CRETE 2015 Chania, July 12-16, 2015 14th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics |
Conference Program ~ ~ ~
Fourteenth
CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC
THEORY
AND ECONOMETRICS
Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Chania
July
12-16, 2015
The conference organizers express their gratitude to
the Bank of Greece,
the Hellenic Banks Association, Alpha Bank and Piraeus Bank
for their financial support as well as to the Economics
Department of the Athens University of Economics and Business
and the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) for financial
and administrative support.
Costas
Azariadis, Harris Dellas, Yannis Ioannides, Emmanuel Petrakis,
Dimitri
Vayanos and Nikos Vettas
PROGRAM
Updated July 10
SUNDAY,
July 12
12:30 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 15:00
Parallel Session A:
PhD
Presentations I: Finance Chair: Christos Cabolis
(ALBA)
Panagiotis Koutroumpis (Brunel
Univ.) “On
the Time-Varying Link between Finance and Growth: A Smooth Transition
Approach for Brazil, 1890-2003” [with Nauro Campos (Brunel Univ. and
ETH-Zurich) and Menelaos Karanasos (Brunel Univ.)]
Foteini-Anna Thoma
(AUEB-Finance) “Rational
Inattention in Consumer Inflation Forecasts: Assessing Micro-level
Evidence from Europe” [with Konstantinos Drakos (AUEB-Finance) and
Panagiotis Konstantinou (AUEB-DIEES)]
Georgios Kouretas (AUEB-BA) “Systemic
Risk and Financial Market Contagion: Banks and Sovereign Credit Markets
in Eurozone” [with Theodoros Bratis (AUEB-BA) and Nikiforos Laopodis
(ALBA)]
Alexandros Fakos (Penn State) “Evaluating
an Investment Subsidy Policy through a Structural Econometric Model
using Micro-data from Greece”
Parallel Session B:
PhD
Presentations II: Norms and Representation
Chair: Daphne Nikolitsa
(Univ. of Crete)
Rigissa Megalokonomou (Univ.
of Warwick) “Knowing
Who You Are: The Effect of Feedback Information on Students Exam
Performance” [with Sofoklis Goulas (Univ. of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)]
Theodoros Rapanos (Stockholm
Univ.) “What
Makes an Opinion Leader: Expertise versus Popularity”
Sofoklis Goulas (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Externalities
in the Classroom: Identification of Direct and Cross-Student Effects of
School Attendance on Exam Performance” [with Rigissa Megalokonomou
(Univ. of Warwick)]
Katerina-Chara Papioti (Carlos III – Madrid) “Corruption
in All-Pay Auctions”
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30
Parallel Session A:
PhD
Presentations III: Public and Labor
Chair: Antonis Adam (Univ. of Ioannina)
Ioannis Chatzigiatroudakis (AUEB-Econ) “Endogenous
Formation of Coalitions in the Presence of Multilateral Environmental
Externalities” [with Eleftherios Zacharias (AUEB-Econ)]
Christos Mavridis (Carlos
III-Madrid) “Polling
in a Proportional Representation System”
Panagiotis Giannarakis (Univ. of Southampton) “Can
Job Displacements Explain the UK’s Productivity Puzzle?”
Omiros Kouvavas (Univ. of Warwick) “Political
Budget Cycles Revisited: The Case for Social Capital”
Parallel Session B:
PhD
Presentations IV: Industrial Organization
Chair: Frago Kourandi (AUEB -
Econ and RAE)
Eleftheria Triviza (Univ. of
Bologna) “Impatience and Three-Part Tariffs” [with Vincenzo Denicolò
(Univ. of Leicester, Univ. of Bologna and CEPR)]
Georgios Petropoulos (Toulouse
School of Economics) “The
Relationship between Competition and Innovation: How Important are
Firms’ Financial Constraints?”
