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:

Lunan Jiang, SUNY at Stony Brook

Papers:

"Bank Size and Macroeconomic Shock Transmission"
Uluc Aysun, University of Central Florida (Contact Author)

"Household Credit and Monetary Policy Transmission"
Jingping Gu, University of Arkansas (Contact Author)
Javier A. Reyes, University of Arkansas

"Firm Liquidity, Financial Shocks and the U.S. Great Depression"
Lunan Jiang, SUNY at Stony Brook (Contact Author)

"Banking Concentration and Optimal Monetary Policy"
Edgar A. Ghossoub, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Contact Author)

"Where da Cash At?: The Macroeconomics of Firm Level Cash Holdings"
Julio Garin, The University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Chadwick C. Curtis, University of Richmond
M. Saif Mehkari, University of Richmond

Discussants:

Julio Garin, The University of Georgia
Jingping Gu, University of Arkansas
Uluc Aysun, University of Central Florida
Vipin P. Veetil, George Mason University
Edgar A. Ghossoub, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Session Chairs:

Zhongwen Liang, University at Albany, SUNY

Papers:

"A Hybrid Perturbation-Projection Method for Solving DSGE Asset Pricing Models"
Yuanyuan Chen, Marshall University (Contact Author)
Stuart J. Fowler, Middle Tennessee State University

"Modeling and Forecasting US Electricity Consumption"
Mark Hutson, Booz Allen Hamilton (Contact Author)
Frederick Joutz, George Washington University

"Testing for Bubbles in Housing Markets: New Results Using a New Method"
Jair N. Ojeda, Central Bank of Colombia (Contact Author)
Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Central Bank of Colombia

"Testing Cointegration Relationship in a Semiparametric Varying Coefficient Model"
Jingping Gu, University of Arkansas
Zhongwen Liang, University at Albany, SUNY (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Jair N. Ojeda, Central Bank of Colombia
Mark Hutson, Booz Allen Hamilton
Zhongwen Liang, University at Albany, SUNY
Na Kyeong Lee, University of Colorado-Boulder

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