Dear colleagues, students, alumni, and friends.
The preliminary program is out for the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meeting to be held in San Diego California this January 3-6, 2020, commonly known as the AEA meetings (American Economics Association). As I have done each recent year, I tabulated all of the current BU faculty, graduate students and alumni (that I recognize) who appear in the program using their name and affiliations. This count includes authors and coautors, chairs and discussants. I apologize for inevitably missing some people, particularly alumni. Let me know and I will correct on the on line versions that appear on my web blog.
This year, despite being held in just about the most remote location possible in the continental US, BU people appear 66 times, down from last year with 87 in Atlanta. This comprises 50 appearances on the program as an author or coauthor, 6 as chairs, and 10 as discussants. The winner this year with the most appearances on the program is perennial activist Pascual Restrepo with 4 appearances, followed by a three way tie between Adam Guren, Shulamit Kahn (Questrom), and Steven Terry. There were sixteen alumni I identified who presented, which is almost certainly an undercount.
This year there are 48 distinct names appearing on the program, comprising 28 faculty, 16 alumni, and four Ph.D. candidates. Of the faculty there are 16 from CAS Economics faculty (down from 21 last year), ten from Questrom School of Business, 1 from Law, and 1 from Pardee School of Global Studies. The growth of the Questrom faculty to ten names continues its impressive recent trend, up from 8 QSB faulty last year.
Information about the 2020 San Diego conference and registration is located here.
https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/
Employer Hotel Suite Reservations open on Tuesday September 10th 2019 at 11:00am EDT, and
General Attendee ASSA Registration and Hotel Reservations open on Thursday September 19th 2019 at 11:00am EDT.
Preferred hotels usually are booked within the first ten minutes!
If you are in the area (even if you do not attend the ASSA) you are invited to the Boston University Economics Department Reception
Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Marriott Marquis San Diego, Mission Hills City View
It is not too early to begin planning your paper submissions to the next two ASSA meetings, which are much more convenient and likely cheaper than San Diego:
January 3-5, 2021 Chicago, IL
January 7-9, 2022 Boston, MA
WELL DONE BU!
In the summary below I only show the authors affiliated with BU, without showing the other authors on papers. The ASSA does not distinguish the presenter from the list of coauthors. BU alumni have a non-BU affiliation shown.
| Session: Central Banking | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, Marriott Marquis San Diego, Point Loma Pool View | ||
| Central Bank Policies and Financial Markets: Lessons from the Euro Crisis | ||
| (co-)author Ashoka Mody, Princeton University | ||
| Session: Education and Religion | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, , Marriott Marquis San Diego, Balboa City View | ||
| Discussant: Samuel Bazzi, Boston University | ||
| Human Capital and the Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany | ||
| (co-)author Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick | ||
| Session: Empirical Research on Automation and “Smart” Technologies | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 10 | ||
| Chair: James Bessen, Boston University | ||
| Competing with Robots: Micro Evidence from France | ||
| (co-)author Pascual Restrepo, Boston University | ||
| Automatic Reaction – What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate? | ||
| (co-)author James Bessen, Boston University | ||
| Session: Gender in the Innovation Economy | ||
| Discussant: Jeff Furman, Boston University | ||
| Session: Gendered Effects of Social Norms and Institutions | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 2 | ||
| Evaluating Teen Options for Preventing Pregnancy: Impacts and Mechanisms | ||
| (co-)author Dara Lee Luca, Mathematica Policy Research | ||
| Session: Innovation, Productivity and Regulation | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM , Marriott Marquis San Diego, San Diego A | ||
| Declining Business Dynamism: Sources and Productivity Implications | ||
| (co-)author Jonathan Willis, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | ||
| Session: Promoting Female Participation in Undergraduate Economics | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marina Ballroom G | ||
| Discussant: Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame | ||
| Session: The Effect of Immigrants on Economic and Political Outcomes in the United States | ||
| Friday, Jan. 3, 8:00 AM, Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marina Ballroom D | ||
| Discussant: Daniele Paserman Boston University | ||
| Immigration, Innovation and Growth | ||
| (co-)author Tarek Hassan, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author Lisa Tarquinio, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author Stephen J. Terry, Boston University | ||
| Session: Mutual Funds: New Perspectives | ||
| Friday 10:15am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Seaport F; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| The Allocation of Talent across Mutual Fund Strategies | ||
| (co-)author: Andrea Buffa, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Apoorva Javadekar, Indian School of Business | ||
| Session: Real Estate and Housing Finance | ||
