CEA Conference Program Scheduler

CEA 41st Annual Meetings
Friday, June 1 - Sunday, June 3, 2007
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Novia Scotia
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
List of Sessions by Field of Specialization
Current as of Thursday, May 31, 2007 - Please watch for updates.
Programme is updated once a day at 20:30 PDT.

B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches

Sat 14:00-15:30 PEF IV: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economic Issues

Sat 16:00-17:30 PEF V: The State and Economy

C0 - Econometrics

Fri 08:30-10:00 CESG I: Testing

Fri 08:30-10:00 Bayesian Estimation and Kalman Filtering

Fri 10:30-12:00 CESG II: Econometrics

Fri 10:30-12:00 Testing Hypotheses

Fri 14:00-15:30 CESG III: Theory

Sat 10:30-12:00 Financial Econometrics

Sat 14:00-15:30 Estimation Theory I

Sat 16:00-17:30 Estimation Theory II

C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory

Fri 16:00-17:30 Applications of Game Theory I

Sat 14:00-15:30 Applications of Game Theory II

Sun 08:30-10:00 Economic Theory II: Cheap Talk

D0 - Microeconomics

Fri 10:30-12:00 Applications of Decision Theory

Fri 14:00-15:30 Microeconomics Theory I

Fri 14:00-15:30 Economic Theory I: Political Economy

Fri 14:00-15:30 Learning Games I

Fri 16:00-17:30 Learning Games II

Sat 14:00-15:30 Advances in Microeconomic Theory

D8 - Information and Uncertainty

Sat 08:30-10:00 Information and Communications Technology

E0 - Macroeconomics, Business Cycles

Fri 08:30-10:00 Macroeconometrics

Fri 10:30-12:00 Issues on Monetary Policy

Fri 10:30-12:00 Macroeconomic Labour Markets

Fri 14:00-15:30 Canadian Business Cycles

Fri 14:00-15:30 CMSG 1: Search Models of Money

Fri 16:00-17:30 Evidence on Price Adjustments

Fri 16:00-17:30 CMSG II: Inflation and Indexation

Sat 08:30-10:00 CMSG III: Exchange Rates

Sat 10:30-12:00 Issues in Business Cycles I

Sat 10:30-12:00 CMSG IV: Default and Credit Markets

Sat 10:30-12:00 CGE, Risk and Macroeconomics

Sat 14:00-15:30 Issues in Business Cycles II

Sat 16:00-17:30 Investments and Business Cycles I

Sat 16:00-17:30 CMSG V: Business Cycles

Sun 08:30-10:00 Investments and Business Cycles II

Sun 08:30-10:00 CMSG VI: Topics in International Macroeconomics

Sun 10:30-12:00 Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies

Sun 10:30-11:45 CMSG VII: Macro-Labour

E3 - Monetary Economics, Central Banking

Fri 10:30-11:00 Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy

Sat 14:00-15:30 Bank of Canada: New Developments In Monetary Policy Design

Sat 16:00-17:30 How to Talk to the Media

Sun 08:30-10:00 IDRM: Defense Economics

Sun 10:30-12:00 PEF: Inaugural John Kenneth Galbraith Lecture

Sun 10:30-12:00 IMF Surveillance Reform

F1 - International Trade and Investment

Fri 10:30-12:00 Foreign Direct Investment I

Fri 16:00-17:30 Foreign Direct Investment II

Sat 08:30-10:00 Gift Giving

Sat 08:30-10:00 Gravity Models

Sat 10:30-12:00 Theory and Application of Global Economy Model (GEM)

