ASSA January 2002
Cliometric Society Sessions

The Cliometric Society will sponsor three sessions and a cocktail party for Members and Friends at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, January 5-7, 2002.

Session 1: The Impact of Deflation: A Historical View (Saturday, Jan. 5, 8:00am, Hilton-Cabinet Room)

Richard C. K. Burdekin (Claremont McKenna College) and Pierre L. Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Fears of Deflation Then and Now"
Randall E. Parker (East Carolina University) and James S. Fackler (University of Kentucky), "Was Debt Deflation Operative During the Great Depression?"
Chris Hanes (University of Mississippi), "The Liquidity Trap and U.S. Interest Rates in the 1930s."

Wayne Grove (Syracuse University) and Craig Heinicke (Baldwin-Wallace College), "Driven from the Field or Enticed to the City?: The Cotton Picking Machine and the Great Migration from the Cotton Belt, 1949-1964."
Ryan Johnson (University of Arizona), "Did the FEPC Increase Black Employment in High-Wage Industries?"
William J Collins (Vanderbilt University) and Melissa A. Thomasson (Miami University), "Exploring Racial Gaps in Infant Mortality, 1920-1960"

Charles W. Calomiris (Columbia University) and Joseph R. Mason (Drexel University), "Resolving the Puzzle of Low National Bank Note Issuance."
Jon Moen (University of Mississippi) and Ellis Tallman (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), "Why Didn't the United States Establish a Central Bank Until After the Panic of 1907?"
Michael McAvoy (SUNY at Oneonta), "How Were the Federal Reserve Bank Locations Selected?"
J. Peter Ferderer (Macalester College), "Building a Money Market: The Case of Bankers' Acceptances, 1914-1939."