Session at Southern Economic Association Meeting

Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB)

Sessions at 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association

The Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB) and Bangladesh Young Economists (BYE) are organizing TWO sessions at 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Washington D. C. (November 20 - 23, 2008)

Sunday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA	Session 4L Issues on Monetary Policy and Real Business Cycle in Open Economy
*Organizers:*	Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University
Session Chairs:	Akm Mahbub Morshed, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
*Papers:*	"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Segmented Asset Market & Sticky Prices" Subrata Sarker, University of British Columbia (Contact Author) "The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A Structural VAR Approach" Rokon Bhuiyan, Queen's University (Contact Author) "A Two-Sector International Real Business Cycles Model with Investment-Specific Technology Shocks" Sharif F. Khan, Queen's University (Contact Author) "The Credit Channel in a Small, Open Economy" Sadaquat Junayed, Carleton University (Contact Author) Huntley Schaller, Carleton University
*Discussants:*	Faisal Ahmed, International Monetary Fund Arabinda Basistha, West Virginia University Akm Mahbub Morshed, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Kazi Iqbal, The World Bank

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Sunday 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SEA	Session 4M Empirical Analysis of Migration, Marriage and Corruption
*Organizers:*	Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University
Session Chairs:	M. Shahe Emran, George Washington University
*Papers:*	"Corruption and Health: Evidences from Cross-Country Analysis" Khawaja A. Mamun, Sacred Heart University (Contact Author) Le Wang, University of Minnesota "Effects of Employment on Marriage and Cohabitation: Evidence from a Randomized Study of the Job Crops Program" Arif A. Mamun, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (Contact Author) "The Hidden Cost of Migration: Effect of Brother's Migration on Sister's Marriage Outcomes in Rural Bangladesh" Ali Ehsan Protik, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. "Migration, Sorting and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Bangladesh" Forhad Shilpi, South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development & Development Economics Research Group (Contact Author)
*Discussants:*	Pallab Mozumder, Florida International University M. Shahe Emran, George Washington University Forhad Shilpi, South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development & Development Economics Research Group Paul Carrillo, George Washington University