IEFS Sessions

Southern Economics Association

Sat 21 - Mon 23 November 2009

San Antonio

 

 

 

Sun 8:00   IEFS   Session 06F - Investment, Trade, and Growth

Chair: Neven Valev, Georgia State University

 

“Chinese State Economic Cooperation and Outward Foreign Direct Investment”

Catherine Co, University of Nebraska-Omaha

 

“Financial Development, Trade Openness, and Economic Growth”

John Kagochi, University of Houston-Victoria

 

“Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Banking Crisis and Expectations of Future Crises”

Neven Valev, Georgia State University

 

 

 

Sun 10:00    IEFS   Session 06G - Trade & Investment

Chair: Sonja Langley, Prarie View A&M

 

“Price Structure and Import Demand for Differentiated Shrimp Products”

Alison Keefe, Kennesaw University

 

“Relatively Speaking:  FDI in Latin America”

W. Charles Sawyer, TCU

 

“Trade and Technology Spillovers: Controlling for Trade Costs and Absorptive Capacity”

Sonja Langley and Lawrence McNeil, Prarie View A&M

 

 

 

Sun 2:00   IEFS   Session 06H -Technology, Productivity, and Growth

Chair: W. Charles Sawyer, TCU

 

“Patent Breadth in an International Setting”

Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt

 

“Hicks Path: Optimal Strategy of Technological Improvement in an Open Economy”

Xuebing Yang, University of Oklahoma

 

“Institutional Quality and Total Factor Productivity in Latin America”

W. Charles Sawyer, TCU

 


 

Sun 4:14   IEFS   Session 06I - International Time Series

Chair: Tanya Molodtsova, Emory

 

“The (Un)Reliability of Real-Time Output Gap Estimates with Revised Data”

Onur Ince, University of Houston

 

“Wages in a Factor Proportions Structural VAR Model”

Henry Thompson, Auburn

 

“Real-Time Exchange Rate Predictability with Taylor Rule Fundamentals”

Tanya Molodtsova, Emory

 

 

 

 

Mon 8:00   IEFS   Session 06J - Factor Proportions Trade

Chair: Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford

 

“An Oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin Model of Foreign Direct Investment”

Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University

 

“Industrial Structure and Factor Proportions Trade”

Henry Thompson, Auburn

 

"Is Stolper-Samuelson Dead?"

Farhad Rassekh, University of Hartford

 

 

Contacts

 

Catherine Co

College of Business Administration
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, NE 68182
402-554-2805
cco@mail.unomaha.edu

 

Onur Ince

Dept of Economics

University of Houston

Houston TX 77006

713-743-3800

Onur.Ince@mail.uh.edu

 

John Kagochi

Dept of Economics

University of Houston-Victoria

3007 N. Ben Wilson

Victoria TX 77901
361-570-4848,

KagochiJ@uhv.edu

 

Alison Keefe

College of Business

Kennesaw University

1000 Chastain Road

Kennesaw GA 30144

770-420-4469

Alison_Keefe@coles2.kennesaw.edu

 

 

Sajal Lahiri

Dept of Economics

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

MC 4515; 1000 Faner Drive

Carbondale, IL. 62901

lahiri@siu.edu

 

Sonja Langley

Dept of Management and Marketing

Prairie View A&M University

P. O. Box 519, MS 2315

Prairie View, Texas 77446

936-261-9209

sblangley@pvamu.edu

 

Tanya Molodtsova

Dept of Economics

Emory University

1602 Fishburne Dr

Atlanta, GA 30322

281- 907-3934

tmolodt@emory.edu

 

Farhad Rassekh

Dept of Economics

University of Hartford

200 Bloomfield Ave

Hartford CT 06117

860 768 4444

rassekh@hartford.edu

 

W. Charles Sawyer

Dept of Economics

TCU

Fort Worth TX   76129

601-310-6524

w.c.sawyer@tcu.edu

 

Henry Thompson

Economics

Auburn University AL 66849

334-844-2910

thomph2@auburn.edu

 

Neven Valev

Dept of Economics

Georgia State University

14 Marietta St NW, 5th Floor
Atlanta, GA 30303

404-413-0141

PRCNTV@langate.gsu.edu

 

Xuebing Yang

Dept of Economics

University of Oklahoma

1113 Melisa Dr.

Norman, OK 73071

405-512-4852

ansupin@ou.edu

 

Benjamin Zissimos

Dept of Economics

Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351819
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1819

615-322-3339

ben.zissimos@vanderbilt.edu