Session Chairs:

Douglas MacKenzie, Carroll College

Papers:

"The Dynamic Voting Patterns of the Bank of England’s MPC"
Jan Marc Berk, De Nederlandsche Bank (Contact Author)

"The Political Economy of NHTSA"
Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University (Contact Author)

"Selfless Voting and Public Costs"
Douglas MacKenzie, Carroll College (Contact Author)

"Cigarette Tax Politics: The Roles of Voters, Special Interests and Tobacco Agriculture"
Ming-Feng Hsieh, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Contact Author)
Hui-chen Wang, The University of Mississippi

Discussants:

Ming-Feng Hsieh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University
Jan Marc Berk, De Nederlandsche Bank
Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

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Organizers:

Steven Payson, Department of Interior

Session Chairs:

Alexander Kapinos, The George Washington University

Papers:

"Estimating the Home Prices Gap?"
Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (Contact Author)

"The Distributional Effects of a Recession on Tax Burdens: The Case of the District of Columbia 2007 to 2009"
Betty Alleyne, Government of the District of Columbia (Contact Author)
Daren A. Conrad, Bowie State University
Kelly Dinkins, Government of the District of Columbia
Daniel Muhammad, Government of the District of Columbia

"State Changes to the Personal Income Tax During the Great Recession: A Logistic Regression Analysis"
Jason Nicholas Juffras, Government of the District of Columbia (Contact Author)

"The Changing Causes and Consequences of Not Working Before Age 62"
Barbara A. Butrica, The Urban Institute
Nadia Karamcheva, The Urban Institute (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Randal Verbrugge, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alexander Yuskavage, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Michael E. S. Hoffman, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Rebecca Chenevert, U.S. Census Bureau

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Session Chairs:

Michael Clark, University of Houston

Papers:

"Animal Spirits, Financial Exuberance and Real Economic Activity"
Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (Contact Author)
John Silvia, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

"Costly Labor Reallocation, Non-Separable Preferences, and Expectation Driven Business Cycles"
Munechika Katayama, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)
Kwang Hwan Kim, Hanyang University

"The Common Features of the Great Moderation"
Michael Clark, University of Houston (Contact Author)

"An Empirical Investigation of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) in Albanian Economy"
Agim Kukeli, University of New York Tirana (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Azhar Iqbal, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Karl David Boulware, The University of Alabama
Munechika Katayama, Louisiana State University

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