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[135] ISSUES IN STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC FINANCE
Session Organizer: Robert T. Jones, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
(rjones@umassd.edu)
Session Chair: Attiat F. Ott, Clark University (aott@clarku.edu)
Spending for Education, Public Choice, and Education Reform
Robert T. Jones, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (rjones@umassd.edu)
Did Proposition 2 ½ Reduce Public Sector Efficiency in Massachusetts?
Evidence from the Public Schools
Ronald J. Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and U.
S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics
(Rshadbegian@umassd.edu) and Maggie Cole, Investors Bank and Trust Company
The Demand for Environmental Quality: An Analysis of the Environmental
Kuznets Curve and Related Models
Aleksandra Simic, Clark University (asimic@clarku.edu)
Discussion among participants and with audience.
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[136] STUDIES IN COMPLEX ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Session Organizer: Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho, Center for Economic Policy
Analysis, New School University (barbosan@newschool.edu)
Session Chair: Christopher Rude, New School University (chrisr@walrus.com)
Output, the Stock Market, and Corporate Debt
Christopher Rude, New School University (chrisr@walrus.com)
Regions as Self-Organizing System: An Agent-Based Model
Ricardo M. Ruiz, New School University and Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil (RuizR103@newschool.edu)
The Evolution of Cooperation in Large Groups
Jung-Kyoo Choi, U Mass Amherst (jungk@econs.umass.edu)
Cooperation in Evolving Social Relationships
Nobuyuki Hanaki, Columbia University (nh85@columbia.edu) and Alexander
Peterhansl, Columbia University (ap11@columbia.edu)
[www.columbia.edu/~ap11]
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[137] INTEREST RATES, INVESTMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY
Session Organizer: Stephanie Bell, University of Missouri-Kansas
City (BellSA@umkc.edu)
Session Chair: Edward J. Nell, New School University
You Can't Push on a String: The Asymmetrical Effectiveness of Monetary
Policy
Fadhel Kaboub, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Eric Embery,
University of Missouri-Kansas City; and Mathew Forstater, University of
Missouri-Kansas City (forstaterm@umkc.edu)
Public Infrastructure Investment to Revitalize the Economy
L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City (wrayr@umkc.edu)
and Nathaniel Hagedorn, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Convergence Going In, Divergence Coming Out: Default Risk Premiums
and the Prospect for Stabilization in the Eurozone
Stephanie A. Bell, University of Missouri-Kansas City (bellsa@umkc.edu)
and Jason Crabb, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Discussion among participants.
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[138] CENTRAL BANKS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (JEL Code E)
Session Co-Organizers: Richard P.F Holt, Southern Oregon University
(rholt@sou.edu) and Steven Pressman, Monmouth University (pressman@monmouth.edu)
Session Chair: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University (pressman@monmouth.edu)
Central Banks and Market Interest Rates
Peter Howells, East London Business School, University of East London
(p.g.a.howells@uel.ac.uk)
Economic Growth, Inflation and Interest Rates: An Alternative Theoretical
Perspective
John Smithin, York University (jsmithin@york.ca)
The Effects of Central Bank Policy on the Level and Structure of Real
Interest Rates
Richard P.F Holt, Southern Oregon University (rholt@sou.edu) and Hassan
Pirasteh,
Southern Oregon University (pirasteh@sou.edu)
Discussants:
Steven Pressman, Monmouth University (pressman@monmouth.edu)
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University (rosserjb@jmu.edu)
John Smithin, York University (jsmithin@york.ca)
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[139] STUDIES OF U.S. BUSINESS CYCLES (JEL Code E)
Session Chair: Subarna K. Samanta, The College of New Jersey
(ssamanta@tcnj.edu)
Mode-Locking and Regional Business Cycle Synchronization
David D. Selover, Old Dominion University (dselover@odu.edu)
Inventory Dynamics and Business Cycles: What Has Changed?
Jonathan P. McCarthy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (jonathan.mccarthy@ny.frb.org)
and Egon Zakrajsek, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
[http://www.newyorkfed.org/economist/mccarthy.htm/]
The Relationship between Output Growth and Volatility at the Industry
Level
Matthew Rafferty, Quinnipiac University (matthew.rafferty@quinnipiac.edu)
Discussants:
Cathy G. Miners, Fairfield University (cminers@mail.fairfield.edu)
Subarna K. Samanta, The College of New Jersey (ssamanta@tcnj.edu)
Mohammad Ashraf, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (mohammad.ashraf@uncp.edu)
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[140] EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY (JEL Code F)
Session Chair: Al Mickens, SUNY Old Westbury (almickens@aol.com)
Export Promotion in the Presence of Reputational Externalities
Jayoti Das, Elon University (dastina@elon.edu) and Stephen Deloach,
Elon University (deloach@elon.edu) (www.elon.edu/deloach/dasdeloach.doc)
Capital Controls and Financial Stability: A Spectral Analysis
Alexei Orlov, Radford University (aorlov@radford.edu)
Regional Integration and Industrial Location in a Landlocked Spatial
Economy
Hemanta Shrestha, University of Connecticut and Dennis R. Heffley,
University of Connecticut (dennis.heffley@uconn.edu)
Discussants:
Yilma Gebremariam, Southern Connecticut State University (gebremariam@scsu.ctstateu.edu)
Oumar Bouare, Human Sciences Research Council (obouare@hsrc.ac.za)
Al Mickens, SUNY Old Westbury (almickens@aol.com)
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[141] SOCIAL SECURITY (JEL Code H)
Session Organizer: Charles F. O’Donnell, Iona College (codonnell@iona.edu)
Applying a Portfolio Management Approach to Investing the Old Age and
Survivors Trust Fund
Charles F. O'Donnell, Iona College; Joseph Ford, Iona College; Irene
Hammerbacker, Iona College; and John Manley, Iona College
Changes in the Role of Social Security in the 2002 and 2002 Federal
Budget
Charles F. O'Donnell, Iona College; Robert Strittmatter, Iona College;
and Frank McGrath, Iona College
Economic Considerations Influencing the Privatization of Social Security
Gerard A. Cahill, Florida Institute of Technology (gcahill@fit.edu)
Discussion among participants.
