2008 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society |
|---|
Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Location | Type | Title | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Bacchus | contributed | International Migration and Sending Countries | 4 |
| 2 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J | invited | Econometrics | 4 |
| 3 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | contributed | Information Economics | 4 |
| 4 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Bonaparte | contributed | The Pricing of Market Variance and Jump Risk | 4 |
| 5 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Sheraton/Regent | invited | New Faces in Econometrics | 4 |
| 6 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon L | invited | Exporters and Multinationals | 4 |
| 7 | January 4, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | invited | Applications of Global Games | 3 |
| 8 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Regent | invited | Public Finance | 4 |
| 9 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Bacchus | contributed | Empirical Models of Labor, Marriage and Insurance Markets | 4 |
| 10 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | contributed | Political Economy | 3 |
| 11 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon L | contributed | Organizations and Compensation | 4 |
| 12 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Bonaparte | contributed | Developments in Econometrics | 4 |
| 13 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriot/Balcony Salon I&J | contributed | Behavioral Choice Theory | 4 |
| 14 | January 4, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | contributed | Contracts and Communication | 4 |
| 15 | January 4, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J | invited | Paired Invited Session: Frontiers of Monetary Economics | 2 |
| 16 | January 4, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | invited | Paired Invited Session: Combining Structural Models and Experimental Data | 2 |
| 17 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Bonaparte | invited | Set Estimation | 4 |
| 18 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon L | invited | Treatment Effects and Policy Analysis | 4 |
| 19 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J | invited | Recent Developments in Experimental Game Theory | 4 |
| 20 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | invited | International Trade | 4 |
| 21 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Regent | contributed | Information and Asset Prices | 4 |
| 22 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Bacchus | contributed | Empirical Macroeconomics | 4 |
| 23 | January 5, 2008 2:30-4:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | invited | Nonlinear Financial Time Series | 4 |
| 24 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | contributed | Dynamic Industrial Organization | 4 |
| 25 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | contributed | Economics of Segregation | 4 |
| 26 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/I&J | contributed | Econometric Theory | 4 |
| 27 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Regent | invited | High Dimensional Estimation | 4 |
| 28 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Bacchus | contributed | Money, Banking and Payments | 4 |
| 29 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Bonaparte | invited | Matching and Market Design | 4 |
| 30 | January 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott Balcony Salon L | contributed | Search Theory | 4 |
| 31 | January 5, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N | invited | Paired Invited Session: Subsampling Methods in Econometrics | 2 |
| 32 | January 5, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J | invited | Paired Invited Session: Market Design | 2 |
| 33 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Regent | contributed | Empirical Industrial Organization II | 4 |
| 34 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | contributed | Theory and Evidence on Pricing Factors in Asset Markets | 5 |
| 35 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Iberville | contributed | Monetary Economics | 4 |
| 36 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Bacchus | invited | Foundations of Price Formation | 4 |
| 37 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony/ Salon L | invited | Topics in macro and growth | 4 |
| 38 | January 6, 2008 8:00-10:00 | Marriott/Balcony Salon J | invited | Structural Econometrics | 4 |
| 39 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Iberville | invited | Microeconometrics: Identification and Estimation | 4 |
| 40 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon J | contributed | International capital flows | 4 |
| 41 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Bacchus | invited | Heterogeneous Information in Macroeconomics | 4 |
| 42 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon L | invited | Experimental Economics | 5 |
| 43 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | contributed | Macro Factors in Asset Markets | 4 |
| 44 | January 6, 2008 10:15-12:15 | Marriott/Regent | contributed | Unemployment | 4 |
| 45 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon J | contributed | Information Dynamics and Incentives | 4 |
| 46 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon L | contributed | Informal Contractual Arrangements in Low-Income Countries | 4 |
| 47 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Bacchus | contributed | Monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy | 4 |
| 48 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Balcony Salon K | contributed | Empirical Industrial Organization | 4 |
| 49 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Regent | contributed | Corporate Control and Governance | 3 |
