68 sessions, 189 papers

Royal Economic Society 2009 Conference
Complete List of All Sessions

Session 1: Session 1-1: Nominal Rigidities and Monetary Policy
Session Chair: Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Understanding the monetary transmission mechanism in the United Kingdom: The role of nominal and real rigidities
JEL codes: C51, E31, E52
Presented by: Stephen Millard, Bank of England
Dynamics of the Price Distribution in a General Model of State-Dependent Pricing
Presented by: Anton Nakov, Banco de España
Sales and Monetary Policy
Presented by: Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics

Session 2: Session 1-2: Institutions and Economic Development
Session Chair: Arcangelo Dimico, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence
JEL codes: O11,
Presented by: Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
Endogenous Institution Formation under a Catching-up Strategy in Developing Countries
Presented by: Zhiyun LI, University of Oxford
Geography Matters: Reconsidering the Effect of Geography on Development
Presented by: Arcangelo Dimico, University of Nottingham

Session 3: Session 1-3: Theory
Session Chair: Antonio Osorio-Costa, Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Efficient Tournaments within Teams
JEL codes: C7, D7, D8, L2
Presented by: Paul Schweinzer, University of Bonn
Frequent Monitoring in Repeated Games under Brownian Uncertainty
Presented by: Antonio Osorio-Costa, Universidad Carlos III Madrid

Session 4: Session 1-4: Female Labour Supply
Session Chair: Maria Bernarda Zamora Talaya, University of Bristol
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Women's Lifetime Labor Supply and Labor Market Experience
JEL codes: J16, J21, J22,
Presented by: Yishay Maoz, University of Haifa
Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Presented by: Christian Bredemeier, University of Dortmund (TU)
The Causal Effect of Female Labor Participation on Household
Presented by: Maria Bernarda Zamora Talaya, University of Bristol

Session 5: Session 1-5: Obesity and the Fat Tax
Session Chair: Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Imitative obesity and relative utility
JEL codes: D1,
Presented by: Andrew Oswald, Warwick University
The Effects of a "Fat Tax" on the Nutrient Intake of French Households
Presented by: Véronique Nichèle, INRA
Empirical estimates of the impact of a fat tax
Presented by: Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Session 6: Session 1-6: Cross-Country Panel Studies in Trade
Session Chair: Daniel Dias, UCLA-Anderson School Management & Cemapr
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Cross-country heterogeneity and the trade-income relationship
JEL codes: F43, F14, C23
Presented by: Dierk Herzer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Trade, Income and the Exchange Rate in the OECD: elasticities in a panel of industries
Presented by: Nicholas Fawcett, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Zeros in International Trade
Presented by: Daniel Dias, UCLA-Anderson School Management & Cemapr

Session 7: Session 1-7: Firm Heterogeneity
Session Chair: Jie Cai, University of British Columbia
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Estimating Job Destruction Costs with Heterogeneous Firms
JEL codes: D21, J23, C1
Presented by: Nicolas Roys, CeMMAP, University College London
A Structural Estimation for the Effects of Uncertainty on Capital Accumulation with Heterogeneous Firms
Presented by: Guiying Wu, University of Oxford
Knowledge Spillover and Firm Size Heterogeneity
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Presented by: Jie Cai, University of British Columbia

Session 8: Session 1-8: Macroeconomics
Session Chair: Simon Price, Bank of England
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Estimating Regime-switching Taylor Rules with Trend Inflation
JEL codes: E52, E61, E62
Presented by: Luciano Greco, Università degli Studi di Padova
What lies beneath: what can disaggregated data tell us about the behaviour of prices?
Presented by: Haroon Mumtaz, Bank of England
Multivariate Methods for Monitoring Structural Change
Presented by: Simon Price, Bank of England

Session 9: Session 1-9: Voting and Political Parties
Session Chair: Elvire Guillaud, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES)
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Optimal Gerrymandering and Policy Choice: a Welfare Analysis
JEL codes: d70 d72
Presented by: Emanuele Bracco, University of Warwick
How Does Party Fractionalization Convey Preferences for Redistribution in Parliamentary Democracies?
Presented by: Elvire Guillaud, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES)

