RES Second PhD Presentation Meeting

Summary of All Sessions

#Date/TimeLocationTypeTitlePapers
1January 27, 2007
9:30-10:45
D402 contributed C15
2January 27, 2007
9:30-10:45
D202 contributed A15
3January 27, 2007
9:30-10:45
D302 contributed B15
4January 27, 2007
11:15-12:30
D302 contributed B25
5January 27, 2007
11:15-12:30
D402 contributed C24
6January 27, 2007
11:15-12:30
D202 contributed A25
7January 27, 2007
14:00-15:15
D202 contributed A35
8January 27, 2007
14:00-15:15
D402 contributed C35
9January 27, 2007
14:00-15:15
D302 contributed B35
10January 27, 2007
15:15-16:30
D302 contributed B45
11January 27, 2007
15:15-16:30
D402 contributed C45
12January 27, 2007
15:15-16:30
D202 contributed A45
13January 27, 2007
17:00-18:15
D402 contributed C55
14January 27, 2007
17:00-18:15
D202 contributed A55
15January 27, 2007
17:00-18:15
D302 contributed B54
16January 28, 2007
9:30-10:45
D402 contributed C65
17January 28, 2007
9:30-10:45
D202 contributed A64
18January 28, 2007
9:30-10:45
D302 contributed B64
19January 28, 2007
11:15-12:30
D302 contributed B75
20January 28, 2007
11:15-12:30
D202 contributed A75
21January 28, 2007
11:15-12:30
D402 contributed C75
22January 28, 2007
14:00-15:15
D302 contributed B85
23January 28, 2007
14:00-15:15
D402 contributed C84
24January 28, 2007
14:00-15:15
D202 contributed A84
25January 28, 2007
15:15-16:30
D202 contributed A95
26January 28, 2007
15:15-16:30
D402 contributed C95
27January 28, 2007
15:15-16:30
D302 contributed B95
28January 28, 2007
17:00-18:15
D302 contributed B105
29January 28, 2007
17:00-18:15
D402 contributed C104
30January 28, 2007
17:00-18:15
D202 contributed A105
31January 27, 2007
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43 sessions, 171 papers


 

RES Second PhD Presentation Meeting

Complete List of All Sessions


Session 1: C1

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D402
 

Calvo Contracts - Optimal Indexation in General Equilibrium
   Presented by: Mai Le, Cardiff University
 

How the Removal of Deposit Rate Ceilings Has Changed Monetary Transmission in the US: Theory and Evidence.
   Presented by: Karel Mertens, European University Institute
 

A Welfare Analysis of Capital Account Liberalization
   Presented by: Haiping Zhang, University of Bonn
 

Fiscal shocks and the consumption response when wages are sticky
   Presented by: Francesco Furlanetto, HEC Lausanne/CREI UPF
 

Which inflation to target? A small open economy with sticky wages indexed to past inflation
   Presented by: Alessia Campolmi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Session 2: A1

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D202
 

Nonlinear trend stationarity of Real Exchange Rates: The case of the Mediterranean countries
   Presented by: Juan Cuestas, University of Alicante
 

Likelihood based testing for fractional cointegration
   Presented by: Katarzyna Łasak, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 

High dimensional yield curves: Models and forecasting
   Presented by: Roland Meeks, University of Oxford
 

Term Structure Modelling with Observable State Variables
   Presented by: Cristian Huse, London School of Economics
 

Forecasting the Yield Curve in a Data-Rich Environment: A No-Arbitrage Factor-Augmented VAR Approach
   Presented by: Emanuel Mönch, Humboldt University Berlin

Session 3: B1

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D302
 

Fairness and Desert in Tournaments
   Presented by: David Gill, University of Oxford
 

Intergenerational Crowding Out
   Presented by: Emmanuel Frot, London School of Economics
 

Relational Contracts and Vertical Restraints: Theory and Evidence from Automobiles Franchising
   Presented by: Giorgio Zanarone, Pompeu Fabra and MIT (visiting)
 

The Important Thing Is not (Always) Winning but Taking Part: Funding Public Goods with Contests
   Presented by: Marco Faravelli, University of Edinburgh
 

