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| Day: 7/5/2007 |
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PET07 Vanderbilt Conference Program
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
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Each paper is alloted 25 minutes for presentation with 5 minutes left over for questions. If you are the last speaker of the session, please serve as the session chairman and do your best to help your fellow speakers maintian the schedule.
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| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Jack Daniel Distillery Tour |
| Special trip to Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg TN. Buses leave from circular drive in front of Kirkland Hall. This is included in the registration, but reservations are required. |
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| Circular Drive in Front of Kirkland Hall |
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| 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Welcoming Reception |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| Day: 7/6/2007 |
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Friday, July 6, 2007
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| 8:00 am - 12:45 pm Registration |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee |
| Coffee, tea, bagels, and light snacks |
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| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
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| Causes and Consequences of Household Sorting in Local Economies | | Wilson 112 |
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| Stephen M. Calabrese : Session Chairman |
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| Charles A.M. de Bartolome (University of Colorado) |
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| Stephen L. Ross (University of Connecticut) |
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| "The race to the suburb and back: the location of the poor in a metropolitan area"'' |
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| Stephen M. Calabrese (Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar Campus) |
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| Tiebout Sorting and Inefficiency |
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| Francisco Martinez Mora (University of Leicester) |
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| Categorical-aid to poor schools: a tide that lifts all boats?. |
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| Applications of Network Theory | | Wilson 113 |
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| Michael McBride : Session Chairman |
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| Myeonghwan Cho (Pennsylvania State University) |
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| Endogenous Formation of Networks for Local Public Goods |
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| Oya Pinar Ardic (Bogazici University) |
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| Fikret Adaman (Bogazici University) |
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| Didem Tuzemen (University of Maryland, College Park) |
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| Network effects in risk sharing and credit market access: Evidence from Istanbul |
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| Michael McBride (UC Irvine) |
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| Position-specific Information in Social Networks: Are You Connected? |
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| Lobbying and Voting and Public goods | | Wilson 126 |
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| Pavel Diev : Session Chairman |
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| Francesco Sobbrio (University of Southern California) |
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| Indirect Lobbying and Media Bias |
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| Diana Sonntag (Department of Economics Chemnitz University of Technology) |
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| "Financing vaccine research in developing countries-
A public good approach" |
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| Pavel Diev (Banque de France and GREQAM) |
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| Christophe Deissenberg (GREQAM) |
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| Bargaining in voting and efficiency of voting rules |
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| Mechanisms and Games | | Wilson 127 |
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| Wolfgang Gick : Session Chairman |
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| Ruben Juarez (Rice University) |
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| Group strategy-proof in the commons problem |
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| Antonio Romero Medina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) |
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| Cesar Alonso Borrego (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) |
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| Matteo Triossi (Collegio Carlo Alberto) |
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| Converging to Efficiency: the Ramón y Cajal Program Experience |
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| Wolfgang Gick (Department of Economics, Dartmouth College) |
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| Two experts are better than one |
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| Aggregation Models | | Wilson 120 |
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| Burak Can : Session Chairman |
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| Murat Ali Cengelci (University of Minnesota) |
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| M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Embracing Liberalism for Collective Identity Determination |
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| Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Ozer Selcuk (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Sophisticated Preference Aggregation |
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| Burak Can (Bilgi University) |
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| Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University) |
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| Stereotype formation as trait aggregation |
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| Behavioral Game Theory and Experiments | | Wilson 121 |
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| Stefan Dodds (Carleton University) |
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| Hiding, Seeking, and the Evolution of Privacy Behavior |
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| Esteban Klor (The Hebrew University) |
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| Moses Shayo (The Hebrew University) |
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| Social identity and preferences over redistribution |
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| Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University ) |
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| Edward Cartwright (University of Kent) |
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| Conformity, equity and correlated equilibrium |
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| Education Economics 2 | | Wilson 122 |
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| Buly Cardak : Session Chairman |
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| Robert Fenge (Ifo Institute and CESifo) |
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| Financing Higher Education and Mobility |
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| Marisa Hidalgo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) |
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| Guadalupe Valera (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) |
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| The nature of university prestige: research, teaching and money |
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| Buly Cardak Dr (La Trobe University) |
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| Chris Ryan (RSSS, Australian National University) |
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| Why are high ability individuals from poor backgrounds under-represented at university? |
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| 10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm |
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| Paul Pecorino : Session Chairman |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Laurent Simula (EHESS, PSE and GREQAM-IDEP) |
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| Optimality Conditions and Comparative Static Properties of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes Revisited |
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| Paul Pecorino (University of Alabama) |
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| Monopolistic Competition, Growth and Public Good Provision |
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| Political Economy 2 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Jeremy Jay Jackson : Session Chairman |
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| John W Patty (Harvard University) |
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| A theory of "stovepiping" |
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| Anna Rubinchik (Univ of CO at Boulder) |
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| Ideological Divide within the Cabinet and Public Spending |
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| Jeremy Jackson (Washington University in St. Louis) |
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| A Legislative Bargaining Approach to Earmarked Public Expenditures |
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| Regional Science and Urban Economics | | Wilson 126 |
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| Carl Gaigné : Session Chairman |
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| Katherine Cuff (McMaster University) |
