gruber (Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
JBES Invited Paper (C2)
Presiding: Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins University)
Inference with Inconsistent Long-Run Variance Estimators
Ulrich K. Mueller (Princeton University)
Discussants:
Matias Damian Cattaneo (University of Michigan)
Yixiao Sun (University of California-San Diego)
Nicholas Kiefer (Cornell University)
Tim Vogelsang (Michigan State University)
Richard K. Crump (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
Macroeconomic Reforms (E6)
Presiding: Gary Hansen (University of California-Los Angeles)
Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey
Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Hitoshi Tsujiyama (University of Minnesota)
Debt and the U.S. Economy
Kaiji Chen (Emory University)
Ayse Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California)
Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan: A Neoclassical Perspective
Gary D. Hansen (University of California-Los Angeles)
Selahattin Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California)
Health Insurance Reform: The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in
Gary D. Hansen (University of California-Los Angeles)
Minchung Hsu (National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies)
Junsang Lee (Korea Development Institute)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
New Developments in Empirical Modeling of Games (C5)
Presiding: Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Identification of Potential Games and Demand Models for Bundles
Jeremy T. Fox (University of Michigan)
Natalia Lazzati (University of Michigan)
Robust Inference in Ordered Response Games with Incomplete Information: Are Firms Strategic Substitutes?
Amit Kumar Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Andres Aradillas-Lopez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Random Coefficients in Static Games of Complete Information
Fabian Dunker (University of Goettingen)
Stefan Hoderlein (Boston College)
Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
Identification and Estimation of Games with Incomplete Information Using Excluded Regressors
Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
Xun Tang (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussants:
Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)
Peter C. Reiss (Stanford University)
Whitney K. Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Steven Berry (Yale University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Political Economy (D7)
Presiding: Marcus Berliant (Washington University-St. Louis)
Hierarchical Accountability in Government: Theory and Evidence
Razvan Vlaicu (University of Maryland)
Alexander Whalley (University of California-Merced and NBER)
Pandering, Faith, and Electoral Competition
Gabriele Gratton (University of New South Wales)
When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-Track Authority
Levent Celik (CERGE-EI)
Bilgehan Karabay (University of Auckland)
John McLaren (University of Virginia and University of Cambridge)
Local Politics and Economic Geography
Marcus Berliant (Washington University-St. Louis)
Takatoshi Tabuchi (University of Tokyo)
Discussants:
Gabriele Gratton (University of New South Wales)
Levent Celik (CERGE-EI)
Marcus Berliant (Washington University-St. Louis)
Razvan Vlaicu (University of Maryland)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Emma C
Economic History Association
Migration (N3)
Presiding: Michael Haupert (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Segregation, Race, and Ethnicity: New Evidence from American Cities, 1900-1930
Allison Shertzer (University of Pittsburgh)
Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh)
Moving on Up: Immigration and Native Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1870-1930
Rowena Gray (University of Essex)
Race and the Great Migration: Understanding Black‐White Differences using Linked Census Data
Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee)
William Collins (Vanderbilt University)
Indenture and Labor Migration in Colonial Assam
Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
Anand Swamy (Williams College)
Discussants:
Michael Haupert (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Joseph Ferrie (Northwestern University)
Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)
Latika Chaudhary (Scripps College)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Coronado Room
Economic Science Association
Online Field Experiments (C9)
Presiding: Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Crowdsourcing with All-Pay Auctions: A Field Experiment on Taskcn
Tracy Xiao Liu (Tsinghua University)
Jiang Yang (University of Michigan)
Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)
Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Social Coupons - Mechanism Design with Social Media
Tanya Rosenblatt (Iowa State University)
Marcus Mobius (Iowa State University)
Northern Exposure: A Field Experiment Measuring Externalities between Search Advertisements
David H. Reiley (Google, Inc.)
Sai-Ming Li (Microsoft, Inc.)
Randall Lewis (Google, Inc.)
The Impact of Strength of Tie and Social Embeddedness on Influence in Social Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Dylan Walker (New York University)
Sinan Aral (New York University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Miramar
International Association for Feminist Economics
Gendered Education and Migration (J1)
Presiding: Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University)
Feminist Monopsony in the Labor Market for Public School Teachers in the U.S; Narrative and Evidence from the Beginning Teachers Longitudinal Study
Kate Bahn (New School for Social Research)
Female Brain Drains and Women's Social Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Maryam Naghsh Nejad (West Virginia University)
Andrew T. Young (West Virginia University)
Ownership of Assets by Parents and School Enrollment: Evidence from Ghana
Abena Oduro (University of Ghana)
Why Do More Women Pursue Higher Education Than Men?
Yuna Di (Nankai University)
Discussants:
Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg)
Jill Rubery (University of Manchester)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom C
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Andrew Brimmer Policy Forum Economic Policies Facing the Nation (0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Harvey Rosenblum (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Allen Sinai (Decision Economics Inc.)
Michael J. Boskin (Hoover Institution and Stanford University)
Robert J. Gordon (Northwestern University)
R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Edward C
International Health Economics Association
Utilization and Costs in Health Care – Implications for Reform (I1)
Presiding: Jody Sindelar (Yale University)
Endogenous Cost Effectiveness Analysis
Anupam Jena (Harvard University)
Tomas Philipson (University of Chicago and NBER)
Does Seeing the Doctor More Keep You Out of the Hospital?
Robert Kaestner (University of Illinois-Chicago and NBER)
Anthony T. LoSasso (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Does Access to Transparent Provider Quality and Cost Information Affect Health Care Cost and Utilization of Preventive Services?
Stephen T. Parente (University of Minnesota)
Roger Feldman (University of Minnesota)
Lewis Sandy (UnitedHealth)
Discussants:
David Ridley (Duke University)
Guy David (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Richard Lindrooth (University of Colorado-Denver)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford C
International Network for Economic Method
A Tale of Two Methods - Confronting Empirical Economics (B4)
Presiding: Julian Reiss (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Econometrics versus the Randomized Field Trial
Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics and University of California-San Diego)
Designing Experiments for Better External Validity
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
The Virtues of Design-Based Econometrics
Julian Reiss (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
In Defense of Structural Modeling for Empirical Estimation
Don Ross (University of Cape Town)
Discussants:
Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Orlando
International Society for Inventory Research
Inventory Dynamics and Business Cycles (E2)
Presiding: Ruediger Bachmann (RWTH Aachen University)
Trade, Inventories, and the International Propagation of Business Cycles
George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Joseph P. Kaboski (University of Notre Dame)
Virgiliu Midrigan (New York University)
The Role of Inventories and Capacity Utilization as Shock Absorbers
Danilo Trupkin (University of Montevideo)
Leonardo Auernheimer (Texas A&M University, deceased)
Sales, Inventories, and Real Interest Rates: A Century of Stylized Facts
Luca Benati (University of Bern)
Thomas Lubik (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Nonlinearities in Aggregate Import Dynamics
Ruediger Bachmann (RWTH Aachen University)
Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)
Lin Ma (University of Michigan)
Discussants:
Jing Zhang (University of Michigan)
Michael Mahon (University of Warwick)
Cristina Fuentes-Albero (Rutgers University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, La Costa
International Society for New Institutional Economics
The Political Economy of Institutions: Law, Collective Action, and the Governance of Public Bureaucracies (D7)
Presiding: Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)
Courts within and without Communities: Objectivity versus Expertise in Adjudication
Scott Masten (University of Michigan)
Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)
Endogenous Enforcement Institutions
Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)
Gani Aldashev (University of Namur and ECARES)
Cooperation without Altruism: A Field Experiment in the North and South of Italy
Marco Casari (University of Bologna)
Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna)
Stefania Bortolotti (University of Bologna)
Diego Gambetta (University of Oxford)
Francesca Pancotto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
The Make-or-Buy Decision and Ownership: Theory and Evidence from Public and Private California Hospitals
Patrick Warren (Clemson University)
Christina Marsh (University of Georgia)
Discussants:
Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)
Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
International Trade & Finance Association
International Trade (F1)
Presiding: Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee)
Hymer's Multinationals
Katheryn N. Russ (University of California-Davis and NBER)
Beatriz de Blas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
How Geography Affects Quality
Volodymyr Lugovskyy (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Alexandre Skiba (University of Wyoming)
Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Ariell Reshef (University of Virginia)
James Harrigan (University of Virginia and NBER)
Trading Plants and Volatility
Christopher Kurz (Federal Reserve Board)
Mine Z. Senses (Johns Hopkins University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association/Union for Radical Political Economists
Essential Elements of a Genuine "Jobs and Wages" Policy Agenda (J5)
Presiding: Charles J. Whalen (Congressional Budget Office)
Addressing Financialization and Economic Insecurity: Municipal Finance and Labor Relations in the New Millennium
David A. Zalewski (Providence College)
Why Wage Policy is an Essential Ingredient in a Democratic Society
Oren Levin-Waldman (Metropolitan College of New York)
Job Stability and Economic Recovery: The Role of Non Standard and Contingent Work
Barbara Wiens-Tuers (Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College)
Policies to Reduce the Gender Wage Gap
Marlene Kim (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Full Employment and Social Justice: An Affordable and Productive Plan
Fadhel Kaboub (Denison University)
Discussants:
Dorene Isenberg (University of Redlands)
William M. Dugger (University of Tulsa)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
The Incidence of Non-standard Employment and Its Consequences for Firms and Workers (J5)
Presiding: Thomas Kochan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Temporary to Permanent Employment, the Effect of Economic Recovery, the Previous Work Experiences and the Local Placement Office
Nobuko Nagase (Ochanomizu University)
Masaaki Mizuochi (Mie University)
Temp Help in the U.S. Labour Market during the Recent Recession
Susan N. Houseman (W E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)
Carolyn Heinrich (University of Texas)
From Non-standard to Standard Employment: What Are the Chances for Recent Immigrants, Women and Visible Minorities?
Anil Verma (University of Toronto)
Qian (Lydia) He (University of Toronto)
Rupa Banerjee (Ryerson University)
Discussants:
Peter Berg (Michigan State University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Union Members as Political Leaders (J5)
Presiding: Alexander J.S. Colvin (Cornell University)
Union Power: The Role of Labor Organizations in American Politics
Marick Masters (Wayne State University)
The South African Experience with Trade Unions and Democratic Access: A Tale for all Countries?
Ian Sakinofsky (Ryerson University)
Unions and the Politicization of Non-Elites: Toward an Understanding of Labor's Promotion of Worker Participation in Politics
Michael Wasser (American Rights at Work)
J. Ryan Lamare (American Rights at Work)
Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota)
Discussants:
Rafael Gomez (University of Toronto)
Jake Rosenfeld (University of Washington)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine B
Middle East Economic Association
GCC's Economies: Financial and Stock Markets Analysis (G2)
Presiding: Shawkat Hammoudeh (Drexel University)
GCC Monetary Union and Economic Integration
Mahmoud AbdelBaky (University of Dubai)
Shereef Ellaboudy (Zayed University)
Impacts of Global and Domestic Shocks on Economic Growth and Inflation for Actual and Potential GCC Member Countries. Should Jordan Join?
Shawkat Hammoudeh (Drexel University)
Public Expenditure and Growth in Saudi Arabia
Ghazi A. Joharji (American University)
Financial Services Liberalization in a Natural Resource Rich Economy
Sheikh Shahnawaz (California State University)
Hatem Samman (Booz & Co.)
Pirate Attacks and Oil and Financial Markets in the Middle East
Ariel Belasen (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Ali M. Kutan (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Market Regimes and Investor Herds: Evidence from Gulf Arab Stock Markets
Mehmet Balcilar (Eastern Mediterranean University)
Riza Demirer (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Shawkat Hammoudeh (Drexel University)
Discussants:
Serdar Sayan (TOBB University)
Mine Cinar (Loyola University-Chicago)
Riza Demirer (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Abdullah Al-Hassan (International Monetary Fund)
Mehmet Balcilar (Eastern Mediterranean University)
Mahmoud AbdelBaky (University of Dubai)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Ford B
National Association of Economic Educators
Advanced Placement Economics: Is This Any Way to Teach Economics to High School Students? (A2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: John Swinton (Georgia College)
James D. Gwartney (Florida State University)
Kristin Klopfenstein (University of Northern Colorado)
Benjamin Scafidi (Georgia College)
Deirdre N. McCloskey (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Del Mar A & B
National Association of Forensic Economics
Forensic Economics IV - Discounting to Present Value: Historical Averages or Current Interest Rates (K1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: John Ward (University of Misourri-Kansas City)
Edward Foster (University of Minnesota)
James D. Rodgers (Pennsylvania State University)
Joseph I. Rosenberg (Joseph I. Rosenberg, CFA, LLC)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association/African Finance & Economics Association
State Failure in Africa (O1)
Presiding: Una Osili (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis)
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Political Authority in West Africa
Warren C. Whatley (University of Michigan)
Elites, Education, and Reforms: Implications for Democratization in Africa
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz (University of North Florida)
State Failure, Violence and Business Development in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (University of South Florida)
Am I Middle Class: Identity, Politics and Development in Kenya
Mwangi wa Githinji (University of Massachusetts)
State Failure, Policy Syndromes and Growth of African Economies: The Role of Governance
Augustin Kwasi FOSU (UN University-WIDER, Finland)
Discussants:
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)
Raj Arunachalam (University of Michigan)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Madeleine A
Peace Science Society International/American Economic Association
The Cause and Effect of Violence (D7)
Presiding: Solomon Polachek (State University of New York-Binghamton)
The Non-elected State and Urban Civil Violence: A Spatial Analysis of 45 Violence Affected Neighbourhoods in India
Jaideep Gupte (University of Sussex)
Patricia Justino (University of Sussex)
Jean Pierre Tranchant (University of Sussex)
Insecurity in a Pastoral Setting: Consequences and Dynamics
Marc Rockmore (Clark University)
Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
Measuring the Economic Costs of Armed Conflict
Javier Gardeazabal (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Ainhoa Vega-Bayo (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
The Ghost of War in Post-Conflict Development Policy: The Case of Biofuel Concessions in Mozambique
Raul Caruso (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
Topher McDougal (University of San Diego)
War and Famine, Peace and Light? The Economic Dynamics of Conflict in Somalia
Katerina Christoploulou (Risk Management Solutions Ltd.)
