Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Americas Center and the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University
| Friday, December 3, 2010 | |
| 8:25 a.m. | Opening Remarks Stephen Kay, Americas Centers Coordinator, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 8:30 | Session 1: Labor Markets, Human Capital, and Economic Development |
| Ethnic Wage Gaps in Segmented Labor Markets Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Georgia State University Discussant: Julie Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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Labor Market, Education, and Armed Conflict in Tajikistan  Olga Shemyakina, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant: Len Carlson, Emory University |
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| Migration and Human Capital Development in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan [Presentation] Kathryn Anderson, Vanderbilt University, and Bakhraom Mirkasimov, DIW Berlin Discussant: Haizheng Li, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Session 2: The Political Economy of Government Distortion and Extortion |
The Distributional Consequences of Government Spending  [Presentation] Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia, and Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington Discussant: Felix Rioja, Georgia State University [Presentation] |
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| Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization [Presentation] Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University and Caleb Stroup, Vanderbilt University Discussant: Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology [Presentation] |
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| Tax Avoidance, Tax Preference, and Re-imports: The Case of "Redundant" Trade Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University Discussant: Patricia Schneider, Agnes Scott College |
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| 12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Session 3: The Economics of Kinship: Remittances, Lending, and Conflict |
| Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Constraints of the Open-Economy Trilemma Peter Hull, FRB New York, and Masami Imai, Wesleyan University Discussant: Tetsuya Saito, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo [Presentation] |
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| Relationship Lending in Microcredit: Evidence from Bangladesh [Presentation] Sugato Chakravarty, Purdue University, and Abu Zafar Shahriar, Purdue University Discussant: Waldery Rodrigues Junior, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Brazil) |
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| Can Remittances Spur Economic Growth and Development? Bichaka Fayissa, Middle Tennessee State University, and Christian Nsiah, Black Hills State University Discussant: Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta [Presentation] |
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| 4:00 | Closing Remarks Penelope Prime, Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University, and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. |
