Session Chairs:

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"Uranium Sales and Economic Well-being in Niger: Is there ‘Dutch Disease’?"
Issoufou Soumaila, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)

"Estimating the Welfare Impact of Intragenic and Transgenic GM Food Labeling Policies Using Data from Experimental Auctions"
Gregory J. Colson, Iowa State University (Contact Author)

"Estimating the Community Economic Impact of Microfinance Institutions: The Case of Bangladesh"
Vange Mariet Ocasio, Colorado State University (Contact Author)

"Assessing The Economic Implications of an Egypt-U.S. Free Trade Agreement"
Hoda El-Karaksy, University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"Trade Liberalization, Effective Human Capital and the Dynamics of Income Inequality"
Joshua Dennis Hall, Drexel University (Contact Author)

"Real Interest Rates and Fiscal Policy: A Global Study"
Ellis Heath, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Javed Younas, Central Michigan University
Laurel Adams, Northern Illinois University
Hoda El-Karaksy, University of Alabama
Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston
Mostafa Beshkar, Purdue University
Nazneen Ahmad, Weber State University

Organizers:

Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston

Session Chairs:

Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston

Papers:

"Time Series Nonparametric Regression Using Asymmetric Kernels with an Application to Estimation of Scalar Diffusion Processes"
Nikolay Gospodinov, Concordia University and CIREQ
Masayuki Hirukawa, Northern Illinois University (Contact Author)

"Functional-Coefficient Models for Nonstationary Time Series Data"
Zongwu Cai, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)
Qi Li, Texas A&M University
Joon Y. Park, Texas A&M University

"Semiparametric Cointegrating Rank Selection"
Xu Cheng, Yale University (Contact Author)
Peter C. B. Phillips, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University

"A Nonparametric Prewhitening Approach to Predict Multivariate Quantiles"
Deniz Baglan, University of California, Riverside (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Zongwu Cai, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Masayuki Hirukawa, Northern Illinois University
Deniz Baglan, University of California, Riverside
Dustin Chambers, Salisbury University

Organizers:

Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston

Session Chairs:

Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston

Papers:

"Uncovering the (Ir)Relevance of Finance on Economic Growth"
Daniel J. Henderson, Binghamton University (Contact Author)
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund
Christopher Parmeter, Virginia Tech

"Nonparametric Estimation of the Growth Elasticity of Poverty"
Dustin Chambers, Salisbury University (Contact Author)
Shatakshee Dhongde, Rochester Institute of Technology

"Health Care Cost and Workers’ Productivity: A Nonparametric Bootstrap Based SUR Analysis"
Monica Das, Skidmore College (Contact Author)
Debasri Mukherjee, Western Michigan University

"A Local Examination for Persistence in Exclusions- from-Core Measures of Inflation Using Real-Time Data"
Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Daniel J. Henderson, Binghamton University
Heather L.R. Tierney, College of Charleston
Debasri Mukherjee, Western Michigan University
Dustin Chambers, Salisbury University