Session Chairs:

Menelik S. Geremew, Kalamazoo College

Papers:

"Can Monetary Policy Contribute Towards Financial Stability? Measuring the Optimality of Monetary Policy with Output, Inflation and Financial Stability Objectives"
Menelik S. Geremew, Kalamazoo College (Contact Author)

"The Size of the Central Bank’s Balance Sheet: Implications for Capital Formation and the Yield Curve"
Juan Medina, The University of Alabama
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"The Effect of Quantitative Easing on the Unemployment Rate in the United States during the Great Recession and Aftermath"
Anne Walker, University of Colorado Denver (Contact Author)

"An Ordered Probit Analysis of Monetary Policy Inertia"
Omer Bayar, University of Evansville (Contact Author)

"Monetary Policy Regimes and Inflation in the New-Keynesian Model"
Bartholomew Moore, Fordham University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Bartholomew Moore, Fordham University
Omer Bayar, University of Evansville
Anne Walker, University of Colorado Denver
Jingping Gu, University of Arkansas
Menelik S. Geremew, Kalamazoo College

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Session Chairs:

Sean E. Mulholland, Stonehill College

Papers:

"The Contribution of Offshoring to the Convexification of the U.S. Wage Distribution"
Sarah Kroeger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Contact Author)

"Private Unions, Public Unions, and Income Inequality"
Sean E. Mulholland, Stonehill College (Contact Author)
Paul Fazio, Stonehill College

"Human Capital Heterogeneity and the Urban Wage Premium"
Christopher Cunningham, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Michaela Patton, The University of Alabama
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"A Real and Permanent Minimum Wage"
Peter Brummund, University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Michael Strain, American Enterprise Institute

"The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Income Inequality in Kenya: A Quantile Regression Analysis"
James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University (Contact Author)
Aniruddha Mitra, Bard College

Discussants:

Peter Brummund, University of Alabama
Viviane M. Bastos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Akbar Marvasti, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University
Sarah Kroeger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Organizers:

Emily Marshall, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Emily Marshall, University of Kentucky

Papers:

"Housing and Monetary Policy"
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama
Ejindu Ume, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"Real Effects of Monetary Policy through Security Repurchase Agreements"
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama
David C. Mills, Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors
Daniel L. Otto, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"Optimal Monetary Policy and Mortgage Structure"
Emily Marshall, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Julio Garin, The University of Georgia
Uluc Aysun, University of Central Florida
Ejindu Ume, The University of Alabama

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