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Monday, 25 June 2007

Afternoon Session: Microeconometrics

13.00 – 14.00   Registration

14.00 – 15.00   Dimitris Christelis (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Placing Stock: Asset Location Decisions of US Households
(with Dimitris Georgarakos and Michael Haliassos) - Slides

15.00 – 16.00   Maria Concetta Chiuri  (Università di Bari and CSEF), Do the Elderly Reduce Housing Equity? An International Comparison Capital (with Tullio Jappelli) - Slides

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee Break

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Morning Session: Theory

9.00 – 9.50      Adam Brandenburger (New York University), How Much Coordination is Possible via Correlation? - Slides

9.50 – 10.40     Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University), Policy iwith Dispersed Information
(with George-Marios Angeletos) - Slides

10.40 - 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Annamaria Menichini  (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Ex Ante Information Gathering and Ex Post Verification: Substitutes or Complements? (with Peter Simmons) 

11.50 – 12.40   Pierpaolo Battigalli, Ex ante and Interim Rationalizability in Bayesian Games (with Edoardo Grillo) - Slides

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch

Afternoon session: Development and Political Economy

14.00 – 15.00   Sevi Rodriguez Mora (University of Southampton), Intergenerational Mobility and the Informational Content of Surnames (with Maia Güell) - Slides

15.00 – 16.00   Marcello D’Amato (Università di Salerno, CELPE and CSEF), Political Intergenerational Risk Sharing  (with Vincenzo Galasso) - Slides

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee break

Wednesday 27 June 2007

Morning session: Finance I

9.00 – 10.00     Marco Da Rin (Tilburg University and IGIER), Ipo Underpricing and Information Disclosure
                      (with Laura Bottazzi) - Slides

10.00 – 11.00   Giovanni Cespa  (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Dynamic Trading, Asset Prices, and Bubbles  
                      (with Xavier Vives)

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30   Ailsa Röell (Columbia University), Managerial Incentives and Stock Price Manipulation - Slides

12.30 – 14.00   Lunch

Afternoon session: Individual Behavior and Preferences

14.00 – 14.50   Francesco Drago (Università di Napoli “Parthenope” and IZA), Deterrence and Imnates' Post-release Behaviour: Evidence from a Natural Experiment(with Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova)

14.50 – 15.40   Giovanni Immordino (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Discounting and Expropriation Risk (with Mario Padula) - Slides

15.40 - 16.00   Coffee break

16.00 – 16.50   Giulio Fella (Queen Mary, University of London), Education and Crime over the Life Cycle (with Giovanni Gallipoli) - Slides

 20.00             Social Dinner 

Thursday 28 June 2007

Morning session: Finance II

9.00 – 9.50      Marco Ottaviani (London Business School), (Mis)selling through Agents (with Roman Inderst) - Slides

9.50 – 10.40     Paolo G. Garella (Università di Milano), Relying on the Information of Others: Debt Rescheduling with Many Lenders (with Claude Fluet) - Slides

10.40 – 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Corporate Fraud, Governance and Auditing (with Giovanni Immordino) - Slides

11.50 – 12.40   Alberto Bennardo (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Non-esclusive Lending and Information Sharing (with Marco Pagano and Salvatore Piccolo) - Slides

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch

Afternoon session: Industrial Organization and Public Policy 

14.00 – 15.00   Patrick Bolton (Columbia University), Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting (with Kenneth Ayotte) - Slides

15.00 – 15.30   Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30   Paola Valbonesi  (Università di Padova), Alternative Affordability Measures for Evaluating Public Utility Markets Reforms: an Application to the Italian Households (with Carlo Scarpa and Raffaele Miniaci) - Slides

16.30 – 17.30   Francesca Stroffolini (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Integration and Separation with Costly Demand Information (with Elisabetta Jossa) - Slides