A breakdown of the West Indies Economic Conference
THE DEPARTMENT of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona will once again host its annual economic conference—West Indian Economic Conference (WECON) — at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters on Thursday from 8:30 am through to 5:00 pm, and Friday 8:30 am to 1:30 pm.
The event will commence with welcoming remarks from our head of department, Professor David Tennant, and our Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Ian Boxill.
Several local and international economists will present cuttingedge research papers and research ideas on a wide range of topics relevant to modern issues.
PANEL 1: Firm Dynamics & Market Struc tures (11:0012:30).
Shengnan Fang will present a paper on ‘An Empirical Test of Market Power in Dairy Industry: The Case of Dean Foods and Foremost Farms USA’.
Phillip Gayle will present on ‘Measuring Merger Cost Effects: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Econometric Model’.
Yin Lin will present on ‘Cost Pass-Through in Commercial Aviation’.
Adeel Faheem will present on ‘Mergers, Competitive Conduct, and Ver tical Relationships between Firms: Evidence from US Beer Industry’.
PANEL 2: Finance/Monetary I (11:00-12:30).
Jan Keil will present a paper on ‘The Value of Lending Relationships When Creditors are in Control’.
Durronjae Boothe will present on ‘Remittances and Economic Growth in Floating and Fixed Exchange Rate Economies: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean’.
Mehmet Orhan will present on ‘Testing the Validity of the Lucas Critique around the Global Financial Crisis’.
Nlandu Mamingi will present on ‘ The I mpact of Banking Deregulation on the Banking System: Exploring the facts for Barbados’.
PANEL 3: Econometrics (1:30 - 3:00).
Nadine McCloud will present on ‘Calculating Degrees of Freedom in Multivariate Local Polynomial Regression’.
Jeffery Racine will present on ‘Bootstrap Model Averaging Unit Root Inference’.
Daniel Henderson will present on ‘Nonparametric Multi- dimensional Fixed Effects Panel Data Models’.
Deniz Ozabaci will present on ‘Additive Nonparametric Sample Selection Models with Endogeneity’.
PANEL 4: Government, Governance & Taxation (1:303:00).
Kevin Williams will present on ‘ Workers’ Remittances and Government Size’.
Oronde Small will present on ‘The Effect of Public Goods Messaging on Personal Income Tax Compliance among the SelfEmployed: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Jamaica’.
Richard Bernal will present on ‘Brexit: Caribbean Amicus Curia Brief ’.
Coffee Break: 3:00-3:10.
PANEL 5: Resource & Environment I (3:15-4:45).
Nlandu Mamingi will present on ‘Assessing the Total Economic Value of Barbados Welchman Hall Gully’.
Nekeisha Spencer will present on ‘Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier? Hurricanes and Production Efficiency’.
Alrick Campbell will present on ‘Effects of Oil Price and Global Demand Shocks on Small Island Developing States’.
Eric Strobl will present on ‘Biodiversity and Economic Land Use’
Gary Lyn will present on ‘Climate Change, International Trade and Factor Reallocation’.
THE FIRST DAY WILL CLOSE WITH PANEL 6: Health, Labour & Education I (3:15 - 4:45)
Micheal Delgado will present on “Socioeconomic Heterogeneity of Racial Income and Mobility Gaps in the United States” Patrice Whitely on “The Economic Cost of Hypertension Among the Elderly in Jamaica”.
Tennecia Dacass, will present on ‘Intergenerational Effects of Mass Incarceration’.
Nicholas Wright will present on ‘ Per form Better, or Else: Academic Probation, Public Praise and Students DecisionMaking’.
DAY 2: MARCH 9, 2018 will be just as relevant.
PANEL 7: Special Econometrics (8:30-10:00)
Arthur Lewbel, Professor of Economics, Boston College will present on ‘Keeping Up With Peers in India: A New Social Interactions Model of Perceived Needs’.
Shakeeb Khan, Professor of Economics, Duke University, will present on ‘Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects in Weakly Separable Models’.
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