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Monday, 23 June 2008

Afternoon Session: Theory

13.00 – 14.00   Registration

14.00 – 15.00   Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University), Matching Models of the Marriage Market: an Overview of Some Recent Progresses

15.00 – 16.00   Alberto Bennardo (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Perks as Second Best Compensations (with Pierre Andrè Chiappori e Joon Song)

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30   Jacqueline Morgan (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Social Networks: Equilibrium Selection and Friendliness (with Giuseppe De Marco)

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

 Morning Session: Industrial Organization

9.00 – 9.50      Thomas Ronde (University of Copenhagen), Exclusive Dealing: the Interaction Between Foreclosure and Investment Promotion (with C. Fumagalli e M. Motta)

9.50 – 10.40    Michele Polo (Bocconi University), Judicial Errors and Innovative Activity (with Giovanni Immordino)

10.40 - 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Roman Inderst (LSE and University of Frankfurt), Buyer Power and Price Discrimination in Intermediary Markets - slides

11.50 – 12.40   Giancarlo Spagnolo (University of Tor Vergata and SITE-Stockholm School of Economics), Relational Procurement (with Giacomo Calzolari)

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch 

Afternoon session: Theory

14.00 – 15.00   Jeremy Bulow (Stanford University), Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions? (with Paul Klemperer)

15.00 – 16.00   Marco Pagnozzi (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Should Speculators Be Welcomed in Auctions?

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30   Alessandro Bonatti (Yale University), Continuous-Time Screening Contracts

Wednesday 25 June 2007

 Morning session: Applied Economics

 9.00 – 9.50     Michele Pellizzari (Bocconi University), The Younger the Better? Relative Age Effects at University
(with Francesco C. Billari)  

 9.50 – 10.40   Vassilis Hajivassiliou (London School of Economics), Financing Constraints and a Firm's Decision and Ability to Innovate: Establishing Direct and Reverse Effects (with Frédérique Savignac)

10.40 – 11.00  Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   DIMITRIS Christelis (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Smoking in Europe (with Anna Sanz De Galdeano)

11.50 – 12.40  Andrea Ichino (University of Bologna), Optimal Intergenerational Mobility of Income and the Allocation of Talent (with Loukas Karabarbounis, Enrico Moretti and Kjell Salvanes)

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch  

Afternoon session: Theory

14.00 – 15.00  Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Educational Signalling Credit Constraints and Inequality Dynamics (with Marcello D’Amato)

15.00 – 16.00  Salvatore Piccolo (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Two is Company, N is a Crowd? Merchant Guilds and Social Capital (with Roberta Dessí)

16.00 – 16.30  Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30 Alfredo Di Tillio (IGIER), Similarity of Beliefs and Continuity of Rationalizable Behavior

20.00              Social Dinner

Thursday 26 June 2007

  Morning session: Empirical Finance

9.00 – 9.50    Xavier Boutin (INSEE), The Deep-Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets (with G. Cestone, C. Fumagalli, G. Pica, N. Serrano-Velarde)

9.50 – 10.40  Daniela Fabbri (HEC - University of Lausanne), Trade Credit Supply, Market Power and the Matching of Trade Credit Terms (with Leora Klapper)

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50 David Thesmar (HEC Paris), Investigating the Causes of Increasing Firm Volatility (with Mathias Thoenig)

11.50 – 12.40 Alessandro Beber (HEC - University of Lausanne), What Can Equity Orderflow Tell Us about the Economy? (with Michael Brandt and Ken Kavajecz)

12.40 – 14.00 Lunch

Afternoon session: Applied Economics  

14.00 – 14.50  Marco Da Rin (Tilburg University and IGIER), Firm Entry Dynamics and the Taxation of Corporate Profits: Evidence from Firm Level Data (with M. di Giacomo and A. Sembenelli)

14.50 – 15.40  Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt), Portfolio Inertia and Stock Market Fluctuations (with Yannis Bilias, and Dimitris Georgarakos)

15.40 – 16.00  Coffee break

16.00 – 16.50  Francis Kramarz (Ecole Polytechnique and CREST, Outsourcing, Unions, Wages, and Employment: Evidence from data matching imports, firms, and workers 

16.50 – 17.40  Tullio Jappelli (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Financial Integration and Consumption Smoothing (with Luigi Pistaferri)

Friday 27 June 2008

 Morning session: Theory

9.00 – 10.00      Albert Ma (Boston University), Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection (with Simona Grassi)

10.00 – 11.00    Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University), Dynamic Mechanism Design (with Ilya Segal and Juuso Toikka)

11.00 – 11.30    Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30    Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University), Dynamic Psychological Games (with Martin Dufwenberg)

12.30 – 14.00    Lunch