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PET 2005,
Marseille
Conference Schedule
June 16 - 18, 2005
Conference Locations
| Building |
Short Form |
| Aix-en-Provence |
Aix |
| Faculté des sciences économiques et de
gestion, 12 rue Puvis de Chavannes, 13002 Marseille |
FSEG |
| Vieille Charité |
Char |
| Vieux-Port |
Port |
| Sunday, May 1, 2005 |
| 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM in FSEG A |
Increased registration fees |
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| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
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| Wednesday, June 1, 2005 |
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| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM in FSEG Hall |
Early Registration |
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| 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM in FSEG Patio |
Welcoming Reception |
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| Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM in FSEG Hall |
Registration |
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG B |
Regulation of art and Durable Goods |
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Presentations
*Omar Licandro,
European University Institute
*Luis Puch, FEDEA and
Universidad Complutense
Antonio R. Sampayo, Dpto. de
Fundamentos da Análise Económica, University of
Santiago
"Second
hand Markets and the Replacement of Durable
Goods"
Sougata Poddar,
Economics, National University of Singapore
"Music
Product as Durable Good and Online Piracy"
Stefan Traub,
Institut fuer VWL, Universitaet Kiel
"Quality
Investment and Price Formation in the Performing Arts
Sector: A Spatial Analysis"
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG A |
Political Economy 1 |
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Presentations
Gani Aldashev,
Bocconi University and DELTA, ENS
"Political
Information Acquisition for Social
Exchange"
D Andrew Austin,
CERGE-EI
"City
and Suburban Competition"
Kai A. Konrad,
WZB and Free University of Berlin
Sebastian G.
Kessing, Free University of Berlin and WZB
Christos
Kotsogiannis, University of Exeter
"Federalism,
weak institutions and the competition for foreign direct
investment" |
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG 3 |
Antidiscrimination Policies |
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Presentations
Francois
Maniquet, Dept of Economics, Univ. of Namur
*Massimo
Morelli, Dept of economics, Ohio State
Univ.
*Guillaume Frechette, New York Univ.
"Endogenous
affirmative action: gender bias leads to gender
quotas"
Fred Schroyen,
Dept of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
Bergen
*Pau Olivella, Dept of Economics, Universitat
Autónoma de Barcelona
"Multi-dimensional
screening in insurance--with an application to gender
discrimination" |
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG C |
Optimal Indirect Taxation |
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Presentations
Pascal Belan,
Université de Nantes
*Stéphane Gauthier, Université
de Caen
"Optimal
Indirect Taxation with a Restricted Number of Tax
Rates"
Marc Fleurbaey,
University of Pau
"Is
commodity taxation unfair?"
Laurence
Lasselle, University of St. Andrews
*Jim Jin,
University of St. Andrews
"Ramsey
Tax in Imperfect Competition"
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG 2 |
Applied Macroeconomic Policy / Labor
Supply |
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Presentations
Takero Doi,
Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Toshihiro
Ihori, Department of Economics, University of
Tokyo
*Kiyoshi Mitsui, Faculty of Economics,
Gakushuin University
"Debt
Management, Fiscal and Monetary Policy in
Japan"
Y. Hossein
Farzin, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University
of Californi
*Ken-Ishi Akao, School of Social
Studies, Waseda University, Japan
"Nonpecuniary
Value of Employment and Labor Supply"
Natacha Gilson,
Economics and Sociology/Catholic University of
Mons
"Demand
and Supply Shocks in the Euro Area"
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG 1 |
Mathematical Approaches to Aggregation |
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Presentations
Roger Hartley,
Department of Economics, Keele University, Keele,
Staffs, ST
"The
Plane Geometry of Aggregative Games"
Mark Johnson,
Economics, Arizona State University
"Economic
Choice Semiautomata; Structure, complexities and
Aggregations" |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM in FSEG
Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG C |
Tax Enforcement |
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Presentations
*Jean-Louis
Arcand, CERDI
*Kim Bloomquist, United States Internal
Revenue Service.
