Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Colleges

CBB Annual Economics Conference

 

1^st Annual Colby-Bates-Bowdoin (CBB) Economics Conference

 

Program

 

Saturday, April 10^th, 2010

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8:00 AM  Conference Registration

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8:00 – 8:30  Breakfast Buffet

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8:30 – 9:30 Presentation 1: Spatial Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in US States

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Daniel Riera-Crichton (Bates College)

 

Presenter: Andreas Waldkirch (Colby College)

 

Discussant: Yao Tang (Bowdoin College)

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9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break

 

10:00- 11 Presentation 2:  Participation of Firms in Voluntary Environmental Protection Programs: An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Market Performance

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Stephen Meardon (Bowdoin College)

 

Presenter: Fei Yu (Colby College)

 

Discussant: Carl Schiwnn (Bates College)

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11:00 – 12:00 Presentation 3: First- and second-best regulation of a diffusive open-access renewable resource 

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Guillermo Vuletin (Colby College)

 

Presenter: Guillermo Herrera (Bowdoin College)

 

Discussant: Michael Murray (Bates College)

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12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break and Student Poster Presentation

 

Room: Keck Auditorium

 

List of  Presenters:

 

Benjamin Shasha (Bates College),                     Roberto Nolivos (Colby College),

Joe Cauteruccio (Bates College),                        Mert Karakus (Bates College),

Sarah Richards (Bowdoin College),                   Nicholas Van Niel (Colby College),

Robert Knipp (Colby College),                           Robin Daley (Colby College)

 

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14:00 – 15:00 Presentation 4: Positional Spending and Status Seeking in Rural China

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Nathan Tefft (Bates College)

 

Presenter: Phil Brown (Colby College)

 

 

  

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

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15:30 – 16:30 Presentation 5: Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Cycle Between 2000 and 2009

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Guillermo Vuletin (ColbyCollege)

 

Presenter: Yao Tang (Bowdoin College)

 

Discussant: Daniel Riera-Crichton (Bates College)

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16:30 – 17:30 Presentation 6: Periodic Returns and Their arithmetic mean offer more than researchers expect

 

Room: Pettingill G65

 

Moderator: Daniel Riera-Crichton (Bates College)

 

Presenter: Carl Schwinn (Bates College)

 

Discussant: TBA

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18:00 Faculty Dinner at New Commons, room 221

 

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