Session Chairs:

Shabana Singh, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

"India's Poverty: A Multidimensional Perspective"
Shabana Singh, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

"Culture as a Function of the Institutional Make-up of a Society: Historical Evidence from an Ex-Soviet Country"
Olga Nicoara, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"A Review of Iranian Aviation Industry: Victim of Sanctions or Creation of Mismanagement?"
Ali Dadpay, Clayton State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Olga Nicoara, George Mason University
T.M. Tonmoy Islam, University of Kentucky
Triyakshana Venkatraman, George Mason University

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Organizers:

Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University

Session Chairs:

Michael Ehret, Nottingham Trent University

Papers:

"What Jane Jacobs Can Teach Us About the Market Process"
Sanford Ikeda, Purchase College (Contact Author)

"High-Growth Firms, Productivity, and Economic Growth"
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, The Ratio Institute
Niklas Elert, The Ratio Institute
Dan Johansson, The Ratio Institute (Contact Author)

"From Special Economic Zones to Special Interest Zones"
Triyakshana Venkatraman, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"The Development of a Rent Seeking Society in a Post-Disaster Context"
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College (Contact Author)
Virgil Henry Storr, George Mason University

Discussants:

E. James Cowan, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Petrik Runst, George Mason University

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Session Chairs:

Nakul Kumar, George Mason University

Papers:

"Economics of the Presidency Banks: A Historical Analysis of British India"
Nakul Kumar, George Mason University (Contact Author)
Triyakshana Venkatraman, George Mason University

"Government Without Territorial Monopoly: The Law and Economics of City-Leagues"
Alexander Fink, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"Industrial Planning in 1790s America"
Nicholas Curott, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"John Stuart Mill: Founder of Progressivism"
Michael Montgomery, University of Maine (Contact Author)

"Some Limitations of Econometric Techniques"
Robert Renshaw, Renshaw Enterprises (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Robert Renshaw, Renshaw Enterprises
Alexander Fink, George Mason University
Michael Montgomery, University of Maine
Nicholas Curott, George Mason University
Carmen Astorne-Figari, Washington University in St. Louis

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Session Chairs:

Claudia R. Williamson, New York University

Papers:

"Is Informal Institution a Determinant of Financial Development? A Panel Analysis with Emerging Countries"
Nabamita Dutta, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (Contact Author)
Deepraj Mukherjee, Waldorf College

"The Feud Between Formal Versus Informal Institutions: A Case Study of Medieval Iceland"
Carrie B. Kerekes, Florida Gulf Coast University (Contact Author)
Claudia R. Williamson, New York University

Discussants:

Daren A. Conrad, Bowie State University
Triyakshana Venkatraman, George Mason University
Sudeshna Pal, Georgia College and State University

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