Charalampos Makatsoris (Brunel University, UK)
Anja Shortland (Brunel University, UK)
Discussants:
Carlos Seiglie (Rutgers University-Newark)
Phanindra V. Wunnava (Middlebury College and IZA)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
Society for Computational Economics
Inference in DSGE-type models (C3)
Presiding: Lynda Khalaf (Carleton University)
Frequentist Inference in Weakly Identified DSGE Models
Pablo Guerron-Quintana (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Atsushi Inoue (North Carolina State University)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Frequency Domain Analysis of Medium Scale DSGE Models with Application to Smets and Wouters (2007)
Zhongjun Qu (Boston University)
Denis Tkachenko (Boston University)
Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the NKPC
Sophocles Mavroeidis (University of Oxford)
Discussants:
Isaiah Smith Andrews (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ivana Komunjer (University of California-San Diego)
Francisco RUGE-MURCIA (University of Montreal)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Hyatt, Mohsen A & B
Society for Economic Dynamics
New Perspective on Gains from Trade (F1)
Presiding: Francisco Buera (University of California-Los Angeles)
Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
Francisco Buera (University of California-Los Angeles)
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (University of Chicago)
Endogenous Growth and International Technology Diffusion
Jesse Perla (New York University)
Chris Tonetti (New York University)
Michael E. Waugh (New York University)
The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade
Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
Arnaud Costinot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade
Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota)
Wen-Tai Hsu (National University of Singapore)
Sanghoon Lee (University of British Columbia)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Atlanta
Society of Government Economists
Modeling Short- and Long-Run Income Dynamics (D1)
Presiding: John Sabelhaus (Federal Reserve Board)
Offsets to Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from the Great Recession
Kevin B. Moore (Federal Reserve Board)
John Sabelhaus (Federal Reserve Board)
Modeling Individual Earnings Paths in CBO’s Long-Term Microsimulation Model
Jonathan A. Schwabish (Congressional Budget Office)
Julie H. Topoleski (Congressional Budget Office)
Estimating Business Income Risk Using a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns 1987-2006
Jason DeBacker (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Bradley T. Heim (Indiana University)
Vasia Panousi (Federal Reserve Board)
Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve Board)
Just How Big is the Too Big to Fail Problem?
James R. Barth (Auburn University)
Apanard Prabha (Milken Institute)
Philip Swagel (University of Maryland)
Discussants:
Brian Bucks (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Thomas DeLeire (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists
Current Research on the Rate Of Profit (P1)
Presiding: David Kotz (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Measures of Profitability in the United States: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Sergio Cámara Izquierdo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco)
Technology, Distribution and the Rate of Profit in the US Economy: Understanding the Current Crisis
Ramaa Vasudevan (Colorado State University)
Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
The US Financial Sector Rate of Profit
Erdogan Bakir (Bucknell University)
Al Campbell (University of Utah)
Military Spending and the Falling Rate of Profit
J. Paul Dunne (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Luca Pieroni (University of Perugia, Italy)
Giorgio d’Agostino (University of Rome III, Italy)
Discussants:
David Kotz (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College)
Jan 05, 2013 2:30 pm, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists/International Association for Feminist Economics
Prospects for the Profession: Forecasting the Future of Economics (B1)
Presiding: Diana Strassmann (Rice University)
Poisoning the Well: The Ethical Impact of Economic Methodology
Julie Nelson (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
The Ethical Imperative for Economics
Mark D. White (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
Analyzing Gender in the History of Economic Thought
Edith Kuiper (State University of New York-New Paltz)
Endless Loops or Promising Pathways?: Critiques of Economics Methodology
Ann Davis (Marist College)
Discussants:
Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research)
Maria Sagrario Floro (American University)
Diana Strassmann (Rice University)
Jan 05, 2013 4:40 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D & E
American Economic Association
Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Presiding: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
Christopher A. Sims (Princeton University) Paper Money
Jan 05, 2013 4:45 pm, Hyatt, Gallery
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Membership Meeting and Presidential Address
Pekka Sutela (Aalto University)
Jan 05, 2013 4:45 pm, Marriott, Leucadia
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Presidential Address
James K. Galbraith (University of Texas-Austin) The Third Crisis in Economics
Jan 05, 2013 5:15 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
International Banking, Economics & Finance Association
Annual Membership Meeting and Presidential Address
Jan 05, 2013 5:45 pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom B
American Finance Association
Business Meeting and Presidential Address
Jan 05, 2013 6:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester E
African Finance & Economics Association
Presidential Address and Dinner
Jan 05, 2013 6:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D & E
American Economic Association
Business Meeting
Jan 05, 2013 7:30 pm, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
National Economic Association
Presidential Address and Reception
Jan 05, 2013 8:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester Foyer
American Economic Association
The 5th Annual Economics Humor Session in Honor of Caroline Postelle Clotfelter (Y9)
Presiding: Austan Goolsbee (University of Chicago)
The Economics of Spam
Justin M. Rao (Microsoft Research)
David H. Reiley (Google Inc.)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: My Friendly Fights with Nobel Prize Economists
Mark Skousen (Forecasts & Strategies)
Hyperinflation in Hell
Kurt Rafael Verkest (Pets Central Enterprises)
Yoram Bauman (www.standupeconomist.com)
Local Average Treatment Effects in Supernatural Experiments
David Powell (RAND)
What's So Funny About Making Monetary Policy?
Kevin W. Capehart (American University)

Jan 06, 2013

Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Corruption (O1)
Presiding: Benjamin Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil
Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Yves Zamboni (Fundação Getulio Vargas São Paulo)
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Building State Capacity: Biometric Identification and the Delivery of Public Programs in India
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
Paul Niehaus (University of California-San Diego)
Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College)
The Darker Side of Private Ownership: Tax Avoidance in 3,650 Privatized Vietnamese Enterprises
Anh Tran (Indiana University)
Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation of Wireless Spectrum in India
Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College)
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Discussants:
Paul Niehaus (University of California-San Diego)
Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Anh Tran (Indiana University)
Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College)
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Economics of Management and Organizations (L1)
Presiding: Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Making Do With Less: Why Productivity is Rising during Recessions
Edward Lazear (Stanford Uniiversity)
Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
Christopher Stanton (University of Utah)
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Performance Differences, Managerial Practices, and Relational Contracts
Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Rebecca Henderson (Harvard University)
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Management as a Technology? New Empirics and Old Theories
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Raffaella Sadun (Harvard University)
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)
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Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (Harvard University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle D
American Economic Association
Environmental Policy in Developing Countries (O1)
Presiding: Rema Hanna (Harvard University)
The Informational Role of Voluntary Certification: Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program
Andrew Foster (Brown University)
Emilio Gutierrez (ITAM)
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Liquidity Constraints and Deforestation: The Limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
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Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Rohini Pande (Harvard University)
Nicholas Ryan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussants:
Hunt Alcott (New York University)
Ryan Kellogg (University of Michigan)
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
Estate and Gift Taxation (H2)
Presiding: David Joulfaian (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Incentive Effects of Inheritances and Optimal Estate Taxation
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
Lifetime Transfers and Wealth
Kathleen McGarry (University of California-Los Angeles)
Income and Substitution Efffects of Estate Taxation
James Hines (University of Michigan)
Discussants:
Dan Silverman (Arizona State University)
David Joulfaian (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
Jon Bakija (Williams College)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle B
American Economic Association
Experimental Auctions: Evidence from the Lab and Field (C9)
Presiding: James Cox (Georgia State University)
Is the "Linkage Principle" Valid? Evidence from the Field
Harry Paarsch (University of Melbourne)
Sung-Jin Cho (Seoul National University)
John Rust (University of Maryland)
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Does Resale Explain the Pooling of Bids at the Reserve Price? Evidence from the Lab and Field
Robert G. Hammond (North Carolina State University)
Michael K. Price (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Multi Object Auctions with Resale: Theory and Experiment
Erkut Y. Ozbay (University of Maryland)
Emel Filiz-Ozbay (University of Maryland)
Kristian Lopez-Vargas (University of Maryland)
Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Brent Hickman (University of Chicago)
Chris Cotton (University of Miami)
Joseph Price (Brigham Young University)
Discussants:
Ron Harstad (University of Missouri)
Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)
Sotiris Georganas (University of London, Royal Holloway)
Andrew Sweeting (Duke University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle E
American Economic Association
Families and the Macro Economy (E3)
Presiding: Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
Domestic Violence over the Business Cycle
Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
Gerard van den Berg (University of Mannheim)
Business Cycles and Household Formation: The Micro vs the Macro Labor Elasticity
Sebastian Dyrda (University of Minnesota)
Greg Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania)
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)
Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
Child-Care Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
Gustavo Ventura (Arizona State University)
Nezih Guner (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona)
Remzi Kaygusuz (Sabanci University)
Discussants:
Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim)
Erica Field (Duke University)
Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Gordon B. Dahl (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Windsor B & C
American Economic Association
Family Formation (J1)
Presiding: Shelly Lundberg (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage
Dana Rotz (Mathematica Policy Research)
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Playing the Fertility Game at Work
Federico Ciliberto (University of Virginia)
Amalia R. Miller (University of Virginia and RAND)
Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus University)
Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus University)
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Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Soohyung Lee (University of Maryland)
Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi university)
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The Child Adoption Marketplace: Parental Preferences and Adoption Outcomes
Mark Skidmore (Michigan State University)
Gary Anderson (Michigan State University)
Mark Eiswerth (University of Northern Colorado)
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Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Genes and Economic Behavior (D8)
Presiding: David Laibson (Harvard University)
The Genetic Architecture of Economic and Political Preferences
David Cesarini (New York University)
Chris Dawes (New York University)
Christopher F. Chabris (Union College)
Magnus Johannesson (Stockholm School of Economics)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
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Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Educational Attainment
Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University and NBER)
David Cesarini (New York University)
Philipp Koellinger (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Mathijs van der Loos (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Niels Rietveld (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use
Jason Fletcher (Yale University)
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Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Well-Being
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (University College London & Centre for Economic Performance (LSE))
Meike Bartels (VU University Amsterdam)
Bob Krueger (University of Minnesota)
Niels Rietveld (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Philipp Koellinger (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Discussants:
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
Andrew Caplin (New York University)
John Cawley (Cornell University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Health Care Labor Markets (J4)
Presiding: Patricia Cortes (Boston University)
Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the US
Patricia Cortes (Boston University)
Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore)
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How Does Provider Supply and Regulation Influence Health Care Markets? Evidence from Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Kevin Stange (University of Michigan)
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Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Evidence from Minimum Nurse-Staffing Regulations
Jordan Matsudaira (Cornell University)
Trends in Dual-Career Households and the Locational Choice of Physicians
Douglas O. Staiger (Dartmouth College)
Peter I. Buerhaus (Vanderbilt University)
David I. Auerbach (RAND)
Samuel M. Marshall (Dartmouth College)
Discussants:
Erin Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wes Yin (Boston University)
John Graves (Vanderbilt University)
Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Emma C
American Economic Association
International Finance (F3)
Presiding: Hendrik Van Den Berg (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
A global monetary tsunami? On the spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Roland Straub (European Central Bank)
Marcel Fratzscher (European Central Bank)
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International Evidence on Government Support and Risk-Taking in the Banking Sector
Luis Brandao Marques (International Monetary Fund)
Ricardo Correa (Federal Reserve Board)
Horacio Sapriza (Federal Reserve Board)
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Menu Costs, Trade Flows, and Exchange Rate Volatility
Logan T. Lewis (Federal Reserve Board)
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Equilibrium Dynamics in Repressive Economies: Evidence from the Belarusian Black Market for Foreign Exchange
Matthias Krapf (University of Vienna)
Hannes Huett (University of Konstanz)
Selver Derya Uysal (Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Vienna)
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Why Do Emerging Markets Liberalize Capital Outflow Controls? Fiscal versus Net Capital Flows Concerns
Gurnain Kaur Pasricha (Bank of Canada)
Joshua Aizenman (University of California-Santa Cruz)
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The Cross-Section of Currency Order Flow Portfolios
Andreas Schrimpf (Bank for International Settlements)
Lukas Menkhoff (Leibniz University Hannover)
Lucio Sarno (Cass Business School, London)
Maik Schmeling (Leibniz University Hannover)
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Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Oxford
American Economic Association
Monetary Policy (E5)
Presiding: Michael Dowell (California State University-Sacramento)
(Un)anticipated Monetary Policy in a DSGE Model with a Shadow Banking System
Fabio Verona (Bank of Finland)
Manuel Martins (University of Porto)
Ines Drumond (University of Porto)
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Debt Deflation Effects of Monetary Policy
Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford)
Alexandros Vardoulakis (Banque De France)
Li Lin (University of Oxford)
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Do People Understand Monetary Policy?
