Session Chairs:

Suvayan De, West Virginia State University

Papers:

"A One-Sector Neoclassical Growth Model with Endogenous Retirement: Existence of Multiple Steady States"
Liutang Gong, Peking University
Nianqing Liu, Penn State University (Contact Author)

"Does Patriotism Accelerate Growth?"
Suvayan De, West Virginia State University (Contact Author)
William T. Smith, University of Memphis

"Formal Political Institutions and Income Redistribution"
Jan Schnellenbach, University of Heidelberg (Contact Author)

"Experimental Evidence Under a Marxist or Market Economy: Prices, Wages, GDP and Welfare from Singapore and China Classroom Experiments"
Roland K. Cheo, National University of Singapore (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Jongbyung Jun, Suffolk University
Sharri C. Byron, University of Georgia
Trung T. Bui, Georgetown University
Graciela Laura Kaminsky, The George Washington University

Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Determinants of Outward Direct Investment from Developing Countries: A Firm-Level Study of China"
Yi Song, George Washington University (Contact Author)

"Electrification and the Household"
Louise Grogan, University of Guelph
Asha Sadanand, University of Guelph

"Are Women from Low-Income Urban Households More Likely to be Credit Constrained? Evidence from the Philippines"
Hazel Jean Malapit, American University (Contact Author)

"Foreign Aid and the Real Exchange Rate - A Theoretical Model"
Sharri C. Byron, University of Georgia (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Catherine S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University
Katherine Terrell, University of Michigan
Xavier Gine, The World Bank
Jonathan Munemo, The World Bank