Monetary Policies and Growth
Presiding: WING THYE WOO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)
Does the Very Act of Joining a Currency Union Increase Business Cycle Synchronization and Eliminate the Need for Different National Monetary Policies? Lessons from the Eurozone Experience
WILLIAM MILES (WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY)
CHU-PING VIJVERBERG (WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving: Evidence from Taiwan
PEI-JU LIAO (ACADEMIA SINICA)
MIN-CHUNG HSU (NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)
Mapping Inequality in Wealth Accumulation, Market Share Shifting and Quality of Life
(Q.O.L.) Transformation—A Inter-temporary Study on the Richest 100 Billionaires in
China and U. S.A: 2005, 2007 and 2009
BEN-CHIEH LIU (CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY)
JAN-JO CHEN (CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY)
WEI-LI CHEN (CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY)
LEE-HSUAN LIN, (YUAN-ZE UNIVERSITY)
The Size and Distribution of Hidden Household Income in China
WING THYE WOO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)
Discussants:
BEN LIU (CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY)
WING THYE WOO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)
PEI-JU LIAO (ACADEMIA SINICA)
CHU-PING VIJVERBERG (WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY)

Source of Growth and Economic Integration
Presiding: BEN-CHIEH LIU ( CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY )
Accounting for China’s Long-term Growth: How Important is Demographic Change?
MIN-CHUNG HSU (NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)
PEI-JU LIAO (ACADEMIA SINICA)
MIN ZHAO (WORLD BANK)
East Asian Growth Experience Revisited from the Perspective of a Neoclassical Model
SHU-SHIUAN LU (NATIONAL TSING-HUA UNIVERSITTY)
Evaluation of the Japanese Agricultural Policy Reforms under the WTO Agreement on
Agriculture
YOSHIHISA GODO (MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY)
Will a Free Trade Agreement with China Hurt Unskilled Labor in Taiwan?
CHU-PING LO (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
Discussants:
CHANG-CHING LIN (ACADEMIA SINICA)
MIN-CHUNG HSU (NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)
CHU-PING LO (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
YOSHIHISA GODO (MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY)
Increasing Returns, Outsourcing, and Innovation
Presiding: JANG-TING GUO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)
Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World
DAVIN CHOR (SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY)
EDWIN L.-C.LAI
(HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
FDI, Outsourcing and Wage Inequality: A North-South Model of Skills Accumulation
HUNG-JU CHEN (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
Increasing Returns and News-Driven Business Cycles
JANG-TING GUO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)
ANCA-LOANA SIRBU (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)
RICHARD M.H. SUEN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)
Discussants:
HUNG-JU CHEN (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
YI-LI CHIEN (PURDU UNIVERSITY)
SHU-SHIUAN LU (NATIONAL TSING-HUA UNIVERSITTY)

Industrial Organization (L2)
Presiding : SERENA NG (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
Testing for Cournot vs. Bertrand Competition in Differential Product Market and the
Implication of Merger Analysis, with an Application to the Airline Industry
HANMING FANG (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market
GREG LEWIS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
MATT BACKUS (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN)
The Use of FLF contracts in the Video Rental Industry
KATE HO (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
JUSTIN HO (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
JULIE MORTIMER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Selling in Department Stores: An Analysis of Manufacturer-Retailers Contracts
TAT CHAN (WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-ST. LOUIS)
Discussants:
MATT SHUM (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
HAN HONG (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
PANLE JIA (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
ANDREW CHING (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
Education and Microeconomic Empirical Studies
Presiding: TIN-CHUN LIN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY, NORTHWEST)
Do Female Politicians Influence Public Spending? Evidence from Taiwan
LI-JU CHEN (FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY)
The Role of Peer: Tobacco Tax on Teenager’s Starting Smoking Behaviors
FUNG-MEY HUANG (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
YIR-HUEIH LUH (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
YU-NING CHIEN (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
Using Brain Drain Migration to Induce Education Investment-An Experimental
Investigation JOSEPH TAO-YI WANG (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
Does Student Evaluation of Teaching Create Negative Impacts in the Knowledge Market?
TIN-CHUN LIN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY, NORTHWEST)
Discussants:
FUNG-MEY HUANG (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
JOSEPH TAO-YI WANG (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)
TIN-CHUN LIN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY, NORTHWEST)
SANAE TASHIRO (RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE)

Financial Economics
Presiding: WAN-JIUN PAUL CHIOU (SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
Modeling Time-Varying Dependence in Equity Portfolio with Copulas
CHUN-PIN HSU (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)
CHIN-WEN HUANG (WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY)
A Dynamic Model of the Optimal Growth Rate and Payout Ratio: A Joint Optimization
Approach
CHENG-FEW LEE (Rutgers University)
HONG-YI CHEN (Rutgers University)
MANAK C. GUPTA (Temple University)
ALICE C. LEE (State Street Corp.)
Real Exchange Rate Persistence: Evidence from Korea-Japan Exchange Rate
CHUN-CHIH CHANG (NATIONAL DONG-HWA UNIVERSITY)
MING-JEN CHANG (NATIONAL DONG-HWA UNIVERSITY)
CHANG-CHING LIN (ACADEMIA SINICA)
How Has Capital Affected Bank Risk Since Implementation of the Basel Accords?
WAN-JIUN PAUL CHIOU (SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
ROBERT L. PORTER (QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY)
Discussants:
HONG-YI CHEN (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)
CHIN-WEN HUANG (WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY)
WAN-JIUN PAUL CHIOU (SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
LI-JU CHEN (FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY)
Chinese Economic Association in North America
Health Policies and Health Outcomes (I1)
Presiding : MAISY WONG (University of Pennsylvania)
Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine
WINNIE FUNG (WHEATON COLLEGE)
WEI HA (UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS)
Provider Responses to a Global Budget System: The Case of Drug Expenditures in Taiwan
Hospitals
SHIN-YI CHOU (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY)
JAMES A. DEARDEN (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY)
MARY E. DEILY (LEHIGH UNIVERSITY)
HSIEN-MING LIEN (NATIONAL CHENG-CHI UNIVERSITY)
The Mistreated Girls of China
LENA EDLUND (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
AVI EBENSTEIN (HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM)

HONGBIN LI (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)
YUYU CHEN (BEIJING UNIVERSITY)
Endogenous Tort Outcomes: A Dynamic Analysis of Physician Treatment Choice,
Litigation, and Market Entry/Exit
ZHOU YANG (VIRGINIA TECH)
JOAO MACIEIRA (VIRGINIA TECH)
Prenatal Sex Determination and Birth Defects in Taiwan
DOUG ALMOND (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
MING-JEN LIN (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)