PROGRAMME
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Thursday, June 10th
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8:30 – 18:30
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REGISTRATION (Rooms A2)
Location: Faculty of Economics-Rimini – Via Quintino Sella 13 |
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9:15 – 10:45
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PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6) |
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Room A3
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Spatial Econometrics of Labour Markets (S1 – GLUNLAB)
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Chair:
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Roberto Patuelli (University of Lugano and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
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| Presentations: |
The Recovery Process Across Russian Regions
Maria Giulia Silvagni (University of Bologna) The Accessibility to Employment Offices on the Labour Market in Spain Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets |
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Room A4
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Regional Growth (S2 – GLUNLAB)
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Chair:
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Stefano Federico (Bank of Italy)
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Optimal Labour Allocation, Migration Patterns and Economic Growth in Common Markets: The effects of technological assimilation and learning The Contribution of Labour Reallocation to Aggregate Productivity Growth: Evidence from Canada, France and the United States |
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Room A5
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Monetary Policy I (S3)
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Chair:
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Costas Milas (Keele University Waterloo and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
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Financial Market Conditions, Real Time, Nonlinearity and European Central Bank Monetary Policy: In-sample and out-of-sample assessment Transmission Lags and Optimal Monetary Policy Monetary Policy in Presence of Endogenous Dollarization |
| Room A6 |
Limits to Arbitrage, Forecasting and Jumps (S4) |
| Chair: |
Ramazan Gencay (Simon Fraser University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Limits to Arbitrage During the Crisis: funding liquidity constraints and covered interest parity Jump Detection with Wavelets for High-Frequency Financial Time Series |
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11:00 – 12:30
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PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6)
Location: Faculty of Economics-Rimini – Via Quintino Sella 13 |
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Agglomeration and the City (S5 – GLUNLAB) |
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Chair:
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Gerald A. Carlino (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
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| Presentations: |
Productive Cities: Sorting, selection and agglomeration Is Agglomeration Really Good for Growth? Global Efficiency and Interregional Equity Natives’ Social Prejudice and Wage Disparities in a Monocentric City |
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Room A4
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Models of Inflation (S6)
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| Chair: |
Camilla Mastromarco (University of Salento and CESifo and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Semi-Structural Models for Inflation Forecasting The Orphanides’ Hypothesis and the Great Inflation |
| Room A5 |
Banking Models: Theory and Evidence (S7) |
| Chair: |
Robert Krainer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
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Loan Servicers’ Incentives and Optimal CDO’s Banking: A mechanism design approach On the Role of a Stock Market in the Bank Loan Market: A study of France, Germany, and the Euro Area |
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Room A6
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Econometrics I: Time Series (S8)
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Chair:
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Aman Ullah (University of California, Riverside and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
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Nonparametric hybrid Phillips curves based on subjective expectations: Estimates for the euro area MIDAS Volatility Forecast Performance Under Market Stress: Evidence from emerging and developed stock markets Estimation and Forecasting of a dynamic Covariance: A semi-parametric multivariate model |
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12:30 – 13:50
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LUNCH
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| 13:50 – 14:50 |
PLENARY SESSION I (Room A7) |
| Chair: |
Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: |
Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 |
Migrations and Regions (S9 – GLUNLAB) |
| Chair: |
Uwe Blien (University of Bamberg IAB Nürnberg, IZA) |
| Presentations: |