Fernanda Nechio (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Carlos Carvalho (PUC-Rio)
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Monetary Policy Shocks and Stock Returns: Identification Through Impossible Trinity
Ali K. Ozdagli (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Yifan Yu (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
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Asset Prices, Collateral and Unconventional Monetary Policy in a DSGE Model
Bjoern Hilberg (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Josef Hollmayr (Deutsche Bundesbank andUniversity Frankfurt am Main)
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Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance (H2)
Presiding: Mikhail Golosov (Princeton University)
Social Insurance and Redistribution in Dynamic Models
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Ivan Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Optimal Progressive Income Taxation with Endogenous Education Decisions and Intergenerational Transfers
Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
Alexander Ludwig (University of Cologne)
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Optimal Pension Systems with Simple Instruments
Mikhail Golosov (Princeton University)
Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Public Sector Collective Bargaining (J5)
Presiding: Brigham Frandsen (Harvard University and Brigham Young University)
Teacher Salaries, State Collective Bargaining Laws, and Union Coverage
Barry Hirsch (Georgia State University)
David Macpherson (Trinity University)
John Winters (University of Cincinnati)
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Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers
David Neumark (University of California-Irvine)
Jan Brueckner (University of California-Irvine)
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General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions
Laura Feiveson (Federal Reserve Board)
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The Effects of Collective Bargaining Rights on Public Employee Compensation: Evidence from Teachers, Fire Fighters, and Police
Brigham Russell Frandsen (Harvard University and Brigham Young University)
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Public Sector Unionism without Collective Bargaining
Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
Eunice Han (Harvard University)
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Discussants:
Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota)
Eric Brunner (Georgia State University)
Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Research in Economic Education (A2)
Presiding: KimMarie McGoldrick (University of Richmond)
Gender and Undergraduate Major Trends: 1990-2011
Tisha L.N. Emerson (Baylor University)
KimMarie McGoldrick (University of Richmond)
John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
High School Economics as Preparation for Principles of Microeconomics Courses
Linda Carter (Baylor University)
Tisha L.N. Emerson (Baylor University)
Gail Hoyt (University of Kentucky)
Do algebra and geometry provide the same value in preparing high school students for economics?
Brent Evans (Mississippi State University)
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A Survey of Principles Instructors: Why Lecture Prevails
William L. Goffe (Pennsylvania State University)
David Kauper (unknown)
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Discussants:
Paul W. Grimes (Pittsburg State University)
Jane Lopus (California State University-East Bay)
Cynthia Harter (Eastern Kentucky University)
Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Randle A
American Economic Association
Returns to Vocational Education - Experimental Evidence from Developing Countries (I2)
Presiding: Costas Meghir (Yale University)
Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability? Experimental Evidence from a Ugandan Aid Program
Nathan Fiala (German Institute for Economic Research)
Sebastian Martinez (InterAmerican Development Bank)
Christopher Blattman (Yale University)
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Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns: A Randomized Evaluation Among Kenyan Youth
Edward Miguel (University of California-Berkeley)
Joan Hamory Hicks (University of California-Berkeley)
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Isaac Mbiti (SMU)
Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
Patrick Premand (The World Bank)
Renos Vakis (World Bank)
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)
Subha Mani (Fordham University)
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Discussants:
Aimee Chin (University of Houston)
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
Santosh Anagol (University of Pennsylvania)
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Structural Change and Productivity (O4)
Presiding: Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)
Stages of Diversification and Productivity Growth Differences
Roberto Samaniego (George Washington University)
Juliana Y. Sun (George Washington University)
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Services and the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply
Francisco Buera (University of California-Los Angeles)
Joseph P. Kaboski (University of Notre Dame)
Kent Zhao (Xiamen University)
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries
Douglas Gollin (Williams College)
David Lagakos (Arizona State University)
Michael E. Waugh (New York University)
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado (McGill University)
Ngo Van Long (McGill University)
Markus Poschke (McGill University)
Discussants:
Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)
Todd Schoellman (Arizona State University)
Dennis Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yong Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Understanding Short-Term Debt (G1)
Presiding: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
Collateral Crises
Gary Gorton (Yale University)
Guillermo Ordonez (Yale University)
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What Drives Short-Term Debt Creation? The Impact of Treasury Supply
Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk
Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)
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Discussants:
Adriano Rampini (Duke University)
Viral V. Acharya (New York University)
Philipp Schnabl (New York University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Why Did Consumption Collapse during the Great Recession? (E2)
Presiding: John Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
The Financial Crisis at the Kitchen Table: Trends in Household Debt and Credit
Meta Brown (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Donghoon Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Credit, Wealth, and Precautionary Effects
Christopher Carroll (Johns Hopkins University and NBER)
Jiri Slacalek (European Central Bank)
Martin Sommer (International Monetary Fund)
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How Financial Innovations and Accelerators Drive Booms and Busts in U.S. Consumption
John V. Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Southern Methodist University)
John Muellbauer (University of Oxford)
Anthony Murphy (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
What's Driving Deleveraging? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
Karen Dynan (Brookings Institution)
Wendy Edelberg (Congressional Budget Office)
Discussants:
Brian Bucks (Consumer Finance Protection Bureau)
Marjorie Flavin (University of California-San Diego)
Martin Sommer (International Monetary Fund)
Neil Bhutta (Federal Reserve Board)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester G
American Economic Association
Woman and Labor Markets (J1)
Presiding: Donna Ginther (University of Kansas)
Sexual Violence against Women and Labor Market Outcomes
Joseph J. Sabia (San Diego State University)
Angela Dills (Providence College)
Jeffrey DeSimone (University of Maryland)
The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women over Three Decades: 1973-2003
Fidan Ana Kurtulus (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
The Earned Income Tax Credit for Single Mothers: Insurance without Disincentives
Kartik Athreya (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Nicole Simpson (Colgate University)
Devin Reilly (University of Pennsylvania)
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School Calendars, Child Care Availability and Maternal Employment
Jennifer Graves (University of Oklahoma)
Discussants:
Kevin Lang (Boston University)
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University)
Susan Averett (Lafayette College)
Donna Ginther (University of Kansas)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Work and Search in Recessions: Theory, History and Measurement (J2)
Presiding: Valerie Ramey (University of California-San Diego)
Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University Berlin)
Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas-Austin)
Jay Stewart (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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Hours and Work Sharing during the Great Depression: Comparisons and Contracts with Other Downturns in the 20th Century
Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
Todd Neumann (University of California-Merced)
Jason Taylor (Central Michigan University)
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Job Search Theory and Unemployed Job Search over the Lifecycle
Mark Aguiar (Princeton University)
Erik Hurst (University of Chicago)
Loukas Karabarbounis (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Valerie A. Ramey (University of California-San Diego)
Bradford De Long (University of California-Berkeley)
Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Analysts: Forecasts, Following, etc. (G1)
Presiding: Roni Michaely (Cornell University)
Sell-Side Benchmarks
Ohad Kadan (Washington University)
Leonardo Madureira (Case Western Reserve University)
Rong Wang (Singapore Management University)
Tzachi Zach (Ohio State University)
Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies?
Kingsley Fong (University of New South Wales)
Harrison Hong (Princeton University)
Marcin Kacperczyk (New York University)
Jeffrey Kubik (Syracuse University)
Do Buy-Side Recommendations Have Investment Value?
Steve Crawford (Rice University)
Wesley Gray (Drexel University)
Bryan Johnson (Creighton University)
Richard A. Price, III (Utah State University)
A Glimpse Behind a Closed Door: The Long-Term Value of Buy-Side Research and its Effect on Fund Trades and Performance
Michael Rebello (University of Texas-Dallas)
Kelsey Wei (University of Texas-Dallas)
Discussants:
Kent Womack (University of Toronto)
Joshua Coval (Harvard Business School)
Brad Barber (University of California-Davis)
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Corporate Investments and Liquidations (G3)
Presiding: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Firm Investment and Stakeholder Choices: A Top-Down Theory of Capital Budgeting
Andres Almazan (University of Texas-Austin)
Zhaohui Chen (University of Virginia)
Sheridan Titman (University of Texas-Austin)
Investment Busts, Reputation, and the Temptation to Blend in with the Crowd
Steven Grenadier (Stanford University)
Andrey Malenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University)
Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt Be Optimal?
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago and NBER)
Gregor Matvos (University of Chicago)
Separate or Joint Financing? Coinsurance, Risk Contamination, and Optimal Conglomeration with Bankruptcy Costs
Albert Banal-Estanol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University)
Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Discussants:
Alex Edmans (University of Pennsylvania)
Barney Hartman-Glaser (Duke University)
Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania)
Richmond Mathews (University of Maryland)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Departures from Rationality (G1)
Presiding: Simon Gervais (Duke University)
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
Anxiety and Overconfidence in the Face of Risk
Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Martin Schmalz (Princeton University)
IQ and Mutual Fund Choice
Mark Grinblatt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Seppo Ikaheimo (Aalto University)
Matti Keloharju (Aalto University)
Samuel Knupfer (London Business School)
Discussants:
Joshua Schwartzstein (Dartmouth College)
Francesco Sangiorgi (Stockholm School of Economics)
Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School )
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Hedge Funds (G2)
Presiding: Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
Can Hedge Funds Time Market Liquidity?
Charles Cao (Pennsylvania State University)
Yong Chen (Texas A&M University)
Bing Liang (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Andrew W. Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Do Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices?
Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State University)
Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute)
Augustin Landier (University of Toulouse)
Rabih Moussawi (University of Pennsylvania)
Home Bias and Local Contagion: Evidence from Funds of Hedge Funds
Clemens Sialm (University of Texas-Austin)
Zheng Sun (University of California-Irvine)
Lu Zheng (University of California-Irvine)
The Economics of Hedge Funds
Neng Wang (Columbia University)
Jinqiang Yang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Yingcong Lan (Cornerstone Research)
Discussants:
Wayne Ferson (University of Southern California )
David Musto (University of Pennsylvania)
Tobias Moskowitz (University of Chicago)
Stavros Panageas (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Law and Finance (G2)
Presiding: Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Valuing Campaign Donation Connections Using Close Congressional Elections
Pat Akey (London Business School)
CEO Connectedness within Executive Suites and Corporate Frauds
Vikramaditya Khanna (University of Michigan)
E. Kim (University of Michigan)
Yao Lu (University of Michigan)
Political Contributions and the Severity of Government Enforcement
Sarah Fulmer (Florida State University)
April Knill (Florida State University)
Discussants:
Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago)
Rafael La Porta (Dartmouth College)
Todd Gormley (University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Private Equity and Venture Capital (G3)
Presiding: Thomas Hellmann (University of British Columbia)
Investor Horizon and Innovation: Evidence from Private Equity Funds
Jean-Noel Barrot (HEC Paris)
Not Quite a Piece of Cake: Theory and Evidence of Compensation in U.S. Venture Capital Partnerships
Niklas Huether (University of Cologne)
David T. Robinson (Duke University)
Soenke Sievers (University of Cologne)
Thomas Hartmann-Wendels (University of Cologne)
Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners?
Michael Ewens (Carnegie Mellon University)
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf (Harvard Business School)
Do Entrepreneurs Make Good VCs?
Ye Cai (Santa Clara University)
Merih Sevilir (Indiana University)
Xuan Tian (Indiana University)
Discussants:
Gustavo Manso (University of California-Berkeley)
Morten Sorensen (Columbia University)
David T. Robinson (Duke University)
Shai Bernstein (Stanford University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Mortgage Lending (G1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Michael LaCour-Little (California State University-Fullerton)
Daniel Quan (Cornell University)
Lingxiao Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Man Cho (KDI School of Public Policy & Management)
Zsuzsa Huszar (National University of Singapore)
Thomas Davidoff (University of British Columbia)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Topics in Urban Economics (R1)
Presiding: Albert Saiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Neighborhood Income and House Price Idiosyncratic Risk
Liang Peng (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Thomas Thibodeau (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Urban Quantities and Amenities
David Albouy (University of Michigan)
Bryan Stuart (University of Michigan)
Burning Down the House: Moral Hazard and House Prices
Michael Eriksen (University of Georgia)
James Carson (University of Georgia)
Learning in Cities: Implication in Migration
Wen-Chi Liao (National University of Singapore)
Yuming Fu (National University of Singapore)
Discussants:
Todd Sinai (University of Pennsylvania)
William Strange (University of Toronto)
Sanghoon Lee (University of British Columbia)
Jeffrey Lin (Federal Reserve Bank-Philadelphia)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Edward B & C
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Historical and Contemporary Dimensions of Economic Transition: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey (P2)
Presiding: Erik Berglöf (EBRD)
Persistent Anti-Market Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust
Irena Grosfeld (Paris School of Economics)
Alexander Rodnyanski (CEFIR)
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and New Economic School)
Household Debt and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession
Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)
Ralph de Haas (EBRD)
Pauline Grosjean (University of New South Wales)
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Learning, Political Attitudes and Crises: Lessons from Transition Countries
Pauline Grosjean (University of New South Wales)
Frantisek Ricka (EBRD)
Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics)
Does cultural diversity help or hinder entrepreneurs? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Elena Nikolova (EBRD)
Dora Simroth (European School of Management and Technology)
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Discussants:
Jeromin Zettelmeyer (EBRD)
Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)
Ralph De Haas (EBRD)
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and New Economic School)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, La Costa
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Financialization and the Real Economy (G3)
Presiding: Irene van Staveren (International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
"Ideal" Financial Development and Financial Overaccumulation
Sara Hsu (State University of New York-New Paltz)
Jianjun Li (Central University of Finance and Economics, China)
Brazil's Forex Problem in the Context of Global Imbalances in Trade and Finance
Laura Ebert (State University of New York-New Paltz)
Leanne Ussher (Queens College, City University of New York)
Financialization, Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
Yan Liang (Willamette University, USA)
Democracy, Financial Crises and Economic Alternatives: Could It Be a New Ethical Pattern in the Development Path?