| 50 | January 6, 2008 12:30-2:30 | Marriott/Iberville | invited | Adverse Selection, Herding, and Reputations | 4 |
50 sessions, 191 papers |
|---|
2008 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society |
|---|
Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: International Migration and Sending Countries |
|---|
| Session Chair: Gordon Hanson, UCSD |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: O15 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Evidence from an African Success Story |
| JEL codes: F22 J24 O15 |
| Presented by: Catia Batista, University of Oxford |
| Discussant: Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development |
| Occupational Choice, Migration and Remittances in El Salvador |
| Presented by: Pablo Acosta, Andean Development Corporation (CAF) |
| Discussant: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Migration as Price Arbitrage: Evidence from Mexican Workers in the U.S. |
| Presented by: Hyejin Ku, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Gordon Hanson, UCSD |
| Self-selection patterns in Mexico-U.S. migration: The role of migration networks |
| Presented by: David McKenzie, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
Session 2: Econometrics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Paul Ruud, University of California |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C01 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J |
| Finite Sample Bias Corrections for IV Estimation with Weak and Many Instruments |
| JEL codes: C13, C31 |
| Presented by: Matthew Harding, MIT |
| Discussant: Patrik Guggenberger, UCLA |
| Testing of Hypotheses in the Presence of Weakly Identified Nuisance Parameters |
| Presented by: Eric Zivot, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |
| Discussant: Stanislav Anatolyev, New Economic School |
| Inference on Counterfactual Distributions |
| Presented by: Ivan Fernandez-Val, Boston University |
| Discussant: Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania |
| Semiparametric Multinomial Choice and Random Utility Models |
| Presented by: Paul Ruud, University of California |
| Discussant: Rosa Matzkin, UCLA |
Session 3: Information Economics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: D82 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Multidimensional Screening, Affiliation, and Full Separation |
| JEL codes: D82 |
| Presented by: Dezso Szalay, University of Warwick |
| An Economic Model of Friendship: Diversity, Minorities and Integration |
| Presented by: Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University |
| The fragility of information aggregation in large elections |
| Presented by: Michael Mandler, Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| Smooth Monotone Games of Contribution |
| Presented by: Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania |
Session 4: The Pricing of Market Variance and Jump Risk |
|---|
| Session Chair: Torben Andersen, Northwestern University, Kellogg School |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: G1 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Bonaparte |
| Bond Risk Premia and Realized Jump Volatility |
| JEL codes: G12,G14,E43,C22 |
| Presented by: Jonathan Wright, Federal Reserve Board |
| Nonparametric Estimation of State-Price Densities Implicit in Interest Rate Cap Prices |
| Presented by: Feng Zhao, Rutgers University |
| The Price of Market Volatility Risk |
| Presented by: Jefferson Duarte, University of Washington |
| The Pricing of Variance Risk in the US Treasury Market |
| Presented by: oleg bondarenko, University of Illinois -- Chicago |
Session 5: New Faces in Econometrics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C01 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Sheraton/Regent |
| t-statistic Based Correlation and Heterogeneity Robust Inference |
| JEL codes: C32 |
| Presented by: Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Brendan Beare, Yale University |
| One-dimensional inferences in autoregressive models in a potential presence of a unit root |
| Presented by: Anna Mikusheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Discussant: Brendan Beare, Yale University |
| Instrumental Variables Methods for Recovering Continuous Linear Functionals |
| Presented by: Andres Santos, University of California - San Diego |
| Discussant: Giuseppe Ragusa, University of California, Irvine |
| Treatment Effect Bounds: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization |
| Presented by: Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago |
| Discussant: Giuseppe Ragusa, University of California, Irvine |
Session 6: Exporters and Multinationals |
|---|
| Session Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: F1 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon L |
| Dissecting FDI |
| JEL codes: F23, F12, C21 |
| Presented by: Joern Kleinert, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen |
| Discussant: Costas Arkolakis, University of Minnesota and Yale University |
| New Products in Export Markets: Learning from Experience and Learning from Others |
| Presented by: Ricardo Lopez, Indiana University |
| Discussant: Thomas Chaney, The University of Chicago |
| Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills |
| Presented by: Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego |
| Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on the Export Intensity of Foreign Affiliates |
| Presented by: Ayca Tekin-Koru, Oregon State University |
Session 7: Applications of Global Games |
|---|
| Session Chair: Andrea Finicelli, Bank of Italy |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C7 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| Endogenous information and credibility of beliefs in a global game |
| JEL codes: C72, D82, D84 |
| Presented by: Andrea Finicelli, Bank of Italy |