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| Tenancy Default, Excess Demand and the Rental Market |
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| Olaf Muenster (University of Passau, Germany) |
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| Michael Pflueger (University of Passau, DIW Berlin, IZA) |
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| Dual income taxation and the location of industry |
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| Nelly Exbrayat (CREUSET, University of Saint-Etienne) |
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| Carl Gaigné (INRA-ESR Rennes) |
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| Stéphane Riou (CREUSET, University of Saint-Etienne) |
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| Trade integration, strategic tax policy and labour market regime. |
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| International Economics 2 | | Wilson 127 |
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| Hubert Kempf : Session Chairman |
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| Ben Zissimos (Vanderbilt University) |
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| The Structure and Performance of the World Market in a Cobb-Douglas Example |
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| Benjamin Bridgman (Bureau of Economic Analysis) |
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| Do Intangible Assets Explain High U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Returns? The Role of Multinational Taxes |
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| Hubert Kempf (EUREQua, Universite Paris-1) |
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| Leopold von Thadden (European Central Bank) |
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| Policy interactions among nations: when do cooperation and commitment matter? |
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| Stable Networks | | Wilson 120 |
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| Vincent Vannetelbosch : Session Chairman |
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| Willemien Kets (CentER, Tilburg University) |
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| Continuity of beliefs in network games |
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| Ana Mauleon (FNRS and CEREC, FUSL and CORE, UCL) |
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| Vincent Vannetelbosch (FNRS and CORE, UCL) |
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| Wouter Vergote (CEREC, FUSL and CORE, UCL) |
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| Farsightedly Stable Matching |
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| Vincent Vannetelbosch (CORE, University of Louvain) |
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| Ana Mauleon (FNRS and FUSL) |
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| Jean François Caulier (FUSL) |
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| Contractually Stable Networks |
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| Strategic Games and Decisions | | Wilson 121 |
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| Anne van den Nouweland : Session Chairman |
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| Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University) |
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| Hideo Konishi (Boston College) |
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| Contributing or Free-Riding?
A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation |
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| Mordechai Elazar Schwarz (The Open University of Israel) |
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| Time consistency and fertility decisions |
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| Anne van den Nouweland (Universities of Melbourne and Oregon) |
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| Interval values for strategic games in which players cooperate |
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| Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability | | Wilson 122 |
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| Thomas Seegmuller : Session Chairman |
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| Nicolas L. DROMEL (CREST and Universite de la Mediterranee (GREQAM-IDEP)) |
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| Fiscal policy, maintenance allowances and macroeconomic (in)stability |
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| Leonor Modesto (FCEE-Universidade Católica Portuguesa) |
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| Teresa Lloyd-Braga (FCEE-Universidade Católica Portuguesa) |
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| Thomas Seegmuller (CES and CNRS) |
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| Tax rate variability and public spending as sources of indeterminacy |
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| Thomas Seegmuller (University Paris 1, CNRS) |
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| Market Imperfections and Endogenous Fluctuations: a General Approach |
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| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch Break |
| See the list of local restaurants. |
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| 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm |
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| Maria Dolores Navarro Bergas : Session Chairman |
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| Alan I. Blankley (Accounting Department, UNC at Charlotte) |
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| Stanislav Radchenko (Economics Dept., UNC at Charlotte) |
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| Benjamin Russo (Economics Dept., UNC at Charlotte) |
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| Dividend Taxes versus Dividend Payouts: New Evidence |
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| Leslie J. Reinhorn (University of Durham) |
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| A theory of optimal government waste |
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| Maria Dolores Navarro Bergas (IDEA program at UAB ) |
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| Optimal taxation in presence of tax evasion. |
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| Political Economy 3 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Chris Ellis : Session Chairman |
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| Christopher Cotton (Cornell University) |
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| Informational lobbying and competition for access |
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| Michael Stroup (Stephen F. Austin State University) |
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| Charting the Changes in Federal Income Tax Progressivity: Comparing the Reagan and Bush Tax Cuts |
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| Chris Ellis (University of Oregon) |
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| John Fender (University ) |
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| Coalitions and Education | | Wilson 126 |
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| Sinan Sarpça : Session Chairman |
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| Ipek Özkal-Sanver (Bilgi University) |
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| Duygu Salar (Bilgi University) |
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| Coalitional stability and efficiency of partitions in matching problems |
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| Ioana Schiopu (Indiana University) |
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| Calin Arcalean (Indiana University) |
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| Public-private input substitution and growth in a two-stage education system |
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| Eric Hanushek (Stanford University) |
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| Sinan Sarpca (Koc Universitesi) |
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| Kuzey Yilmaz (Koc Universitesi) |
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| School Choice: Traditional Mechanisms and Extending the Poor''s Ability to Choose |
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| Katsufumi Fukuda : Session Chairman |
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| Keshab Bhattarai Dr. (Lecturer in Economics) |
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| Why Fuel Poverty? Dynamics of Income and Expenditure of Households in Yorkshire England |
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| Tom Skladzien (washington university in st louis) |
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| Strategic Interaction between Corupt Governments in a Growth Model. |
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| Katsufumi Fukuda (Kobe University) |
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| A Scale Invariant Endogenous Growth
Model With Scientific Advances |
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| Macroeconomics of Committment, Education and Inequality | | Wilson 121 |
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| Yusuke Kinai : Session Chairman |
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| Bernhard Eckwert (Bielefeld University) |
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| Private investment in higher education: comparing
alternative funding schemes |
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| Radhika Lahiri (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| Jayne Dillon (Queensland Treasury) |
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| Concerning Kuznets Curves, Persistent Inequality, Inflation, and Redistribution |
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| Yusuke Kinai (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University) |
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| The optimal degree of commitment in a tax policy |
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| Topics in Game Theory | | Wilson 122 |
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| Vicki Knoblauch : Session Chairman |
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| Mordechai E. Schwarz (The Open University of Israel) |
