Session Chairs:

Maria Kozhevnikova, Queens College of CUNY

Papers:

"Explicit and Implicit Contracts and the Quality of Exports in the CIS and Eastern Europe"
Maria Kozhevnikova, Queens College of CUNY (Contact Author)

"Texas Treasury Notes and the Compromise of 1850"
Gary M. Pecquet, Shenandoah University
Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University (Contact Author)

"Economic Freedom and Growth Production"
Russell S. Sobel, James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair, West Virginia University
Nathan J. Ashby, The College of Wooster (Contact Author)

"Do Rent-Seeking Groups Announce Their Sharing Rules?"
Kyung Hwan Baik, Sungkyunkwan University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dongryul Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Susan K. Feigenbaum, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Douglas J. Wakeman, Meredith College

Session Chairs:

Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"The Patriot Act and Wealth Transfers: Is There a Link?"
Burak Dolar, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Active Pension Participation and Household Wealth Accumulation: Evidence of Learning by Doing"
Rana Bose, University of Georgia (Contact Author)

"What Role for the Elasticity of Substitution in Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Test of the Grandville Hypothesis"
Debdulal Mallick, Emory University (Contact Author)

"On the Implication of Measures of Persistence for the Unobserved Component Model"
Daisuke Nagakura, University of Washington (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University
Kara E. Levine, Washington and Lee University