25 June 2012 – 29 June 2012
8th CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions (CISEI)
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Participants’ list
Monday, 25 June 2012
Afternoon Session: Applied Micro
13.00 – 14.00 Registration
14.00 – 14.45 Daniele Terlizzese (EIEF and Banca d’Italia), Equilibrium Trust (joint with L. Anderlini)
14.45 – 15.30 Ciro Avitabile (CSEF), Citizenship, Fertility and Parental Investment (joint with I. Clots Figueras and P. Masella)
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 16.45 Giovanni Immordino (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Parents, Television and Cultural Change (joint with E. Hauk)
16.45 – 17.30 Eleonora Patacchini (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average? (joint with X. Liu and Y. Zenou)
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Morning Session: Finance I
09.30 – 10.15 Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), The Value of Integrity
10.15 – 11.00 Andrew Ellul (Indiana University), Is Historical Cost Accounting a Panacea? Market Stress, Incentive Distortions, and Gains Trading (joint with C. Jotikasthira, C.T. Lundblad and Y. Wang)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Sarah Draus (CSEF), Circuit Breakers and Market Runs (joint with M. Van Achter)
12.15 – 13.00 Nicholas Serrano-Velarde (Università Bocconi and IGIER), The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance (joint with G. Rodano and E. Tarantino)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Applied Micro
14.30 – 15.15 Margarita Tsoutsoura (Booth School of Business), Tax Evasion across Industries: Evidence from Greece (joint with N. Artavanis and A. Morse)
15.15 – 16.00 Dimitris Christelis (CSEF), The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (joint with D. Georgarakos and A. Sanz De Galdeano)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15 Salvatore Capasso (Università di Napoli “Parthenope” and CSEF), Financial Development and the Underground Economy (joint with T. Jappelli)
17.15 – 18.00 Yuri Pettinicchi (Università Ca’ Foscari), Financial Literacy, Cognitive Abilities, and Markets (joint with M. Padula)
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Morning Session: Applied Theory
09.30 – 10.15 Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University), Project Bundling (joint with A. Banal-Estanol)
10.15 – 11.00 Antonio Rosato (University of California, Berkeley), Selling Substitute Goods to Loss-Averse Consumers: Limited Availability, Bargains and Rip-offs
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Arpad Abraham (European University Institute), Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Storage (joint with S. Laczo)
12.15 – 13.00 Nicola Pavoni (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Optimal Bequest and Capital Taxation over the LifeCycle (joint with Hakki Yazici)
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Theory
14.30 – 15.15 Pierpaolo Battigalli (Università Bocconi and IGIER), Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty (joint with S. Cerreia-Vioglio, F. Maccheroni, M. Marinacci)
15.15 – 16.00 Piero Gottardi (European University Institute), Dynamic Competitive Economies with Complete Markets and Collateral Constraints (joint with F. Kubler)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15 Jacqueline Morgan (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Altruistic Behaviour and Correlated Equilibrium Selection (joint with G. De Marco)
20.00 Social dinner
Thursday 28 June 2012
Morning Session: Experiments
09.30 – 10.15 Dan Levin (The Ohio State University), The Winner’s Curse after 30 years: A Dialog between Experimentalist and Theorists
10.15 – 11.00 Marco Pagnozzi (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Multi-Object Auctions with Resale: An Experimental Analysis (joint with K.J. Saral)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE - SSE and Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Time Horizon and Cooperation in Continuous Time (joint with M. Bigoni, M. Cesari and A. Skrzypacz)
12.15 – 13.00 Francesco Drago (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment (joint with with F. Mengel e C. Traxler)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Finance II
14.30 – 15.15 Marco Pagano (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF), Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent (joint with V. Acharya and P. Volpin)
15.15 – 16.00 Francesco Franzoni (University of Lugano), ETFs, Arbitrage, and Contagion (joint with Itzhak Ben-David and R. Moussawi)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15 Maria Grazia Romano (Università di Salerno and CSEF), Asymmetry in the Permanent Price Impact of Block Purchases and Sales: Theory and Empirical Evidence (joint with A. Frino and V. Mollica)
17.15 – 18.00 Kim Peijnenburg (Università Bocconi), Life-Cycle Asset Allocation with Ambiguity Aversion and Learning
Friday 29 June 2012
Morning Session: Macroeconomics
09.30 – 10.15 Marco Battaglini (Princeton University), Growth and Fiscal Policy: A Positive Theory
10.15 – 11.00 Sevi Rodriguez Mora (University of Edinburgh), Equilibrium Intermediation and Resource Allocation with a Frictional Credit Market (joint with C. Bauer)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Carlo Altavilla (Università di Napoli Parthenope and CSEF),Markets’ Beliefs about the Effectiveness of Non-standard Monetary Policy Measures (joint with D. Giannone)
12:15-13:00 Hugo Hopenhayn (University of California, Los Angeles), On the Measure of Distortions
13.00 Lunch
