SGE-ASSA PROGRAM: JANUARY 3-5, 2004, SAN DIEGO, CA
Saturday, January 3, 2004 Empirical Studies in
Macroeconomic Issues 8:00a.m. Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Charles Hulten Mark
Doms and Norman Morin, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco –
Consumer Sentiment and Consumption Jean
Kimmel, Western Michigan University, and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San
Diego State University – Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle Mark
Lasky, U.S. Congressional Budget Office – A Putty-Clay Model of Investment Stephen R.
Bond, Oxford University and Jason G. Cummins, Federal Reserve Board --
Uncertainty and Company Investment: An Empirical Investigation using
Data on Analysts' Profits Forecasts Discussants:
Martha
Starr, American University, Charles Hulten,University of
Maryland Gross Job Flows 10:15 a.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: John
Haltiwanger Jason
Faberman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics --- Job Flows and
Establishment Characteristics: Variations across U.S. Metropolitan Areas Lucia
Foster, U.S. Census Bureau --- Creative
Destruction in the Appalachian Region Julie
Hotchkiss, M. Melinda Pitts, and John C. Robertson, Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta ---
Employment Dynamics in Georgia: What do State Administrative Data
have to Say? James
Spletzer, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics --- Job Creation and Job
Destruction During the Recent Business Cycle Discussants:
Randy Becker, U.S. Census Bureau, John
Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, Joshua Pinkston, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Scott
Schuh, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Adjusting
for Geographic Cost-of Living Differences in Federal Statistics 2:30 p.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Kathleen
Short Charles
Nelson and Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau ---
The Effect of Geographic Adjustment on Poverty
Estimates Dean
Jolliffe, Economic Research Service, USDA ---
How
Robust are the Metro-Nonmetro Poverty Differences? An Analysis of
Distribution-Sensitive Poverty Measures and Spatial Price Adjustments. Mary Kokoski, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, and Patrick Cardiff, Bureau of Economic
Analysis ---
Constructing Interarea Price Indices from CPI Data
Mark D. Shroder,
Department of Housing and Urban Development --- Voucher Administrative
Data as Indicators of Cost of Living Differences
Discussants:
Kathleen Scholl, U.S. General Accounting Office, Bettina Aten,
Bridgewater Sunday, January 4, 2004 Small
Business Startups and Special Characters 8:00 a.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair:
Robert
Fairlie Candida
Brush, Boston College, Nancy Carter, St. Thomas University, Elizabeth
Gatewood, Indiana University, Patricia Greene, University of Missouri,
and Myra Hart, Harvard University --- Women, Money & Wealth
Creation: Investigating the
Myths Jonathan
T. Eckhardt, University of Wisconsin, Scott A. Shane, University of
Maryland --- Industry Correlates of High Growth Startups Robert
W. Fairlie, University of California—Santa Cruz, and Alicia Robb,
Foundation for Sustainable Development --- Families, Human Capital, and
Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners
Survey Discussants:
Ying
Lowrey, U.S. Small Business Administration, Bruce D. Phillips, NFIB
Research Foundation, Harvey Bronstein, Small Business Administration Empirical Studies of Banking
Issues 10:15 a.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Richard
Fry Timothy
Hannan, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve – The Impact of
Credit Unions on the Rates Offered for Retail Deposits by Banks and
Thrift Institutions Cynthia
Bansak and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University –
Access to Banking Services and Remittances by Mexican Migrants Allen Berger, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and
Gregory Udell, Indiana University -- The Institutional Memory Hypothesis
and the Procyclicality of Bank Lending Behavior Discussants:
Philip
E. Strahan, Boston College, Richard Fry, Pew Hispanic Center, Robert
Feinberg, American University The Distinguished Lecture on
Economics in Government 2:30p.m.
Grand Hyatt – Manchester B
room
Chair: Warren
Hrung, U.S. Department of the Treasury Roger W. Ferguson,
Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve --- Monday, January 5, 2004 Taxes and Economic Behavior 8:00 a.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Leonard
Burman John
R. Eiler and Warren B. Hrung, U.S. Treasury, and Michelle J. White, UC-San
Diego --- Personal Bankruptcy, Tax Progressivity, and Entrepreneurial
Entry Laura
Clauser, US Treasury --- Revisiting the debate between arm’s length
and formula apportionment Gerald Auten and David Joulfaian, US
Treasury --- Taxes and Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Long
Panel Discussants:
Julie Berry Cullen, University of Michigan, Simon Anderson,
University of Virginia, Leonard Burman, Urban Institute Understanding Investment Incentives Using Real
Option Techniques 10:15 a.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Robert
L. McDonald Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Texas at Austin
--- Irreversible Decisions and Record Setting News Principles Andrew B. Abel, University of Pennsylvania, and
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University --- Q for the Long-Run Jason C. Hsu and Eduardo S. Schwartz, University of
California at Los Angeles --- A Model of R&D Valuation and the
Design of Research Incentives Tarun Sabarwal, University of Texas at Austin --- The
Non-Neutrality of Debt in Investment Timing: A New NPV Rule Discussants: Toni Whited,
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Jean-Daniel
Saphores, University of California at Irvine Exchange Rate Regimes 1:00 p.m.
Grand Hyatt – Edward D room Chair: Martin
Uribe Fabio
M. Natalucci, Federal Reserve Board, and Federico Ravenna, University of
California – Santa Cruz --- The Road to Adopting the Euro: Monetary
Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes in EU Candidate Countries Shaghil
Ahmed, Christopher J. Gust, Steven B. Kamin, and Jonathan Huntley,
Federal Reserve Board --- Are Depreciations as Contractionary as
Devaluations: a Comparison of Selected Emerging and Industrial Economies Michele
Cavallo, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Kate Kisselev, Citigroup,
Fabrizio Perri and Nouriel Roubini, New York University --- Exchange
Rate Overshooting and the Cost of Floating Discussants: Fabio
Ghironi, Boston College, Eswar Prasad, International Monetary Fund,
Martin Uribe, University of Pennsylvania
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