Program for session C-11


Tuesday 15 August 2000, 4:00 - 6:00

C-11-1: Auction Design - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 203  Chair: Charles Zheng 
Ausubel, Lawrence A Generalized Vickrey Auction
Baba, Yumiko The Optimal Privatization Scheme
Galetovic, Alexander Least-Present-Value-of Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising
Zheng, Charles Optimal Auction in a Multidimensional World

C-11-2: Behavioral Economics: Social Preferences - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 205  Chair: Guenther G. Schulze 
Charness, Gary Social Preferences: Some Simple Tests and a New Model
Grosskopf, Brit Relative Payoffs and Happiness: An Experimental Study
Schulze, Guenther G. Deterrence versus Intrinsic Motivation: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Corruptibility

C-11-3: Business Taxation - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 234  Chair: Soren Bo Nielsen 
Andersson, Fredrik Tax Competition and Economic Geography
Hollifield, Burton The Personal Tax Advantage of Equity
Miyagiwa, Kaz Top Dogs, Puppy Dogs, and Tax Holidays
Nielsen, Soren Bo Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

C-11-4: Empirical Studies of Labor Supply - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 235  Chair: Craig Riddell 
French, Eric The Labor Supply Response to (Mismeasured but) Predictable Wage Changes
Kalwij, Adriaan S. Overtime Hours in Great Britain Over the Period 1975-1998: A Panel Data Analysis
Kwark, Noh-Sun Decomposition of Hours Based on Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labor
Riddell, Craig The Dynamics of US Labor Force Attachment

C-11-5: Environmental Economics - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 237  Chair: K.C. Fung 
Lange, Andreas A Note on Environmental Decisions Under Uncertainty - The Impact of the Choice of the Welfare Measure
Liski, Matti Project-Based C02 Trading
Puhakka, Mikko Saddles, Indeterminacy and Bifurcations in an Overlapping Generations Economy with a Renewable Resource
Tsur, Yacov Optimal Transition to Backstop Substitutes for Nonrenewable Resources

C-11-6: Exchange Rate Determination - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 242  Chair: Sebastien Lotz 
Camera, Gabriele Currency Substitution and The Law of One Price
Garcia S., Pablo Income Inequality and the Real Exchange Rate
Ubide, Angel Global Equilibrium Exchange Rates: Euro, Dollar, "Ins," "Outs," and Other Major Currencies in a Panel Cointegration Framework
Lotz, Sebastien Launching of a New Currency in a Simple Random Matching Model

C-11-7: General Equilibrium Theory - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 206  Chair: Jaime Jose Orrillo Carhuajulca 
Gersbach, Hans On the Power in Households with Free Exit
Grodal, Birgit The Objective of an Imperfectly Competitive Firm and Constrained Pareto Efficiency
Nachbar, John H. General Equilibrium Comparative Statics
Carhuajulca, Jaime Jose Orrillo Default and Exogenous Collateral in Incomplete Markets with a Continuum of States

C-11-8: Growth and Entrepreneurship - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 212  Chair: Xiangkang Yin 
Morales, Maria Fuensanta Financial Intermediation in a Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
Peng, Baochun Is Entrepreneurship Always Good for Growth?
Phillips, Kerk L. Schumpeterian Growth and Endogenous Business Cycles
Yin, Xiangkang Interaction of Drastic and Incremental Innovations: Economic Development through Schumpterian Waves

C-11-9: Health Economics II - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 213  Chair: Pau Olivella Cunill 
Lechene, Valerie Economic and Demographic Determinants of the Time to Smoking Cessation
Arcidiacono, Peter Peer Effects, Learning, and Physician Specialty Choice
Cunill, Pau Olivella Waiting Lists and Patient Selection

C-11-10: Learning in Strategic Contexts - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 301  Chair: Sven Rady 
Dasgupta, Amil Social Learning with Payoff Complementarities
Datta, Manjira Optimal Experimentation in Signal Dependent Decision Problems
Rady, Sven Strategic Experimentation: The Case of Poisson Bandits
Rady, Sven Strategic Trading and Learning about Liquidity

C-11-11: New Neoclassical Synthesis - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 243  Chair: Diana N. Weymark 
Dufourt, Frederic Dynamic Properties of the New Neoclassical Synthesis Model of Business Cycle
Floden, Martin The Effectiveness of Government Debt and Transfers as Insurance
Kollmann, Robert Nominal Rigidities and the Macroeconomic Effects of Government Purchases: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Perspective

C-11-12: Sticky Prices - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 245  Chair: Javier Valles 
Aksoy, Yunus Pricing to Market versus Menu Costs: Do They Really Conflict?
Jadresic, Esteban Can Staggered Price Setting Explain Short-Run Inflation Dynamics?
Woitek, Ulrich Real Business Cycles of Sticky Prices? The Impact of Technology Shocks on US Manufacturing
Valles, Javier Intertemporal Substitution and the Liquidity Effect in a Sticky Price Model

C-11-13: Transition Economics: Institutional Change - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 304  Chair: Nobuo Yoshida 
Li, David D. A Theory of the Reform of Bureaucratic Institutions
Li, Wei Corruption and Resource Allocation Under China's Dual Track System
Weeks, Melvyn A Structural Model of Institutional Change: Evidence from Transition Economies
Yoshida, Nobuo The Optimal Combination of Corruption Reforms: Is a Comprehensive Approach a Good Idea?

C-11-14: Utility and Choice - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 306  Chair: Michael Mandler 
Candeal, Juan Carlos The Non-Existence of a Utility Function and the Structure of Non-Representable Chains
Johnson, Mark R. Locally Complete Path Independent Choice Functions and Their Lattices
Mandler, Michael Compromises Between Cardinality and Ordinality, with an Application to the Convexity of Preferences

C-11-15: Empirical Likelihood Methods - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Savery 211  Chair: Marco Van_Akkeren 
Bravo, Francesco Blockwise Nonparametric Tilting Based Tests for Time Series Regressions
Inkmann, Joachim Finite Sample Properties of One-Step, Two-Step and Bootstrap Empirical Likelihood Approaches to Efficient GMM Estimation
Ramalho, Joaquim J. S. Generalized Empirical Likelihood Non-Nested Tests
Van Akkeren, Marco Generalized Moment Based Estimation and Inference

C-11-16: Matching Estimation - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Savery 301  Chair: Bas van der Klaauw 
Fougere, Denis Using Matching Estiamtors to Evaluate Youth Employment Programs: Evidence from France, 1986-1988
Gao, Chuanming Value of Sample Separation Information in a Sequential Probit Model: Another Look at SSA's Disability Determination Process
Meghir, Costas Assessing the Effect of Schooling on Earnings Using a Social Experiment
Klaauw, Bas van der Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Social Experiment

C-11-17: Forecasting II - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Savery 311  Chair: James H. Stock 
Brown, Bryan W. Efficient Semiparametric Prediction Intervals
Alonso, Maximo Cosme Camacho This is What Leading Indicators Lead
Lee, Tae-Hwy Inference and Forecast of Exchange Rates via Generalized Spectrum and Nonlinear Time Series Models
Stock, James H. Empirical Bayes Forecasts of One Time Series Using Many Predictors

C-11-18: Nonlinear Time Series - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Savery 313  Chair: Philip Hans Franses 
Chen, Xiaohong Nonlinearity and Temporal Dependence
Maasoumi, Esfandiar A Dependence Metric for Nonlinear Time Series
Ploberger, Werner Empirical Limits for Time Series Models
Franses, Philip Hans Asymmetric and Common Absorption of Shocks in Nonlinear Autoregressive Models

C-11-19: Labor Supply - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 246  Chair: Deborah Cobb-Clark 
Basu, Kaushik The Intriguing Relation Between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labor
Fernandes, Ana Altruism with Endogenous Labor Supply
Olivetti, Claudia Change in Women's Labor Force Participation: The Effect of Changing Experience
Cobb-Clark, Deborah Does the Family Investment Hypothesis Explain Immigrant Labor Market Activity?

C-11-20: Empirical Methods in Asset Pricing - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 247  Chair: Pedro Valls 
Fang, Yue When Should Time be Continuous? Volatility Modeling and Estimation of High-Frequency Data
Morley, James Is There a Positive Intertemporal Tradeoff Between Risk and Return After All?
Perron, Benoit Semi-Parametric Weak Instrument Regressions with an Application to the Risk-return Trade-off
Valls, Pedro Alternative Models to Extract Asset Volatility: A Comparative Study

C-11-21: Asset Price Bubbles - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Mechanical Engineering 248  Chair: Bryan R. Routledge 
Huang, Haizhou Financial Institutions, Financial Contagion, and Financial Crises
Miller, Marcus Moral Hazard and the US Stock Market: Has Mr. Greenspan Created a Bubble?
Routledge, Bryan R. Model Uncertainty and Liquidity

C-11-22: Topics in Industrial Organization III - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 309  Chair: Zhihao Yu 
Chipman, John S. Optimal Industrial Classification: An Application to the German Industrial Classification System
Dube, Jean-Pierre Product Differentiation and Mergers in the Carbonated Soft Drink Industry
Richard, Oliver Exchanges of Cost Information in the Airline Industry
Yu, Zhihao Market Integration and Industrial Structure: Home Market Effects Revisited

C-11-23: Moral Hazard Models - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 311  Chair: Marc van Audenrode 
Govindaraj, Suresh Linear Contracts and Intertemporal Incentives with Hidden Actions
Poitevin, Michel Incentives, Informational Economies of Scale, and Benchmarking
Audenrode, Marc van Moral Hazard and Limited Liability

C-11-24: Game-Theoretic Issues - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 411  Chair: Ulrich Schmidt 
Neilson, William S. Victory and Defeat in a Model of Behavior in Games and Toward Risk
Rigotti, Luca Skill, Strategy, and Passion: an Empirical Analysis of Soccer
Sbai, Erwann Identification in Empirical Games
Schmidt, Ulrich A Theory of the Gambling Effect

C-11-25: Instrumental Variables Estimation - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 413  Chair: Kenneth D. West 
Das, Mitali Instrumental Variables Estimation of Nonparametric Models with Discrete Endogenous Regressors
Newey, Whitney Efficient Semiparametric Estimation Via Moment Restrictions
Valery, Pascale Monte Carlo Test Applied to Models Estimated by Indirect Inference
West, Kenneth D. Feasible Optimal Instrumental Variables Estimation of Linear Models with Moving Average Disturbances

C-11-26: Information Aggregation - Tue 15 Aug, 4:00

 Room: Balmer 414  Chair: Markus Noeth 
Desgranges, Gabriel CK-Equilibria and Informational Efficiency in a Competitive Economy
Melissas, Nicolas Herd Behaviour as an Incentive Scheme
Noeth, Markus Information Aggregation with Random Ordering: Cascades and Overconfidence


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