Thursday, March 6
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Registration…Mezzanine Level
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EEA Executive Board Meeting and Dinner…Hancock Room (by invitation only)
Friday, March 7
8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration…Mezzanine Level
8:00 am - 5:30 pm Exhibits…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
9:00 am - 10:40 am Sessions 1 - 16 (see listings for rooms)
10:40 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Sessions 20- 35 (see listings for rooms)
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Sessions 40 - 56 (see listings for rooms)
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Sessions 60 – 78 (see listings for rooms)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Presidential Address…Arlington Room (Mezzanine Level)
EEA President Michael Grossman speaking about “ The Relationship between Health and Schooling”
The address will be preceded by the awarding of the Otto Eckstein Prize and followed by the EEA Business Meeting.
6:00 PM Refreshments with Forensic Economists – Eastern Style (Informal Session Sponsored by NAFE) Location to be announced at Session 94 (4:00 PM session held at Crowne Plaza), or contact Larry Spizman for details.
6:30 pm - 8:00pm EEA President’s Reception…Stanbro Room(Mezzanine Level)
All conference participants are invited to attend this reception to meet other participants and the Association's officers. Cash bar and complimentary snacks.
Saturday, March 8
8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee Break...Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration…Mezzanine Level
8:00 am - 5:30 pm Exhibits…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level) (last day of exhibits)
9:00 am - 10:40 am Sessions 80 - 98 (see listings for rooms)
10:40 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Sessions 100 - 119 (see listings for rooms)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Conference Luncheon…Stanbro Room (Mezzanine Level)
EEA President-Elect N. Greg Mankiw, speaking on TBA
2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Sessions 120 - 137 (see listings for rooms)
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Sessions 140 - 157 (see listings for rooms)
5:00 pm Exhibit area closing…Georgian Room (Mezzanine Level)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Issues in Political Economy editorial board meeting…Board Room
5:40 pm USBIG Featured Speakers…Whittier Room
Moderator: Al Sheahen , author (alsheahen@prodigy.net)
Challenges to Basic Income in the Public Policy Arena: An Irish Experience
5:40pm – Sean Healy, Council of the Religious of Ireland (sean.healy@cori.ie) and Brigid Reynolds, Council of the Religious of Ireland (brigid.reynolds@cori.ie)
6:20pm – Basic Income in Electoral Platforms: Examples from Recent Political History
Yannick Vanderborght, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis and Université Catholique de Louvain , (vanderborght@fusl.ac.be)
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Eastern Economic Journal reception… Berkeley Clarendon
All conference participants are invited to this reception. It's an opportunity to meet the editors of the Journal and other members of the editorial board. Cash bar and complimentary snacks.
Sunday, March 9
7:30am -9:00 am Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter Advisors Breakfast Meeting...Swans Café
8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee Break...TBA
8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration…Fourth Floor
9:00 am - 10:40 am Sessions 160 - 177 (see listings for rooms)
10:40 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break…Fourth Floor
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Sessions 180 - 195 (see listings for rooms)
2:15 pm USBIG Organizational Meeting…WhittierRoom
Single Global Currency Events: Cambridge Room unless otherwise noted
12:30-1:30 Lunch (TBA)
1:30 p.m. Opening Comments: Morrison Bonpasse, Single Global Currency
Assn
2:00-3:00 Open Discussion: "How to get there (a 3-G world) from here?"
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Open Discussion: "Will the IMF be part of the solution or remain
part of the problem? (and how to encourage the former)"
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:00 Summary of conference, and Recommendations for the Sixth Single
Global Currency Conference in 2009.
5:00 Adjourn to informal discussions into the evening (TBA)
6:00 Dinner (TBA)