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