RES Conference 2006 |
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Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Aid & Debt Policy | 3 |
| 2 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | IO | 2 |
| 3 | 18 April 13:45-15:35 | Monetary Policy | 2 |
| 4 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Business Cycles - Theory | 2 |
| 5 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Productivity | 3 |
| 6 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Trading Behaviour | 3 |
| 7 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Politics | 3 |
| 8 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Labour Economics | 3 |
| 9 | 18 April 13:45-15:15 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| 10 | 18 April 15:30-16:45 | EJ Lecture - Narayana Kocherlakota | 0 |
| 11 | 18 April 17:15-18:45 | What can we learn from comparisons of intergenerational mobility? | 3 |
| 12 | 18 April 17:15-18:45 | Productivity and Management | 3 |
| 13 | 18 April 17:15-18:45 | Sovereign Debt Swaps: Bargaining and the Law | 3 |
| 14 | 18 April 17:15-18:45 | PC-GETS modelling | 3 |
| 15 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Volatility, Stability and Structural Change | 3 |
| 16 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Inequality & Development | 3 |
| 17 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Growth Models | 3 |
| 18 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Empirical IO | 3 |
| 19 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Preferences | 3 |
| 20 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Business Cycle Theory | 3 |
| 21 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Empirical Labour Economics I | 2 |
| 22 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Monetary Policy Theory | 3 |
| 23 | 19 April 9:00-10:30 | Legal Systems | 3 |
| 24 | 19 April 11:00-12:15 | Sargan Lecture - David Card | 0 |
| 25 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Business Cycle Modelling | 3 |
| 26 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Financial Markets | 2 |
| 27 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Legal Systems | 3 |
| 28 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Labour Markets and Trade | 3 |
| 29 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Development & Growth | 3 |
| 30 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Monetary Policy Theory | 2 |
| 31 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Experiments | 3 |
| 32 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Empirical IO | 2 |
| 33 | 19 April 13:15-14:45 | Empirical Labour Economics II | 3 |
| 34 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Relationships | 3 |
| 35 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Multinationals & Trade | 3 |
| 36 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Growth over Time | 3 |
| 37 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Schools and Schooling | 3 |
| 38 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Public Goods and Networks | 3 |
| 39 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | The Good Life | 3 |
| 40 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Productivity, Investment and Firms | 3 |
| 41 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Int Macro | 3 |
| 42 | 19 April 15:00-16:30 | Shocks and Macroeconomics | 3 |
| 43 | 19 April 17:00-18:30 | Delivery of Legal Services and Justice | 3 |
| 44 | 19 April 17:00-18:30 | Learning and Evolution | 3 |
| 45 | 19 April 17:00-18:30 | On the Sources of Macroeconomic Stability: Good Luck or Good Policy? | 3 |
| 46 | 19 April 17:00-18:30 | Disability | 3 |
| 47 | 19 April 18:45-20:00 | Presidential Address - John Sutton | 0 |
| 48 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Monetary Transmission Empirics | 3 |
| 49 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Liberalisation | 3 |
| 50 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Inequality and Growth | 2 |
| 51 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Inflation Volatility | 3 |
| 52 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Theory of the Firm | 3 |
| 53 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Wages | 3 |
| 54 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Public Policy Empirics | 3 |
| 55 | 20 April 9:00-10:30 | Capital Flows & Crises | 3 |
| 56 | 20 April 11:00-12:15 | Hahn Lecture - Colin Camerer | 0 |
| 57 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Macroeconomic Policy | 3 |
| 58 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Microeconomics of Development | 3 |
| 59 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Outsourcing and Integration | 3 |
| 60 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Firms | 3 |
| 61 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Careers | 2 |
| 62 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Public Goods and Clusters | 3 |
| 63 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Exchange Rate Regimes | 3 |
| 64 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Macroeconomic Performance of the UK | 3 |
| 65 | 20 April 13:15-14:45 | Non-linearities | 3 |
| 66 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Inflation Dynamics | 2 |
| 67 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Banking | 3 |
| 68 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Returns to Education | 3 |
| 69 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Utility | 3 |
| 70 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Mobility | 3 |
| 71 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | International Trade | 3 |
| 72 | 20 April 15:00-16:30 | Plants & Firms | 3 |
72 sessions, 194 papers |
