| Saturday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 18D Cross-Country Growth and Convergence  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Do Political Institutions Really Matter for Economic Growth?" "Endogeneity and Growth Regressions" "Institutional Convergence" "Institutional Quality of the Economic Elite" "Miracles, Disasters, and Clubs: Examining Growth Patterns Across Data Series"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          William R. Hauk, Jr., University of South Carolina  | 
| Monday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA  | 
						Session 17J Corruption  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Antonios M. Koumpias, Georgia State University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Fiscal Reform, Land Grab, and Urban Growth in China" "Longitudinal Study of Changes in Legislative Attitudes Towards Economic Policies: The Survey of the Ukrainian Legislators from 1998-2013" "Corruption in the Public Distribution System in Karnataka: Estimating the Cost of the Leakage"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Kritee Gujral, University of Florida  |