PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE ALLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS JANUARY 4-6, 2013, SAN DIEGO, CANOTE: 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 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 Slotting Allowances and Variety Provision in Supermarket Retailing How Do Supermarkets Respond to Brand-Level Demand Shocks? Evidence from the German Beer Market
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 [Download Preview] The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation [Download Preview] Goal Setting and Energy Efficiency [Download Preview] Public Goods Provision in the Presence of Heterogeneous Green Preferences [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Consumption Value of Education: Implications for the Postsecondary Market [Download Preview] IMPROVING THE TARGETING OF TREATMENT: EVIDENCE FROM COLLEGE REMEDIATION [Download Preview] Integrity versus Access? The Effect of Financial Aid Availability on Postsecondary Enrollment [Download Preview]
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 Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance [Download Preview] Private Coverage and Public Costs: The Effect of Private Supplemental Insurance on Medicare Spending [Download Preview] Cost-Shifting or Cost-Following: How Does Medicare Affect Private Physician Pricing?
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 Consequences of Withdrawal: Free Condoms and Birth Rates in the Philippines [Download Preview] The Impact of Legal Abortion on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from the 1970 New York Abortion Reform The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Early Childbearing in the Next Generation Children of the Pill: The Effect of Subsidizing Oral Contraceptives on Children's Health and Wellbeing [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks Endogenous Intermediation in Over-the-Counter Markets [Download Preview] Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] When Performance Trumps Gender Bias When All Are Aboard: Does the Gender of Directors Matter? [Download Preview] Fatherhood and Managerial Style: How a Male CEO’s Children Affect the Wages of His Employees [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets [Download Preview] Are appearances deceiving? The nature and evolution of the beauty premium [Download Preview] Does Beauty Matter in Undergraduate Education? [Download Preview] The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions [Download Preview]
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 Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers [Download Preview] Why Do High-Tech Workers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomly Allocated U.S. Visas [Download Preview] Pathways to Adjustment in Science and Engineering Labor Markets
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 [Download Preview] House Price Dynamics: Fundamentals and Expectations [Download Preview] House Prices, Expectations, and Time-Varying Fundamentals [Download Preview] What Makes Residential Different from Non-Residential REITs? Evidence from Multi-Factor Asset Pricing Models [Download Preview]
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 Domestic Value Added in Chinese Exports: Firm-level Evidence [Download Preview] Skill Premium and Trade Puzzles: A Solution Linking Production Factors and Demand [Download Preview] Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms [Download Preview] Cross-Border Price Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Quantitative Framework for Competition Policy [Download Preview]
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 Retaining a High Quality Teaching Workforce: The Effects of Pension Design [Download Preview] Out with the Old: The Effect of Teacher Retirements on Student Outcomes How Does Teacher Retirement Affect Student Achievement? [Download Preview]
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 The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Military Retention Incentives and Occupation-Specific Mortality Hazards New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-experiment [Download Preview] Transportation Choices, Fatalism and the Value of Life in Africa
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 Who Has Voice in a Deliberative Democracy? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Parliaments in South India [Download Preview] Institutions and Literacy in the Princely States Political Identity, Religion and Public Health Delivery in India
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 [Download Preview] Long-run Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Distribution of Surnames [Download Preview] On the Road to Heaven: Self-Selection, Religion, and Socioeconomic Outcomes [Download Preview] Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the U.S. and Britain, 1850-1910 [Download Preview] Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission across Multiple Generations [Download Preview]
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 Drug Quality and the Development of Private Retail Pharmacy Markets Monopolistic Competition, Technology Adoption and Market Power: Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda Subsidized ACTs and RDTs through the Zambian Private Sector: Impacts on Provider and Consumer Behavior
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? Horizontal vs. Vertical FDI: Revisiting Evidence from U.S. Multinationals The Span of Control and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in International Acquisitions and the Source of Multinational Advantage
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 From Public Influence to Private Return: Evidence from the Italian Advertising Market Media Effects in Nazi Germany Determinants of Media Capture in China [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] What Instrumental Variable Models Deliver with Discrete Dependent Variables Control Functions and Simultaneous Equations Methods
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 Social Norms and Corporate Peer Effects Conglomerate Investment, Skewness, and the CEO Long Shot Bias
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 Growth Option Exercise and Capital Structure Corporate Leverage, Debt Maturity and Credit Supply:The Role of Credit Default Swaps Structural Models of Capital Structure: A Framework for Model Evaluation and Testing
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? The Independent Board Requirement and CEO Connectedness Price of Publicity
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 The Impact of Cultural Aversion on Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations Should One Hire a Corrupt CEO in a Corrupt Country? Why Do U.S. Securities Laws Matter to Non-U.S. Firms? Evidence from Private Class-Action Lawsuits
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 Survey Forecasts and the Time-Varying Second Moments of Stock and Bond Returns Taylor Rule Uncertainty Local Debt Inflexibility and the Transmission of Credit Supply Shocks
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 Revealing Shorts: An Examination of Large Short Position Disclosures Large Bets and Stock Market Crashes
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 Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing The Long-Term Dynamics of Affordable Rental Housing: A Quarter-Century Perspective State Response to Expanding Government Capacity: Evidence from Takings Law
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 Expansions and Contractions of Major US Shopping Centers Risk Aversion and Urban Land Development Options When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? Always?
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 Firms and Informal Employment: a Comparative Perspective Precarious Employment of Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Its Hidden Cost The Dark Side of the Moon: Informal Employment in Georgia
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 Household Debt and Income Distribution The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class Taken for a Ride: How the Bubble Economy Destroyed America's Economic Security A Template for a Public Credit Rating Agency
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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Ahab and Brand: Virtue, Authenticity, Rationality, and the Disfigurement of Character Steps Toward a Field of Law-and-Social-Economics Beneficence and Commerce: Adam Smith's Unfinished Project "The Woman Question": A History of Economic Thought Perspective
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 Evaluating the Impact of Sector Management in the New England Groundfish Fisheries Is What is Good for the Forest Good for the People: Evaluating the Impacts of Protected Areas on Ecosystem Services and Poverty in Indonesia Don't Forget to Protect Abundant Resources
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 Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibrium in First-Price Auctions with Resale Optimal Mechanisms for Markets with Long-Lived Buyers
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 Optimal Risk Sharing with Optimistic and Pessimistic Decision Makers Events Concerning Knowledge
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? Imported Intermediate Goods and Product Innovation: Evidence from India Fixed Costs per Shipment Structural Adjustments in Production and International Trade: Theory and Evidence from China
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 Identification and Estimation of a Pairwise Regression Model with Mutual Consent and Unobservable Heterogeneity Identification and Estimation of Network Formation Games
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 Payoff Uncertainty, Bargaining Power, and the Strategic Sequencing of Bilateral Negotiations A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics
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 Does Financial Experience Help Banks during Credit Crises? Political Influence and Incentive: The Lending Behavior of a State-Owned Bank in the Global Financial Crisis Takeover Targets' Decision to Market Themselves: The Role of Governance
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 Capital Controls in Brazil: Effective? Efficient? The New Economics of Prudential Capital Controls Mitigating Systemic Spillovers from Currency Hedging
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 The Working Poor: Too Low Wage or Too Many Kids? Womens' Labor Force Participation and Marital Violence in India Investigating Gender Pension Gaps in Europe
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 Governance Structures, Union Strength and Their Relation to CEO Pay Green Microfinance Promoting Green Enterprise Development through Mini Cooperatives Industry Clusters and Employment Outcomes in Washington State
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 Nonstandard Employment and Workplace Profitability Work Schedule Control and Worker Happiness: Contrasts by Salaried and Hourly Employees and Parental Status
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 Fostering the Local Economies of Native American Communities The Microeconomics of a Natural Resource Boom: Evidence from a Tribal Fishery The Challenge of Acquiring Economic Statistics on Indian Nations: Prospects for the Future
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 Forecasting Demands for Transport Infrastructure in Developing Countries Land Value Capture Near Airports Static Efficiency Versus Dynamic Efficiency: An Econometric Model with an Application to the US Rail Freight Industry
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 Credit, Profitability and Instability: A Strictly Structural Approach Some Macroeconomic Results in a Marxian Circuit of Capital Model Interlocking Turnover Continua and the Structure of Capital
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? What Do We Really Know About Workers Co-ops? A Successful US Workers Co-op: How Was it Done? Innovation and Assuring Competitive Quality -- Successes and Never-Ending Challenges at Mondragon
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 Is Specialization in Agricultural Mechanization Service Provision a Viable Business Model? The Case of Ghana Wheel of Change:
Agricultural Mechanization in China Flexible Labor Markets, Landholding and Mechanization in Agriculture: Evidence from Asian Countries
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 [Download Preview] Integrating Psychology into Normal-Science Economics Salience and Asset Prices [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Historical Perspective of Federal Reserve Independence [Download Preview] The Effectiveness of Central Bank Independence Versus Policy Rules [Download Preview] Central Bank Laws and Monetary Policy Outcomes: A Three Decade Perspective [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Cognitive Development, Achievement, and Parental Investments:Evidence from a Clean Water Reform in Mexico [Download Preview] Religion and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from the Indian Subcontinent High-Powered Incentives for Childhood Anemia Reduction in Rural China
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 [Download Preview] Transferability of Skills, Income Growth and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States [Download Preview] How Do Money Market Conditions Affect Shadow Banking Activity? Evidence from Security Repurchase Agreements [Download Preview] Do Geographic Deregulations of Banking Affect Product Markets? Evidence from Manufacturers Estimating the Incidence of Government Spending [Download Preview] Is There a Stepping Stone Effect in Drug Use? Separating State Dependence from Unobserved Heterogeneity within and across Illicit Drugs [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] de Soto vs. Yunus: Microfinance, Property Rights, and Development Policy Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China [Download Preview] Barriers to Prosperity: Parasitic Diseases, IQ and Economic Development Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict [Download Preview]
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 Using State Level Pension Shocks to Estimate Fiscal Multipliers [Download Preview] ARRA Spending, Job Growth and Fiscal Integration Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater during Periods of Slack? Evidence from 20th Century Historical Data [Download Preview]
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 Deposit Insurance Reduced Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Estimates from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The Board of Directors in Hedge Fund Governance [Download Preview] Do Humans Perceive Temporal Order in Asset Returns? Are Red or Blue Companies More Likely to Go Green? Politics and Corporate Social Responsibility [Download Preview] The Roles of Corporate Governance in Bank Failures during the Recent Financial Crisis [Download Preview] High Frequency Trading and End-of-Day Manipulation [Download Preview] Political Connections and Firm Value: Evidence from Close Gubernatorial Elections [Download Preview] Competing on Speed [Download Preview] Do Lending Relationships Affect Corporate Financial Policies? Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence from a UK Policy Experiment [Download Preview] Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates: Camouflage and Reckless Risk Taking by U.S. Public Plans? [Download Preview] Liquidity Shocks, Dollar Funding Costs, and the Bank Lending Channel during the European Sovereign Crisis [Download Preview] Bank Lending Channels During the Great Recession [Download Preview] How Do Frictions Affect Corporate Investment? A Structural Approach CISS - A Portfolio-Theoretic Framework for the Construction of Composite Financial Stress Indices [Download Preview] Beyond Q: Estimating Investment without Asset Prices [Download Preview] How Important are Foreign Ownership Linkages for International Stock Returns? [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Banking Bubbles and Financial Crisis Demand Creates its Own Supply [Download Preview] The Lehman Shock and the Dynamics of the Crisis [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Does Working From Home Work? Evidence From a Chinese Experiment [Download Preview] Ownership Turnover, Management Change and Productivity: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry [Download Preview] Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Firms along the Value-Added Chain: Processing Trade in China [Download Preview] Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy [Download Preview] Global Value Chains During the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect? [Download Preview]