Overlapping Generations and Idiosyncratic Risk: Can Prices Reveal the Best Monetary Policy?
   Presented by: Luciana Fiorini, Brown University

Session 4: B2

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D302
 

Political Activism, Party Coalitions and Electoral Competition
   Presented by: Michele Giuranno, Essex University
 

Criminal Networks
   Presented by: Natalia Perez, U. of Maryland
 

The Design of Post-Grant Patent Challenges
   Presented by: Jing-Yuan CHIOU, National Bureau of Economic Research
 

Relativity, Rank, and the Utility of Income
   Presented by: Matthew Rablen, HM Revenue & Customs
 

Unawareness of Theorems
   Presented by: Spyros Galanis, University of Rochester

Session 5: C2

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D402
 

Choosing the exchange rate system with incomplete information
   Presented by: Guido Traficante, tor vergata university
 

Optimal simple monetary policy rules and non-atomistic wage setters in a new-keynesian framework
   Presented by: Stefano Gnocchi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 

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Monetary Policy Regimes and the Volatility of Long-Term Interest Rates
   Presented by: Virginia Queijo, Institute for International Economics St
 

Maastricht convergence criteria and optimal monetary policy for the EMU accession countries
   Presented by: Anna Lipinska, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Session 6: A2

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D202
 

Exogeneity in Semiparametric Models: Definitions and Tests
   Presented by: Paulo Parente, University of Cambridge
 

Sieve-based Empirical Likelihood under Semiparametric Conditional Moment Restrictions
   Presented by: Martin Burda, University of Pittsburgh
 

Weak Instruments Robust Tests for Limited Dependent Variable Models
   Presented by: Leandro Magnusson, Brown University
 

The Effect of Toss and Weather on County Championship Cricket Outcomes
   Presented by: Ronald Dorsey, Royal Holloway University of London
 

Private investment and financial development in a globalized world
   Presented by: Yongfu Huang, Bristol University

Session 7: A3

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D202
 

The relation between food consumption and socio-economic status: evidence among the British population
   Presented by: Paola De Agostini, ISER - University of Essex
 

College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables
   Presented by: Tobias Klein, University of Mannheim
 

Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Mother Fixed Effects Estimation
   Presented by: Masayuki Kudamatsu, London School of Economics
 

Evaluations of Experiences Lived across Time: Reconciling Empirical Findings with Folk Beliefs
   Presented by: Irina Cojuharenco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 

Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
   Presented by: Laura Hospido, CEMFI and University of Santiago de Comp

Session 8: C3

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D402
 

Liquidity Runs with Endogenous Information Acquisition
   Presented by: Sanne Zwart, European University Institute
 

Does Longevity Cause Growth? A Theoretical Critique
   Presented by: Hosny Zoabi, European University Institute
 

Information and Communication Technologies in a Multi-Sector Endogenous Growth Model
   Presented by: Evangelia Vourvachaki, London School of Economics
 

Speed of technology adoption with imperfect information in stock markets
   Presented by: Katrin Tinn, London School of Economics
 

Endogenous Growth and Investment-specific Innovations - Evidence and Predictions
   Presented by: Max Elger, Stockholm School of Economics

Session 9: B3

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D302
 

Is Segregation Robust?
   Presented by: Martin Boeg, Stockholm School of Economics
 

Optimal Combinatorial Mechanism Design
   Presented by: Levent Ulku, Rutgers University
 

Airline Competition and Network Structure
   Presented by: Ricardo Flores-Fillol, UAB
 

Exclusive quality
   Presented by: Cédric Argenton, Stockholm School of Economics
 

The adoption of a Code of Best Practice: Incentives implications
   Presented by: Eduard Alonso-Pauli, UAB

Session 10: B4

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D302
 

Uncovered Set Choice Rule
   Presented by: Michele Lombardi, Queen Mary, University of London
 

Conditions for Equivalence Between Sequentiality and Subgame Perfection
   Presented by: J. Carlos Gonzalez-Pimienta, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 

Information, Reputation and Ethnic Conflict
   Presented by: Dominic Rohner, University of Cambridge
 

Reputation and Bounded Memory
   Presented by: Daniel Monte, Yale University
 

Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first?
   Presented by: Lucie Ménager, University Paris I