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| Ronen Bar-El (The Open University of Israel) |
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| Be Nice, Suffer Twice: Morality, Myopia, Hyperbolic Discounting and Terrorism |
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| John Wooders (University of Arizona) |
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| Diego Moreno (Carlos III) |
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| Decentralized Trade Mitigates the Lemons Problem |
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| Vicki Knoblauch (University of Connecticut) |
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| Marriage Matching: A Conjecture of Donald Knuth |
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| 3:20 pm - 4:50 pm |
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| Hedonic, Endogenous, and Social Games | | Wilson 112 |
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| Roger Lagunoff : Session Chairman |
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| Effrosyni Diamantoudi (Concordia University, Department of Economics) |
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| Noncooperative Formation of Coalitions in Hedonic Games |
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| John Conley (Vanderbilt University) |
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| William Neilson (University of Tennesee, Knoxville) |
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| Endogenous Games, Cultural Integrity, and the Coexistence of
Conventions
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| Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown University) |
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| Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University) |
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| Dino Gerardi (Yale University) |
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| Social memory and evidence from the past |
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| Political Economy 4 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Mike Felgenhauer : Session Chairman |
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| Tim Lohse (Leibniz University Hannover) |
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| When will workfare work?
An optimal tax perspective |
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| Sajal Lahiri (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
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| Satya P Das (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre) |
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| Visa Screening and Collateral Import of Terrorism |
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| Mike Felgenhauer (Mannheim University) |
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| Biased informative lobbying: targets and timing |
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| Spatial Economics and Segragation | | Wilson 126 |
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| Oscar Volij : Session Chairman |
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| Bernard CORNET (University of Kansas and Paris School of Economics) |
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| Spatial economies: a general equilibrium approach |
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| Oscar Volij (Ben Gurion University and Iowa State University) |
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| David Frankel (Iowa State University) |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Federation, Deficit and Disaster | | Wilson 127 |
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| Hubert Kempf : Session Chairman |
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| Timothy Goodspeed (Hunter College) |
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| Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
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| On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation |
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| Marie-Laure Breuillé (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)) |
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| Tradable Deficit Permits: A Way to Ensure Sub-National Fiscal Discipline? |
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| Hubert Kempf (Centre d''economie de la Sorbonne, Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) |
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| Jean-Pierre Vidal (European Central Bank) |
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| Is fiscal autonomy desirable in a fiscal federation? |
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| Allocations and Games and Structure | | Wilson 115 |
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| Hatice Ozsoy (Rice University) |
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| A Characterization of Bird''s Rule |
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| Michael Jerison (SUNY Albany) |
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| Testing for structure in general equilibrium models |
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| Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University) |
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| Stergios Athanassoglou (Columbia University) |
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| House allocation with fractional endowments |
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| Development Economics | | Wilson 120 |
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| santi sanchez : Session Chairman |
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| Seunghan Yoo (Cornell University) |
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| alexandru minea (University of Orleans) |
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| patrick villieu (University of Orleans) |
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| Long-Run monetary and fiscal policy trade-off in an endogenous
growth model with transaction costs |
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| Santiago Sanchez-Pages (University of Edinburgh) |
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| The Emergence of Institutions |
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| Non-cooperative Games and Contracting | | Wilson 121 |
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| Latchezar Popov : Session Chairman |
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| Robert Chambers (University of Maryland, College Park) |
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| Tigran Melkonyan (University of Maryland, College Park) |
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| Contracting and Regulatory Policy Design in an Uncertain World |
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| Contract Renegotiation and Arbitration Design : The case of “Must See” Television |
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| Latchezar Popov (University of Iowa) |
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| Stochastic costly state verification and dynamic contracts |
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| Human Capital, Welfare and Growth | | Wilson 122 |
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| Cuong Le Van : Session Chairman |
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| Patrick Musso (GREDEG (CNRS & University of Nice)) |
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| Investment-Specific Technological Change, Capital Obsolescence and Productivity Dynamics |
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| C. Emre Alper (Bogazici University) |
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| Oya Pinar Ardic (Bogazici University) |
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| Ayse Mumcu (Bogazici University and University Of Pennsylvania) |
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| Ismail Saglam (Bogazici University and MIT) |
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| The welfare effects of government''s preferences over spending
and its financing |
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| CUONG LE VAN (Unversity Paris 1, CNRS, CES) |
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| New Technology, Human Capital and Growth for Developing Countries. |
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| 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm Afternoon Break |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 5:10 am - 6:00 pm Plenary Session 1 |
| Plenary Session with Douglas Bernheim |
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| Cuong Le Van : Session Chairman |
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| Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University) |
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| Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for
Behavioral Welfare Analysis
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| Wilson Hall Auditorium (103) |
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| 6:10 pm - 7:45 pm Reception |
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| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| Day: 7/7/2007 |
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
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| 8:00 am - 11:00 am Registration |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Coffee |
| Coffee, Tea, Rolls and light snacks |
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| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
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| Luca Spataro : Session Chairman |
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| William D. Bryant A/Prof (Macquarie University) |
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| Irreducibility, taxes and the existence of equilibrium |
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| Sheikh T Selim (Cardiff University) |
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| Optimal Capital Income Taxation in a Two Sector Economy |
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| Luca Spataro (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Pisa, Italy) |
