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Detailed Programme

Wednesday, June 17th

Walking tour, registration and welcome reception:

Two walking tours will be organised in the afternoon. Registration will run from16.00 to 20.00 on the Arts/Science Concourse and we will also have a welcomereception in the College Bar from 19.30 to 22.00. Information on the walking tourscan be found under PET 09 tours on the PET 09 website.

Thursday 18th June

09.00 – 10.30

Parallel Session 1

Development and Segregation (Room AC213)

Natalia Zugravu: Session Chairman

Natacha Raffin (Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne)When poor environmental health threatens economic development

Benoit Schmutz (Greqam)Why is there segregation within the French social housing complex? Some non-monetary spatial sorting mechanisms

Natalia Zugravu (Centre d''Economie de la Sorbonne)Trade and sustainable development: should "transition countries" open their marketsto environmental goods?

Experiments with sequential public good games (Room AC203)

Marc Willinger: Session Chairman

Amrish Patel (University of Kent)Edward Cartwright (University of Kent)Mark van Vugt (University of Kent)Free-rider anonymity in a sequential public good game

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Fernanda Rivas (University of Granada)The dos and don'ts of leadership in sequential public goods experiments

Charles Figuières (LAMETA, INRA)David Masclet (CREM, Faculté de Sciences Economiques)Marc Willinger (LAMETA, University of Montpellier)Leadership, reciprocity and moral motivation: experimental evidence from asequential public good game

Political Economy of Public Pensions1 (Room AC214)

Vincenzo Galasso: Session Chairman

Georges Casamatta (Toulouse School of Economics)Voting on parametric reforms of the pay-as-you-go pension system

Michael Kaganovich (Indiana University)Volker Meier (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)Social security systems, human capital, and growth in a small open economy

Vincenzo Galasso (IGIER, Universit Bocconi and CEPR)Marcello D’Amato (Università di Salerno, csef)Political intergenerational risk sharing

Coalition and Network Theory (Room AC204)

Vincent Vannetelbosch: Session Chairman

Ana Mauleon (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Jose J Sempere-Monerris (Department of Economic Analysis and ERI-CES,University of Valencia)Vincent J Vannetelbosch (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Contractually stable coalition structures with externalities

Jean François Caulier (FUSL)Network games associated with value functions

Vincent Vannetelbosch (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Gilles Grandjean (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Ana Mauleon (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Connections among farsighted agents

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Optimal Taxation 1 (Room AC215)

Alain Trannoy: Session Chairman

Dirk Van de Gaer (SHERPPA, Ghent University)Laurence Jacquet (NHH)A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation and responsibility matter

Etienne Lehmann (CREST)Alexis Parmentier (EPEE)Bruno Van der Linden (IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain)Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment

Dominique Henriet (Ecole Centrale Marseille and GREQAM-IDEP)Patrick Pintus (Université de la Méditerranée and GREQAM-IDEP)Alain Trannoy (EHESS and GREQAM-IDEP)Is the optimal tax linear with income risk?

Macroeconomics 1 (Room AC202)

Anne Villamil: Session Chairman

Daniela Puzzello (University of Illinois)Ricardo de O. Cavalcanti (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)Stationarity without degeneracy in a model of commodity money

Volodymyr Lugovskyy (Department of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology)Daniela Puzzello (Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Steven Tucker (Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, NZ)An experimental study of bubble formation in asset markets using the tâtonnementpricing mechanism

Anne Villamil (University of Manchester and University of Illinois)Marcelo Arbex (University of Windsor)The Friedman rule with tax enforcement

Labour Economics 1 (Larmor Theatre)

Franck Malherbet: Session Chairman

Benedicte Rouland (University of Le Mans (GAINS-TEPP))Arnaud Cheron (Univerity of Le Mans (GAINS-TEPP), EDHEC)Inefficient equilibrium unemployment with unobservable heterogeneity of workers

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Franck Malherbet (THEMA - Université de Cergy-Pontoise)Olivier Charlot (LEAD - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane)Education, job destruction and the welfare gains from employment protection insearch economies

Inequality (Dillon Theatre)

Lars Peter Østerdal: Session Chairman

Ernesto Savaglio (DMQTE- University of Pescara and DEP - University of Siena)Stefano Vannucci (University of Siena)On multidimensional inequality in partitions of multisets

