Session Chairs:

Giandomenico Sarolli, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"Macroeconomic Shocks and Discipline in the Market for Large CDs"
Ruby Kishan , Texas State Unversity-San Marcos (Contact Author)
Timothy P. Opiela, DePaul University

"New Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks from Alternatives to the Greenbook"
Dan Groft, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Tuning the Volume: Asset Trading Volume with Incomplete Markets"
Giandomenico Sarolli, Washington and Lee University (Contact Author)

"A Stock Market Model with Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risks: A GMM Estimation Approach for Cross-Sectional Data"
Serguey Khovansky, Clark University (Contact Author)
Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy, Iowa State University

Discussants:

Maria Pia Olivero, Drexel University
W. Douglas McMillin, Louisiana State University
Gokce Soydemir, The University of Texas-Pan American
Dan Groft, Louisiana State University

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Session Chairs:

Ruby Kishan , Texas State Unversity-San Marcos

Papers:

"An Application of the Oligopoly Banking Model to Developing Economies"
Tarron Khemraj, New College of Florida (Contact Author)

"Foreign Technology, Absorptive Capacity, and Firm Performance"
Mahmut Yasar, The University of Texas at Arlington (Contact Author)

"Consolidation in Banking and the Lending Channel of Monetary Transmission: Evidence from Asia and Latin America"
Maria Pia Olivero, Drexel University
Yuan Li, Drexel University
Bang Jeon, Drexel University (Contact Author)

"Mexican Stock Exchange Reaction to US Monetary Surprises"
Ellis B. Heath, Valdosta State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Erik Strojer Madsen, University of Aarhus
Zhizhong Shan, The University of Mississippi
Mahmut Yasar, The University of Texas at Arlington
Hsin-hui (Ida) Whited, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Session Chairs:

Roger Spencer, Trinity University

Papers:

"The Bernanke Fed and Transparency: Evidence from the Futures Market"
Roger Spencer, Trinity University (Contact Author)
John H. Huston, Trinity University
Erika I. Gulyas, Trinity University

"The Regional Effects of Monetary Policy: Does the Method of Identifying Policy Shocks Matter?"
Taehee Han, Louisiana State University
W. Douglas McMillin, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Financial Intermediation, Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations"
Ali M. Al-Nadi, The University of Tennessee (Contact Author)

"On the Firm-Level Implications of the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy"
Maria Pia Olivero, Drexel University (Contact Author)
Roger A. Aliaga-Diaz, The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Discussants:

Benjamin D. Keen, The University of Oklahoma
Maria Pia Olivero, Drexel University
Ali M. Al-Nadi, The University of Tennessee
Dan Groft, Louisiana State University

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