Dynamic Models of International Trade

Presiding: Patrick Conway (University of North Carolina)

 Mitch Kaneda (Georgetown University), "The Evolution and Interaction of Norms: Firm Objectives and the Effects of International Trade and Integration"

 Kar-yiu Wong (University of Washington) and Chong K. Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Dynamic Gains from Trade and Industrialization"

 Thomas Osang (Southern Methodist University) and Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington), "The Growth and Welfare Effects of Tariffs in Small Open Economies"

 Richard Chisik (University of Connecticut), "Gradualism in Free Trade Agreements: A Theoretical Justification"

 Discussants:

Eric Fisher (The Ohio State University)

Richard Barnett (University of Arkansas)

Jon Eaton (Boston University)

Rick Bond (The Pennsylvania State University)  

Panel Data in International Finance

Presiding: Eric Fisher (The Ohio State University)

Kristin Forbes and Roberto Rigobon (MIT), "No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Co-movements"

Dilip Patro, John Wald, and Yangru Wu (Rutgers University), "Explaining Exchange Rate Risk in World Stock Markets: A Panel Approach"

Usha Nair-Reichert (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Diana Weinhold (London School of Economics), "Causality Tests for Cross-Country Panels: New Look at FDI and Economic Growth in Developing Countries"

Michael J. Panik and Farhad Rassekh (University of Hartford), "A Growth Model of Non-Neutral Technical Change in the Presence of Input-Enhancing Factors: A Panel Study"

Discussants:

Graciela Kaminsky (The George Washington University)

Warren Bailey (Cornell University)

Peter Pedroni (Indiana University)

Paul Evans (The Ohio State University)

Can the Tropics Catch Up? Climate and Agriculture in  Economic            Growth  (joint with the American Agricultural Economics Association)
 
Presiding: William A. Masters (Purdue University)

Daniel K. N. Johnson (Wellesley College) and Robert E.  Evenson  (Yale University),  "Innovation, Productivity and Growth: Intersectoral and  International Spillovers"

John L. Gallup (Harvard University) and Jeffrey D. Sachs  (Harvard University), "Geography, Growth and Policy"

T. Channing Arndt (Purdue University) and Melanie Bacou  (Purdue University), "Economywide effects of climate variability in Mozambique"

Margaret S. McMillan (Tufts University) and William A.  Masters  (Purdue University),  "A Political Economy Model of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and  Growth in the Tropics"