Gregoire ROTA GRAZIOSI, CERDI
"Who
Would Benefit from Simplifying the Tax Code? Frank
Knight and Gustave Choquet Meet the IRS"
Christoph
Eichhorn, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
"A
Political Economy Model of Tax Enforcement Policy"
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG A |
Local Public Goods |
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Presentations
Francis Bloch,
GREQAM
*Unal Zenginobuz, Bogazici Universitesi
""Tiebout
equilibria in local public good economies with
spillovers""
Richard Cornes,
Economics, University of Nottingham
*Roger Hartley ,
Economics dept., University of Manchester
*Doug
Nelson, Economics, Tulane University
"Groups
with Intersecting Interests"
Unal Zenginobuz,
Department of Economics, Bogazici University
*Francis
Bloch, GREQAM, Université de la Méditerranée
"The
Effect of Spillovers on the Provision of Local Public
Goods" |
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG B |
Macroeconomics and Politics |
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Presentations
Marina Azzimonti
Renzo, University of Iowa
"On
the dynamic inefficiency of governments"
Leonardo
Martinez, Research Department. Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond
"A
theory of political cycles"
Thomas Renstrom,
Dept. of Economics, University of Durham
Laura
Marsiliani, Dept. of Economics, University of
Durham
"Political
Institutions and Economic Growth"
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG 1 |
General Equilibrium / Auction |
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Presentations
Cuong Le Van,
CERMSEM, GREDEG, University Paris 1, University
Nice-Sophia
*Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary, University of
London
"Equilibrium
with dividends and Walras equilibrium with possibly
satiated consumers"
Paulo Klinger
Monteiro, EPGE-FGV
"First-Price
Auction Symmetric Equilibria with a General
Distribution"
Leila Triki,
Université Paris 1
*Pascal *Gourdel, Université de
paris 1
"Incomplete
Markets and Monetary Policy"
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG 2 |
Labour Contracts and Hiring Decisions |
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Presentations
LAINE Jean,
Ecole Nationale de la Statistique
LAFFOND Gilbert,
CNAM and CREST
"Job
Hiring, Expertise Committees and the Majority
Rule"
Fath Julia,
Department of Economics, University of Cologne
*Fuest
Clemens, Department of Economics, University of
Cologne
"Risk
aversion does not justify the introduction of mandatory
unemployment insurance in the shirking
model"
Rene van den
Brink, Department of Econometrics, Free University
Amsterdam
*Pieter Ruys, Department of Econometrics
and OR, Tilburg University
"Positional
Wages, Market Wages and Firm Size"
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| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in FSEG 3 |
Yardstick Competition |
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Presentations
Stefan Dodds,
Department of Economics, Carleton University
"Privacy
Preferences, Reputation, and the Optimal Timing of
Consent"
Christopher
Ellis, Economics, University of Oregon
*Oz Dincer,
Economics, Massey NZ
"Corruption
Decentralization and Yardstick Competition"
Annalisa
Luporini, University of Florence
"Relative
performance evaluation in a multi-plant firm"
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| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in FSEG Patio |
Lunch |
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| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM in FSEG A |
Invited Lecture 3 |
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Chair: Alain Trannoy, IDEP, GREQAM,
EHESS
Presentation
John Roemer,
Yale University
"Racism,
Xenophobia, and Distribution"
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG 2 |
Tax and Contracts |
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Presentations
Johannes Becker,
University of Cologne
*Clemens Fuest, University of
Cologne
"Why
is there corporate taxation? The role of limited
liability revisited"
Chi-Wa YUEN,
University of Hong Kong
"Tax
Neutrality under Implicit Intergenerational
Contracts" |
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG B |
Freedoms, Right and Opportunity |
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Presentations
Sebastian
Bervoets, Greqam - Marseille
"Freedom
of Choice in a Social Context : Comparing Game
Forms"
Herrade
Igersheim, BETA, Université Louis Pasteur
"Invoking
Cartesian Product Structure on Social States: New
Resolutions of Sen's and Gibbard's Impossibility
Theorems"
*Christian
Schluter, Department of Economics, University of
Southampton
Dirk Van de gaer, Vakgroep Sociale
Economie, Ghent University
"Mobility
as distributional difference"
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG A |
Risk Sharing and Risk Control |
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Presentations
Stefan Ambec,
INRA-GAEL, University of Grenoble
"Voting
over informal risk-sharing rules"
Yann Bramoullé,
Economics department, Laval University
*Nicolas
Treich, LERNA, Université des Sciences Sociales de
Toulouse
"Can
Uncertainty Alleviate the Commons Problem?"
Martin McGuire,
University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
92697
Toshihiro Ihori, University of Tokyo,Department
of Economics
"Collective
Risk Control" |
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG C |
Political Economy of Lobbying |
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Presentations
Sven Feldmann,
MEDS, Northwestern University
"Bureaucratic
Expertise and Learning from Interest"
Hubert Kempf,
Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
"Elections
and lobbies" |
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG 1 |
Group Formation and Public Goods |
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Presentations
Marcus Berliant,
Department of Economics, Washington University in St.
