Session Chairs:

Christos Pargianas, University of Scranton

Papers:

"Endogenous Growth and Universal Healthcare Coverage: An Investigation of the Growth-Universal Coverage Tradeoff"
Mark Kelly, University of Georgia (Contact Author)

"The Effects of Household Finance on Food Insecurity"
Yunhee Chang, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)
Swarn Chatterjee, The University of Georgia
Jinhee Kim, University of Maryland

"Obesity and Economic Institutions"
Will Holmes, Georgia Gwinnett College (Contact Author)
Robert Mason, Georgia Gwinnett College

"Endogenous Economic Institutions, Wage Inequality, and Economic Growth"
Christos Pargianas, University of Scranton (Contact Author)

"Financial Development and Health Capital Accumulation"
Gunakar Bhatta, Wayne State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Will Holmes, Georgia Gwinnett College
Mark Kelly, University of Georgia
Yunhee Chang, University of Mississippi
Gunakar Bhatta, Wayne State University
Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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Session Chairs:

Dekuwmini Mornah, Virginia Military Institute

Papers:

"If Corruption Is Not Exogenous, Then What Makes Some Countries More Corrupt Than Others? A Macro Level Study"
Dekuwmini Mornah, Virginia Military Institute (Contact Author)
George Mawuli Akpandjar, University of Mississippi

"To Be or Not to Be Corrupt: An Experimental Study of Bribery"
Evana Afreen, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Does Economic Freedom Foster Tolerance?"
Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Therese Nilsson, Lund University & IFN (Contact Author)

"The Joint Effect of Education and Political Stability on Corruption: A Cross-Country Investigation"
Deepraj Mukherjee, Kent State University (Contact Author)
Nabamita Dutta, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Discussants:

Therese Nilsson, Lund University & IFN
Deepraj Mukherjee, Kent State University
Evana Afreen, Georgia State University
Mavuto Kalulu, University of Mississippi

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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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