Ethnic Concentration and Immigrant Self-Employment: A spatial analysis for switzerland Interregional Mobility and Unemployment of African Immigrants in France: A calibration approach What Drives the Self-Selection of Migrants? Revisiting the Roy Model from a German Perspective |
| Room A4 |
Labour Economics I (S10) |
| Chair: |
Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Unemployment Benefits vs. Unemployment Accounts: A quantitative exploration Employment and productivity: Disentangling employment structure and qualification effects The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions |
| Room A5 |
Education, Human and Social Capital (S11 – GLUNLAB) |
| Chair: |
Laura Turner (University of Toronto and University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
The Role of Education on Unemployment Patterns in Europe Human Capital, Technology Intensity and Growth in a Regional Context Social Capital and Firms Size in Italy |
| Room A6 |
Financial Crises, Regulation and Infrastructure (S12) |
| Chair: |
Angelo Ranaldo (Swiss National Bank) |
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States in Fiscal Stress: Evaluating the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Is the Economic Crisis Over (and Out)? |
| 16:30 – 17:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:00 -18:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5) |
| Room A3 |
Cohesion, Convergence and Disparities (S13 – GLUNLAB) |
| Chair: |
Piotr Wójcik (University of Warsaw) |
| Presentations: |
Measuring the Impact of the European Regional Policy on Economic Growth: A regression discontinuity design approach Cohesion Policy: A model-theoretic approach Who Gets a Bite in the Cake? The Analysis of Unemployment Convergence Determinants Among Local Labour Markets in Poland (slides) |
| Room A4 |
Location of economic activity (S14 – GLUNLAB) |
| Chair: |
Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Job and Wage Polarizations: Heterogeneity trends in Europe Industry Dynamics and Competition from Low-Wage Countries: Evidence on Italy Mapping Local Productivity Advantages in Italy: Industrial districts, cities or both? |
| Room A5 |
Industrial Economics and Organization (S15) |
| Chair: |
Claudio Piga (Loughborough University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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On the Profitability and Welfare Effects of Downstream Mergers Technology Transfer in a Circular model Price Competition in International Mixed Oligopolies |
| Room A1 |
Panel I: The Obama Health Care Reform and Medicare (P1) |
| Chair and organizer: |
Mark Stabile (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Panelists: |
Tony Culyer (University of York, UK) |
| 20:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER |
| MC: |
Gianluigi Pelloni (Director, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Welcome: |
Daniele Amati (Mayor of Poggio Berni) |
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Friday, June 11th
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| 8:45 – 10:15 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6) |
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Social and Behavioural Economics (S16) |
| Chair: |
Corrado Benassi (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Presentations: Status in a Canonical Macro-Model: Labour supply, growth, and inequality What’s the use of marriage? |
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| Room A4 |
Bayesian Finance (S17) |
| Chair: |
Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Semiparametric Leverage in a Stochastic Volatility Model Modeling Correlation Breakdowns Financial Development and Convergence Clubs |
| Room A5: |
Monetary Policy (S18) |
| Chair: |
Costas Milas (Keele University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Collective Bargaining Regimes and International Monetary Policy Household’s Preferences and Monetary Policy Inertia Lending Relationships and Monetary Policy |
| Room A6: |
Health Economics (S19) |
| Chair: |
Mark Stabile (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Aging and the allocation of public expenditure on health and education Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health Household Portfolio Choices, Health status and Health Care Systems: A cross-country analysis based on SHARE data |
| 10:30 – 12:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5) |
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Housing, Financial Markets (S20) |
| Chair: |
Paolo Manasse (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre of Economic Analysis) |
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Stock Market Fluctuations, Housing Wealth and Consumption Behavior in Turkey A Stylized Model of Boom-bust House Price Cycles Banking Crises in Emerging Market: A Data mining approach |
| Room A4 |
Taxation (S21) |
| Chair: |
Lorenzo Zirulia (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Optimal taxation of capital and labour in a Schumpeterian model without scale effects The Relationship Between Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment: The case of Turkey Income Taxes, Subsidies to Education, and Investments in Human Capital |
| Room A5 |
Bayesian Modeling and Estimation (S22) |
| Chair: |
Mark Jensen (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) |
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Efficient Parameter Inference for Particle Filter Methods Approximation of Conditional Densities by Smooth Mixtures of Regressions Dynamic Sparse Factor Model |
| Room A1 |