Louis
*Masahisa Fujita, Institute of Economic
Research, Kyoto University
"Knowledge
Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert
Cube"
Byungchae Rhee,
IMER, The Bank of Korea
"Optimal
Formation and Immigration of Local Public Goods
Economies"
Anne van den
Nouweland, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Oregon
*Myrna
Wooders, Vanderbilt University
"Ratio
Equilibria for Local Public Good Economies"
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| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG 3 |
Dynamic Models and Fluctuations |
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Presentations
Carine Nourry,
GREQAM- Université de la méditérranée
*Teresa
Lloyd-Braga , Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and CEPR
*Alain Venditti, GREQAM-CNRS
"Indeterminacy
in dynamic models: when Diamond meets
Ramsey"
Thomas
Seegmuller, CNRS and EUREQua
"Steady
state analysis and endogenous fluctuations in a finance
constrained model"
Eleftherios
Spyromitros, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de
Gestion, Université S
*Meixing Dai , Faculté des
Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Université
Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur)
*Moïse Sidiropoulos,
Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion,
Université Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur)
"Monetary
policy transparency and financial market dynamics"
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| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM in FSEG Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG C |
Tax Competition 1 |
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Presentations
Aurélie
Cassette, MEDEE, Université de Lille 1
Hubert Jayet,
MEDEE, Université de Lille 1
Sonia Paty, MEDEE,
Université de Lille 1
"Tax
competition and Leviathan-type politicians"
Carole Dembour,
CEREC, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis
*Xavier
Wauthy, CERC, FUSL and CORE, UCL
"Investment
in Public Infrastructure and Tax Competition between
Contiguous Regions"
Fernando Ruiz,
Economie et Sociologie / Catholic University of
Mons
"Tax
competition with restrictions on capital movements and
tax bands convergence" |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG A |
Public policy and overlapping generations models:
A Tribute to Philippe Michel (invited) |
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Presentations
Pierre-André
Jouvet, GAINS, Univeristy of Maine and GREQAM,
Marseille
Philippe Michel
Pierre Pestieau
"Public
and private environmental spending. A political economy
approach"
Emmanuel
Thibault, GREMAQ (University of Toulouse) and University
of Perpignan
Philippe Michel
"On
the non-neutrality of public"
Jean-Pierre
Vidal, European Central Bank
"Debt
Stabilizing Fiscal Rules"
Bertrand
Wigniolle, EUREQua University of Paris I
Pascal
Belan, LEN University of Nantes
Philippe Michel,
GREQAM Université de Marseille 2
"Does
imperfect competition foster capital accumulation in a
developing economy ?" |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG 3 |
Regulation of Crime 1 |
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Presentations
Jose
Rodrigues-Neto, University of Wisconsin
"Should
Criminal Records be Publicly Available?"
Rajiv Sethi,
Barnard Colleg, Columbia University
*Brendan
OFlaherty, Columbia University
"Racial
Stereotypes and Robbery" |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG B |
Health Economics |
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Presentations
Francesca
Barigozzi, Department of Economics, University of
Bologna
*Rosella Levaggi, Department of Economics,
University of Brescia
"A
Rationale for Searching (Imprecise) Health
Information"
Olga Lavrova,
Department of Economics, University of Ottawa,
Canada
*Victoria Barham, Department of Economics,
University of Ottawa, Canada
"Why
Is Public Health Insurance Efficient?"
*Patrick Leoni,
Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung -
Universität Z
Stéphane Luchini,
GREQAM-IDEP-CNRS
"Designing
the Financial Tools to Promote Universal
Access"
Xiaochuan Wang,
Economics Department, University of Ottawa
*Vicky
Barham, Economics Department, University of
Ottawa
*Rose Anne Devlin, Economics Department,
University of Ottawa
"Health,
Wealth, and Pursuit of Happiness"
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG 1 |
International Trade |
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Presentations
Emmanuelle
TAUGOURDEAU, CREM, University of CAEN
*Abderrahmane
ZIAD, CREM, University of CAEN
"Fiscal
policies and Trade: On the existence of Nash
equilibria"
Ben Zissimos,
Vanderbilt University
"Is
there one world Market?" |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG 2 |
Optimal Taxation |
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Presentations
Peter Katuscak,
University of California, San Diego
*Naomi Feldman,
nfeldman@bgu.ac.il
"Can
Nonlinear Taxation Benefit a Hyperbolic
Agent?"
Frank Page,
Finance, University of Alabama
Marcus Berliant,
Economics, Washington University
"Budget
Balancedness and Optimal Income Taxation"
Sanna Tenhunen,
Department of Economics and Accounting, University of
Tamper
"Optimal
Tax Policy with Environmental Externalities and
Heterogeneous Preferences"
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| 7:15 PM - 7:30 PM in Port - |
Departure to the Gala Diner |
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| Travel by bus |
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| 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Aix - |
Gala Diner |
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| Mas d'Entremont |
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| Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 3 |
Mechanism for Public Goods Provision |
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Presentations
Yukihiro
Nishimura, Yokohama National University
*Ryusuke
Shinohara, Shinshu University
"A
Voluntary Participation Game through a Unit-by-Unit Cost
Share Mechanism of a Non-Excludable Public
Good"
Marco Sahm, LMU
Munich
*Felix Bierbrauer, MPI Bonn
"Two-dimensional
heterogeneity and the provision of public goods in large
economies: An application of robustness to sampling"
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG A |
Environmentally Based Regulation of
Firms |
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Presentations
Lucie Bottega,
Epee
"How
to prevent an excessive use of packaging?"
