Session Chairs:

Rokon Bhuiyan, California State University, Fullerton

Papers:

"Real-Time Exchange Rate Predictability with Taylor Rule Fundamentals"
Onur Ince, Appalachian State University (Contact Author)
Tanya Molodtsova, Emory University

"The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in the U.S.A.: A Forecast-Augmented VAR Approach"
Rokon Bhuiyan, California State University, Fullerton (Contact Author)

"Temporal Aggregation and Monetary Policy Inertia"
Omer Bayar, University of Evansville (Contact Author)

"Social Trust and Central-Bank Independence"
Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (Contact Author)
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Dalarna University
Jörgen Hellström, Umeå University

Discussants:

Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Omer Bayar, University of Evansville
Thomas L. Hogan, West Texas A&M University
Mohammed Mohsin, The University of Tennessee

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Session Chairs:

Alexander McQuoid, Florida International University

Papers:

"The Effect of Transnational Coordination on the Level of Economic Activity: Evidence from the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Daniel Kidane, Texas Tech University
Andres J. Vargas, Texas Tech University (Contact Author)

"Does Diversity Divide? Public Goods Provision and Soviet Emigration to Israel"
Alexander McQuoid, Florida International University (Contact Author)

"Female Brain Drains and Women's Social Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows"
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Andrew T. Young, West Virginia University

"Love of Variety and Immigration"
Dhimitri Qirjo, SUNY Plattsburgh (Contact Author)

"Monitoring, Endogenous Comparative Advantage, and Immigration"
Dhimitri Qirjo, SUNY Plattsburgh (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Dhimitri Qirjo, SUNY Plattsburgh
Andres J. Vargas, Texas Tech University
James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Dalarna University

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Session Chairs:

Mohammad Safa, University of New Orleans

Papers:

"Does Gender Diversity in the Boardroom Improve Firm Performance?"
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Dalarna University (Contact Author)

"Governance Structure and Executive Compensation in Banking and Non-Banking Industries"
Mohammad Safa, University of New Orleans (Contact Author)
M. Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans
Abdullah Mamun, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan

"What Do Insiders Really Forecast?"
Serkan Karadas, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"A Dynamic Search Model of Education-Job Mismatch"
Burhan Biner, DePaul University (Contact Author)
Turkmen Goksel, Ankara University

Discussants:

Burhan Biner, DePaul University
Serkan Karadas, West Virginia University
Robert Ott, Sewanee: The University of the South
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Dalarna University

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