Session Chairs:

Gerald Granderson, Miami University

Papers:

"Addiction to Cinema and Attendance to Cinema and Public Theaters in Turkish Cities"
Sacit Hadi Akdede, Adnan Menderes University - Turkey (Contact Author)

"Are Consumers Better Off with Organic Products? The Competitive and Welfare Effects of Organic Products"
Jason Pearcy, Tulane University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Javed Younas, Central Michigan University
Andrew Cassey, University of Minnesota

Papers:

"Lobbying for Exports and the US Aid Allocation"
Javed Younas, Central Michigan University (Contact Author)
Russell S. Sobel, West Virginia University

"State Trade Mission"
Andrew Cassey, University of Minnesota (Contact Author)

"TRIPS on Trade"
Ellis B. Heath, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mark Assibey-Yeboah, University of Tennessee
Dilara Tas, Vassar College

Session Chairs:

John Robst, University of South Florida

Papers:

"Why Older American Business Owners Have a Longer Life Expectancy?"
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)
Govind Hariharan, Kennesaw State University

"Explain Individual Retirement Expectations Using Measures of Health Dynamics"
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Stony Brook University
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)

"Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era"
Nicolae Adrian Stoian, University of Arizona (Contact Author)
Price Fishback, University of Arizona

"Does Happiness Affect Individual Economic Behavior? Evidence from Surveys from Netherlands and Germany"
Cahit Guven, University of Houston (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Sean P Corcoran, New York University
Javed Younas, Central Michigan University