Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 11B Firm Organization and Market Structure |
Session Chairs: |
Cesar Alfredo Cancho, Texas A&M University |
Papers: |
"Innovation, Licensing and Market Structure in Agricultural Biotechnology" "Measuring the Degree of Competition Between Nonprofits and For-Profits: The Case of Fitness Centers" "Regulatory Compliance and Market Competition: Evidence from Emission Inspection Market " "Strategic Campaign Expenditures" "Optimal Purchasing Strategy: Burning What You Bought" |
Discussants: |
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston |
Saturday 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. SEA |
Session 12C Political Economy and Bureaucratic Behavior |
Session Chairs: |
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston |
Papers: |
"Determinants of Adoption of a Performance Indicators System: Evidence of Mexican Municipalities" "Political Affiliation of Elected Representatives and Public Goods Provisioning in India" "Political Screening: Theory and Evidence from the Argentine Public Sector" "Crime Spillovers and Hurricane Katrina" |
Discussants: |
Gary Wagner, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
Sunday 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. SEA |
Session 12I Group Decision Making |
Session Chairs: |
Alistair J. Wilson, New York University |
Papers: |
"Caustic Communication and Group Decision Making" "Collective Action and Power Inequality" "Vote Production Function" "Voting and Abstaining in the U.S. Senate: Mr. Downs Goes to Washington" |
Discussants: |
Kyle Kretschman, The University of Texas at Austin |
Monday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 09J Macroeconomic Effects of Trade Policy |
Session Chairs: |
Meryem Tekin, The University of Texas at Austin |
Papers: |
"Assessing the Role of Unobservables in Analyzing the Effects of Trade Policies" "Government Size, Openness, and Output Growth: Industrial and Developing Economies Under Globalization" "Financial Globalization and Self-Employment" "Are Born Globals from Export-oriented Industries?" "Macroeconomic Interdependence and Integration in Africa" |
Discussants: |
Rene Cabral, Tecnológico de Monterrey |
Monday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 08K Games in Many Settings |
Session Chairs: |
Nick Mastronardi, United States Air Force Academy |
Papers: |
"Colonel Blotto Strategies" "Monotone Comparative Statics for Games with Strategic Substitutes" "Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of Multilateral Negotiations" "An Endogenous Model of Professors and Students" |
Discussants: |
Tarun Sabarwal, The University of Kansas |