348341 news 1416820768 1475896612 The annual Southern Economic Association conference is taking place in 
Atlanta from November 22 till 24 and a number of SOE faculty are 
presenting their research. A number of our faculty are also serving as 
session chairs and paper discussants.

Tibor Besedes will present two papers, "Antidumping and the Death of 
Trade" and "Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships," 
the latter co-authored with Juan Moreno-Cruz, an SOE faculty member. 
Shatakshee Dhongde will present "Distributional Change, Pro-Poor Growth 
and Convergence: An Application to Non-Income Dimensions." Joseph 
Greene, a PhD student, will present "First Party Content in 
Platform-Based Markets." Erik Johnson is presenting a paper co-authored 
with Emily Galloway, an SOE PhD student, titled "Efficiency Changes and 
Plant Learning from Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Fossil Fuel 
Electricity Generators." Emily is also presenting her paper "The Impact 
of Market Power in the Product Market on Cap-and-Trade Prices: Evidence 
from RECLAIM in Southern California." Byung-Cheol Kim is presenting 
"Less Bang for the Buck? A Natural Experiment in NIH Funding." Levent 
Kutlu is presenting two papers as well, "Public School District 
Inefficiency: Endogenous Cost Frontier Analysis with Panel Data" and 
"Measuring Market Power When Firms Price Discriminate." Juan Moreno-Cruz 
and Erik Johnson will present their joint paper "The Environmental 
Effects of Electricity Congestion." Jiayao Ni will present "Dynamics of 
Patenting and Competition in the Automobile Industry" co-authored with 
Vivek Ghosal, an SOE professor. Matthew Oliver is presenting two papers 
"Option Values and Willingness to Contract Expanded Natural Gas Pipeline 
Capacity" and "Economies of Scale and Scope in Expansion of the U.S. 
Natural Gas Pipeline Network." Olga  Shemyakina is presenting her paper 
"Armed Conflict and the Elderly."

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