Alicia Giron (UNAM, Mexico)
The Effects of Institutional Distortions in Financial Markets in Emerging Economies--An Analysis of Three Institutional Arenas in Mexico
Bruno Gandlgruber (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Carlos Augusto Rojas (Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico)
Discussants:
Susan Schroeder (University of Sydney, Australia)
Morris Altman (Victoria University of Wellington)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics
Identity, Development, and Social Economics (O1)
Presiding: John Davis (Marquette University and University of Amsterdam)
Costly Posturing: Relative Status, Ceremonies and Early Child Development
Xi Chen (Yale University)
Xiaobo Zhang (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Identity and Communitarian Ethos: The Zapatista Autonomous Communities in Chiapas
Pablo Hernandez (Hollins University)
The Impacts of Community Participation on Rural Development: Evidence from the Poverty Reduction Fund Project in Laos
Hatthachan Phimphanthavong (University of Trento)
Eco-political Construction of Identities as a Means to "Sustainable" Agrarian Reform: The Case of Ciriaco Women's Coconut Breakers in Brazil
Olympio Barbanti, Jr. (Independent Consultant)
Ramon Garcia Fernandez (Federal University of ABC)
Discussants:
John Davis (Marquette University and University of Amsterdam)
Natalia Bracarense (SUNY-Potsdam)
Jonathan B. Wight (University of Richmond)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Environmental Policy and Program Evaluation (Q5)
Presiding: Joshua Linn (Resources for the Future)
Spatial and Social Disparities in the Benefits from Air Quality Improvements
Antonio Bento (Cornell University)
Matthew Freedman (Cornell University)
Corey Lang (University of Rhode Island)
National Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Information Campaign: The Case of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index
Nicolai V. Kuminoff (Arizona State University)
Danielle Bäck (Arizona State University)
Eric Van Buren (Arizona State University)
Scott Van Buren (Arizona State University)
The Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Industry: Evidence from the European Carbon Market and German Manufacturing Plants
Ulrich J. Wagner (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Katrin Rehdanz (Christian-Albrechts-University & Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Sebastian Petrick (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Multimedia Pollution Regulation and Environmental Performance: EPA’s Cluster Rule
Wayne B. Gray (Clark University)
Ronald J. Shadbegian (National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. EPA)
Discussants:
Maximillian Auffhammer (University of California-Berkeley)
Branko Boskovic (University of Alberta)
Joshua Linn (Resources for the Future)
Jacob LaRiviere (University of Tennessee)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Assessing Unconventional Monetary Policy (E5)
Presiding: Athanasios Orphanides (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology)
The Macroeconomic Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchase Programs
Han Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
Vasco Curdia (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Andrea Ferrero (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Bank Balance Sheets in the Financial Crisis
Domenico Giannone (ECARES Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Michele Lenza (European Central Bank)
Huw Pill (Goldman Sachs)
Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School)
The Financial Crisis, Bank Lending, and the Effectiveness of Lending Facilities: The Experiences of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank
Seth Carpenter (Federal Reserve Board)
Selva Demiralp (Koc University)
Jens Eisenschmidt (European Central Bank)
Discussants:
Frank R. Smets (European Central Bank)
Hakan Kara (Central Bank of Turkey)
Mike Joyce (Bank of England)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Beliefs Distortions and Welfare (D9)
Presiding: Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Salience and Consumer Choice
Pedro Bordalo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Nicola Gennaioli (CREI-Iniversitat Pompeu Fabra)
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Roland Benabou (Princeton University)
A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs
Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Alp Simsek (Harvard University)
Wei Xiong (Princeton University)
Discussants:
Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Alp Simsek (Harvard University)
Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
Factor Models and Structural VARs (C3)
Presiding: Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Inference on Impulse Response Functions in Structural VAR Models
Atsushi Inoue (North Carolina State University)
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Bootstrapping Factor-Augmented Regression Models
Silvia Goncalves (University of Montreal)
Benoit Perron (University of Montreal)
Linear Regression for Panel with Unknown Number of Factors as Interactive Fixed Effects
Hyungsik Roger Moon (University of Southern California)
Martin Weidner (University College London)
Factor Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models
Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Dalibor Stevanovic (University of Quebec-Montreal)
Discussants:
Raffaella Giacomini (University College London)
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge)
Valentina Corradi (University of Warwick)
Yoonseok Lee (University of Michigan)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Labor Markets and International Trade (F1)
Presiding: Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston)
When the Floodgates Open: "Northern" Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods
Hale Utar (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Trade Adjustment: Worker-Level Evidence
David H. Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Dorn (CEMFI)
Gordon H. Hanson (University of California-San Diego)
Jae Song (Social Security Administration)
Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
David Atkin (Yale University)
Comparative Advantage, Multi-product Firms and Trade Liberalisation : An Empirical Test
Catherine Isabelle Fuss (National Bank of Belgium)
Linke Zhu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Discussants:
David L. Hummels (Purdue University)
Brian K. Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston)
Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Media and Political Economics (D7)
Presiding: Przemyslaw Jeziorski (Economics Johns Hopkins University)
The Effect of Radio Market Concentration on Local Elections
Hulya Eraslan (Johns Hopkins University)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (Johns Hopkins University)
Gizem Kosar (Johns Hopkins University)
Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the U.S. Press, 1869-1928
Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago)
Nathan Petek (University of Chicago)
Jesse M. Shapiro (University of Chicago)
Media vs Politicians: Who Buys Whom?
Alejandro Castaneda (El Colegio de Mexico)
Cesar Martinelli (ITAM-CIE)
The Determinants of Media Bias in China
Bei Qin (IIES, Stockholm University)
David Stromberg (IIES, Stockholm University)
Yanhui Wu (University of Southern California)
Discussants:
Cesar Martinelli (ITAM-CIE)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (Johns Hopkins University)
David Stromberg (IIES, Stockholm University)
Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Offshoring and Technology Transfer (F2)
Presiding: Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne)
Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gino Gancia (CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
Offshore Production and Business Cycle Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms
Andrei Zlate (Federal Reserve Board)
Technology Capital Transfer
Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota)
Ellen R. McGrattan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Edward C. Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Capital Controls with International Reserve Accumulation: Can This Be Optimal?
Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne)
Kenza Benhima (University of Lausanne (HEC))
Yannick Kalantzis (Banque de France)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Employment of Women, Minorities, Immigrants Session I--LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Marlene Kim (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Correlates of Career Satisfaction - The Immigrants' Experience
Margaret Yap (Ryerson University)
Between Unfair and Illegal: Standardizing Employee Relations in the Modern Office
Allison Elias (University of Virginia)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
The Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining (J4)
Presiding: Daniel Mitchell (University of California-Los Angeles)
Does Teacher Pay Affect Teacher Performance? Evidence from Wisconsin and Illinois
Craig Olson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Are State and Local Public Employees Over-Compensated?: Comparisons Using National and State Level Evidence
Jeffrey H. Keefe (Rutgers University)
Effects of Deep Recession on Public Sector, Pay, Benefits and Employment
David Lewin (University of California-Los Angeles)
Toward a New Grand Bargain: Collaborative Approaches to Labor-Management Reform
Thomas A. Kochan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Barry Bluestone (Northeastern University)
Discussants:
Dale Belman (Michigan State University)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
The Impact of Mental and Emotional Health, Stress and Disability over the Business Cycle (J5)
Presiding: Alice Kassens (Roanoke College)
The Impact of Clinical Depression on the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Adults during Economic Downturn
Alice Kassens (Roanoke College)
William M. Rodgers III (Rutgers University)
The Effects of Disability on Earnings in China and the United States over the Business Cycle
Samuel Myers (University of Minnesota)
Ding Sai (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Revisiting the Long-Term Unemployment and Mental Health Causality Quandary: A New -- Resilient Population -- Approach and Results
Tim Diette (Washington and Lee University)
Arthur Goldsmith (Washington and Lee University)
Darrick Hamilton (The New School)
A Study to Identify the Effects of Candidate and Employer Recessionary Stress on the Quality of Hire, Candidate Fit and Hiring Efficiency
John Chaisson (Thought Leadership Institute)
Discussants:
Alvin Headen, Jr. (North Carolina State University)
Lauren Appelbaum (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
African Development (O1)
Presiding: Gregory Price (Morehouse College)
A Dynamic Theory of Fidelity Networks with an Application to the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Roland Pongou (University of Ottawa)
Roberto Serrano (Brown University)
Access to Water and Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impacts of Development AID
Adeleke Salami (African Development Bank)
Macroeconomic Shock Synchronization in the East African Community
Albert Mafusire (African Development Bank)
Zuzana Brixiova (UNDP, Swaziland)
Debt, Growth and Poverty in a Failing State: Nigeria, 1970-2011
Akpan Ekpo (West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management-Lagos)
Characteristics and Macroeconomic Determinants of Youth Employment in Africa
John Anyanwu (African Development Bank)
Access to Finance and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence from 4 African Countries
Ousman Gajigo (African Development Bank)
Thouraya Triki (African Development Bank)
Issa Faye (African Development Bank)
Discussants:
Olu Ajakaiye (African Centre for Shared Development)
George Kararach (African Capacity Building Foundation)
Malokele Nanivazo (United Nations University/World Institute of Development Economics)
Mwanza Nkusu (Inernational Monetary Fund)
Kidaya Ntoko (Queens College, City University of New York)
Dieynaba Tandian (African Capacity Building Foundation)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Malibu
Union for Radical Political Economists/International Association for Feminist Economics
Gender and Austerity in the Great Recession (B5)
Presiding: Dorene Isenberg (University of Redlands)
Gender, Recession and Austerity: Recent Developments in the UK
Jill Rubery (University of Manchester)
Anthony Rafferty (University of Manchester, UK)
Economic Growth and Vulnerable Employment: Estimating Elasticities by Gender and Age
Bret Anderson (University of Rhode Island)
Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University)
Class and Gender in Europe, Before and During the Economic Crisis
Marcella Corsi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Carlo D'Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Single Mothers in the Great Recession: How Well Did the Safety Net Work?
Heidi Hartmann (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
Jeffrey Hayes (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
Discussants:
Dorene Isenberg (University of Redlands)
Elaine McCrate (University of Vermont)
Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
Heterodox Theory of Market Governance and Competition (B5)
Presiding: Tae-Hee Jo (SUNY-Buffalo State College)
Competition: Alternative Views
Nina Shapiro (St. Peter's College)
Heterodox Approach to Cartels and Market Competition
Frederic Lee (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Synthetic Competition, Global Oil, and the Role of the Developmental State
Cyrus Bina (University of Minnesota-Morris)
Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence College)
The Failure of Market Fundamentalism: How Electricity Sector Restructuring is Threatening the Economic and Social Fabric
Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)
Discussants:
Tae-Hee Jo (SUNY-Buffalo State College)
Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence College)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Emma A & B
American Economic Association
Aggregate Fluctuations (E1)
Presiding: Richard MacDonald (St. Cloud State University)
Dynamic Resource Misallocation and Amplification
Marcus M. Opp (University of California-Berkeley)
Christine Parlour (University of California-Berkeley)
Johan Walden (University of California-Berkeley)
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Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and Is It Rational?
Jian Wang (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia)
Deokwoo Nam (City University of Hong Kong)
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Animal Spirits, Heterogeneous Expectations and the Amplification and Duration of Crises
Cars Hommes (University of Amsterdam)
Tiziana Assenza (Catholic University of Milan)
William Brock (University of Wisconsin)
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Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations
Damiano Sandri (International Monetary Fund)
Fabian Valencia (International Monetary Fund)
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Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Assessing the Impacts of Job Loss (J6)
Presiding: Kenneth Couch (University of Connecticut)
The Long-Term Impact of Job Displacement in Germany during the 1982 Recession on Earnings, Income, and Employment
Johannes Schmieder (Boston University)
Till Von Wachter (Columbia University)
Stefan Bender (Institute for Employment Research)
Why Is Job Loss Costly?