Konstantinos Charistos (Univ.
of Macedonia) “Semi-Collusion
and Antitrust Enforcement in Media Markets”
17:30 – 19:30
Parallel Session A:
Finance and Econometrics Chair:
Yiannis Karavias (Univ. of Nottingham)
Spyridon Vrontos (Univ. of Essex) “Performance Evaluation of Funds”
Yiannis Karavias (Univ. of Nottingham) “Local Power of Panel Unit Root
Tests Allowing for Structural Breaks” [with Elias Tzavalis (AUEB-Econ)]
Kostas Florios (AUEB-Statistics) “A Modified Weighted Pairwise Likelihood
Estimator for a Class of Random Effects Models” [with Irini Moustaki
(LSE), Dimitris Rizopoulos (Erasmus Univ.) and Vassilis Vasdekis
(AUEB-Statistics)]
Alexandros Louka (AUEB-Econ) “A
Note on the QMLE Limit Theory in the Non-Stationary ARCH(1) Model”
[with Stelios Arvanitis (AUEB-Econ)]
Parallel Session B:
Applied Microeconomics I Chair:
Kostas Peppas (IOBE)
Georgios Efthyvoulou (Univ. of Sheffield) “Interlocking
Directorships and Patenting Coordination” [with Michele Bernini
(Univ. of Sheffield), Ian Gregory-Smith (Univ. of Sheffield), Jolian
McHardy (Univ. of Sheffield) and Antonio Navas (Univ. of Sheffield)]
Alexandros Karakostas (Univ.
of Erlangen-Nuremberg) “Bribing to Queue-Jump: An Experiment on Cultural
Differences in Bribing Behavior among Greeks and Germans” [with Andreas
Drichoutis (Agricultural Univ. of Athens), Veronika Grimm (Univ. of
Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Lilia Zhurakhovska (Univ. of
Erlangen-Nuremberg)]
Panagiotis Nanos (Univ. of Sheffield) “Wage Differentials across Local
Labour Markets: A Structural, Empirical and Spatial-Search Approach”
[with Christian Schluter (Aix-Marseille Univ. and Univ. of Southampton)]
Ioannis Pinopoulos (Univ. of Macedonia) “Vertical
Relations and Downstream Market Power”
MONDAY, July 13
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome
9:15 – 11:15 Market and
Non-market Effects
Chair:
Philip Oreopoulos (Univ. of
Toronto) “Keeping College Options Open: A Field Experiment to Help All
High School Seniors through the College Application Process” [with
Reuben Ford (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, Canada)]
Christos Kotsogiannis (Univ.
of Exeter) “Climate Change, Strict Pareto Improvements and Multilateral
Transfers” [with Alan Woodland (Univ. of New South Wales)]
Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary, Univ. of London) “Partial
Default” [with Cristina Arellano (Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis) and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (Univ. of Minnesota and Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)]
11:15 – 12:00 Econometrics Lecture
Chair:
Thanasis Stengos (Univ. of Guelph)
Bruce Hansen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) “Combination
Forecasting for Greek GDP Using Multi-Step Cross-Validation”
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00
Parallel Session A:
Macroeconomics I
Chair:
Evangelia Vourvachaki (Bank of Greece)
John Tsoukalas (Univ. of Glasgow) “Political
Economics of External Sovereign Defaults” [with Carolina Achury
(Univ. of Exeter) and Christos Koulovatianos (Univ. of Luxembourg)]
Menelaos Karanasos (Brunel Univ.) “Inflation Convergence in the EMU and
the Link between Inflation Differentials and their Uncertainty” [with
Panagiotis Koutroumpis (Brunel Univ.) and Giannis Karavias (Univ. of
Nottingham)]
Evangelia Vourvachaki (Bank of Greece) “Macroeconomic Implications of
Structural Reforms in Product and Labour Markets in Greece: The Role of
Sovereign Default Risk” [with Dimitris Papageorgiou (Bank of Greece)]
Parallel Session B:
Industrial Organization
Chair: Ourania Karakosta (Univ.
