Session Chairs:

Ayse Evrensel, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

Papers:

"An Investigation of Common Trends and Cycles in ASEAN Exchange Rates"
Puneet Vatsa, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Contact Author)
Subhash C. Sharma, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

"Foreign Exchange Risk Exposure: Evidence from Asian Markets"
Dilara Tas, Vassar College (Contact Author)
Subhash C. Sharma, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Hungchih Li, National Cheng Kung University

"Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility, Relative Price Volatility, and the Real Exchange Rate"
Srideep Ganguly, University of South Carolina (Contact Author)
Janice Boucher Breuer, University of South Carolina

"VAR Estimation of Portfolio Balance Models for the Canadian-U.S. Exchange Rate"
David O. Cushman, Westminster College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Ayse Evrensel, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Lian An, University of North Florida

Session Chairs:

Julie Trivitt, Arkansas Tech University

Papers:

"School Quality, House Prices and Liquidity"
Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Geoffrey K Turnbull, Georgia State University

"Efficiency Analysis of Public Education in Illinois"
Paul D. Melvin, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Contact Author)
Subhash C. Sharma, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

"The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: Evidence from Wisconsin"
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Contact Author)

"A Multiple-Models Assessment for Risk of Dropping Out of School"
John Robst, University of South Florida (Contact Author)

"Discount Rates and Drop-Outs Rates: Children's View of the Future"
Jeffrey L. Jordan, University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Ragan Petrie, Georgia State University
Marco Castillo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University

Discussants:

John Robst, University of South Florida
Julie Trivitt, Arkansas Tech University