Bruce Fallick (Federal Reserve Board)
William Carrington (Congressional Budget Office)
An Analysis of the Geographic Mobility Patterns of Displaced Workers
Nicholas Jolly (Marquette University)
Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality
Kenneth Couch (University of Connecticut)
Howard Iams (Social Security Administration)
Gayle Reznik (Social Security Administration)
Chris Tamborini (Social Security Administration)
Discussants:
Kenneth Couch (University of Connecticut)
William Carrington (Congressional Budget Office)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Deception, Self-Deception and Incentives (D6)
Presiding: Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
Marie Claire Villeval (CNRS, University of Lyon)
Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
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Broken Promises and Hidden Partnerships
Daniel Houser (George Mason University)
Jingnan (Cecilia) Chen (George Mason University)
Deception and Reciprocity
Uri Gneezy (University of California-San Diego)
Silvia Saccardo (University of California-San Diego)
Communication Protocol, Content, and Deception
Gary Charness (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Developments in Health and Insurance (I1)
Presiding: Frank Sloan (Duke University)
The Original Introduction of Medicaid: Impact on Disparities in Health and the Use of Health Care
Douglas Almond (Columbia University)
Sandra L. Decker (National Center for Health Statistics)
Kosali I. Simon (Cornell University)
Heterogeneity in Health State Dependence of Utility
Meenakshi Beri (Wayne State University)
Jennifer Ward-Batts (Wayne State University)
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Health Insurance and the College Premium
Linnea Polgreen (University of Iowa)
Anson Ho (Kansas State University)
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Disability Insurance and Health in Europe and the US
Enrica Croda (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College)
Discussants:
Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston)
Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Evaluating Teacher Quality using Standardized Tests (I2)
Presiding: Jeffrey Livingston (Bentley University)
Teacher Effectiveness on High- and Low-Stakes Tests
Sean P. Corcoran (New York University)
Jennifer L. Jennings (New York University)
Andrew A. Beveridge (Queens College and City University of New York Graduate Center)
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Using Behavioral Economics to Increase the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (Harvard University)
Steven D. Levitt (University of Chicago)
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Sally Sadoff (University of California-San Diego)
Harnessing Complementarities in the Education Production Function
John A. List (University of Chicago)
Jeffrey A. Livingston (Bentley University)
Susanne Neckermann (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
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Discussants:
Sally Sadoff (University of California-San Diego)
Sean P. Corcoran (New York University)
Javier Espinosa (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Fluctuations in Risk Over the Business Cycle (E3)
Presiding: Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota)
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Serdar Ozkan (Federal Reserve Board)
Jae Song (Social Security Administration)
Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota)
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The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
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Dynamics of the US Price Distribution
David Berger (Yale University)
Joseph Vavra (Yale University)
Wealth and Volatility
Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Impacts of Experimental Education and Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes (J3)
Presiding: Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota)
Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-Year Follow-up to the Jamaica Study
Paul Gertler (University of California-Berkeley)
Arianna Zanolini (University of Chicago)
Rodgrio Pinto (University of Chicago)
James J. Heckman (University of Chicago)
Susan Walker (University of West Indies)
Worms at Work: Long-Run Impacts of Child Health Gains
Sarah Baird (George Washington University)
Joan Hamory Hicks (University of California-Berkeley)
Edward Miguel (University of California-Berkeley)
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Medium-Term Effects from a Randomized CCT in Nicaragua
Tania Barham (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
John Maluccio (Middlebury College)
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Demand versus Returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training
Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
Patrick Premand (The World Bank)
Renos Vakis (The World Bank)
Discussants:
Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota)
Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California-Los Angeles)
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
Prashant Bharad (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
Information, Health, and Insurance (I1)
Presiding: Keith Ericson (Boston University)
How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange
Keith Marzilli Ericson (Boston University)
Amanda Starc (University of Pennsylvania)
What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
Jason Todd Abaluck (NBER)
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Health Insurance for Humans: Understanding Consumer Choice Foundations
Benjamin Handel (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
Jonathan Kolstad (University of Pennsylvania and NBER)
Information Disclosure and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jason Snyder (University of California-Los Angeles)
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Discussants:
Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)
Sofia Villas-Boas (University of California-Berkeley)
Josh Schwartzstein (Dartmouth College)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Measurement Issues in the National Accounts (E0)
Presiding: Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis)
Improving U.S. GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective
S. Boragan Aruoba (University of Maryland)
Francis X. Diebold (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeremy Nailwaik (Federal Reserve Board)
Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)
Dongho Song (University of Pennsylvania)
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Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study
Ernst R. Berndt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
Iain M. Cockburn (Boston University and NBER)
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Market Power, Adjustment Costs, and Risk in Measurement of Banking Services
Kyle Hood (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Matthew Osborne (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement: Changes for Measured GDP and Long-Run Housing Values
Rachel Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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Discussants:
John Roberts (Federal Reserve Board)
Marshall Reinsdorf (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Ron Borzekowski (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Kristopher Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester B & C
American Economic Association
New (and Old) Perspectives on the Work of Adam Smith (B3) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University, and Angus Deaton, Princeton University)
Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University)
Deirdre N. McCloskey (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Vernon Smith (Chapman University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle A
American Economic Association
On the Historical Origins of Comparative Development (O1)
Presiding: Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen)
Genetic Diversity and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Cemal Eren Arbatli (Brown University)
Quamrul Ashraf (Williams College)
Oded Galor (Brown University)
The Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein
David de la Croix (University of Louvain)
Omar Licandro (Barcelona GSE)
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Unified Growth Empirics
Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna)
Fabrice Murtin (OECD)
Uwe Sunde (University of Munich)
Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest
Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen)
Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen)
Discussants:
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Hans-Joachim Voth (University Pompeu Fabra)
Antonio Ciccone (University Pompeu Fabra)
Stelios Michaelopolous (Brown University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Risk Premia and the Macroeconomy under Non-standard Preferences (G1)
Presiding: Anastasios Karantounias (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Examining Macroeconomic Models through the Lens of Asset Pricing
Jaroslav Borovicka (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Recursive Preferences
Anastasios G. Karantounias (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Uncertainty shocks, asset supply and pricing over the business cycle
Cosmin L. Ilut (Duke University)
Martin Schneider (Stanford University)
Francesco Bianchi (Duke University)
How Much Would You Pay to Resolve Long-Run Risk?
Larry Epstein (Boston University)
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard University)
Discussants:
Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania)
Christopher Sleet (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stanley E. Zin (New York University)
David Backus (New York University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Social Interactions and Economic Choices (D8)
Presiding: Kenneth Ahern (University of Southern California)
The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
John Beshears (Stanford University and NBER)
James J. Choi (Yale University and NBER)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University and NBER)
Brigitte C. Madrian (Harvard University and NBER)
Katherine L. Milkman (University of Pennsylvania)
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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Joshua Lerner (Harvard University and NBER)
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley and NBER)
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Peer Effects in Economic Attitudes
Kenneth R. Ahern (University of Southern California)
Ran Duchin (University of Michigan)
Tyler Shumway (University of Michigan)
Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers
Kelly Shue (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Hunt Allcott (New York University)
Scott Carrell (University of California-Davis)
Harrison Hong (Princeton University)
Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Emma C
American Economic Association
Sovereign Risk (G3)
Presiding: David Parsley (Vanderbilt University)
Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Balance Sheets
Bora Durdu (Federal Reserve Board)
Emine Boz (International Monetary Fund)
Pablo D'Erasmo (University of Maryland)
Sovereign Defaults and Government Bailouts
Horacio Sapriza (Federal Reserve Board)
Javier Bianchi (New York University)
Sandra Lizarazo (Universidad Carlos III)
Measuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe
Loriana Pelizzon (Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Massimiliano Caporin (University of Padua)
Francesco Ravazzolo (Norges Bank)
Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Duration of Capital Market Exclusion: An Empirical Investigation
Daniel A. Dias (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Christine Richmond (International Monetary Fund)
Taeree Wang (Singapore National University and University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Do Internal Devaluations Induce Expenditure Switching? Scanner Data Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
Rudolfs Bems (International Monetary Fund)
Julian Di Giovanni (International Monetary Fund)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Speculation, Insurance and Financial Regulation (G2)
Presiding: Andrei Kirileinko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Financial Regulation
Eric Posner (University of Chicago)
Eric Glen Weyl (University of Chicago)
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Financial Innovation and Portfolio Risks
Alp Simsek (Harvard University)
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Reflections on Finance and the Good Society
Robert J. Shiller (Yale University)
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Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: A New Approach to Funding Large-Scale Biomedical Innovation
Jose-Maria Fernandez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Andrew W. Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Roger Stein (Moody's)
Discussants:
Hayne E. Leland (University of California-Berkeley)
Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)
Patrick Bolton (Columbia University)
Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Stimulus or Stymied? The Macroeconomics of Recessions (E0) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: J. Bradford DeLong (University of California-Berkeley)
Paul Krugman (Princeton University)
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Valerie A. Ramey (University of California-San Diego)
Carlo Cottarelli (International Monetary Fund)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester H & I
American Economic Association
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States (N1)
Presiding: Richard Sylla (New York University)
Not Just the Great Contraction: Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960
Michael David Bordo (Rutgers University)
Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University)
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Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression: Old Challenges and New Evidence
Christina D. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
David H. Romer (University of California-Berkeley)
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Shadowy Banks and Financial Contagion during the Great Depression: A Retrospective on Friedman and Schwartz
Kris Mitchener (University of Santa Clara)
Gary Richardson (University of California-Irvine)
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Discussants:
Allan H. Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Robert Hetzel (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Manchester G
American Economic Association
The Geography of the Family (D1)
Presiding: Marjorie McElroy (Duke University)
Proximity to Grandparents and Outcomes for Grandchildren
Janice Compton (University of Manitoba)
Robert A. Pollak (Washington University)
Location, Resources and Family Decision-Making
V. Joseph Hotz (Duke University)
Duncan Thomas (Duke University)
Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Location and Labor Supply of Adult Children
Julie Riise Kolstad (University of Bergen)
Katrine V. Løken (University of Bergen)
Shelly Lundberg (University of California Santa Barbara)
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Geographic Proximity of Mothers and Children over the Life Cycle
Kathleen McGarry (University of California-Los Angeles)
Emily Wiemers (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Discussants:
Dora L. Costa (University of California-Los Angeles)
Lillian Pezzin (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Terra G. McKinnish (University of Colorado)
Robert Willis (University of Michigan)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Randle D
American Economic Association
Urbanization and Transportation Infrastructure in Developing Countries (O1)
Presiding: Benjamin A. Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Farther on Down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Adam Storeygard (Tufts University)
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Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development in Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Railroads
Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University)
Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex)
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Transport Infrastructure and Firm Location Choice in Equilibrium: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways
Alexander Rothenberg (RAND Corporation)
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Abhijit V. Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nancy Qian (Yale University)
Discussants:
Michael E. Waugh (New York University)
Nancy Qian (Yale University)
Benjamin A. Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Arbitrage, Trading, and Frictions (G1)
Presiding: Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris)
Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage
Alex Edmans (University of Pennsylvania)
Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Wei Jiang (Columbia University)
ETFs, Arbitrage, and Contagion
Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State University)
Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano and Swiss Finance Institute)
Rabih Moussawi (University of Pennsylvania)
Dynamic Strategic Arbitrage
Vincent Fardeau (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussants:
Johan Hombert (HEC Paris )
Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School)
Martin Oehmke (Columbia University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Asset Pricing (G1)
Presiding: Suleyman Basak (London Business School)
Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices
David Easley (Cornell University)
Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)
A Theory of Asset Prices Based on Heterogeneous Information
Elias Albagli (University of Southern California)
Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University)
Christian Hellwig (University of Toulouse)
Deliberate Limits to Arbitrage
Igor Makarov (London Business School)
Guillaume Plantin (University of Toulouse)
Discussants:
Hongjun Yan (Yale University)
Bradyn Breon-Drish (Stanford University)
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago and NBER)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
Compensation and Incentives (G3)
Presiding: Katharina Lewellen (Dartmouth College)
Blinded by Incentives: Do Rank and File Stock Options Deter Employee Whistle-Blowing?
Andrew Call (University of Georgia)
Simi Kedia (Rutgers University)
Shivaram Rajgopal (Emory University)
Is Disclosure an Effective Cleansing Mechanism? The Dynamics of Compensation Peer Benchmarking
Michael Faulkender (University of Maryland)
Jun Yang (Indiana University)
Culture and CEO Compensation
Robert Nash (Wake Forest University)
Ajay Patel (Wake Forest University)
Stephen Bryan (Fordham University)
Discussants:
Carola Frydman (Boston University)
David Yermack (New York University)
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Financial Crisis (G1)
Presiding: Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Dealer Financial Conditions and Lender-of-Last-Resort Facilities
Viral V. Acharya (New York University)
Michael Fleming (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Warren Hrung (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Asani Sarkar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Liquidity Backstop, Corporate Borrowings, and Real Effects
Pengjie Gao (University of Notre Dame)
Hayong Yun (University of Notre Dame)
Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank Investments During the Financial Crisis
Thomas Hildebrand (E.CA Economics)
Jorg Rocholl (European School of Management and Technology)
Alexander Schulz (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Discussants:
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Northwestern University)
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University )
Augustin Landier (University of Toulouse)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
Mutual Fund Performance (G2)
Presiding: Lu Zheng (University of California-Irvine)
The Geography of Mutual Funds: The Advantage of Having Distant Investors
Miguel Ferreira (New University of Lisbon)
Massimo Massa (INSEAD)
Pedro Matos (University of Virginia)
Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill
Marcin Kacperczyk (New York University)
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University)
Laura Veldkamp (New York University)
Measuring Economic Rents in the Mutual Fund Industry
Jonathan Berk (Stanford University)
Jules van Binsbergen (Stanford University)
Limited Attention and Portfolio Choice: The Impact of Attention Allocation on Mutual Fund Performance
Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee (Loyola University)
Ankur Pareek (Rutgers University)
Discussants:
Diane Del Guercio (University of Oregon)
Zheng Sun (University of California-Irvine)
William N. Goetzmann (Yale University)
Clemens Sialm (University of Texas-Austin)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
The Credit Crisis and Risk Management Instruments (G1)
Presiding: Andrea Buraschi (University of Chicago - Booth School of Business)
The Determinants of the CDS-Bond Basis During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Jennie Bai (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Columbia University)
Economic Catastrophe Bonds: Inefficient Market or Inadequate Model?
Haitao Li (University of Michigan)
Feng Zhao (University of Texas-Dallas)
Contingent Capital: The Case of COERCS
Christian Wolff (University of Luxembourg)
George Pennacchi (University of Illinois)
Theo Vermaelen (INSEAD)
Discussants:
Francis Longstaff (University of California-Los Angeles)
Joshua Coval (Harvard Business School)
Douglas Diamond (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Green Building and Sustainable Real Estate Development (Q5)
Presiding: Norman Miller (University of San Diego)
Does It Pay to Go Green? Evidence from Singapore Public Real Estate Companies
Zhiliang Li (National University of Singapore)
Commercial Building Electricity Consumption: Understanding the Role of Shocks, Structure Quality, and Contract Incentives
Nils Kok (Maastricht University)
Matthew Kahn (University of California-Los Angeles)
John Quigley (University of California-Berkeley)
Is There a Link Between Energy Performance and Investment Performance? Evidence from New York City's Local Law 84 Energy Consumption Data
Constantine Kontokosta (New York University)
Financing Mechanisms for Energy-Efficient Retrofits for Single-Family Housing
Ashok Bardhan (University of California-Berkeley)
Cynthia Kroll (University of California-Berkeley)
Dwight Jaffee (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Walter Torous (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan Brueckner (University of California-Irvine)
Richard Arnott (University of California-Riverside)
Stephen Malpezzi (University of Wisconsin)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Mortgage Default and Distress (G2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Xudong An (San Diego State University)
Michael Seiler (Old Dominion University)
Yuwen Dai (IFE Group)
Yan Chang (Freddie Mac)
Igor Kozhanov (University of Buffalo)
Wenyu Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Yildiray Yildirim (Syracuse University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Edward B & C
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Labor Market Flexibility and Outcomes in Developed and Emerging Market Countries (J6)
Presiding: Jan Svejnar (Columbia University)
Employment Protection and Worker Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
Alexander Hijzen (OECD)
Leopoldo Montaudo (OECD)
Stefano Scarpetta (OECD)
The Economics of the Single Contract: When Do We Need Severance Payments Increasing with Tenure?
Tito Boeri (Bocconi University)
Pietro Garibaldi (University of Torino)
Espen Moen (Norwegian School of Management)
Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment
Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo (University of Chicago)
Davide Furceri (IMF)
Dominique Gillaume (IMF)
Nonlinear Effects of Labor Market Institutions on Employment Outcomes
Zuzana Brixiova (UNDP and African Development Bank)
Balázs Égert (OECD)
Jan Svejnar (Columbia University)
Discussants:
John P. Bonin (Wesleyan University)
Zuzana Brixiova (UNDP and African Development Bank)
Stepan Jurajda (Charles University)
Wenli Li (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, La Costa
Association for Evolutionary Economics
The Euro Crisis (E2)
Presiding: Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain)
The Euro Crisis: When Might it End?
Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Malcolm Sawyer (University of Leeds, UK)
How "Greek" is the Euro Crisis?
Georgios Chortareas (University of Athens, Greece)
Modeling Moments of Crisis: The Case of Ireland
Stephen Kinsella (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Wrong Institutional Design and Unsatisfactory Economic Performance: An Explanation of the Huge Spanish Unemployment Rate
Jesus Ferreiro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Felipe Serrano (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
The Euro Debt Crisis and Germany's Euro Trilemma
Joerg Bibow (Skidmore College and Levy Economics Institute)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 1
Association for Social Economics
Social Networks, Human Capital and Social Exchange (O1)
Presiding: Ellen Mutari (Richard Stockton College)
Peer Effects in Adolescents' Delinquent Behaviors: Evidence from a Binary Choice Network Model
Xu Lin (Wayne State University)
Is Child Marriage a Reason for High Marital Violence in Bangladesh?
Shahnaz Abdullah (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
English Proficiency and Earnings of Foreign-Born Immigrants in the U.S. from 1980 - 2000 and the Role of Minority-Language Enclaves
Ying Zhen (Wesleyan College)
Sustainability as a Barrier to Diversity in Academia: Views from Indonesia, Australia and the United States
Janet Spitz (College of St. Rose)
Andre A. Pekerti (University of Queensland)
Discussants:
Zohreh Emami (Alverno College)
Wilfred A. Dolfsma (University of Groningen)
Christopher Gunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Energy Extraction and Water Provision (Q2)
Presiding: Richard Carson (University of California-San Diego)
The Value of Water as an Urban Club Good: A Matching Approach to HOA-Provided Lakes
Joshua K. Abbott (Arizona State University)
H Allen Klaiber (Ohio State University)
Effects of Civil War on Access to Water and Sanitation Services
Ariel Dinar (University of California-Riverside)
Javier Santiago Ortiz Correa (University of California-Riverside)
The Drill and the Bill: Shale Gas Development and Property Values
Beia Spiller (Resources for the Future)
Lucija Muehlenbachs (Resources for the Future)
Christopher Timmins (Duke University)
Strategic Decision-Making with Information and Extraction Externalities: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production
Cynthia Lin (University of California-Davis)
Discussants:
Richard Carson (University of California-San Diego)
Linda Fernandez (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Nicolai V. Kuminoff (Arizona State University)
Timothy Fitzgerald (Montana State University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Health (I1)
Presiding: Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California-Los Angeles)
Productivity and Quality in Health Care: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
Paul L. E. Grieco (Pennsylvania State University)
Ryan C. McDevitt (University of Rochester)
Access to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival
Jon H. Fiva (Norwegian Business School)
In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
Hendrik Schmitz (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Small Area Variation in C-Sections: Norms, Spillovers and Market Power
Janet Currie (Princeton University)
W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Darius N. Lakdawalla (University of Southern California)
Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California-Los Angeles)
Emilia Simeonova (Tufts University)
Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
International Trade Pricing (F3)
Presiding: Robert Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect
Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University)
Joep Konings (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Exchange Rate Pass Through into Import and Domestic Prices
Raphael A. Auer (Swiss National Bank)
Raphael Sebastian Schoenle (Brandeis University)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Missing Import Price Changes and Pass-Through
Etienne Gagnon (Federal Reserve Board)
Benjamin R. Mandel (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Robert J. Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
The Sensitivity of Producer Prices to Exchange Rates: Insights from Micro Data
Shutao Cao (Bank of Canada)
Wei Dong (Bank of Canada)
Ben Tomlin (Bank of Canada)
Discussants:
Robert J. Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
Linda S. Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Mario J. Crucini (Vanderbilt University)
Jay C. Shambaugh (George Washington University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Labor Markets and the Aggregate Economy (J6)
Presiding: Iourii Manovskii (Economics University of Pennsylvania)
Unions in a Frictional Labor Market
Per Krusell (Stockholm University)
Leena Rudanko (Boston University)
Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: A Macroeconomic Cross-Country Analysis
Alexander Bick (Arizona State University)
Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln (Goethe University Frankfurt)
The Micro and Macro of Job Polarization
Guido Matias Cortes (University of British Columbia)
Nir Jaimovich (Duke University)
Christopher J. Nekarda (Federal Reserve Board)
Henry Siu (University of British Columbia)
Identifying Sorting
Marcus Hagedorn (University of Cologne)
Tzuo Hann Law (University of Pennsylvania)
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
New Evidence from Online Job Search (J64)
Presiding: Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Sorting by Skill over the Course of Job Search
Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Damba Lkhagvasuren (Concordia University)
Roman Sysuyev (NECA)
Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
Peter Kuhn (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Kailing Shen (Xiamen University)
Mismatch Unemployment
Aysegul Sahin (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Joseph Song (Columbia University)
Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Gianluca Violante (New York University)
What Drives Job Search? Evidence from Google Search Data
Scott R. Baker (Stanford University)
Andrey Fradkin (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Ryan Michaels (University of Rochester)
Lisa Kahn (Yale University)
Shigeru Fujita (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Camille Landais (Stanford University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Real Effects of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (L2)
Presiding: David Sraer (Princeton University)
Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation and Growth
Leonid Kogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
Noah Stoffman (Indiana University)
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)
Sari Pekkala Kerr (Wellesley College)
William R. Kerr (Harvard Business School)
Should We Make it Safer to Start a Business?
Johan Hombert (HEC Paris)
Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Sraer (Princeton University)
David Thesmar (HEC and CEPR)
What Stimulates Growth of Microenterprises?
Christopher M. Woodruff (University of Warwick)
Discussants:
Petra Moser (Stanford University)
Patrick Kline (University of California-Berkeley)
Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago)
Shawn A. Cole (Harvard Business School)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Gibbons
Econometric Society
Weakly Identified Models (C2)
Presiding: Zhongjun Qu (Boston University)
Conditional Moment Models under Weak Identification
Bertille Antoine (Simon Fraser University)
Pascal Lavergne (Toulouse School of Economics)
Bonferroni-Based Size-Correction for Nonstandard Testing Problems
Adam McCloskey (Brown University)
Weak Identification: A Geometric Approach
Isaiah Andrews (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Anna Mikusheva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Local and Global Parameter Identification in DSGE Models Allowing for Indeterminacy
Zhongjun Qu (Boston University)
Denis Tkachenko (National University of Singapore)
Discussants:
Tiemen Woutersen (University of Arizona)
Patrick Guggenberger (University of California-San Diego)
Xu Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
Yixiao Sun (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 1
International Association for Feminist Economics
New Directions in Measuring Gender Equality (J1)
Presiding: Rosalba Todaro (Centro de Estudios de la Mujer)
Occupational Segregation and the Cultural Divide: Are Red States Different Than Blue States?
Ann Mari May (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Mary McGarvey (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Scott M. Fuess, Jr. (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Sexual Orientation and Social Exclusion in Italy
Fabrizio Botti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Carlo D'Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Changes in Poverty Measurement: An Examination of the Research SPM and Its Effects by Gender
Laryssa Mykyta (U.S. Census Bureau)
Trudi J. Renwick (U.S. Census Bureau)
Moving from the Household to the Individual: Mulitidimensional Poverty Analysis
Ramya M. Vijaya (Stockton College of New Jersey)
Hema Swaminathan (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Rahul Lahoti (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Suchirtra J. Yegnanarayan (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Discussants:
Cecilia Conrad (Pomona College)
Catherine Weinberger (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Artistic Careers and the Creative Workforce (J5)
Presiding: Steven Tepper (Vanderbilt University)
Artistic Careers and Creative Workforce: Synthesis and Future Directions
Steven J. Tepper (Vanderbilt University)
Bill Ivey (Vanderbilt University)
Elizabeth Long Lingo (Vanderbilt University)
The Space Between the Notes: The Connections and Capitals of Jazz Musicians in Three Metropolitan Areas
Timothy J. Dowd (Emory University)
Diogo L. Pinheiro (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Making the Intern Economy: Role and Career Challenges of the Music Industry Intern
Alexandre Frenette (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Agents of Arts Trade Union Revitalization: Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Nashville Arts Union Activists
Daniel B. Cornfield (Vanderbilt University)
Discussants:
Bill Ivey (Vanderbilt University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
International Perspectives on Employment Relations - LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Phanindra Wunnava (Middlebury College and IZA)
Convergence versus Divergence of Labour Reorganization in the Neoliberal Era: Underdevelopment of Industrial Unionism in Korea
Taekyoon Lim (University of California-Los Angeles)
The Impact of Dismissal Regulation: Evidence from a Unique Australian Natural Experiment
Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
Benoit Freyens (University of Canberra)
The Effect of Certification Procedure on Union Density in the Canadian Private Sector
Eyob Fissuh (Human Resources and Skills Development-Canada)
Craig Eschuk (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
Francesco Galassi (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
The Effects of Labor Contracts on Chinese Workers' Welfare and Job Quality
Mingwei Liu (Rutgers University)
Shisong Qing (East China Normal University)
Discussants:
Mark Egan (University of Chicago)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Unionization and Occupational Licensing: Similarities and Differences (J5)
Presiding: Rafael Gomez (University of Toronto)
Occupational Regulation and Unionization: A Comparison of Two Labor Market Institutions in the UK
Maria Koumenta (Queen Mary, University of London)
Amy Humphris (University of Brighton)
Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing in the U.S.
Maury Gittleman (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota)
De-licensing of Occupations in the U.S.
Robert Thornton (Lehigh University)
Edward Timmons (Saint Francis University)
Discussants:
David N. Weil (Boston University)
Mindy Marks (University of California-Riverside)
Mark Klee (George Mason University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 3
National Economic Association
The Legacy of the War on Poverty (H3)
Presiding: Sheldon Danziger (University of Michigan)
The Legacy of the War on Poverty
Martha Bailey (University of Michigan)
Sheldon Danziger (University of Michigan)
Head Start: From Origins to Impacts
Chloe Gibbs (University of Chicago)
Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago)
Douglas L. Miller (University of California-Davis)
K-12 Education Programs and the War on Poverty
Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth College)
Sarah Reber (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussants:
Cecilia Rouse (Princeton University)
Bill Collins (Vanderbilt University)
Robert Margo (Boston University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Hyatt, Oxford
Peace Science Society International
The Consequences of Violence (D7)
Presiding: Carlos Seiglie (Rutgers University Newark)
The Impact of Conflict on Education Attainment and Enrollment in Colombia: Lessons from Recent IDPs
Ruth Uwaifo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kate Warton (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Households amidst Urban Riots: The Economic Consequences of Civil Violence in India
Patricia Justino (University of Sussex)
Provoking an Insurgency in a Federation: Theory and Application to India
Jean-Paul Azam (University of Toulouse 1)
Kartika Bhatia (University of Toulouse 1)
Implications of War on the Labor Markets
Solomon Polachek (State University of New York-Binghamton)
Jun Hyung Yu (State University of New York-Binghamton)
Who Has to Leave and Why? Displacement in Kyrgyzstan
Tilman Bruck (DIW Berlin)
Antje Kroegery (DIW Berlin)
Marc Vothknecht (DIW Berlin)
Discussants:
Tirtha Das (Temple University)
Henry Farber (Princeton University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Torrey Pines 2
Society of Government Economists
SNAP: Participation and Food Insecurity (D1)
Presiding: Jonathan Schwabish (Congressional Budget Office)
Food Stamps, Food Sufficiency, and Diet-Related Disease Among the Elderly
Katie Fitzpatrick (Seattle University)
Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley (Kent State University)
SNAP: Work Support or Welfare Magnet?
Jonathan A. Schwabish (Congressional Budget Office)
How State Policies Influence the Efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Reducing Poverty
Laura Tiehen (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Dean Jolliffe (The World Bank)
Craig Gundersen (University of Illinois)
Discussants:
James P. Ziliak (University of Kentucky)
Marianne Bitler (University of California-Irvine)
Stacy Dickert-Conlin (Michigan State University)
Jan 06, 2013 10:15 am, Marriott, Newport Beach
Union for Radical Political Economists
What Does Development Mean? Considerations of Contact Areas Between Structural Power and Grassroots Resistance (O1)
Presiding: Geoff Schneider (Bucknell University)
Development in Marx and in Economic Theory: Claiming a Negative Critique of Capitalist Development
Bianca Bonente (Federal University of Brazil-Fluminense)
Indigenous Resistance and the Development Discourse: Reconceptualizing Western Hegemony?
Karol Gil (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
New Systemic Institutional Approach for Comparative Political and Economic Analysis
Svetlana Kirdina (Russian Academy of Science)
Contact Areas: Economics, History and Development Theory
Natalia Bracarense (State University of New York-Potsdam)
Constrained Autonomy and the Developmental State: From Successful Developmentalism to Catastrophic Failure
Jamee Moudud (Sarah Lawrence College)
Discussants:
Geoff Schneider (Bucknell University)
Al Campbell (University of Utah)
Fernando Prada (Federal University of Brazil-Rio de Janeiro)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Emma A & B
American Economic Association
Asset Pricing (G1)
Presiding: Paul Laux (University of Delaware)
How Smooth Is Price Discovery? Evidence from Cross-listed Stock Trading
Haiqiang Chen (Xiamen University)
Paul Moon Sub Choi (Ewha Womans University)
Yongmiao Hong (Cornell University)
Wine as a Long-Term Investment
Elroy Dimson (London Business School)
Peter L. Rousseau (Vanderbilt University)
Christophe Spaenjers (HEC Paris)
Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets
Takashi Yamagata (University of York)
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California)
Inflation Risk in Corporate Bonds
Johnny Kang (Harvard Business School)
Carolin E. Pflueger (University of British Columbia)
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Predicting Market Returns Using Aggregate Implied Cost of Capital
David Ng (Cornell University)
Yan Li (Temple University)
Bhaskaran Swaminathan (LSV Capital)
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Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom B
American Economic Association
Behavioral Responses to Nonlinear Insurance Prices (D4)
Presiding: Yuting Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
Anticipatory Effects of Nonlinear Design Features of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Cameron M. Kaplan (University of Pittsburgh)
Yuting Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
A Dynamic Model of Prescription Drug Utilization
Jason Todd Abaluck (Yale University)
Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ashley Swanson (University of Pennsylvania)
Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance
Amanda Kowalski (Yale University)
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Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important is Forward Looking Behavior?
