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
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
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
Neven Valev
Dept of
Economics
Georgia
State University
14
Marietta St NW, 5th Floor
Atlanta, GA 30303
404-413-0141
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