Session Chairs:

Dennis Pearson, Austin Peay State University

Papers:

"Explaining the Pharmaceutical Price Differences in the European Union"
Aysegul Timur, Hodges University (Contact Author)
Gabriel Picone, University of South Florida
Jeffrey S. DeSimone, University of Texas at Arlington & NBER

"Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth: Is the Impact Sensitive to the Level of Development?"
Stefan Ruediger, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (Contact Author)
Hamid Mohtadi, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Minnesota

"Foreign Direct Investment and Brain Drain"
Miao Wang, Marquette University (Contact Author)

"Vertical Specialization with Developed and Developing Countries"
Don P. Clark, University of Tennessee (Contact Author)

"Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India"
Peri Agostinho Silva, Jr., University of North Dakota (Contact Author)
Marcelo Olarreaga, The World Bank
Giovanni Facchini, University of Illinois
Gerald Willmann, University of Kiel

Discussants:

Ayse Evrensel, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Joshua Dennis Hall, Drexel University
Miao Wang, Marquette University

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:

David Schap, College of the Holy Cross

Papers:

"Endogenous Corruption"
Ayse Evrensel, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville (Contact Author)

"Terrorism, Key Assets, and Critical Infrastructures: To Protect or to Rebuild? That is the Question"
Bertrand Crettez, Universite de Franche-Comte
Regis Deloche, University of Franche-Comte (Contact Author)

"Bounded Group Rationality"
Diego Nocetti, Clarkson University (Contact Author)

"Governance as a Strategy in State-of-Nature Games"
Jason Briggeman, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"The Poverty of Politics: Income Redistribution, Economic Freedom and State Growth"
J. R. Clark, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Dennis Pearson, Austin Peay State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

David Schap, College of the Holy Cross
Regis Deloche, University of Franche-Comte
Diego Nocetti, Clarkson University