Session Chairs:

Jen-Ruey Tsaur, National Central University

Papers:

"Growth and Wages: Better Perspectives as Real Wages are Rising"
Mariano Alierta, Annuorum SL (Contact Author)

"Institutions and Economic Growth: Predictive Value of Different Institutional Quality Indices"
Tomi Ovaska, Youngstown State University (Contact Author)
Julio H. Cole, Universidad Francisco Marroquín

"Social Capital, Investment, and Economic Growth"
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama
Jen-Ruey Tsaur, National Central University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Richard Dunn, Texas A&M University
Abdoulaye Seck, Suffolk University
Jorge Ibarra-Salazar, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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Organizers:

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Session Chairs:

Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Papers:

"Assessing Trade Potential Between Countries of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA): A Panel Data Analysis"
Amr S. Hosny, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Contact Author)

"Labor Mobility, Knowledge Transfer and Productivity Spillover: Evidence from Indian Firms"
Deepraj Mukherjee, The University of Memphis (Contact Author)

"Cross-Country Variation in Factor Shares and Its Implications for Development Accounting"
Brad Sturgill, Appalachian State University (Contact Author)

"Double Irreversibilities and the Development of Biofuels"
Ruiqing Miao, Iowa State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Jen-Ruey Tsaur, National Central University
Carolina Castilla, The Ohio State Univesity
Nabamita Dutta, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Mariano Alierta, Annuorum SL

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Session Chairs:

Nabamita Dutta, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Papers:

"How Petty Is Petty Corruption? Evidence from Firm Surveys in Africa"
George R.G. Clarke, Texas A&M International University (Contact Author)

"Institutions, Terrorism and the Role of a Free Press"
Sanjukta Roy, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Level-Specific Effects of Human Capital on Economic Growth"
Daren A. Conrad, Bowie State University (Contact Author)

"Yet Another Curse of Aid"
Nabamita Dutta, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Justin May, The College of William & Mary
Ioana Petrescu, American Enterprise Institute
Charles Vehorn, Radford University
Mariano Alierta, Annuorum SL

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Organizers:

Anthony M. Carilli, Hampden-Sydney College

Session Chairs:

Evelyn Gick, Dartmouth College

Papers:

"The Firm as an Entrepreneurial Contract"
Michael Ehret, Nottingham Trent University (Contact Author)

"The Evolution of Real Wages and the Evaluation of Market"
Mariano Alierta, Annuorum SL (Contact Author)

"Capital, Knowledge and Organization"
Peter Lewin, The University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)
Howard Baetjer, Jr., Towson University

Discussants:

Michael D. Thomas, Utah State University
Simon Bilo, George Mason University
Robert F. Mulligan, Western Carolina University

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