Sat 10:30-12:00 Trade and Heterogeneous Firms

Sat 10:30-12:00 Free Trade Agreements: Theory

Sat 14:00-15:30 Trade Cost and Integration

Sat 14:00-15:30 Volatility and Trade

Sun 08:30-10:00 International Finance I

F3 - International Finance, Exchange Rates

Fri 14:00-15:30 Empirics of Exchange Rates and Soft Budget Constraints

Sun 08:30-10:00 Canada in the North American Economy

Sun 10:30-12:00 International Finance II

G0 - Financial Economics

Fri 10:30-12:00 Theoretical Finance II

Fri 14:00-15:30 Empirical Finance I

Fri 16:00-17:30 Empirical Finance II

Fri 16:00-17:30 Topics in Empirical Finance

Sat 08:30-10:00 Empirical Finance III

Sat 10:30-12:00 Empirical Finance IV

Sat 14:00-15:30 Empirical Finance V

Sat 16:00-17:30 Empirical Urban Economics

H0 - Public Economics, Taxation, Fiscal Policy

Thu 08:30-11:00 CPEG I: Political Economy

Thu 16:00-17:30 CPEG III: Empirical Analysis of Taxation

Fri 08:30-10:00 PEF I: Taxation and Social Democracy

Fri 08:30-10:00 Determinants of Fiscal Policies

Fri 08:30-10:00 CPEG IV: Redistributive Policy

Fri 10:30-12:00 CPEG V: Health and Education

Fri 14:00-15:30 CPEG VI: Decentralized Decision Making

Fri 16:00-17:30 Political Economy

Fri 16:00-17:30 CPEG VII: Volatility and Uncertainty

Sat 08:30-10:00 CDH: Retirement and Pensions

Sat 08:30-10:00 Taxation Theory

Sat 16:00-17:30 Intertemporal Public Economics

Sun 08:30-10:00 Theoretical Political Economy I

I1 - Health Economics

Fri 08:30-10:00 Consumption, Addiction, and Health

Fri 08:30-10:00 Empirical Health, Labour and Housing

Fri 10:30-12:00 Health Economics I

Sat 10:30-12:00 Measurement Issues in Health Economics

Sat 16:00-17:30 Health Economics II

Sun 10:30-12:00 Health Economics IV

I2 - Education Economics

Fri 14:00-15:30 HRSDC I: Pathways to Post-Secondary Education

Fri 16:00-17:30 SRDC II: Promoting Access to Post-Secondary Education

Sat 08:30-10:00 Education and Training

Sat 16:00-17:30 HRSDC II: Issues of Literacy Among Canadians

Sun 08:30-10:00 MESA/CMSF I: Family Background and Access to PSE

Sun 10:30-12:00 MESA/CMSF II: PSE Persistence

I3 - Economics of Welfare and Poverty

Fri 14:00-15:30 Estimation of Household Preferences

Fri 16:00-17:30 Investments in Children in Developing Countries

Fri 16:00-17:30 Alleviating Poverty I

Sat 08:30-10:00 Poverty Indices

Sat 08:30-10:00 Theoretical Family Economics

Sat 10:30-12:00 PEP/CDSG I: Poverty and Economic Policy I

Sat 10:30-12:00 Investments in Children I

Sat 14:00-15:30 Investments in Children II

Sat 16:00-17:30 Alleviating Poverty II

Sun 08:30-10:00 PEF VI: Inequality

Sun 10:30-12:00 Empirical Family Economics

J0 - Labor Economics

Thu 08:20-08:30 CERF Welcome

Thu 08:30-10:00 CERF I: Changes in Time Use and Time Stress

Thu 10:30-12:00 CERF II: Employment Consequences of Care-Giving

Thu 14:00-15:30 CERF III: Gender, Motherhood and Earnings

Thu 16:00-17:30 CERF IV: Workplace Practices Employment Outcomes

Fri 08:30-10:00 CWEN I: Gender and Work Issues Outside Canada

Fri 08:30-10:00 Theoretical Labour Economics

Fri 08:30-10:00 CERF V: The Family Context of Labour Market Decisions

Fri 10:30-12:00 CWEN II: Women, Know Your Place! A Girl's Guide to Being an Economist