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 Identifying the Effect of Government Spending: Evidence from Political Variations in Federal Grants Macroeconomic Effects of Progressive Taxation [Download Preview] How is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle? [Download Preview] Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the US vs. Europe [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Neighborhoods vs. Schools Place Based Policies and Unemployment [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy [Download Preview] Fair Income Tax with Endogenous Productivities [Download Preview] Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Deconstructing income and income inequality measures: A cross walk from market income to comprehensive income [Download Preview] Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s [Download Preview] Measuring the Trends in Inequality of Individuals and Families: Income and Consumption Abstract: [Download Preview]
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 Choice Architecture and the Locus of Fiduciary Obligation in Defined Contribution Plans [Download Preview] Target-Date Funds: Survey and Administrative Evidence [Download Preview] Do 401(k) Advisors Take Their Own Advice? [Download Preview]
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 Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease [Download Preview] Stigma in the Labor Market: Evidence from Juveniles Transferred to Adult Court and Occupations with Mandated Criminal Background Checks [Download Preview] The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Decentralized Exchange Information Percolation in Segmented Markets Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] One Essay on Dissertation Styles in Economics [Download Preview] How Economists Allocate Time to Teaching and Research [Download Preview] Economic Understanding in U.S. High School Courses [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind? [Download Preview] Shocking Female Labor Supply: A Reassessment of the Impact of World War II on U.S. Women's Labor Supply [Download Preview]
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 Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence from Banking Securitization and Lending Competition
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 The Investment Manifesto Endogenous Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips Dynamic Networks and Asset Pricing
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 Does Institutional Ownership Matter for International Stock Return Comovement? You're Fired! New Evidence on Portfolio Manager Turnover and Performance Dispersion in Beliefs among Active Mutual Funds and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
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 Partial Adjustment to Public Information in IPO Pricing: Theory and Tests Issuance Costs in Today's Equity Market: The Causal Effect of Accelerating Seasoned Equity
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 Short-Term Return Reversal: The Long and the Short of It When Some Investors Head for the Exit Dissecting the Profitability Premium
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 Collateral Smile Order Flow and Expected Option Returns Demand for Crash Insurance and Stock Returns
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 What Happens to Household Formation in a Recession? Sharing a Household: Economic Downturns and Transitions in Living Arrangements, 2001-2011 Booms, Busts, and Fertility: Testing the Becker Model Using Gender-Specific Labor Demand
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 Organizational Form, Ownership Structure and Top Executive Turnover: Evidence in the Property-Liability Industry External Financing in the Life Insurance Industry: Evidence from the Financial Crises Endogeous Information and Adverse Selection under Loss Prevention Revisiting the Risk-Neutral Approach to Optimal Policyholder Behavior: A Study of Withdrawal Guarantees in Variable Annuities
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? Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Small Island Developing States Trade Specialization Dynamics and Economic Catch-Up Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe The Political Economy of "Financial Literacy": Globalizing Inclusion or Expanding the Rentier Frontier The Financial Structure of China’s Export Development and China’s Local Government Entrepreneurs What Drives Labor Market Volatility in Offshoring Industries? Evidence from Mexico The Crime of Tax Evasion in Transition Economies Does It Take Time to Travel Distance? Early Geography, Entry Timing and Knowledge Spillovers European Monetary Union: Convergence and Divergence Microfinance and Human Development: Does Institutional Structure Matter?
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 Abundance is Not Profitable Restoring Abundance through the High Efficiency The Great Recession, State and Local Government Finances, and Economic Abundance What Causes Deep Recessions?
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 Institutions and the Evolving System of Innovation in Eastern Germany National Systems for Energy Provisions at the Crossroads: Comparing French with German Strategies Fear, Ontology, and Institutional Economics Neodevelopmentalism Versus Neoliberalism: Differential Institutional Structures, Crises, and Policy Responses in Brazil and Mexico
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 Gender, Race/Ethnicity and the 2007-09 Great Recession: Another Look within the Household From Prison and Housing Construction to Wealth Evisceration to City Destruction: The Cumulative Cycle of Structural Race/Gender Divides in California's Central Valley Moving on Down: Race, Ethnicity, and Mobility in the Great Recession
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 The Effect of Ground-level Ozone on US Maize Yields Empirically Testing the Determinants of Leakage in a General Equilibrium Model of Deforestation Does Land Titling Stem Forest Damage? Native Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
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 Financial vs. Strategic Buyers Common Advisers in Mergers and Acquisitions:
Determinants and Consequences Managerial Entrenchment Waves
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 Trade Reforms and Rent Sharing in China: Did Tariff Cuts Reduce Labor's Share of Income? Learning from Neighbors' Export Activities: Evidence from New Exporters' Performance Exceptional Exporter Performance? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms Is China Climbing the Quality Ladder?
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 [Download Preview] Who Benefits from Redistribution? Fiscal Centralization and Government Expenditure in Spanish America Taxation and Public Goods Provision in China and Japan before 1850 Coal, Smoke, and Death [Download Preview]
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 Discrete Actions in Information-Constrained Tracking Problems Sparse Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations Informational Fragility of Dynamic Rational Expectations Equilibria
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 Simultaneous Equations Models for Discrete Outcomes: Coherence, Completeness, and Identification Nonparametric Identification Using Instrumental Variables: Sufficient Conditions for Completeness
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 Measuring Time Preferences with Simple Tasks Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty Recent Developments in Measuring Risk and Time Preferences
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 Forecasting the Price of Oil What Drives Oil Prices? Emerging versus Developed Economies The Effect of Oil Price Shocks on the U.S. Stock Market: Do Sign and Size Matter?
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 Corruption in the Delivery of Targeted Health Subsidies Externalities from Subsidies? Evidence from Marketing of Multiple Health Products in Uganda Nonlinear Pricing of Food in Village Economies
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 How (Not) to Incentivize Motivated Agents: An Experiment with Employees from a Non-profit Organization Rewards and Punishments in the Care Sector An Experimental Study of Payment Mechanisms in a Multiple Principal Agent Setting
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 Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion on Physician Prescription Behavior Emergency Department Use among the Low-Income Uninsured after Coverage
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? Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging Trade Credit Decisions of U.S. Public Firms: The Joint Effects of Supplier and Customer Financial Characteristics Firms as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis
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 The Effects of Rate Regulation in the Market for Supplemental Health Insurance How Inert are Consumer Savings Decisions? Evidence from Health Savings Accounts
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 Home Care Work Across Settings The Presence of Black Men in Low-Wage Service Work
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 Workers' Access to Unemployment Insurance: What Explains Policy Changes The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class Individual Risk Exposure and Personal Wealth Changes During the Great Recession
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? Empowerment at the Workplace and IR in Medium-sized Companies in Japan: Case Studies of a Food Company and a Hotel Transformation of the Workplace and Industrial Relations in the Chain Restaurant Industry The Change of Kaizen Power at the Workplace and the Role of Non-Regular Workers
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 Obama Administration Jobs Polices and African Americans The Experience of African American Women during the Great Recession Power to the People: A Hayekian Assessment of Obama’s Energy Strategy TBA
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 Age-Based Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange Will Risk-Adjustment Decrease Health Care Costs? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program Dangerous Liquidity and the Demand for Health Care: Evidence from the 2008 Stimulus Payments
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 The Task Content of Value-Added Trade Domestic Value-Added in China's Exports and Its Distribution by Firm Ownership
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 [Download Preview] Differential Effects of Corruption and Legal Systems on Efficiency of Government Owned vs. Privatized Airports Understanding the Determinants of Vehicle Fatalities: A Classical and Bayesian Approach Maritime Transport Chains: Carrier, Port and Shipper Choice Effects
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 Growth and Distribution in an Open Economy with Currency Substitution The Investment: Theory and Evidence in Mexico For a Critique of Developmentalist Political Economy: Moving Towards Latin American Marxism
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 Shadow Banking Differences and Similarities between Europe and the US Shadow Banking, a New Form of Financial Intermediation of Neoliberal Capitalism Regulating Shadow Banking
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 The Effect of Revised WIC Food Packages and Native American Children Bridging the Gap: Do Farmers’ Markets Help Alleviate Impacts of Food Deserts? The Effects of Food Outlet Availability on Food Outlet Choice – An Empirical Analysis
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
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 Estimating the Hazard Rate of Foreclosure: The Role of Non-Housing Wealth Strategic Mortgage Default: The Effect of Neighborhood Factors The Effect of Agency on Subprime Mortgage Terminations
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 Does the RMB Exchange Rate Reform Make a Difference? Evidence from Cross-Listed Chinese Companies Currency Devaluation and Stock Market Response: An Empirical Analysis RMB Foreign Exchange Market Intervention and Export Competitiveness Modeling the Transition Towards Renminbi’s Full Convertibility: Implications for China’s Growth and the Global Economy
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 Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster and the Legacy of Urban Land Use The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach
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 Keynes and the International Monetary System Keynes’s Trade-off between External and Internal Monetary Stability Indian Currency and Finance: Keynes's Prismatic View of the International Monetary System
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 War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal 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 Models of Development and Gender Outcomes in Latin America
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 Could the U.S. Treasury Benefit by Issuing More TIPS? Does the Buck Stop Here? A Comparison of Withdrawals from Money Market Mutual Funds with Floating and Constant Share Prices The Cost of Banking Panics in an Age before TBTF
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 Does High School Economics affect College Performance? Evidence from Georgia's Freshmen The Self Realization Theory: Academic Achievement Gap and Student's Loan Default Should We Teach About Fair Trade?
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 Discouraging Workers: Estimating the Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on the Search Intensity of the Unemployed Tree Huggers and Road Warriors: Fuel Efficiency Regulations Was There an "Annika Effect" in the PGA?
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 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 Measuring the Impact of Child Marriage on Education Educational Credentials and Employee Job Performance: Evidence from Marine Corps Officers
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"
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 Reducing the Environmental Efficiency Gap in Global Livestock Production: Implications for Developing Countries The Borlaug Hypothesis Revisited: Estimates of the Impact of the Green Revolution on Land-Cover Change Impact of Future Agricultural Productivity Gains on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Global Analysis
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? How Close is ASEAN to a Common Global-Currency Basket? International Transmission of Emerging Economy Supply Shocks: Analysis of a Three-Country DSGE Model Do Policy-Related Shocks Affect Real Exchange Rates of Asian Developing Countries?
