ESWC 2005: Congress Programme

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FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2005


11:00 - 12:45 PAIRED INVITED LECTURES
Labor Economics



11:00 - 12:45 LABOUR ECONOMICS (LAB)
Chairperson: Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Room Bloomsbury Theater

  DYNAMIC MODELS AND POLICY EVALUATION
Costas Meghir, UCL

 
  MICROECONOMETRIC SEARCH-MATCHING MODELS AND MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA
Jean-Marc Robin, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne
 

11:00 - 12:45 PAIRED INVITED LECTURES
Econometrics



11:00 - 12:45 NONPARAMETRIC STRUCTURAL MODELS (ECO)
Chairperson: Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Discussant: Ed Vytlacil, Stanford
Room Z3 - Ingold Auditorium

  IDENTIFICATION OF LOCAL STRUCTURAL FEATURES
Andrew Chesher, University College London

 
  INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES AND TREATMENT EFFECT HETEROGENEITY
Guido Imbens, Berkeley
 

11:00 - 12:45 PAIRED INVITED LECTURES
Economic Theory



11:00 - 12:45 GAME THEORY (THY)
Chairperson: Ken Binmore, University College London
Discussant: David Levine, UCLA
Room Cruciform LT1

  ALLOCATIVE AND INFORMATIONAL EXTERNALITIES IN AUCTION AND MECHANISM DESIGN
Philippe Jehiel, UCL and Benny Moldovanu, University of Bonn

 
  THE ECONOMICS OF RELATIONSHIPS
Larry Samuelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

12:45 - 14:15 LUNCH



12:45 - 14:15 EDUCATION POLICY (AEM)
Chairperson: Costas Meghir, UCL
Room Bloomsbury Theatre

  EDUCATION POLICY
James Heckman, The University of Chicago
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Macroeconomics



14:15 - 16:15 BUSINESS CYCLES (MAC)
Chairperson: Jordi Gali, CREI
Room Z3 - Ingold Auditorium

  DO EUROPEAN BUSINESS CYCLES LOOK LIKE ONE?
Maximo Camacho, Universidad de Murcia
Co-Author: Gabriel Perez Quiros, Economic Bureau of the President of Spain

 
  FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC SHOCKS AND THE MACROECONOMY
Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and David Marshall, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 
  THE GRANULAR ORIGINS OF AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS
Xavier Gabaix, MIT

 
  TRENDS IN HOURS, BALANCED GROWTH AND THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE BUSINESS CYCLE
Jordi Gali, CREI
 

14:15 - 16:15 EXPECTATIONS FORMATION (MAC)
Chairperson: Daniel John Zizzo, University of East Anglia
Room Z3 - Harrie Massey

  EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE PERSISTENCE OF OUTPUT AND INFLATION
Klaus Adam, CEPR & European Central Bank

 
  MEASURING REVISIONS TO SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS
Delavande Adeline, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Rand

 
  GENERALIZED STOCHASTIC GRADIENT LEARNING
Seppo Honkapohja, University of Cambridge
Co-Authors: George Evans, University of Oregon and Noah Williams, University of Princeton

 
  INFERENTIAL EXPECTATIONS
Daniel John Zizzo, University of East Anglia
Co-Author: Gordon Menzies, University of Technology, Sydney, and Australian National University
 

14:15 - 16:15 INNOVATION AND GROWTH (MAC)
Chairperson: Roberto Samaniego, George Washington University
Room Z3 - Ingold LT

  R&D POLICY IN A VOLATILE ECONOMY
Tetsugen Haruyama, Kobe University

 
  COMPETITION, INNOVATION AND GROWTH WITH LIMITED ENFORCEMENT
Ramon Marimon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Co-Author: Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California

 
  EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION AND THE RATE OF TECHNICAL CHANGE
Roberto Samaniego, George Washington University

 
  "DEEP POCKETS'', COLLATERAL ASSIGNMENTS OF PATENTS, AND THE GROWTH OF INNOVATIONS
Kirsten Ralf, American University of Paris
Co-Authors: Bruno Amable, cepremap and Jean-Bernard Chatelain, LEO, University of Orleans
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Finance



