Program for the 2008 Meetings

(Updated as of 2/29/08)


The program as it appears is the version that went to press. Since then we have received the following notes about changes/corrections: 

[9] Session has been combined with session 28 (Friday at 11).

[13] Correct email for Jennifer VanGilder is jvangilder@ursinus.edu

[16] Correct name should be M.Ahsan Siddiqui instead of Ahsan M. Siddiqui.

[30] The paper by Ivan Kandilov has been withdrawn and he will not attend.

[28] Papers and participants from session 9 have been added to this session.

[71] Stanley Bober will not attend. The session will be chaired by Biru Paksha Paul.

[75] Isaac Knowles is added as a discussant, replacing Tyler Sines.

[79] The correct email for Vera Brusentsev is brusentv@lerner.udel.edu and the correct email for Patrick Walsh is pwalsh@smcut.edu

[84] Shaianne Osterreich replaces Stephanie Seguino as session chair. RamaaVasudevan replaces Stephanie Seguino as discussant.

[86] The paper by Louis de Mesnard has been withdrawn and he will not attend.

[127] The paper by Eleanor Bacani has been withdrawn.

[130] The paper by Anita A. Pena titled “Legalization and Immigrants in U.S. Agriculture” has been moved to this session from session 132. Joelle Saad-Lessler will co-chair.

[132] The paper by Amy M.Kandilov has been withdrawn and she will not attend. Paper by Anita A. Pena titled “Legalization and Immigrants in U.S. Agriculture” has been moved to session 130.

[162] The paper titled“Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Dental Care - A Study of Practice Level Data” by Lei Chen et. al. has been withdrawn and replaced by “A Cost-Constrained Measure of Energy-Use Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing; An Inter-state Comparison Using the Census of Manufactures Data,” by Subhash C. Ray, KankanaMukherjee, and Lei Chen.

[175] Paper added: “A Common Agency Model of Corruption,” by Isaac Knowles, University of Mary Washington. Tyler Sines, Furman University, will discuss.

[194] Correct name should be M.Ahsan Siddiqui instead of Ahsan M. Siddiqui.


Presenters of papers are asked to provide their discussants and session chairs with copies of their papers as soon as possible.  Presenters may wish to supply all session participants with copies in order to facilitate discussion, particularly in those sessions designated as "Discussion among participants."

E-mail addresses are provided in order that session participants can contact each other.  The order in which discussants are listed indicates which paper that person will discuss; for example, the first discussant listed discusses the first paper of the session, etc.

Session chairs are asked to contact all participants in their sessions by the beginning of February to help make sure that discussants have received papers, etc.


How to use this program:

If you are a conference participant, please check the alphabetical listings below for your name.  That will tell you the number(s) of the session(s) in which you are participating.  You can then find information about the specific session(s) by looking for in the time block(s) (e.g., Session number 5 is Friday at 9:00 am).  There is also a listing of sessions by JEL Code on this page.



Calendar of Events   Provides an overview of all conference activities and highlights including major addresses, featured speakers at conference luncheons, receptions, etc.


Alphabetical Listing of Participants    Conference participants are listed alphabetically by last name.  The session(s) in which they are participating are indicated by the numbers that follow the names.

SESSIONS:

Friday at 9:  Sessions 1 - 16 including USBIG 1

Friday at 11:  Sessions 20 - 35 including USBIG 2

Friday at 2:  Sessions 40 - 56 including USBIG 3

Friday at 4:  Sessions 60 - 78 including USBIG 4

Saturday at 9:  Sessions 80 - 98 including USBIG 5

Saturday at 11:  Sessions 100 - 119 including USBIG 6

Saturday at 2:  Sessions 120 - 137 including USBIG 7

Saturday at 4:  Sessions 140 - 157 including USBIG 8 (followed by 9)

Sunday at 9:  Sessions 160 - 177 including USBIG 10

Sunday at 11:  Sessions 180 - 195 including USBIG 11
 

SESSIONS LISTED BY SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

Association for Social Economics (ASE), Sessions #1 and 82
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), Sessions # ??
Economists for Peace and Security, Session #43
Henry George School, New York, Session #193
Issues in Political Economy (IPE), Sessions #
National Association for Forensic Economics (NAFE), Sessions #76, 96, 119 and 136
NYC Computational Economics & Complexity Workshop, Sessions #41, 80, 100, 121, 140
Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE), Session #160
Single Global Currency Association (SGCA), Sessions #174 and 193
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), Sessions #83 and 103
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE), Sessions #24, 46, and 85
U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG), Sessions #15, 34, 56, 77
Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), Sessions #21, 45, and 62

SESSIONS LISTED BY JEL CODE:
(NOTE:  Some sessions are listed under more than one category.)

A  General Economics and Teaching
Session Numbers: 6, 25, 66, 82, 106, 124, 143

B  Methodology and History of Economic Thought
Session Numbers: 1, 6, 24, 46, 62, 85, 126, 146, 193

C  Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Session Number: 7, 12, 53, 86, 164

D  Microeconomics
Session Numbers: 7, 26, 33, 43, 52, 67, 73, 120, 162, 165, 171, 182, 183

E  Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Session Numbers: 2, 8, 20, 40, 42, 61, 64, 65, 71, 88, 107, 110, 121, 145, 163, 185

F  International Economics
Session Numbers:  4, 7, 11, 12, 21, 22, 30, 44, 45, 50, 53, 61, 65, 71, 81, 82, 84, 90, 101, 109, 110, 128, 129, 141, 148, 149, 150, 161, 168, 172, 190

G  Financial Economics
Session Numbers:  5, 21, 60, 61, 93, 100, 114, 122, 133, 173, 192, 193

H  Public Economics
Session Numbers:  26, 27, 87, 120, 127, 151, 166, 184

I  Health, Education, and Welfare
Session Numbers:  14, 26, 91, 104, 111, 113, 120, 130, 151, 153, 169

J  Labor and Demographic Economics
Session Numbers:  3, 13, 31, 32, 45, 51, 72, 92, 112, 131, 132, 152, 170, 191

K  Law and Economics
Session Numbers:  110

L  Industrial Organization
Session Numbers:   47, 68, 120, 167, 186

M  Business Economics
Session Number:  68

N  Economic History
Session Numbers:  9, 28, 143

O  Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
Session Numbers:  10, 23, 29, 49, 61, 63, 70, 84, 89, 105, 110, 125, 144, 163, 181, 189 

P  Economic Systems
Session Number:  61

Q  Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics (includes Environment)
Session Numbers:   

R  Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics (includes Transportation)
Session Numbers:  27, 48, 69, 148, 187, 188 

Z  Other Special Topics (Cultural Economics, Philanthropy)
Session Numbers:   147, 183