| Friday 12:30pm; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Coronado A; Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association & American Finance Association | ||
| Discussant: Adam Guren, Boston University | ||
| Session: Advances in Measuring Firm-Level Uncertainty | ||
| Friday 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Coronado Room; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Firm-Level Risks and Effects of Brexit | ||
| (co-)author: Tarek Hassan, Boston University | ||
| Session: New Approaches to Measuring Technology and Innovation | ||
| Friday 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Presidio 1 – 2; Hosted By: American Economic Association & Committee on Economic Statistics | ||
| Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University | ||
| Session: Provider Decision-Making and Productivity in Health Care | ||
| Friday 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 4; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| What Does Health Care Billing Cost, and Why Does It Matter? | ||
| (co-)author: Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | ||
| Path Dependency in Physician Decision-Making | ||
| (co-)author: Han Ye, National University of Singapore | ||
| Session: Econometrics of Networks | ||
| Friday 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, La Costa Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| Nonlinear Factor Models for Network and Panel Data | ||
| (co-)author: Mingli Chen, University of Warwick | ||
| (co-)author: Ivan Fernandez-Val, Boston University | ||
| Session: Fertility in a Changing Environment: Climate Change, Migration, and Social Networks | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Mission Beach A; Hosted By: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | ||
| Social Networks and Women’s Reproductive Health Choices in India | ||
| (co-)author: Mahesh Karra, Boston University | ||
| Session: Achievement Tests I: On the Validity of Comparisons across Cohort, Grade, and Subject | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe 2; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Chair: Kevin Lang, Boston University | ||
| Is Intervention Fadeout a Scaling Artefact? | ||
| (co-)author: Timothy N. Bond, Purdue University | ||
| (co-)author: Kevin Lang, Boston University | ||
| Session: Identification in Macro-Finance: Recent Advances | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marina Ballroom F; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| What Do We Learn from Cross-Sectional Empirical Estimates in Macroeconomics? | ||
| (co-)author: Adam Guren, Boston University | ||
| Session: Asset Valuation in Economies with Production | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Seaport B; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| Discussant: Stephen J. Terry, Boston University | ||
| Session: Networks, Connections, and Firms | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Harbor A; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| The Network of Firms Implied by the News | ||
| (co-)author: Hannan Zheng, Boston University | ||
(co-)author: Gustavo Schwenkler, Boston University
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| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Cortez Hills C; Hosted By: Chinese Economic Association in North America | ||
| Chair: Ching-to Albert Ma, Boston University | ||
| Changing Preferences: An Experiment and Estimation of Market-Incentive Effects on Altruism | ||
| (co-)author: Undral Byambadalai, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Ching-to Albert Ma, Boston University | ||
| Session: Gender and Careers | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Harbor E; Hosted By: Labor and Employment Relations Association | ||
| Information Provision and Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Business Majors | ||
| (co-)author: Patricia Cortes, Boston University | ||
| Session: Wage Structure, Covenants Not to Compete, and Nonwage Benefits | ||
| Saturday, 8:00am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Harbor F; Hosted By: Labor and Employment Relations Association | ||
| Discussant: Shulamit Kahn, Boston University | ||
| Session: Interventions to Close Gender Gaps – What Works and What Can Backfire | ||
| Saturday, 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 3; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Banning Negotiation: Is Wage Dispersion Maintained When Left to Manager Discretion? | ||
| (co-)author: Rania Gihleb, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Session: Real Effects of Non-Rational Expectations | ||
| Saturday, 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 13; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Real Credit Cycles | ||
| (co-)author: Stephen J. Terry, Boston University | ||
| Session: R&D, Patents, and Innovation | ||
| Saturday, 10:15am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Seaport H; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| Benchmarking United States University Technology Commercialization Efforts: A New Approach | ||
| (co-)author: Arvids Ziedonis, Boston University | ||
| Session: Labor Share | ||
| Saturday, 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Catalina Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor | ||
| (co-)author: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University | ||
| Session: Cash Holdings, Investment, and Firm Dynamics | ||
| Saturday, 10:15am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Ocean Beach; Hosted By: International Society for Inventory Research | ||
