Organizers:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware

Session Chairs:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware

Papers:

"Towards a More Perfect American Payments Union: The Civil War as a Watershed in Forging a National Payments System"
John A. James, University of Virginia
David F. Weiman, Columbia University

"The Net Asset Position of the U.S. Government, 1784-1902: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?"
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER (Contact Author)

"The Road to Monetary Disunion: Evidence From the Market for State Bank Currency and Other Payment Instruments, 1858-1862"
Scott A Redenius, Bryn Mawr College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware
Mark Wheeler, Western Michigan University
J. Wood, Wake Forest University

Organizers:

John H. Huston, Chair, Trinity University

Session Chairs:

John H. Huston, Chair, Trinity University

Papers:

"The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Monetary Policy Predictability"
Erica Gulyas, Trinity University (Contact Author)

"Monetary Policy and Bull Markets: The Federal Reserve's Response to Speculative Excess"
Roger Spencer, Trinity University
John H. Huston, Chair, Trinity University

"Increasing Returns and Optimal Oscillating Labor Supply"
Andreas Lehnert, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
William Dupor, Ohio State University

"Inflation Expectations and Core Inflation"
Julie K. Smith, Lafayette College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware
Andreas Lehnert, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
W. Douglas McMillin, Louisiana State University
George A Selgin, University of Georgia