Session Chairs:

Logan Kelly, Bryant University

Papers:

"News About Productivity and Asset Prices in a Stochastic General Equilibrium Setting"
Stefan Avdjiev, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)

"Rating System Design: Transforming Preferences to Rating Scores"
Lingfang (Ivy) Li, University of Louisville (Contact Author)
Anna E. Bargagliotti, University of Memphis

"The Currency Equivalent Index and the Current Stock of Money"
Logan Kelly, Bryant University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

David Y. Chen, North Carolina A&T State University
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Clemson University
Xuan Liu, East Carolina University

Session Chairs:

Felix Rioja, Georgia State University

Papers:

"The Historical Evolution of Bank Branching Rights in the United States: What Took So Long?"
Jill M. Hendrickson, University of St. Thomas (Contact Author)

"Trust, Risk and the Lender-Borrower Relationship: A Trust-based Lending Experiment"
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Clemson University (Contact Author)
Calum G. Turvey, Cornell University
David R. Just, Cornell University
Rong Kong, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
Pei Guo, Chinese Agricultural University

"Stock Markets, Banks, and the Sources of Growth"
Felix Rioja, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Neven T. Valev, Georgia State University

Discussants:

Jill M. Hendrickson, University of St. Thomas
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Clemson University
Felix Rioja, Georgia State University