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 [Download Preview] Dishonesty and Charitable Behavior [Download Preview] The Impact of Cartelization on Pricing Dynamics: Evidence from the German Cement Industry Competition and Corporate Fraud The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
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 [Download Preview] Management in American (CENSUS) [Download Preview] Impact of Firm-Level Shocks on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Individual Panel Data [Download Preview] Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Effect of a Mandatory Time-of-Use Pricing Reform on Residential Electricity Use [Download Preview] Does Conservation Targeting Work? Evidence from a Statewide Electricity Rebate Program in California [Download Preview] The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation [Download Preview]
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? [Download Preview] Birth Order Differences in Early Inputs and Outcomes [Download Preview] The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Mandatory School Vaccination Laws [Download Preview] Inheritances, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Accumulation of Health
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 [Download Preview] Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects [Download Preview] Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction [Download Preview] The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness [Download Preview]
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? Natural Gas: From Shortages to Abundance [Download Preview] Transportation Fuels Policy since the OPEC Embargo: Paved with Good Intentions [Download Preview] Efficient Retail Pricing in Electricity and Natural Gas Markets: A Familiar Problem with New Challenges [Download Preview]
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 Gender, Group Identity and Social Preferences Measuring Competitiveness Why Do Women (Not) Give More?
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 [Download Preview] Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality [Download Preview] Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks [Download Preview] Social Security, Endogenous Retirement and Intrahousehold Cooperation [Download Preview]
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 Foreign Ownership of U.S. Safe Assets: Good or Bad? [Download Preview] Capital Flows and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy [Download Preview] Financial Globalization, Inequality and the Raising of Public Debt [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Lucas and Anti-Lucas Paradoxes [Download Preview] Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances [Download Preview] Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms [Download Preview]
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 Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis: Microeconomic Evidence on the Linkages between Price-Setting and Balance Sheet Conditions Testing for Keynesian Labor Demand Customer Capital and the Labor Wedge
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 Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: Investigating the Determinants of Imaging Overuse Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Treatment Patterns and Patient Health? [Download Preview] The Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications for Climate Change Workplace Interactions and Fear of Breast Cancer: Evidence from a Dynamic Natural Experiment [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Social Institutions, Violence and Innovations: Did the Old Poor Law Matter? [Download Preview] Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties [Download Preview] From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment [Download Preview]
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? Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education [Download Preview] Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11 [Download Preview] Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis [Download Preview] "The People Want the Fall of the Regime": Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy
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 [Download Preview] Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice? Is the Information Technology Revolution Over? The Productivity Performance of European Economies [Download Preview]
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 Asset Growth Reversals and Investment Anomalies Investor Base, Cost of Capital, and Firm Performance: The Case of Post-Issuance Anomalies
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 Shareholder Empowerment: The Right to Approve and the Right to Propose The Idealized Electoral College Voting Mechanism and Shareholder Power
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 Market Expectations in the Cross Section of Present Values Risk, Uncertainty, and Expected Returns
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 Moral Hazard, Investment, and Firm Dynamics Durable Goods, Inflation Risk and the Equilibrium Term Structure Financial Intermediary Capital
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 Implications of Long-Run Risk for Asset Allocation Decisions Optimal Consumption and Investment with Asymmetric Long-Term/Short-Term Capital Gains Taxes Portfolio Optimization Using Forward-Looking Information
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? Reputational Concerns in the Market for Corporate Control Corporate Pension Funding Status and the Market for Corporate Control: The Disciplinary Role of Pension Deficits in Mergers and Acquisitions Unrelated Acquisitions
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 What Do Commercial Real Estate Price Indexes Really Measure? Industrial Property Rents in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
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 Changes in the White-Black House Value Distribution Gap from 1997 to 2005 Private Schools and Urban Prosperity The Effects of Housing Prices on Child and Young Adult Outcomes
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 Marginalization, Crime, and Migration in Mexico and the U.S. Drug Related Violence and Employment in Mexico The Impact of Insecurity and Crime on Democracy and Trust in Institutions in Colombia
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? Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability Changing Forces of Gravity: How the Crisis Affected Cross-Border Banking Bank Lending Patterns in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Exploring Differences between Latin America and Eastern Europe
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 Can Entrepreneurship Programs Transform the Lives of the Poor? Adolescent Empowerment and Female Schooling Attainment: Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Bangladesh Is Micro Too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance
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 Can American Capitalism Survive? Lesson from the Great Recession: Transform the Institutional Order Economics Education for a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery Ideas Versus Interests: The Future of Post Keynesian Institutionalism in an Era of Crisis
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 Cuba: Economic Growth, Aging, and Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability The Use of Socioeconomic Indicators to Estimate PPP Adjusted Income: An Application to Cuba Circa 1959
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 Economics and Thomas Aquinas Natural Law Theory for Economists: Finnis and Lonergan
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 Debt Stabilization in a Non-Ricardian Economy Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Consumption Risk Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Effects of Tariffs on Economic Performance and Welfare
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 It’s All in the Mail: Information Exchange, Market Access, Amenities and the Spatial Structure of the German Empire Understanding the Sources of Productivity Growth during Industrialization: An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Properties of Piece Rate Contracts Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations in the Nineteenth Century
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 Consumer Unawareness and Competitive Strategies The Identification Power of the Markov Assumption in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
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 Do Anonymous Resumes Make the Battlefield More Even? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
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 Inferring the Predictability Induced by a Persistent Regressor in a Predictive Threshold Model Economic Theory and Forecasting Choice of Sample Split in Out-of-Sample Forecast Evaluation
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 Diffusion of Microfinance Interplay among Credit, Insurance and Savings for Farmers in Developing Countries Capital Constraints in Agriculture: Evidence from Mali
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 Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns 1987-2006 On the Persistence of Income Shocks over the Life Cycle: Evidence, Theory, and Implications The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
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 Testing for Monotonicity of the Reservation Wage Function Demand Estimation for Differentiated Products: The Many Markets Case Testing for Biases Induced by Approximation Error in the Estimation of Dynamic Decision Models
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 Coalition Formation in a Legislative Voting Game "Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation Static and Dynamic Underinvestment: An Experimental Investigation
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? Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis in the Medicare Population Productivity Trends in Hospital Care
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 MIT's Textbooks Afro Americans at MIT Creating MIT Economics: Hiring Jewish Faculty
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 The Effects of Policy and Strategic Factors on Investment in Fuel-Ethanol Plants Oil Price Shocks: Causes and Consequences A Model with Spillovers in the Adaptation of Renewable Technologies
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 Income-Elastic Goods and the Great Trade Collapse: Evidence from Microdata The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms Heterogeneous Fixed Trade Costs and Firm-Level Exporting Performance
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 U.S. Women and the Recession: How They Fared and Implications for Their Future Welfare and Retirement Security The Insolvency of the UI Program: Current Problems and Future Prospects The Social and Psychological Consequences of Unemployment during the Great Recession: Evidence from the NLSY
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 Hours Reduction and Assessing the Potential for Work Sharing to Promote Employment
in US Industries Using VAR Analysis More Time Flexibility in the Workplace? A Comparative Study of Japanese and German Corporations Schedule Instability and Unpredictability as Sources of Underemployment Among Hourly Workers in Canada
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 The Penetration of China in the Mediterranean: A Brief Essay in Political Economy Arab Spring, Financial Crisis and Term Structure Does Good Governance Cause Trade? Evidence from Turkey The Reality of Rural Women in Iraq: Problems and Solutions The Implication of Macroeconomic Policies on Inflation: Case of Iran and Egypt Economic Growth Inequality and Income Distribution: Empirical Evidence from MENA Countries Intensive and Extensive Margins in the MENA Countries Foreign Aid Allocation and the Global War on Terror: A Disaggregated Analysis The Impact of Financial Globalization on Economic Development, Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Developing Countries Parametric Reforms, Social Security Reforms, and Saving: Evidence from Turkey Why Some Firms Export: An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region Which Firms Are More Prone to Stock Market Manipulation? Forecasting Energy Demand: Evidence from GCC Countries Estimating the Import Demand for Crude Oil in Turkey, One Rolling Window at a Time The Impact of Euro-zone Crisis on Maghreb Economies What Drives Stock Returns in GCC Stock Markets? Implications for International Diversification
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? A Review of the Forensic Economics Literature Pertaining to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Claims Compensation from BP Oil Spill: Is It Fair?
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
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 Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas How Uses the Position of Power in Asymmetric Commons Dilemmas? Managing Resources with Potential Regime Shifts: Using Experiments to Explore Social–Ecological Linkages in Common Resource Systems
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 Land Rights and Economic Empowerment for Women in Vietnam Why Economists Ignore Household Production: The Material Foundation for the Ideologies of the Ruling Class and Ruling Gender Housework, the Quality of Market Work and Men and Women's Earnings in China
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 Ecological Imperialism and Ecological Liberation Heterodox Cost-Benefit Analysis Seeking Left Unity on Climate Change Policy Patterns of Unsustainable Growth
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 West Coast Cool Swing/Traditional Group 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? The Heterogeneous Impact of Agro-Input Subsidies on Maize Production: A Field Experiment in Mozambique Trust, Complexity, and Heterogeneity in Impact Evaluation: The Case of Index Insurance Identifying the Impact Dynamics of a Small Farmer Development Scheme in Nicaragua
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 [Download Preview] A Structural Estimation of Capital Market Distortions The Road to Real Exchange Rate Depreciation The Ownership Structure of Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Output Gaps and Robust Monetary Policy Rules [Download Preview] Real-time Model Uncertainty in the United States: Robust Policies Put to the Test [Download Preview] The Performance of Competing Monetary Regimes under Model Uncertainty
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 [Download Preview] Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity [Download Preview] Discrete Choice Cannot Generate Demand That Is Additively Separable in Own Price [Download Preview] The Impact of Competition on Prices with Numerous Firms [Download Preview]
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 Cognitive Human Capital and Wealth Accumulation of Former Slaves [Download Preview] Fertility Responses to Infant and Maternal Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America [Download Preview] The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition When Autarkic China Met Expansive Europe: The Rise of Merchant-Pirates in the Sixteenth Century
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 Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones [Download Preview] Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq [Download Preview] Evaluating Economic Warfare: Lessons from Efforts to Suppress the Afghan Opium Trade
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 Financial Markets and the Returns to Fertilizer Does Savings Lead to More Investment in Microenterprises?
