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:

Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, The Ohio State University

Papers:

"Are the Movements in the Federal Funds Rate Impacting the U.S. Home Foreclosures and Prices? An Empirical Inquiry"
Gokce Soydemir, The University of Texas-Pan American (Contact Author)

"Tax Free Income and the Housing Bubble"
John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Contact Author)
Freeman Field, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Yong Bao, Purdue University

"Home Appreciation, Default Risk and Neighborhood Upkeep"
Tammy C.M. Leonard, The University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)

"Does Proximity to a Metropolitan City Affect Strategic Interaction Among US Counties?"
Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Gokce Soydemir, The University of Texas-Pan American
Tammy C.M. Leonard, The University of Texas at Dallas
Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, The Ohio State University
Ermanno Affuso, Auburn University

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Organizers:

Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas-Pan American

Session Chairs:

Isabel Ruiz, Sam Houston State University

Papers:

"Bank Performance in Dollarized Economies"
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

"The U.S. Housing Market and Mexican Remittances: Is There a Connection?"
Violeta Diaz, The University of Texas-Pan American
Gokce Soydemir, The University of Texas-Pan American

"Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate"
George Sami Naufal, American University of Sharjah
Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Oxford (Contact Author)

"Tough Times, Tough Choices: The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Health of the U.S. Latino Population"
Gabriel R. Sanchez, The University of New Mexico (Contact Author)
Jillian Medeiros, The University of New Mexico
Robert O. Valdez, The University of New Mexico

Discussants:

Javier A. Reyes, University of Arkansas
Luisa R. Blanco, Pepperdine University
Sue K. Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
Benjamin Matta, New Mexico State University

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