Southern Economic Association's
Sixty-Eighth Annual Conference
November 8 -10, 1998
Omni Inner Harbor Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
Program Sessions
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Sunday 8:30-10:15am |
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| Session 1A*: | Economics of Schooling |
| Session 2A*: | Topics in Research Development and Innovation |
| Session 3A: | Consequences of Fiscal Policy |
| Session 4A: | International Trade: Empirical Evidence |
| Session 5A*: | Explorations into Exchange Rate Anomalies |
| Session 6A*: | Topics in Economic Theory |
| Session 7A*: | The Economics of Science |
| Session 8A: | Financial Economics I |
| Session 9A*: | Issues in State and Local Public Finance |
| Session 10A*: | Health Insurance and Health Reform |
| Session 11A*: | Productivity and Efficiency of Social Institutions |
| Session 12A*: | Recent Empirical Research Using Census Bureau Longitudinal Microdata: Session II |
| Session 13A: | Determinants of Economic Growth |
| Session 14A*: | Topics in Applied Econometrics |
| Session 15A: | Women in the Labor Market |
| Session 16A: | Welfare Policy |
| Session 18A*: | Hurricane Loss Estimation and Mitigation |
| Session 19A: | Probability and Decision-making |
| Session 21A: | Banking |
| Session 23B*: | The Dynamics of Welfare-to-Work: A Roundtable Discussion |
| Session 24B*: | Land Use and the Environment |
| Session 25B*: | The Economics of Education |
| Session 26B: | Current Issues in Monetary Policy |
| Session 27B*: | Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy |
| Session 28B: | Environmental Economics and Water Pollution Control Policy: Lessons and Future Possibilities |
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Sunday 10:30am-12:15pm | |
| Session 29B: | Supply of Health Services |
| Session 31B*: | Empirical Models of Criminal Behavior |
| Session 32B*: | Social Signalling |
| Session 33B*: | Issues in Productivity Measurement |
| Session 34B*: | Topics in International Trade |
| Session 35B: | Title: TBA |
| Session 36B*: | Methods in Applied Econometrics: The Tricks Not in the Texts |
| Session 37B: | Methodological Aspects of Forensic Economics Practice |
| Session 38B: | We Paid Them When They Were Wrong and We're Still Paying: An Irreverent Look at Mainstream Economics |
| Session 39B: | Industrial Organization |
| Session 40B: | Empirical Microeconomics |
| Session 41B: | Behavior of Economists |
| Session 44B: | State Taxes |
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Sunday 1:30-3:15pm | |
| Session 47C*: | Educational Applications of the Tiebout Model |
| Session 48C: | Domestic Competition and International Competitiveness: Consistency or Conflict? |
| Session 49C*: | Transmission in Open Economies |
| Session 51C*: | Topics in Public Choice |
| Session 52C*: | Gender Pay Gaps and Policy Issues |
| Session 53C*: | Crime |
| Session 54C*: | The Revolution of November 9, 1918: Consequences of the European Economic History and Beyond |
| Session 55C*: | Evolution and Learning in Experimental Games |
| Session 56C*: | Using Product Differentiation Models Outside Industrial Organization |
| Session 58C: | Omicron Delta Epsilon |
| Session 59C*: | Microeconometrics |
| Session 60C: | Alternative Methodologies in Discounting Future Losses to Present Value (A Roundtable Discussion) |
| Session 61C: | Current Research in Market Process Theory: Graduate Student Paper Competition |
| Session 62C: | Worker Motivation, Language, and Depression |
| Session 63C: | Issues in Teaching Economics |
| Session 64C*: | Issues in Development Economics |
| Session 66C: | Growth, Deficits, and Price Setting |
| Session 67C: | Political Economy |
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Sunday 3:30 | |
| Session 68D*: | DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURER |
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Sunday 4:30 | |
| Session 69D*: | Georgescu-Rogen Prize in Economics |
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Monday 8:30-10:15am | |
| Session 72F*: | New Topics for the Introductory Economics Course: A Roundtable Discussion |
| Session 73F*: | Trade, Wage Inequality, and Employment |
| Session 74F*: | Topics in Industrial Organization |
| Session 75F: | Politics and the Business Cycle |
| Session 76F*: | The Federal Reserve's Role in the Payment System |
| Session 77F: | Environmental Valuation |
| Session 78F*: | Optimality and Efficiency in International Finance |
| Session 79F*: | Recent Empirical Research Using Census Bureau Longitudinal Microdata: Session I |
| Session 80F*: | Government Sponsored Markets |
| Session 81F*: | Issues in Productivity Analysis |
| Session 82F*: | Altruism and Charitable Giving |
| Session 83F*: | Empirical Industry Studies |
| Session 85F: | Education |
| Session 86F*: | Theory and Applications of Limited Dependent Variable Models |
| Session 87F: | What's on the Internet for Economists: An Update |
| Session 88F: | Three Austrian Critiques |
| Session 89F: | Labor Market Policies |
| Session 90F*: | Technology and Living Standards |
| Session 91F: | Exchange Rate Dynamics |