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| Valeria De Bonis (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, University of Pisa, Italy) |
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| Migration, social discounting and capital income taxation |
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| Political Economy 5 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Piergiuseppe Fortunato : Session Chairman |
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| Johannes Munster (Free U Berlin and WZB) |
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| Repeated contests with asymmetric information |
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| Arnaud Dellis (University of Hawai''i - Manoa) |
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| Would letting people vote for several candidates yield policy moderation? |
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| Piergiuseppe Fortunato (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs) |
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| Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna) |
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| Consensual and Conflictual Democratization |
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| Dynamics, Risk Sharing, and Expectations | | Wilson 120 |
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| M.C. Sunny Wong : Session Chairman |
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| Luciano G. Greco (University of Padua) |
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| Enhanced Intergenerational Risk-Sharing with Unbalanced Social Security |
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| Paul Shea (University of Oregon) |
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| Red herrings and revelations: the destabilizing and stabilizing effects of economic theory |
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| M.C. Sunny Wong (University of San Francisco) |
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| Melody Lo (University of Texas at San Antonio) |
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| Jim Granato (University of Houston) |
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| The diffusion of inflation expectations: theory and evidence |
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| Barbieri Stefano (Department of Economics - Tulane University) |
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| David A. Malueg (Department of Economics - Tulane University) |
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| Private provision of a discrete public good: efficient equilibria in the private-information contribution game |
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| Shlomit Hon-Snir (Department of Economics, The Max Stern Academic Colloge of Emek Yezreel,ISRAEL) |
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| Benyamin Shitovitz (Department of Economics, Haifa University,ISRAEL) |
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| Menahem Spiegel (Department of Finance and Economics, Rutgers,NJ, USA) |
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| On the uniqueness of bayesian equilibrium in a pure public good economy |
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| Fan-chin Kung (City University of Hong Kong) |
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| "Voluntary Contributions to Multiple Public Goods in a Production Economy with Widespread Externalities" |
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| Governance and Institutions | | Wilson 115 |
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| Amrita Dhillon : Session Chairman |
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| Ana Espinola-Arredondo (University of Pittsburgh) |
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| Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games |
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| Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) |
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| Piergiuseppe Fortunato (Università di Bologna and UNDE-SA) |
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| The determinants of governance |
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| Amrita Dhillon (University of Warwick) |
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| Jamele Rigolini (World Bank) |
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| Development and the Interaction of Enforcement Institutions |
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| Decision Making and Bounded Rationality | | Wilson 121 |
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| Paola Manzini : Session Chairman |
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| Joerg Stoye (New York University) |
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| Axioms for Minimax Regret Choice Correspondences |
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| Jawwad Noor (Boston University) |
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| Hyperbolic discounting and the standard model |
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| Paola Manzini (Queen Mary, University of London) |
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| Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary, University of London) |
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| Two-stage boundedly rational choice procedures: theory and experimental evidence |
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| Corruption, Voting and Public Capital | | Wilson 122 |
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| Chris Ellis : Session Chairman |
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| Jayasri Dutta (University of Birmingham) |
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| Toke S Aidt (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) |
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| Strategic Consensus: Performance Voting with Electoral Uncertainty |
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| Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon) |
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| Corruption and the Quality of Public Capital
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| John Fender (University of Birmingham) |
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| Christopher Ellis (University of Oregon) |
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| Public sector capital and the transition from dictatorship to democracy |
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| 10:30 am - 10:45 am Morning Break |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm |
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| Michael Stimmelmayr : Session Chairman |
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| Luca Micheletto (University of Milan) |
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| Optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation and public good provision in an economy with Veblen effects |
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| P Marcelo Oviedo (Iowa State University) |
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| Shiva Sikdar (Iowa State University) |
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| Optimal banking sector recapitalization |
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| Michael Stimmelmayr (CES, University of Munich and CESifo) |
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| Doina Radulescu (CES, University of Munich and CESifo) |
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| Does Incorporation Matter? Quantifying the Welfare Loss of Non-Uniform Taxation Across Sectors |
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| Political Economy 6 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Renee Bowen (Georgetown University) |
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| Zaki Zahran (Georgetown University) |
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| Calin Arcalean (Indiana University Bloomington) |
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| Rent-Seeking in Emerging Polities |
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| Sven Feldmann (Northwestern University) |
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| Information transmission through cheap talk in multiple dimensions without commitment |
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| Fiscal Competition 1 | | Wilson 120 |
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| Marco Runkel : Session Chairman |
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| John Hatfield (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business) |
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| Revenue decentralization, the local income tax deduction, and the provision of public goods |
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| Daniel Becker (University of Rostock) |
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| Michael Rauscher (University of Rostock) |
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| Fiscal competition in space and time: an endogenous-growth approach |
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| Marco Runkel (University of Munich, Department of Economics) |
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| Guttorm Schjelderup (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance) |
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| Fiscal Autonomy under Formula Apportionment |
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| Emperical Studies in Health,Transportation and Procurement | | Wilson 126 |
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| Sunyoung Park : Session Chairman |
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| Waldemar Karpa (Univeristy of Paris 1) |
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| The demand for private health care in Poland |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Sunyoung Park (Seoul National University) |
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| Sunyoung Park (Seoul National University) |
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| Fair revenue sharing for public transportation system in Seoul metropolitan area
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| Voting Systems: What Information Should They Aggregate, and How?