Panel II: Canadian Monetary Policy: Lessons from the Crisis (P2) |
| Chair: |
Angelo Melino (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Panelists: |
David Andolfatto (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Simon Fraser University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| 12:10 – 13:10 |
PLENARY ADDRESS (Room A7) |
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Decomposing Changes in Distributions in the Presence of Covariates: Some Recent Developments |
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| Chair: | Dwayne Benjamin (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: | Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) 1 – 2 – 3 |
| 13:10 – 14:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:30. – 16:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6) |
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Labour Economics II (S23) |
| Chair: | Christian Zimmermann (University of Connecticut) |
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The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life Cycle: Facts and theory Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and labor supply Migration Policies and International Flows of Human Capital: A general equilibrium approach |
| Room A4 |
Growth and Convergence (S24) |
| Chair: | Thanassis Stengos (University of Guelph and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Did Globalization Lead to Segmentation? Identifying Cross-Country Growth Regimes in the Long-Run (slides) Convergence Tools and Mixture Analysis Persistence in Convergence |
| Room A5 |
Liquidity and Financial Innovation (S25) |
| Chair: | Ramazan Gencay (Simon Fraser University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Interest Rate Sensitivity and Liquidity Constraints: An Empirical Evaluation of Sub- Prime Credit Card Borrowing Undervaluation and Overvaluation of Assets in the presence of Ambiguity Financial Innovation and Incentive-Compatible Leverage |
| Room A6 |
Econometrics II: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics (S26) |
| Chair: | Aman Ullah (University of California, Riverside and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Detecting Nonparametrically the Number of Components of a Normal Mixture Model with an Application to the Convergence Club Hypothesis Spline Regression in the Presence of Categorical Predictors A Nonparametric Goodness-of-fit-based Test for Conditional Heteroskedasticity |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 |
Growth and Productivity (S27) |
| Chair: | Ege Yazgan (Bilgi University-İstanbul and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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The Determinants of Innovation: What is the role of risk? (slides) Does Information Technology Cause Skill-Biased Technical Change? A Re-Examination of the ICT Capital – Skill Relationship |
| Room A4 |
Tourism Development and Economic Growth (S28) |
| Chair: | Maurizio Mussoni (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Endogenous Growth and Sustainable Tourism Impact of Community-based Tourism on Household Income Poverty Reduction and Income |
| Room A5 |
Transport Economics (S29) |
| Chair: | Claudio Piga (Loughborough University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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On the Price & Speed Response Sensitivities to Distance in Forty Mode Choice Models, the Law of Transport Demand under Level-of-Service Uncertainty in Logit Garb, and the Robustness of Existing Canadian High Speed Rail Revenue Forecasts On-line Booking, Load Factors and Revenue Management: Evidence from a Low-Cost Airline Track Wear and Tear Cost by Traffic Class: Functional Form, Zero-Output Levels and Marginal Cost Pricing Recovery on the French Rail Network |
| Room A6 |
Bayesian Time Series Econometrics (S30) |
| Chair: | Markus Jochmann (University of Strathclyde and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Spatial Chow-Lin Methods for Data Completion in Econometric Flow Models A Stochastic Frontier Model with Structural Breaks in Efficiency and Technology A State Space Approach to Efficiency Measurement |
| Room A1 |
Panel III: Comparison of Canadian and Italian Fiscal Approaches and Outcomes (P3) |
| Chair: | Jerzy (Jurek) Konieczny (Wilfrid Laurier University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Panelists: |
Christopher T. S. Ragan (McGill University and Department of Finance, Canada) |
| 20:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER & PLENARY ADDRESS |
| MC: | Ramazan Gencay (Simon Fraser University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Welcome: |
Corrado Benassi (Dean of the Faculty of Economics-Rimini of the University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Chair: |
Jerzy Konieczny (Wilfrid Laurier University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: |
Paul Beaudry (University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, and NBER) |
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Saturday, June 12th
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| 08:45 – 10:15 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 | Bayesian Microeconometrics (S31) |
| Chair: | Roberto Leon-Gonzalez (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Multivariate Structural Time Series Models with Hierarchical Structure for Count Data – Finding Market Structure by Sales Count Dynamics Sales Response Functions (SRF) with Stochastic Derivative Constraints Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Treatment Effects |
| Room A4 |
Growth and Human Capital (S32) |
| Chair: | Marios Zachariades (University of Cyprus) |
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On the Optimal Construction of the Human Development Index Human capital, innovation and productivity in Italy: Theoretical aspects and empirical evidence Longevity and Education Externalities |
| Room A5 |
Topics in Macroeconomics (S33) |
| Chair: |
Karim M. Abadir (Imperial College London and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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On the Social Cost of Transparency in Monetary Economies Inflation Targeting, Price-Level Targeting and the Zero Lower Bound |
| Room A6 |
Development I (S34) |
| Chair: | Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto) |
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Quality of Education and Returns to Schooling: Private and Public Schools in Mexico Educational Choices and Subjective Expectations of Returns: Evidence on Intra-household Decisions and Gender Differences Slavery, Education, and Inequality (slides) |
| Room A1 |
Economic Theory I (S35) |
| Chair: | Vincenzo Denicolò (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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A Top Dog Tale with Preference Rigidities Indeterminacy of Competitive Equilibrium with Risk of Default |
| 10:30 – 12:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5, A6) |
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Location: Faculty of Economics-Rimini – Via Quintino Sella 13 |
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| Room A3 |
Bayesian Macroeconometrics I (S36) |
| Chair: |
John Maheu (University of Toronto Studies and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Stochastic Search Variable Selection in Vector Error Correction Models with an Application of a Model of the UK Macroeconomy The Dynamics of UK and US Inflation Expectations Forecasting Inflation Using Dynamic Model Averaging |
| Room A4 |
Growth, Environment and Productivity (S37) |
| Chair: | Elena Ketteni (University of Cyprus) |
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What is the best environmental policy? Taxes, Permits and Rules under Economic and Environmental Uncertainty A Note on the Persistence of Global CO2 and Temperature over the last five Centuries Information and Communication Technology Capital and Foreign Direct Investment: Interactions and contributions in economic growt |
| Room A5 |
Development II (S38) |
| Chair: | Dwayne Benjamin (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Investing in secondary schooling in Chile How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard |
| Room A6 |
Economic Theory II (S39) |
| Chair: | Pietro Reichlin (University of Rome and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Leadership Cycles Export processing with incomplete contracts: Why free-trade zones rather than free trade? |
| Room A1 |
Price and Wage Setting I (S40) |
| Chair: | Jerzy Konieczny (Wilfrid Laurier University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Wage and price joint dynamics at the firm level: an empirical analysis Shrinking Goods and Sticky Prices Search, Costly Price Adjustment and the Frequency of Price Changes: Theory and evidence |
| 12:10 – 13:10 |
PLENARY ADDRESS (Room A7) |
| Chair: | Thanassis Stengos (University of Guelph and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: |
Joseph Zeira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| 13:10 – 14:30 |
LUNCH |
| 14:30 – 16:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 |
Bayesian Macroeconometrics II (S41) |
| Chair: | Rodney Strachan (Australian National University and Rimini Centre for economic Analysis) |
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Model Uncertainty, Common Cycles and Common Trends A DSGE model of the Term Structure with Regime Shifts Modeling and Estimating Synchronization in Multivariate Regime-Switching Models |
| Room A4 | Price and Wage Setting II (S42) |
| Chair: | Daniel Levy (Bar Ilan University, Emory University and Rimini Centre for economic Analysis) |
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Generalized Taylor and Calvo Price and Wage-Setting: Micro Evidence with Macro
Implications
Huw Dixon (Cardiff University and CESifo)
Hervé Le Bihan (Bank of France)
Producers Rational Inattention and Price Stickiness: An inflated ordered probit approach
Mark N. Harris (Monash University)
Patrick Sevestre (Bank of France, Sorbonne Economic Centre- Panthéon-Sorbonne and
Paris School of Economics)
Generalized Taylor and Calvo Price and Wage-Setting: Micro Evidence with Macro Implications Producers Rational Inattention and Price Stickiness: An inflated ordered probit approach |
| Room A5 |
Environmental Economics (S43) |
| Chair: |
Theodore Panagiotidis (University of Macedonia and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
On The Stationarity of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over a Century Air Pollution, Spillovers and U.S. state Productivity Growth |
| Room A6 |
Exchange Rates Regimes, Volatility and Trade (S44) |
| Chair: | Steve Ambler (CIRPEE, Université du Québec a Montréal) |
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade Double Contagion: The Impact of Globalization and Exchange Rate Regime on Financial Fragility What determines European Real Exchange Rates? |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5) |
| Room A7 |
The Bayesian Workshop Keynote Address (S45) |
| Chair: | Anthony Lancaster (Brown University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: |
Luc Bauwens (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics) |
| Room A3 |
Investment, Strategy and Evidence (S46) |
| Chair: | Laura Bottazzi (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Investment Strategies in R&D, Uncertainty and Competition Investment choices: Indivisible non-marketable assets and bounded rationality The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital |
| Room A5 |
Game Theory (S47) |
| Chair: |
Luca Lambertini (University of Bologna, ENCORE-University of Amsterdam and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Strategic Behaviour of Firms in a Duopoly and the Impact of Extending the Patenting Period Pricing of Status Goods On the (non) existence of a price equilibrium in delegation games with relative performance compensation |
| Room A1 |
Panel IV – Canadian Growth: Contemporary Issues of Productivity Growth and Development in a Global Perspective (P4) |
| Chair: |
Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Panelists: |
Costas Azariadis (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| 20:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER & PLENARY ADDRESS |
| MC: |
Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Welcome: |
Carlo Bulletti (Province of Rimini) |
| Chair: |
Angelo Melino (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Speaker: |
Costas Azariadis (Washington University) |
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Sunday, June 13th
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| 09:15 – 10:45 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 |
Policy Issues in Tourism Destinations (S48) |
| Chair: | Laura Vici (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
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Clashes and Compromises: A suggestion for self-enforcing policy An Analysis of Tourists’ Expenditure of Winter Sport Events Through Tobit Censored Model Off Season Tourists and the Cultural Offer of a Mass Tourism Destination: The case of Rimini |
| Room A4 |
Development III (S49) |
| Chair: | Chiara Binelli (Oxford University, Nuffield College, IFS and Rimini Centre of Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Evaluating the impact of a targeted land distribution program: Evidence from Vietnam Electoral Accountability and Growth: Evidence from Village Democracy in China, 1987-2005 Does Exposing Corrupt Politicians Reduce Corruption? Reputation and Accountability in Local Governments |
| Room A5 |
Labour Economics III (S50) |
| Chair: |
Miana Plesca (Guelph University) |
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Values vs. technologies for sustainable happiness: A cross-development analytical model Housing Tenure and Job Search Behaviour. A Different Analysis of the Impact of the UK Jobseeker’s Allowance The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates from the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector |
| Room A6 |
Econometrics III: Time Series (S51) |
| Chair: | Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis |
| Presentations: |
New testing Approaches for Mean-Variance Predictability Edgeworth Expansions of the QMLEs in the EGARCH (1,1) Model |
| Room A1 |
Institutions, Technology and Preferences (S52) |
| Chair: |
Ramazan Gencay (Simon Fraser University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
The Financing Preferences of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Italy Corporate Governance and Technological Development: A panel data analysis The Evolution of Capital Structure Following Acquisition |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS (Rooms A1, A3, A4, A5, A6) |
| Room A3 |
Skills, Careers and Mobility (S53) |
| Chair: | Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Understanding the City Size Wage Gap Geographic Mobility and the Effect of Local Demand Shifts on Wages: Recent Evidence from US Voluntary and Involuntary Mobility Across Occupations and Skill Portfolios |
| Room A4 |
Risk and Asymmetry (S54) |
| Chair: |
Manolis Mamatzakis (University of Piraeues and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Individual Risk Attitude and Narrow Framing of Risks: Implications for the equity premium puzzle Risk Shocks and Housing Markets Testing for Asymmetries in Management Preferences of Nordic Banks using a Loss Function |
| Room A5 |
Economic Policy Design (S55) |
| Chair: |
Emanuela Randon (University of Bologna and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Tax Competition and the Efficiency of “Benefit-Related” Business Taxes Test of Intertemporal Optimal Tax Theory: México, 1980-2007 The Sustainability of Fiscal Policy in the EMU |
| Room A6 |
Trade, Knowledge Spillovers and Taxation (S56) |
| Chair: | Tapan Biswas (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Taste for Science in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision The Relationship Between Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case Trading Cultural Goods in the Era of Digital Piracy |
| Room A1 |
Econometrics IV (S57) |
| Chair: |
Lise Tole (University of Edinburgh Business School and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) |
| Presentations: |
Does Cointegration Matter? An Analysis in a RBC Perspective Estimating the Impact on Efficiency from Voluntary Regulation: An empirical study of the global copper mining industry |