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The Microeconomics of New Deal Policy

Price Fishback, Organizer

July 26 and 27, 2012

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – 2^nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 25
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 26
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Shawn Kantor, University of California at Merced and NBER Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
	Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment? Discussant: Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER
9:45 am	Break
9:55 am	Robert Fleck, Clemson University
	The Political Economy of the Distribution of New Deal Funds
	Discussant: Alex Whalley, University of California at Merced
10:40 am	Break
10:50 am	Charles Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER Joseph Mason, Louisiana State University
	The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan’s Banks’ Survival in the 1930s
	Discussant: Eugene White, Rutgers University and NBER
11:35 am	Break
11:45 am	Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California at Irvine and NBER
	Skin in the Game? Leverage, Liability, and the Long-run Consequences of the New Deal Financial Legislation
	Discussant: Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Nicolas Ziebarth, Northwestern University Christopher Vickers, Northwestern University Mark Chicu, Northwestern University
	Cementing the Case for Collusion under the National Recovery Administration
	Discussant: Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm	Break
2:25 pm	Todd Neumann, University of California at Merced and NBER Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University
	The Effect of Institutional Regime Change Within the New Deal on Industrial Output and Labor Markets
	Discussant: Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER
3:10 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Did the New Deal Expand U.S. Trade?
	Discussant: Richard Sutch, University of California at Riverside and NBER
4:05 pm	Break
4:15 pm	Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Board Kenneth Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and NBER
	The New Deal and the Origins of the Modern American Real Estate Loan Contract
	Discussant: Alex Field, Santa Clara University
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Trevor Kollmann, La Trobe University
	New Deal Public Housing Projects and Their Impact on Local Communities
	Discussant: Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER
9:45 am	Break
9:55 am	Carl Kitchens, University of Arizona
	Swat that Mosquito: Estimating the Decline of Malaria in Georgia 1937-1947
	Discussant: Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
10:40 am	Break
10:50 am	Briggs Depew, University of Arizona Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
	New Deal or No Deal in the Cotton South: The Effect of the AAA on the Agriculture Labor Structure
	Discussant: Lee Alston, University of Colorado and NBER
11:35 am	Lunch and Adjourn