Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

2009 Third Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop - Agenda & Papers

Friday, December 4, 2009
7:30 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast
8:00	Opening Remarks Stephen Kay, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
8:15	First Session: Health Economics Price of the Hippocratic Oath: An Empirical Investigation of Bribery in the Russian Healthcare Sector (282 KB) Klara Sabirianova Peter, Georgia State University Tetyana Zelenska, Georgia State University Discussant Gregory Brock, Georgia Southern University Female-Headed Households and Poverty: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (190 KB) Ramaprasad Rajaram, University of Georgia Discussant Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India (160 KB) Divya Balasubramaniam, University of Georgia Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia David Mustard, University of Georgia Discussant Olga Shemyakina, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:00	Coffee Break
10:15	Second Session: Education, Endowments, and Emigration Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play? (818 KB) Naihobe Gonzalez, Georgia Institute of Technology Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant Andres Jauregui, Columbus State University Resource Curse or Malthusian Trap? Evidence from Oil Discoveries and Extractions (581 KB) Anca M. Cotet, Ball State University Kevin K. Tsui, Clemson University Discussant Ebenezer Kolajo, University of West Georgia Another Partition? Perceptions of Uncertainty and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia 1999-2007 (296 KB) Galina An, Kenyon College Charles M. Becker, Duke University Discussant Kathryn Anderson, Vanderbilt University
Noon	Lunch

1:00 p.m.	Third Session: Trade and Factor Returns Cross-Country Variation in Factor Shares and Its Implications for Development Accounting (342 KB) Brad Sturgill, Appalachian State University Discussant Mark Rider, Georgia State University Firm Heterogeneity, Trade Liberalization, and Duration of Trade and Production: The Case of India (157 KB) Tibor Besedeš, Georgia Institute of Technology Usha Nair-Reichert, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Foreign Firms, Trade Liberalization, and Resource Allocation (366 KB) Joel Rodrigue, Vanderbilt University Discussant Vivian Kirby, Kennesaw State University
3:15	Coffee Break
3:30	Fourth Session: Financing Economic Growth Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia Paola Giulianoz, University of California-Los Angeles Ilker Kaya, University of Georgia Discussant Luc Noiset, Kennesaw State University Does Non-Interest Income Impact Bank Return and Risk in Emerging Markets? The Case of India Anita Pennathur, Florida Atlantic University Vijaya Subrahmanyam, Mercer University Sharmila Vishwasrao, Florida Atlantic University Discussant Bento Lobo, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Stock Markets, Banks, and the Sources of Economic Growth (245 KB) Felix Rioja, Georgia State University Neven Valev, Georgia State University Discussant Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
5:00	Closing Remarks Penelope Prime, Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University