Lucie Bottega,
Epee
Jenny De Freitas, Gremaq
"Monopoly
choice for environmental quality under different policy
instruments and certification"
Rinaldo Brau,
Department of Economics, University of
Cagliari
*Carlo Carraro, University of Venice
"The
Design of Voluntary Agreements in Oligopolistic
Markets" |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 1 |
Coalition and Group Formation |
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Presentations
Sami Dakhlia, U.
of Alabama
Frank Page, U. of Alabama
"Farsightedly
Stable Agenda Formation"
Michael Finus,
Department of Economics, University of Hagen
*Bianca
Rundshagen
"A
Micro-Foundation of Core-Stability in Positive
Externality Coalition Games"
Michael Finus,
Department of Economics, University of Hagen
*Johan
Eyckmans
"An
Almost Ideal Sharing Scheme for Coalition Games with
Externalities" |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 2 |
Economics of Education |
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Presentations
*Steve Cassou,
Department of Economics, Kansas State
University
William Blankenau , Department of
Economics, Kansas State University
*Beth Ingram,
Department of Economics, University of Iowa
"Allocating
government education expenditures across"
Carlos da Costa,
Graduate School of Economics at the Getulio Vargas
Foundatio
*Lucas Maestri, Graduate School of
Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation
"The
Risk Properties of Human Capital and the Design of
Government Policies."
Dario Maldonado,
CORE, University of Louvain
"Grading
standards under monopolistic provision of education"
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG B |
Individuals vs. Households in Welfare
Economics |
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Presentations
Olivier Bargain,
IZA
"Normative
evaluation of tax policies: from households to
individuals"
Udo Ebert,
University of Oldenburg
Patrick Moyes, CNRS, IDEP and
GRAPE, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
"Household
Decisions and Equivalence Scales"
Eugenio Peluso,
Università di Verona and THEMA-Université de Cergy
Pontoise
Alain Trannoy, EHESS-GREQAM Marseille
"Risk
Sharing, Intra-Household Discrimination and Inequality
among Individuals" |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG C |
Asymmetric Information and Political
Institutions |
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Presentations
Carmen Bevia,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
*Humberto LLavador
, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"An
Incumbent-Challenger Political Model with signalling and
Countersignalling"
Marie-Laure
Breuillé, Thema / Université Paris X-Nanterre
*Robert
Gary-Bobo, Team / Université Paris 1 - Panthéon
Sorbonne
"Sharing
Budgetary Austerity under Asymmetric Information: An
Optimal Regulation Approach to Fiscal Federalism"
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM in FSEG
Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM in FSEG A |
Invited Lecture 1 |
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Chair: Myrna Wooders, Dept. of
Economics, Vanderbilt University
Presentation
Avinash Dixit,
Princeton
"Political
Explanations of Inefficient Economic Policies : An
Overview of the Theoretical and Empirical
Litterature" |
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 3 |
Experimental Economics |
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Presentations
Tatiana
Kornienko, Economics, University of Stirling
*John
Duffy, Economics, University of Pittsburgh
"Does
Competition Affect Giving in an Experimental
Setting?"
Christian Seidl,
Department of Economics, University of Kiel,
Germany
*Eva Camacho-Cuena, Department of Economics,
University of Kiel, Germany
*Tibor Neugebauer,
Department of Economics, University of Hannover,
Germany
"Compensating
Justice Beats Leaky Buckets: An Experimental
Investigation"
Sylvie Thoron,
GREQAM
*Marc Willinger, LAMETA
*Emmanuel Sol,
LAMETA
"Do
subjects contribute more when they can sign binding
agreements?" |
|
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 2 |
Tax Competition 2 |
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Presentations
Charles
Figuières, INRA
*Jacques Drèze, CORE, UCL
*Jean
Hindriks, CORE, UCL
"Voluntary
matching grants can forestall social
dumping"
*Carl Gaigné,
INRA and U. of Strathclyde
Stephane Riou, Universté
de St-Etienne
"Globalization,
tax competition and fiscal equalization"
Marcel Gerard,
Catholic University of Mons
"Multijurisdictional
firms and governments’ strategies under alternative tax
designs" |
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG C |
Taxation and Growth (invited) |
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Presentations
Stefania
Albanesi, Duke University
Christopher Sleet,
University of Iowa
"Dynamic
Optimal Taxation of Productive Assets"
Bas Jacobs, RSC
European University Institute
"Human
Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital
Income"
Jean-Francois
Wen, University of Calgary
Cecila Garcia-Penalosa,
GREQAM
"Redistribution
and Entrepreneurship with Schumpeterian Growth"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG B |
Political Economy, Redistribution and
Immigration |
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Presentations
Alexander
Kemnitz, University of Mannheim, Department of
Economics
"Immigration
as a Commitment Device"
Karin Mayr,
Department of Economics, University of Linz
"Immigration
and Income Redistribution - A Political Economy
Analysis"
Karine Van der
Straeten, CNRS and Ecole polytechnique Paris
John E.