| Efficient Dynamic Coordination with Private Learning |
| Presented by: Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics |
| Network Structure in a Link Formation Game: |
| Presented by: Rodrigo Harrison, Catholic University of Chile |
Session 8: Public Finance |
|---|
| Session Chair: Che-Lin Su, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: H2 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Public Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in an Endogenously Growing Economy with Labor-Market Frictions |
| JEL codes: O4, D9, J2 |
| Presented by: Ping Wang, Washington University of St. Louis |
| Informative Voting and the Samuelson Rule |
| Presented by: Felix Bierbrauer, Max Planck Institute |
| The Role of Social Preferences for Optimal Taxation without Commitment |
| Presented by: Catarina Reis, Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Optimal Income Taxation with Multidimensional Taxpayer Types |
| Presented by: Che-Lin Su, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
Session 9: Empirical Models of Labor, Marriage and Insurance Markets |
|---|
| Session Chair: Michael Keane, University of Technology Sydney |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: J0 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Wage Structure, 1968-1996 |
| JEL codes: H2, J23, J31 |
| Presented by: Michael Keane, University of Technology Sydney |
| Competing for the Opposite Sex: An Equilibrium Model of Sex and Dating |
| Presented by: Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University |
| Bankruptcy, Medical Insurance and a Law with Unintended Consequences |
| Presented by: Thomas Koch, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| On Scarlet Letters and Clean Slates: Criminal Records Policy in a Dynamic Model of Human Capital Accumulation and Criminal Behavior |
| Presented by: Juan Pantano, UCLA |
Session 10: Political Economy |
|---|
| Session Chair: Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montreal |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: p16 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Who abstains in equilibrium? |
| JEL codes: D71, D72, D82. |
| Presented by: Santiago Oliveros, Haas School of Business- UC Berkeley |
| A Positive Theory of Income Taxation |
| Presented by: Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau, Rutgers University |
| REDISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS WITH DISTORTIONARY TAXATION |
| Presented by: Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montreal |
Session 11: Organizations and Compensation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Derek Neal, University of Chicago |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: J3 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon L |
| Hierarchies and Earnings Inequality Among U.S. Lawyers, 1977-92 |
| JEL codes: J24,J31,J44,L22 |
| Presented by: Thomas Hubbard, Northwestern University (KSM) |
| Discussant: Mario Macis, university of chicago |
| Difference That CEOs Make: An Assignment Model Approach |
| Presented by: Marko Tervio, University of California, Berkeley |
| Discussant: Mario Macis, university of chicago |
| Superstars or Superlemons? Top Executive Pay and Corporate Acquisitions |
| Presented by: Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board |
| Discussant: Derek Neal, University of Chicago |
| A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium |
| Presented by: Alex Edmans, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussant: Derek Neal, University of Chicago |
Session 12: Developments in Econometrics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Victor Chernozhukov, MIT |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: C1 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Bonaparte |
| Quantile-Based Nonparametric Inference for First-Price Auctions |
| Presented by: Vadim Marmer, University of British Columbia |
| TESTING FOR STOCHASTIC MONOTONICITY |
| Presented by: Yoon-Jae Whang, Seoul National University |
| Testing Parameter Constancy Across Many Groups |
| Presented by: Shinichi Sakata, University of British Columbia |
| Inference in linear regression models with many regressors |
| Presented by: Stanislav Anatolyev, New Economic School |
Session 13: Behavioral Choice Theory |
|---|
| Session Chair: Jawwad Noor, Boston University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: D01 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriot/Balcony Salon I&J |
| Living with Risk |
| JEL codes: D80, D81 |
| Presented by: Larry Epstein, Boston University |
| Foundations of Intrinsic Habit Formation |
| Presented by: Kareen Rozen, Princeton University |
| Absolute Ambiguity Aversion and Mean-Dispersion Preferences |
| Presented by: Simon Grant, Rice University |
| Hyperbolic Discounting and the Standard Model |
| Presented by: Jawwad Noor, Boston University |
Session 14: Contracts and Communication |
|---|
| Session Chair: Shan ZHAO, GREMAQ |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: D86 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships |
| JEL codes: D21, D23, D82. |
| Presented by: David Rahman, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Disclosing Multiple Product Attributes |
| Presented by: Jiayin Sun, Boston University |
| Two-sided Argumentation |
| Presented by: Wioletta Dziuda, Kellogg School of Management |
| Policy Persistence in Repeated Common Agency Game |
| Presented by: Shan ZHAO, GREMAQ |
Session 15: Paired Invited Session: Frontiers of Monetary Economics |
|---|
| Session Chair: George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: E5 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J |
| A New Model of Central-Bank Intervention |
| Presented by: Neil Wallace, Pennsylvania State University |
| Discussant: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University |
| Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run |
| Presented by: Randall Wright, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussant: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University |
Session 16: Paired Invited Session: Combining Structural Models and Experimental Data |
|---|
| Session Chair: Edward Vytlacil, Columbia University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C01 |
| Date: January 4, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Estimating Dynamic Models Using Experimental Data |
| Presented by: Costas Meghir, University College London |
| Discussant: Joseph Altonji, Yale University |
| Ex Ante Policy Evaluation |
| Presented by: Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussant: Joseph Altonji, Yale University |
Session 17: Set Estimation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Victor Chernozhukov, MIT |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C1 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Bonaparte |
| New Estimation Methods in Set Identified Models |
| Presented by: Elie Tamer, Northwestern University |
| Inference in Incomplete Models |
| Presented by: Alfred Galichon, Ecole Polytechnique |
| Set Identified Linear Models |
| Presented by: Christian Bontemps, Toulouse School of Economics |
| Asymptotic Behavior of Inequality Constrained Models - With Applications to Office Supply Superstores |
| Presented by: Francesca Molinari, Cornell |
Session 18: Treatment Effects and Policy Analysis |
|---|
| Session Chair: Arthur Lewbel, Boston College |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: c21 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon L |
| A nonparametric analysis of optimal healthcare expenditure |
| JEL codes: C14, C21, C44 |
| Presented by: Debopam Bhattacharya, Dartmouth College |
| Adaptive Design of Multiple Stage Experiments using the Propensity Score |
| Presented by: Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona |
| Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity? |
| Presented by: Tobias Klein, Tilburg University |
| Identifying the Returns to Lying When the Truth is Unobserved |
| Presented by: Arthur Lewbel, Boston College |
Session 19: Recent Developments in Experimental Game Theory |
|---|
| Session Chair: Bruce Weinberg, The Ohio State University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C90 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J |
| The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence |
| Presented by: Guillame Frechette, New York University |
| Discussant: John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh |
| An Experimental Study of Jury Deliberation |
| Presented by: Jacob Goeree, California Institute of Technology |
| Discussant: Massimo Morelli, Ohio State University |
| Are Two Heads Really Better than One? Team Play versus Advice in Signaling Games |
| Presented by: David Cooper, Case Western Reserve University |
| Discussant: Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology |
| Promotions in Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments: an Experimental Investigation |
| Presented by: Steffen Altmann, IZA Bonn and University of Bonn |
| Discussant: Bruce Weinberg, The Ohio State University |
Session 20: International Trade |
|---|
| Session Chair: James Anderson, Boston College |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: F1 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions |
| Presented by: Arnaud Costinot, University of California, San Diego |
| Discussant: Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago |
| Product Quality and Trade |
| Presented by: Francisco Alcala, Universidad de Murcia |
| Discussant: Christian Broda, University of Chicago |
| Unpacking Sources of Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Approach |
| Presented by: Davin Chor, Singapore Management University |
| Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade |
| Presented by: James Anderson, Boston College |
Session 21: Information and Asset Prices |
|---|
| Session Chair: Wei Xiong, Princeton University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: g12 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Advance Information and Asset PRices |
| JEL codes: G12, G14 |
| Presented by: Rui Albuquerque, Boston University |
| A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance |
| Presented by: Xavier Gabaix, New York University |
| Information Transmission in Large Markets |
| Presented by: Darrell Duffie, Stanford University |
| Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets |
| Presented by: Wei Xiong, Princeton University |
Session 22: Empirical Macroeconomics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Ricardo Reis, Princeton University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: E0 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| Forecasting Output Growth and Inflation: How to Use Information in the Yield Curve |
| JEL codes: C5, E4 |
| Presented by: Tae-Hwy Lee, University of California, Riverside |
| Discussant: Jonathan Wright, Federal Reserve Board |
| Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions |
| Presented by: Chiara Scotti, Federal Reserve Board |
| Discussant: Jonathan Wright, Federal Reserve Board |
| How Much Inflation is Necessary to Grease the Wheels? |
| Presented by: Jinill Kim, Federal Reserve Board |
| Discussant: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University |
| Measuring changes in the value of the numeraire |
| Presented by: Ricardo Reis, Princeton University |
| Discussant: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University |
Session 23: Nonlinear Financial Time Series |
|---|
| Session Chair: Xilong Chen, UNC at Chapel Hill |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C51 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 2:30 - 4:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Detecting Misspecifications in Autoregressive Conditional Duration Models |
