Session Chairs:

Patrick J. Button, University of California, Irvine

Papers:

"Unobserved Heterogeneity and Bias in Tests of the Leviathan Hypothesis"
Carlos Lopes, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (Contact Author)

"Can Motion Picture Production Incentives Create a Local Film Industry?"
Patrick J. Button, University of California, Irvine (Contact Author)

"Industrial Research and Development and Exchange Rate Depreciation in a Small Open Economy"
Saleh Tabrizy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Michaela Patton, The University of Alabama
Carlos Lopes, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

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Session Chairs:

Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Productivity Gains from Geographic Concentration of Human Capital: Is Specialization or Diversity More Important?"
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Christopher Cunningham, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Michaela Patton, The University of Alabama

"Exploring Wage Determination by Education Level: A U.S. MSA Analysis for 2005-2011"
Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Donald R. Grimes, University of Michigan

"Noisy Little ZIP Codes: The Role of Population Size in Community Level Measures"
Kylie Jaber, Saginaw Valley State University (Contact Author)
Kaustav Misra, Saginaw Valley State University

Discussants:

Kylie Jaber, Saginaw Valley State University
Brandon Tilley, University of West Georgia
Fahad Gill, Middle Tennessee State University
Dimitrios Nikolaou, Illinois State University

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