14:15 - 16:15 FINANCE AND THE FIRM (FIN)
Chairperson: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Columbia University
Room Z2 - Engineering LT1

  FINANCING ORGANIZATIONS
Macchiavello Rocco, LSE

 
  WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT CAPITAL STRUCTURE OF SMALL FIRMS?
Karin Jõeveer, CERGE-EI

 
  WHY LEVERAGE DISTORTS INVESTMENT
Alex Stomper, Vienna Grad School of Finance, IAS
Co-Author: Christine Zulehner, University of Vienna

 
  THE MARKET FOR MERGERS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Columbia University
Co-Author: David Robinson, Duke University
 

14:15 - 16:15 EMPIRICAL FINANCE I (FIN)
Chairperson: Laurent Calvet, Harvard University
Room Z2 - Engineering LT2

  NEWS VS. NOISE IN EQUITY RETURNS
Hisham Foad, Emory University
Co-Author: Robert S. Chirinko, Emory University

 
  OPERATING LEVERAGE, STOCK MARKET CYCLICALITY, AND THE CROSS-SECTION OF RETURNS
Gourio Francois, U of Chicago

 
  TOURNAMENT INCENTIVES AND RETURN CHASING IN MUTUAL FUNDS
Zekeriya Eser, University of Kentucky & Eastern Kentucky University

 
  MULTIFREQUENCY NEWS AND ASSET RETURNS
Laurent Calvet, Harvard University
Co-Author: Adlai Fisher, University of British Columbia
 

14:15 - 16:15 OPTIONS (FIN)
Chairperson: Olivier Scaillet, HEC Geneve and FAME
Room Z2 - Darwin

  DERIVATIVE PRICING WITH MULTIVARIATE STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY: APPLICATION TO CREDIT RISK
Razvan Sufana, University of Toronto
Co-Author: Christian Gouriéroux, CREST and University of Toronto

 
  OPTION VALUATION WITH LONG-RUN AND SHORT-RUN VOLATILITY COMPONENTS
Peter Christoffersen, McGill University
Co-Authors: Kris Jacobs, McGill University and Yintian Wang, McGill University

 
  PARAMETRIC PROPERTIES OF SEMI-NONPARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO OPTION VALUATION
Enrique Sentana, CEMFI
Co-Authors: Angel León , University of Alicante and Javier Mencia, CEMFI

 
  THEORY AND CALIBRATION OF SWAP MARKET MODELS
Olivier Scaillet, HEC Geneve and FAME
Co-Authors: Stefano Galluccio, BNPPARIBAS, Zhijiang Huang, JP Morgan and Jean-Michel Ly, BNPPARIBAS
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Public/Political Economics



14:15 - 16:15 FEDERALISM AND TAX COMPETITION (PPE)
Chairperson: Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University
Room Z3- Gordon House

  REDISTRIBUTION, IN-KIND TRANSFERS AND MATCHING GRANTS WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LACKS INFORMATION ON LOCAL COSTS
Soren Blomquist, Department of economics, Uppsala University
Co-Author: Luca Micheletto, Department of Economics, Uppsala University

 
  WELFARE GAINS FROM A REDRAWING OF POLITICAL BOUNDARIES: EVIDENCE FROM STATE REORGANIZATION IN INDIA
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Harvard University
Co-Author: Joydeep Roy, Economc Policy Institute

 
  THE CURSE OF THE MIDDLE-SKILLED WORKERS
Laurent Simula, EHESS, GREQAM and EDGE
Co-Author: Alain Trannoy, EHESS and IDEP-GREQAM

 
  RELAXING TAX COMPETITION THROUGH PUBLIC GOOD DIFFERENTIATION
Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Development Economics



14:15 - 16:15 CHILDREN IN DEVELOPMENT (DEV)
Chairperson: Simon Fan, Lingnan University
Room Z3 - Archeology

  ADJUSTING HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE: SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IMPACTS OF CHILD FOSTERING IN BURKINA FASO
Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

 
  DOES CHILD LABOR DECLINE WITH HOUSEHOLD INCOME? A NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACH
Ana Dammert, Syracuse University

 
  WHY CHILDREN WORK, ATTEND SCHOOL, OR STAY IDLE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Priya Ranjan, University of California, Irvine
Co-Author: marigee bacolod, University of California, Irvine