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RES Conference 2006 |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Aid & Debt Policy |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| The Impact of Performance Intensive Policy Intervention: Aid policy that is Performance Intensive |
| By Johannes Fedderke and Robert Klitgaard |
| Presented by: Johannes Fedderke, University of Cape Town |
| Is International Funding Crowding Out Charitable Contributions in African NGOs? |
| By Marcel Fafchamps and Trudy Owens |
| Presented by: Trudy Owens, Nottingham University |
| Optimal Sovereign Debt Write-down |
| By Sayantan Ghosal and Kannika Thampanishvong |
| Presented by: Kannika Thampanishvong, University of Warwick |
Session 2: IO |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Industrial Policy in an Imperfect World |
| By Roland Hodler |
| Presented by: Roland Hodler, University of Bern |
| Is the General Public Licence a Rational Choice? |
| By Arnod Polanski |
| Presented by: Arnold Polanski, Queen's University of Belfast |
Session 3: Monetary Policy |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:35 |
| Targets, Zones and Asymmetries |
| By V Boinet and C Martin |
| Presented by: Christopher Martin, Brunel University |
| Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Persistence |
| By George J. Bratsiotis and Christopher Martin |
| Presented by: George Bratsiotis, The University of Manchester |
Session 4: Business Cycles - Theory |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| New-keynesian or RBC transmission? The effects of fiscal policy in labor markets. |
| By Evi Pappa |
| Presented by: Evi Pappa, UAB |
| On-the-job search and business cycle dynamics |
| By Michael Krause and Thomas Lubik |
| Presented by: Michael Krause, Deutsche Bundesbank |
Session 5: Productivity |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| IT Productivity, Spillovers and Investment |
| By Nick Bloom, Dinesh Cheryan, Mirko Draca, Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen |
| Presented by: Mirko Draca, Centre for Economic Performance |
| Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK |
| By Matthew A. Cole and Robert J. R. Elliott |
| Presented by: Robert Elliott, University of Birmingham |
| Productivity Measurement in Gambling: Plant-Level Evidence from the UK |
| By David Paton, Donald S. Siegel, Leighton Vaughan Williams |
| Presented by: David Paton, Nottingham University Business School |
Session 6: Trading Behaviour |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Information Generated Trade in Asset Markets |
| By Tarek Coury and David Easley |
| Presented by: Tarek Coury, University of Oxford |
| The Efficiency of Decentralized Trading |
| By Stephan Lauermann |
| Presented by: Stephan Lauermann, Bonn Graduate School of Economics |
| Ignorance is bliss: Trading between agents with differing degrees of rationality |
| By A.P. Kirman and N. Querou |
| Presented by: Nicolas QUEROU, Queen's University Belfast |
Session 7: Politics |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Reliability and Responsibility: A Theory of Endogenous Commitment |
| By Matteo Triossi |
| Presented by: Matteo Triossi, Universidad Carlos III |
| Tycoons Turned Leaders: Investigating the Incentives for Holding Public Office |
| By Pramuan Bunkanwanicha, Yupana Wiwattanakantang |
| Presented by: Pramuan Bunkanwanicha, ESCP-EAP |
| Optimal Strategic Communication: Can a Less Informed Expert be More Informative? |
| By Maxim Ivanov |
| Presented by: Maxim Ivanov, Pennsylvania State University |
Session 8: Labour Economics |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Product and Labour Market Regulation and Employment |
| By Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and Gareth Macartney |
| Presented by: Gareth Macartney, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Labour and Product Market Reforms in an Economy with Distortionary Taxation |
| By Nikola Bokan and Andrew Hughes Hallett |
| Presented by: Nikola Bokan, University of St Andrews |
| Fiscal Structure and Equilibrium Unemployment |
| By Rafael Doménech and Ester Pérez |
| Presented by: Rafael Domenech, Universidad de Valencia |
Session 9: Microeconomics |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| The Dark Side of Wage Indexed Pensions |
| By Evert Carlsson Karl Erlandzon |
| Presented by: Evert Carlsson, Goteborg University |
| Insurance and Probability Weighting Functions |
| By Dr. Ali al-Nowaihi and Dr. Sanjit Dhami |
| Presented by: Ali al-Nowaihi, University of Leicester |
| The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: A Natural Experiment |
| By Johan N. M. Lagerlöf and Andrew J. Seltzer |
| Presented by: Johan Lagerlof, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Session 10: EJ Lecture - Narayana Kocherlakota |
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| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 15:30 - 16:45 |
Session 11: What can we learn from comparisons of intergenerational mobility? |
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| Session Chair: Stephen Aldridge, Cabinet Office |
| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 17:15 - 18:45 |
| International comparisons of intergenerational earnings mobility |
| By Naylor, Robin, et al. |
| Presented by: Robin Naylor, University of Warwick |
| Intergenerational Mobility and Non-cognitive skills |
| By Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin |
| Presented by: Jo Blanden, LSE |
| A Tale of Two Labour Markets |
| By Jason Long, Joseph Ferrie |
| Presented by: Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University |
Session 12: Productivity and Management |