Roemer, Yale University
"Xenophobia
and distribution in France: A politico-economic
analysis" |
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG A |
Normative Appraisal of Federal Systems |
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Presentations
*Nicolas Gravel,
Centre des Sciences Humaines, New Delhi ; IDEP-GREQAM,
Marse
*Patrick Moyes, GRAPE (UMR, CNRS no 5133),
Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
Benoit Tarroux,
IDEP-GREQAM, Marseille ; Université de la
Méditerranée
"International
multidimensional comparisons of inequality in disposable
income and access to public goods"
Eckhard Janeba,
Economics, University of Mannheim
"Moral
Federalism"
Marko
Koethenbuerger, CES, University of Munich
"Federal
Commitment, Externalities and Corrective Grants"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 1 |
Public Financing of Higher Education |
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Presentations
William
Blankenau, Department of Economics, Kansas State
University
*Gabriele Camera, Department of Economics,
Purdue University
"Public
Spending on Education and the Incentives to Student
Achievement"
Maria Racionero,
School of Economics, Australian National
University
*Elena Del Rey, Departament d’Economia,
Universitat de Girona
"Financing
schemes for higher education"
Bertrand
Verheyden, economics, University of Namur
"Funding
higher education in a signalling model with wealth
heterogeneity" |
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| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM in FSEG Patio |
Lunch |
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| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG 1 |
Game Theory |
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Presentations
Rabah Amir,
Université catholique de Louvain, CORE
*Filomena
Garcia , Université catholique de Louvain, CORE
*Malgorzata Knauff, Université catholique de
Louvain, CORE
"Endogenous
Heterogeneity in strategic Models: Symmetric Breaking
via Strategic Substitutes and
Non-Concavities"
Guilherme
Carmona, Dept. of Economics, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
Myrna Wooders, Dept. of Economics, Vanderbilt
University
"Social
Conformity in Games with a Continuum of
Players"
Lydia
Mechtenberg, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer
Sozialforschung (WZB)
"Cheap
Talk in the Classroom" |
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| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG A |
Diversity, Freedom and Social Taboos |
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Presentations
*Sebastian
Bervoets, IDEP-GREQAM, University of the
Mediterranean
Nicolas Gravel, CSH-IDEP-GREQAM
"Appraising
Diversity with an Ordinal Notion of Similarity: An
axiomatic Approach"
Ani Guerdjikova,
Cornell University, Department of
Economics
*Alexander Zimper, SFB 504, University of
Mannheim
"Trading
off Preferences for Flexibility against Ambiguity
Aversion. An Axiomatic Approach to Welfare Maximizing
Social Taboos"
Ernesto
Savaglio, Department of Economic Theory and Quantitative
Methods, Univ
*Stefano Vannucci, Department of
Economics, University of Siena
"On
the volume-ranking of opportunity sets in economic
environments" |
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| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG B |
Public Decision Making under
Uncertainty |
|
Presentations
Marc Baudry,
CREM (UMR CNRS 6211) and Université de Rennes 1
"A
real option model with Bayesian learning and its
application to environmental preservation"
Patrick
Gonzalez, Université Laval
François Salanié, INRA
Toulouse
"Information
Acquisition for Public Decision-Making with Differing
Priors"
Nicolaus
Tideman, Economics, Virginia Tech
*Florenz Plassmann,
Economics, SUNY Binghamton
"Accurate
Valuation in the Absence of Markets"
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| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG C |
Equality of opportunity / Equal
Treatment |
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Presentations
William Bryant,
Economics, Macquarie University
"Redistribution
and Welfare Reconsidered"
Ed Hopkins,
Economics, University of Edinburgh
Tatiana Kornienko,
Economics, University of Stirling
"Which
Inequality? The Inequality of Resources Versus the
Inequality of Rewards"
Myrna Wooders,
Vanderbilt University
"Market
Games, Inequality and the Equal Treatment Property of
the Core" |
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| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG 2 |
Taxation and Growth 2 |
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Presentations
Frederick van
der Ploeg, EUI, Florence, CEPR and CESifo
"GROWTH
AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE - Baumol's Cost Disease
Revisited"
Yong Wang,
Department of Economics and Finance, City University of
Hong
*Wai-Hong Ho, Faculty of Social Sciences
& Humanities, University of Macao
"Factor
Taxation and Growth under Asymmetric Information"
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| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM in FSEG Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG 1 |
Production of Knowledge and Research |
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Presentations
Nicolas Carayol,
BETA, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
*Rachid
Boumahdi, GREMAQ, LIRHE, Université Toulouse 1
"Public
and Private Funding of Academic Laboratories: Crowding