Session 10: Session 1-10: Efficiency and Information in Financial Markets
Session Chair: B. Gabriela Mundaca, American University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
News and Expectations in Financial Markets: An Experimental Study
JEL codes: C91, D84, G12
Presented by: Daniel Zizzo, University of East Anglia and Australian National University
Testing Downside Risk Efficiency Under Market Distress
Presented by: Jose Olmo, City University, London
Monitoring, liquidity and financial crises
Presented by: B. Gabriela Mundaca, American University

Session 11: Session 1-11: Experiments
Session Chair: Daniel Sgroi, University of Warwick
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Testing Reputational Effects in a Natural Experiment: How Did Arthur Andersen Clients Choose Their New Auditor?
JEL codes: L15, M42
Presented by: Aron Toth, University of Warwick
Child Benefit Support and Method of Payment: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Belgium
Presented by: Marieke Huysentruyt,
Herding and Contrarianism in a Financial Trading Experiment with Endogenous Timing
Presented by: Daniel Sgroi, University of Warwick

Session 12: Session 1-12: School Quality and School Competition
Session Chair: Steve Gibbons, LSE
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England
JEL codes: H11, I21, I28
Presented by: Rebecca Allen, Institute of Education, London
Using Boundary Changes to Estimate the Impact of School Competition on Test Scores
Presented by: Helen Slater, CMPO
VALUING SCHOOL QUALITY USING BOUNDARY DISCONTINUITY REGRESSIONS
Presented by: Steve Gibbons, LSE

Session 13: Session 2-1: Dynamic Macroeconomics
Session Chair: TETYANA DUBOVYK, CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Reconnecting Money to Monetary Policy: the Role of the External Finance Premium
JEL codes: E31 E40 E51
Presented by: Luisa Corrado, University of Cambridge and University
Money in a New-Keynesian Framework: Further Evidence for the U.S.
Presented by: Efrem Castelnuovo, University of Padua
Eastern caution, Western ebullience and global imbalances
Presented by: Lei Zhang, University of Warwick
Retirement Savings Accounts and Human Capital Investment
Presented by: TETYANA DUBOVYK, CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto

Session 14: Session 2-2: Political Economy of Development
Session Chair: Manuel Oechslin, Tilburg University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies, and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence From China and India's FDI
JEL codes: F43,H77, O43
Presented by: Yong Wang, University of Chicago
Population Size and Civil Conflict Risk: Is There A Causal Link?
Presented by: Markus Bruckner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Government Revenues and Economic Growth in Weakly Institutionalized States
Presented by: Manuel Oechslin, Tilburg University

Session 15: Session 2-3: Asymmetric Information, Search and Learning
Session Chair: David Gill, University of Southampton
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Hedge Fund Game: Incentives, Excess Returns, and Performance Mimics
JEL codes: G23, D82, D86
Presented by: Peyton Young, University of Oxford
On the Sources and Value of Information: Public Announcements and Macroeconomic Performance
Presented by: Christopher Wallace, Oxford University
The Optimal Choice of Pre-Launch Reviewer: How Best to Transmit Information using Tests and Conditional Pricing
Presented by: David Gill, University of Southampton

Session 16: Session 2-4: Econometrics
Session Chair: Andreas Pick, University of Cambridge
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Forecasting Using Model Averaging
JEL codes: C01, C5
Presented by: James Reade, University of Oxford
Bounds for quantiles of treatment effects
Presented by: Jinhyun Lee, UCL
Forecasting Random Walks under Drift Instability
Presented by: Andreas Pick, University of Cambridge

Session 17: Session 2-5: Monetary Policy
Session Chair: Ulrich Volz, German Development Institute
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Monetary and fiscal policy aspects of indirect tax changes in a monetary union
JEL codes: E61, E63, F42
Presented by: Leopold von Thadden, European Central Bank
Linear-Quadratic Approximation to Unconditionally Optimal Policy: The Distorted Steady-State
Presented by: Vladislav Damjanovic, University of St Andrews
Measuring Monetary Policy Independence Across Regions
Presented by: Ulrich Volz, German Development Institute

Session 18: Session 2-6: Skills and Returns to Education
Session Chair: Augustin de Coulon, Institute of Education
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
JEL codes: I20 J30
Presented by: Matthew Dickson, University of Warwick
Earnings and Occupational Status Returns to Lifelong Learning
Presented by: Franz Buscha, University of Westminster
Parents’ Basic Skills and Children Cognitive Outcomes
Presented by: Augustin de Coulon, Institute of Education