of Ioannina)
Christos Genakos (AUEB-Econ) “The
Impact of Maximum Markup Regulation on Prices” [with Pantelis
Koutroumpis (Imperial) and Mario Pagliero (Univ. of Turin)]
Athanasios Lapatinas (Univ. of Ioannina) “The Role of Social Networks in
Multi-Characteristics Competition and Market Share Inequality” [with
Antonios Garas (ETH Zurich)]
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30
Parallel Session A:
Finance I
Chair:
Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech)
Theodora Kosma (Bank of
Greece) “Analyzing
Price Level Differences in the Euro Area - Competition Structures and
Consumer Behavior” [with Pavlos Petroulas (Bank of Greece)]
Georgios Kouretas (AUEB-BA) “The
Term Structure of Interest Rates and Macro Economy: Evidence from the
Pre- and Post- Crisis Periods” [with Evangelos Salachas (AUEB-BA)
and Nikiforos Laopodis (ALBA)]
Spyros Skouras (AUEB-DIEES) “A
Tug of War: Overnight versus Intraday Expected Returns” [with Dong
Lou (LSE) and Christopher Polk (LSE)]
Parallel Session B:
Public and Labor Economics Chair: Anna Hardman (Tufts)
George Georgiadis (Boston Univ.) “Collective
Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision: Real versus Formal Authority”
[with Renee Bowen (Stanford GSB) and Nicolas Lambert (Stanford GSB)]
Yannis Ioannides (Tufts) “Vacancies
in Housing and Labor Markets” [with Jeffrey Zabel (Tufts)]
Rigas Oikonomou (Universite Catholique de Louvain) “Household
Search and the Aggregate Labor Market” [with Jochen Mankart (Bundesbank)]
16:30 – 18:00
Parallel Session A:
Labor,
Trade and Information
Chair: Evangelia Chalioti (Yale)
Dimitra Petropoulou (Univ. of Sussex) “The EU
Electricity Market: Renewables Targets and International Trade” [with
Ourania Karakosta (Univ. of Ioannina)]
Philippos Louis (ESEI Center for Market Design) “On the Unidimensionality
of Opinions: An Experiment” [with Orestis Troumpounis (Lancaster Univ.)
and Nikolaos Tsakas (Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design and Carlos
III-Madrid)]
Sotiris Blanas (Université Catholique de Louvain) “Knowledge Transfer,
Knowledge Expropriation and Intra-Firm Trade” [with Adnan Seric (United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation)]
Parallel Session B:
Econometrics
and Applications Chair:
Sophia Dimelis (AUEB - Informatics)
Shakeeb Khan (Duke) “Informational
Content in Static and Dynamic Discrete Response Panel Data Models”
[with Songnian Chen (HKUST) and Xun Tang (Univ. of Pennsylvania)]
Katerina Petrova (Queen Mary, Univ. of London) “Monte
Carlo Evidence on Local Bayesian Likelihood or (Time-Varying Bayesian
Likelihood Estimation)” [with Ana Beatriz Galvao (Univ. of Warwick),
Liudas Giraitis (Queen Mary) and George Kapetanios (Queen Mary)]
Lazaros Symeonidis (Univ. of East Anglia) “Do
Jumps Matter for Volatility Forecasting? Evidence from Energy Markets”
[with Marcel Prokopczuk (Leibniz Univ. Hannover) and Chardin Wese Simen
(Univ. of Liverpool)]
TUESDAY,
July 14
