 
  | Friday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. IEFS | Session 05D Exchange Rates, Relative Prices, Economic Freedom | 
| Organizers: | 
          Henry Thompson, Auburn University | 
| Session Chairs: | 
          Thomas Osang, Southern Methodist University | 
| Papers: | "The Exchange Rate and the U.S. Auto Industry" "Nonlinear Estimation of the Persistence of Relative Prices in the European Union" "The Impact of Economic Freedom on Bilateral Trade: A Cross-Country Analysis" | 
| Discussants: | 		
          Nazif Durmaz, University of Houston-Victoria | 
| Saturday 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. IEFS | Session 05I Import Demand, Energy Stocks, Energy Tariffs | 
| Organizers: | 
          Henry Thompson, Auburn University | 
| Session Chairs: | 
          Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford | 
| Papers: | "An Empirical Analysis of Import Demand Function for Malaysia" "Energy Stock Market Returns and Exchange Rates" "Input Tariffs, Trade, and Income Redistribution" | 
| Discussants: | 		
          W. Charles Sawyer, Texas Christian University | 
| Sunday 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. SEA | Session 12L Environmental Economics and Agriculture | 
| Session Chairs: | 
          Nicholas Sanders, College of William & Mary | 
| Papers: | "Dirt and Dirty Air: The Unintended Impacts of the Clean Air Act on Agricultural Productivity" "Impact of Climate Change on Corn and Soybean Production in the Midwestern United States: Evidence from Panel Study" "Industrial and Agricultural Pollution Patterns" "Solving the Problem of Carbon Dioxide Emissions" | 
| Discussants: | 		
          Sun Joseph Chang, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center |