Sessions for Guo Kai

Friday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Session 11A
Measuring Income and Preferences

Session Chairs:

Guo Kai, University of Mississippi

Papers:

"Do Consumers Learn From Experience to Make More Optimal Choices Over Time? Evidence From the Internet Demand Experiment"
Karyen Chu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Contact Author)

"How Much Do Consumers Prefer Flat-Rate Pricing? Evidence From the Internet Demand Experiment"
Karyen Chu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Contact Author)

"Introducing Income Imputation: Improving Data Quality in the Consumer Expenditure Survey"
Geoffrey Paulin, Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"Two-Class Structure of the Personal Income Distribution in the USA in 1983-2001"
Victor M. Yakovenko, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

"Reciprocity, Turnover Costs and Implicit Bargaining Power in Employment Relationships"
William D. Ferguson, Grinnell College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Marshall K. Gramm, Rhodes College
Jeffrey A. Livingston, Bentley College


Friday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Session 24B
Monetary Stabilization

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


Saturday
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Session 159K
Forecasting and Asymmetric Information

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


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