PROGRAM 2015

 

 

Banking and Capital markets (20th-21st June)

 

June 20

9:00-10:00: Luca David Opromolla (Banco de Protugal), “The Sources of Interest Rate Variation on Bank-Firm Loans” , with Filomena Garcia (Indiana Univ. and UECE).

 

10:00-11:00: Mikel Bedayo (Université catholique de Louvain), “Creating associations to substitute banks' direct credit. Evidence from Belgium”

 

11:00-11:30 Coffe break

 

11:30-12:30: Swarnava Biswas (University of Bristol), “Contagion in Multiple-bank Lending: The Incentive Channel” with Fabiana Gomez (University of Bristol).

 

12:30-13:30: Christoph Bertsch (Sveriges Riksbank), “A detrimental feedback loop: deleveraging and adverse selection”

 

13:30: Lunch

 

15:00-16:00: Pasqualina Arca (University of Leicester), “The signallng role of trade credit: a switching regression approach”, with Gianfranco Atzeni (Università di Sassari and CRENoS) and Luca Deidda (Università di Sassari, SOAS, and CRENoS).

 

June 21

17:30-18:30: Ettore Panetti (Banco de Portugal), “Endogenous Systemic Risk in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Model”, with Luca Deidda (Università di Sassari, SOAS, and CRENoS)

 

18:30-19:30: Paolo Vitale (Università di Pescara), “Insider Trading and Market Efficiency With Risk- and Ambiguity-Aversion”.

 

19:30-20:30: Marco Maffezzoli (Università Bocconi and IGIER), “Deleverage and Financial Fragility”,  with Tommaso Monacelli (Università Bocconi and IGIER)

 

21:00: Dinner

 

 

Macroeconomics (22nd-23rd June)

June 22

8.50 – 9.00: Registration

 

9.00 – 9.50: Luca Dedola (ECB), “Mystery of printing press: Self-fulfilling sovereign default and monetary policy”, with Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge)

 

9.50 – 10.40: Ales Maršál  (National Bank of Slovakia), “Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates”, with Lorant Kaszab (Central Bank of Hungary) and Roman Horvath (IES)

 

10.40 – 11.10: Coffee Break

 

11.10 – 12.00: Guido Ascari (University of Oxford), “Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions: Leeper (1991) Redux”, with Anna Florio (Politecnico di Milano) and Alessandro Gobbi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

 

12.00 – 12.50: Marlène Isoré (HECER), “Disaster risk and Preference Shifts: a New Keynesian Model”, with Urszula Szczerbowicz (CEPII) 

 

12.50 – 14.15: Lunch

 

14.15 – 14.50: Luigi Marattin (Università di Bologna), “Cartel Stability, Mark-Up Cyclicality and Product Differentiation”, with Luca Lambertini (Università di Bologna)

 

14.50 – 15.25: Antonio Mele (University of Surrey), “On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning”, with Krisztina Molnàr (NHH) and Sergio Santoro (Bank of Italy)

 

15.25 – 16.00: Vincenzo Cuciniello (Bank of Italy), “Large banks, loan rate markup and monetary policy”, with Federico M. Signoretti (Bank of Italy)

 

 

20:30 - SOCIAL DINNER

 

June 23

9.00 – 9.50: Serhiy Stepanchuk (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), “How Does Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laffer Curves?”, with Hans A. Holter (University of Oslo) and Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)

 

9.50 – 10.40: Susanne Forstner (RWTH Aachen), “The Effects of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market”, with Árpád Ábrahám (EUI) and Fernando Álvarez-Parra (CAF)

 

10.40 – 11.10: Coffee Break

 

11.10 – 12.00: Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI), “Investment Demand and Structural Change”, with Manuel Garcia-Santana (ECARES) and Lucciano Villacorta (CEMFI)

 

12.00 – 12.50: Lian Allub (EUI), “Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality”, with Andrés Erosa (Universidad Carlos III)

 

12.50 – 14.15: Lunch

 

14.15 – 14.50: Till Hollstein (Universitat de Barcelona), “Comparative Advantage and Free Trade When Learning By Doing Externalities Are Present”, with Kristian Estevez (Universitat de Barcelona)

 

14.50 – 15.25: Pavel Brendler (EUI), “Life-time earnings inequality and within-cohort redistribution through Social Security in the U.S.”

 

15.25 – 16.00: Miguel Casares (Universidad Pública de Navarra), “Entry, exit and financial shocks in recent US business cycles”

 

 

Applied Theory (24th-25th June)

1.  

