2012 Sessions for Firat Demir

 
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?"
Firat Demir, The University of Oklahoma (Contact Author)
Chenghao Hu, The University of Oklahoma

"Natural Resources, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)"
Elizabeth Asiedu, The University of Kansas (Contact Author)
Akwasi Nti-Addae, The University of Kansas
Isaac Kanyama, The University of Kansas

"Preferential Trade Agreements, Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment: The European Union's Everything But Arms (EBA) Initiative for Least Developed Countries"
Dekuwmini Mornah, Virginia Military Institute (Contact Author)
George Mawuli Akpandjar, University of Mississippi

Discussants:

Elizabeth Asiedu, The University of Kansas
Dekuwmini Mornah, Virginia Military Institute
Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi, Whitworth University

 

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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?"
Dadhi Adhikari, University of New Mexico
Margaret Blume-Kohout, University of New Mexico (Contact Author)

"Good Firms, Worker Flows, and Productivity"
Michel Serafinelli, University of California, Berkeley (Contact Author)

"Testing the Human Capital Versus Signaling Theory of Job Performance"
Kelly Carter, Morgan State University (Contact Author)

"Time Cost and Multinational Firms' Trade in Manufacturing"
Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi, Whitworth University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Margaret Blume-Kohout, University of New Mexico
Masaki Nakabayashi, The University of Tokyo
Sarah J. Skinner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Firat Demir, The University of Oklahoma

 

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