out Evidence from a Large European Research
University"
Pujol Francesc,
DEpartment of Economics, University of Navarra
"Ranking
Public Economic Journals Following a Matching Model
Approach"
*Marisa Hidalgo,
Department of Fundamentos del Análisis Económico,
University
Guadalupe Valera, Department of Economics,
Pablo Olavide University
"Donations,
Dons and the Universities`Goal"
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG 3 |
Political Economy 2 |
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Presentations
Felix
Bierbrauer, Max Planck Institute for Research on
Collective Goods
"Public
Good Provision as a Redistribution Device"
Philippe De
Donder, University of Toulouse (IDEI &
GREMAQ)
*Helmuth Cremer, University of Toulouse (IDEI
& GREMAQ)
*Firouz Gahvari, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Political
competition when parties represent constituents: An
application to environmental policy"
Jenny De
Freitas, GREMAQ - University of Toulouse
"Inequality,
the politics of redistribution and the tax-mix"
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG B |
Tax Compliance |
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Presentations
Bouwe Dijkstra,
School of Economics, University of Nottingham
"Good
and bad equilibria with the informal
sector"
Marcel Ramirez,
CENTRUM Catolica - School of Business
"A
Microeconomic Analysis of Income and Indirect Tax
Noncompliance"
Marcel Ramirez,
CENTRUM Catolica - School of Business
"Joint
VAT Evasion in an Endogenous Decision-Making Model"
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG A |
Fairness Criteria |
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Presentations
John Conley,
dept. of econ, Vanderbilt University
*Simon Wilkie,
HSS Caltech
"The
Ordinal Egalitarian Solution for Finite Choice
Sets"
Miguel
Ginés-Vilar, Economics. U Jaume I Castellon. Spain
"Is
Public Owership responsible for Equality on
Welfare?"
Roland Iwan
Luttens, SHERPPA, Ghent University
*Erwin Ooghe, CES,
K.U.Leuven
"Is
it fair to "make work pay"?"
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG 2 |
Regulating the Environment |
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Presentations
Claude
d'Aspremont, CORE, Louvain University,
Louvain-la-Neuve
"Formal
Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity"
Michael Finus,
Department of Economics, University of Hagen
"Participation
in International Environmental Agreements: The Role of
Timing and Regulation"
Phu Nguyen Van,
THEMA, UMR 7536 CNRS
*Raouf Boucekkine, IRES, CORE,
UCL
*Theophile Azomahou, BETA, ULP
"Energy
consumption, technological progress and economic
policy" |
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| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG C |
Inequality, Growth and Fluctuations |
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Presentations
Falilou Fall,
Eurequa, Université Paris 1
"Endogenous
Persistent Inequality"
Fabien Moizeau,
University of Toulouse 1, Gremaq
Hubert Kempf,
University of Paris 1, EUREQua
"On
the Joint Dynamics of Inequality and
Growth."
Patrick Pintus,
Universite de la Mediterranee, GREQAM
*Nicolas
Dromel, Universite de la Mediterranee, GREQAM
"Progressive
Fiscal Rules as Built-In Stabilizers"
Alain Venditti,
CNRS - GREQAM
Christian Ghiglino, Queen Mary,
University of London
"Wealth
inequality and macroeconomic volatility in two-sector
economies" |
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| 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM in FSEG Hall |
Departure to the Museum (Group 1) |
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Musée de la Vieille Charité :
Sous le
soleil exactement: Le paysage en provence - Du
classicisme à la modernité (1750-1920) (1h30 visit)
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| 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM in FSEG Hall |
Departure (Group 2) |
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| 7:15 PM - 7:30 PM in FSEG Hall |
Departure (Group 3) |
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| 7:45 PM - 8:00 PM in FSEG Hall |
Departure (Group 4) |
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| Saturday, June 18, 2005 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 3 |
Voting |
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Presentations
Nicolas HOUY,
EUREQua
"Dynamics
of Stable Sets of Constitutions"
Jean-Francois
Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique
"Spatial
Approval Voting" |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG A |
Intertemporal Normative Decisions |
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Presentations
Bruno Decreuse,
GREQAM, University of Aix-Marseille II
*Hippolyte
d'Albis, GREMAQ, University of Toulouse I
"Parental
altruism, lifetime expectancy and dynamically
inefficient equilibria"
Marie Louise
leroux, Gremaq, Université toulouse 1
*Antoine
Bommier, Gremaq, Université toulouse 1
*Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur, Gremaq, Université toulouse 1
"Varying
life expectancy and Social Security"
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 1 |
General Equilibrium |
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Presentations
Herve Cres, HEC
School of Management
"Portfolio
diversification and internalization of production
externalities through majority voting"
Elena Laureana
del Mercato, Università di Salerno
"Existence
of Competitive Equilibria with Externalities: a
Differential Viewpoint."
