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