Session Chairs:

David O. Cushman, Westminster College

Papers:

"A Panel Unit Root Test Approach to Testing for Nonlinear Trends in Real Exchange Rates"
David O. Cushman, Westminster College (Contact Author)
Nils Michael, Health Finance Directorate, The Scottish Government

"Nonlinear Dynamics of Real Exchange Rates for Sectoral Data"
Jaebeom Kim, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)
Young-Kyu Moh, Texas Tech University

"Explaining Real Exchange Rate Volatility"
Stefan C. Norrbin, Samford University (Contact Author)
Onnie Pipatchaipoom, Samford University

"Heterogeneous Information, Foreign Exchange Intervention, and Exchange Rate Reversion: A Coordination Channel Perspective and Nonlinear Analysis"
Xiaofei Yu, Suffolk University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Stefan C. Norrbin, Samford University
Xiaofei Yu, Suffolk University
Ivan Kandilov, North Carolina State University
Dilara Tas, Vassar College

Organizers:

Daniel Sutter, The University of Texas-Pan American

Session Chairs:

Jeffrey Czajkowski, Austin College

Papers:

"Natural Disasters and Foreign Direct Investment"
Monica P. Escaleras, Florida Atlantic University (Contact Author)
Charles A. Register, Florida Atlantic University

"Risk Perception and the Credibility of Hazard Warnings: Evidence from Tornado Warnings"
Kevin Simmons, Austin College
Daniel Sutter, The University of Texas-Pan American (Contact Author)

"A Computational Approach to Dynamically Modeling the Destructive Risk Embedded in Hurricane Evacuation Decisions"
Jeffrey Czajkowski, Austin College (Contact Author)
Richard Woodward, Texas A&M University

"The Effect of Hurricane Katrina Exodus on Houston Wages: Structural Break Point Estimation"
Robert McComb, Texas Tech University
Young-Kyu Moh, Texas Tech University (Contact Author)
Anita Schiller, Texas Tech University

Discussants:

John C. Whitehead, Appalachian State University
Jamie Brown Kruse, East Carolina University