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 Constructing Factors from Continuous and Categorical Data [Download Preview] Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection amongst High-Dimensional Controls [Download Preview]
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 Do Local Immigration Laws Impact Employment and Wages? Evidence from the 287(g) Program The Impact of Mandated Employment Verification Systems on State-Level FDI
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 [Download Preview] Imported Inputs, Quality Complementarity, and Skill Demand [Download Preview] International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters [Download Preview]
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? [Download Preview] Consumer Uncertainty and Price Discrimination through Online Coupons: An Empirical Study of Restaurants in Shanghai [Download Preview] Measuring the Impact of File Sharing on the Movie Industry: An Empirical Analysis Using a Panel of Countries [Download Preview] The Effect of Internet Distribution on Brick-and-mortar Sales [Download Preview] Reputation and Adverse Selection; Theory and Evidence from eBay [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Maintaining Consumption Levels over Economic Fluctuations and the Impact on Consumption vs. Spending-Based SPM Thresholds [Download Preview] Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure [Download Preview] Estimating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) using the Survey of Income and Program Participation
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 [Download Preview] Uncertainty Shocks: Puzzling Facts and Learning Theory Inflation Dynamics and Time-Varying Uncertainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation
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 [Download Preview] Fundamental Models for Forecasting Elections [Download Preview] Ethical Voters and the Demand for Political News [Download Preview] Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] GENDER ROLES AND NON-COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR: FIELD EXPERIMENT ON THE EFFECT OF ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION ON INTRA-HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION IN GHANA [Download Preview] What Happens When a Woman Wins a Close Election? Evidence from Brazil [Download Preview] Are Women Better than Men at Multitasking Household Activities? New Experimental Evidence [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Impact of Health Reform on Personal Bankruptcy The Difference a Day (Doesn't) Make: Does Giving Borrowers More Time to Repay Break the Cycle of Repeated Payday Loan Borrowing? How Big a Deal was Bankruptcy Reform?
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 Tax Me if You Can: Third-party Cross-Checks and Evasion Substitution Tax Me, But Spend Wisely: Public Finance and Government Accountability [Download Preview] Monitoring and Its Interaction with Punishment in Tax Enforcement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
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 [Download Preview] Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market [Download Preview] Carbon Markets, Carbon Prices and Innovation: Evidence from Interviews with Managers [Download Preview] Energy-Saving Technical Change [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Getting Qualified High School Seniors to Enroll in College: An Experimental Study in New Hampshire TBA Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters [Download Preview]
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? [Download Preview] Comparing Beliefs of Economists and the Public [Download Preview]
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 Misvaluation and Return Anomalies in Distress Stocks Unknown Unknowns: Vol-of-vol and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns Macro to Micro: Country Exposures, Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns
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 Spillover Effects in the Supply Chain: Evidence from Chapter 11 Filings The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance Credit Ratings and Credit Risk
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 Buybacks Around the World Returns Over the Life-Cycles of Open Market Repurchase Programs Agency Implications of Equity Market Timing
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 "When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play": Does Regulation at Home Affect Bank Risk Taking Abroad? Dynamic Macro-Prudential Regulation Supervising Cross-Border Banks: Theory, Evidence and Policy
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 Cross-Sectional Tobin's Q Testing Dynamic Agency Theory via Structural Estimation
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 Hunting the Hunters: New Evidence on the Drivers of Acquirer's Announcement Returns in M&As Structural Investigation of Acquiring Managers' Incentives in Takeovers Value Creation Estimates Beyond Announcement Returns: Mega-Mergers versus Other Mergers
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 Booms-and-Busts in House Prices Explained by Constraints in Housing Supply Bubbles in Open Economies: Theory and Evidence From New Zealand's Housing Bubble Housing Demand Through Boom and Bust
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 Social Interaction and Urban Location Decisions Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment Patterns of Gentrification in U.S. Cities
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 Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia's Emancipation of the Serfs Property Rights and Internal Migration: The Case of the Stolypin Agrarian Reform in the Russian Empire Revolution and Industrialization in Russia Through the Lens of Neoclassical Growth Theory
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 Is the Euro Crisis Fuelling Europe's Evolution into Closer Unity or Just a Case of Reverse Alchemy? Dutch Bankers on the Financial Crisis: Views on Formal and Informal Institutions in 2012 Sovereign Debt Crises in European Varieties of Capitalism Debt Crises: Is a Global Restructuring Implementable?
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 How Consumers Respond to Product Certification: A Welfare Analysis of the Energy Star Program Determinants of Residential Demand for Green Energy: A Cross-Country Analysis Regulating Hidden Attributes: Assigning Emission Factors in Low-Carbon Fuel Standards
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 CEO Talent, CEO Compensation, and Product Market
Competition Agency Costs, Information, and the Structure of Corporate Debt Covenants
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? Does Health Matter? A Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Country Income Differences Medicaid Insurance in Old Age Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
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 Flexible Renegotation and Persistent Private Information Agency Models with Frequent Actions: A Quadratic Approximation Method Moral Hazard and Long-Run Incentives
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 Competitive Pay and Work Ethics The (Ir)resistible Rise of Agency Rents Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent
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 Pass-Through, Exposure, and the Currency Composition of Debt The Share of Systematic Variation in Bilateral Exchange Rates Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle
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 Regulated Variance Ratio Unit Root Tests Limits on the Linear Process of GARCH(1,1) Noises with Applications to Unit Root Tests Double Asymptotics for Explosive Continuous Time Models
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 Buyers, Seller and Middlemen: Variations on Search-Theoretic Themes Matching by Luck or Search? Empirical Evidence from Executive Labor Market Directed Search and Moral Hazard
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? An Early Look at the Preventive Care Provisions in the Affordable Care Act Evaluating the Short-Run Impact of Medical Loss Ratio Regulation on the Individual and Small Group Markets
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 When to Exit: Limited Rationality in Firm Decisions Learning from Experience, Simply Multitasking and Incentive Effects: Evidence from Chinese Factories
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 Lending Relationships and Credit Rationing: The Impact of Securitization Financial Constraints of Private Firms and Bank Lending Behavior A Model of Investment Subject to Financing Constraints
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 The Employment Relation during Economic Crisis: Unemployment, Work Intensity, Hires, and Wages From Monopoly Capital to Universal Competition: Radicals and Classical Marxists on Industrial Relations Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Fabian Rent Theory, and Labor Exploitation
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 Unions and Immigrant Workers in the UK and France Identities, Education, Coalition Building: A Four-Country Comparative Analysis
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 Educational Outcomes of 2nd Generation Middle East Migrants to Europe and North America Determinants of Fertility Transition in Turkey: A Panel Data Analysis Gender Inequality in the MENA: Myths versus Facts
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 Tax Effects on Future Income Lost to Injury or Death Millo v. Delius and Losses that Are “Not Otherwise Compensable”: Analysis of an Important 2012 Decision
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 The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages The Effect of U.S. Amnesty on Immigrant Youth Postsecondary Educational Access Health Care Usage and Health Status of Immigrant Children: The Effects of Nativity versus Citizenship
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? Indian Tribal Government Access to Tax-Exempt Bond Financing Native American Participation in Value Chains Business Investment on American Indian Reservations: Heterogeneous Effects
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 Theories of Capitalist Instability: Real and Financial Components of Accumulation Growth, Instability and Fragility: Collapses of Three U.S. Institutional Structures The Current Economic Crisis in the U.S.: A Crisis of Over-Investment Financial Architectures and Development: Resilience, Policy Space and Human Development in the Global South
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 From Wall Street to Bree Street: The Great Recession and Informal Employment in South Africa Employer of Last Resort under the “Pay As You Go” Legislation: A Fairmodel Simulation The Great Recession and Labor Market Flows in New York State
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 Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income in Africa Trust and Moral Hazard: An Analysis of the Motorcycle-Taxi Market in Togo and Benin Labor Markets in Swaziland: The Challenge of Youth Unemployment Preferential Trade Agreements, Employment, and Productivity: Evaluating the Impacts of AGOA and Its Apparel Provisions Promoting Industrial Development in Africa: Serendipity or Good Policy?
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 Challenges for Environmentally Sustainable Biofuels: Policy, Technology and Markets The Indirect Effect of Biofuels: What Can We Say?
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 Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China [Download Preview] Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion [Download Preview] Interaction Between Migrants and Origin Households: Evidence from Linked Data
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 Distressed, but not risky: Reconciling the empirical relationship between financial distress, market-based risk indicators, and stock returns (and more) [Download Preview] Understanding the Behavior of Distress Stocks [Download Preview] Credit Risk and Disaster Risk [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Climate Change and U.S. Electric Power [Download Preview] Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City [Download Preview] The Value of Water in the U.S. Economy: Problems of Basic Inference [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Family, Education, and Sources of Wealth Among the Richest Americans, 1982-2012 [Download Preview] The Evolution of Top Incomes and Top Tax Rates: Evidence and Policy Implications Bailouts and the Optimal Taxation of Bonus Pay [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Corporate Debt Structure and the Financial Crisis [Download Preview] Global Banks, Financial Shocks and International Business Cycles: Evidence from an Estimated Model [Download Preview] Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch
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 [Download Preview] A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America [Download Preview] A Century of Firm-Bank Relationships: Did Banking Sector Deregulation Spur Firms to Add Banks and Borrow More? [Download Preview] Economic Effects of Runs on Early "Shadow Banks": Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907 [Download Preview]
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 Firmâ€Level Task Composition: Is there a Gender Component? [Download Preview] Gender Empowerment in 19thCentury Sweden: Using Historical Data to Assess the Effects of Trade Shocks on Women's Economic Empowerment [Download Preview] Men, Women, and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality [Download Preview] The German ‘Rosie the Riveter’: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Employment and Family Formation [Download Preview]
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 Monetary Policy and Inequality in the US [Download Preview] Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances [Download Preview] Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Evaluating International Consumption Risk Sharing Gains: An Asset Return View [Download Preview] BKK the EZ Way: An International Production Economy with Recursive Preferences [Download Preview] The Share of Systematic Risk in Bilateral Exchange Rates [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] New Disaggregated Data on Flow of Funds and Economic Activity in the United States, 1816-1910, from the US Postal System [Download Preview] Native students and the gains from exporting higher education: evidence from Australia [Download Preview] Unexceptional Exporter Performance in China? The Role of Processing Trade Saving the Euro: Mitigating Financial or Trade Spillovers? [Download Preview] Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France [Download Preview] Costly Information Processing and Consumption Behavior [Download Preview] Macroprudential Policy: Its Effects and Relationship to Monetary Policy [Download Preview] Determining the Peak and Trough of State Economic Activity [Download Preview] The Impact of Interlinked Index Insurance and Credit Contracts on Financial Market Deepening and Small Farm Productivity [Download Preview] Does Monetary Policy Matter in China? A Narrative Approach [Download Preview] Mastering the Great Recession in Germany: Determinants of Working Time Accounts Use to Safeguard Employment during the Global Economic Crisis Why did Household Mortgage Leverage Rise from the mid-1980s until the Great Recession? [Download Preview] Real Business Cycles with a Human Capital Investment Sector and Endogenous Growth: Persistence, Volatility and Labor Puzzles [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Asymmetries in Price-Setting Behavior: New Microeconometric Evidence from Switzerland [Download Preview] Selection and Monetary Non-Neutrality in Time-Dependent Pricing Models [Download Preview] Asset Pricing in Production Economies with Extrapolative Expectations [Download Preview]
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 Shifting Mandates: The Federal Reserve’s First Centennial [Download Preview] The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn't Matter [Download Preview]
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 The Importance (or Not) of Patents to UK Firms An Ear for your Quote. Patent Citations and the Size of Patented Inventions - Evidence from Hybrid Corn. [Download Preview] Title: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Mobility of Engineers and Scientists: Empirical Evidence [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Heterogeneity, Market Structure, and the Effect of Inattention in Used Vehicle Markets Distinguishing Probability Weighting from Risk Misperceptions in Field Data The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity
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 [Download Preview] Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns [Download Preview] A Dynamic Adoption Model with Bayesian Learning: An Application to U.S. Soybean Farmers [Download Preview] Moore's Law Goes Multicore: The Economic and Strategic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in How Computers Work Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth [Download Preview]
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 An Exploratory Study of the Pricing of Legal Services [Download Preview] Improving the Bar by Lowering the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Do Cell Phone Restrictions Reduce Fatal Crashes Involving Young Drivers? Making the Grade: The Impact of Classroom Behavior on Academic Achievement
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? Geographic Momentum Gradual Information Diffusion in the Stock Market: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Firms Co-Momentum: Inferring Arbitrage Capital from Return Correlations
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? Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets Common Errors: How to (and Not to) Control for Unobserved Heterogeneity
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
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 Strategic Performance Allocation in Institutional Asset Management Firms: Behold the Power of Stars and Dominant Clients Determinants and Implications of Fee Changes in the Hedge Fund Industry
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 Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?