| JEL codes: C4, C2 |
| Presented by: Yoon-Jin Lee, Indiana University |
| Causality and the Estimation of Volatility in High Frequency Data |
| Presented by: Per Mykland, The University of Chicago |
| Modeling Financial Return Dynamics by Decomposition |
| Presented by: Nikolay Gospodinov, Concordia University |
| News - good or bad - and its impact over multiple horizons |
| Presented by: Xilong Chen, UNC at Chapel Hill |
Session 24: Dynamic Industrial Organization |
|---|
| Session Chair: Matti Liski, Helsinki School of Economics |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: L0 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Selling to Consumers with Endogenous Types |
| JEL codes: D42, D82, L12 |
| Presented by: Joel Shapiro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Sequential Merger Review |
| Presented by: Michael Whinston, Northwestern Universtiy |
| Dynamic Duopoly with Inattentive Firms |
| Presented by: Ludwig Ressner, University of Munich |
| Strategic oil-dependence |
| Presented by: Matti Liski, Helsinki School of Economics |
Session 25: Economics of Segregation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: r23 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| SPATIAL MISMATCH OR RACIAL MISMATCH? |
| JEL codes: J15, |
| Presented by: David Neumark, University of California, Irvine |
| Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University |
| Searching for the Best Neighborhood |
| Presented by: Giulio Zanella, University of Siena |
| Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University |
| The Move Decision among Low-Income Households |
| Presented by: Bulent Anil, Georgia State University |
| Discussant: Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago |
| Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation |
| Presented by: Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University |
| Discussant: Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago |
Session 26: Econometric Theory |
|---|
| Session Chair: AMAN ULLAH, UNIV OF CALIFORNIA |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: C14 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/I&J |
| Estimating equations for a class of time-irreversible multi-factor models |
| JEL codes: C02, C13, C53 |
| Presented by: Sergei Levendorskii, |
| Local Generalized Minimum Contrast Estimation of Conditional Moment Restrictions Models |
| Presented by: Martin Burda, University of Toronto |
| General Specification Testing with Locally Misspecified Models |
| Presented by: Anil Bera, University of Illinois |
| Local Polynomial Estimation of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Models |
| Presented by: AMAN ULLAH, UNIV OF CALIFORNIA |
Session 27: High Dimensional Estimation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Edward Vytlacil, Columbia University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C13 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Conditional Quantile Processes under Increasing Dimension |
| JEL codes: C13, C21 |
| Presented by: Alexandre Belloni, Duke University |
| Discussant: Joel Horowitz, Northwestern University |
| Asymptotic Properties of Bridge Estimators in Sparse, High-Dimensional Regression Models |
| Presented by: Joel Horowitz, Northwestern University |
| Discussant: Alexandre Belloni, Duke University |
| The principal components estimation of large factor models when factors are weak |
| Presented by: Alexei Onatski, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Jinchi Lv, Princeton University |
| Sure Independence Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Feature Space |
| Presented by: Jinchi Lv, Princeton University |
| Discussant: Alexei Onatski, Columbia University |
Session 28: Money, Banking and Payments |
|---|
| Session Chair: Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: E5 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| payments and mechanism design |
| JEL codes: E |
| Presented by: Ted Temzelides, University of Pittsburgh |
| Discussant: Neil Wallace, Pennsylvania State University |
| Liquidity saving mechanisms |
| Presented by: Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Discussant: Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Patents and Money |
| Presented by: Carlo Strub, University of Zurich |
| Discussant: Cesaire Meh, Bank of Canada |
| Matching, Money and the Friedman Rule |
| Presented by: Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
| Discussant: huberto ennis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
Session 29: Matching and Market Design |
|---|
| Session Chair: Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C70 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Bonaparte |
| Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism |
| JEL codes: C78, D61, D78 |
| Presented by: Parag Pathak, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Paul Milgrom, Stanford University |
| Strategic Behavior in Multi-unit Assignment Problems: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocations |
| Presented by: Eric Budish, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Paul Milgrom, Stanford University |
| Dynamic House Allocations |
| Presented by: Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne |
| Discussant: Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University |
| Many-to-One Matching with Complementarities and Peer Effects |
| Presented by: Marek Pycia, Penn State University |
| Discussant: Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University |
Session 30: Search Theory |
|---|
| Session Chair: Susan Vroman, Georgetown University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: d83 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott Balcony Salon L |
| Relational Contracts with On-the-Job Search |
