Session Chairs:

Chi-Young Choi, University of New Hampshire

Papers:

"The Start of Interest Rate Smoothing in the U.S.: Is It a Monetary or Fiscal Story?"
Kyongwook Choi, Ohio University (Contact Author)
Tony Caporale, Ohio University

"Governor Eugene Meyer and the Great Contraction"
James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware (Contact Author)

"Welfare Effects of Anti-Bubble Policy When Central Banks Make Mistakes"
Guo Kai, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)
John R. Conlon, University of Mississippi

"The Industry Effects of Monetary Policy"
Ruby P. Kishan, Texas State University - San Marcos (Contact Author)
Dean Showalter, Texas State University - San Marcos

"Financial Development and Monetary Policy Efficiency"
Stefan Krause, Emory University
Felix Rioja, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Robert R. Reed, III, University of Kentucky
Chong-Uk Kim, University of Oregon
Mark Wheeler, Western Michigan University

Session Chairs:

Jennifer Wilgus, Middle Tennessee State University

Papers:

"Disposal of the Land Grant to the Illinois Central Railroad: County-Level Analysis, 1854-1904"
Harold R. Christensen, Centenary College of Louisiana (Contact Author)

"Market Structure and Monopoly Power in the Western States: Evidence From 1890 to 1910"
Brandon Dupont, Wellesley College (Contact Author)
Kyongwook Choi, Ohio University

"Technological Diffusion and Profitability of Blockade Running During the Civil War: The Lebergott Paradox Undone"
Bruce Hetherington, Oglethorpe University
Peter J. Kower, Oglethorpe University (Contact Author)

"The Tenements of New York and the Houses of Philadelphia, 1850-1930: Did Lot-Size Policy Matter?"
Michael R. Montgomery, University of Maine (Contact Author)

Discussants:

J. Rody Borg, Jacksonville University
Linda M. Hooks, Washington and Lee University