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 A Robust Analysis of the Risk-Structure of Equilibrium Term Structures of Bond Yields Understanding Term Premia on Real Bonds
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 Valuing the Element of Control in Homeownership Financing Constraints to Homeownership in Relation to the Pre-2008 Housing Market Boom The Home Front: Understanding the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
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 An Examination of Macroeconomic Effects on the Liquidity of REITs CEO Overconfidence, Corporate Investment Activity, and Performance: Evidence from REITs CEO Bonus: Alternative Performance Measure Versus Gamesmanship
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) CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and Regulatory-Capital Arbitrage Governance and Design of Structured Securities: Theory and Evidence The Rise of Securitization: A Recursive Security Design Approach
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 Determinants of Euro Area Public Expenditure Policies Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area: Does Catching Up Explain the Development? Sovereign Debt Crises and Economic Growth in Emerging European Countries
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 A Galbraithian Model for Shared Prosperity, Higher Quality of Life and Fewer Economic Crises Institutionalist Policies for Financial Inclusion Budgetary Deficits and Overhanging Public Debt: Are They Obstacles or Instruments to Achieve Veritable Full Employment in Contemporary Market Economies? A Kaleckian/Institutionalist Perspective Policy Convergence in Regional Economic Development
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? Spatial Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: The Case of Selling Blood Biform Matching Games: The Firm and Exchange Making a Living in 21st Century America: Social Networks and New Opportunities Student Academic Dishonesty: Capitalism and Crime in the Classroom
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 Quantifying the Role of Federal and State Taxes in Mitigating Wage Inequality The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expenditures Taxes and Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Long Panel of State-Level Data
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 Bank Regulatory Capital Buffer and Liquidity: Evidence from U.S. and European Publicly Traded Banks The Relation between Bank Credit-Risk Management Procedures and Originate-to-Distribute Mortgage Quality during the Financial Crises Rethinking the Speed of Adjustment toward a Target Capital Structure: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
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 Is Your Government Closer to Its People? Worldwide Indicators on Localization and Decentralization Can Rural Public Works Affect Rural Wages? Evidence from India Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors Monitor Bank Runs? Do Curbing Corruption Complement Financial Development in Reducing Income Inequality? Food Inflation in India: Causes and Cures
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 Aggregative Games with Entry Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts
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 The Term Structure of Variance Swaps, Risk Premia and the Expectation Hypothesis Parametric Inference and Dynamic State Recovery from Option Panels Testing for Jumps: A Delta-Hedging Perspective
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 Repeated Implementation with Finite Mechanisms and Complexity On Asymmetric Reserve Prices Matching with Contracts in Large Economies
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 Human Computing
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 Behavioral Fair Social Choice Endogenous Public Information and Welfare
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 Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems Asymptotic F Test in GMM Framework with Cross Sectional Dependence On Accurate Cluster-Robust Inference
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? Risk Compensation and Treatment for High Cholesterol Moral Hazard in Less Invasive Surgical Technology for Coronary Artery Disease: Offsetting Behavior in the HRS
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 Journalists are Suckers for a Good Economic Metaphor Bloomberg vs. the Fed, Editors vs. Specialists The Art of the Covering the Fed: Greenspan vs. Bernanke
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 Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing The Value of Bosses Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
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 Market Structure and Pass-Through Pricing to Market in Business Cycle Models International Transmission through Relative Prices
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 Does Deliberation Trump Conflict? Partial Identification in a Strategic Deliberation Model Multiproduct Nonlinear Pricing: Mobile Phone Service and SMS Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Demand Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
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 Revisiting Okun's Law The Labor Market Four Years into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations
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 Shrinking the State: The Decade of De-nationalisation in Germany The Swedish Welfare State at the Crossroads? The Impact of Decentralisation of Wage Setting and Increased Competition
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 Union Decline, Voter Mobilization, and the Declining Political Power of the Working Class Does Workplace Voice Compliment or Substitute Civic Engagement? Evidence from Britain, Canada and the U.S. How Political Organizations Use Experiments to Optimize Union Voter Contact: Two Examples from the Field
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 Evolving Transition Probabilities and Worklives An Application of the Educational Attainment Model of a Minor Child for the Next Generation of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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 What Explains Stock-Market Volatility in the Great Recession? Quantifying the Forces Leading to the Collapse of GDP after the Financial Crisis Manufacturing Busts, Housing Booms, and the Labor Supply of Lower Educated Men
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? Reviving Growth in the G7 and the G20 Global Infrastructure Initiative and Global Recovery The Shift from G7 to G20 Increased Swings in Major Exchange
Rates and Worsened Their Options
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 Racial Differences in Financial Capital Injections among New Businesses The Role of Credit Access in Firm Sustainability: A Comparison of the 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances Which SBA Loan Recipients Create More Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young Why Do Guaranteed SBA Loans Cost Borrowers So Much?
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 The Effects of USF E-rate Subsidies on Broadband Competition Telecommunications Demand in a Portfolio Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications Household Communication Access in Developed Countries
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 From Stability to Risk: Industrial Transformation in One Small Town, 1970-2012 Financialization, Competition, and Pricing in a Post-Keynesian Theory of Growth and Distribution at the Level of the Firm The Fictions of Finance and the Instability of Financial Markets: On Marx’s Theory of the Origin, Foundation, Laws of Motion of “Fictitious Capital”
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? Power, luck and ideology -- technological and institutional parameters of the agency problem for CEOs [Download Preview] A Class-Based Explanation of Increasing Income Inequality
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: Fringe Banking: A Case Study of the Pay Day Loan Industry in Tennessee Moving from Necessity- to Opportunity-Based Female Entrepreneurship in the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study of China and India Understanding Rational Herding and Rational Greed and Business Cycles in the Real World of Asymmetric Information, Self-Regarding Preferences, Decision-Making Heuristics Current Crises Seen through the Lens of Power Relationships Evolution of Functions Performed by Banks in the Russian Context: Institutional Analysis Dissecting the Conjunction of Capitalism's Environment-Energy-Economic Crises: The Example of One Liberal Market-Based Economy Financial Processes, Psychology and Institutional Economics The Logic and Impossibility of Austerity as a Macroeconomic Policy Prescription The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the EU Labour Market: A Comparative Perspective Native American Poverty and Tribal Responses during the Great Recession Business Cycles, Profitability and the Crisis of 2008 Darwin, Recessions and Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective on Firms in Recessions Institutions and Liberalized Finance: Is Financial Stability of Capitalism a Pipedream? The Great Financial Crisis and Functional Income Distribution Household Demand, Income Distribution and the Sustainability of Debt-Based-Profit-Led Regimes: Introducing Conspicuous Consumption in a Post Keynesian Model The Near Death Experience of Corporate Credit Unions--And How to Avoid a Relapse Financial Innovation, Diffusion, and Instability Systemic Financial Fragility in a "Kaleidic" World The End of Neoliberalism: An Institutional Analysis of the Arab Uprisings
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 Does Work-Study Work? Evidence from National Data Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid Peer Effects in Higher Education: A Look at Heterogeneous Impacts
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 Currency Safe Havens during Global Financial Stress: India vs. Other Emerging Markets How Does Openness and Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Inflation? Evidence From Asia Understanding Foreign Direct Investment & Economic Growth in Export Oriented Economies: A Case Study of Fiji & Mauritius Selection into Exporting, Market Size and Export Prices: Evidence from India and China Private Equity Exits: Do Multiple and Foreign PE Investors Matter?
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 Landschaften as Credit Purveyors – The Example of East Prussia Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America
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 Subsidies and Structure: The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton on the Hospital Industry Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
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 Estimating the Innovator's Dilemma: Structural Analysis of Creative Destruction in the Hard Disk Drive Industry An Empirical Model of Dynamic Merger Enforcement The Welfare Effects of Intertemporal Price Discrimination: An Empirical Analysis of Airline Pricing in U.S. Monopoly Markets
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 Comprehensive Tax Reform and Energy Policy Competition of Fuels and the Outlook for Oil and Gas
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 Attributing Expertise in Uncertain Times Bad Advice from Experts, Herding, and Bubbles Searching for Keys under a Lamppost: Why Journalists Shouldn't Turn to Nobel Prize Winners for Expertise in Policy
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 Relational Contacts in a Persistent Environment Lobbying for Power: A Structural Model of Lobbying in the Energy Sector Endogenous Group Formation in Contests: Unobservable Sharing Rules
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? Going Deep or Going Wide: The Economics Curriculum Credit Cards and Credit Savvy: Financial Literacy and Credit Card Use by High School Students College Performance and Labor Market Outcomes of Native Hawaiians
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 Sources of the Persistent Gender Wage Gap along the Unconditional Earning Distribution: Findings from Kenya Foreign Aid and Gender: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa Access to Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Relevant is Gender?” Gender and Earnings in Manufacturing: The Case of Tanzania The Role of Gender in Development: Where Do Boys Count?
