Organizers:

Eva Sierminska, CEPS/INSTEAD

Papers:

"Recession Effects on Returns to Employment: Are Less Educated Workers Differently Affected by Economic Cycles?"
Helen Connolly, Luxembourg Income Study (Contact Author)

"Making Work Pay in an Economic Crisis: The Irish Case"
Karina Doorley, CEPS/INSTEAD (Contact Author)

"Net Worth and the Middle Class: Patterns of Wealth and Debt, Before and After Financial Crisis"
Eva Sierminska, CEPS/INSTEAD (Contact Author)

"Redlining or Not? An Analysis of Credit Card Lines by Neighborhoods"
Yan (Jenny) Zhang, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Helen Connolly, Luxembourg Income Study
Maria Jose Luengo-Prado, Northeastern University
Ellen Meade, American University

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Organizers:

Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina

Session Chairs:

Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina

Papers:

"Politics and the Fed"
Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University (Contact Author)

"Monetary Policy and Financial Stability"
Georgios Chortareas, University of Athens (Contact Author)

"Dissent"
Alessandro Riboni, University of Montreal (Contact Author)
Francisco Ruge-Murcia, University of Montreal

"On the Political Economy of Crisis Management: The Case of the 2008-09 Fiscal Crisis"
Roger Congleton, George Mason University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Ellen Meade, American University
Alessandro Riboni, University of Montreal
Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina
Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Organizers:

Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina

Session Chairs:

Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:

"Learning and Bandwagons in Monetary Policy Committees"
Rob Roy McGregor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)
Henry W. Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina
Todd A. Vermilyea, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

"Is There a Limit on FOMC Dissents? Evidence from the Greenspan Era"
Ellen Meade, American University (Contact Author)
Petra Gerlach-Kristen, Bank for International Settlements

"The Evolution of Deliberation in the FOMC"
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics and Political Science (Contact Author)
Andrew Bailey, Bank of England

"MPC Voting over Time"
Volker Nitsch, Darmstadt University of Technology (Contact Author)
Helge Berger, Free University of Berlin

Discussants:

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics and Political Science
Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University
Georgios Chortareas, University of Athens
Volker Nitsch, Darmstadt University of Technology

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Session Chairs:

Jongbyung Jun, Suffolk University

Papers:

"Do State-Owned Banks Help to Smooth Out Cycles?: Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis"
Jean Sepulveda Umanzor, Universidad del Desarrollo (Contact Author)

"Monetary Sterilization and Dual Nominal Anchors: Some Caribbean Examples"
Tarron Khemraj, New College of Florida (Contact Author)

"Noise-Trading Channel and Timing of Effective Intervention"
Jongbyung Jun, Suffolk University (Contact Author)

"The Dynamic Voting Patterns of the Bank of England's MPC"
Jan Marc Berk, The Dutch Bank (Contact Author)
Beata Bierut, The Dutch Bank
Ellen Meade, American University

Discussants:

Jan Marc Berk, The Dutch Bank
Hem C. Basnet, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Berrak Buyukkarabacak, University of Georgia
Tarron Khemraj, New College of Florida

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