Organizers:

Christopher C. Klein, Middle Tennessee State University

Session Chairs:

Christopher C. Klein, Middle Tennessee State University

Papers:

"Do Students Get More Conservative After They Take an Economics Course?"
J. Rody Borg, Jacksonville University
Mary O. Borg, University of North Florida

"Causality Tests for Public School Performance and Funding"
Christopher C. Klein, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

"Leaving HOPE at Home: The Effects of Georgia's Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) Scholarship on the Nature of College Student Migration Across States"
Elizabeth A. Perry, Randolph-Macon Woman's College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

J. Rody Borg, Jacksonville University
Mary O. Borg, University of North Florida
Elizabeth A. Perry, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Douglas J. Wakeman, Meredith College

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