| JEL codes: C73, J31, L14 |
| Presented by: Simon Board, University of Toronto |
| Discussant: Leena Rudanko, University of Chicago |
| Price Dispersion with Directed Search |
| Presented by: Gabriele Camera, |
| Discussant: Ian King, University of Otago |
| Search by Committee |
| Presented by: Susan Vroman, Georgetown University |
| Discussant: Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania |
| The Sorting Effect of Price Competition |
| Presented by: Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussant: Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto |
Session 31: Paired Invited Session: Subsampling Methods in Econometrics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Serena Ng, Columbia University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C02 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon M&N |
| Subsampling Methodology |
| Presented by: Joseph Romano, Stanford University |
| Discussant: Joel Horowitz, Northwestern University |
| Subsampling Methods in Econometrics |
| Presented by: Don Andrews, Yale University |
| Discussant: Joel Horowitz, Northwestern University |
Session 32: Paired Invited Session: Market Design |
|---|
| Session Chair: Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: D4 |
| Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon I&J |
| Frontiers of Market Design: Auctions |
| Presented by: Paul Milgrom, Stanford University |
| Discussant: Susan Athey, Harvard University |
| Frontiers of Market Design: Matching |
| Presented by: Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Susan Athey, Harvard University |
Session 33: Empirical Industrial Organization II |
|---|
| Session Chair: Mo Xiao, University of Arizona |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: L1 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Semiparametric Estimation in Models of First-Price, Sealed-Bid Auctions with Affiliation |
| JEL codes: C20, D44, L1 |
| Presented by: Harry Paarsch, University of Iowa |
| Discussant: Sudip Gupta, Indian School of Finance |
| The Costs of Product Repositioning: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry |
| Presented by: Andrew Sweeting, Duke University |
| Discussant: Lanier Benkard, Stanford University |
| Are all managers created equal? |
| Presented by: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto |
| Discussant: Michael Mazzeo, Northwestern University |
| Entry Threat and Entry Deterrence: The Timing of Broadband Rollout |
| Presented by: Mo Xiao, University of Arizona |
| Discussant: Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia |
Session 34: Theory and Evidence on Pricing Factors in Asset Markets |
|---|
| Session Chair: Nour Meddahi, Montreal University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: G1 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| Dynamic Factor Models in Risk Preferences Estimation |
| JEL codes: C 14, G 13 |
| Presented by: Enzo Giacomini, Humboldt University Berlin |
| Testing for Instability in Factor Structure of Yield Curves |
| Presented by: Dennis Philip, Cass Business School |
| Time-Varying Liquidity in Hedge Fund Returns |
| Presented by: Andrew Patton, University of Oxford |
| THE CAPM RELATION FOR INEFFICIENT PORTFOLIOS |
| Presented by: David Feldman, University of New South Wales |
| Generalized Affine Models |
| Presented by: Nour Meddahi, Montreal University |
Session 35: Monetary Economics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Ben Lester, |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: E5 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Iberville |
| Uncertainty, Inflation and Welfare |
| JEL codes: E40, E50 |
| Presented by: Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada |
| Discussant: S. Boragan Aruoba, University of Maryland |
| Money, Capital and Unemployment |
| Presented by: Stella Xiuhua Huangfu, University of Sydney |
| Discussant: Ling Sun, University of Toronto |
| Optimal Stabilization Policy with Endogenous Firm Entry |
| Presented by: Aleksander Berentsen, University of Basel |
| Discussant: Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago, GSB |
| Elastic Money, Inflation, and Interest Rate Policy |
| Presented by: Allen Head, Queen's University |
| Discussant: Ben Lester, |
Session 36: Foundations of Price Formation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Xavier Vives, IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: D4 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| Interdependent Costs and Values, the Buyers’ Bid Double Auction, and the Rate of Convergence to Truth Telling |
| JEL codes: D44 |
| Presented by: Mark Satterthwaite, Northwestern University |
| Discussant: Andrew Postlewaite, university of pennsylvania |
| Search with Learning: Understanding Asymmetric Price Adjustments |
| Presented by: Lixin Ye, Ohio State University |
| Discussant: Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University |
| Bilateral Matching and Bargaining with Private Information |
| Presented by: Artyom Shneyerov, University of British Columbia |
| Discussant: jan eeckhout, University of Pennsylvania |
| Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information |
| Presented by: Xavier Vives, IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL |
| Discussant: William Fuchs, University of Chicago |
Session 37: Topics in macro and growth |
|---|
| Session Chair: Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: E2 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony/ Salon L |
| The Role of Housing Collateral in an Estimated Two-Sector Model of the US Economy |
| JEL codes: E32, E44, E47 |
| Presented by: Matteo Iacoviello, Boston College |
| Value of Life and Economic Growth |
| Presented by: Kenichi Ueda, International Monetary Fund |
| Private Incentives versus Class Interests: Implications for Economic Growth |
| Presented by: Ani Guerdjikova, Cornell University |
| Markups and Inventories in General Equilibrium (S,s) Model |
| Presented by: Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada |
Session 38: Structural Econometrics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Robert Sauer, University of Southampton |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: c3 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 8:00 - 10:00 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon J |
| Constrained Optimization Approaches to Estimation of Structural Models |
| JEL codes: c13 |
| Presented by: Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution |
| Discussant: Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota |
| Interdependent Durations |
| Presented by: Aureo De Paula, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussant: Elie Tamer, Northwestern University |
| Weighting for Attrition in Panel Data Structural Models |
| Presented by: Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University |
| Discussant: Geert Ridder, University of Southern California |
| Classification Error in Discrete Choice Models: Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior |
| Presented by: Robert Sauer, University of Southampton |
| Discussant: Jason Abrevaya, University of Texas |
Session 39: Microeconometrics: Identification and Estimation |
|---|
| Session Chair: Edward Vytlacil, Columbia University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: C3 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Iberville |
| Irregular Identification, Support Conditions and Inverse Weight Estimation |
| JEL codes: C14, C25, C13 |
| Presented by: Shakeeb Khan, Duke University |
| Panel Data and Correlated Heterogeneity |
| Presented by: James Powell, University of California at Berkeley |
| Program evaluation with continuous treatment under monotonicity restiriction |
| Presented by: Yoichi Arai, University of Tokyo |
| identification power of rationality in Simple Games |
| Presented by: Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Princeton University |
Session 40: International capital flows |
|---|
| Session Chair: Bent Sorensen, University of Houston |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: F3 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon J |
| OPTION PRICING APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL RESERVES |
| JEL codes: F31, F41 |
| Presented by: Jaewoo Lee, IMF |
| Discussant: Betty Daniel, State University of New York |
| International Portfolios with Demand and Supply Shocks |
| Presented by: Robert Kollmann, Free University of Brussels |
| Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School |
| Measuring Financial Market Integration Over the Long Run: Is there a U-shape? |
| Presented by: Vadym Volosovych, Florida Atlantic University |
| Discussant: Timothy Chue, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Why Are Capital Flows between Regions So Di erent from Capital Flows |
| Presented by: Bent Sorensen, University of Houston |
| Discussant: David Cook, HKUST |
Session 41: Heterogeneous Information in Macroeconomics |
|---|
| Session Chair: George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: E0 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| Macroeconomic Dynamics under Rational Inattention |
| JEL codes: E2, E3, E5, D8 |
| Presented by: Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University |
| Incomplete Information and Informative Pricing: Theory and Application |
| Presented by: Giacomo Rondina, University of California, San Diego |
| Policy in Economies with Dispersed Information |
| Presented by: George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy |
| Presented by: Eric Young, University of Virginia |
Session 42: Experimental Economics |
|---|
| Session Chair: Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: c9 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon L |
| Bidder Behavior in Sealed Bid Auctions Where the Number of Bidders is Unknown |
| JEL codes: JEL D44, C91 |
| Presented by: Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Florida State University |
| An experimental study of information mechanisms |
| Presented by: Juergen Bracht, University of Aberdeen |
| Equilibrium Selection in Entry Games: An Experimental Study |
| Presented by: John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh |
| Cooperation over finite horizons: a theory and experiments |
| Presented by: Attila Ambrus, Harvard University |
| Computational Mechanism Design and Call Markets |
| Presented by: Jasmina Arifovic, Simon Fraser University |
Session 43: Macro Factors in Asset Markets |
|---|
| Session Chair: Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: G1 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| Explosive Behavior and the Nasdaq Bubble in the 1990s: When Did Irrational Exuberance Escalate Asset Values? |
| JEL codes: G10,C22 |
| Presented by: Yangru Wu, Rutgers University |
| The Cyclical Behavior of Equity Turnover in Financial Markets |
| Presented by: David DeJong, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH |
| Stock Market Volatility and Macroeconomic Fundamentals |
| Presented by: Kamil Yilmaz, Koc University |
| The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on the U.S. Stock Market |
| Presented by: Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan |
Session 44: Unemployment |
|---|
| Session Chair: Christian Haefke, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: J6 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 10:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Resurrecting the Extensive Margin |
| JEL codes: J64, E32 |
| Presented by: Monique Ebell, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
| Discussant: Bjoern Bruegemann, Yale University |
| The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Labor and Capital Market Imperfections |
