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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Session Chairs:

Christopher R. Bollinger, University of Kentucky

Papers:

"Technology Spillovers and Strategic Interactions in the Adoption of E-commerce Among U.S. Businesses"
Seung-Hyun Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Contact Author)

"Spatial Network Differences and the Extensive Margins in Retail and Wholesale"
David Vitt, Florida International University (Contact Author)

"Have Wal-Mart Supercenters Slowed the Rate of 'Inflation'? The Effect of Wal-Mart Entry into Local Grocery Markets on the Consumer Price Index"
Christopher R. Bollinger, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)
Jeffrey W. Hoffman, University of Kentucky
Frank A. Scott, University of Kentucky

Discussants:

David Vitt, Florida International University
Seung-Hyun Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University

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