Session 19: Session 2-7: Empirical Analysis of Firm Productivity
Session Chair: Arti Grover, Delhi School of Economics
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Does the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment Matter For Productivity?
JEL codes: F21, F23 , O4
Presented by: Edna Solomon, University of Essex
The impact of introducing new products on firm productivity. Evidence from German manufacturing firms
Presented by: Bernd Görzig, DIW Berlin
The Indian Business Process Outsourcing Industry: An Evaluation of Firm-Level Performance
Presented by: Arti Grover, Delhi School of Economics

Session 20: Session 2-8: Peer Effects
Session Chair: Haroon Chowdry, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Girl Power? An analysis of peer effects using exogenous changes in the gender make-up of the peer group.
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JEL codes: J1, D1, I21
Presented by: Steven Proud, Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Promotion and Peer Evaluation
Presented by: Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Cambridge
Teenage Risky Behaviours: The Importance of School and Neighbourhood Peer Groups
Presented by: Haroon Chowdry, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Session 21: Session 2-9: Applied Micro
Session Chair: Alexia Gaudeul, University of East Anglia - Norwich
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Betting Odds in the Shadow of Match-Fixing: Keeping the Game Clean
JEL codes: D42, K42
Presented by: Parimal Bag, National University of Singapore
Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey
Presented by: John Haisken-DeNew, RWI, Essen
Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention
Presented by: Chiara Peroni, university of east anglia

Session 22: Session 2-10: Experimental Behavioral Economics
Session Chair: Johannes Abeler, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Dual Criteria Decisions
JEL codes: D01
Presented by: Morten Lau, Newcastle University
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
Presented by: Daniele Nosenzo, University of Nottingham
Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption
Presented by: Johannes Abeler, University of Nottingham

Session 23: Session 2-11: Asset Prices and Financial Crises
Session Chair: Marcus Miller, University of Warwick
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Complexity and crises in financial systems
JEL codes: D85, G21
Presented by: Matthew Willison, Bank of England
The Sub-Prime Crisis and UK Monetary Policy
Presented by: Costas Milas, Keele University
Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11
Presented by: Marcus Miller, University of Warwick

Session 24: Session 2-12: Conflict, Democracy and Decolonization
Session Chair: Roberto Bonfatti, LSE
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Could education promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
JEL codes: I20, O15, O53.
Presented by: Mayssun El-Attar, CeMMAP and IFS
Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World
Presented by: Facundo Albornoz, University of Birmingham
"Decolonization: the role of changing world factor endowments"
Presented by: Roberto Bonfatti, LSE

Session 25: Session 3-1: Macro Econometrics
Session Chair: Jens Clausen, International Monetary Fund
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Forecasting Euro Area Real GDP: Optimal Pooling of Information
JEL codes: C13, C51, C53
Presented by: Johannes Mayr, ifo Institute for Economic Research
Simulating Inflation Forecasting in Real-Time: How Useful Is a Simple Phillips Curve in Germany, the UK, and the US?
Presented by: Jens Clausen, International Monetary Fund

Session 26: Session 3-2: Status Externalities and Public Policy
Session Chair: Daniel Samano, University of Minnesota
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe.
JEL codes: D31, D63, I3
Presented by: Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics
Relative Status and Well Being: Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths
Presented by: Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank
Explaining Taxes on the Rich: The Role of Jealousy
Presented by: Daniel Samano, University of Minnesota

Session 27: Session 3-3: Financial Liberalization and Financial Crises
Session Chair: Choudhry Shehzad, University of Groningen
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Is Deposit Insurance a Good Thing and If so, Who should pay for it?
JEL codes: G21, G28
Presented by: Lucy White, Harvard Business School
Sophistication in Risk Management, Interst Rates, and Banking Stability
Presented by: Jan Wenzelburger, Keele University
Financial Liberalization and Banking Crises
Presented by: Choudhry Shehzad, University of Groningen

Session 28: Session 3-4: Econometrics
Session Chair: Damba Lkhagvasuren, Concordia University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Nonlinearity Tests for Quantile Regime Switching Threshold Models
JEL codes: C14
Presented by: Gabriel Montes-Rojas, City University London
Discretization of Highly Persistent Correlated AR(1) Shocks
Presented by: Damba Lkhagvasuren, Concordia University

