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

Session Chairs:

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Papers:

"Impact of Macroeconomic, Political and Institutional Factors on the Structure of Government Debt in the Emerging Market Countries"
Anastasia Guscina, International Monetary Fund (Contact Author)

"International Asset Portfolios in the New Open Economy Macroeconomics Model"
Trung T. Bui, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Endogenous Default, Recovery Rates and Additional Spreads"
Tamon Asonuma, Boston University (Contact Author)

"Nonlinearities in Real Interest Rate Parity: Empirical Evidence from OECD and the Asian Economies"
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Contact Author)
Venus Liew Khim-Sen, Universiti Sabah Malaysia
Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State University

Discussants:

Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University
Yan Li, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Wai-Yip Alex Ho, Boston University
William D. Craighead, Miami University