2017 ASA/ASSA Annual Meeting

The American Economic Association (AEA), in conjunction with 56 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA), is scheduled to hold it’s three-day annual meeting in Chicago on January 6-8, 2017, headquartered at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

The Department of Economics is jointly sponsoring a Reception with the Yale School of Management at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on Friday, January 6, 2017 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm in the Crystal C Ballroom. A presidential reception in honor of out-going president Robert Shiller will also be held from 8:00pm - 9:00pm in the Monarch Suite. All Yale faculty, students, and alumni are welcome!

Yale will be well represented at the conference with more than 50 faculty members and graduate students taking part as presenters, discussants, panelists, or program chairs (see listed below). The full preliminary program can be found here.

Antonio Alonso Arechar, David Rand, and Michael Stagnaro, AEA poster session, “From Good Institutions to Good Norms: Top-Down Incentives to Cooperate Foster Prosociality but Not Norm Enforcement”
Valentina Assenova, AEA poster session, “Variance-Based Competition and Resource Concentration in Markets”
Dirk Bergemann, co-presenter, New Directions for Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence, “The Limits of Price Discrimination With Non-Linear Demand”
Dirk Bergemann, co-presenter, Dynamic Mechanism Design, “Dynamic Mechanism Design With Unknown Arrival”
Dirk Bergemann, discussant, Platform Competition and Market Design, “What Drives Price Dispersion and Market Fragmentation Across United States Stock Exchanges?”
Lorenzo Caliendo, co-presenter, Organizations, Trade, and Productivity, ”Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms”
Stefano Carattini, presenter, Economics of Climate Change, “Trust and CO2 Emissions: Cooperation on a Global Scale”
Stefano Carattini, presenter, Economics of Climate Change, “Is Taxing Waste a Waste of Time? Evidence From a Supreme Court Decision”
Xi Chen, co-presenter, Impact of In Utero Exposure to Natural Shocks on Human Capital Formation, “The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Temperature on Birth Outcomes: The Case of China”
James Choi, discussant, Risk-Taking Incentives and Risk Perceptions, “How Risk Simulations Improve Long-Term Investment Decisions”
Florian Ederer, discussant, Behavioral Economics of Investor Decision-Making, “Investing in Managerial Honesty”
Florian Ederer, co-presenter, Common Ownership, “Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives”
Federico Esposito, presenter, International Trade, “Risk Diversification and International Trade”
Benjamin Friedrich, co-presenter, Health Policy in 2017 and Beyond, “Parental Leave Programs, Nurse Shortages, and Patient Health Corresponding”
Wayne Gao, presenter, Games and Markets, “Local Risk-Sharing Agreements”
Kenneth Gillingham, panel discussion, “What Drives Energy Transitions? Environment, Innovation and Scale”
Kenneth Gillingham, discussant, Behavioral Considerations in Environmental Economics, “Air Pollution and Investor Behavior: Evidence From S&P 500 Returns”
Sebastian Heise, AEA poster session, “Firm-to-Firm Relationships and Price Rigidity: Theory and Evidence”
Tibor Alejandro Heumann, presenter, Dynamic Mechanism Design, “Ascending Auctions in Informationally Rich Environments”
Dan Kahan, presenter, Understanding Moral Repugnance in Markets, “Disgust-Motivated Cognition of Costs and Benefits”
Lisa Kahn, co-presenter, Firms And Wages, “Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Demands”
Lisa Kahn, discussant, Firms And Wages, “Ranking Firms by Revealed Preference”
Namrata Kala, co-presenter, Development and Mental Health, “Fetal Origins of Mental Health: Evidence From Africa”
Dean Karlan, panel discussion, Economics and Artificial Intelligence, “Great Ideas for Making the Principles of Economics Relevant”
Dean Karlan, presenter, Evaluating Behavioral Policy Applications Using Administrative Data, “Direct Outreach to Small-Scale Borrowers: A Field Experiment Using USDA Administrative Data”
