Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Americas Center and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University
| Friday, December 7, 2012 | |
| 8:25 | Welcome Dr. Daniel Bello, Director, Institute of International Business, J. Mack Robinson College of Business |
| 8:30 | Opening remarks Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 8:45 | Session 1: Banking and Credit |
"Bank-Borrower Relationships and the Transition from Joint-Liability to Individual Liability Loans in Microcredit"  Authors: Sugato Chakravarty, Purdue University, and Abu Zafar M. Shahriar, Monash University Discussant: Anil Rupasingha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| "The Growth Potential from Financial Inclusion" Authors: Govind Hariharan, ICA Institute, and Marcus Marktanner, Kennesaw State University Discussant: Myriam Quispe Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| "Domestic and Foreign Shocks from the Indonesian Stock Market: Time Series Evidence" Authors: Bhayu Purnomo, Georgia State University, and Mark W. Rider, Georgia State University Discussant: Bento Lobo, University of Tennessee |
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| 11:00 | Session 2: Open Economy Dilemmas: Capital Flows, Fiscal Policy, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade |
| "To Remit, or Not to Remit: That Is the Question. A Remittance Field Experiment" Authors: Maximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College Discussant: Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| "Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate" Authors: Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia, and Azer Mursagulov, International Monetary Fund Discussant: Tanya Moldtsova, Emory University |
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| "Supply Chain Uncertainty as a Trade Barrier" Authors: Don Clark, University of Tennessee, Valentina Kozlova, University of Tennessee, and George Schaur, University of Tennessee Discussant: Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 2:00 | Session 3: The Political Economy of Government |
| "Debt and Taxes: Financing Productive Government Expenditures" Authors: Tamoya A.L. Christie, University of the West Indies, and Felix Rioja, Georgia State University Discussant: Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| "Armed Conflict, Household Victimization, and Child Health in Cote d’Ivoire" Authors: Camelia Minoiu, International Monetary Fund, and Olga N. Shemyakina, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant: Sally Wallace, Georgia State University |
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| "Governmental Investments in Primary Education and Children's Achievements in India" Authors: Solveig A. Cunningham, Emory University, Kathryn M. Yount, Emory University, and Nafisa Halim, Boston University Discussant: Musharraf Cyna, Georgia State University |
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| 4:00 | Closing remarks Penelope Prime, Georgia State University, and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