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| Session Chair: David Card, University of California, Berkeley |
| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 17:15 - 18:45 |
| Incentive design for multi-task teams: evidence from a UK distribution firm |
| By Rachel Griffith and Andy Neely |
| Presented by: Rachel Griffith, IFS and UCL |
| Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries |
| By Nick Bloom John Van Reenen |
| Presented by: Nick Bloom, Stanford and CEP |
| Understanding Wage and Productivity Dispersion |
| By Giulia Faggio, Kjell G. Salvanes and John Van Reenen |
| Presented by: Giulia Faggio, Centre for Economic Performance |
Session 13: Sovereign Debt Swaps: Bargaining and the Law |
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| Session Chair: Marcus Miller, University of Warwick |
| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 17:15 - 18:45 |
| Dealing with country diversity - challenges for the IMF co-insurance model |
| By Gregor Irwin, Adrian Penalver, Chris Salmon and Ashley Taylor |
| Presented by: Ashley Taylor, London School of Economics |
| International Liquidity Swaps: an Assessment of the Chiang Mai Initiative |
| By E. Kohlscheen |
| Presented by: Emanuel Kohlscheen, University of Warwick |
| Bargaining with delay: growth and sustainability |
| By Sayantan Ghosal and Marcus Miller |
| Presented by: Marcus Miller, University of Warwick |
Session 14: PC-GETS modelling |
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| Session Chair: Hans-Martin Krolzig, The University of Kent |
| Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Time: 17:15 - 18:45 |
| Extending the Boundaries of PcGets: Non-linear Models. |
| By Jennifer L. Castle and David F. Hendry |
| Presented by: Jennifer Castle, Oxford University |
| Selecting a Regression Saturated by Indicators |
| By David F. Hendry, Soren Johansen and Carlos Santos |
| Presented by: David Hendry, Oxford University |
| Resolving Three "Intractable" Problems using a Gets Approach |
| By David F. Hendry and Hans-Martin Krolzig |
| Presented by: Hans-Martin Krolzig, The University of Kent |
Session 15: Volatility, Stability and Structural Change |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Home Bias and High Turnover: Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Asset Markets |
| By Viktoria V. Hnatkovska |
| Presented by: Viktoria Hnatkovska, Georgetown University |
| Optimal financial stability policy in a model with heterogeneous financial intermediaries |
| By Gregor Irwin, Victoria Saporta, Misa Tanaka |
| Presented by: Misa Tanaka, Bank of England |
| Testing for Structural Change: A Misspecification Testing Perspective |
| By Maria S. Heracleous, Andreas Koutris, Aris Spanos |
| Presented by: Maria Heracleous, American University |
Session 16: Inequality & Development |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Financial Development and Inequality: Brazil 1985-99 |
| By Manoel F. Meyer Bittencourt |
| Presented by: Manoel Bittencourt, University of Bristol, UK |
| From Rags to Rifles: The Economics of Deprivation, Conflict and Welfare State |
| By Dominic Rohner |
| Presented by: Dominic Rohner, University of Cambridge |
| Was Vietnams Economic Growth in the 1990s Pro-Poor? An Analysis of Panel Data from Vietnam |
| By Glewwe & Dang |
| Presented by: Hai-Anh Dang, University of Minnesota |
Session 17: Growth Models |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Competition and growth in neo-Schumpeterian models |
| By V: Denicolò and P. Zanchettin |
| Presented by: Vincenzo Denicolo, University of Bologna |
| Emulation-Based Growth: Technology and Institutions |
| By Jian Tong and Chenggang Xu |
| Presented by: Chenggang Xu, LSE |
| North-South Interactions and Growth Miracles |
| By Seung Mo Choi |
| Presented by: Seung Mo Choi, University of Chicago |
Session 18: Empirical IO |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Liberalising the market for notary services |
| By Joelle Noailly and Richard Nahuis |
| Presented by: Joelle Noailly, CPB |
| University research and the location of business R&D |
| By Laura Abramovsky; Rupert Harrison; Helen Simpson |
| Presented by: Laura Abramovsky, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Do prices grow more in Euro-land? Evidence from the airline industry |
| By Enrico Bachis and Claudio A Piga |
| Presented by: Claudio Piga, University of Loughborough |
Session 19: Preferences |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Are Agents Really Inequity Averse? |
| By Luke Garrod |
| Presented by: Luke Garrod, University of East Anglia |
| Why Do People Pay Taxes? Prospect Theory Versus Expected Utility Theory |
| By Dr. Sanjit Dhami and Dr. Ali al-Nowaihi |
| Presented by: Sanjit Dhami, University of Leicester |
| Dynamic Consistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment |
| By Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau and E. Elisabet Rutstrom |
| Presented by: Morten Lau, Durham Business School |
Session 20: Business Cycle Theory |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Unemployment, Labour Market Dynamics and the New Neoclassical Synthesis |
| By Richard W. P. Holt |
| Presented by: Richard Holt, University of Edinburgh |
| Sectors, long-run restrictions, and the identification of technology shocks |
| By Antonio Acconcia and Saverio Simonelli |
| Presented by: Saverio Simonelli, Università Federico II di Napoli |
| Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe -- The Role of Price and Wage Rigidities |
| By Ferdinand Fichtner |
| Presented by: Ferdinand Fichtner, University of Cologne |
Session 21: Empirical Labour Economics I |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| The Incidence of an Earned Income Tax Credit: Evaluating the Impact on Wages in the UK |