 
  HETEROGENEITY AND "THE POPULATION PROBLEM"
Simon Fan, Lingnan University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Applied and Empirical Microeconomics



14:15 - 16:15 COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING AND CONSUMPTION (AEM)
Chairperson: Valerie Lechene, University of Oxford
Room Z2 - Biochemestry

  THE CONSUMPTION DYNAMICS OF PLURALISTIC HOUSEHOLDS
Stephen Lich-Tyler, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

 
  LABOR SUPPLY, SAVING, AND MARITAL DECISIONS
Maurizio Mazzocco, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-Authors: Lucas Davis, University of Wisconsin and Shintaro Yamaguchi, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin

 
  THE COLLECTIVE MODEL OF HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION: A NONPARAMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION
Bram De Rock, KULeuven Campus Kortrijk
Co-Authors: Laurens Cherchye, K.U.Leuven and Frederic Vermeulen, CentER Tilburg University

 
  COLLECTIVE AND UNITARY MODELS: A CLARIFICATION
Valerie Lechene, University of Oxford
Co-Authors: Martin Browning, Copenhagen and Pierre-André Chiappori, Chicago
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Labor Economics



14:15 - 16:15 PROGRAM EVALUATION (LAB)
Chairperson: Annette Bergemann, Free University Amsterdam
Room Z2 - Chadwick

  EQUILIBRIUM POLICY EXPERIMENTS AND THE EVALUATION OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Jeffrey Smith, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Co-Authors: Jeremy Lise, Queen''s University at Kingston and Shannon Seitz, Queen''s University

 
  THE KNOWLEDGE LIFT: THE SWEDISH ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT AIMED TO ELIMINATE LOW WORKER SKILL LEVELS
Gerard van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam
Co-Authors: James Albrecht, Georgetown University and Susan Vroman, Georgetown University

 
  LONG TERM EFFECTS OF A MANDATORY MULTISTAGE PROGRAMME: THE NEW DEAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK
Giacomo De Giorgi, University College of London

 
  DO JOB CREATION SCHEMES INITIATE POSITIVE DYNAMIC EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS?
Annette Bergemann, Free University Amsterdam
 

14:15 - 16:15 EARNINGS DIFFERENTIALS AND SEGMENTED MARKETS (LAB)
Chairperson: Fabien Postel-Vinay, DELTA
Room Z2 - Young

  "SOFT" SKILLS, "HARD" SKILLS AND THE BLACK/WHITE EARNINGS GAP
xiangdong wei, Lingnan University
Co-Authors: Simon Fan, Lingnan University and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 
  ARE LABOR MARKETS SEGMENTED IN ARGENTINA: A SEMIPARAMETRIC APPROACH
Sangeeta Pratap, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Co-Author: Erwan Quintin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

 
  PRE-MARKET CHARACTERISTICS, GENDER WAGE DIVERSITY, AND MINORITIES¡¯ PERFORMANCE IN THE LABOR MARKET ---- APPLICATION OF NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION ON HIGHLY EDUCATED
Liqun Liu, Syracuse University

 
  THE PUBLIC PAY GAP IN BRITAIN: SMALL DIFFERENCES THAT (DON'T?) MATTER.
Fabien Postel-Vinay, DELTA
Co-Author: Helene Turon, University of Bristol
 

14:15 - 16:15 EDUCATION AND ENROLLMENT (LAB)
Chairperson: Victor Lavy, Hebrew University
Room Z2 - Embriology

  VIVE LA REVOLUTION! LONG TERM RETURNS OF 1968 TO THE ANGRY STUDENTS
Sandra McNally, Centre for Economic Performance
Co-Author: Eric Maurin, CREST_INSEE

 
  ENROLMENT INTO HIGHER EDUCATION AND CHANGES IN ELIGIBILITY RULES OF STUDENT AID
Hans J. Baumgartner, DIW Berlin
Co-Author: Viktor Steiner,

 
  DO A FEW MONTHS OF COMPULSORY SCHOOLING MATTER? THE EDUCATION AND LABOUR MARKET IMPACT OF SCHOOL LEAVING RULES
Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Department of Trade and Industry
Co-Author: Emilia Del Bono, UC Berkeley