9:15 – 10:15 Michael
Magdalinos Lecture Chair:
Ekaterini Kyriazidou (AUEB - Econ)
Bo Honore (Princeton) “Poor
(Wo)Man’s Bootstrap” [with Luojia Hu (Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago)]
10:15 – 11:15
Macroeconomics Lecture
Chair:
Yannis
Ioannides (Tufts)
George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)
“Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics: Revisiting Expectations,
Coordination, and Aggregate Demand”
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15
Parallel Session A:
Game Theory and Information
Chair: Christos Genakos (AUEB
- Econ)
Constantinos Kardaras (LSE) “Incomplete
Stochastic Equilibria with Exponential Utilities Close to Pareto
Optimality” [with Hao Xing (LSE) and Gordan Zitkovic (Univ. of Texas
at Austin)]
Anastasios Dosis (ESSEC
Business School and THEMA) “On
the Existence of Nash Equilibrium in General Imperfectly Competitive
Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information”
Orestis Troumpounis (Lancaster Univ.) “Strategic
Choice of Sharing Rules in Collective Contests” [with Pau Balart
(Carlos III-Madrid) and Sabine Flamand (Nova School of Business and
Economics)]
Parallel Session B:
Finance II
Chair: Anna Pavlova (LBS)
Pedro Teles (Banco de Portugal, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and
CEPR) “Sovereign
Default: The Role of Expectations” [with Joao Ayres (Univ. of
Minnesota), Gaston Navarro (New York Univ.) and Juan Pablo Nicolini
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Universidad Di Tella)]
Dimitris Margaritis (Univ. of Auckland) “Liquidity
Patterns in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market” [with Stephanie Heck
(Univ. of Liège) and Aline Muller (Univ. of Liège)]
Sotirios Kokas (Univ. of Essex) “Bank
Market Power and Firm Performance” [with Manthos Delis (Univ. of
Surrey) and Steven Ongena (Univ. of Zurich)]
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30
Parallel Session A:
Decisions Chair:
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Pompeu Fabra)
Evangelia Alevyzaki (Univ. of
Edinburgh) “The Effect of Gossip on a Contest for Status”
Antonios Proestakis (European Commission-JRC) “Inter-Municipal
Rent-Seeking Contest for Central Grants in Greece”
Effrosyni Adamopoulou (Bank of
Italy) “War and Obesity: The Role of Eating Habits” [with Elisabetta
Olivieri (Bank of Italy)]
Ioanna Grypari (Max Planck Institute, Bonn) “Congressional Gridlock: The
Effects of the Master Lever” [with Olga Gorelkina (Max Planck Institute,
Bonn)]
Parallel Session B:
Applied Microeconomics II
Chair: Georges
Siotis (EC and Carlos III-Madrid)
Constantine Manasakis (Univ. of Crete) “Strategic Corporate Social
Responsibility by Multinational Enterprises” [with Evangelos Mitrokostas
(Univ. of Portsmouth) and Emmanuel Petrakis (Univ. of Crete)]
Marina-Selini Katsaiti (UAE
Univ.) “Weight Discrimination in the German Labor Market” [with Mrittika
Shamsuddin (UAE Univ.) and Philip Shaw (Fordham Univ.)]