| By Ghazala Yasmeen Azmat |
| Presented by: ghazala azmat, lse & cep |
| On-the-job Search, Productivity Shocks, and the Individual Earnings Process |
| By Fabien Postel-Vinay and Helene Turon |
| Presented by: Helene Turon, University of Bristol |
Session 22: Monetary Policy Theory |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Optimal Monetary Policy Rules from a Timeless Perspective |
| By Charles Nolan, Vladislav Damjanovic, Tatiana Damjanovic |
| Presented by: Tatiana Damjanovic, University of St. Andrews |
| Persistence and Nominal Inertia in a Generalized Taylor Economy: How Longer Contracts Dominate Shorter Contracts |
| By Huw Dixon and Engin Kara |
| Presented by: Engin Kara, Univeristy of York |
| Sunspots and Monetary Policy |
| By Jagjit Chadha and Luisa Corrado |
| Presented by: Luisa Corrado, University of Cambridge |
Session 23: Legal Systems |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States |
| By Charles Grant, Winfried Koeniger |
| Presented by: Charles Grant, Reading University |
| An Economic Analysis of Pre-trial Mediation |
| By Katherine Doornik |
| Presented by: Katherine Doornik, University of Oxford |
| Democracy and Violence in Colombia: |
| By Giorgio Brosio and Roberto Zanola |
| Presented by: Roberto Zanola, University of Eastern Piedmont |
Session 24: Sargan Lecture - David Card |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:15 |
Session 25: Business Cycle Modelling |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Real Time Representations of the Output Gap |
| By Anthony Garratt, Kevin Lee, Emi Mise and Kalvinder Shields |
| Presented by: K Shields, University of Melbourne |
| Business Cycle Regimes in CEECs Production: A Threshold SUR Approach |
| By Nektarios Aslanidis |
| Presented by: Nektarios Aslanidis, University of Monash |
| Quantitative inference from qualitative business survey panel data: a microeconometric approach |
| By James Mitchell and Martin Weale |
| Presented by: James Mitchell, NIESR, London |
Session 26: Financial Markets |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Small Caps in International Equity Portfolios: The Effects of Variance Risk |
| By Massimo Guidolin and Giovanna Nicodano |
| Presented by: Massimo Guidolin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Uninsured Risks, Loan Contract and the Equity Premium |
| By Sanjay Banerji and Parantap Basu |
| Presented by: Parantap Basu, University of Durham |
Session 27: Legal Systems |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Courts, firms and external credit: Evidence from Russia |
| By Julia Shvets |
| Presented by: Julia Shvets, Cambridge University |
| Corruption, Development and Demography |
| By Keith Blackburn and Rashmi Sarmah |
| Presented by: Rashmi Sarmah, University of Manchester |
| A contribution to the empirics of press freedom |
| By Freille, Sebastian; Haque, M Emranul; Kneller, Richard |
| Presented by: Sebastian Freille, University of Nottingham |
Session 28: Labour Markets and Trade |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Occupational Choice and Compensation for Losers from International Trade |
| By Toshihiro Ichida |
| Presented by: Toshihiro Ichida, Waseda University |
| Growth and Labour Markets in Developing Countries |
| By Mathan Satchi and Jon Temple |
| Presented by: Mathan Satchi, University of Kent |
| Open Shop Unions and International Trade Liberalisation |
| By Paulo Bastos, Udo Kreickemeier and Peter Wright |
| Presented by: Paulo Bastos, University of Nottingham |
Session 29: Development & Growth |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Geography, institutions and development: a Bayesian approach |
| By Adeel Malik and Jonathan Temple |
| Presented by: Jonathan Temple, University of Bristol |
| Determinants of Growth in Africa and Middle East: A Spatial Bayesian Model Averaging Approach |
| By Olivier Parent and Abdallah Zouache |
| Presented by: Olivier Parent, University of Saint-Etienne |
| How Robust are the Linkages Between Religiosity and Economic Growth |
| By Steven N. Durlauf, Andros Kourtellos, and Chih Ming Tan |
| Presented by: Andros Kourtellos, Cyprus |
Session 30: Monetary Policy Theory |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Foreign Monetary Shocks and the Welfare Performance of Alternative Monetary Policy Regimes |
| By Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland |
| Presented by: Ozge Senay, Middle East Technical University |
| Delegation, Time Inconsistency and Sustainable Equilibrium |
| By Henrique S. Basso |
| Presented by: Henrique Basso, Birkbeck College |
Session 31: Experiments |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Using Economic experiments to Investigate the Existence of a Social Premium for Child Farm safety |
| By C. Cockerill, W.G. Hutchinson, S.M. Chilton |
| Presented by: Claire Cockerill, |
| A Within-Subject Analysis of Other-Regarding Preferences |
| By Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann and Hans Normann |
| Presented by: Mariana Blanco, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions |
| By Martin Kocher, Sabine Strauss, Matthias Sutter |
| Presented by: Martin Kocher, University of Innsbruck |
Session 32: Empirical IO |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| The Effects of Cartel Policy: Evidence from the German Cable Industry |
| By Hans-Theo Normann and Elaine Tan |
| Presented by: Hans Normann, Royal Holloway |
| A Semiparametric Analysis of Gasoline Demand in the US |
| By Sebastiano Manzan and Dawit Zerom |
| Presented by: Sebastiano Manzan, University of Leicester |
