August 7, 2012
11:30 am – 1:15 pm
Check in and lunch, Oechsle Hall Lobby
Session 1: 1:30 – 3:45 pm, 224 Oechsle Hall Auditorium
Banking and Finance
Chair: Ed Gamber, Lafayette College
| Paper and Presenter | Discussant |
| The Economic Consequences of TARPHeather A. Montgomery, International Christian University: Tokyo, Japan | Masami Imai, Wesleyan University |
| When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931Patrick Van Horn, New College of Florida | Giandomenico Sarolli, Drew University |
| International Experience and Cross-Border MergersCaleb Stroup, Grinnell College | Cynthia Bansak, St. Lawrence University |
| Foreign Lending, Local Lending and Economic Growth Judit Temesvary, Hamilton College |
David Stifel, Lafayette College |
3:45- 4:15 pm BREAK TIME, SNACKS AND COFFEE, Oechsle Hall Lobby
Session 2: 4:15-6:00 pm, 224 Oechsle Hall Auditorium
Monetary Policy
Chair: Julie Smith, Lafayette College
| Paper and Presenter | Discussant |
| Forecast Bias in Two Dimensions Dean Croushore, University of Richmond |
Ed McKelvey, Oberlin College |
| Congress and the Federal Reserve Cameron Shelton, Claremont McKenna College | Ed Gamber, Lafayette College |
| Monetary Intervention Really Did Mitigate Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Evidence Along the Atlanta Federal Reserve District Border Andrew Jalil, Occidental College |
Andrew Economopoulos, Ursinus College |
6:15 – 6:45 Happy half hour, Wilson Room Pfenning Alumni Center
6:45 – 9:00 pm Dinner, Wilson Room Pfenning Alumni Center
August 8, 2012
8:00 – 8:45 Continental Breakfast, Oechsle Hall Lobby
Session 3: 9:00 – 10:45 am, 224 Oechsle Hall Auditorium
Business Cycles
Chair: Pao-Lin Tien, Wesleyan University
| Paper and Presenter | Discussant |
| Uncertainty Shocks, Mean-Variance Frontiers, and Business Cycles,M. Saif Mehkari, University of Richmond | Judit Temesvary, Hamilton College |
| Business Cycles and Financial Crises (July 30, 2012 draft) Ellis Tallman |
Andrew Jalil, Occidental College |
| Cross-border banking in the expanded EU Jason Jones, Furman University |
Geoffrey Woglom, Amherst College |
10:45-11:15 BREAK
Session 4: 11:15 – 1:00, 224 Oechsle Hall Auditorium
Long-Term Economic Growth
Chair: Marc Tomljanovich
| Paper and Presenter | Discussant |
| Political Economy of Growth with a Preference for StatusLewis Davis, Union College | Nicole Simpson, Colgate University |
| Trade, Technology and the Great DivergenceAhmed S. Rahman, United States Naval Academy | David Amdur, Muhlenberg College |
| Does Nation Building Spur Economic Growth?Katherine Smith, U.S. Naval Academy | James DeVault, Lafayette College |
1:00-1:15 Survey and Evaluation
Boxed Lunches