| | Wilson 115 |
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| Steven J. Brams Prof.: Session Chairman |
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| Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier University) |
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| Steven Brams (New York University) |
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| Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| A Minimax Procedure for Electing Committees |
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| M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Social choice based on approval and preference |
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| M. Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Steven J. Brams Prof. (New York University) |
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| Voting systems that combine approval and preference |
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| Common Agency Games | | Wilson 121 |
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| Andrea Attar (IDEI, University of Toulouse I) |
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| Incentives and competition under moral hazard |
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| Huanxing Yang (Ohio State University) |
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| Lixin Ye (Ohio State University) |
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| Nonlinear Pricing, Contract Variety, and Competition |
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| Paulo Monteiro (EPGE/FGV) |
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| Frank Page (Indiana University) |
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| Endogenous Mechanisms and Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Contracting Games |
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| Regional Effect of Monetary Policy | | Wilson 122 |
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| Ying Liu : Session Chairman |
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| Isabel Sabine Vansteenkiste (European Central Bank) |
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| Regional housing market spillovers in the US: lessons from regional divergences in a common monetary policy setting |
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| Michael Hanson (Welseyan University) |
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| Does monetary policy help least those who need it most? |
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| Ying Liu (Université de la Méditerranée) |
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| The Provincial Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in China |
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| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch |
| See the list of nearby restaurants |
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| 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm |
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| michael Pickhardt. : Session Chairman |
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| Martin Besfamille (Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) |
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| Modernizing the IRS
The Forgotten Anti-Evasion Action |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Cécile Bazart (Université Montpellier I) |
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| michael Pickhardt. (Chemnitz University of Technology) |
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| Fighting Income Tax Evasion with Positive Rewards: Experimental Evidence |
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| Campaign Spending, Media and Electoral Outcomes | | Wilson 113 |
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| Cesar Martinelli : Session Chairman |
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| David K Levine (Washington University in St Louis) |
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| Policy Platforms, Campaign Spending and Voter Participation |
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| Steven Callander (Northwestern University) |
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| A Theory of Policy Expertise |
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| Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois) |
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| Stefan Krasa (University of Illinois) |
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| Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois) |
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| Political polarization and the electoral effects of media bias |
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| Social Choice and Mechanisms | | Wilson 120 |
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| Larry Kranich : Session Chairman |
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| Youngsub Chun (Department of Economics, Seoul National University) |
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| Eun Jeong Heo (Department of Economics, University of Rochester ) |
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| Queueing problems with two parallel servers |
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| Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University) |
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| Ipek Ozkal-Sanver (Bilgi University) |
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| Nash implementability of tournament solutions |
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| Laurence Kranich (University at Albany, SUNY) |
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| Local Public Goods and Coaltions | | Wilson 126 |
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| Richard Lowery : Session Chairman |
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| TAKERO DOI (KEIO UNIVERSITY) |
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| Toshihiro Ihori (University of Tokyo) |
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| NOBUO AKAI (OSAKA UNIVERSITY) |
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| Transfer of tax revenue and rent-seeking activity: An appraisal of Japan''s fiscal decentralization |
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| marc BAUDRY (Universite de Rennes 1 & CREM (UMR CNRS 6211)) |
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| "Assessing the redistributive effects of local public investments and the property tax incidence" |
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| Richard Lowery (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| Social capital as economic overlap |
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| Social Security 1 | | Wilson 115 |
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| Michael Kaganovich : Session Chairman |
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| Bertrand Wigniolle (CES, Université de Paris I) |
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| Pascal Belan (LEN université de Nantes) |
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| Political economy of social security with endogenous preferences |
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| Chung Quang Tran (Indiana University) |
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| On the Impact of Extending the Coverage of Social Security in Developing Countries |
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| Michael Kaganovich (Indiana University) |
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| Itzhak Zilcha (Tel Aviv University) |
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| Alternative pension systems and growth |
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| Public Goods, Coalitions, and Education | | Wilson 121 |
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| Courtney LaFountain : Session Chairman |
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| Sinan Sarpca (Koc Universitesi) |
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| Specialization in higher education |
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| Jan Schnellenbach (University of Heidelberg..) |
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| The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Good Provision: A Political Economy Approach |
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| Courtney LaFountain (The University of Texas at Arlington) |
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| Core equivalence for residential land use models |
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| Externalities, Taxation and Public Goods | | Wilson 122 |
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| Emanuela Randon (University of Bologna-Department of Economics) |
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| Peter Simmons Professor (Department of Economics-University of York) |
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| Strategic consumption complementarities: can price flexibility eliminate inefficiencies and instability? |
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| Paul Healy (The Ohio State University) |
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| Equilibrium Participation in Public Goods Allocations |
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| Thomas Eichner (University of Siegen) |
