| Sunday 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 15I Applied Macroeconomics  | 
            
Organizers:  | 
          Biniv K Maskay, University of Kentucky  | 
Session Chairs:  | 
          Karl David Boulware, The University of Alabama  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Financial Development, Human Capital and Economic Growth" "The Transmission of Monetary Policy to Non-Banking Sources of Credit:  A Look at Commercial Paper Market Activity" "Banking Crises, Credit Tightening and Exports"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          TBA  | 
| Monday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA  | 
						Session 23J Studies in Business Fluctuation  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Michael Clark, University of Houston  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Animal Spirits, Financial Exuberance and Real Economic Activity" "Costly Labor Reallocation, Non-Separable Preferences, and Expectation Driven Business Cycles" "The Common Features of the Great Moderation" "An Empirical Investigation of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) in Albanian Economy"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC  | 
| 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  |