 
  FROM FORCED BUSING TO FREE SCHOOL CHOICE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: INDIVIDUAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS
Victor Lavy, Hebrew University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
International Economics



14:15 - 16:15 DEVALUATIONS AND SPECULATIVE ATTACKS (INT)
Chairperson: Todd Keister, ITAM
Room Z3 - Ricardo

  DEVALUATIONS, OUTPUT AND THE BALANCE SHEET EFFECT: A STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Tovar Camilo, Bank for International Settlements

 
  IMPERFECT COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN FIRST GENERATION MODELS OF CURRENCY CRISES
Gara Minguez-Afonso, London School of Economics

 
  EXCESS DEMAND FOR FOREIGN CURRENCY DURING SPECULATIVE ATTACKS
Ivan Pastine, University College Dubin and CEPR

 
  EXPECTATIONS AND CONTAGION IN SELF-FULFILLING CURRENCY ATTACKS
Todd Keister, ITAM
 

14:15 - 16:15 EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION (INT)
Chairperson: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston
Room Z3 - Jevons

  LIMITED PARTICIPATION, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND CAPITAL ACCOUNT LIBERALIZATION
Eva de Francisco, CBO

 
  OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE AND COMPENSATION FOR LOSERS FROM INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Toshihiro Ichida, Waseda University

 
  CAN A COUNTRY GAIN BY TECHNOLOGY LOSS?
Ronald Jones, University of Rochester
Co-Author: Roy Ruffin, international economics

 
  CAPITAL FLOWS AND PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM US STATES
Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
Co-Authors: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston, Ariell Reshef, New York University and Oved Yosha, Tel Aviv University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Econometrics



14:15 - 16:15 UNIT ROOTS I (ECO)
Chairperson: Ulrich Mueller, Princeton University
Room Z4 - B20

  TESTING FOR A UNIT ROOT AGAINST TRANSITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS
Mototsugu Shintani, Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Joon Y. Park, Rice University

 
  TESTING I(1) AGAINST I(D) ALTERNATIVES IN THE PRESENCE OF DETERMINISTIC COMPONENTS
Juan J. Dolado, Universidad Carlos III
Co-Authors: Jesus Gonzalo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Laura Mayoral, U. Pompeu Fabra

 
  CORRELATION ROBUST THRESHOLD UNIT ROOT TESTS
Robert de Jong, Ohio State University
Co-Authors: Youngsoo Bae, Ohio State University and Chien-Ho Wang, National Taipeh University

 
  THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONSISTENT DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN I(0) AND I(1) PROCESSES
Ulrich Mueller, Princeton University
 

14:15 - 16:15 MACROECONOMIC ECONOMETRICS I (ECO)
Chairperson: Mikhail Chernov, Columbia Business School
Room Z4 - B33

  GROWTH, TECHNOLOGICAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND SPATIAL EXTERNALITIES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Wilfried Koch, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion UMR 5118 CNRS
Co-Author: Cem Ertur, Laboratoire d''Economie et de Gestion - UMR 5118 CNRS

 
  POWERFUL AND SERIAL CORRELATION ROBUST TESTS OF THE ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE HYPOTHESIS
Ozgen Sayginsoy, University at Albany - SUNY

 
  TREND AND CYCLES: A NEW APPROACH AND EXPLANATIONS OF SOME OLD PUZZLES
Tatsuma Wada, Boston University
Co-Author: Pierre Perron, Department of Economics, Boston University

 
  TERM STRUCTURE AND VOLATILITY: LESSONS FROM THE EURODOLLAR MARKETS
Mikhail Chernov, Columbia Business School
Co-Author: Ruslan Bikbov, Columbia Business School
 

14:15 - 16:15 PREDICTABILITY TESTING (ECO)
Chairperson: Kenneth West, University of Wisconsin
Room Z4 - B34

  A QUANTILOGRAM APPROACH TO EVALUATING DIRECTIONAL PREDICTABILITY
Yoon-Jae Whang, Korea University
Co-Author: Oliver Linton, LSE

 
  A UNIFIED VIEW OF SOME PREDICTABILITY TESTS
Stanislav Anatolyev, New Economic School