Fri 10:30-12:00 Schooling Attainment in Canada

Fri 10:30-12:00 CERF VI: Workplaces and Well-Being

Fri 14:00-15:30 SRDC I: Job Strategies for the Unemployed

Fri 14:00-15:30 Empirical Labour Market Dynamics

Fri 16:00-17:30 Trade and Labour

Sat 08:30-10:00 Learning About Wage Setting Behaviour Through Surveys

Sat 08:30-10:00 Labour Supply

Sat 08:30-10:00 Urban Labour Markets

Sat 10:30-12:00 Issues In Empirical Labour Economics

Sat 16:00-17:30 Canadian Labour Markets

Sun 08:30-10:00 Immigration, Trade and the Labour Market

Sun 10:30-12:00 Time Use in Canada

Sun 10:30-12:00 Productivity Studies

K0 - Law and Economics

Sat 16:00-17:30 Litigation and Economics

Sat 16:00-17:30 Economics of Crime

L0 - Industrial Organization

Fri 08:30-10:00 Industry Canada I: Competition Intensity

Fri 08:30-10:00 Oligopoly

Fri 08:30-10:00 Information and Competition

Fri 10:30-12:00 Oligopoly Theory

Fri 14:00-15:30 Empirical Industrial Organization I

Sat 08:30-10:00 Monopoly and Duopoly

Sat 10:30-12:00 Technology Diffusion

Sat 10:30-12:00 Incentives in Industrial Organization

Sun 08:30-10:00 CSGB: Industrial Organization Theory

Sun 08:30-10:00 Economics and Politics of International Organization

Sun 10:30-12:00 Search and Networks in Industrial Organization

N0 - Economic History

Fri 16:00-17:30 CNEH I: Wealth and Inequality in Economic History

Sat 14:00-15:30 CNEH II: Canadian Economic History

Sat 16:00-17:30 CNEH III: U.S and International Economic History

Sun 10:30-12:00 CNEH IV: Marriage and Feasting

O1 - Development Economics

Fri 10:30-12:00 Development and China

Fri 14:00-15:30 CDSG I: Health and Education in Development

Sat 10:30-12:00 PEF III: Topics in Emerging Markets

Sat 14:00-15:30 CDSG II: Institutions, Growth and Poverty

Sat 16:00-17:30 CDSG III: Topics In Development

O3 - Technological Change, Productivity

Sat 14:00-15:30 Productivity

Sun 08:30-10:00 Innovation and Technology Spillovers

Sun 08:30-10:00 Investment, Research and Development

Sun 10:30-12:00 Innovation: Theory

O4 - Economic Growth

Fri 08:30-10:00 Economic Growth: Theory and Measurement

Fri 14:00-15:30 Development Theory

Q3 - Environmental Economics

Fri 08:30-10:00 Trade and the Environment

Fri 10:30-12:00 CREE I: Resources and Sustainability

Fri 14:00-15:30 CREE II: Environment and Industrial Organization

Fri 16:00-17:30 CREE III: Environmental and Political Economy

Sat 08:30-10:00 Issues on Commodity Prices

Sat 10:30-12:00 Social Norms and the Tragedy of the Commons

Sat 14:00-15:30 Trade and Environment

Sat 16:00-17:30 Resource Economics

Sun 08:30-10:00 Regulating Environment

Sun 10:30-12:00 Topics in Environmental Economics

R0 - Urban and Spatial Economics

Fri 10:30-12:00 PEF II: Prospects for the Atlantic Regional Economy

Sat 08:30-10:00 Urban Growth

Sat 14:00-15:30 Housing Economics

B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	PEF IV: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Economic Issues
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	PEF V: The State and Economy

C0 - Econometrics
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	CESG I: Testing
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Bayesian Estimation and Kalman Filtering
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	CESG II: Econometrics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Testing Hypotheses
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	CESG III: Theory
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Financial Econometrics
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Estimation Theory I
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Estimation Theory II

C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Applications of Game Theory I
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Applications of Game Theory II
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Economic Theory II: Cheap Talk

D0 - Microeconomics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Applications of Decision Theory
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Microeconomics Theory I
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Economic Theory I: Political Economy
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Learning Games I
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Learning Games II
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Advances in Microeconomic Theory

E0 - Macroeconomics, Business Cycles
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Macroeconometrics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Issues on Monetary Policy
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Macroeconomic Labour Markets
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Canadian Business Cycles
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	CMSG 1: Search Models of Money
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Evidence on Price Adjustments
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	CMSG II: Inflation and Indexation
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	CMSG III: Exchange Rates
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Issues in Business Cycles I
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	CMSG IV: Default and Credit Markets
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	CGE, Risk and Macroeconomics
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Issues in Business Cycles II
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Investments and Business Cycles I
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	CMSG V: Business Cycles
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Investments and Business Cycles II
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	CMSG VI: Topics in International Macroeconomics
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies
`Sun 10:30-11:45`	CMSG VII: Macro-Labour

E3 - Monetary Economics, Central Banking
`Fri 10:30-11:00`	Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Bank of Canada: New Developments In Monetary Policy Design
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	How to Talk to the Media
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	IDRM: Defense Economics
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	PEF: Inaugural John Kenneth Galbraith Lecture
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	IMF Surveillance Reform

F1 - International Trade and Investment
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Foreign Direct Investment I
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Foreign Direct Investment II
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Gift Giving
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Gravity Models
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Theory and Application of Global Economy Model (GEM)
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Trade and Heterogeneous Firms
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Free Trade Agreements: Theory
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Trade Cost and Integration
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Volatility and Trade
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	International Finance I

F3 - International Finance, Exchange Rates
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Empirics of Exchange Rates and Soft Budget Constraints
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Canada in the North American Economy
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	International Finance II

G0 - Financial Economics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Theoretical Finance II
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Empirical Finance I
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Empirical Finance II
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Topics in Empirical Finance
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Empirical Finance III
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Empirical Finance IV
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Empirical Finance V
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Empirical Urban Economics

