Sunday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 02J Foreign Direct Investment and Institutions |
Session Chairs: |
Firat Demir, The University of Oklahoma |
Papers: |
"Institutional Differences and the Direction of Bilateral FDI Flows: Are South-South Flows Any Different than the Rest?" "Natural Resources, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)" "Preferential Trade Agreements, Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment: The European Union's Everything But Arms (EBA) Initiative for Least Developed Countries" |
Discussants: |
Elizabeth Asiedu, The University of Kansas |
Sunday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 09K Human Capital, Firms, and Innovation |
Session Chairs: |
Kelly Carter, Morgan State University |
Papers: |
"Funding the Biomedical Workforce: Does Mechanism Matter?" "Good Firms, Worker Flows, and Productivity" "Testing the Human Capital Versus Signaling Theory of Job Performance" "Time Cost and Multinational Firms' Trade in Manufacturing" |
Discussants: |
Margaret Blume-Kohout, University of New Mexico |