Daniel Keniston, presenter, Firms and Development, “Productivity and Competition in India’s Brick Industry”
Marissa King, co-presenter, How Public Policies Shape the Organizational Choices of Health Care Providers, “The Role of Experience in Physician Treatment Decisions: Evidence From the Introduction of Medicare Part D”
Amanda Kowalski, Chair, Health Policy in 2017 and Beyond
Sanjeev Kumar, presenter, Health Economics, ”Does Health Influence Risk Preference”
Lorenzo Magnolfi and Camilla Roncoroni, co-presenters, Entry, “Estimation of Discrete Games With Weak Assumptions on Information”
Lorenzo Magnolfi and Camilla Roncoroni, co-presenters, Entry, “Political Connections and Market Structure”
Costas Meghir, discussant, Income Inequality Within and Across Firms, “Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference”
Costas Meghir, discussant, Pension Reform in Chile, “An Innovative Approach to Protecting Lifelong Retirement Income: Chile`s SCOMP Model”
Costas Meghir, co-presenter, Social Insurance and the Family, “Marriage, Social Insurance and Labor Supply”
Mushfiq Mobarak, discussant, Migration and Climate Change: Location Choice in Response to Rapid- and Slow-Onset Climate Events, “Understanding Long-Run United States Migration Patterns Under Climate Change”
Mushfiq Mobarak, discussant, Demand for Water Quality, “The Effects of Information Provision on Avoidance Behavior: Evidence From the Flint, Michigan Drinking Water Crisis”
Corina Mommaerts, presenter, Social Insurance and the Family, “Long-Term Care Insurance and the Family”
Giuseppe Moscarini, co-presenter, Job Change and Earnings Growth, “The Relative Power of Employment-to-Employment Reallocation and Unemployment Exits in Predicting Wage Growth”
Tobias Moskowitz and Tyler Muir, discussants, Liquidity, Frictions and Limits to Arbitrage, “What Drives Liquidity? Identifying Shocks to Market Makers’ Supply of Liquidity and Their Role in Economic Fluctuations”
Tyler Muir, co-presenter, Debt and Crises, “Credit Spreads and the Severity of Financial Crises”
Tyler Muir, co-presenter, High Sharpe Ratios, “Volatility Managed Portfolios”
William Nordhaus, presenter, Economics and Artificial Intelligence, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity?”
Nancy Qian, co-presenter, Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future, “The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900”
John E. Roemer, panelist, International Panel on Social Progress - Discussing Its First Report
Peter Schott, discussant, Organizations, Trade, and Productivity, ”Import Competition, Productivity, and Multi-Product Firms”
Joseph Shapiro and Matthew Kotchen, discussants, Climate Adaptation, “No Adaptation to Climate During One Millennium of Irish History”
Joseph Shapiro, co-presenter, Energy: Industrial Organization and Political Economy, “Optimal Pigouvian Taxation in Concentrated Industries”
Joseph Shapiro, co-presenter, Demand for Water Quality, “The Economics of United States Water Quality Regulation: What We Need to Know and How We Can Learn It”
Robert J. Shiller, presenter, Nobels on Where Is the World Economy Headed?, “Economic Risks Associated With Deep Change in Technology”
Robert J. Shiller, presenter, Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address
Robert J. Shiller, co-presenter, Issues in Mortgage Design, “Automatic Workout Mortgage and Housing Consumption Choice”
Jody Sindelar, chair, Addictions, Disorders and Nutrition: What Shapes the Health of Children and Working-Age Adults?
Aron Tobias, presenter, Dynamic Mechanism Design, “Non-Linear Pricing and Optimal Shipping Policies”
Ebonya Washington, chair, CSMGEP Dissertation Series
E. Glen Weyl, co-presenter, Platform Competition and Market Design, “Insulated Platform Competition”
E. Glen Weyl, co-presenter, New Directions for Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence, “Price Discrimination is Usually Efficient and Egalitarian”
E. Glen Weyl and Paul Solman, panelist, New Content for Introductory Economics
Kevin R. Williams, New Directions for Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence, “Zone Pricing and Strategic Interaction: Evidence From the Retail Home Improvement Industry”