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Monday, 22 June 2009

Afternoon Session: Micro

13.00 – 14.00   Registration

14.00 – 15.00   Alessandro Lizzeri  (New York University), Sequential Deliberation (joint with L. Yariv)

15.00 – 16.00  Giovanni Immordino (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Accomplice-Witnesses, Organized Crime and  Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Italy (joint with A. Acconcia, S. Piccolo and P. Rey)

16.00 – 16.30   Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30   Pierpaolo Battigalli  (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Context-Dependent Forward Induction Reasoning
  (joint with A. Friedenberg)

17.30 – 18.30  Giuseppe De Marco (Università di Napoli “Parthenope”), Kalai-Smorodinsky Bargaining Solution Equilibri
                       (joint with J. Morgan)

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

 Morning Session: Finance

  9.00 – 9.50    Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), The Failure of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives and Defaults (with A. Seru and V. Vig)

  9.50 – 10.40  Carlo Favero (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Demography and Fluctuations in the Dividend/Price Ratio
                     (joint with A. Gozluklu and A.Tamoni)

10.40 – 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Alberto Bennardo (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Managerial Incentives and Welfare (joint with P. Chiappori and J. Song)

11.50 – 12.40   Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’ and CSEF), Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity 
                        (joint with P. Volpin)

12.40 – 14.00   Lunch

Afternoon session: Micro

14.00 – 15.00    David Martimort (IDEI, Université de Toulouse I), Public Contracting in Delegated Agency Games  
                         (joint with L. Stole)

15.00 – 16.00    Nenad Kos  (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Incentive Compatible Transfers (joint with M. Messner)

16.00 – 16.30    Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30    Sandeep Baliga  (Kellogg School of Management), Decoding Terror (joint with T. Sjostrom)

17.30 – 18.30    Martin Meier (Institut d’Analisi Economica, Barcelona), Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior
                         (joint with A. Heifetzy and B.C. Schipper)

Wednesday 24 June 2009

 Morning session: Macro

  9.00 – 9.50     Larry Christiano (Northwestern University), TBA

  9.50 – 10.40   Andrea Tambalotti  (NY Federal Reserve Bank  and IGIER), Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment (joint with A. Justiniano  and G. Primiceri)

10.40 – 11.00    Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Morten Ravn  (University of Southampton), Measuring the Impact of Fiscal Policy in the Face of Anticipation: a Structural VAR Approach (joint with K.  Mertens)

11.50 – 12.40   Christian Bayer (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications (joint with R. Bachman)

12.40 – 14.00    Lunch

Afternoon session: Applied Economics

14.00 – 15.00     Michael Haliassos (Frankfurt University), Financial Advisors: A Case of Babysitters? (joint with T. Jappelli)

15.00 – 16.00     Anna Paulson (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Bank Crises and Investor Confidence (joint with U.O. Osili)

16.00 – 16.30     Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30     Ciro Avitabile (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental
                         Integration Outcomes (joint with I. Clots-Figueras and P. Masella)

17.30 – 18.30   Dimitris Christelis (Università di Venezia and CSEF), Fear of Terrorism and Household Economic Behavior (joint with D. Georgarakos)

20.00                Social Dinner

Thursday 25 June 2009

  Morning session: Micro

  9.00 – 9.50    Yolande Hiriart (IDEI, Université de Toulouse I), How Much Discretion for Agencies? A Political-Economy Perspective on Risk Regulation (joint with D. Martimort)

  9.50 – 10.40  Matteo Bassi (Università di Salerno and CSEF), An Egg Today and a Chicken Tomorrow: A Model of Social Security with Hyperbolic Discounting

10.40 – 11.00     Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50   Avinash Dixit (Princeton University), On Endogenous Formation of Pro-social Preferences  and Social Norms (paper 1 - paper 2)

11.50 – 12.40     Uday Rajan  (University of Michigan), Racing to the Bottom: Competition and Quality (joint with L. Golan and C. Parlour)

12.40 – 14.00     Lunch 

Afternoon session: Macro 

14.00 – 15.00   Domenico Giannone (European Central Bank), Money, Credit, Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle in the Euro Area (joint with M. Lenza, and L. Reichlin)

15.00 – 16.00   Riccardo DiCecio (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louise), Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP differences (joint with L. Barseghyan)

16.00 – 16.30     Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30    Carlo Altavilla (Università Parthenope and CSEF), Information Combination and Forecast (St)Ability:
                        Evidence from Vintages of Time-Series Data (joint with M. Ciccarelli)

17.30 – 18.30  Marco Del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Modeling Observed Inflation Expectations (joint with S. Eusepi)

Friday 26 June 2009

 Morning session: Macro

9.00 – 9.50  Gianluca Violante (New York University), How Much Insurance in Bewley Models? (joint with G. Kaplan)

9.50 – 10.40   Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes  (joint with M. Guell, M. Pellizzari and J.V. Rodriguez Mora)

10.40 – 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 11.50  Nicola Pavoni (University College of London), Efficient Training for Workers on Welfare (joint with G. Violante and O. Setty)

11.50 – 12.40   Saverio Simonelli (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), A Historical Perspective on International
                       Co-movements: 1821-2007 (joint with H. Mumtaz and P. Surico)