Session 11: C4

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D402
 

Structural Unemployment in a Matching Model with Endogenous Skill-acquisition and Technological Diffusion
   Presented by: Fabio Arico, Warwick University
 

American Economic Development Since the Civil War or the Virtue of Education
   Presented by: Fabrice Murtin, LSE, PSE, CREST
 

Equivalence of Utilitarian and Weak maximal programs for a class of aggregative growth models
   Presented by: Kuntal Banerjee, Cornell University
 

Social Security and Two-Earner Households
   Presented by: remzi kaygusuz, the pennsylvania state university
 

Labor Turnover Costs and the Cyclical Behavior of Vancacies and Unemployment
   Presented by: José Silva, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Session 12: A4

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D202
 

WEALTH EFFECTS OUT OF FINANCIAL AND HOUSING WEALTH: CROSS COUNTRY AND AGE GROUP COMPARISONS
   Presented by: Eva Sierminska, Luxembourg Income Study
 

Who Gained from Trade Reforms in Ghana?:Unskilled vs. Skilled Households
   Presented by: Charles Ackah, University of Nottingham
 

The Labour Market Impact of Immigration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
   Presented by: Albrecht Glitz, University College London
 

Changing the Way the Elderly Live: Evidence from the Home Health Care Market in the United States
   Presented by: Chiara Orsini, University of Maryland at College Park
 

Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Great Britain During 1991-2003
   Presented by: Georgios Chrysanthou, University of York

Session 13: C5

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D402
 

Employment protection, firm selection, and growth
   Presented by: Markus Poschke, European University Institute, Florence
 

Does product market competition improve the labour market performance?
   Presented by: Gabriele Cardullo,
 

Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors
   Presented by: Jose Mauricio Prado, Stockholm University
 

Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Unemployment? Theory and Some Evidence
   Presented by: Alexandre Janiak, Université Libre de Bruxelles
 

Rule of thumb consumers and Sticky Wages.
   Presented by: Andrea Colciago, University of Milano Bicocca

Session 14: A5

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D202
 

Testing the Predictions of Decision Theories in a Natural Experiment When Half a Million Is at Stake
   Presented by: Ganna Pogrebna, University of Innsbruck
 

New Evidence on Emigrant Selection
   Presented by: Jesús Moraga, Columbia University
 

Why do worker-firm matches dissolve?
   Presented by: Anne Gielen, CentER, Tilburg University
 

Labor Market Oligopsonistic Competition: The Effect of Worker Immobility on Wages
   Presented by: Marios Michaelides, University of Maryland
 

URBAN DENSITY AND PUPIL ATTAINMENT
   Presented by: Olmo Silva, Centre for Economic Performance

Session 15: B5

Session type: contributed
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D302
 

The strategic Marshallian cross
   Presented by: Alex Dickson, University of Manchester
 

Consistency and Monotonicity in Matching Markets with Contracts
   Presented by: Cagatay Kayi, University of Rochester
 

Learning to be prepared
   Presented by: Willemien Kets, Tilburg University
 

Learning to Forgive
   Presented by: Thomas Norman, Oxford University
 

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Session 16: C6

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D402
 

Search and matching frictions and optimal monetary policy
   Presented by: Carlos Thomas, London School of Economics
 

Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets.
   Presented by: Mariano Bosch, London School of Economics
 

Nonparametric and Semiparametric Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Inflation on Growth
   Presented by: Andrea Vaona, University of Pavia
 

Can firms' location decisions counteract the Balassa-Samuelson effect?
   Presented by: Isabelle Méjean, CEPII
 

The Rise of Trade Volumes, the 'Origin-Margin', and Per Capita Income
   Presented by: Philip Sauré, European University Institute

Session 17: A6

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D202
 

Fostering Educational Enrolment Through Subsidies: the Issue of Timing
   Presented by: Mario Fiorini, University College London
 

Determining the importance of a variable with small and undersized samples
   Presented by: Peter Jensen, University of Aarhus
 

Education transmission accross three generations - evidence from NCDS data
   Presented by: Ulrich SAUDER, University of Warwick
 

