Session Chairs:

Kristie Briggs, Creighton University

Papers:

"Fiscal Adjustment in Developing Countries Through Tax Administration Reform"
Charles Vehorn, Radford University (Contact Author)

"Trade Reforms and Indian Informal Sector"
Arpita Banerjee Chakraborty, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

"Substituting Corruption for Institutions"
Lisa Verdon, Florida State University (Contact Author)
William Arthur Carden, Rhodes College

"The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on High Technology Exports to Developing Countries"
Kristie Briggs, Creighton University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Lourenco Paz, University of Maryland
Yaroslava Babych, The George Washington University
Ramesh Mohan, Bryant University
Leonid Krasnozhon, George Mason University

Session Chairs:

Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University

Papers:

"The Customs Union Issue: Why Do We Observe so Few of Them?"
Peri Agostinho da Silva, Jr., University of North Dakota (Contact Author)
Giovanni Facchini, University of Essex
Gerald Willmann, CESifo Group

"The Effect of Electoral Regime on Trade Policy"
John Hatfield, Stanford University
William R. Hauk, Jr., University of South Carolina (Contact Author)

"Short Run Effects of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Firm Heterogeneity"
Aleksandr Vashchilko, Vanderbilt University

"Productivity Matters for Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence"
Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University
Charles Braymen, Kansas State University
Kristie Briggs, Creighton University
William R. Hauk, Jr., University of South Carolina