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[142] STUDIES OF ASIAN ECONOMIES (JEL Code F)
Session Chair: Jennifer Foo, Stetson University (jfoo@stetson.edu)
(Ch 1)
Do Stock Prices and Interest Rates Possess a Common Trend? Evidence
from Three Asian Countries
Amaresh Das, Xavier University of Louisiana (adas@xula.edu)
Effect of Internet Access on Mobile Commerce: A Comparison of
Selected Asian Nations
J.W. Clarry, The College of New Jersey and E.Y. Lee, Concordia College
(eyl@concordia-ny.edu)
Cultural Economy of China and the Asian Union
Victor L. Tonn, Salve Regina University (jpmaple@aol.com)
Discussants:
Pellegrino Manfra, CUNY (rinom@aol.com)
Patrick O'Sullivan, SUNY Old Westbury (osullivanp@soldvb.oldwestbury.edu)
Sirousse Tabriztchi, SUNY Old Westbury (tabritzchis@soldvb.oldwestbury.edu)
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[143] WOMEN'S TIME IN AND OUT OF THE LABOR MARKET: FEMINIST APPROACHES
(Sponsored by IAFFE)
Session Organizer: Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts
– Boston (randy.albelda@umb.edu)
Session Chair: Lois Joy, Smith College (ljoy@email.smith.edu)
“This Was Never Meant To Be A Career”: Gender and Monopsony in Academic
Labor Markets
Dawn Saunders, University of Vermont (dsaunder@zoo.uvm.edu)
Love Labor's Lost: Estimating the Opportunity Costs of Unpaid
Family Leave
Tiffany Manuel, UMass Boston and Radcliffe Public Policy Center
(manuel@radcliffe.edu)
Will the States Provide? The Possibility for Former Welfare Recipients
to use Unemployment Insurance in the Next Recession
Heather Boushey, Economic Policy Institute (hboushey@epinet.org) and
Jeffrey Wenger, Economic Policy Institute
Working Late: How Hours of Work Change as Women Enter Professional Occupations
Jennie Wenger, The CNA Corporation (wengerj@cna.org) and Heather Boushey,
Economic Policy Institute (hboushey@epinet.org)
Discussants:
Lois Joy, Smith College (ljoy@email.smith.edu)
Margaret S. (Maggie) Coleman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Immunization Program
(zby5@cdc.gov)
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[144] INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH
(JEL Codes D, O)
Session Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University of Kentucky (TanmoyB@excite.com)
Microeconomic Evidence on the Impact of Information Technology on Productivity
Growth
Hong V. Nguyen, University of Scranton (nguyen@scranton.edu)
Telecommunications Investment, Information Technology, and Economic
Growth: A Panel Data Approach
Anusua Datta, Philadelphia University (dattaa@philau.edu) and Sumit
Agarwal, Fleet Boston Financial
Discussion among participants.
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[145] ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF LIFE (JEL Code I)
Session Organizer: Edward N. Wolff, The Levy Economics Institute and
New York University (wolffe@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu)
Session Chair: Ajit Zacharias, The Levy Economics Institute (zacharias@levy.org)
Recent Trends in Living Standards in the United States
Edward N. Wolff, The Levy Institute and New York University
Using Expenditures to Measure the Standard of Living in the United States:
Does It Make a Difference?
David Scott Johnson, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of
Labor (Johnson_David_Scott@bls.gov)
Historical Perspectives on the Standard of Living Using Anthropometric
Data
Richard Steckel, Ohio State University (steckel.1@osu.edu)
Trends in Perceived Job Quality
Michael J. Handel, Levy Institute and University of Wisconsin, Madison
(mhandel@ssc.wisc.edu)
Discussant:
Ajit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute (zacharias@levy.org)
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[146] MIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION (JEL Code J)
Session Chair: Judith W. Mills, Southern Connecticut State University
(mills@southernct.edu)
Do Migrant Origins Matter? Migrants vs. Non-Migrants: Self-Selection
Out of the Home Population
Simone A. Wegge, College of Staten Island, CUNY (wegge@postbox.csi.cuny.edu)
The Costs of Discrimination against HIV+ Workers in the Caribbean
Eileen M. Stillwaggon, Gettysburg College (estillwa@gettysburg.edu)
A Reinvestigation of Racial Discrimination and Baseball Cards
Edward M. Scahill, University of Scranton (ems353@scranton.edu)
Discussants:
Alan Bartley, Transylvania University (abartley@transy.edu)
Shimshon Kinory, New Jersey City University (skinory@njcu.edu)
John C. Kane, SUNY Oswego (kane@oswego.edu)
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