Session Chairs:

Oleksandr Movchan, North Carolina State University

Papers:

"Integration and Cointegration Properties of Crime Rates in the United States"
Kalidas Jana, The University of Texas at Brownsville (Contact Author)

"A Rational Addiction-Treatment Model with Interacting Stocks"
Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno (Contact Author)
Attila Cseh, Valdosta State University

"GMM Estimation for Non-Gaussian and Non-Linear State Space Models"
Oleksandr Movchan, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

"Determinants of Major Switch During College"
Jorge Ibarra-Salazar, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Contact Author)
Misael Mauricio, Banorte

Discussants:

Jun Ma, University of Alabama
Gennady Lyakir, Champlain College
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
Roland K. Cheo, National University of Singapore

Session Chairs:

Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University

Papers:

"On the Sustainability of Currency Board: Evidence from Argentina and Hong Kong"
Chun-Yu Ho, Boston University
Wai-Yip Alex Ho, Boston University (Contact Author)

"Current Account Reversals and the Sectoral Allocation of Resources"
William D. Craighead, Miami University (Contact Author)

"Commodity Trade, Financial Integration and International Consumption Risk Sharing"
Ergys Islamaj, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Sources of the Great Moderation: A Time-Series Analysis of GDP Subsectors"
Jun Ma, University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Walter Enders, University of Alabama

Discussants:

Hyuk-jae Rhee, University of Windsor
David O. Cushman, Westminster College
Wei Sun, Grand Valley State University
Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, East Carolina University