| Sunday 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 26H International Financial Markets  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Yu Liu, The University of Texas at El Paso  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Testing Financial Contagion on Heteroscedastic Asset Returns" "Correlations in Returns and Volatilities in South American Stock Markets" "The Finance–Growth Link Revisited and the Role of Institutions as a Source of Finance in Latin America" "The 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games Announcements and Chinese Stock Market Responses"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Kiseok Nam, Yeshiva University  | 
| Monday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 07M Macroeconometrics  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, East Carolina University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "A Semiparametric Time Trend Varying Coefficients Model: With an Application to Evaluate Credit Rationing in U.S. Credit Market" "Current Account Dynamics: A SVAR Analysis with Non-Orthogonal Structural Shocks" "Risk-Return Tradeoff in the Pacific Basin Equity Markets"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Jingping Gu, University of Arkansas  |