Martine Quinzii,
Dept. of Economics, University of California
*Michael
Magill, Dept. of Economics, University of Southern
California
"An
Equilibrium model of managerial compensation"
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG 2 |
Lobbying |
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Presentations
Martin
Besfamille, Department of Economics, Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella, Arge
*Pablo Sanguinetti,
Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,
Argentina
"Exerting
local tax effort or lobbying for central transfers?
Theory and Evidence from Argentina"
Hideki Konishi,
Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of
Technol
"The
composition of fiscal adjustments as a
signal"
Johannes
Münster, Free U Berlin and WZB
"Lobbying
contests with endogenous policy proposals"
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG B |
Trust and Social Capital Building |
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Presentations
Amrita Dhillon,
Economics, University of Warwick
*Jamele Rigolini,
Economics
"Social
Capital, Contractual Performance and Economic
Development"
Arne Schollaert,
SHERPPA, Ghent University
* Dirk Van de gaer,
SHERPPA, Ghent University
"Boycotts,
power politics or trust building: how to prevent
conflict?"
Christian
Traxler, Munich Graduate School of Economics
"Social
Norms and the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods:
Voting and Welfare" |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM in FSEG C |
Matching |
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Presentations
Olivier Charlot,
LIBRE-Université de Franche-Comté et CIRPEE
"Overeducation
for the rich vs undereducation for the poor: a
search-theoretic microfoundation"
Pablo Revilla,
Department of Economics, Pablo Olavide
University
*Jörg Naeve, Economics Institute,
Hohenheim University.
"Demanding
Behavior in Matching Models"
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 PM in FSEG
Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM in FSEG A |
Invited Lecture 2 |
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Chair: Nicolas Gravel, CSH, IDEP,
GREQAM
Presentation
Matthew Jackson,
Caltech
"Social
Networks, Information, and Public Decisions"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 3 |
Regulation of Firms |
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Presentations
Fredrik
Andersson, Department of Economics, Lund
University
"A
Trickle-Down Theory of Incentives with Applications to
Privatization and Outsourcing"
Wolfgang Eggert,
ifo Institite for Economic Research and University of
Munich
"Competition
Between Bank Regulators" |
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 2 |
Fiscal Federalism |
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Presentations
Nobuo Akai,
School of Business administration, University of
Hyogo
*Motohiro Sato, Hitosubashi University
"Decentralized
leadership meets soft budget"
Jean-François
Tremblay, Department of Economics, University of
Ottawa
*Robin Boadway, Department of Economics,
Queen's University
"A
Theory of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG B |
Coalition Theory Network 1 (invited) |
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Presentations
Dinko Dimitrov,
Institute of Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld
University
"A
taxonomy of myopic stability concepts for hedonic
games"
Jean-Christophe
Péreau, University of Marne La Vallée
"Bargaining
with non-monolithic players"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG 1 |
General Equilibrium and Incomplete
Markets |
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Presentations
Lionel De
Boisdeffre, Paris 1 - CERMSEM
"Competitive
equilibrium with asymmetric information: An existence
theorem for numeraire assets"
*Aditya Goenka,
National University of Singapore
Stefano Matta,
University of Cagliari
"Manipulation
of endowments and sunspot equilibrium"
Stella
Kanellopoulou, Université Paris 1
*Abdelkarim
*Seghir, American university of Beirut
*Leila *triki,
Université de paris 1
"Irreducibility
and Survival Assumptions with Incomplete Markets"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG C |
Economics of Corruption |
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Presentations
*Leandro
Arozamena, Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato
Di Tella
Federico Weinschelbaum, Department of
Economics, Universidad de San Andres
"The
Effect of Corruption on Bidding Behavior in First-Price
Auctions"
Maria Cabral,
Economics - ISCAC
"Transaction
Costs of Corrupt Deals"
*Rafael Di
Tella, Harvard Business School
Federico
Weinschelbaum, Economics-Univ. de San Andrés
"A
Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device"
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| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in FSEG A |
Economics of Gift and Donations |
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Presentations
Carl-Johan
Dalgaard, Institute of Economics, University of
Copenhagen
"Donor
Policies and Aid Effectiveness"
Maija
Halonen-Akatwijuka, University of Bristol
"Coordination
Failure in Foreign Aid"
Serge-Christophe
Kolm, IDEP, EHESS
"The
perplexing joint giving theorem"
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| 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM in FSEG Patio |
Lunch |
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG 3 |
Cost-Benefit Analysis |
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Presentations
Ted Bergstrom,
UCSB
"What
can benefit cost analysis tell us?"
Jean-Francois
Mertens, Université Catholique de Louvain, CORE
"Intergenerational
Fairness and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit
Analysis"
Martin William,
World Bank
*James Anderson, Boston College
"Costs
of taxation and the benefits of public goods:the role of
income effects" |
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG 2 |
Electoral Competition |
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Presentations
Jon Eguia,
California Institute of Technology
"Citizen
Candidates Under Uncertainty"
Bilge Ozturk,
Ecole Polytechnique
"Opportunism
and the evolution of electoral competition"
Alejandro
Saporiti, Queen Mary, University of London
"On
the existence of Nash equilibrium in electoral
competition games: The hybrid case"
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG B |
Optimal Income Taxation |
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Presentations
Gareth Myles,
Department of Economics University of Exeter
*Nigar
Hashimzade, Department of Economics University of
Exeter
"The
Structure of the Optimal Income Tax in the Quasi-Linear
Model"
Leslie J.