The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples
   Presented by: Kerry Papps, Cornell University
 

Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
   Presented by: Mirco Tonin, IIES - Stockholm University

Session 18: B6

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 9:30 - 10:45
Location: D302
 

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Inter-region Subsidy Competition for a New Plant: What is the Central Government Optimal Policy?
   Presented by: Osiris Jorge Parcero,
 

Anti-Evasion Auditing Policy in the Presence of Common Income Shocks
   Presented by: Miguel Sanchez Villalba, London School of Economics
 

An experiment on corruption and gender
   Presented by: Maria Rivas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 

Optimal Non-Linear Income Tax when Highly-Skilled Vote with their Feet
   Presented by: Laurent Simula, EHESS, IDEP-GREQAM, PSE

Session 19: B7

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D302
 

Optimal Dynamic Management of a Renewable Energy Source under Uncertainty
   Presented by: Catherine Bobtcheff, University of Toulouse
 

Consumer Installment Credit Under Time-Inconsistent Discounting
   Presented by: Nur Ata, European University Institute
 

Volunteer Hiring, Organizational Form and the Provision of Mission-Oriented Goods
   Presented by: Michael Vlassopoulos, University of British Columbia
 

The effect of a mentor on a junior employee's self-assessment
   Presented by: Silvia Dominguez Martinez, Erasmus University Rotterdam
 

Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
   Presented by: Josse Delfgaauw, Tinbergen Institute

Session 20: A7

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D202
 

Identifying the Source of Catholic School Effects on Wages and Earnings
   Presented by: Young-Joo Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Education and the Timing of Births: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Italy
   Presented by: Margherita Fort, EUI & University of Padova(Pd)
 

Occupational Choice and the Quality of Entrepreneurs
   Presented by: Eren Inci, Boston College
 

Differentiated Products and Evasion of Import Tariffs
   Presented by: Gaia Narciso, Bocconi University
 

Family Networks and Orphan Caretaking in Tanzania
   Presented by: Christopher Ksoll, Yale University

Session 21: C7

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 11:15 - 12:30
Location: D402
 

A New Cost Channel of Monetary Policy
   Presented by: Alper Cenesiz, University of Kiel, Saarland University
 

National Institutions and International Macroeconomics: Within-Country Risk-Reallocation under Incomplete Markets
   Presented by: Anna Lo Prete, Università di Torino
 

Housing Market and Current account Imbalances in International Economy
   Presented by: Maria Teresa Punzi, Boston College
 

Inattentive Consumers in General Equilibrium
   Presented by: Daria Finocchiaro, IIES, Stockholm University
 

Real Exchange Rate Overshooting in Real Business Cycle and Overlapping Wage Contract Model
   Presented by: Soubarna Pal, Cardiff University

Session 22: B8

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D302
 

Mutual Funds, Career Concerns and Trade Volume
   Presented by: Massimo Scotti, Università L.Bocconi
 

Investment Banks as Information Providers in IPOs
   Presented by: Filippo Pavesi, Università Bocconi
 

Efficiency of Competition in Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection
   Presented by: Giuseppe De Feo, UCL
 

Career Concerns and Competitive Pressure
   Presented by: Fabio Feriozzi, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 

Constrained Communication with Multiple Agents: Anonymity, Equal Treatment and Public Good Provision
   Presented by: Kohei Kawamura, University of Oxford

Session 23: C8

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D402
 

On the Time Consistency of Optimal Policies with Interacting Authorities
   Presented by: Stefan Niemann, University of Bonn
 

Endogenous growth and time-to-build: the AK case
   Presented by: Mauro Bambi, Université Catholique de Louvain
 

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Shape of US business cycle and long run effects of recessions
   Presented by: Giacomo Carboni, University of Warwick
 

Stock Options vs. Optimal Contracts in a Dynamic Agency Model
   Presented by: Stanimir Morfov, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Session 24: A8

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:15
Location: D202
 

Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers
   Presented by: Riccardo Puglisi, MIT
 

Behaviour in Workplace Networks: Evidence from the English Judiciary
   Presented by: Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Nuffield College
 

Does Subsidising the Cost of Capital Really Help the Poorest? An Analysis of Saving Opportunities in Group Lending
   Presented by: Kumar Aniket, University of Edinburgh
 

