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Conference Agenda

08:00 am – 09:00 am Registration and Refreshments Marvin 407

09:00 am – 09:15 am Opening Remarks Marvin 403

● Professor Sumit Joshi, Chair of Department of Economics, George Washington University

● Alicia (Huong) Dang, President of GW Student Association for Graduate Economists (SAGE)

09:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION I

PANEL 1A: Labor and Food Security Chair: Abhilasha Sahay (and Aaditya Dar as coordinator)

Marvin 403

● Patrick Kanza, Oklahoma State University “Spending in Agricultural Research and Development (R&D) and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”

● Noemi Oggero, George Washington University

“Debt and Financial Vulnerability on the Verge of Retirement” ● Shaiza Qayyum, Johns Hopkins University

“Investment in Children, Private Schooling and Maternal Labor Supply over the Life Cycle”

PANEL 1B: International Economics Chair: Phoebe Zhang

Marvin 405

● Pingyu He, University of Virginia “Trade Liberalization, Import Prices and Export Quality”

● Sarp Yanki Kalfa, Johns Hopkins University

“Exchange Rate Forecasting with PPP and Random Walk” ● Xiaohui (Sharon) Wu, George Washington University

“The Nonlinear Capital Flow Dynamics”

PANEL 1C: Real Estate Finance Chairs: Tian Luan and Hannah Liu

Marvin 402

● Daniel Garcia, John Hopkins University “Declines in Mortgage Supply and Employment in the Great Recession”

● Tian Luan, George Washington University

“Did Investors Price Regional Housing Bubbles? A Tale of Two Markets”

1st GW Student Research Conference in Economics

Marvin Center, 800 21st St. NW Washington, DC 20052

April 15, 2017

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11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break Marvin 407

11:30 am – 1:00 pm SESSION II

PANEL 2A: Micro-econometrics Chairs: Amjad Khan and Hani Kawar

Marvin 403

● Andrew Brudevold-Newman, University of Maryland “The Impacts of Free Secondary Education: Evidence from Kenya”

● Kyung Min Lee, George Mason University

“The Employment Impact of Employer Insurance Mandate: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform”

● Ameesh Upadhyay, American University

“Labor Supply Effects of the District of Columbia Earned Income Tax Credit

PANEL 2B: Credit Supply and Volatility in Business Cycle Coordinator: Eiji Goto, Chair: Rafael López-Monti

Marvin 405

● Robin Döttling, New York University (University of Amsterdam) "Bank Risk Taking and Capital Regulation at the Zero Lower Bound"

● Rafael M. López-Monti, George Washington University

"The Welfare Cost of Real Volatility: A Comparative Analysis" ● Givi Melkadze, Georgetown University

“Aggregate Volatility and Current Account Dynamics: Credit Supply Matters”

PANEL 2C: Housing Market Dynamics Chairs: Tian Luan and Hannah Liu

Marvin 402

● Amira Alghumgham, Howard University “Are Economic Development Projects Tipping Points?”

● Trenton (Chen) Jin, George Washington University

“Minority Voters and Capital Gains - The 1995 to 2001 Enacting District of Columbia Financial Control Board as an Experiment”

01:00 pm – 02:00 pm Lunch Marvin 407

02:00 pm – 03:00 pm SESSION III

PANEL 3A: Real Estate and Credit Policy Chair: Qiang Zheng

Marvin 403

● Lei Ge, Georgetown University “Executive Compensation and the Risk-Taking Channel of Credit Policies.”

● David Zarruk Valencia, University of Pennsylvania

“Wall Street or Main Street: Who to Bail Out? The Foreclosure Externality and Information Frictions”

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PANEL 3B: Sovereign Default Chair: Constantin Bürgi

Marvin 405

● Chang Ma, Johns Hopkins University “Macro-hedging and Sovereign Default for Commodity Exporters”

● Eugenio Rojas, University of Pennsylvania

“Understanding Sovereign Default Cost: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity”

PANEL 3C: Theoretical Game Theory and Industrial Organization Chairs: Amjad Khan and Hani Kawar

Marvin 402

● Mikhail Freer, George Mason University “On Generalized Nash Realization of Collective Choice Function”

● JiaLiang Zhu, George Washington University

“Should Every Stick Be Followed by a Carrot? A Study of Restaurant Hygiene Regulation in New York City”

03:00 pm – 03:30 pm Coffee Break Marvin 407

03:30 pm – 04:30 pm SESSION IV

PANEL 4A: Theoretical and Quantitative Modeling Chairs: Amjad Khan and Hani Kawar

Marvin 403

● Hong Lin, University of Maryland “Firm as a Self-Commitment Device: Adverse Selection of Hyperbolic Discounting Workers in Workplaces”

● Dario Sansone, Georgetown University

“Now You See Me: High School Dropout and Machine Learning”

PANEL 4B: Household and Firm Dynamics in Business Cycle Chair: Alicia Dang

Marvin 405

● Diyue Guo, University of Maryland, "Multi-Product Firms and the Business Cycle"

● Kersten Stamm, Georgetown University

“Household Dynamics and Sluggish Inflation: Segmented Asset Markets, Money Demand and Prices”

04:30 pm – 04:45 pm Closing Remarks Marvin 403

● SAGE representative

Organizing Committee:

Alicia (Huong) Dang Constantin Bürgi Aaditya Dar Eiji Goto Hani Kawar Amjad Khan

Hannah (Han) Liu Tian Luan Abhilasha Sahay Lifei (Phoebe) Zhang Qiang Zheng