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

Session Chairs:

Mahmut Yasar, The University of Texas at Arlington

Papers:

"Do Firms Respond to Media Attention? A Case Study of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory"
Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

"Marrying Science with Economics: Hedonic Property Analysis as a Measure of Site Specificity"
Vanessa Raney, University of Maryland University College (Contact Author)

"Transmitting Spillovers to Industries"
Maryanne Clifford, Eastern Connecticut State University (Contact Author)
Robert F. Quinn, Northern Michigan University

"Firm Performance and Knowledge Spillovers"
Mahmut Yasar, The University of Texas at Arlington (Contact Author)
Catherine J. Morrison Paul, University of California, Davis

Discussants:

Garth Heutel, Harvard University
Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University
Soma Ghosh, Bridgewater State College
Vanessa Raney, University of Maryland University College