 
  EXPECTATIONS HYPOTHESES TESTS AND PREDICTIVE REGRESSIONS AT LONG HORIZONS
Barbara Rossi, Duke University

 
  USING OUT-OF-SAMPLE MEAN SQUARED PREDICTION ERRORS TO TEST THE MARTINGALE DIFFERENCE HYPOTHESIS
Kenneth West, University of Wisconsin
 

14:15 - 16:15 GMM WITH WEAK OR MANY INSTRUMENTS (ECO)
Chairperson: Mehmet Caner, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Room Z4 - B35

  SUBSAMPLING TESTS OF PARAMETER HYPOTHESES AND OVERIDENTIFYING RESTRICTIONS WITH POSSIBLE FAILURE OF IDENTIFICATION
Patrik Guggenberger, Department of Economics, UCLA
Co-Author: Michael Wolf, Pompeu Fabra

 
  MANY WEAK MOMENT ASYMPTOTICS FOR GENERALIZED EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS
Frank Windmeijer, Institue for Fiscal Studies
Co-Author: Whitney Newey, MIT

 
  WEAK IDENTIFICATION ROBUST TEST IN INSTRUMENTAL QUANTILE MODEL
Sung Jae Jun, Brown University

 
  NEARLY SINGULAR DESIGN IN GMM AND GENERALIZED EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS
Mehmet Caner, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
 

14:15 - 16:15 SEMIPARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY (ECO)
Chairperson: Benedikt Poetscher, University of Vienna
Room Z4 - B36

  ON EFFICIENT SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION OF SEMI-NONPARAMETRIC MOMENT MODELS
Xiaohong Chen, New York Uni
Co-Author: Chunrong Ai, University of Florida

 
  EFFICIENT SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION FROM A SMOOTHED LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION
Stephen Cosslett, Ohio State University

 
  POOLING ESTIMATES WITH DIFFERENT RATES OF CONVERGENCE
Lung-fei Lee, The Ohio State University

 
  PERFORMANCE LIMITS FOR ESTIMATORS OF THE RISK OR DISTRIBUTION OF SHRINKAGE-TYPE ESTIMATORS, AND SOME GENERAL LOWER RISK-BOUND RESULTS
Benedikt Poetscher, University of Vienna
Co-Author: Hannes Leeb, Department of Statistics, Yale University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Economic Theory



14:15 - 16:15 AUCTIONS I (THY)
Chairperson: Priyodorshi Banerjee, Rutgers University
Room Z1 - Mendell 1

  EFFICIENT COLLUSION IN OPTIMAL AUCTIONS
Vianney Dequiedt, INRA

 
  PRIVATE VALUE PERTURBATIONS AND INFORMATIONAL ADVANTAGE IN COMMON VALUE AUCTIONS
Nathan Larson, University of Maryland

 
  PURE STRATEGY EQUILIBRIA OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE AUCTIONS WITH INTERDEPENDENT VALUES
Luciano de Castro, IMPA
Co-Author: Aloisio Araujo, Getulio Vargas Foundation and IMPA

 
  AUCTIONS WITH CEILINGS
Archishman Chakraborty, Baruch College, CUNY
Co-Author: Priyodorshi Banerjee, Rutgers University
 

14:15 - 16:15 COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING I (THY)
Chairperson: Arunava Sen,
Room Z1 - Jenner 1

  THE STRUCTURE OF DECISION SCHEMES WITH VON NEUMANN-MORGENSTERN PREFERENCES
Shasikanta Nandeibam, DEID, University of Bath (UK)

 
  STRATEGY-PROOFNESS AND SINGLE-CROSSING
Alejandro Saporiti, Queen Mary, University of London
Co-Author: Fernando Tohmé, Departamento de Economía- Universidad Nacional del Sur

 
  STRATEGY-PROOF CARDINAL SCHEMES
Arunava Sen,
Co-Authors: Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick and Hans Peters,
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRACT THEORY (THY)
Chairperson: Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University in St. Louis
Room Z1 - Jenner 2

  GAMES OF STATUS AND DISCRIMINATORY CONTRACTS
Alexander Herzog Stein, University of Warwick
Co-Author: Amrita Dhillon, University of Warwick