| Presented by: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
| Discussant: Adriano Rampini, Duke University |
| Big Locational Differences in Unemployment Despite High Labor Mobility |
| Presented by: Damba Lkhagvasuren, Northwestern University |
| Discussant: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Wage Rigidity and Job Creation |
| Presented by: Christian Haefke, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna |
| Discussant: Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania |
Session 45: Information Dynamics and Incentives |
|---|
| Session Chair: Marco Ottaviani, London Business School |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: D8 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon J |
| Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited |
| JEL codes: D82, J31, M12 |
| Presented by: Julia Nafziger, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
| Investment Cycles, Strategic Delay, and Self-Correcting Cascades |
| Presented by: Huanxing Yang, The Ohio State University |
| Searching for a Partner in the Presence of Persistent Uncertainty |
| Presented by: Finn Christensen, Towson University |
| (Mis)selling through Agents |
| Presented by: Marco Ottaviani, London Business School |
Session 46: Informal Contractual Arrangements in Low-Income Countries |
|---|
| Session Chair: Christopher Udry, Yale University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: O10 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon L |
| The Fetters of the Sib |
| JEL codes: D02, D13 |
| Presented by: Ingela Alger, Carleton University |
| Discussant: Rachel Kranton, University of Maryland |
| The Indian Caste System as a Means of Contract Enforcement |
| Presented by: Kripa Freitas, University of Texas at Austin |
| Discussant: Timothy Guinnane, Yale University |
| Network Effects in Risk Sharing and Credit Market Access: Evidence from Istanbul |
| Presented by: Didem Tuzemen, University of Maryland |
| Discussant: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University |
| Moral Hazard, Heterogeneous Agents and Imperfect Monitoring: A Structural Approach |
| Presented by: Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University |
| Discussant: Christopher Udry, Yale University |
Session 47: Monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy |
|---|
| Session Chair: Vasco Curdia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: F3 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Bacchus |
| A Party without a Hangover? On the Effects of U.S. Government Deficits |
| JEL codes: E62;F41;F42;H30 |
| Presented by: Michael Kumhof, International Monetary Fund |
| Discussant: Andrea Ferrero, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Sovereign Risk Premiums in the European Bond Market |
| Presented by: Juergen von Hagen, RHEINISCHE F WILHELMS UNIVERSITAT BONN |
| Discussant: Vasco Curdia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Solving Endogeneity in Assessing the Efficacy of Foreign Exchange Market Interventions |
| Presented by: SEOK GIL PARK, INDIANA UNIVERSITY |
| Discussant: Juergen von Hagen, RHEINISCHE F WILHELMS UNIVERSITAT BONN |
| Optimal Monetary Policy under Sudden Stops |
| Presented by: Vasco Curdia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Discussant: Michael Kumhof, International Monetary Fund |
Session 48: Empirical Industrial Organization |
|---|
| Session Chair: Julie Mortimer, Harvard University |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: L1 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Balcony Salon K |
| The Dynamics of Automobile Expenditures |
| JEL codes: D12, C61, L62 |
| Presented by: Adam Copeland, BEA, US Dept. of Commerce |
| Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University |
| How Much Competition is a Secondary Market? |
| Presented by: Jiawei Chen, University of California-Irvine |
| Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran, |
| Linear Regression Estimation of Discrete Choice Models with Nonparametric Distributions of Random Coefficients |
| Presented by: Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota |
| Discussant: Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University |
| Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability |
| Presented by: Julie Mortimer, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Daniel Ackerberg, UCLA |
Session 49: Corporate Control and Governance |
|---|
| Session Chair: Milton Harris, University of Chicago |
| Session type: contributed |
| Session JEL code: G3 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Regent |
| Concentrating on Governance |
| JEL codes: G30, G34 |
| Presented by: Dalida Kadyrzhanova, University of Maryland |
| Unbundling Ownership and Control |
| Presented by: John Turner, University of Georgia |
| Control of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders vs. Management |
| Presented by: Milton Harris, University of Chicago |
Session 50: Adverse Selection, Herding, and Reputations |
|---|
| Session Chair: Edward Schlee, Arizona State University |
| Session type: invited |
| Session JEL code: d82 |
| Date: January 6, 2008 |
| Time: 12:30 - 2:30 |
| Location: Marriott/Iberville |
| Security Design in Initial Public Offerings |
| Presented by: Simon Gervais, Duke University |
| Discussant: Christine Parlour, University of California at Berkeley |
| Investment Herds |
| Presented by: Helios Herrera, Columbia University and ITAM |
| Discussant: Lones Smith, University of Michigan |
| The Reputation of an Organization and Its Dynamics |
| Presented by: Tianxi Wang, University of Essex and London School of Economics |
| Discussant: Steve Tadelis, Stanford University |
| Optimal Insurance under Adverse Selection |
| Presented by: Edward Schlee, Arizona State University |
| Discussant: Steven Matthews, University of Pennsylvania |
This program was last updated on 2008-03-24 23:5:43 EDT