Session Chairs:

Yongjing Zhang, George Mason University

Papers:

"Estimating Natural Vacancy Rates with Break Points for Chicago Rental Housing Market"
Jian Zhou, University of Illinois at Chicago (Contact Author)

"Housing Price Modeling: Using Cost-Distance Surface to Model Local Factors"
Jielai Ma, University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)

"Real Estate Market Responses to Katrina: Results from New Orleans"
Russell McKenzie, Southeastern Louisiana University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Anastasia Semykina, Florida State University
James Bang, Virginia Military Institute

Session Chairs:

Anastasia Semykina, Florida State University

Papers:

"Does Density Matter: A Discrete-Continuous Model of Households' Vehicle Choice and Vehicle Usage"
Hao Audrey Fang, University of California, Irvine (Contact Author)

"The Failure of Public Unions in Turkey: An Instrumental Quantile Regression Approach"
Ozkan Eren, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)
Abdullah Kumas, Southern Methodist University

"A Semiparametric Approach to Estimating Panel Data Models with Endogenous Explanatory Variables and Selection"
Anastasia Semykina, Florida State University (Contact Author)

"The Hausman Pre-Test Estimator"
Viera Chmelarova, Sam Houston State University (Contact Author)
R. Carter Hill, Louisiana State University

Discussants:

Abdullah Kumas, Southern Methodist University
Hao Audrey Fang, University of California, Irvine