Aviva Aron-Dine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Cullen (Stanford University)
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Discussants:
Jason Todd Abaluck (Yale University)
Leila Agha (Boston University)
Benjamin Handel (University of California-Berkeley)
Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Gregory A & B
American Economic Association
Belief Heterogeneity in Asset and Insurance Markets (D4)
Presiding: Ricardo Serrano-Padial (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Overconfidence and Asymmetric Information: The Case of Insurance
Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University)
Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)
Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
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Credit Market Speculation and the Cost of Capital
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University)
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Does Belief Heterogeneity Explain Asset Prices: The Case of the Longshot Bias
Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ricardo Serrano-Padial (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Discussants:
Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics)
Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University)
Elias Albagli (University of Southern California)
Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F
American Economic Association
Causes and Consequences of Credit Default Swap Trading (G1)
Presiding: Francis Longstaff (University of California-Los Angeles)
The Anatomy of the CDS Market
Martin Oehmke (Columbia University)
Adam Zawadowski (Boston University)
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Corporate Leverage, Debt Maturity and Credit Supply: The Role of Credit Default Swaps
Alessio Saretto (University of Texas-Dallas)
Heather Tookes (Yale University)
Does the Tail Wag the Dog? The Effect of Credit Default Swaps on Credit Risk
Marti Subrahmanyam (New York University)
Dragon Yongjun Tang (University of Hong Kong)
Sarah Qian Wang (University of Hong Kong)
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Did CDS Trading Improve the Market for Corporate Bonds?
Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University)
Madhu Kalimipalli (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Subhankar Nayak (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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Discussants:
Or Shachar (New York University)
Murillo Campello (Cornell University)
Erik Staffor (Harvard Business School)
Jennie Bai (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester F
American Economic Association
Choosing a College and Finishing College (I2)
Presiding: Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University and NBER)
The Effects of Information on Students' College Enrollment Decisions: Evidence From a Randomized Trial
Eric Bettinger (Stanford University)
Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University)
Phil Phillip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto)
The Impact of College Mismatch
Eleanor Dillon (Arizona State University)
Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)
Beliefs and Outcomes about College Major and College Dropout
Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario)
Ralph Stinebrickner (Berea College)
Improving Outcomes for High-Achieving Low-Income Students
Caroline M. Hoxby (Stanford University)
Sarah E. Turner (University of Virginia)
Discussants:
Scott Carrell (University of California-Davis)
Sarah Reber (University of California-Los Angeles)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Molly A & B
American Economic Association
Culture, Institutions, and Historical Persistence (Z1)
Presiding: Azim Essaji (Wilfred Laurier University)
Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Nico Voigtlaender (University of California-Los Angeles)
Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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Cultural Change and Persistence in Historical Perspective
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
The Persistence of Inferior Cultural-Institutional Conventions
Marianna Belloc (Sapienza University of Rome)
Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute)
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Discussants:
Gregory Clark (University of California-Davis)
Marianna Belloc (Sapienza University of Rome)
Quamrul Ashraf (Williams College)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Emma C
American Economic Association
Econometrics (C1)
Presiding: Chris Bennett (Vanderbilt University)
Identification and Estimation of Semi-parametric Censored Dynamic Panel Data Models
Ji-Liang Shiu (National Chung-Cheng University)
Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)
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Hidden Markov Structures for Dynamic Copulae
Weining Wang (Humboldt University at Berlin)
Ostap Okhrin (Humboldt University at Berlin)
Wolfgang Haerdle (Humbolt University at Berlin)
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Factor Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models
Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Dalibor Stevanovic (Université du Québec à Montréal)
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Bootstrap Joint Prediction Regions
Dan Christian Wunderli (University of Zurich)
Michael Wolf (University of Zurich)
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Self-confirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University)
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University)
Fabio Maccheroni (Bocconi University)
Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University)
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Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester H & I
American Economic Association
Economic Analysis of Subjective Well-being (D6)
Presiding: Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
Happiness Puzzles
Angus S. Deaton (Princeton University)
Arthur Stone (SUNY-Stony Brook)
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Subjective Well-being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan)
Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan)
Aggregating Subjective Well-Being for Marginal Policy Adjustments
Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University)
Ori Heffetz (Cornell University)
Miles Kimball (University of Michigan)
Nichole Szembrot (Cornell University)
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Discussants:
Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan)
David I. Laibson (Harvard University)
Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A
American Economic Association
Exploring the Role of Mortgage Lending Using Credit Report Data (E2)
Presiding: Bent Sorensen (University of Houston)
Real Estate Investors, the Leverage Cycle, and the Housing Market Crisis
Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Donghoon Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Joseph Tracy (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Accounting for the Growth in Residential Leverage in the 2000s
Kristopher Gerardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Paul S. Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Stephen L. Ross (University of Connecticut)
Mortgage Companies and Regulatory Arbitrage
Yuliya Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia)
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Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit
Bent E. Sorensen (University of Houston)
Yuliya Demyanyk (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Dmytro Hryshko (University of Alberta)
Maria Luengo-Prado (Norteastern University)
Discussants:
Shane M. Sherlund (Federal Reserve Board)
Wilbert van der Klaauw (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore)
Greg Kaplan (Princeton University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
American Economic Association
Financial Crises (E5)
Presiding: Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)
Efficient Bailouts?
Javier Bianchi (University of Wisconsin)
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A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk
Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
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External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory
Ali Shourideh (University of Pennsylvania)
Ariel Zetlin Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Aggregate Issuance and Savings Waves
Andrea Eisfeldt (University of California-Los Angeles)
Tyler Muir (Northwestern University)
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Discussants:
Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)
Frederic Malherbe (London Business School)
Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University)
Ali Shourideh (University of Pennsylvania)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester E
American Economic Association
Impacts of Accountability (I2)
Presiding: Jacob Vigdor (Duke University)
School Accountability, Standards and Family Sorting
David Figlio (Northwestern University)
Lauren Linzmeier (Northwestern University)
Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm University)
Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses and the Test Taking Population
Rajashri Chakrabarti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
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Long-Run Impact of School Accountability on Educational Attainment and Earnings
David Deming (Harvard University)
Jennifer L. Jennings (New York University)
Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence From Housing Prices After Public Release of Teacher Value-Added
Scott Imberman (Michigan State University)
Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)
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Discussants:
Julie Cullen (University of California-San Diego)
Brian Jacob (University of Michigan)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Randle E
American Economic Association
Impacts of Unilateral Climate Change Policy (Q5)
Presiding: Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia)
A Numerical Investigation of the Potential for Negative Emissions Leakage
Niven Winchester (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sebastian Rausch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Linking Numerical and Analytical Models of Carbon Leakage
Jared C. Carbone (University of Calgary)
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Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy
Kathy Baylis (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Don Fullerton (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
Daniel Karney (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)
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Discussants:
Sam Kortum (University of Chicago)
Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia)
Ian Sue Wing (Boston University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Randle A
American Economic Association
International Trade with Costly Trade within Countries (F1)
Presiding: Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Scale Effects and Productivity: Does Country Size Matter?
Natalia Ramondo (Arizona State University)
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (University of California-Berkeley)
Milagro Saborio-Rodriguez (Pennsylvania State University)
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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Outcomes
Pablo David Fajgelbaum (University of California-Los Angeles)
Kerem Cosar (University of Chicago)
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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare
Stephen Redding (Princeton University)
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Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of Intranational Trade Costs
Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Atkin (Yale University)
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Discussants:
Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University)
Gordon H. Hanson (University of California-San Diego)
Ralph Ossa (University of Chicago)
Jessie Handbury (Columbia University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester G
American Economic Association
Mergers Analysis with Product Repositioning (L1)
Presiding: Mauricio Varela (University of Arizona)
The Welfare Consequences of Mergers with Product Repositioning
Mauricio J. Varela (University of Arizona)
Michael Mazzeo (Northwestern University)
Katja Seim (University of Pennsylvania)
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Airline Mergers and the Potential Entry Defense
Andrew Sweeting (Duke University)
James Roberts (Duke University)
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Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry
Allan Collard-Wexler (New York University)
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Effects of Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: Examination of the U.S. Radio Industry
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley)
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Discussants:
Ying Fan (University of Michigan)
Mo Xiao (University of Arizona)
Jacob Gramlich (Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
Allan Collard-Wexler (New York University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Manchester A
American Economic Association
Money Management by Households and Firms in Kenya (O1)
Presiding: David Weil (Brown University)
Transaction Networks: Evidence from Mobile Money in Kenya
William Jack (Georgetown University)
Tavneet Suri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adam Ray (Innovations for Poverty Action)
Returns to Capital and Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: Evidence from Inventories in Kenyan Retail Shops
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Jonathan Robinson (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Olga Rostapshova (Harvard University)
Jean Lee (The World Bank)
The Home Economics of E-Money: Velocity, Cash Management, and Discount Rates of M-Pesa Users
Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University)
David N. Weil (Brown University)
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Discussants:
Joshua Blumenstock (University of Washington)
Jonathan Morduch (New York University)
Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G
American Economic Association
Policy Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Performance (E6)
Presiding: Steven Davis (University of Chicago)
Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Pabla Guerron (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Keith Kuester (Federal Rserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Duke University)
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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty
Scott R. Baker (Stanford University)
Nicholas A. Bloom (Stanford University)
Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago)
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The Geography of Uncertainty
David Mericle (Harvard University)
Daniel Shoag (Harvard University)
Stan Veuger (Harvard University)
Employment, Corporate Investment and Cash Flow Uncertainty
Sanjai Bhagat (University of Colorado)
Iulian Obreja (University of Colorado)
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Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Windsor B & C
American Economic Association
Taxes (H2)
Presiding: Sally Wallace (Georgia State University)
Wages and International Tax Competition
Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (University of Oxford)
Sebastian Krautheim (University of Frankfurt)
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Income Tax Policy and the Behavior of Philanthropic Organizations
Andrew Hanks (Cornell University)
Jill McCluskey (Washington State University)
Ron Mittelhammer (Washington State University)
Country Characteristics and the Incidence of Capital Income Taxation on Wages: An Empirical Assessment
Celine Azemar (University of Glasgow)
R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)
Tax Evasion across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece
Margarita Tsoutsoura (University of Chicago)
Adair Morse (University of Chicago)
Nikolaos Artavanis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Business Taxes and the Electoral Cycle
Dirk Foremny (University of Barcelona)
Nadine Riedel (Oxford University and University of Hohenheim)
Tax Policy and Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics: Evidence from OECD Countries
Richard Kneller (University of Nottingham)
Danny McGowan (Bangor University)
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Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Randle B
American Economic Association
The Effects of Online Economics Courses on Student Learning (I2)
Presiding: Neal Olitsky (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
Student Outcomes in Principles: Online vs. Face-to-Face Delivery
Kathryn Birkeland (University of South Dakota)
Mandie Weinandt (University of South Dakota)
David L. Carr (University of South Dakota)
The Effectiveness of Interactive Online Exercises across Delivery Format
William T. Alpert (University of Connecticut)
Oskar R. Harmon (University of Connecticut)
James Lambrinos (Union Graduate College)
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The Effect of Blended Courses on Student Learning: Evidence From Introductory Economics Courses
Neal H. Olitsky (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
Sarah B. Cosgrove (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
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Student Performance and Perception of Online Homework Systems: Upper-Level Economics Class versus Principles of Economics Students
Robert L. Pennington (University of Central Florida)
Barbara Moore (University of Central Florida)
Discussants:
Neal H. Olitsky (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
Kathryn Birkeland (University of South Dakota)
Oskar R. Harmon (University of Connecticut)
Robert L. Pennington (University of Central Florida)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Edward A
American Economic Association
The Role of Information in Emerging Markets (D8)
Presiding: Alberto Salvo (Northwestern University)
Bargaining and Welfare: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of the Autorickshaw Market
Daniel E. Keniston (Yale University)
Distribution Fees and Mutual Fund Flows: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market
Santosh Anagol (University of Pennsylvania)
Vijaya Marisetty (Monash University)
Renuka Sane (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)
Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (Monash University)
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Grab Them Before They Go Generic: Habit Formation and the Emerging Middle Class
Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Alberto Salvo (Northwestern University)
Counterfeit or Substandard? Assessing Price and Non-Price Signals of Drug Quality
Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
Roger Bate (American Enterprise Institute)
Aparna Mathur (American Enterprise Institute)
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Discussants:
Santosh Anagol (University of Pennsylvania)
Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
Daniel E. Keniston (Yale University)
Alberto Salvo (Northwestern University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C
American Economic Association
Worker Skills, Job Quality, and Labor Market Matching (J2)
Presiding: Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
Have Good Jobs Been Disappearing in the U.S.?
Harry J. Holzer (Georgetown University)
Julia I. Lane (National Science Foundation)
David B. Rosenblum (Michigan State University)
Fredrik Andersson (Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury)
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The Spread of Modern Retail: Implications for Wages
Brianna Cardiff (Stanford University)
Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University)
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Worker Flows over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
Lisa Kahn (Yale University)
Erika McEntarfer (U.S. Census Bureau)
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Skill Mismatch and Unemployment in the United States
Marcello Estevao (International Monetary Fund)
Christopher Smith (Federal Reserve Board)
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Discussants:
David H. Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Till von Wachter (Columbia University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Balboa & Mission Hills
American Finance Association
Banking and Financial Institutions III (G2)
Presiding: Gary Gorton (Yale University)
Capital Flows, Cross-Border Banking and Global Liquidity
Valentina Bruno (American University)
Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)
Trading Partners in the Interbank Lending Mark
Gara Afonso (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors Monitor Banks?