Session 29: Session 3-5: International Economics
Session Chair: Ina Simonovska, University of Minnesota
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Transfer-pricing and Measured Productivity of Multinational Firms
JEL codes: D24; F23; H25
Presented by: Socrates Mokkas, Centre for Business Taxation
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy for a Small Open Economy
Presented by: Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics
Income Differences and Prices of Tradables
Presented by: Ina Simonovska, University of Minnesota

Session 30: Session 3-6: International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Session Chair: Beata Javorcik, Department of Economics
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach
JEL codes: F10, F15
Presented by: Natalie Chen, Warwick University
Roll out the Red Carpet and They Will Come: Investment Promotion and FDI Flows to Developing Countries
Presented by: Beata Javorcik, Department of Economics

Session 31: Session 3-7: Unions and Minimum Wages
Session Chair: Sara Pinoli, Università Bocconi
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France
JEL codes: J51; L25
Presented by: John Forth, National Institute for Economic and Social Research
The Geography of the National Minimum Wage
Presented by: Peter Dolton, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE U TYNE
Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage
Presented by: Sara Pinoli, Università Bocconi

Session 32: Session 3-8: Investment
Session Chair: Wendy Carlin, Department of Economics
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Financial Restraints, Globalization and Private Investment: Evidence from a Nonstationary Panel
JEL codes: 016, G18, G28
Presented by: Gregory James, Loughborough University
Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment
Presented by: Wendy Carlin, Department of Economics

Session 33: Session 3-9: Competition and Regulation
Session Chair: Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search
JEL codes: L40, L10, L50
Presented by: Rufus Pollock, University of Cambridge
Information-Sharing Between Competition Authorities: the Case of a Multinational Merger
Presented by: Marta Troya Martinez, University of Oxford
The deterrence effect of excluding ringleaders from leniency programs
Presented by: Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne

Session 34: Session 3-10: Health and Disability Insurance
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Access to Better Quality Hospitals for Low-income Mothers
JEL codes: I18
Presented by: Eunkyeong Lee, Cornell University
Does Incapacity Benefit Insure Consumption Loss on Disability?
Presented by: Steffan Ball, Federal Reserve Board

Session 35: Session 3-11: Credit and Insurance
Session Chair: Tessa Bold, University of Oxford
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
on the macroeconomics of microfinance
JEL codes: 011
Presented by: soyolmaa batbekh, university of manchester
Contract Design in Insurance Groups
Presented by: Tessa Bold, University of Oxford

Session 36: Session 3-12: Applied Micro
Session Chair: Edoardo Gallo, University of Oxford
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Paying Attention to Payoffs in Analogy-based Learning
JEL codes: C72, D82
Presented by: Topi Miettinen, Stockholm School of Economics
On Sequential and Simultaneous Contributions under Incomplete Information
Presented by: Parimal Bag, National University of Singapore
Small world networks with segregation patterns and brokers
Presented by: Edoardo Gallo, University of Oxford

Session 37: Session 4-1: Investment and Consumption
Session Chair: Qiang Zhang, University of Leicester
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Productivity, Hours and Unemployment in a New Keynesian Model with Hiring Costs
JEL codes: E52
Presented by: Francesco Furlanetto, Norges Bank
On the Sensitivity of Firms' Investment to Cash Flow and Uncertainty
Presented by: Mustafa Caglayan, University of Sheffield
Identifying Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption
Presented by: Qiang Zhang, University of Leicester

Session 38: Session 4-2: Business Cycles in the Euro Area
Session Chair: Xiaoshan Chen, Loughborough University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Euro and Germany’s Early Millennium Depression: A counterfactual experiment
JEL codes: F41,F42,E32
Presented by: Zeno Enders, University of Bonn
Analysing Output Gaps and Monetary Policy Transmission within a State-Space Framework: An Application to the Euro Area
Presented by: Xiaoshan Chen, Loughborough University

Session 39: Session 4-4: Applied Micro
Session Chair: Luigi Siciliani, Economics and Related Studies
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Multiproduct Firms and The Diamond Paradox
JEL codes: D83, M37
Presented by: Andrew Rhodes, University of Oxford
Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Presented by: Luigi Siciliani, Economics and Related Studies

Session 40: Session 4-5: International Trade
Session Chair: Beata Javorcik, Department of Economics
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Trade negotiations when market access matters
JEL codes: F02, F13, F15
Presented by: Monika Mrazova, University of Oxford
Corruption and Bilateral Trade Flows: Extortion or Evasion?
Presented by: Pushan Dutt, INSEAD
Multi-Product Exporters: Diversification and Micro-Level Dynamics
Presented by: Beata Javorcik, Department of Economics

