Session Chairs:

Maryanne Clifford, Eastern Connecticut State University

Papers:

"Vertical Specialization-Based Production and Intraindustry Trade"
Don P. Clark, University of Tennessee (Contact Author)

"The Relationship Between Liberalization, Trade Concentration and Economic Growth: An Emerging Markets Study"
Tuncer Gocmen, Shepherd University (Contact Author)
Lilian Kamal, Northwestern University
Ryo Takashima, West Virginia University

"Modularity, Incomplete Contracts and the Optimal Outsourcing Strategy for the Multinational Firm"
Ari Van Assche, University of California - Davis (Contact Author)

"What Drives Economic Growth? The Case of Cross-Border M&A and Greenfield FDI Activities"
Miao Wang, Marquette University (Contact Author)
M.C. Sunny Wong, University of Southern Mississippi

Discussants:

Teresa Beckham Gramm, Rhodes College
Roger White, Franklin & Marshall College
Hubert P. Janicki, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Session Chairs:

Doyoung Kim, University of Idaho

Papers:

"The Diffusion of Inflation Expectations: Theory and Evidence"
Jim Granato, National Science Foundation
Melody Lo, University of Southern Mississippi
M.C. Sunny Wong, University of Southern Mississippi (Contact Author)

"The Effect of Payoff Externality and Informational Externality on the Endogenous Information Revelation: Discrete Time Case"
Young-Ro Yoon, Cornell University (Contact Author)

"Capital Budgeting for New Projects: A Role of Auditing in Information Acquisition"
Doyoung Kim, University of Idaho (Contact Author)

"Inside Information, Late Money, and Parimutuel Betting"
Marshall K. Gramm, Rhodes College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Karyen Chu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Guo Kai, University of Mississippi