Rajkamal Iyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Manju Puri (Duke University)
Nicholas Ryan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussants:
Marcel Fratzscher (European Central Bank)
Pierre-Olivier Weill (University of California-Los Angeles)
Krislert Samphantharak (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon D
American Finance Association
Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition and Acquisitions (G3)
Presiding: Gordon Phillips (University of Southern California)
Product Market Competition and Internal Governance: Evidence from the Sarbanes Oxley Act
Vidhi Chhaochharia (University of Miami)
Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell University)
Gustavo Grullon (Rice University)
Roni Michaely (Cornell University)
The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance: Does the Media Influence Managers' Decisions to Abandon Acquisitions Attempts?
Baixiao Liu (Purdue University)
John McConnell (Purdue University)
An Empirical Investigation of Internal Governance
Huijing Fu (Texas Christian University)
Rajesh Aggarwal (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Yihui Pan (University of Utah)
The Effect of Internal Capital Markets on Corporate Investment: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chang Kim (Yonsei University)
Discussants:
Elena Simintzi (London Business School)
Gerard Hoberg (University of Maryland)
Amit Seru (University of Chicago)
Oguzhan Ozbas (University of Southern California)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon E
American Finance Association
Executive Compensation and CEO's (G3)
Presiding: E. Kim (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Compensation Gaps Among Top Executives: Evidence of Tournament Incentives or Productivity Differentials?
Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales)
Shage Zhang (Trinity University)
Industry Tournament Incentives
Jeffrey Coles (Arizona State University)
Yan Albert Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Zhichuan Li (University of Western Ontario)
Pride and Prestige: Why Some Firms Pay Their CEOs Less
Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim)
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi (University of Mannheim)
Evgenia Zhivotova (University of Mannheim)
Discussants:
Jennifer Brown (Northwestern University)
Yao Lu (Tsinghua University)
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California-Berkeley)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon F
American Finance Association
High Frequency Trading (G1)
Presiding: Hendrik Bessembinder (University of Utah)
High Frequency Trading and Price Discovery
Jonathan Brogaard (University of Washington)
Terrence Hendershott (University of California-Berkeley)
Ryan Riordan (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
International Evidence on Algorithmic Trading
Ekkehart Boehmer (EDHEC Business School)
Kingsley Fong (University of New South Wales)
Julie Wu (University of Georgia)
Equilibrium High-Frequency Trading
Bruno Biais (University of Toulouse)
Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris)
Sophie Moinas (University of Toulouse)
High Frequency Traders, News and Volatility
Victor Martinez (City University of New York)
Ioanid Rosu (HEC Paris)
Discussants:
Charles Jones (Columbia University)
Terrence Hendershott (University of California-Berkeley)
Andrei Kirilenko (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Albert (Pete) Kyle (University of Maryland)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Marina Salon G
American Finance Association
Institutional Investors: Voting, Lending and Monitoring (G2)
Presiding: Ralph Walkling (Drexel University)
The Role of Institutional Investors in Voting: Evidence from the Securities Lending Market
Reena Aggarwal (Georgetown University)
Pedro Saffi (University of Cambridge)
Jason Sturgess (Georgetown University)
Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate
Jongha Lim (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Bernadette Minton (Ohio State University)
Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University)
Are Institutional Investors Effective Monitors When Holding the Largest Institutional Block Ownership in Multiple Firms?
Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University)
Juan Luo (Nanyang Technological University)
Hyun Seung Na (City University of Hong Kong)
Discussants:
David Musto (University of Pennsylvania)
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University )
Jarrad Harford (University of Washington )
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Cardiff & Carlsbad
American Finance Association
International Financial Instability and the Safety Premium (G1)
Presiding: Anna Pavlova (London Business School)
The U.S. Dollar Safety Premium
Matteo Maggiori (New York University)
The Announcement Effect of the EFSF
Stephan Dieckmann (University of Pennsylvania)
Financial Market Dislocations
Paolo Pasquariello (University of Michigan)
Discussants:
Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago)
Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Lasse Pedersen (New York University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 3
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Housing and the Macroeconomy (E2)
Presiding: Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin)
Fiscal Policy and the US States
Gerald Carlino (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Robert Inman (University of Pennsylvania)
Should We Fear an Adverse Collateral Effect on Investment in China?
Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore)
Jing Wu (National University of Singapore)
Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania)
Interest Rates and Fundamental Fluctuations in Home Values
Albert Saiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
How Much Do Changes in Housing Wealth Influence the Decision to Retire?
Jan Ondrich (Syracuse University)
Discussants:
Jesse Gregory (University of Wisconsin)
Gabriel Ehrlich (Congressional Budget Office)
Erwan Quintin (University of Wisconsin)
Andra Ghent (Arizona State University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Rancho Santa Fe 2
American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association
Real Estate Market Microstructure (G1)
Presiding: Richard Buttimer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Commission Splits in Real Estate Transactions
Bennie Waller (Longwood University)
Xun Bian (Longwood University)
Abdullah Yavas (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Hot and Cold Housing Markets with State-Dependent Motivation and Search
Joseph Williams (Professors Capital)
Search Costs and Behavioral Biases in Commercial Real Estate Pricing
Milena Petrova (Syracuse University)
David Ling (University of Florida)
Andy Naranjo (University of Florida)
Bidding Wars for Houses
Lu Han (University of Toronto)
William Strange (University of Toronto)
Discussants:
Richard Buttimer (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Brent Ambrose (Pennsylvania State University)
Philip Seagraves (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Steve Billings (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Edward B & C
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Managing Natural Resource Wealth for Development: What Works and What Does Not Work (O1)
Presiding: Yanchun Zhang (UNDP)
Riding the Commodity Rollercoaster: Natural Resource Management in the Context of Increasing Commodity Price Volatility
Yanchun Zhang (UNDP)
Viridiana Garcia (UNDP)
Nina Thelen (UNDP)
Managing Natural Resources for Economic and Social Development in Botswana and Zambia
Pedro Conceicao (UNDP)
Degol Hailu (UNDP)
Sebastian Levine (UNDP)
An Analysis of the Challenges and Opportunities Relating to Different Policy Options for State Equity Participation in Natural Resources Projects in Sub Saharan Africa
Nicolás M. Depetris Chauvin (African Center for Economic Transformation)
Extractive Industries, Children and Inclusive Growth: An Analysis of Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
Ronald U. Mendoza (Asian Institute of Management and UNICEF)
Harold J. McArthur (Asian Institute of Management and UNICEF)
Anne Ong Lopez (Asian Institute of Management and UNICEF)
Does Mining FDI Crowd-in or Out Other Investments? An Empirical Analysis Across 75 countries From 1985-2010
Nadia Doytch (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Ronald U. Mendoza (University of New Haven and Asian Institute of Management – Does)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, La Costa
Association for Evolutionary Economics
Modern Money Theory: Basic Principles and Policy Implications for the Eurozone (E5)
Presiding: Glen Atkinson (University of Nevada)
Public Debt and Monetary Sovereignty: Myths and Realities
Eric Tymoigne (Lewis and Clark College)
Understanding the Sectoral Balances: An Application to the Eurozone
Stephanie Kelton (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Avraham Izhar Baranes (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
The Keystroke Solution: Use the ECB to Save the Eurozone
Marshall Auerback (Levy Economics Institute)
Modern Money Theory's Macroeconomic Policy Paradigm
Scott Fullwiler (Wartburg College)
Network Analysis of Modern Monetary Theory: Alternative Paths of Ongoing Institutions
F. Gregory Hayden (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Maggie
Association of Environmental & Resource Economists
Air Pollution and Public Health (Q5)
Presiding: Joshua Zivin (University of California-San Diego)
Does Improved Air Quality at Birth Translate Into Better Long-Term Outcomes? Evidence from the Clean Air Act of 1970
Reed Walker (University of California-Berkeley)
Maya Rossin-Slater (Columbia University)
Adam Isen (University of Pennsylvania)
The Environmental, Health, and Fiscal Implications of Reducing Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Joseph E. Aldy (Harvard University)
Joint Impacts of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution on Health in Indonesia
Jie Sheng Tan Soo (Duke University)
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Duke University)
Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
Garth Heutel (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia)
Discussants:
Olivier Deschenes (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Joshua Graff Zivin (University of California-San Diego)
Rema Hanna (Harvard University)
Nicholas Sanders (College of William & Mary)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup C
Econometric Society
Advances in the Economics of Education (I2)
Presiding: Julian Betts (University of California-San Diego)
Anti-Lemons: Competion and Reputation
W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)
Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)
Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
Jesse Rothstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussants:
Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas-Austin)
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California-San Diego)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup D
Econometric Society
Deception and Persuasion (D7)
Presiding: Paul Heidhues (ESMT)
What Do You Want to Know? Communication with Endogenous Information Acquisition
Di Pei (Toulouse School of Economics)
Achieving Coordination under Privacy Concerns
Wioletta Dziuda (Northwestern University)
The Market for Deceptive Products
Paul Heidhues (ESMT)
Botond Koszegi (University of California-Berkeley)
Takeshi Murooka (University of California-Berkeley)
When to Persuade a Decision Maker
Fei Li (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussants:
Paul Heidhues (ESMT)
Fei Li (University of Pennsylvania)
Wioletta Dziuda (Northwestern University)
Di Pei (Toulouse School of Economics)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham C
Econometric Society
Macroeconomics and Asset Prices (E4)
Presiding: Lars Hansen (University of Chicago)
Measuring and Pricing Sensitivity to Tail Risk
Jaroslav Borovicka (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
Jose Scheinkman (Princeton University)
Innovation, Growth and Asset Prices
Howard Kung (Duke University)
Lukas Schmid (Duke University)
Wage Rigidity: A Solution to Several Asset Pricing Puzzles
Xiaoji Lin (The Ohio State University)
Jack Favilukis (London School of Economics)
Inflation Risk in Corporate Bonds
Johnny Kang (Harvard Business School)
Carolin E. Pflueger (University of British Columbia)
Discussants:
Bryan Kelly (University of Chicago)
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern University)
Lars-Alexander Kuehn (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Anna Cieslak (Northwestern University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, America's Cup A & B
Econometric Society
Robust Inference in Econometrics (C1)
Presiding: Matias Cattaneo (University of Michigan)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference with Sporadic Identification Failure
Donald W.K. Andrews (Yale University)
Xu Cheng (University of Pennsylvania)
Inference with Persistent Regressors
Marcelo J. Moreira (Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV))
Humberto Moreira (Getulio Vargas Foundaiton (FGV))
On the Asymptotic Size of Subvector Tests in the Linear Instrumental Variables Model
Patrik Guggenberger (University of California-San Diego)
Alternative Asymptotics and the Partially Linear Model with Many Regressors
Matias Damian Cattaneo (University of Michigan)
Michael Jansson (University of California-Berkeley)
Whitney K. Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Hyatt, Cunningham A & B
Econometric Society
Social Networks, Peer Effects and Politics (D7)
Presiding: Pedro Vicente (Nova University of Lisbon)
Voting, Influence, and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford University)
Ana Vaz (University of Oxford)
Pedro C. Vicente (Nova University of Lisbon)
Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education
Pritha Dev (ITAM)
Roland Pongou (University of Ottawa)
Blessing Uchenna Mberu (African Population and Health Research Center)
Determinants of Peer Influence on Political Choices: Evidence from Classroom Random Assignments in College
Camila F.S. Campos (Insper)
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon (University of East Anglia)
Together We Will: Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior in Pakistan
Xavier Gine (World Bank)
Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank)
Discussants:
Edward Miguel (University of California-Berkeley)
Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Lori Beaman (Northwestern University)
Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Laguna
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Are Asia's Workplaces at the Mercy of New Economic Realities or Not? (J5)
Presiding: Takashi Sakikawa (Niigata University)
Person-Organization Value Fit under Asia's Current Economic Conditions
Kyoto Yamazaki (Kobe University)
New Economic Realities and Diversity at Malaysian Workplaces
Nurhaizal Azam bin Arif (Universiti Utara Malaysia)
Mindsets of Indian Employees in an Indian-Based Japanese Company: A Qualitative Study
Kaushik Chaudhuri (Symbiosis International University)
The Implications of Offshoring for Japanese Firms and Industries
Ryoji Ito (Niigata University)
Employment and Competitive Issues Involving Japanese Financial Conglomerates: A Case Study of Shinsei Bank
Masaharu Kuhara (Kyushu University)
Discussants:
Masayasu Takahashi (Meiji University)
Toshio Takagi (Okinawa University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Leucadia
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Employment of Women, Minorities, Immigrants Session II - LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Niki Dickerson von Lockette (Rutgers University)
Good Jobs for Working Parents: A Closer Look at Minority and Immigrant Workers
Alison Earle (Brandeis University)
The Stubbornness of Sex Segregation and the Limitations of Equal Opportunity Law
Allison Elias (University of Virginia)
Racial and Ethnic Crowding in Low-Wage Metropolitan Labor Markets
Niki Dickerson von Lockette (Rutgers University)
William Spriggs (Howard University)
Darrick Hamilton (New School University)
Jan 06, 2013 1:00 pm, Marriott, Oceanside
Labor & Employment Relations Association
Union Effects in the US and Canada: Tenure, Earnings, and Workplace Stress - LERA Competitive Papers (J5)
Presiding: Peter Berg (Michigan State University)
The Impact of Minimum Wage Laws on the Wage Structure: An Updated Analysis of Ripple Effects
Jeannette Wicks-Lim (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Could Earnings Inequality be Linked to Declining Union Membership?
Phanindra V. Wunnava (Middlebury College and IZA)
The Union Effect on Perceived Work Stress: Evidence from Canadian General Social Survey
Xiaoyu Huang (University of Toronto)