Session 41: Session 4-6: Industry Studies
Session Chair: Cornelia Meissner, City University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Toc 'n' Roll: Bargaining, Service Quality and Specificity in the UK Railway Network
JEL codes: D2, L1, L5, L92
Presented by: Piercarlo Zanchettin, University of Leicester
Qualitative Business Surveys: Signal or Noise?
Presented by: Silvia Lui, NIESR
The Impact of Industry Collaboration on Academic Research Output: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
Presented by: Cornelia Meissner, City University

Session 42: Session 4-8: Education and Student Outcomes
Session Chair: Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
UNOBSERVABLES AND MATCHING AS AN EVALUATION METHOD: EVIDENCE FROM AN EDUCATION INTERVENTION
JEL codes: C20, I20, H75.
Presented by: Olmo Silva, Dept. of Geography and Environment and Centre for Economic Performance
Sources of inequality in educational achievement - an international comparison
Presented by: Hugo Reis, UCL
How much do teachers matter? Measuring the variation in teacher effectiveness in England
Presented by: Simon Burgess, University of Bristol

Session 43: Session 4-9: Behavioral Public Finance
Session Chair: Patricio Dalton, University of Warwick
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted
JEL codes: I1
Presented by: Chris Boyce, University of Warwick
ELECTING HAPPINESS: DOES HAPPINESS AFFECT VOTING AND DO ELECTIONS AFFECT HAPPINESS?
Presented by: Robert Metcalfe, Imperial College London
Behavioral Decisions and Welfare
Presented by: Patricio Dalton, University of Warwick

Session 44: Session 4-10: International Finance
Session Chair: Giancarlo Ianulardo, University of Warwick and University of Bath
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Does financial openness lead to deeper domestic financial markets?
JEL codes: F21,F36
Presented by: Megumi Kubota, University of York
Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing
Presented by: Thomas Nitschka, IEW, University of Zurich
Moral Hazard and Reputation Building in International Financial Markets
Presented by: Giancarlo Ianulardo, University of Warwick and University of Bath

Session 45: Session 4-11: Gender and Fertility
Session Chair: Thomas Baudin, Paris School of Economics - University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight
JEL codes: C33, D13, I12,
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono, University of Essex
The Impact of Providing Psycho-Social Support to Indigent Families and Increasing their Access to Social Services: Evaluating Chile Solidario
Presented by: Rita Ginja, University College London
Optimal Fertility Decisions in a Life Cycle Model
Presented by: Sebastian Scholz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
A Role for Cultural Transmission in Fertility Transitions
Presented by: Thomas Baudin, Paris School of Economics - University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

Session 46: Session 4-12: Democracy
Session Chair: John Fender, University of Birmingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences
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JEL codes: H1, H5, P2, O1
Presented by: Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics
Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: the Civil Versus Common Law Tradition.
Presented by: Carmine Guerriero, University of Cambridge
Disproportionate influence? Special-interest politics under proportional and majoritarian electoral systems
Presented by: Marko Koethenbuerger, University of Copenhagen
Democratic Errors
Presented by: John Fender, University of Birmingham

Session 47: Session 5-1: Childbearing and Female Labour Force Participation
Session Chair: Katja Sonderhof, University of Hannover
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries
JEL codes: C1 C3 J13 J21
Presented by: Catia Nicodemo, Universdity Pompeu Fabra
Public Policies and Women’s Employment after Childbearing: Evidence from the ECLS-B
Presented by: Elizabeth Washbrook, University of Bristol
The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
Presented by: Katja Sonderhof, University of Hannover

Session 48: Session 5-2: Applied Micro
Session Chair: Luke Garrod, University of East Anglia
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Economics of Performance Appraisals
JEL codes: M50, M54
Presented by: Marc-Arthur Diaye, Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi
Interpersonal Trust as Individual Choice with Social Interactions
Presented by: Thomas Singh, University of Kent
Three Types of Inefficiency in Strategic Offers: Empirical Identification from Merger Remedy Settlements
Presented by: Luke Garrod, University of East Anglia

