Organizers:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Papers:

"Entry Barriers, Financial Frictions, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and TFP"
Lei Fang, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

"Productivity Growth in Manufacturing and Services Across U.S. States: What Can We Learn from Factor Prices?"
Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)
Bibhudutta Panda, Louisiana State University

"Measuring and Accounting for Cross Country Differences in Education Quality"
Todd Schoellman, Arizona State University (Contact Author)

"Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?"
Daniel J. Henderson, Binghamton University (Contact Author)
Michael S. Delgado, Binghamton University
Christopher Parmeter, Virginia Tech

Discussants:

Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University
Michal Jerzmanowski, Clemson University
Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
William R. Hauk, Jr., University of South Carolina

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Organizers:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon

Papers:

"Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth"
Elias Dinopoulos, University of Florida (Contact Author)
Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University

"The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and Trade When Firms are Heterogeneous"
Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Deep Financial Integration and Volatility"
Vadym Volosovych, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Contact Author)
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston
Bent E. Sorensen, University of Houston

"Foreign Aid and Population Growth: Do Aid Recipient Countries Suffer from the Malthusian Trap?"
David Cuberes, University of Alicante (Contact Author)
Kevin Tsui, Clemson University

Discussants:

Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon
Santanu Chatterjee, The University of Georgia
Lei Fang, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University

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