Session 33: Empirical Labour Economics II |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Are There Pecuniary Compensations for Working Conditions in the UK? |
| By Rosa M. Fernandez and Christophe J. Nordman |
| Presented by: Rosa Fernandez, Oxford University |
| On the Impact of Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Theory and Policy |
| By Gaia Garino and Steve Pudney |
| Presented by: Gaia Garino, University of Leicester |
| Explaining Early Exit Patterns from the HM Royal Navy |
| By Shabbar Jaffry‡, Yaseen Ghulam, Alexandros Apostolakis |
| Presented by: Shabbar Jaffry, University of Portsmouth |
Session 34: Relationships |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Randomness in Trust Games |
| By Marius Brülhart and Jean-Claude Usunier |
| Presented by: Marius Brülhart, |
| The Effects of Consumer Protection on Sales Signs, Consumer Search and Competition |
| By Chris M. Wilson |
| Presented by: Chris Wilson, University of East Anglia |
| Self-Enforcing Contracts with Action Dynamics |
| By Jonathan P. Thomas and Tim Worrall |
| Presented by: Tim Worrall, Keele University |
Session 35: Multinationals & Trade |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Do financial factors affect exporting decisions? |
| By Alessandra Guariglia, David Greenaway, Richard Kneller |
| Presented by: Alessandra Guariglia, University of Nottingham |
| Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach |
| By Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg |
| Presented by: Holger Görg, University of Nottingham |
| The Impact of International Outsourcing on Individual Employment Security: A Micro-Level Analysis |
| By Ingo Geishecker |
| Presented by: Ingo Geishecker, Free University Berlin |
Session 36: Growth over Time |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Capital Accumulation, Technical Change, and the Distribution of Income during the British Industrial Revolution |
| By Robert C. Allen |
| Presented by: Robert Allen, Nuffield College |
| Medium Run Redux: Technology, Mark-ups and Frictions in the Euro Area |
| By P. McAdam, A. Willman |
| Presented by: Peter McAdam, ECB |
| Inequality, Democracy and Institutions |
| By J. Easaw, A.Mckay and A. Savoia |
| Presented by: Antonio Savoia, University of Bath |
Session 37: Schools and Schooling |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany |
| By Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins, Thomas Siedler |
| Presented by: Thomas Siedler, DIW Berlin and University of Essex |
| Competition, Choice and Primary School Performance |
| By Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Machin, Olmo Silva |
| Presented by: Steve Gibbons, LSE |
| Effect of an Increase in School Resources on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from School Finance Reform in Michigan |
| By Joydeep Roy |
| Presented by: Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute |
Session 38: Public Goods and Networks |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents |
| By Jacob K. Goeree, Arno Riedl, and Aljaz Ule |
| Presented by: Arno Riedl, University of Maastricht |
| Information Costs, Networks and Intermediation in International Trade |
| By Dimitra Petropoulou |
| Presented by: Dimitra Petropoulou, London School of Economics and CEP |
| Choosing the stick or the carrot? – Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations |
| By Sutter, Haigner, Kocher |
| Presented by: Stefan Haigner, University of Cologne |
Session 39: The Good Life |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| CAN THE LARGE SWINGS IN RUSSIAN LIFE SATISFACTION BE EXPLAINED BY UPS AND DOWNS IN REAL INCOMES? |
| By Paul Frijters, John Haisken-DeNew, Michael A. Shields |
| Presented by: John Haisken-DeNew, RWI, Essen |
| Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up? |
| By Andrew Oswald, Jonathan Gardner |
| Presented by: Andrew Oswald, Warwick University |
| The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe |
| By Gonzalez, L. and Viitanen, T.K. |
| Presented by: Tarja Viitanen, University of Sheffield |
Session 40: Productivity, Investment and Firms |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity Growth: Evidence from UK firms |
| By Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel |
| Presented by: Jonathan Haskel, Queen Mary & Westfield College |
| Inventory investment, global engagement, and financial constraints in the UK: evidence from micro data |
| By Alessandra Guariglia and Simona Mateut |
| Presented by: Simona Mateut, University of Sheffield |
| Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition Economy: Regional and Industry-Wide Investments and Firm-Level Exports in Ukrainian Manufacturing |
| By Stefan Lutz, Oleksandr Talavera and Sang-Min Park |
| Presented by: Stefan Lutz, University of Manchester |
Session 41: Int Macro |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| On the Role and Effects of IMF Seniority |
| By Diego Saravia |
| Presented by: Diego Saravia, Catholic University of Chile |
| The Euro as Invoicing Currency in International Trade |
| By Annette Kamps |
| Presented by: Annette Kamps, Kiel Institute for World Economics |
| Puzzling Comovements between Output and Interest Rates? Multiple Shocks are the Answer. |
| By Elmar Mertens |
| Presented by: Elmar Mertens, Study Center Gerzensee |
Session 42: Shocks and Macroeconomics |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Corporate Defaults and Large Macroeconomic Shocks |
| By Mathias Drehmann, Andrew J. Patton and Steffen Sorensen |
| Presented by: Steffen Sorensen, Bank of England |
| The impact of major uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation |
| By Nick Bloom |
| Presented by: Nick Bloom, Stanford and CEP |