Athanasios Triantafyllou (Univ. of Athens) “Option-Implied
Expectations in Commodity Markets and Monetary Policy” [with George
Dotsis (Univ. of Athens)]
Christos Koutsampelas (Univ. of Cyprus) “Distributional
Effects of Public Education in the Era of Austerity: Evidence from
Greece” [with Sofia Andreou (Univ. of Cyprus) and Panos Pashardes
(Univ. of Cyprus)]
Christos Constantatos (Univ. of Macedonia) “Mandaroty
Labeling as a Cost Transfering Mechanism” [with Olivier Bonroy
(INRA, Université Grenoble Alpes)]
21:00
CONFERENCE DINNER (tentative)
WEDNESDAY, July 15
9:00 – 10:00 Emmanuel Drandakis Lecture
Chair: Harris Dellas (Univ. of Bern)
Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern) “Trading
Down and the Business Cycle” [with Nir Jaimovich (Univ. of Southern
California) and Arlene Wong (Northwestern)]
10:00 – 11:30 Industrial Organization Theory
Chair: Emmanuel Petrakis
(Univ. of Crete)
Patrick Rey (Toulouse School
of Economics and IDEI) "Cooperation
vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition" [with Jean
Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics and IAST, 2014 Nobel Prize)]
Simon Anderson (Univ. of
Virginia) “Search
Direction” [with Regis Renault (Université Paris-Dauphine)]
11:30 – 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:30 Poster Session
Presentations
Vassiliki Manoussi (AUEB-DIEES) “Mitigation
and Climate Engineering under Deep Uncertainty” [with Anastasios
Xepapadeas (AUEB-DIEES)] (Poster)
Maria Alipranti (Heinrich-Heine Univ. of Duesseldorf) “Bertrand
Competition under Three-part Tariffs in Vertically Related Markets”
[with Emmanuel Petrakis (Univ. of Crete)] (Poster)
Eleni Kyrkopoulou (AUEB-Econ) “Doing
Business in the Shadows: Informal Firms, Illegal Immigrants and the
Government” [with Xiangbo Liu (Renmin Univ. of China) and Theodore
Palivos (AUEB-Econ)]
Kyriakos Petrou (Univ. of Cyprus) “Robust
Determinants of Government Expenditures: A Model Averaging Approach”
(Poster)
Kyriaki Begiazi (Hellenic Open Univ.) “Asymmetries
and Spillover Effects in the Greek Real Estate Equity Market” [with
Dimitrios Asteriou (Hellenic Open Univ.)] (Poster)
Nikolitsa Lampropoulou (Univ. of Patras) “The
Incidence of Long-Term Unemployment in Greece: Evidence Before and
During the Recession” [with Joan Daouli (Univ. of Patras), Michael
Demoussis (Univ. of Patras) and Nicholas Giannakopoulos (Univ. of
Patras)] (Poster)
Aris Gkaintes (Univ. of Athens) “The
Role of Securities with Discontinuous Payoff Function in the Credit
Market” [with Kostas Koufopoulos (Univ. of Piraeus)] (Poster)
Panagiotis Skartados (Univ. of Crete) “Profit
Sharing and Firms' Strategies” [with Emmanuel Petrakis (Univ. of
Crete)]
Alexandros Bechlioulis (Univ. of Piraeus) “Consumer
Default and Optimal Consumption Decisions” [with Sophocles Brissimis
(Univ. of Piraeus)] (Poster)
12:30 – 13:45
Parallel Session A:
Finance and Banking
Chair: Nikos Demiris (AUEB -
Statistics)
Elias Papaioannou (LBS) “Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazilian
Municipalities” [with Raphael Corbi (LBS) and Paolo Surico (LBS)]
Plutarchos Sakellaris
(AUEB-Econ) “On
the Valuation of Large Systemic U.S. Banks” [with Georgios Bertsatos
(AUEB-Econ)]
Parallel Session B:
Applied Industrial Organization
Chair: Konstantinos Serfes (Drexel)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (Berkeley
Haas) “Mobile
Money in Tanzania” [with Nicholas Economides (NYU Stern)]
Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton)
“Identification of Counterfactuals and Payoffs in Dynamic Discrete
Choice with an Application to Land Use” [with Paul Scott (Toulouse
School of Economics) and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (Univ. of Toronto)]
13:45 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 17:15
Parallel Session A:
Economic Policy
Chair: Svetoslav Danchev
(IOBE)
Theofanis Tsoulouhas (Univ. of California, Merced) “Why
are IMF Programs Delayed?” [with Alexandros Mourmouras (IMF)]
Alexandros Sarris (Univ. of Athens) “Stabilization
and Structural Adjustment Policies for Greece: Distributional Issues
with the Help of a Multisectoral Computable General Equilibrium Model”
[with Stavros Zografakis (Agricultural Univ. of Athens)]
Panagiotis Konstantinou (AUEB-DIEES) “Structural
Reforms and FDI Flows: Do They Work and Under What Conditions?”