Session 49: Session 5-3: Corporate Finance
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Impact of Financial Structure on Firms' Financial Constraints: A Cross-Country Analysis
JEL codes: G32,
Presented by: Oleksandr Talavera, Robert Gordon University
Modeling the persistence of credit ratings when firms face financial constraints, recessions and credit crunches
Presented by: Serafeim Tsoukas, University of Nottingham
Funding Liquidity Risk in a Quantitative Model of Systemic Stability
Presented by: Sujit Kapadia, Bank of England

Session 50: Session 5-4: Wages and Productivity
Session Chair: Pedro Martins, Queen Mary, University of London
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Labour market effects of public sector employment and wages
JEL codes: E32; J45
Presented by: Pedro Gomes, London School of Economics
Spillovers and wage determination within firms
Presented by: Kerry Papps, University of Oxford
Dismissals for Cause: The Difference that Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
Presented by: Pedro Martins, Queen Mary, University of London

Session 51: Session 5-5: Theory
Session Chair: Arnold Polanski, Queen's University of Belfast
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The Breakdown of Morale
JEL codes: C73, D83, M50
Presented by: Nick Vikander, Erasmus University, Tinbergen Institute
The Strategic and Social Power of Signal Acquisition
Presented by: Anna Maria Menichini, University of Salerno and CSEF
Two-Sided Markets with Repeated Transactions
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Presented by: Arnold Polanski, Queen's University of Belfast

Session 52: Session 5-6: International Economics
Session Chair: Marina-Eliza Spaliara, University of Loughborough
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The law of one price without the border: the role of distance versus sticky prices
[slides]
JEL codes: F40; F41; D40
Presented by: Takayuki Tsuruga, Kansai University
The Composition of Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate
Presented by: Vahagn Galstyan, Trinity College
Firm Survival and Exporting Activity: Evidence from French and UK firms
Presented by: Marina-Eliza Spaliara, University of Loughborough

Session 53: Session 5-7: Higher Education
Session Chair: Paola Valbonesi, University of Padua
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training. Evidence from Vacancy Data
JEL codes: I21,I28,J24,M53
Presented by: Matthias Parey, University College London (UCL) & Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Students' Wage Expectations: How Do They Vary and Are They Realistic?
Presented by: John Jerrim, Southampton University
The Design of the University System
Presented by: Paola Valbonesi, University of Padua

Session 54: Session 5-8: Health Economics
Session Chair: Loretti Dobrescu, University of Venice
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Does Improved Access to Abortion Increase the Survival Chances of Born Children? Preliminary Evidence from Nepal
JEL codes: J13, J15
Presented by: Christine Valente, University of Nottingham
"Do I Really Need To Go To Rehab? I'd Say No, No, No." Estimating Price Elasticities Of Convalescent Care Programs
Presented by: Nicolas Ziebarth, German Institute for Economic Research
To love or to pay: On consumption, health and health care
Presented by: Loretti Dobrescu, University of Venice

Session 55: Session 5-9: Macro and Labour
Session Chair: Ansgar Rannenberg, University of St. Andrews
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Is Model Selection Robust and Valid? An Application to UK Wages
JEL codes: C52, E24, E27
Presented by: Jennifer Castle, Oxford University
Skill Specic Unemployment with Imperfect Substitution of Skills
Presented by: Runli Xie, Humboldt University of Berlin
Shocks and Institutions: Explaining Unemployment Persistence in "Europe" and the United States
Presented by: Ansgar Rannenberg, University of St. Andrews

Session 56: Session 5-10: Monetary Policy
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Comparison survey results from point and probability forecasts using the ECB's Survey of Proffesional Forecasters
JEL codes: C42,
Presented by: Andres Manzanares, European Central Bank
Effects of Government Spending Shocks on a Small Open Economy with Limited Asset Market Participation
Presented by: Ibrahim Unalmis, University of York
International Spill-over Effects and Monetary Policy Activism
Presented by: Anna Lipinska, Bank of England

Session 57: Session 5-12: Public Economics
Session Chair: Nadine Riedel, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
JEL codes: I3,I32,D63,O1
Presented by: Sabina Alkire, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Init
How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Presented by: Valeria Merlo, ifo Institute for Economic Research
Corporate Taxes, Affiliate Profitability and the Multinationale Headquarter Location
Presented by: Nadine Riedel, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Session 58: Session 6-1: Asset Pricing
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Term Structure Dynamics in a Monetary Economy with Learning
JEL codes: G12,E43,D83.
Presented by: Sadayuki Ono, University of York
A Functional Analytic Approach to Solving and Approximating Asset Pricing Models
Presented by: Pawel Zabczyk, Bank of England

