Session Chairs:

Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Papers:

"Firm Heterogeneity and the Relative Prevalence of Outsourcing and FDI"
Huiya (Grace) Chen, University of California - Davis and Reed College (Contact Author)

"Multinational Firms and New Chinese Export Transactions"
Huiya (Grace) Chen, University of California - Davis and Reed College (Contact Author)
Deborah L. Swenson, University of California - Davis

"International Trade Costs and Schumpeterian Growth"
Ali Gungoraydinoglu, University of Florida (Contact Author)

"Does Industry Definition Matter? An Examination of Aggregation Bias in Harmonized Tariff System Data"
Roger White, Franklin & Marshall College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Henric Axel Adey, Georgetown University
James M. DeVault, Lafayette College
Sudeshna Pal, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Avik Chakraborty, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Papers:

"The Impact of the EMU on Channels of Risk Sharing Between Member Countries"
Faruk Balli, University of Houston (Contact Author)
Bent E. Sorensen, University of Houston

"Learning, the Forward Premium Puzzle and Market Efficiency"
Avik Chakraborty, University of Tennessee - Knoxville (Contact Author)

"On Forward Rate Unbiasedness and Uncovered Interest Rate Parity"
Daniel L. Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Contact Author)

"End of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle?"
Sudeshna Pal, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Vermont
Rajeev Sooreea, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona