International Economics and Finance Society ASSA 2009, San Francisco

 


Session Title: Parallel Imports and Trade Policy

 

Presiding: Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University

 

Keith E. Maskus (University of ColoradoBoulder) – Competition policy, wholesale price discrimination, and parallel imports (Presidential address)

 

Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University) – Parallel imports under endogenous market structure

 

Ben Zissimos (Vanderbilt University) – Optimum tariffs and retaliation: how country numbers matter

 

Ronald Davies (University College, Dublin) and Carsten Eckel (University of Bamberg) – Tax competition for heterogeneous firms with endogenous entry

 

 

Discussants:

 

Eric W. Bond (Vanderbilt University)

 

Martin Richardson (Australian National University)

 

Costas Syropoulos (Drexel University)

 

Santanu Roy (Southern Methodist University)

 

Expected Attendance 40

 

Presiding: Kamal Saggi

Department of Economics
Southern Methodist University

3300 Dyer Street, Suite 301
Dallas, TX 75275-0496

 


 

 

 

Session Title:  What the Big Mac and the Taylor Rule Have in Common

 

Presiding: Mario J. Crucini, Vanderbilt University

 

Robert Driskill (Vanderbilt University) – Big Mac Exchange Rates: A General Equilibrium Dynamic Model.

 

Andrei Zlate (Boston College) – Production Sharing and Business Cycle Co-Movements with Heterogeneous Firms

 

Yin-Wong Cheung (UC – Santa Cruz) and Eiji Fujii (University of Tsukuba) – Deviations from the Law of One Price in Japan.

 

Hyeongwoo Kim (Auburn University) and Masao Ogaki (Ohio State University) – Purchasing Power Parity and the Taylor Rule.

 

Discussants:

 

Kanda Nakoi (Purdue University)

Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University)


Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University)


David Papell (University of Houston)

 

Expected Attendance 40

 

Presiding: Mario J. Crucini

Department of Economics

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN, 37235-1819.