| Sunday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA  | 
						Session 23G Financial Markets and Monetary Policy  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Stefan Eichler, Dresden University of Technology  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Are DSGE Approximating Models Invariant to Shifts in Policy?: A Credit Channel Experiment" "Does the ECB Act as a Lender of Last Resort During the Subprime Lending Crisis?: Evidence from a Regime Switching Taylor Rule Model" "Credit-Uncertainty Cycle" "Causality Between Exchange Rates and Stock Prices"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Nurlan Turdaliev, University of Windsor  | 
| Sunday 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 23H Issues in Monetary Policy  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Michael Jetter, Universidad EAFIT  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Central Bank Transparency: Does It Matter?" "Optimal Monetary Policy Under Endogenous Currency Invoicing" "Monetary Policy Shifts and the Forward Discount Bias" "Health Care Inflation and Monetary Policy"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Takeshi Yagihashi, Old Dominion University  | 
| 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  |