Alexis Antoniades (Georgetown Univ.) “Mortgage Credit Conditions and U.S.
Presidential Elections” [with Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business
School)]
Georgios Giotis (Univ. of Ioannina) “The
Employment Effect of Minimum Wage using 77 International Studies since
1992: A Meta-analysis” [with Michael Chletsos (Univ. of Ioannina)]
Parallel Session B:
Econometrics Chair: Ioannis Polycarpou (Accenture)
Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech)
“Heteroskedasticity/Autocorrelation Consistent Standard Errors (HACSE)
and the Reliability of Inference”
Ioannis Vrontos
(AUEB-Statistics) “Risk Dynamics in the Eurozone: A New Factor Model for
Sovereign CDS and Equity Returns” [with Petros Dellaportas
(AUEB-Statistics), Loukia Meligkotsidou (Univ. of Athens) and Roberto
Savona (Univ. of Brescia)]
Tassos Magdalinos (Univ. of Southampton) “"Robust Econometric Inference
in Cointegrated Systems with Multiple Persistence Degrees” [with Peter
Phillips (Yale, Univ. of Auckland, Univ. of Southampton, Singapore
Management Univ.)]
Petros Dellaportas (AUEB-Statistics) “Gaussian Processes Modelling of
Multivariate Stochastic Volatility”
Violetta Dalla (Univ. of Athens) “Testing
for Stability of the Mean of a Heteroscedastic Time Series” [with
Liudas Giraitis (Queen Mary Univ. of London) and Peter Phillips (Yale,
Univ. of Auckland, Univ. of Southampton, Singapore Management Univ.)]
Parallel Session C:
Markets and Institutions Chair: Elias
Papaioannou (LBS)
Aristotelis Boukouras (Univ. of Leicester) “Renegotiation-Blocking
through Financial Claims”
Panagiotis Fotis (Hellenic Competition Commission) “Upward
Pricing Pressure Formulations with Logit Demand and Endogenous Partial
Acquisitions” [with Michael Polemis (Univ. of Piraeus) and
Konstantinos Eleftheriou (Univ. of Piraeus)]
Ekaterini Panopoulou (Univ. of Piraeus) “Declining
Discount Rates and the ‘Fisher Effect’: Inflated Past, Discounted
Future?” [with Mark Freeman (Loughborough Univ.), Ben Groom (LSE)
and Theologos Pantelidis (Univ. of Macedonia)]
Michail Anthropelos (Univ. of
Piraeus) “On Risk-Sharing Equilibria under Strategic Behavior” [with
Constantinos Kardaras (LSE)]
THURSDAY,
July 16
9:00 – 9:45
Market Structure and Competition Lecture
Chair: Shakeeb Khan (Duke)
Elie Tamer (Harvard) “Market
Structure and Competition in Airline Markets” [with Federico Ciliberto
(Univ. of Virginia) and Charles Murray (Penn State)]
9:45 – 10:30
International Trade
Chair:
Kristis Hassapis (Univ. of Cyprus)
Costas Arkolakis (Yale and NBER) “Universal
Gravity” [with Treb Allen (Northwestern) and Yuta Takahashi
(Northwestern)]
10:30 – 12:30
Parallel Session A:
Macroeconomics II
Chair:
Dimitris Papageorgiou (Bank of Greece)
Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)
“Robust
Inference in Structural VARs with Long-run Restrictions” [with
Guillaume Chevillon (ESSEC and CREST) and Zhaoguo Zhan (Tsinghua Univ.)]
Evangelos Dioikitopoulos (Brunel Univ. London) “Wealth-Dependent Status
Preferences: Growth and Inequality” [with Ronald Wendner (Univ. of Graz)
and Stephen Turnovsky (Univ. of Washington)]
Evgenia Passari (Université Paris-Dauphine) “Commodity Price Dynamics,
Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Performance”
Effrosyni Diamantoudi (Concordia Univ.) “Monetary Unions - Stability and
Issue Linkage” [with Sheridon Elliston (Concordia Univ.)]