| Interregional risk-sharing and fiscal redistribution in reunified Germany |
| By Falko Juessen |
| Presented by: Falko Juessen, University of Dortmund |
Session 43: Delivery of Legal Services and Justice |
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| Session Chair: John Vickers, Oxford University |
| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 17:00 - 18:30 |
| Judicial Promotions |
| By Jordi Blanes i Vidal (Nuffield College, Oxford) Clare Leaver (Nuffield College, Oxford) |
| Presented by: Clare Leaver, University of Oxford |
| Clients versus Lawyers in the Legal Services Market |
| By Paul A. Grout (University of Bristol) Ian Jewitt (Nuffield College, Oxford) Silvia Sondereggor (University of Bristol). |
| Presented by: Paul Grout, University of Bristol |
| Economic design for a competitive tendering auction of legal aid |
| By Lawrence Ausubel (University of Maryland) Wynne Jones (Frontier Economics, London) |
| Presented by: Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland |
Session 44: Learning and Evolution |
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| Session Chair: Chris Wallace, Oxford University |
| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 17:00 - 18:30 |
| Natural Justice |
| By Ken Binmore |
| Presented by: Kenneth Binmore, University College London |
| The Spread of Innovations through Social Learning |
| By Peyton Young |
| Presented by: Peyton Young, John Hopkins University |
| An Evolutionary Justification for Thresholds in Collective-Action Problems |
| By David P. Myatt and Chris Wallace |
| Presented by: David Myatt, University of Oxford |
Session 45: On the Sources of Macroeconomic Stability: Good Luck or Good Policy? |
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| Session Chair: Stephen Nickell, Bank of England |
| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 17:00 - 18:30 |
| Continuity and breaks in monetary policy in Europe |
| By canova, gambetti, pappa |
| Presented by: Fabio Canova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Discussant: Andrew Scott, LBS |
| The Time Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctuations |
| By Alejandro Justiniano and Giorgio Primiceri |
| Presented by: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University |
| The Great Moderation and the ‘Bernanke Conjecture’ |
| By Luca Benati and Paolo Surico |
| Presented by: Luca Benati, Bank of England |
Session 46: Disability |
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| Session Chair: Axel Heitmueller, LBS |
| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 17:00 - 18:30 |
| The Scots May be Brave but they are neither Healthy nor Happy |
| By David Bell and David Blanchflower |
| Presented by: David Bell, University of Stirling |
| Informal Care and Employment in England |
| By Pierre-Carl Michaud and Axel Heitmueller |
| Presented by: Axel Heitmueller, LBS |
| Non-standard work patterns: accommodating disability? |
| By Paul Latreille, Melanie Jones |
| Presented by: Paul Latreille, Swansea University |
Session 47: Presidential Address - John Sutton |
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| Date: April 19, 2006 |
| Time: 18:45 - 20:00 |
Session 48: Monetary Transmission Empirics |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Modelling Monetary Transmission in UK Manufacturing Industry |
| By Juan de Dios Tena and Andy Tremayne |
| Presented by: Juande de Dios Tena Horrillo, Universidad de Concepcion |
| Bank Loan Supply and Monetary Policy Transmission in Germany: An Assessment based on Matching Impulse Responses |
| By Oliver Hülsewig, Eric Mayer, Timo Wollmershäuser |
| Presented by: Timo Wollmershäuser, Ifo Institute for Economic Research |
| Inflation Dynamics and the Cost Channel of Monetary Transmission: Empirical Evidence |
| By Peter Tillmann |
| Presented by: Peter Tillmann, University of Bonn |
Session 49: Liberalisation |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| The Political Economy of Financial Liberalisation |
| By Sourafel Girma and Anja Shortland |
| Presented by: Anja Shortland, University of Leicester |
| Equity Market vs. Capital Account Liberalization: A Comparison of Growth Effects of Liberalization Policies in Developing Countries. |
| By Sonal Dhingra |
| Presented by: Sonal Dhingra, Rutgers Univeristy |
| Financial Liberalisation, Bureaucratic Corruption and Economic Development |
| By Keith Blackburn and Gonzalo F. Forgues-Puccio |
| Presented by: Gonzalo Forgues-Puccio, University of Manchester |
Session 50: Inequality and Growth |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850 |
| By Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie |
| Presented by: Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University |
| Trade, Technology and Unemployment: The Role of Supply Side Adjustment |
| By Udo Kreickemeier |
| Presented by: Udo Kreickemeier, University of Nottingham |
Session 51: Inflation Volatility |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Escaping Volatile Inflation |
| By Martin Ellison and Tony Yates |
| Presented by: Martin Ellison, University of Warwick |
| Openness and inflation volatility: Panel data evidence |
| By Christopher Bowdler Adeel Malik |
| Presented by: Christopher Bowdler, Nuffield College |
| Sources of Inflation Persistence in the Euro Area |
| By Paul VAN DEN NOORD, Boris COURNEDE and Alexandra JANOVSKAIA |
| Presented by: Alexandra Janovskaia, LSE |
Session 52: Theory of the Firm |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| The incentives of a monopolist to degrade interoperability: Theory and evidence from PCs and servers |
| By Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John Van Reenen |
