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C6 - 2nd CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions
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Monday, 26 June 2006

 

Afternoon Session: Finance

13.00 – 14.00   Registration

14.00 – 15.00   Giacinta Cestone (Università di Salerno and CSEF), The Design of Syndicates in Venture Capital (with Josh Lerner and Lucy White)

15.00 – 16.00   Marco Da Rin (Università di Torino and IGIER), The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital (with Laura Bottazzi
and Thomas Hellmann)

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30   Hayne Leland (University of California Berkeley), Financial Synergies and the Optimal Scope of the Firm: Implications for Mergers, Spin-Offs, and Structured Finance

17.30 – 18.30   Christian Julliard (London School of Economics), Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies (with Markus Brunnermeier)


 

Tuesday, 27 June 2006  

 

Morning Session: Credit Markets

 

9.00 – 10.00     Mario Padula  (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Informal Credit Markets, Judicial Costs and Consumer Credit: Evidence from Firm Level Data
(with Charles Grant)

10.00 – 11.00   Richard Disney (University of Nottingham), Household Borrowing and the Financial Accelerator (with Sarah Bridges)

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30   Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Bankruptcy law, Bonded Labor and Inequality (with Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal)

12.30 – 14.00   Lunch 

Afternoon session: Industrial Organization I

 

14.00 – 15.00   Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse), Resale Price, Maintenance and Horizontal Cartel (with Thibaud Vergé) and Slotting Allowances and Conditional Payments (with Jeanine Thal and Thibaud Vergé)

15.00 – 16.00   Carlo Scarpa (Università di Brescia), Regulating a Multi-Utility Firm (with Giacomo Calzolari)

16.00 - 16.30   Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30   Massimo Motta (European University Institute), Exclusionary Pricing and Rebates in a Network Industry

17.30 – 18.30   Paola Valbonesi (Università di Padova), The State Aid Game in an Integrating Market (with Stephen Martin) 


 

Wednesday 28 June 2006 

 

Morning session: Industrial Organization II

 

9.00 – 10.00     Salvatore Piccolo (Università di Salerno and CSEF), The Strategic Value of Incomplete Contracts for Competing Hierarchies (with David Martimort)

10.00 – 11.00   Pierpaolo Battigalli (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Buyer Power and Quality Improvement (with Chiara Fumagalli and Michele Polo)

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30   Eric Maskin (Princeton University), Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation (with James Bessen)

12.30 – 14.00   Lunch

 

Afternoon session: Consumption and Portfolio Choice

 

14.00 – 15.00   Guglielmo Weber (Università di Padova), Is There a Consumption Drop After Retirement in Italy? (with Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini, and Enrico Rettore)

15.00 – 15.30   Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30   Loriana Pelizzon (Università di Venezia), Efficient Portfolios when Housing Needs Change over the Life-Cycle (with Guglielmo Weber)

16.30 – 17.30   Dimitris Christelis  (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Portfolio Composition of the Elderly: An International Comparison (with Dimitris Georgarakos and Michalis Haliassos)

 

Thursday 29 June 2006

 

Morning session: Information and Incentives

 

9.00 – 9.50       Giovanni Cespa (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Exchanges Information Sales and Market Quality (with Thierry Foucault)

9.50 – 10.40     Alberto Bennardo (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Information Gathering, Disclosure and Contracting in Competitive Markets

10.40 – 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Marco Celentani (Universitat Carlos III), Career Concerns and Political Alternation with Ignorant Voters  (with J. Ignacio Conde Ruiz)

11.50 – 12.40   Marco Pagnozzi  (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Speculators in Multi-Object Auctions

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch

  

Afternoon session: Social Security, Pensions, and Retirement

  

14.00 – 15.00   Steve Zeldes (Columbia University), Valuing and Hedging Defined Benefit Pension Obligations: The Role of Stocks Revisited
(with Deborah Lucas)

15.00 – 15.30   Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30   Vincenzo Galasso (Università Bocconi and IGIER), The Political Feasibility of Postponing Retirement

16.30 – 17.30   Paola Profeta (Università Bocconi), Early Retirement and Social Security: A Long Term Perspective (with J. Ignacio Conde Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso)


 

Friday 30 June 2006

 Morning session: Income Risk and Inequality 

  

9.00 – 10.00     Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University), Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (with Hamish Low and Costas Meghir)

10.00 – 11.00   Daniele Checchi (Università di Milano), Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Italy and Germany (with Luca Flabbi)

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30   Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno and CSEF), The Effects of Employment Protection Legislation on Wages: a Regression Discontinuity Approach (with Marco Leonardi)

12.30 – 14.00   Lunch

 

 

 

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