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| Ruediger Pethig (University of Siegen) |
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| Efficient CO2 emissions control with national emissions taxes and international emissions trading |
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| 3:20 pm - 4:50 pm |
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| Matthias Wrede (RWTH Aachen University) |
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| Distortive wage tax and commuting subsidies |
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| Mathias Hungerbühler (University of Namur) |
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| On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax theory |
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| Yukihiro Nishimura (Yokohama National University and Queen''s University) |
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| On Equity-First and Efficiency-First Principles in Production Economies and Its Application to Optimal Taxation |
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| Politics and Mechanisms | | Wilson 113 |
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| Juan C Carbajal-Ponce : Session Chairman |
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| Emmanuelle TAUGOURDEAU (CNRS, CES, University of Paris 1) |
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| Marie-Laure BREUILLE (ZWB, Berlin) |
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| Thierry MADIES (University of Fribourg) |
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| Fiscal Federalism and Soft Budget Constraint: Does the nature of public spending matter? |
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| Christian Lessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research) |
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| Gunther Markwardt (Dresden University of Technology) |
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| One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and Development |
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| Juan C Carbajal-Ponce (Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis) |
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| On the uniqueness of Groves Mechanisms |
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| Social Choice 1 | | Wilson 120 |
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| ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LEGAL PROCESSES FOR EQUITY-BASED INCENTIVES. |
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| Tommy Andersson (Department of Economics, Lund University) |
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| Weakly fair allocations and strategy-proofness |
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| Jean Mercier Ythier (Université de Metz) |
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| The aggregation of individual distributive preferences through the distributive liberal social contract: Normative analysis. |
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| Coalition Theory Network Session | | Wilson 126 |
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| Yutaka Suzuki : Session Chairman |
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| Eugenio Proto (Warwick University) |
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| Enfranchisement, Intra-Elite Conflict and a Weak Median Voter |
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| Sunghoon Hong (Seoul National University) |
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| Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University) |
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| Efficiency and stability in a model of wireless communication networks |
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| Yutaka Suzuki (Hosei University) |
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| Collusion in organizations and management of conflicts through job design and authority delegation
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| Industrial Organization 1 | | Wilson 115 |
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| Manfred Dix : Session Chairman |
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| beatrice DUMONT (Universite de Rennes 1, CREM (UMR CNRS 6211) & College of Europe) |
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| marc BAUDRY (Universite de Rennes 1 & CREM (UMR CNRS 6211)) |
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| Are IP rights correctly enforced? An econometric analysis of the outcome and duration of IPRs litigation. |
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| Rogerio Mazali (Tulane University) |
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| Manfred Dix (Tulane University) |
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| Ram Orzach (Oakland University) |
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| Inventor''s quandary: In-house or start-up? |
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| Tournaments, Games and Forecasting | | Wilson 121 |
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| Phil Curry : Session Chairman |
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| Zaki Zahran (Georgetown University) |
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| Discretion and Control in Organization Decision Making |
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| Al Slivinski (University of Western Ontario) |
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| "The public economics of forecasting and insurance" |
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| Phil Curry (Simon Fraser Univeristy) |
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| Steeve Mongrain (Simon Fraser University) |
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| Deterrence in rank-order tournaments |
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| Inequality and Crime | | Wilson 122 |
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| Rajiv Sethi : Session Chairman |
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| James E. Foster (Vanderbilt University) |
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| A class of chronic poverty measures |
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| Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) |
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| Brendan O'Flaherty (Columbia University) |
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| Endogenous Lethality and Preemptive Murder |
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| Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute) |
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| Glenn Loury (Brown University) |
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| Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) |
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| Is Equal Opportunity Enough? A Theory of Persistent Group Inequality |
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| 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm Afternoon Break |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 5:10 pm - 6:00 pm Plenary Session 2 |
| Plenary Session with Robin Boadway |
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| Frank Page : Session Chairman |
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| Robin Boadway (Queen''s University) |
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| Optimal Tax Design And Enforcement With An Informal Sector |
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| Wilson Hall Auditorium (103) |
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| 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Conference Reception and Dinner |
| Conference reception and dinner at the Country Music Hall of Fame with live music. Buses leave from circular drive in front of Kirkland Hall in two waves. 6:10pm and 6:40pm. If you prefer or happen to miss the bus, it is about a 10-15 minute cab ride. |
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| Country Music Hall of Fame |
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| Day: 7/8/2007 |
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
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| 8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Coffee |
| Coffee, tea, roles and light snacks |
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| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
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| Alan Krause : Session Chairman |
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| Felix J Bierbrauer (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) |
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| Collectively incentive compatible tax systems |
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| Kersten Kellermann (University of Fribourg) |
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| Fiscal Competition and a Potential Growth Effect of Centralization |
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| Alan Krause (University of York) |
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| A Tax Reform Analysis of the Laffer Argument |
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| Fiscal Competition 2 | | Wilson 113 |
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| Maximilian von Ehrlich : Session Chairman |