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 Macroprudential Policy Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Euro Area The Euro: A Crisis Waiting to Happen
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? The Effect of Electricity Pricing on the Use of Nuclear Power Why is Deregulation So Easy and Reregulation So Hard? Commissioner Selection and Deregulation of Gas Utilities
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 Capital Controls and Currency Wars [Download Preview] Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls [Download Preview] Multilateral Aspects of Managing the Capital Account [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Working Over Time: Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Taks The Effects of Savings on Risk-Taking and Intertemporal Choice Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Cognitive Limits, Apparent Impatience, and Monthly Consumption Cycles: Theory and Evidence from the South African Pension [Download Preview]
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 Competitive Analysis for a Firm Using Current Market Conditions Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Getting to the Reflection Step The Use of Service Learning Projects to Teach Introductory Consumer Economics Enhancing Teachers' Classroom Effectiveness in Economics: GIGEL as an Alternative Model Using Competition as a Pedagogical Device in Large Principles of Economics Classes Creating Connections: Exploring Economic Issues through Cyclic Concept Mapping A Futures Trading Project to Promote Active Learning in Agricultural Economics Courses [Download Preview] Market Making with i-clikers Learning by Doing: Getting Students to "Discover" Answers Using Newspaper Articles and Documentary Films for Applications in Principles of Economics Courses [Download Preview] The Labour Market Rent-A-Car: Teaching Managerial Economics with a Team-Based Interactive Case Study [Download Preview] What Works in Principles of Macro Classes: Enrollment 700 or Enrollment 30 Learning about the Economic Impact of a Sports Arena Cheat Sheet: Is It Worth It? The Effectiveness of the Quality of Cheat Sheet Used in Undergraduate Econometrics Courses Power-Up Smartphones to Access Knowledge and Electrify Class Participation [Download Preview] Using Creative Video Clips Projects as Active Learning, Strategies in Economics Courses Revise and Resubmit: Using Exams as Teaching Tools Teaching Intermediate Microeconomics in "The Inside-Out Classroom" [Download Preview] Employing Regional Survey Data in Teaching Students on the Price Index Calculation and Cost of Living Concept Uisng Extra Credit in a Student Game Theory Simulation [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Consumer Tracking and Efficient Matching in Online Advertising Markets [Download Preview] Supply-Side Responses to Privacy Protection [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program [Download Preview] The Effect of Early-Life Education on Later-Life Mortality [Download Preview] The effect of education on old age health and cognitive abilities - does the instrument matter? [Download Preview] Wise Up: Get Educated, Quit Smoking [Download Preview] Looking Beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Politics on the Road to the U.S. Monetary Union [Download Preview] Keynes the Stock Market Investor [Download Preview] Identifying Fiscal Policy (In)effectiveness from the Differential Adoption of Keynesianism in the Interwar Period [Download Preview] Income Taxation and Business Incorporation: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy [Download Preview] Forecasting the Great Recession: This Time is Different
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 [Download Preview] Can the Major Public Works Program in India Serve as Buffer against Negative Shocks? A Panel Study from Andhra Pradesh, India [Download Preview] Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-up in Zambia [Download Preview] Women's Land Rights and Child Well-Being in Vietnam [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Taxes and the Size and Composition of Executive Compensation Heterogeneity in the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains The Fixed-Bracket Average Treatment Effect: A Constructive Alternative to LATE Analysis for Tax Policy [Download Preview]
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 Learning from Others' HIV Testing: Updating Beliefs and Responding to Risk Do Sex Workers Respond to Disease? Evidence from the Male Market for Sex
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 [Download Preview] Customer Capital [Download Preview] Intangible Assets and Cross-Sectional Stock Returns: Evidence from Structural Estimation [Download Preview] Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital
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 [Download Preview] International Policy Coordination and Transmission International Macroeconomic Policy Coordination with Debt Overhang International Monetary Coordination and the Great Deviation [Download Preview] International Policy Coordination in the Euro Area: Towards an Economic and Financial Federation
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 Sources of Wage Inequality The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States [Download Preview]
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 Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension? Workplace Agglomeration and Social Network Segregation: Labor Market Returns by Race. Peer Effects in Program Participation [Download Preview]
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? Measuring Switching Costs in the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market Health Plan Response to Risk Adjustment: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Disenrollment Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection [Download Preview]
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 Impacts of Conditional versus Unconditional Transfers on Livelihood and Conservation Outcomes Two-Dimensional Evaluation: The Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Mexico's Payments for Hydrological Services Program [Download Preview] Effects of Payment for Environmental Services and Decentralized Forest Management on Environmental and Human Welfare Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
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 [Download Preview] The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans [Download Preview] The 1966 FLSA Amendments, Hospital Costs and Employment, and Medicare School Quality and the Long-Run Effects of Head Start
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? The Role of Affirmative Action in Egalitarian Social Policies Designing for Diversity: Implementing Affirmative Action Policies through Matching The Superficial Morality of Color-Blindness: Why Equal Opportunity May Not Be Enough [Download Preview]
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? Fortune Favors the Bold Does the Director Labor Market Offer Ex Post Settling-Up for CEOs? The Case of Acquisitions
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 Loan Officer Incentives and the Limits of Hard Information Do Changes in the Timeliness of Loan Loss Recognition Affect Bank Risk Taking?
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 Financial Overconfidence Over Time - Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors Paying Attention: Investor Account Look-Ups and Information - Dependent Utility Facebook Finance: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing
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 A Project-Level Analysis of Value Creation in Firms Does Debt Make Firms Weak Competitors? Evidence Using U.S. Stock Returns The Financial Implication of Corporate Fraud
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 Banks' Liability Structure and Mortgage Lending During the Financial Crisis How Do Regulators Influence Mortgage Risk? Evidence from an Emerging Market Did Affordable Housing Legislation Contribute to the Subprime Securities Boom?
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 Exchange Rates and International Risk Sharing Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe
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 Costly Screening, Self Selection and the Existence of a Pooling Equilibrium in Credit Markets Three Years After Takeover, How Have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Benefited the U.S. Housing Market? The Effects of Mortgage Broker Licensing on Loan Origination Standards and Default: Evidence From U.S. Mortgage Market 2000-2007
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 Do Institutions Matter? Evidence from the Going Public Process in China The Influence of Bank Ownership on Credit Supply: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis Prolonged Reserves Accumulation, Credit Booms, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in Asia
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: The Role of Securities Financing Arrangements in the Credit Structure: An Application of the Financial Instability Hypothesis Through Economic Crises to a Progressive Society: Possible Roles for Institutional Regimes of State Capitalism Teaching the Greek Crisis from the Perspectives of Competing Models Varieties of Policy Reactions to the Financial Crisis 2008 ff.: An Analysis of Networks of Institutions and "National Systems of Policies" Identity and Unsustainable Consumption Credit and Capital Formation: Lessons of Mexican Migrant Entrepreneurs in the US Financial Crisis Inequality and the Great Recession Private Equity, Climate Change, the Current Financial Crisis and the Shifting of Global Economic Superpowers Policy Responses to Economic Crises -- Learning from Developing Countries' Experiences Realistic Economic Development Policy Today: What Does Really Matter? Resource Abundance, Monetary Policy and Long-Term Stability Consuming Less and Caring More: Creating Economic Policy for Social Provisioning Knowledge, Care and Maintenance Work Crisis, Recovery and the Role of the State in the Periphery: The Cases of Argentina and Brazil Schumpeter and an Institutional Analysis of the U.S. Housing Crisis What the Financial Collapse of 2008 Can Tell Us about Forecasting the Future The Great Crisis and Development Economics: The Vision of Celso Furtado Policies and Institutions to Moderate Deep Recession, Debt Crises and Financial Instability
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 Modeling Labor Markets: A Feminist Economics Perspective The Labor Market Model in Institutional Economics and Industrial Relations Modeling Labor Markets: Conclusions from 30+ Years of Research and Investigation
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 If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands: How Do We Actually Feel about Child Caregiving? Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets Defining Child Care: Evidence from the ATUS 2003-2010
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 [Download Preview] To Learn or To Change: Optimal R&D Investments under Uncertainties of Climate Change [Download Preview] On the Bias/Efficiency Tradeoff in Contingent Valuation Risk Premia and the Social Cost of Carbon: A Decomposition Analysis
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 Cognitive Skills, Nonâ€Cognitive Skills, and the Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural
China Minimum Standards of Living, Income and Positional Concerns in Midâ€reform Urban China Remittances and Wellâ€Being among Ruralâ€toâ€Urban Migrants in China Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: Blood Plasma Donation, Peer Effects and Status Seeking
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 Dynamic Poaching in Credit Card Lending Default Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
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 Risk Premia in Crude Oil Futures Prices The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets
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
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 Debt and the U.S. Economy Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan: A Neoclassical Perspective Health Insurance Reform: The Impact of a Medicare Buy-in
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 Robust Inference in Ordered Response Games with Incomplete Information: Are Firms Strategic Substitutes? Random Coefficients in Static Games of Complete Information Identification and Estimation of Games with Incomplete Information Using Excluded Regressors
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 Pandering, Faith, and Electoral Competition When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-Track Authority Local Politics and Economic Geography
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 Moving on Up: Immigration and Native Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1870-1930 Race and the Great Migration: Understanding Blackâ€White Differences using Linked Census Data Indenture and Labor Migration in Colonial Assam
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 Social Coupons - Mechanism Design with Social Media Northern Exposure: A Field Experiment Measuring Externalities between Search Advertisements The Impact of Strength of Tie and Social Embeddedness on Influence in Social Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
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 Female Brain Drains and Women's Social Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows Ownership of Assets by Parents and School Enrollment: Evidence from Ghana Why Do More Women Pursue Higher Education Than Men?
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 Does Seeing the Doctor More Keep You Out of the Hospital? Does Access to Transparent Provider Quality and Cost Information Affect Health Care Cost and Utilization of Preventive Services?
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 Designing Experiments for Better External Validity The Virtues of Design-Based Econometrics In Defense of Structural Modeling for Empirical Estimation
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 The Role of Inventories and Capacity Utilization as Shock Absorbers Sales, Inventories, and Real Interest Rates: A Century of Stylized Facts Nonlinearities in Aggregate Import Dynamics
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 Endogenous Enforcement Institutions Cooperation without Altruism: A Field Experiment in the North and South of Italy The Make-or-Buy Decision and Ownership: Theory and Evidence from Public and Private California Hospitals
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 How Geography Affects Quality Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium Trading Plants and Volatility
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 Why Wage Policy is an Essential Ingredient in a Democratic Society Job Stability and Economic Recovery: The Role of Non Standard and Contingent Work Policies to Reduce the Gender Wage Gap Full Employment and Social Justice: An Affordable and Productive Plan
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 Temp Help in the U.S. Labour Market during the Recent Recession From Non-standard to Standard Employment: What Are the Chances for Recent Immigrants, Women and Visible Minorities?
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 The South African Experience with Trade Unions and Democratic Access: A Tale for all Countries? Unions and the Politicization of Non-Elites: Toward an Understanding of Labor's Promotion of Worker Participation in Politics Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
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 Impacts of Global and Domestic Shocks on Economic Growth and Inflation for Actual and Potential GCC Member Countries. Should Jordan Join? Public Expenditure and Growth in Saudi Arabia Financial Services Liberalization in a Natural Resource Rich Economy Pirate Attacks and Oil and Financial Markets in the Middle East Market Regimes and Investor Herds: Evidence from Gulf Arab Stock Markets
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 Elites, Education, and Reforms: Implications for Democratization in Africa State Failure, Violence and Business Development in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana Am I Middle Class: Identity, Politics and Development in Kenya State Failure, Policy Syndromes and Growth of African Economies: The Role of Governance
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 Insecurity in a Pastoral Setting: Consequences and Dynamics Measuring the Economic Costs of Armed Conflict The Ghost of War in Post-Conflict Development Policy: The Case of Biofuel Concessions in Mozambique War and Famine, Peace and Light? The Economic Dynamics of Conflict in Somalia
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 Frequency Domain Analysis of Medium Scale DSGE Models with Application to Smets and Wouters (2007) Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the NKPC
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 Endogenous Growth and International Technology Diffusion The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade
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 Modeling Individual Earnings Paths in CBO’s Long-Term Microsimulation Model Estimating Business Income Risk Using a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns 1987-2006 Just How Big is the Too Big to Fail Problem?