Sectoral Expansion, Allocation of Talent, and Financial Development
   Presented by: Esteban Jaimovich, University College London
 

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Session 25: A9

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D202
 

Mental Health Expenditure in England: a Spatial Panel Approach
   Presented by: Francesco Moscone, London School of Economics
 

Foreign Affiliates in the French Manufacturing Industry: Source or Recipient of Technology Spillovers?
   Presented by: Liza JABBOUR, University Paris I TEAM-CNRS
 

Firm Heterogeneity and Market Selection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does It Spur Industrial Progress?
   Presented by: Admasu Shiferaw, Institute of Social Studies
 

Persistence of Innovation, Technological Change and Quality-Adjusted Patents in the US Pharmaceutical Industry
   Presented by: Gautier DUFLOS, CREST-LEI and CES, University of Paris1, CNRS
 

Hard Drugs Addiction, Drug Violations and Property Crimes in the US
   Presented by: Marco Cozzi, University College London

Session 26: C9

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D402
 

Autocracy, Devolution and Growth
   Presented by: Elena Paltseva, Stockholm School of Economics
 

Cycles and Banking Crisis
   Presented by: Ioannis Lazopoulos, private
 

Speculative Bubbles without Stupid Investors
   Presented by: Milo Bianchi, Stockholm School of Economics
 

Excessive Dollar Borrowing in Emerging Markets
   Presented by: Anton Korinek, Columbia University
 

Liquidity and Economic Fluctuations
   Presented by: filippo taddei, columbia university

Session 27: B9

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 15:15 - 16:30
Location: D302
 

Broad Cross-License Agreements in the Semiconductor Industry: Waiting to Persuade?
   Presented by: Alberto Galasso, LSE
 

Consumer Behavior in Markets of Durable Experience Goods
   Presented by: Martin Paredes, New York University
 

Does it pay to study far from home? Explaining the returns to geographic mobility of Italian college graduates
   Presented by: Mattia Makovec, Bocconi University and University of Alicante
 

Tests for the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in the Car Insurance Market: Evidence from the Korean Car Insurance Data
   Presented by: Yong-Woo Lee, UCL
 

Give More Tomorrow: A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Choice in Charitable Giving
   Presented by: Anna Breman, Stockholm School of Economics

Session 28: B10

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D302
 

Actions, Beliefs and Feelings: an experimental study on Dynamic Psychological Games
   Presented by: Giuseppe Attanasi, Bocconi University
 

Trust, Gender and Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Three Western European Countries.
   Presented by: Matteo Migheli, University of Torino
 

Pairwise Influences and Bargaining Among the Many
   Presented by: Joan de Marti Beltran, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 

Funding Higher Education and Wage Uncertainty: Income Contingent Loan versus Mortgage Loan
   Presented by: Giuseppe Migali, University of Warwick
 

Budgetary Separation of Powers in the American States and the Tax Level: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
   Presented by: Leandro Magalhaes, Bocconi University

Session 29: C10

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D402
 

The Effect of Relationship Lending on Firm Performance
   Presented by: Judit Montoriol-Garriga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 

Endogenous default penalties and their implications for welfare and borrowing trends
   Presented by: Ioannis Kingdom, University of Southampton, UK
 

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Self-Enforcing Trade Credits
   Presented by: Tomohiro Ota, University of Warwick
 

Did Household Consumption Become More Volatile?
   Presented by: Olga Gorbachev, Columbia University

Session 30: A10

Session type: contributed
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: D202
 

Competition, Concentration, and Bank Soundness: New Evidence from the Micro-Level.
   Presented by: Klaus Schaeck, University of Southampton
 

Consumption Volatility and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
   Presented by: Roméo Tédongap Nguefack, Université de Montréal
 

AffineEquilibrium Asset Pricing Models with a Reference Level
   Presented by: imen ghattassi, University of Toulouse
 

"Portfolio Choice Implications of Parameter and Model Uncertainty in Factor Models"
   Presented by: Deniz KEBABCI, University of California, San Diego
 

The determinants of CDS bid-ask spreads
   Presented by: Lei Meng, University of Wales

