Session Chairs:

Menna Bizuneh, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Had the Fed Driven the Interest Rates Too Low for Too Long, Leading to the Housing Bubbles?"
Han Li, The University of Kansas (Contact Author)
Shigeru Iwata, The University of Kansas

"Income Asymmetries and the Permanent Income Hypothesis"
Juan Ignacio Urquiza, University of Houston (Contact Author)

"Is the East African Community an Optimum Currency Area?"
John Ssozi, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (Contact Author)

"Funding Liquidity and Monetary Policy in the United States: Business Cycles and Asset Pricing Implications"
Ching Wai (Jeremy) Chiu, Duke University (Contact Author)

"Household Debt and the Macroeconomy: A VAR Analysis"
Bradford Howland Patterson, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Jonathan D. Fisher, New York Census Research Data Center
Wan-Ju Iris Franz, Houston Baptist University
Zijun Luo, Kansas State University
Vance Ginn, Texas Tech University
Simone Silva, Murray State University

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Session Chairs:

Pavel Kapinos, Carleton College

Papers:

"New Tips from TIPS: Identifying Inflation Expectations and the Risk Premia of Breakeven Inflation"
Zheng Zeng, Bowling Green State University (Contact Author)

"Inflation Uncertainty and the Decision to Devalue"
Menna Bizuneh, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Aggregate Evidence of Nominal Price Rigidities and the Inflation-Output Trade-Off: The Relationship Between the Income Share of Labor and the Rate of Inflation"
Christian Jensen, University of South Carolina (Contact Author)

"Forward-looking Monetary Policy and Anticipated Shocks to Inflation"
Pavel Kapinos, Carleton College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Menna Bizuneh, Georgia State University
Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University
Erika I. Gulyas, Trinity University
Pavel Kapinos, Carleton College

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