| Saturday 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 01C Voting and Lobbying  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Douglas MacKenzie, Carroll College  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "The Dynamic Voting Patterns of the Bank of England’s MPC" "The Political Economy of NHTSA" "Selfless Voting and Public Costs" "Cigarette Tax Politics: The Roles of Voters, Special Interests and Tobacco Agriculture"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Ming-Feng Hsieh, University of Wisconsin-Madison  | 
| Monday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA  | 
						Session 08K Topics in Monetary and Fiscal Policy  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Dennis Pearson, Austin Peay State University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from 12 OECD Countries" "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Nonlinear Taxation" "Structural Breaks in Fiscal Performance: Did Fiscal Responsibility Laws Have Anything to Do with Them?" "Credit Market Activity and Central Bank Provision of Liquidity: The Case of Security Repurchase Agreements"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Nurlan Turdaliev, University of Windsor  |