Session 31: poster 2

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

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Does the Bank of England Target Inflation Precisely?
   Presented by: Ram Kharel, Brunel University
 

Inequality of Nations and Endogenous Fluctuation in a Two Country Model
   Presented by: Tomoo Kikuchi, Bielefeld University
 

Technological Transfers, Limited Commitment and Growth
   Presented by: Alexandre Dmitriev, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Session 32: poster 3

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Eat Your Pie And Have It - Does Time-Inconsistency Show In A Life-Cycle Model With Durable Goods?
   Presented by: Judith Ay, European University Institute
 

Measuring Inequality of Well-Being: a Proposal Based on a Multidimensional Gini Index
   Presented by: Maria Ana Lugo, University of Oxford
 

Natural Resource Collapse: Technological Change and Biased Estimation
   Presented by: Jason Murray, Univeristy of California San Diego

Session 33: poster 4

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

My Money Versus Your Money: An Investigation of NGOs' Income And Expenditure; Evidence From UK International NGOs
   Presented by: Pierre-Emmanuel Ly, Université de Toulouse 1
 

Family Labor Supply, Precautionary Behavior, Aggregate Saving and Employment
   Presented by: Paulo Monteiro, Université Libre de Bruxelles
 

Asymmetric Information and Annuities
   Presented by: Silvia Platoni, Royal Holloway - University of London

Session 34: poster 5

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Business-Science Research Collaboration under Moral Hazard
   Presented by: Isabel Pereira, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 

Information Technology and Economic Performance: A smooth coefficient semiparametric approach
   Presented by: Elena Ketteni, University of Cyprus

Session 35: poster 6

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Merger Simulation in Mobile Telephony in Portugal
   Presented by: Lukasz Grzybowski, University of Alicante
 

Financial Development and Inequality: Evicence from Brazil
   Presented by: Manoel Bittencourt, University of Bristol, UK

Session 36: poster 1

Session type: poster
Date: January 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

The determinants of patent applications outcomes
   Presented by: Cédric Schneider, Copenhagen Business School
 

A Three Way Equivalence
   Presented by: Nicholas Ziros, University of Manchester
 

VICIOUS AND VIRTUOUS CIRCLES --- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNEMPLOYMENT
   Presented by: Ruthira Naraidoo, Keele University

Session 37: poster 8

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206

Session 38: poster 7

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

A Knowledge-Capital Model Approach of Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Countries
   Presented by: Brindusa Anghel, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Session 39: poster 9

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Life and Death of Roscas : If Power Corrupts, Does Powerlessness Make One Blameless ?
   Presented by: Olivier Dagnelie, University of Namur
 

Experimental evidence of the emergence of aesthetic rules in pure coordination games
   Presented by: Federica Alberti, University of East Anglia
 

An Analysis of IMF Programme Implementation: The Common Agency Model and Evidence from Probit Estimation
   Presented by: Ozlem Arpac, University of Surrey

Session 40: poster 11

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Differential Mortality and Social Security
   Presented by: Marie Louise Leroux, GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse 1
 

Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors
   Presented by: Jose Mauricio Prado, Stockholm University
 

Reducing Wealth Inequality in France: A positive comparison of Income and Inheritance Taxations
   Presented by: Audrey desbonnet, CES-EUREQua

Session 41: poster 12

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

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Consumers’ Acceptance of new fresh food products: The case of carrots with various colors.
   Presented by: Mahsa Javaheri, National institute of hurticulture

Session 42: poster 13

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

Investment Timing and Endogenous Default
   Presented by: Stefan Hirth, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
 

Is Government Spending Expansionary or Contractionary for Private Consumption? Resolving the Puzzle
   Presented by: Adina Popescu, London Business School

Session 43: poster 10

Session type: poster
Date: January 28, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: D206
 

The political influence of foreign firms in developing countries
   Presented by: Rodolphe Desbordes, Université Catholique de Louvain
 

An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products
   Presented by: Matthijs Wildenbeest, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute
 

Habit formation and the transmission of financial crises
   Presented by: Melisso Boschi, University of Essex

This program was last updated on 2007-01-27 2:58:20 EDT