| Presented by: Christos Genakos, Sewlyn College, Cambridge University |
| A Theoretical Foundation for Understanding Firm Size Distribution and Gibrat's Law |
| By Christopher A. Laincz and Ana Sofia Domingues Rodrigues |
| Presented by: Ana Sofia Domingues Rodrigues, University of York |
| Vertical integration and product innovation |
| By Arijit Mukherjee and Piercarlo Zanchettin |
| Presented by: Piercarlo Zanchettin, University of Leicester |
Session 53: Wages |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Differences in Decline: Quantile Regression Analysis of Union Wage Premia in the United Kingdom 1991-2003 |
| By Alejandra A. Manquilef-Bächler, Wiji Arulampalam and Jennifer C Smith |
| Presented by: Wiji Arulampalam, University of Warwick |
| Do company wage policies persist in the face of minimum wages? |
| By Katherine H Lam, Catrin Ormerod, Felix Ritchie, Prabhat Vaze |
| Presented by: Felix Ritchie, Office for National Statistics |
| The impact of downward nominal wage rigidity on quits and layoffs |
| By Jennifer C Smith |
| Presented by: Jennifer Smith, University of Warwick |
Session 54: Public Policy Empirics |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Public Pension Programmes and the Retirement of Married Couples in Denmark |
| By Paul Bingley and Gauthier Lanot |
| Presented by: Gauthier Lanot, Queen's University |
| Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions |
| By Dan Anderberg |
| Presented by: Dan Anderberg, University of London |
| The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking |
| By Jérôme Adda and Francesca Cornaglia |
| Presented by: Francesca Cornaglia, UCL |
Session 55: Capital Flows & Crises |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Cycles and Banking Crisis |
| By Ioannis LAZOPOULOS |
| Presented by: Ioannis Lazopoulos, Keele University |
| International Portfolio Equilibrium and the Current Account |
| By Robert Kollmann |
| Presented by: Robert Kollmann, University Paris XII; CEPR |
| International asset pricing with habits and self-fulfilling transmission of financial crises |
| By Melisso Boschi and Asitya Goenka |
| Presented by: Melisso Boschi, University of Essex |
Session 56: Hahn Lecture - Colin Camerer |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:15 |
Session 57: Macroeconomic Policy |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Optimal Monetary Policy under Hysteresis |
| By Sujit Kapadia |
| Presented by: Sujit Kapadia, Bank of England |
| Consistent and Efficient Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters in a Real-Time Monetary Policy Rule |
| By Chang-Jin Kim, N. Kundan Kishor, Charles R. Nelson |
| Presented by: Narayan Kishor, University of Washington |
| Macroeconomic policy and the distribution of growth rates |
| By Vatcharin Sirimaneetham and Jonathan Temple |
| Presented by: Vatcharin Sirimaneetham, University of Bristol |
Session 58: Microeconomics of Development |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| INTERGENERATIONAL ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN RURAL BANGLADESH |
| By M Niaz Asadullah |
| Presented by: Mohammad Asadullah, Oxford University |
| Are Women Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India |
| By Irma Clots-Figueras |
| Presented by: Irma Clots-Figueras, London School of Economics |
| Management of Production Risk on Degraded Lands: The Role of Wheat Genetic Diversity in Tigray Region, Ethiopia |
| By Salvatore Di Falco, Jean-Paul Chavas and Melinda Smale |
| Presented by: Salvatore Di Falco, CSERGE University of East Anglia |
Session 59: Outsourcing and Integration |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| International Integration and Regulation |
| By Finn Ostrup |
| Presented by: Finn Ostrup, Copenhagen Business School |
| Exchange Rate Effects on Multinational Activity:Theory and Evidence |
| By Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Michael Ryan |
| Presented by: Peter Egger, University of Munich and CESifo |
| Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing, and Firm Productivity |
| By Ralph Ossa |
| Presented by: Ralph Ossa, London School of Economics |
Session 60: Firms |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Credit Rationing and Firms in Oligopoly |
| By Jian Tong |
| Presented by: Jian Tong, University of Southampton |
| Improving Quality, Lowering Cost and Consumer Preferences |
| By Souresh Saha |
| Presented by: Souresh Saha, National University of Singapore |
| Bargaining Microfoundations for Productivity Dispersion |
| By John Thanassoulis |
| Presented by: John Thanassoulis, Oxford University |
Session 61: Careers |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Funding Higher Education and Wage Uncertainty: Income Contingent Loan versus Mortgage Loan |
| By Giuseppe Migali |
| Presented by: Giuseppe Migali, University of Warwick |
| Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns |
| By Alexander K. Koch and Eloic Peyrache |
| Presented by: Alexander Koch, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Session 62: Public Goods and Clusters |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Endogenous group formation and the provision of public goods: The role of promises and lies |
| By Jeannette Brosig, Magdalena Margreiter, Joachim Weimann |
| Presented by: Jeannette Brosig, Economic Policy |
| Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods |
| By Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gaechter |
| Presented by: Simon Gachter, Nottingham University |
| Record Breaking and Temporal Clustering |
| By Flavio Toxvaerd |
| Presented by: Flavio Toxvaerd, University of Cambridge |
Session 63: Exchange Rate Regimes |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability within a Currency Union |
