Saturday 2:15 - 4:00 p.m. * |
Session 139K* Topics in Public Economics |
Organizers: |
Arthur Snow, University of Georgia |
Session Chairs: |
Arthur Snow, University of Georgia |
Papers: |
"The Collective Household, Household Production, and Effficiency of Marginal Reforms" "Risk and the Marginal Insurance Value of Social Security Disability Benefits Over the Life Cycle" "State Policies That Don't Converge" |
Discussants: |
Myra L. Moore, University of Georgia |
Sunday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. |
Session 170N Determinants of Economic Growth |
Session Chairs: |
John Roufagalas, Radford University |
Papers: |
"Growth Effects of Employer-Based Health Insurance" "Government Labor Force and Growth of the U.S. Economy" "Foreign Aid, FDI and Economic Growth in East European Countries" "Does Corruption Reduce Efficiency?" "Analysing Growth Cycles in the Euro Area Core: Multivariate Spectral Analysis of Growth Cycles Using a CWT and Hilbert Wavelet Pairs" |
Discussants: |
Matthew J. Cushing, University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
Sunday 2:30 - 4:15 p.m. |
Session 231R Supply Shocks |
Session Chairs: |
Julie K. Smith, Lafayette College |
Papers: |
"The Dynamics of Plant-Level Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing" "How Persistent are Shocks to GDP? Evidence From the Forecasting Community" "The Malmquist Index and Its Implications for Business Cycle Analysis" "A Note on the Ball-Mankiw Aggregate Supply Shock Proxy Variable" |
Discussants: |
Patrick M. Crowley, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christie |