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 Technology, Distribution and the Rate of Profit in the US Economy: Understanding the Current Crisis The US Financial Sector Rate of Profit Military Spending and the Falling Rate of Profit
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 The Ethical Imperative for Economics Analyzing Gender in the History of Economic Thought Endless Loops or Promising Pathways?: Critiques of Economics Methodology
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 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: My Friendly Fights with Nobel Prize Economists Hyperinflation in Hell Local Average Treatment Effects in Supernatural Experiments What's So Funny About Making Monetary Policy? 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 [Download Preview] Building State Capacity: Biometric Identification and the Delivery of Public Programs in India The Darker Side of Private Ownership: Tax Avoidance in 3,650 Privatized Vietnamese Enterprises Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation of Wireless Spectrum in India [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Performance Differences, Managerial Practices, and Relational Contracts [Download Preview] Management as a Technology? New Empirics and Old Theories [Download Preview] Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston
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 [Download Preview] Liquidity Constraints and Deforestation: The Limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services [Download Preview] Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India
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 Lifetime Transfers and Wealth Income and Substitution Efffects of Estate Taxation
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 [Download Preview] Does Resale Explain the Pooling of Bids at the Reserve Price? Evidence from the Lab and Field Multi Object Auctions with Resale: Theory and Experiment Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
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 Business Cycles and Household Formation: The Micro vs the Macro Labor Elasticity Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development? Child-Care Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
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 [Download Preview] Playing the Fertility Game at Work [Download Preview] Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration [Download Preview] The Child Adoption Marketplace: Parental Preferences and Adoption Outcomes [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Educational Attainment Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use [Download Preview] Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Well-Being
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 [Download Preview] How Does Provider Supply and Regulation Influence Health Care Markets? Evidence from Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants [Download Preview] Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Evidence from Minimum Nurse-Staffing Regulations Trends in Dual-Career Households and the Locational Choice of Physicians
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 [Download Preview] International Evidence on Government Support and Risk-Taking in the Banking Sector [Download Preview] Menu Costs, Trade Flows, and Exchange Rate Volatility [Download Preview] Equilibrium Dynamics in Repressive Economies: Evidence from the Belarusian Black Market for Foreign Exchange [Download Preview] Why Do Emerging Markets Liberalize Capital Outflow Controls? Fiscal versus Net Capital Flows Concerns [Download Preview] The Cross-Section of Currency Order Flow Portfolios [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Debt Deflation Effects of Monetary Policy [Download Preview] Do People Understand Monetary Policy? [Download Preview] Monetary Policy Shocks and Stock Returns: Identification Through Impossible Trinity [Download Preview] Asset Prices, Collateral and Unconventional Monetary Policy in a DSGE Model [Download Preview]
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 Optimal Progressive Income Taxation with Endogenous Education Decisions and Intergenerational Transfers [Download Preview] Optimal Pension Systems with Simple Instruments
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 [Download Preview] Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers [Download Preview] General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions [Download Preview] The Effects of Collective Bargaining Rights on Public Employee Compensation: Evidence from Teachers, Fire Fighters, and Police [Download Preview] Public Sector Unionism without Collective Bargaining [Download Preview]
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 High School Economics as Preparation for Principles of Microeconomics Courses Do algebra and geometry provide the same value in preparing high school students for economics? [Download Preview] A Survey of Principles Instructors: Why Lecture Prevails [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns: A Randomized Evaluation Among Kenyan Youth Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation [Download Preview] Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Services and the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply [Download Preview] The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries [Download Preview] Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
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 [Download Preview] What Drives Short-Term Debt Creation? The Impact of Treasury Supply Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk [Download Preview]
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 Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Credit, Wealth, and Precautionary Effects [Download Preview] How Financial Innovations and Accelerators Drive Booms and Busts in U.S. Consumption What's Driving Deleveraging? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
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 The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women over Three Decades: 1973-2003 The Earned Income Tax Credit for Single Mothers: Insurance without Disincentives [Download Preview] School Calendars, Child Care Availability and Maternal Employment
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 [Download Preview] Hours and Work Sharing during the Great Depression: Comparisons and Contracts with Other Downturns in the 20th Century [Download Preview] Job Search Theory and Unemployed Job Search over the Lifecycle
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 Do Security Analysts Discipline Credit Rating Agencies? Do Buy-Side Recommendations Have Investment Value? A Glimpse Behind a Closed Door: The Long-Term Value of Buy-Side Research and its Effect on Fund Trades and Performance
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 Investment Busts, Reputation, and the Temptation to Blend in with the Crowd Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt Be Optimal? Separate or Joint Financing? Coinsurance, Risk Contamination, and Optimal Conglomeration with Bankruptcy Costs
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 Anxiety and Overconfidence in the Face of Risk IQ and Mutual Fund Choice
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? Do Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices? Home Bias and Local Contagion: Evidence from Funds of Hedge Funds The Economics of Hedge Funds
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 CEO Connectedness within Executive Suites and Corporate Frauds Political Contributions and the Severity of Government Enforcement
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 Not Quite a Piece of Cake: Theory and Evidence of Compensation in U.S. Venture Capital Partnerships Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners? Do Entrepreneurs Make Good VCs?
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 Urban Quantities and Amenities Burning Down the House: Moral Hazard and House Prices Learning in Cities: Implication in Migration
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 Household Debt and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession [Download Preview] Learning, Political Attitudes and Crises: Lessons from Transition Countries Does cultural diversity help or hinder entrepreneurs? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [Download Preview]
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 Brazil's Forex Problem in the Context of Global Imbalances in Trade and Finance Financialization, Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Democracy, Financial Crises and Economic Alternatives: Could It Be a New Ethical Pattern in the Development Path? The Effects of Institutional Distortions in Financial Markets in Emerging Economies--An Analysis of Three Institutional Arenas in 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 Identity and Communitarian Ethos: The Zapatista Autonomous Communities in Chiapas The Impacts of Community Participation on Rural Development: Evidence from the Poverty Reduction Fund Project in Laos Eco-political Construction of Identities as a Means to "Sustainable" Agrarian Reform: The Case of Ciriaco Women's Coconut Breakers in Brazil
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 National Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Information Campaign: The Case of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index The Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Industry: Evidence from the European Carbon Market and German Manufacturing Plants Multimedia Pollution Regulation and Environmental Performance: EPA’s Cluster Rule
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 Bank Balance Sheets in the Financial Crisis The Financial Crisis, Bank Lending, and the Effectiveness of Lending Facilities: The Experiences of the Federal Reserve and the 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 Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs
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 Bootstrapping Factor-Augmented Regression Models Linear Regression for Panel with Unknown Number of Factors as Interactive Fixed Effects Factor Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models
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 Trade Adjustment: Worker-Level Evidence Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico Comparative Advantage, Multi-product Firms and Trade Liberalisation : An Empirical Test
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 Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the U.S. Press, 1869-1928 Media vs Politicians: Who Buys Whom? The Determinants of Media Bias in China
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 Offshore Production and Business Cycle Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms Technology Capital Transfer Capital Controls with International Reserve Accumulation: Can This Be Optimal?
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 Between Unfair and Illegal: Standardizing Employee Relations in the Modern Office
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 Are State and Local Public Employees Over-Compensated?: Comparisons Using National and State Level Evidence Effects of Deep Recession on Public Sector, Pay, Benefits and Employment Toward a New Grand Bargain: Collaborative Approaches to Labor-Management Reform
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 The Effects of Disability on Earnings in China and the United States over the Business Cycle Revisiting the Long-Term Unemployment and Mental Health Causality Quandary: A New -- Resilient Population -- Approach and Results A Study to Identify the Effects of Candidate and Employer Recessionary Stress on the Quality of Hire, Candidate Fit and Hiring Efficiency
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 Access to Water and Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impacts of Development AID Macroeconomic Shock Synchronization in the East African Community Debt, Growth and Poverty in a Failing State: Nigeria, 1970-2011 Characteristics and Macroeconomic Determinants of Youth Employment in Africa Access to Finance and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence from 4 African Countries
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 Economic Growth and Vulnerable Employment: Estimating Elasticities by Gender and Age Class and Gender in Europe, Before and During the Economic Crisis Single Mothers in the Great Recession: How Well Did the Safety Net Work?
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 Heterodox Approach to Cartels and Market Competition Synthetic Competition, Global Oil, and the Role of the Developmental State The Failure of Market Fundamentalism: How Electricity Sector Restructuring is Threatening the Economic and Social Fabric
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 [Download Preview] Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and Is It Rational? [Download Preview] Animal Spirits, Heterogeneous Expectations and the Amplification and Duration of Crises [Download Preview] Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations [Download Preview]
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 Why Is Job Loss Costly? An Analysis of the Geographic Mobility Patterns of Displaced Workers Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality
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 [Download Preview] Broken Promises and Hidden Partnerships Deception and Reciprocity Communication Protocol, Content, and Deception
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 Heterogeneity in Health State Dependence of Utility [Download Preview] Health Insurance and the College Premium [Download Preview] Disability Insurance and Health in Europe and the US
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 [Download Preview] Using Behavioral Economics to Increase the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives Harnessing Complementarities in the Education Production Function [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility [Download Preview] Dynamics of the US Price Distribution Wealth and Volatility
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 Worms at Work: Long-Run Impacts of Child Health Gains Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Medium-Term Effects from a Randomized CCT in Nicaragua [Download Preview] Demand versus Returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training
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 What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling [Download Preview] Health Insurance for Humans: Understanding Consumer Choice Foundations Information Disclosure and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study [Download Preview] Market Power, Adjustment Costs, and Risk in Measurement of Banking Services [Download Preview] Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement: Changes for Measured GDP and Long-Run Housing Values [Download Preview]
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 The Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein [Download Preview] Unified Growth Empirics Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest
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 [Download Preview] Optimal Fiscal Policy with Recursive Preferences Uncertainty shocks, asset supply and pricing over the business cycle How Much Would You Pay to Resolve Long-Run Risk?