Parallel Session B:
Finance III
Chair: Anastasia Zervou (Texas
A&M)
Alexandros Kostakis (Univ. of
Manchester) “What
Does Risk-Neutral Skewness Tell Us About Future Stock Returns?”
[with Ser-Huang Poon (Univ. of Manchester) and Przemyslaw Stilger (Univ.
of Manchester)]
Evangelia Papanagiotou (European Commission-JRC) “Benchmarking Liquidity
Proxies: Accounting for Dynamics and Frequency Issues” [with Sven
Langedijk (European Commission-JRC) and George Monokroussos (European
Commission-JRC)]
Manthos Delis (Univ. of Surrey) “Enforcement Actions
and the Terms of Lending”
Georgios Skoulakis (Univ. of
British Columbia) “Ex-post
Risk Premia: Estimation and Inference using Large Cross Sections”
[with Soohun Kim (Georgia Tech)]
Parallel Session C: Markets
and Trade Chair:
Georgios Kouretas (AUEB - BA)
Constantinos Syropoulos (Drexel Univ.) “Prudence vs.
Predation and the Gains from Trade” [with Thomas Zylkin (Drexel Univ.)]
Sotiris Georganas (City Univ.
London) “Not
Optimal but Reasonable: Revisiting Overbidding in Sealed Bid Auctions”
[with Dan Levin (Ohio State Univ.) and Peter McGee (National Univ. of
Singapore)] MOVE TO A LATER DATE
Theodore Koutmeridis (Univ. of Glasgow) “The Changing Returns to Crime:
Do Criminals Respond to Prices?” [with Mirko Draca (Warwick) and Stephen
Machin (UCL)]
Stefanos
Delikouras (Univ. of Miami) “The Human Capital That Matters: Expected
Returns and High-Income Households” [with Sean Campbell (Federal Reserve
Board), Danling Jiang (Florida State Univ.) and George Korniotis (Univ.
of Miami)]
12:30 – 13:00
Coffee Break
13:00 – 14:00
Parallel Session A: Dynamics
Chair:
Thanasis
Stengos (Univ. of Guelph)
Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge) “On the Dynamics of Beliefs
and Risky Sexual Behavior”
Thanasis Stengos (Univ. of Guelph) “Persistence in
Convergence and Club Formation”
Parallel Session B: Economic Policy
Chair: Dimitris Tsouknidis
(Univ. of Bradford)
Romanos Priftis (European Univ. Institute) “Fiscal Policy Coordination
under the Zero-Lower Bound”
Vassilis Sarantides (Univ. of Sheffield) “Fiscal
Redistribution around Elections When ‘Democracy Is Not the Only Game in
Town’” [with Pantelis Kammas (Univ. of Ioannina)]
Parallel Session C: Environment and Cooperation
Chair: Vally Koubi (Univ. of
Bern)
Eftichios Sartzetakis (Univ. of Macedonia) “Regulating
the Environmental Consequences of Preferences for Social Status within
an Evolutionary Framework” [with Anastasios Xepapadeas (AUEB-DIEES)
and Athanasios Yannacopoulos (AUEB-Statistics)]
Petros Sekeris (Univ. of Portsmouth) “Can
Violence Harm Cooperation? Experimental Evidence” [with Giacomo De
Luca (Univ. of York) and Dominic Spengler (Univ. of York)]
14:00 –
15:20
Games and Decisions Lectures Chair: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton)
Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) “Auctions
Defying Intuition?”
Jaksa Cvitanic (Caltech) “Reducing
Free-Riding
in Dynamic Contribution Games” [with George Georgiadis (Boston
Univ.)]
15:20 –
16:00
Lunch - end of the conference ~ ~ ~ |