Session 59: Session 6-2: Labor Search and Matching
Session Chair: Karl Taylor, University of Sheffield
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Labor market reform and price stability: an application to the Euro Area
JEL codes: E31, E32, J64
Presented by: Carlos Thomas, Bank of Spain
Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and Labour Market Outcomes: Analysis of Individual Level Panel Data
Presented by: Karl Taylor, University of Sheffield

Session 60: Session 6-3: Exchange Rate Volatility
Session Chair: MING-JEN CHANG, National Dong Hwa University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Evaluating Exchange Rate Objectives in Open-Economy Taylor Rules
JEL codes: F4, E5
Presented by: helen popper, Santa Clara University
Does real exchange rate volatility affect sectoral trade flows?
Presented by: Jing Di, University of Sheffield
The Exchange Rate Dynamics with Pricing-to-Market under Keeping up with the Joneses
Presented by: MING-JEN CHANG, National Dong Hwa University

Session 61: Session 6-4: Economic Growth
Session Chair: Sai Ding, University of Oxford
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Democracy, Diversification, and Growth Reversals
JEL codes: O43,
Presented by: David Cuberes, Clemson University
A General Equilibrium Perspective on Offshoring and Economic Growth
Presented by: Flaubert Mbiekop, Drew University
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change
Presented by: Sai Ding, University of Oxford

Session 62: Session 6-5: Public Economics
Session Chair: Olivier Marie, LSE
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Enforcement and Environmental Quality in a Decentralized Emission Trading System
JEL codes: F18 K42 Q53
Presented by: Edilio Valentini, University
Early Release From Prison and Recidivism: A Regression Disontinuity Approach
Presented by: Olivier Marie, LSE

Session 63: Session 6-6: Institutions and Corporate Performance
Session Chair: Tao CHEN, HongKong Univ of Science and Techonology
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The more the better? Foreign ownership and corporate performance in China
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JEL codes: F2, G32, L25
Presented by: Alessandra Guariglia, University of Nottingham
Institutions, Board Structure, and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Chinese Firms
Presented by: Tao CHEN, HongKong Univ of Science and Techonology

Session 64: Session 6-7: Financial Markets and the Macro Economy
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
A Reappraisal of the Leading Indicator Properties of the Yield Curve under Structural Instability
JEL codes: E43; E44; E47.
Presented by: Qingwei Wang, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and University of Mannheim

Session 65: Session 6-9: Poverty and Inequality
Session Chair: Christine Ho, University College London
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
The emerging aversion to inequality. Evidence from long subjective data
JEL codes: C25, D31, D63,
Presented by: Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics
Welfare to Work Reform and Intergenerational Resource Allocation: A Look at Elderly Women's Behaviour
Presented by: Christine Ho, University College London

Session 66: Session 6-10: Macroeconomics
Session Chair: Tao Wu, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Schumpeterian Unemployment, The Firm Lifecycle, And Endogenous Growth Without Scale Effects
JEL codes: J63, O31
Presented by: Wolf-Heimo Grieben, University of Konstanz
Vertical Production Chain and Macroeconomic Persistence: The Case of an Emerging Market Economy
Presented by: Mai Farid, University of York
Measuring Oil-price Shocks Using Market-based Information
Presented by: Tao Wu, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Session 67: Session 6-11: Macro Public Finance
Session Chair: Ian Tonks, University of Exeter Xfi
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Fiscal Policy Responsiveness, Persistence, and Discretion
JEL codes: E62, H50.
Presented by: Luca Agnello, University of Palermo
Fiscal Rules in a Highly Distorted Economy
Presented by: Luigi Marattin, University of Bologna
Money's worth of pension annuities
Presented by: Ian Tonks, University of Exeter Xfi

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Session 68: Session 6-12: Gender and Development
Session Chair: Victor Hiller, Paris School of Economics - University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 1:00
Inside Beninese Households: How Spouses Manage Their Personal Income
JEL codes: D12, C21, O15
Presented by: Olivier Dagnelie, Instituto de Análisis Económico CSIC
Gender Inequality, Endogenous Cultural Norms and Economic Development
Presented by: Victor Hiller, Paris School of Economics - University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne