Session Chairs:

Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University

Papers:

"On the Sustainability of Currency Board: Evidence from Argentina and Hong Kong"
Chun-Yu Ho, Boston University
Wai-Yip Alex Ho, Boston University (Contact Author)

"Current Account Reversals and the Sectoral Allocation of Resources"
William D. Craighead, Miami University (Contact Author)

"Commodity Trade, Financial Integration and International Consumption Risk Sharing"
Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Sources of the Great Moderation: A Time-Series Analysis of GDP Subsectors"
Jun Ma, University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Walter Enders, University of Alabama

Discussants:

Hyuk-jae Rhee, University of Windsor
David O. Cushman, Westminster College
Wei Sun, Grand Valley State University
Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, East Carolina University

Session Chairs:

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Papers:

"Impact of Macroeconomic, Political and Institutional Factors on the Structure of Government Debt in the Emerging Market Countries"
Anastasia Guscina, International Monetary Fund (Contact Author)

"International Asset Portfolios in the New Open Economy Macroeconomics Model"
Trung T. Bui, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Endogenous Default, Recovery Rates and Additional Spreads"
Tamon Asonuma, Boston University (Contact Author)

"Nonlinearities in Real Interest Rate Parity: Empirical Evidence from OECD and the Asian Economies"
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Contact Author)
Venus Liew Khim-Sen, Universiti Sabah Malaysia
Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State University

Discussants:

Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University
Yan Li, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Wai-Yip Alex Ho, Boston University
William D. Craighead, Miami University