Session Chairs:

Hao Audrey Fang, University of California, Irvine

Papers:

"Disability"
haiiy Fang, sssss (Contact Author)

"The Mixed Market for Foster-care Provision"
Jeremy Thornton, Samford University (Contact Author)
Lisa A. Cave, Morehead State University

"The Distributional Equity of Substituting a State Sales Tax for Property Taxes"
Mary O. Borg, University of North Florida (Contact Author)
Harriet A. Stranahan, University of North Florida
William Voorhees, University of North Florida

"The Impact of Pharmacy-Specific Any-Willing-Provider Legislation on Prescription Drug Expenditures"
Christine Piette Durrance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)

"Partial Benefits in the Social Security Disability Insurance System: A Policy Alternative to Foster Work Among the Disabled"
Na Yin, SUNY-Stony Brook (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Tami Gurley-Calvez, West Virginia University
Jeremy Thornton, Samford University
Christine Piette Durrance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Na Yin, SUNY-Stony Brook

Session Chairs:

Mostafa Malki, University of Texas at Brownsville

Papers:

"Does Real Exchange Rate Volatility Affect Fixed Investment? Evidence from Five Developed Economies"
Mark Wheeler, Western Michigan University (Contact Author)
Abdur R. Chowdhury, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

"Political Business Cycles in the New Keynesian Model"
Fabio Milani, University of California, Irvine (Contact Author)

"Politics and Macroeconomic Performance: Evidence from a Dynamic Model of the U.S. Economy"
Hao Audrey Fang, University of California, Irvine (Contact Author)
Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California, Irvine

"Can Corporatization Save Chinese State-Owned Enterprises?"
David D. Selover, Old Dominion University (Contact Author)
Shaomin Li, Old Dominion University
Yingchou Lin, Old Dominion University

"Exchange Rate Volatility and First-time Entry by Multinational Firms"

Discussants:

Mark Wheeler, Western Michigan University
Fabio Milani, University of California, Irvine
David D. Selover, Old Dominion University

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