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Jordan River Conference Friday, April 20, 2007 |
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Breakfast |
WY 329 | 8:30 a.m. - 9:25 a.m. | |||
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Morning Session A |
WY 015 | 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | |||
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Applied Micro/IO
Session Chair: Roy Gardner |
1. Qian Li |
"Medicare Beneficiaries’ Choice of Medicare + Choice Plans - A Choice-with-Screening Model" |
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2. Chenguang Li (3rd year paper) |
"Information Gatekeeper with Asymmetric Firms" | ||||
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3. Qi Meng (3rd year paper) |
"Competition of Online Rebate Sites" | ||||
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4. Xiaoxun Gao (3rd year paper) |
"Price Dispersion Within and Across Stores in a Comparison Site" | ||||
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5. Ian McCarthy (3rd year paper) |
"Advertising Intensity and Welfare in an Equilibrium Search Model" | ||||
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Morning Session B |
WY 005 |
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | |||
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Growth and Public Policy
Session Chair: Michael Kaganovich |
1. Juergen Jung |
"The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs)" | |||
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2. Chung Tran |
"On the Impact of Extending the Coverage of Social Security in Developing Countries" | ||||
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3. Hilcias Moran (3rd year paper) |
"Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Formation" | ||||
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4. Jia Xie |
"Do Immigrants Free Ride More Than Natives?" | ||||
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Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall Book Fair and Luncheon |
WY 329 |
11:30 a.m. - 12:55 p.m. | |||
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Afternoon Session A |
WY 015 (tentative) |
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | |||
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Applied Micro
Session Chair: Ricardo Lopez |
1. Lawrence J. Mazur II (Undergraduate Honors Thesis) |
“International Patent Applications: How do Patent Systems, Markets, and Economic Composition Impact Resident and Non-Resident Patent Applications around the World?" | |||
| Discussant: Eric Rasmusen | |||||
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2. Chankwon Bae (3rd year paper) |
"Exporting and Innovations: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms" | ||||
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3. Yong Joon Jang (3rd year paper) |
"The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment" |
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4. Brian Swart |
"Appointment versus Primary: Which structure is optimal for parties when selecting a candidate?" | ||||
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Afternoon Session B |
WY 115 (tentative) |
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | |||
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Growth and Public Policy
Session Chair: Gerhard Glomm |
1. Chris Ferguson (3rd year paper) |
“Effects of population aging in an economy with public education and health care subsidies” | |||
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2. Greg Gilpin (3rd year paper) |
"Capital-Skill Complementarity and Optimal Education Policy" | ||||
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3. Andrew Allaby (Undergraduate Honors Thesis) |
“Corn Ethanol’s Feasibility from a Land Use Perspective” | ||||
| Discussant: James Murray | |||||
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4. Jacob Bower-Bir (Political Science Undergraduate Honors Thesis) |
“When Schools Compete: Charter Schools and Their Effect on Traditional Public Education" |
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| Discussant: Jason VanAlstine | |||||
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Afternoon Session C |
WY 005 (tentative) |
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | |||
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Money/Macro
Session Chairs: Kim Huynh and Todd Walker |
1. James Murray |
"Empirical Significance of Learning in a New Keynesian Model with Firm-Specific Capital" | |||
| 2. Tatyana Lepeyko |
“Industrial Transformation in a Post-Communist Countries: the Case of Ukraine” |
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3. Seokgil Park |
"On the Risk Neutral Probability of Sovereigns Default" | ||||
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4. Judex Hyppolite |
"Financing Constraints and Returns on Physical Investment" | ||||
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Coffee & Cookies |
WY 329 | 3:00 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. | |||
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Guest Speaker Presentation |
WY 005 | 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | |||
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R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University |
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Reception, paper awards, and ODE cords presentations |
IMU Federal Room | 4:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | |||