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Thursday, 28^th May 2009

9.15-9.30	Welcome address
9.30-10.30	Filomena Pietrovito (University of Molise)
	Investment Decisions, Price-Earnings Ratios and Finance. Evidence from Firm-Level Data
	Discussant: Vicente Cuñat (LSE)
10.30-11.00	Discussion
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-12.30	Vicente Cuñat (LSE)
	Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition (joint with M. Guadalupe)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Dino Gerardi (Yale University)
	A Principal-Agent Model of Sequential Testing (joint with L. Maestri)
15.00-16.00	Philippe Jehiel (PSE, Paris)
	Manipulative Auction Design
16.00-16.30	Coffee break
16.30-17.30	Astrid Gamba (Bocconi University)
	Cursed Equilibrium: A Theoretical Reinterpretation and Its Learning Foundation
	Discussant: Philippe Jehiel (PSE, Paris)
17.30-18.00	Discussion
20.00	Dinner

 

Friday, 29^th May 2009 

9.00-10.00	Massimiliano Marcellino (EUI)
	Forecasting with Factor Augmented Error Correction Models
10.00-11.00	Fabio Moneta (Boston College)
	Macroeconomic Announcements and Risk Premia in the Treasury Bond Market
	Discussant: Massimiliano Marcellino (EUI)
11.00-11.30	Discussion
11.30-12.00	Coffee break
12.00-13.00	Luca Paolo Merlino (IDEA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
	Endogenous Job Contact Networks
	Discussant: Dino Gerardi (Yale University)
13.00-13.30	Discussion
13.30-14.30	Lunch