| By Tatiana Kirsanova, Simon Wren-Lewis, David Vines |
| Presented by: David Vines, Oxford University |
| Sovereign Risk in the Classical Gold Standard Era |
| By Gavin Cameron, Prasanna Gai, Kang Yong Tan |
| Presented by: Kang Tan, Australian National University |
| Monetary Policy in the Open Economy: An Empirical Resolution of the Exchange Rate Puzzle |
| By John C. Bluedorn and Christopher Bowdler |
| Presented by: John Bluedorn, Oxford University |
Session 64: Macroeconomic Performance of the UK |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Has there been a British House Price Bubble? Evidence from a Regional Panel |
| By Gavin Cameron, John Muellbauer, Anthony Murphy |
| Presented by: Anthony Murphy, Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Explaining The Great Stability in the UK. A Factor Augmented VAR Approach |
| By Haroon Mumtaz |
| Presented by: Haroon Mumtaz, Bank of England |
| Uncertainty and UK Monetary Policy |
| By Christopher Martin and Costas Milas |
| Presented by: Costas Milas, Keele University |
Session 65: Non-linearities |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Non-linearities and Unit Roots in G7 Macroeconomic Variables |
| By Yunus Aksoy and Miguel Leon-Ledesma |
| Presented by: Miguel Leon-Ledesma, University of Kent |
| Nonlinearity in the term structure |
| By Dong Heon Kim |
| Presented by: Dong Heon Kim, University of Manchester & Korea University |
| Non-Linear Properties of Currency Crises in Emerging Markets |
| By Bettina Becker, Stephen G. Hall |
| Presented by: Bettina Becker, Ifo Institute for Economic Research |
Session 66: Inflation Dynamics |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Inflation Dynamics: the Role of Expectations |
| By Ricardo C. Nunes |
| Presented by: Ricardo Nunes, Univesitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Observed Inflation Forecasts and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve |
| By Chengsi Zhang and Denise R Osborn |
| Presented by: Chengsi Zhang, University of Manchester |
Session 67: Banking |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| The impact of Basel I capital regulation on bank deposits and loans: Empirical evidence for Europe |
| By Birgit Schmitz |
| Presented by: Birgit Schmitz, University of Bonn |
| The optimal supply of central bank money intra-day |
| By Morten Bech, George Speight, Matthew Willison, Jing Yang |
| Presented by: George Speight, Bank of England |
| The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks? |
| By Hendrik Hakenes, Isabel Schnabel |
| Presented by: Hendrik Hakenes, Max Planck Institute |
Session 68: Returns to Education |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Twin-based Estimates of the Returns to Education: Evidence from Denmark |
| By Paul Bingley, Kaare Christensen, Ian Walker |
| Presented by: Ian walker, University of Warwick |
| Estimating the Lifetime Benefits of Education: A Copula-Based Simulation Approach |
| By Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman, Greg Kaplan |
| Presented by: Alissa Goodman, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Intergenerational Effects of Mother's Schooling on Children's Outcomes: Causal Links and Transmission Channels |
| By Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir, and Matthias Parey |
| Presented by: Matthias Parey, University College London (UCL) & Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) |
Session 69: Utility |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Imprecision as an Account of Violations of Independence |
| By David Butler and Graham Loomes |
| Presented by: Graham Loomes, University of East Anglia |
| Why humans care about sunk cost while animals don't |
| By Felix Hoeffler |
| Presented by: Felix Hoeffler, Max Planck Society |
| Inequity Aversion May Increase Inequity in Bargaining |
| By Maria Montero |
| Presented by: Maria Montero, University of Nottingham |
Session 70: Mobility |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes |
| By Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler |
| Presented by: Helmut Rainer, University of St Andrews |
| Migration Within England and Wales and the Housing Market |
| By Gavin Cameron, John Muellbauer, Anthony Murphy |
| Presented by: Gavin Cameron, Oxford University |
| The impact of immigration on local labour markets in Germany |
| By Albrecht Glitz |
| Presented by: Albrecht Glitz, University College London - CReAM |
Session 71: International Trade |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Exchange Rate Regimes and Trade |
| By Christopher Adam and David Cobham |
| Presented by: Christopher Adam, University of Oxford |
| Trade Liberalization and Industrial Restructuring through Mergers and Acquisitions |
| By Holger Breinlich |
| Presented by: Holger Breinlich, London School of Economics |
| Trade, Human Capital and Labour Market Adjustment |
| By Rod Falvey, David Greenaway and Joana Silva |
| Presented by: Joana Silva, GEP and School of Economics, University of Nottingham |
Session 72: Plants & Firms |
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| Date: April 20, 2006 |
| Time: 15:00 - 16:30 |
| Estimating Returns to Scale: Critique of Popular Estimators and New Solutions to Old Problems |
| By Yuriy Gorodnichenko |
| Presented by: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, U. of Michigan |
| Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets |
| By Ralf Martin |
| Presented by: Ralph Martin, |
| The Impact of Acquisitions on Profitability, Employment and Wages: Evidence from the UK |
| By Michael P. Devereux and Justin Johston |
| Presented by: Michael Devereux, University of Warwick |