Reinhorn, Economics Department, University of Durham
(England)
"Production
efficiency and excess supply"
Laurent Simula,
IDEP-GREQAM and EHESS
*Alain Trannoy, IDEP-GREQAM and
EHESS
"Optimal
income tax when agents vote with their feet"
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG C |
Coalition Theory Network 2 (invited) |
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Presentations
Alessandro
Cigno, Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, University of
Florence
"The
family as an intergenerational coalition: a
constitutional approach"
Gerald Pech,
Department of Economics, National University of Ireland
Galw
"A
Coalition Dominance Approach to Party Behavior and the
Moderating Effects of Proportional
Representation"
Hans-Peter
Weikard, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen
University
"Cartel
stability under an optimal sharing rule"
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG 1 |
Decentralization 1 |
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Presentations
Darwin CORTES,
Université de Toulouse 1 - MPSE, GREMAQ
"Assigning
tasks to government: externalities, accountability and
partial decentralization"
Matthias Wrede,
RWTH Aachen University
"Nationwide
redistribution and regional agglomeration"
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| 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM in FSEG A |
Networks |
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Presentations
Ana Mauleon,
FNRS, CEREC, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis and
CORE
"Networks
of Manufacturers and Retailers"
Topi Miettinen,
University College London, University of Helsinki (HECER
and
*Panu Poutvaara, Centre for Economic and Business
Research, Copenhagen Business School
"Political
Parties and Network Formation"
Vincent
Vannetelbosch, FNRS and CORE, University of
Louvain
*Olivier Tercieux, Tilburg University
"Stochastically
Stable Networks" |
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| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM in FSEG Patio |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG 3 |
Optimal Taxation and Status Effect |
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Presentations
Rogerio Mazali,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jose Alvaro
Rodrigues-Neto, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Optimal
Taxation of Status Goods"
Byungchae Rhee,
IMER, The Bank of Korea
"A
Characterization of Optimal Feasible Tax
Mechanism"
Ronald Wendner,
Department of Economics, Graz University
Lawrence, H.
Goulder, Economics Department, Stanford University
"Status
Effects, Public Goods Provision, and the Excess
Burden" |
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG 2 |
Growth |
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Presentations
Thomas Baudin,
University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - EUREQua
"Optimal
Public Solutions to a Problem of Blocked Demographic
Transition"
Chetan Ghate,
Indian Statistical Institute (New Delhi)
*Areendam
Chanda , Louisiana State University
*Debajyoti
Chakrabarty, University of Sydney
"Education
and Growth in the Presence of Capital Flight"
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG A |
Axiomatic Cost-Sharing |
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Presentations
Youngsub Chun,
School of Economics, Seoul National University
"Consistency
and monotonicity in sequencing problems"
Justin Leroux,
Rice University
"Strategyproof
surplus sharing: a 2-agent
characterization"
Hatice Ozsoy,
Rice University, Department of Economics
"Coordinated
Splitting in Probabilistic Scheduling"
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG 1 |
Decentralization 2 |
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Presentations
Robert Fenge,
ifo Institute
"Why
is there regional policy? A political-agency
approach"
jean hindriks,
economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain
"Fiscal
Centralization and Electoral
Accountability"
Francisco
Martinez-Mora, Economics, University of Leicester
"The
impact of fiscal decentralization on income
segregation"
Jan
Schnellenbach, Philipps-University Marburg
"Learning
from Decentralised Policy: The Demand Side"
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG B |
Regulation of Crime 2 |
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Presentations
Emrah Arbak,
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique, Université
Lyon 2
"Social
status and crime"
Mikael Priks,
Center for Economic Studies, University of
Munich
Panu Poutvaara, CEBR
"Hooligans"
Anna
Rubinchik-Pessach, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Dept of Economics
*Roberto Samaniego, The George
Washington University
"Contract
Enforcement and Gains from Trade"
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| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in FSEG C |
Rent Seeking |
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Presentations
Gani Aldashev,
Bocconi University and DELTA, ENS
"Voter
Turnout and Political Rents: Theory and
Evidence"
Peter Bardsley,
University of Melbourne
*Quan Nguyen, The University
of Melbourne
"Rent
seeking and judicial bias in weak legal
systems"
Luis Corchón,
Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Forms
of Governance and the size of rent-seeking"
Sebastian
Kessing, WZB
*Kai Konrad, WZB
"Time
consistency and bureaucratic budget competition"
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| 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM in FSEG Hall |
End of the Congress |
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