 
  RESOLVING CONTRACTUAL DISPUTES UNDER NON-VERIFIABILITY: ARBITRATION VS MEDIATION
Surajeet Chakravarty, Queen''s University Belfast
Co-Author: Miltiadis Makris, University of Exeter

 
  OPTIMAL CONTRACT FOR LONG-TERM DECISION AND THREAT OF DISMISSAL
Illoong Kwon, University of Michigan

 
  MORAL HAZARD WITH BOUNDED PAYMENTS
Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Author: Ohad Kadan, Washington University in St. Louis
 

14:15 - 16:15 BELIEFS AND TYPES (THY)
Chairperson: Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
Room Z1 - Mendell 2

  TYPE SPACE ON A PURELY MEASURABLE PARAMETER SPACE
Miklos Pinter, CUB, Corvinus University of Budapest

 
  RATIONALIZABILITY ON UNIVERSAL TYPE SPACE
Muhamet Yildiz, MIT

 
  HIERARCHIES OF AMBIGUOUS BELIEFS
David Ahn, UC Berkeley

 
  HIERARCHIES OF BELIEF AND INTERIM RATIONALIZABILITY
Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Industrial Organization



14:15 - 16:15 INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION: THEORY I (IOR)
Chairperson: Marielle Non, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Room Z1 - Darwin

  COMPETITION AND CONFIDENTIALITY: SIGNALING QUALITY IN A DUOPOLY WHEN THERE IS UNIVERSAL PRIVATE INFORMATION
Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

 
  HOTELLING'S SPATIAL MODEL WITH FINITELY MANY CONSUMERS
Julian Jamison, Univ of California
Co-Author: Johannes Hörner, HEC and MEDS

 
  INCUMBENTS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION ON DEMAND
Gal Hochman, The Technion

 
  ADVERTISING AND CONSUMER SEARCH IN A DUOPOLY MODEL
Marielle Non, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Co-Author: Maarten Janssen, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
 

14:15 - 16:15 QUALITY CHOICE (IOR)
Chairperson: Matthew Shum, Johns Hopkins University
Room Z1 - Cruciform LT1

  EMPIRICAL MODELING OF ENDOGENOUS QUALITY CHOICE: THE CASE OF CABLE TELEVISION
Gregory Crawford, University of Arizona
Co-Author: Matthew Shum, Johns Hopkins University

 
  COMPETITION, PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND QUALITY PROVISION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF BANK BRANCHING DECISIONS
Michael Mazzeo, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Co-Author: Andrew Cohen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 
  DEMAND FOR DURABLE GOODS AND THE DYNAMICS OF QUALITY
Juan Esteban Carranza, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 
  CAR CYCLES
Matthew Shum, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Author: Susanna Esteban, Penn State University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
Experimental and Behavioral Economics



14:15 - 16:15 ALTRUISM AND FAIRNESS (EBE)
Chairperson: Christian Seidl, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
Room Z1- Cruciform LT2

  VERIFIED TRUST: RECIPROCITY, ALTRUISM, AND NOISE IN TRUST GAMES
Marius Brülhart, University of Lausanne
Co-Author: Jean-Claude Usunier, University of Lausanne

 
  TESTING (BELIEFS ABOUT) SOCIAL PREFERENCES - EVIDENCE FROM AN EXPERIMENTAL COORDINATION GAME
Sebastian Kube, University of Karlsruhe
Co-Author: Clemens Puppe,

 
  THE EXPERIMETRICS OF PUBLIC GOODS: INFERRING MOTIVATIONS FROM CONTRIBUTIONS
Peter Moffatt, University of East Anglia
Co-Author: Nicholas Bardsley, University of Nottingham

 
  COMPENSATING JUSTICE BEATS LEAKY BUCKETS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
Christian Seidl, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
Co-Author: Eva Camacho-Cuena, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
 

16:15 - 17:00 BREAK



17:00 - 17:15 PROVOST WELCOME



17:15 - 18:45 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS



17:15 - 18:45 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (LAB)
Chairperson: Lars Hansen, University of Chicago
Room Logan Hall

  EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT
Thomas Sargent, New York University
 

18:45 - 19:00 MEMBERS MEETING



19:00 - 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION


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