June 24

9:00 - 10:00: P. Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University), “Stability of Networks under Level-K Farsightedness”, with Ana Mauleon (Saint Louis University Univ. - Brussels and CORE) and Vincent Vannetelbosch (Saint Louis University Univ. - Brussels and CORE)

 

10:00 -11:00: Roberto Burguet (Institute for Economic Analysis-CSIC), “Simultaneous bargaining and team formation”

 

11:00-11:30 Coffe Break

 

11:30 – 12:30: Fabrizio Adriani (University of Leicester), “A theory of esteem based peer pressure”

 

12:30 – 13.30: Filomena Garcia (Indiana University and ISEG/UECE), "Conformity based behavior and the dynamics of price competition: a new rationale for fashion shifts”

 

13:30: Lunch

 

 

June 25

9:00 - 10:00: Francis Bloch (Paris School of Economics-Paris I), “The formation of partnerships in social networks”

 

10:00 - 11:00: Amrita Dhillon (King's College, London), “Overcoming moral hazard with social networks: An experimental approach”

 

 

11:00 -11:30 Coffe Break

 

11:30-12:30: Leonardo Boncinelli (Università di Firenze), “Social Coordination with Locally Observable Types”

 

12:30 – 13:30: Irem Bozbay (University of Surrey) “A contest success function for networks”

 

13:30: Lunch

 

Afternoon session (35 min each presentation)

 

Christine Gutekunst (Maastricht University), “Network Effects in Games with Conflicting Interests: Evidence from Rural Uganda”

 

Daniela Tellone (Università di Chieti-Pescara), “Spillovers effects on competition between Higher Education Institutions”

 

Marco Mantovani (Università Bicocca), “Sophistication, peer-effects, and segregation in school choice”

 

Elias Carroni (Università di Sassari), “Pricing in Social Networks under Limited Information”

 

 

20:30 - SOCIAL DINNER

 

Political Economy (26th-27th June)

1.  

June 26

9:00 to 10:00:Enriqueta Aragones* and Dimitrios Zefteris: “Imperfectly informed voters and strategic extremism.”

 

10:00 to 11:00: Richard Van Weelden* and Stephane Wolton: “Divergence and Ambiguity in Elections.”

 

11:00 to 11:30: coffee break;

 

11:30 to 12:30:Maria Petrova and Galina Zudenkova*: “Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes.”

 

12:30 to 13:30:John Ahlquist*, Nahomi Ichino, Jason Wittenberg and Daniel Ziblatt: “Slouching towards Authoritarianism? evidence from a survey experiment around 2014 hungarian elections.”

 

13:30: lunch.

 

15:00 to 15:45:Nicholas Chesterley and Paolo Roberti*: “Populism, addiction and media.”

 

15:45 to 16:30: Augustin Casas: “Ideological extremism and primaries.”

 

June 27

9:00 to 10:00:Dan Bernhardt and Peter Buisseret*: “Dynamics of Policymaking: Stepping Back to Leap Forward.”

 

10:00 to 11:00: Michael Castanhera, Helios Herrera and Michael Ting*: “Comparative Bureaucracy.”

 

11:00 to 11:30: coffee break;

 

11:30 to 12:30:Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci and Massimo Morelli*: “From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Transition to Inefficient Bureaucracy.”

 

12:30 to 13:30: Helios Herrera* and Aniol Llorente Saeger and Joseph McMurray: “Marginal Voter’s Curse.”

 

13:30: Lunch.

 

15:00 to 15:45: Massimo Bordignon, Matteo Gamalerio* and Gilberto Turati: “Decentralization, Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, and Political Selection.”

 

15:45 to 16:30: Tinghua Yu: “Incentives and Policy Experimentation with Motivated Agents.”

 

Law and Economics (28th-29th June)

 

June 28

 

9.00 - 10.00: Naci Mocan (LSU), “Understanding Crime: Beyond the Second Generation Research”

 

10.00 - 11.00: Stephan Wittig (ILE), “The Impact of Investment Arbitration: An Event Study Approach”, with Jan Peter Sasse (GFNA)

 

11:00 to 11:30: coffee break

 

11.30 - 12.30: Luca Deidda (DiSea), “Reward from public office and selection of politicians by parties”, with Fabio Cerina (Unica);

 

12.30 - 13.30 Brian McCannon (WVU), “Contracts and Trust”, with Colleen Tokar Asaad (KSU) and Mark Wilson (SBU).

 

13:30: Lunch

 

15.00 - 15.30 Donatella Porrini (DSE), “Efficiency of Risk Classification and the Actual Insurance Market Regulation”;

 

15.30 - 16.00 Daniel J. Seidmann (NSE), “The Order of Presentation in Common Law Trials”, with Elena D'Agostino (SEAM).

 

 

20:30 - SOCIAL DINNER

 

June 29

 

09.00 - 10.00 Jonathan Klick (PERC), “The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime”, with John MacDonald (Penn) and Ben Grunwald (Penn)

 

10.00 - 11.00 Éric Langlais (EconomiX-CNRS), “The structure of Fines in the Light of Political Competition”, with Marie Obidzinski (CRED-Paris2)

 

11:00 to 11:30: coffee break

 

11.30 - 12.30 Naci Mocan (LSU), “Ideology vs. Self-interest: Mobile Politicians”, with Duha Altindag (Auburn University)

 

12.30 - 13.30 Tim Willems (Oxford University), “What Shall We do with the Bad Dictator? On the Perils of Commitment When Agents Are Strategic” with Shaun Larcom (University of Cambridge) and Mare Sarr (UCT)

 

13:30: Lunch

 

15.00 - 15.30 Marie Obidzinski (CRED-Paris2), “Deterrence, Delegation of Law enforcement, and Electoral Competition: An Analysis”, with Éric Langlais (EconomiX-CNRS)

 

15.30 - 16.00 Rustam Romaniuc (LAMETA-IEL), “Expressive policies in the lab: to sanction or morally persuade?”