H0 - Public Economics, Taxation, Fiscal Policy
`Thu 08:30-11:00`	CPEG I: Political Economy
`Thu 16:00-17:30`	CPEG III: Empirical Analysis of Taxation
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	PEF I: Taxation and Social Democracy
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Determinants of Fiscal Policies
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	CPEG IV: Redistributive Policy
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	CPEG V: Health and Education
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	CPEG VI: Decentralized Decision Making
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Political Economy
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	CPEG VII: Volatility and Uncertainty
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	CDH: Retirement and Pensions
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Taxation Theory
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Intertemporal Public Economics
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Theoretical Political Economy I

I1 - Health Economics
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Consumption, Addiction, and Health
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Empirical Health, Labour and Housing
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Health Economics I
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Measurement Issues in Health Economics
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Health Economics II
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Health Economics IV

I2 - Education Economics
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	HRSDC I: Pathways to Post-Secondary Education
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	SRDC II: Promoting Access to Post-Secondary Education
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Education and Training
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	HRSDC II: Issues of Literacy Among Canadians
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	MESA/CMSF I: Family Background and Access to PSE
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	MESA/CMSF II: PSE Persistence

I3 - Economics of Welfare and Poverty
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Estimation of Household Preferences
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Investments in Children in Developing Countries
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Alleviating Poverty I
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Poverty Indices
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Theoretical Family Economics
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	PEP/CDSG I: Poverty and Economic Policy I
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Investments in Children I
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Investments in Children II
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Alleviating Poverty II
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	PEF VI: Inequality
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Empirical Family Economics

J0 - Labor Economics
`Thu 08:20-08:30`	CERF Welcome
`Thu 08:30-10:00`	CERF I: Changes in Time Use and Time Stress
`Thu 10:30-12:00`	CERF II: Employment Consequences of Care-Giving
`Thu 14:00-15:30`	CERF III: Gender, Motherhood and Earnings
`Thu 16:00-17:30`	CERF IV: Workplace Practices Employment Outcomes
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	CWEN I: Gender and Work Issues Outside Canada
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Theoretical Labour Economics
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	CERF V: The Family Context of Labour Market Decisions
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	CWEN II: Women, Know Your Place! A Girl's Guide to Being an Economist
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Schooling Attainment in Canada
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	CERF VI: Workplaces and Well-Being
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	SRDC I: Job Strategies for the Unemployed
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Empirical Labour Market Dynamics
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	Trade and Labour
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Learning About Wage Setting Behaviour Through Surveys
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Labour Supply
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Urban Labour Markets
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Issues In Empirical Labour Economics
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Canadian Labour Markets
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Immigration, Trade and the Labour Market
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Time Use in Canada
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Productivity Studies

K0 - Law and Economics
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Litigation and Economics
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Economics of Crime

L0 - Industrial Organization
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Industry Canada I: Competition Intensity
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Oligopoly
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Information and Competition
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Oligopoly Theory
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Empirical Industrial Organization I
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Monopoly and Duopoly
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Technology Diffusion
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Incentives in Industrial Organization
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	CSGB: Industrial Organization Theory
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Economics and Politics of International Organization
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Search and Networks in Industrial Organization

N0 - Economic History
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	CNEH I: Wealth and Inequality in Economic History
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	CNEH II: Canadian Economic History
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	CNEH III: U.S and International Economic History
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	CNEH IV: Marriage and Feasting

O1 - Development Economics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	Development and China
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	CDSG I: Health and Education in Development
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	PEF III: Topics in Emerging Markets
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	CDSG II: Institutions, Growth and Poverty
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	CDSG III: Topics In Development

O3 - Technological Change, Productivity
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Productivity
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Innovation and Technology Spillovers
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Investment, Research and Development
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Innovation: Theory

O4 - Economic Growth
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Economic Growth: Theory and Measurement
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	Development Theory

Q3 - Environmental Economics
`Fri 08:30-10:00`	Trade and the Environment
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	CREE I: Resources and Sustainability
`Fri 14:00-15:30`	CREE II: Environment and Industrial Organization
`Fri 16:00-17:30`	CREE III: Environmental and Political Economy
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Issues on Commodity Prices
`Sat 10:30-12:00`	Social Norms and the Tragedy of the Commons
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Trade and Environment
`Sat 16:00-17:30`	Resource Economics
`Sun 08:30-10:00`	Regulating Environment
`Sun 10:30-12:00`	Topics in Environmental Economics

R0 - Urban and Spatial Economics
`Fri 10:30-12:00`	PEF II: Prospects for the Atlantic Regional Economy
`Sat 08:30-10:00`	Urban Growth
`Sat 14:00-15:30`	Housing Economics