Session Chairs:

Masaki Nakabayashi, The University of Tokyo

Papers:

"Occupational Composition and Wage Inequality"
Carol Scotese, Virginia Commonwealth University (Contact Author)

"Schooling, Employers’ Learning, and Internal Labor Market Bias: Wage Dynamics and Human Capital Investment in the Japanese Steel Industry, 1930-1960s"
Masaki Nakabayashi, The University of Tokyo (Contact Author)

"The Minimum Wage, Teenage Employment and the Business Cycle"
James M. Holmes, University of Buffalo
Patricia A. Hutton, Canisius College (Contact Author)

"The Impacts of ICT Use on Employment and Wages: Firm-Level Evidence from Turkey"
Hilal Atasoy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Carol Scotese, Virginia Commonwealth University
James M. Holmes, University of Buffalo
Patricia A. Hutton, Canisius College
Hilal Atasoy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Session Chairs:

Stefan Eichler, Dresden University of Technology

Papers:

"Are DSGE Approximating Models Invariant to Shifts in Policy?: A Credit Channel Experiment"
Takeshi Yagihashi, Old Dominion University (Contact Author)

"Does the ECB Act as a Lender of Last Resort During the Subprime Lending Crisis?: Evidence from a Regime Switching Taylor Rule Model"
Stefan Eichler, Dresden University of Technology (Contact Author)
Kai Hielscher, Helmut Schmidt University

"Credit-Uncertainty Cycle"
Nathan S. Balke, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)
Enrique Martinez-Garcia, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Zheng Zeng, Bowling Green State University

"Causality Between Exchange Rates and Stock Prices"
Sima Siami Namini, The Economic Planning Bureau (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Nurlan Turdaliev, University of Windsor
Gabriel Martinez, Ave Maria University
Patricia A. Hutton, Canisius College
Sima Siami Namini, The Economic Planning Bureau

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Session Chairs:

Andrea Civelli, University of Arkansas

Papers:

"Optimal Endogenous Nominal Wage Rigidity: The Complex Role of Money"
James M. Holmes, University of Buffalo (Contact Author)
Patricia A. Hutton, Canisius College

"The Role of Central Bank Independence on Optimal Taxation and Seigniorage"
Guillermo Vuletin, Colby College (Contact Author)
Roberto Delhy Nolivos, Colby College

"The (Un)Sustainability of the U.S. International Debt Position: Do Not Rely Too Much on Valuation Effects"
Andrea Civelli, University of Arkansas (Contact Author)

Discussants:

James M. Holmes, University of Buffalo
Jaya Dey, Oklahoma State University
Michael Clark, University of Houston

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