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| Ernesto Crivelli (Department of Economics-University of Bonn ) |
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| Christian Volpe Martincus (Inter-American Development Bank) |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Tax Externalities in a Multicountry World |
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| Nigar Hashimzade (University of Exeter) |
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| Gareth D Myles (University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies) |
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| Sirikamon Udompol (University of Exeter) |
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| Why enter a tax sparing agreement? |
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| Maximilian von Ehrlich (Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich ) |
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| Robert Fenge (Ifo Institute and CESifo) |
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| Matthias Wrede (RWTH Aachen University and CESifo) |
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| Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration |
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| Rudy Santore : Session Chairman |
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| Jean DE BEIR (University of Evry Val d''Essonne, EPEE) |
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| Mouez FODHA (University of Paris 1, CES) |
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| Francesco MAGRIS (University of Evry Val d''Essonne, EPEE) |
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| Life cycle of products and Endogenous fluctuations |
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| Fatih Karanfil (Galatasaray University, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
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| Bilge Ozturk (Galatasaray University) |
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| Optimal enforcement policy and firm''s decisions on R&D and emissions |
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| Rudy Santore (University of Tennessee) |
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| On the Efficient Siting of Noxious Facilities |
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| Prices, Dynamics and Equilbrium | | Wilson 121 |
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| Stefano Bosi : Session Chairman |
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| Michael D. S. Morris (Oklahoma State University) |
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| Wei Xiao (State University of New York at Binghamton) |
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| Increasing Returns and the Frequency of Price Changes |
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| Nicolas Roys (University of Paris I, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studie) |
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| Optimal investment policy with fixed adjustment costs and irreversibility |
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| Bosi Stefano (EQUIPPE (Lille 1), EPEE (Evry)) |
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| Seegmuller Thomas (CNRS (Sorbonne)) |
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| On the Ramsey Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Consumers and Endogenous Labor Supply |
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| Savings, Incentives, and Intertemporal Decision Making | | Wilson 122 |
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| Zafer Akin : Session Chairman |
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| Yutaka Suzuki (Faculty of Economics, Hosei University) |
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| Monotonicity, equilibrium incentives, and efficiency in a dynamic model of hold up
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| Helmuth Cremer (University of Toulouse) |
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| Dario Maldonado (Universidad del Rosario) |
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| Designing a linear pension scheme with forced savings and wage heterogeneity |
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| Zafer Akin (TOBB University of Economics and Technology) |
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| Intertemporal decision making with present biased preferences |
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| Trade, Immigration and Labor | | Wilson 120 |
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| Seppo Honkapohja (University of Cambridge) |
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| Arja Turunen-Red (University of New Orleans) |
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| Alan Woodland (University of Sydney) |
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| Asymmetric trade integration and growth |
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| Jose Luis Torres (Universidad de Malaga) |
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| Pablo Revilla (Universidad P. Olavide) |
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| Bernardo Moreno (Universidad de Malaga) |
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| Formation of customs s with internal taxes and subsidies. |
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| Teresa Lloyd-Braga (Universidade Católica Portuguesa-FCEE, Lisbon, Portugal) |
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| Marta Aloi (University of Nottingham, UK) |
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| National labor markets, international factor mobility and macroeconomic instability |
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| 10:30 am - 10:45 am Morning Break |
| Main Lobby of Wilson Hall |
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| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm |
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| Tax Incidence and Voting | | Wilson 112 |
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| Charles Blackorby Professor (University of Warwick, Dept of Economics) |
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| Sushama M Murty Dr. (Univeristy of Warwick) |
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| Unit versus ad valorem taxes: the private ownership of monopoly in general equilibrium |
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| Doina Maria Radulescu (CES, University of Munich) |
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| From Separate Accounting to Formula Apportionment: Analysis in a Dynamic Framework |
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| Gareth D Myles (University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies) |
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| Nigar Hashimzade (University of Exeter) |
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| The paradox of voting with coalition formation |
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| Inequality and Development | | Wilson 113 |
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| Daniel Tecle Haile : Session Chairman |
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| Udo Ebert (University of Oldenburg) |
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| Living standard, social welfare and the redistribution of income in a heterogeneous population |
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| Jan Schumacher (University of Regensburg) |
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| In-kind redistribution, altruism and relative income |
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| Daniel Tecle Haile (Acadia University) |
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| Genesis of Inequality Counts More than Inequality Per se. |
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| Environmental Economics 2 | | Wilson 115 |
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| Geraldine Ducos : Session Chairman |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Karen Pittel (ETH Zurich) |
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| Sectoral Heterogeneity, Resource Depletion, and Directed
Technical Change: Theory and Policy |
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| The asset specificity issue in the private provision of environmental services: evidence from agro-environmental contracts
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| Public Goods and cooperative Production | | Wilson 121 |
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| Goksel Asan : Session Chairman |
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| Sebastien Cochinard (University Paris 5 Rene Descartes (LIRAES) and Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne (CES)) |
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| Martial Foucault (University of Montreal and European University Institute (RSCAS)) |
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| Gregoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI (University of Clermont-Ferrand - CERDI) |
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| Public Goods, Endogeneous Coalitions and Asymmetric Externalities |
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| Luis C. Corchón (Univesidad Carlos III ) |
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| Carmen Beviá (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona ) |
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| Cooperative Production and Efficiency |
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| Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| Goksel Asan (Istanbul Bilgi University) |
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| The Tiebout hypothesis under membership property rights |
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| Imprecision, Consumption, and Rationality | | Wilson 122 |
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| William Neilson Professor: Session Chairman |
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| Laurent Lamy (CREST-INSEE) |
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| Order Independent Individual Rationality |
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| Antonio D'Agata (University of Catania) |
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| Conspicuous consumption foundations to consumer preferences |
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| William Neilson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
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| Imprecise Preferences, WTA - WTP Disparities, and Impulse Shopping |
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| Public Goods with spillovers | | Wilson 120 |
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| Luca Corazzini (Department of Economics - Bocconi University, Milan) |
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| Ugo Gianazza (Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia) |
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| Unequal Contribution from Identical Agents in a Local Interaction Model |
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| Exbrayat Nelly (University of Saint-Etienne CREUSET FRE CNRS) |
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| Madiès Thierry (University of Fribourg) |
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| Riou stéphane (University of Saint-Etienne CREUSET FRE CNRS) |
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| Trade integration, international public good spillovers and asymmetric tax competition |
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| Unal Zenginobuz (Bogazici University) |
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| Haldun Evrenk (Suffolk University) |
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| Regulation through a revenue contest |
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| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch |
| See the list of nearby restaurants |
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| 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm |
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| John A Weymark : Session Chairman |
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| Felix Bierbrauer (MPI Bonn and MIT) |
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| Thomas Gaube (University of Vienna) |
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| Optimal income taxation, public good provision and informative voting |
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| Sam Allgood (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
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| The collective household, household production, and efficiency of marginal reforms |
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| John A. Weymark (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University) |
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| Craig Brett (Department of Economics, Mount Allison University) |
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| Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings in a two class economy |
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| Michael Peress : Session Chairman |
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| Jens Peter Siebel (University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern) |
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| Budget deficit and redistribution |
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| A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture |
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| Michael Peress (University of Rochester) |
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| The Spatial Model with Non-policy Factors: A Theory of Policy-Motivated Candidates |
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| Environmental Economics 1 | | Wilson 115 |
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| Geum-Soo Kim (Hoseo University) |
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| The Political Economy of an International Environmental Agreement |
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| Dirk T.G. Rübbelke (Chemnitz University of Technology) |
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| Vivekananda Mukherjee (Jadavpur University) |
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| Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Trade with Complete Specialization |
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| Emilson Silva (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
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| Emissions Trading of Global and Local Pollutants, Pollution Havens and Free Riding |
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| Ken-Ichi Akao : Session Chairman |
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| Biancini Sara (Université de Toulouse) |
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| Regulating national firms in a common market |
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| Tilman Klumpp (Emory University) |
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| Xuejuan Su (Bates Wite LLC) |
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| Open Access and Dynamic Efficiency |
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| Ken-Ichi Akao (School of Social Sciences, Waseda University) |
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| Shunsuke Managi (Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University) |
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| Tradable Permit System in an Intertemporal Economy |
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| Bargaining Theory | | Wilson 122 |
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| Harold Houba (VU University Amsterdam) |
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| Quan Wen (Vanderbilt University) |
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| Perfect Equilibria in a Negotiation Model with Different Time Preferences |
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| Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary University of London) |
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| Paola Manzini (Queen Mary University of London) |
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| Two Stage Bargaining Solutions |
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| Jean-François Caulier (Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels) |
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| On the Measurement of Fragmentation |
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| War, Pillage and Survival | | Wilson 120 |
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| James Jordan : Session Chairman |
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| Massimo Morelli (Columbia Universtiy) |
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| Matt O Jackson (Stanford University) |
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| Strategic Militarization, Deterrence, and Wars Between Nations |
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| Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern Unversity) |
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| David O Lucca (Federal Reserve Board) |
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| Tomas Sjostrom (Rutgers University) |
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| Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace? |
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| Power and efficiency in pillage games |
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| 3:20 pm - 4:10 pm Plenary Session 3 |
| Plenary Session with Alessandro Lizzeri |
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| Amrita Dhillon : Session Chairman |
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| Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University) |
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| Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning |
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| Wilson Hall Auditorium (103) |
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| Day: 7/9/2007 |
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 pm Trip to Graceland |
| Optional special trip to Memphis, TN to see Graceland (Platinum tour, lunch included), and Beal street, where you can get dinner on your own.
Cost: $90
Reservations required |
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| Circular Drive in Front of Kirkland Hall |
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Monday, July 9, 2007
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