Session Chairs:

Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Papers:

"Does Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs Improve Firm Productive Efficiency?"
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

"Learning and Forgetting in the Photovoltaic Cell Industry"
A.J. Allen Bostian, The University of New South Wales (Contact Author)
Andrew Flint, The University of New South Wales
Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics

"The French Biodiesel Production: An Assessment of the Welfare Impacts and Interaction Effects of Policy Instruments"
Virginie Doumax, Paul Cézanne University (Contact Author)

"Optimal Allocation of Research and Development Funding for Carbon Abatement Technologies"
Garth Heutel, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Virginie Doumax, Paul Cézanne University
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
A.J. Allen Bostian, The University of New South Wales
Andres Jauregui, Columbus State University

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Session Chairs:

Prasun Bhattacharjee, East Tennessee State University

Papers:

"Product Differentiation and Inefficiencies in Retail Banking"
Mian Dai, Drexel University (Contact Author)
Yuan Yuan, Drexel University

"Presence of Low Cost Carriers in the U.S. Airline Industry – Disentangling the Effects on Consumer Welfare"
Prasun Bhattacharjee, East Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

"A Caveat in the Application of Afriat's Critical Cost Efficiency Index as a Metric of the Severity of Revealed Preference Violations"
James H. Murphy, University of West Georgia (Contact Author)
Samiran Banerjee, Emory University
Deborah Webb, University of West Georgia

"Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment"
A.J. Allen Bostian, The University of New South Wales (Contact Author)
Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics

Discussants:

Mariano Runco, Auburn University at Montgomery
Mian Dai, Drexel University
Christian A. Vossler, The University of Tennessee
James H. Murphy, University of West Georgia

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Session Chairs:

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"Legislatures, Leaders and Leviathans: How Constitutional Institutions Affect Size and Volatility of Government Spending"
Beatriz Maldonado-Bird, University of Oklahoma (Contact Author)

"Market Powers of Japanese Genetically Modified Soybean Import Market"
Koichi Yamaura, Kansas State University (Contact Author)

"Undervaluation, Institutions, and Development"
Guangjun Qu, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Contact Author)

"Schumpeterian Growth, Trade, and Dynamic Comparative Advantage"
Lei Ji, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)
John Seater, North Carolina State University

"Long Swings in Stock Prices: Psychology or Market Fundamentals?"
Nicholas Mangee, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics
Wen-Yao "Grace" Wang, Texas A&M University at Galveston
David Splinter, Rice University
Raymonda L. Burgman, DePauw University
Xiaochun Liu, Emory University

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Session Chairs:

Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics

Papers:

"Modeling Market Downside Volatility"
Bruno Feunou, Duke University
Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, East Carolina University (Contact Author)
Romeo Tedongap, Stockholm School of Economics

"Hidden Secrets of Idiosyncratic Risk Premia: An Investigation on Cross-Sections of U.S. Stock Returns"
Serguey Khovansky, Clark University (Contact Author)
Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy, Iowa State University

"Vague Outcomes, Fuzzy Expectations, and the Equity Premium Puzzle"
Aram Balagyozyan, College of Staten Island (Contact Author)
Christos Giannikos, Baruch College

"Socially Optimal Valuation of Very Long Private Investment Projects"
Christoph Heinzel, Toulouse School of Economics (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Aram Balagyozyan, College of Staten Island
Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, East Carolina University
Manan Roy, Southern Methodist University
Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy, Iowa State University

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