| Saturday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m.  | 
						Session 135H Institutions and Economic History  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Art Carden, Washington University in Saint Louis  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Art Carden, Washington University in Saint Louis  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "The Last (Stochastic) Frontier of the Industrial Revolution: Southern Institutions and Technical Efficiency" "Institutional Change and Economic Development From Francoism to Democracy in Spain: A Historical Institutional Analysis" "The Bank Panic of 1907"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Jon R. Moen, University of Mississippi  | 
| Saturday 2:15 - 4:00 p.m. *  | 
						Session 151K* Empirical Macroeconomics and Time Series Econometrics  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Ming Chien Lo, St. Cloud State University  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Ming Chien Lo, St. Cloud State University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Transmission of Shocks Between Europe, Japan and the United States" "Output, Unemployment and Asymmetry in the Business Cycle" "Nonlinear Mean Reversions for Inflations Targeting Regimes: Empirical Evaluation" "Smooth Transition Autoregressive Target Zone Model With SV Error Term with Applications"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Oleg Korenok, Virginia Commonwealth University  |