| Session 93F: | Inflation and Economic Activity |
| Session 94F: | Health |
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Monday 10:30am-12:15pm | |
| Session 95G*: | Regulation and Antitrust Issues |
| Session 96G*: | Economic Issues on Families and Children |
| Session 97G*: | The Economics of Ability Tracking in the Schools |
| Session 98G*: | Is School Integration Unattainable? Does it Matter? |
| Session 99G*: | Environmental Policymaking in a Distorted World: Double Dividend Redux |
| Session 100G*: | Topics in Empirical Labor Economics |
| Session 101G*: | Statistical Analysis of Income Inequality and Parity |
| Session 103G*: | Labor Market Impacts of Training |
| Session 104G*: | Empirical Studies in Migration |
| Session 105G*: | Exploring Aspects of Economic Well- Being |
| Session 106G*: | The Economics of Domestic Violence |
| Session 108G: | Empirical Money, Finance, and Development |
| Session 109G*: | Theory and Practice of Semiparametric Estimation |
| Session 110G: | Empirical Studies and Tools: Generic Drugs, Phosphates, Software Reliability |
| Session 111G: | Terence Kealey on Laissez-Faire Science and R&D |
| Session 112G*: | Creation or Diversion: How Advanced Placement (AP) Economics Can Impact Enrollment in College EconomicsClasses (Roundtable Discussion) |
| Session 113G: | Women's Health and the Labor Market |
| Session 114G: | Openness and Protection in International Trade |
| Session 116G: | Economic Development |
| Session 117G: | State Government |
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Monday 1:30-3:15pm | |
| Session 118H*: | Applied Labor Economics |
| Session 119H*: | MS Antitrust |
| Session 120H*: | Issues in the Economics of Education |
| Session 121H*: | Rethinking the Connection Between the Exchange Rate and Economic Fundamentals |
| Session 122H: | Monetary Policy |
| Session 123H*: | Studies in Efficiency and Productivity |
| Session 124H: | Regional Differences |
| Session 125H*: | Health Care Economics |
| Session 126H*: | Recent Research on Welfare and Poverty |
| Session 127H*: | Issues in International Economics |
| Session 128H*: | Applications of Econometrics to Financial Economics |
| Session 129H*: | Welfare: Incentives and Consequences |
| Session 131H: | Natural Resources |
| Session 132H*: | Poverty and Development in Central Asia |
| Session 133H: | Energy Economics |
| Session 134H: | Title: TBA |
| Session 135H: | Migration, Occupation, and Human Capital |
| Session 136H: | Gender Differences: Theory and Laboratory Experiments |
| Session 137H: | Innovation |
| Session 139H: | Applied Economic Issues |
| Session 140H: | Business Cycles |
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Monday 3:30-4:20pm | |
| Session 141J: | Southern Economic Association, Presidential Address |
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Monday 4:30-4:45pm | |
| Session 142J: | Southern Economic Association Business Meeting |
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Tuesday 8:30-10:15am | |
| Session 151M*: | Women and Health |
| Session 152M*: | Dynamic International Trade |
| Session 153M*: | Income Distribution and Redistribution |
| Session 154M*: | Stochastic Frontier Models |
| Session 155M*: | Topics in Ground Transportation |
| Session 156M: | Coordination Games |
| Session 157M: | Environmental Management |
| Session 158M*: | Title: TBA |
| Session 159M: | Regulation and Conservation |
| Session 160M: | Law and Economics |
| Session 161M: | Public Economics I |
| Session 162M: | Unions and Internal Labor Markets |
| Session 165M: | New Technology in Economics Education |
| Session 167M*: | Issues in Energy and the Environment |
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Tuesday 10:30am-12:15pm | |
| Session 174N*: | Employment-Related Health Insurance Issues |
| Session 175N*: | Oxford Economic Papers |
| Session 176N*: | Issues in Housing Finance and Tax Reform |
| Session 177N*: | Analysis of "Bads" in Production |
| Session 178N*: | Macroeconomic: Theory and Practice |
| Session 179N*: | Entrepreneurship |
| Session 180N: | Lies, Damn Lies, and Expert Testimony: The Role of Economics in Natural Resource Damage Litigation |
| Session 181N*: | Title: TBA |
| Session 182N: | Topics in Public Choice |
| Session 183N: | Financial Economics II |
| Session 184N: | International Finance |
| Session 185N: | Job Transitions and Education |
| Session 187N: | Industry Studies |
| Session 190N: | Roundtable on Monetary Equilibrium |
| Session 191N: | Public Economics II |
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Tuesday 12:30-2:15pm | |
| Session 197P*: | The Economics of Teen Pregnancy and Welfare Reform |
| Session 198P: | Research and Development |
| Session 199P: | Energy |
| Session 200P: | Urban Sprawl |
| Session 201P: | International Capital Flows |
| Session 202P: | Wealth |
| Session 203P: | Health and the Labor Market |
| Session 204P*: | Issues in Indirect Taxation |
| Session 205P*: | Issues in State and Local Public Finance |
| Session 206P: | Family Economics |
| Session 207P: | Teaching Economics |
| Session 213P: | Austrian Economics and Religion |