| Customers and Retailer Growth | ||
| (co-)author: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University | ||
| Session: Economics of Payments | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Del Mar Water View; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Chair: Marc S. Rysman, Boston University | ||
| Session: Is United States Deficit Policy Playing with Fire? | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 3; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Chair: Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University | ||
| Leveraging Posterity’s Prosperity | ||
| (co-)author: Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University | ||
| Session: The Race between Education and Technology Revisited | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, San Diego B; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Automation, New Tasks, and Inequality | ||
| (co-)author: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University | ||
| Session: Structural Models of Credit Risk | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Harbor A; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| A Unified Model of Distress Risk Puzzles | ||
| (co-)author: Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University | ||
| Session: Housing and Financial Stability | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Cardiff Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords | ||
| (co-)author: Adam Guren, Boston University | ||
| Session: Experimental Evidence: From the ACA to New Drugs | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Solana Beach AB; Hosted By: Health Economics Research Organization & American Economic Association | ||
| Nudging Take-up of Subsidized Insurance: Evidence from Massachusetts | ||
| (co-)author: Keith Ericson, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Tim Layton, Harvard University | ||
| Session: Labor Force, Productivity, and Mobility | ||
| Saturday, 2:30pm; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Harbor F; Hosted By: Labor and Employment Relations Association | ||
| The Structural Decline in Job Turnover since 2000: Disequilibrium or New Normal? | ||
| (co-)author: Shulamit Kahn, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Yeseul Hyun, Boston University | ||
| Session: Changes in Occupations and Jobs | ||
| Sunday 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Presidio 2; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Occupational Mobility in a Changing Labor Market: Upward Climbs or Crooked Paths? | ||
| (co-)author: Shulamit Kahn, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Yeseul Hyun, Boston University | ||
| Session: The Economics of Privacy | ||
| Sunday 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 12; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| The Deadweight Loss of Social Recognition | ||
| (co-)author: Robert Metcalfe, Boston University | ||
| Session: Macroeconometrics | ||
| Sunday 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Catalina Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| Using Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic to Sharpen Identification Analysis for DSGE Models | ||
| (co-)author: Zhongjun Qu, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Denis Tkachenko, National University of Singapore | ||
| Session: Testing in Incomplete and Complete Models | ||
| Sunday 8:00am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, La Costa Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| Chair: Hiroaki Kaido, Boston University | ||
| Robust Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Incomplete Economic Models | ||
| (co-)author: Hiroaki Kaido, Boston University | ||
| (co-)author: Yi Zhang, Jinan University | ||
| Session: Economic Consequences of Immigration Policy | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Santa Rosa; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Discussant: Patricia Cortes, Boston University | ||
| Session: Gender Differences in Career Progression | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 3; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| Discussant: Robert Metcalfe, Boston University | ||
| Session: Labor Unions in the United States | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marriott Grand Ballroom 1; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| The Effects of Union Membership on Political Participation: Evidence from Michigan Teachers Unions after Right to Work | ||
| (co-)author: James Feigenbaum, Boston University | ||
| Session: Minimum Wages, Taxes and Low Wage Labor Markets | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Marina Ballroom D; Hosted By: American Economic Association | ||
| The Effects of Minimum Wage on Firm Practices and Management | ||
| (co-)author: Dara Lee Luca, Mathematica Policy Research | ||
| (co-)author: Michael Luca, Harvard Business School | ||
| Session: Entrepreneurial Finance: Risk and Return | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Seaport F; Hosted By: American Finance Association | ||
| Entrepreneurial Experimentation and Duration | ||
| (co-)author: Jianjun Miao, Boston University | ||
| Session: Stochastic Choice and Experiments on Decision Making | ||
| Sunday 10:15am; Marriott Marquis San Diego, Del Mar Water View; Hosted By: Econometric Society | ||
| Hard-to-Interpret Signals | ||
| (co-)author: Larry Epstein, Boston University | ||
| 6 chairs | ||
| 50 coauthors | ||
| 10 discussants | ||
| 66 appearances |