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 [Download Preview] With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship [Download Preview] Peer Effects in Economic Attitudes Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers
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 Sovereign Defaults and Government Bailouts Measuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe [Download Preview] Duration of Capital Market Exclusion: An Empirical Investigation Do Internal Devaluations Induce Expenditure Switching? Scanner Data Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
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 [Download Preview] Financial Innovation and Portfolio Risks [Download Preview] Reflections on Finance and the Good Society [Download Preview] Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: A New Approach to Funding Large-Scale Biomedical Innovation
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 [Download Preview] Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression: Old Challenges and New Evidence [Download Preview] Shadowy Banks and Financial Contagion during the Great Depression: A Retrospective on Friedman and Schwartz [Download Preview]
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 Location, Resources and Family Decision-Making Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Location and Labor Supply of Adult Children [Download Preview] Geographic Proximity of Mothers and Children over the Life Cycle
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 [Download Preview] Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development in Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Railroads [Download Preview] Transport Infrastructure and Firm Location Choice in Equilibrium: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
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 ETFs, Arbitrage, and Contagion Dynamic Strategic Arbitrage
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 A Theory of Asset Prices Based on Heterogeneous Information Deliberate Limits to Arbitrage
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? Is Disclosure an Effective Cleansing Mechanism? The Dynamics of Compensation Peer Benchmarking Culture and CEO Compensation
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 Liquidity Backstop, Corporate Borrowings, and Real Effects Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank Investments During the Financial Crisis
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 Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill Measuring Economic Rents in the Mutual Fund Industry Limited Attention and Portfolio Choice: The Impact of Attention Allocation on Mutual Fund Performance
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 Economic Catastrophe Bonds: Inefficient Market or Inadequate Model? Contingent Capital: The Case of COERCS
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 Commercial Building Electricity Consumption: Understanding the Role of Shocks, Structure Quality, and Contract Incentives Is There a Link Between Energy Performance and Investment Performance? Evidence from New York City's Local Law 84 Energy Consumption Data Financing Mechanisms for Energy-Efficient Retrofits for Single-Family Housing
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 The Economics of the Single Contract: When Do We Need Severance Payments Increasing with Tenure? Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment Nonlinear Effects of Labor Market Institutions on Employment Outcomes
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? How "Greek" is the Euro Crisis? Modeling Moments of Crisis: The Case of Ireland Wrong Institutional Design and Unsatisfactory Economic Performance: An Explanation of the Huge Spanish Unemployment Rate The Euro Debt Crisis and Germany's Euro Trilemma
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 Is Child Marriage a Reason for High Marital Violence in Bangladesh? English Proficiency and Earnings of Foreign-Born Immigrants in the U.S. from 1980 - 2000 and the Role of Minority-Language Enclaves Sustainability as a Barrier to Diversity in Academia: Views from Indonesia, Australia and the United States
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 Effects of Civil War on Access to Water and Sanitation Services The Drill and the Bill: Shale Gas Development and Property Values Strategic Decision-Making with Information and Extraction Externalities: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production
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 Access to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice Small Area Variation in C-Sections: Norms, Spillovers and Market Power
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 Exchange Rate Pass Through into Import and Domestic Prices The Hitchhiker's Guide to Missing Import Price Changes and Pass-Through The Sensitivity of Producer Prices to Exchange Rates: Insights from Micro Data
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 Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: A Macroeconomic Cross-Country Analysis The Micro and Macro of Job Polarization Identifying Sorting
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 Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence Mismatch Unemployment What Drives Job Search? Evidence from Google Search Data
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 Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Should We Make it Safer to Start a Business? What Stimulates Growth of Microenterprises?
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 Bonferroni-Based Size-Correction for Nonstandard Testing Problems Weak Identification: A Geometric Approach Local and Global Parameter Identification in DSGE Models Allowing for Indeterminacy
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? Sexual Orientation and Social Exclusion in Italy Changes in Poverty Measurement: An Examination of the Research SPM and Its Effects by Gender Moving from the Household to the Individual: Mulitidimensional Poverty Analysis
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 The Space Between the Notes: The Connections and Capitals of Jazz Musicians in Three Metropolitan Areas Making the Intern Economy: Role and Career Challenges of the Music Industry Intern Agents of Arts Trade Union Revitalization: Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Nashville Arts Union Activists
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 The Impact of Dismissal Regulation: Evidence from a Unique Australian Natural Experiment The Effect of Certification Procedure on Union Density in the Canadian Private Sector The Effects of Labor Contracts on Chinese Workers' Welfare and Job Quality
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 Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing in the U.S. De-licensing of Occupations in the U.S.
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 Head Start: From Origins to Impacts K-12 Education Programs and the War on Poverty
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 Households amidst Urban Riots: The Economic Consequences of Civil Violence in India Provoking an Insurgency in a Federation: Theory and Application to India Implications of War on the Labor Markets Who Has to Leave and Why? Displacement in Kyrgyzstan
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 SNAP: Work Support or Welfare Magnet? How State Policies Influence the Efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Reducing Poverty
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 Indigenous Resistance and the Development Discourse: Reconceptualizing Western Hegemony? New Systemic Institutional Approach for Comparative Political and Economic Analysis Contact Areas: Economics, History and Development Theory Constrained Autonomy and the Developmental State: From Successful Developmentalism to Catastrophic Failure
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 Wine as a Long-Term Investment Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets Inflation Risk in Corporate Bonds [Download Preview] Predicting Market Returns Using Aggregate Implied Cost of Capital [Download Preview]
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 A Dynamic Model of Prescription Drug Utilization Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance [Download Preview] Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important is Forward Looking Behavior? [Download Preview]
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 Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection [Download Preview] Credit Market Speculation and the Cost of Capital [Download Preview] Does Belief Heterogeneity Explain Asset Prices: The Case of the Longshot Bias [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Corporate Leverage, Debt Maturity and Credit Supply: The Role of Credit Default Swaps Does the Tail Wag the Dog? The Effect of Credit Default Swaps on Credit Risk [Download Preview] Did CDS Trading Improve the Market for Corporate Bonds? [Download Preview]
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 The Impact of College Mismatch Beliefs and Outcomes about College Major and College Dropout Improving Outcomes for High-Achieving Low-Income Students
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 [Download Preview] Cultural Change and Persistence in Historical Perspective The Persistence of Inferior Cultural-Institutional Conventions [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Hidden Markov Structures for Dynamic Copulae [Download Preview] Factor Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models [Download Preview] Bootstrap Joint Prediction Regions [Download Preview] Self-confirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Subjective Well-being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation? Aggregating Subjective Well-Being for Marginal Policy Adjustments [Download Preview]
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 Accounting for the Growth in Residential Leverage in the 2000s Mortgage Companies and Regulatory Arbitrage [Download Preview] Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit
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? [Download Preview] A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk [Download Preview] External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory [Download Preview] Aggregate Issuance and Savings Waves [Download Preview]
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 Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses and the Test Taking Population [Download Preview] Long-Run Impact of School Accountability on Educational Attainment and Earnings Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence From Housing Prices After Public Release of Teacher Value-Added [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Linking Numerical and Analytical Models of Carbon Leakage [Download Preview] Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy [Download Preview]
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? [Download Preview] Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Outcomes [Download Preview] Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare [Download Preview] Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of Intranational Trade Costs [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Airline Mergers and the Potential Entry Defense [Download Preview] Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry [Download Preview] Effects of Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: Examination of the U.S. Radio Industry [Download Preview]
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 Returns to Capital and Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: Evidence from Inventories in Kenyan Retail Shops The Home Economics of E-Money: Velocity, Cash Management, and Discount Rates of M-Pesa Users [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty [Download Preview] The Geography of Uncertainty Employment, Corporate Investment and Cash Flow Uncertainty [Download Preview]
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 [Download Preview] Income Tax Policy and the Behavior of Philanthropic Organizations Country Characteristics and the Incidence of Capital Income Taxation on Wages: An Empirical Assessment Tax Evasion across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece Business Taxes and the Electoral Cycle Tax Policy and Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics: Evidence from OECD Countries [Download Preview]
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 The Effectiveness of Interactive Online Exercises across Delivery Format [Download Preview] The Effect of Blended Courses on Student Learning: Evidence From Introductory Economics Courses [Download Preview] Student Performance and Perception of Online Homework Systems: Upper-Level Economics Class versus Principles of Economics Students
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 Distribution Fees and Mutual Fund Flows: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market [Download Preview] Grab Them Before They Go Generic: Habit Formation and the Emerging Middle Class Counterfeit or Substandard? Assessing Price and Non-Price Signals of Drug Quality [Download Preview]
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.? [Download Preview] The Spread of Modern Retail: Implications for Wages [Download Preview] Worker Flows over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality [Download Preview] Skill Mismatch and Unemployment in the United States [Download Preview]
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 Trading Partners in the Interbank Lending Mark Understanding Bank Runs: Do Depositors Monitor Banks?
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 The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance: Does the Media Influence Managers' Decisions to Abandon Acquisitions Attempts? An Empirical Investigation of Internal Governance The Effect of Internal Capital Markets on Corporate Investment: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
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? Industry Tournament Incentives Pride and Prestige: Why Some Firms Pay Their CEOs Less
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 International Evidence on Algorithmic Trading Equilibrium High-Frequency Trading High Frequency Traders, News and Volatility
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 Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate Are Institutional Investors Effective Monitors When Holding the Largest Institutional Block Ownership in Multiple Firms?
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 The Announcement Effect of the EFSF Financial Market Dislocations
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 Should We Fear an Adverse Collateral Effect on Investment in China? Interest Rates and Fundamental Fluctuations in Home Values How Much Do Changes in Housing Wealth Influence the Decision to Retire?
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 Hot and Cold Housing Markets with State-Dependent Motivation and Search Search Costs and Behavioral Biases in Commercial Real Estate Pricing Bidding Wars for Houses
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 Managing Natural Resources for Economic and Social Development in Botswana and Zambia An Analysis of the Challenges and Opportunities Relating to Different Policy Options for State Equity Participation in Natural Resources Projects in Sub Saharan Africa Extractive Industries, Children and Inclusive Growth: An Analysis of Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste Does Mining FDI Crowd-in or Out Other Investments? An Empirical Analysis Across 75 countries From 1985-2010
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 Understanding the Sectoral Balances: An Application to the Eurozone The Keystroke Solution: Use the ECB to Save the Eurozone Modern Money Theory's Macroeconomic Policy Paradigm Network Analysis of Modern Monetary Theory: Alternative Paths of Ongoing Institutions
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 The Environmental, Health, and Fiscal Implications of Reducing Fossil Fuel Subsidies Joint Impacts of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution on Health in Indonesia Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
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 Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters
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 Achieving Coordination under Privacy Concerns The Market for Deceptive Products When to Persuade a Decision Maker
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 Innovation, Growth and Asset Prices Wage Rigidity: A Solution to Several Asset Pricing Puzzles Inflation Risk in Corporate Bonds
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 Inference with Persistent Regressors On the Asymptotic Size of Subvector Tests in the Linear Instrumental Variables Model Alternative Asymptotics and the Partially Linear Model with Many Regressors
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 Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education Determinants of Peer Influence on Political Choices: Evidence from Classroom Random Assignments in College Together We Will: Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior in Pakistan
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 New Economic Realities and Diversity at Malaysian Workplaces Mindsets of Indian Employees in an Indian-Based Japanese Company: A Qualitative Study The Implications of Offshoring for Japanese Firms and Industries Employment and Competitive Issues Involving Japanese Financial Conglomerates: A Case Study of Shinsei Bank
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 The Stubbornness of Sex Segregation and the Limitations of Equal Opportunity Law Racial and Ethnic Crowding in Low-Wage Metropolitan Labor Markets
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 Could Earnings Inequality be Linked to Declining Union Membership? The Union Effect on Perceived Work Stress: Evidence from Canadian General Social Survey |