Stephane Zuber (CORE - Universite Catholique de Louvain)Antoine Bommier (Toulouse School of Economics (CNRS, GREMAQ))The pareto principle of optimal inequality

Christoffer Sonne-Schmidt (University of Copenhagen)Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen)Lars Peter Østerdal (University of Copenhagen)Ordinal comparison of multidimensional deprivation: theory and application

Credit Markets (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Amrita Dhillon: Session Chairman

Sumudu Kankanamge (Paris School of Economics)Thomas Weitzenblum (Université de Franche-Comté, CRESE, PSE, CEPREMAP)Countercyclical aspects of public debt

Xin Long (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")Alessandra Pelloni (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")Robert Waldmann (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")Capital income taxation and welfare in a growth model

Amrita Dhillon (University of Warwick)Tomas Sjostrom (Rutgers)Leader reputation and default in sovereign debt

10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK

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11.00 – 12.30

Parallel Session 2

Contests and Appropriation (Room AC204)

Mordechai Elazar Schwarz: Session Chairman

Richard Cornes (ANU and University of Nottingham)Roger Hartley (University of Manchester)Yuji Tamura (Australian National University)Production and appropriation with many players

Subhadip Chakrabarti (Queens University, Belfast)Robert Gilles (Queen's University Management School)Emiliya Lazarova (Queen's University Management School)Partial cooperation in symmetric games

Mordechai Elazar Schwarz (The Open University of Israel)If you can't beat them – join them. A cooperative game theoretical approach to rentseeking contests

Education Finance Across the Stages of Schooling (Larmor Theatre)

Itzhak Zilcha: Session Chairman

William Blankenau (Kansas State Univ. & Univ. Carlos III de Madrid)Casey Abington (Kansas State University)Government education expenditures in early and late childhoodIoana C Schiopu (Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC))Directed technology adoption and human capital formation in developing economies

Itzhak Zilcha (Tel Aviv University)Bernhard Eckwert (Bielefeld University)Improvement in information and private investment in education

Law and Economics 1 (Room AC215)

Jennifer Reinganum: Session Chairman

Lewis A. Kornhauser (New York University School of Law)Charles M. Cameron (Princeton University)Modelling collegial courts (3): judicial objectives, opinion content, voting andadjudication equilibria

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Claude Fluet (Université du Québec à Montréal)Bruno Deffains (Université Paris X-Nanterre)Legal liability when injurers have moral and reputational concerns

Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University)Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)Privacy, publicity, and choice

Environment and Growth (Room AC213)

Unal Zenginobuz: Session Chairman

Oya Pinar Ardic (Bogazici University)G. Bahar Senol (TSKB)Pollution, abatement, and sustainable growth: a Schumpeterian approach

C. Emre Alper (Bogazici University)Oya Pinar Ardic (Bogazici University)Refik Erzan (Bogazici University)Ozan Hatipoglu (Bogazici University)Environmental concerns structural change and economic growth

Begum Ozkaynak (Bogazici University)Fikret Adaman (Bogazici University)Unal Zenginobuz (Bogazici University)The environmental impact of household consumption: evidence from turkey

Network Dynamics and Incomplete Information (McMunn Theatre)

Frank Page: Session Chairman

Gabrielle Demange (PSE)Sharing information in web communities

Jacomo Corbo (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)The effects of quality and price on adoption dynamics of competing technologies

Frank Page (Indiana University)Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University)Endogenous network dynamics

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Political Economy 1 (Dillon Theatre)

Tuvana Pastine: Session ChairmanAllard van der Made (University of Groningen)Endogenous group formation and lobbying

Christopher Cotton (University of Miami)Should we tax or cap political contributions? a lobbying model with policy favors andaccess

Ivan Pastine (University College Dublin)Tuvana Pastine (National University of Ireland Maynooth)Politician preferences, law-abiding lobbyists and caps on political lobbying

Game Theory 1 (Room AC203)

Hanjoon M Jung: Session Chairman

Elena Inarra (UPV-EHU)Concepcion Larrea (UPV_EHU)Ana Saracho (UPV-EHU)Deriving Nash equilibria as the supercore for a relational system

Valery Vasilev (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences,Siberian Branch)Rene van den Brink (Department of Econometrics and Tinbergen Institute, FreeUniversity Amsterdam)Gerard van der Laan (Department of Econometrics and Tinbergen Institute, FreeUniversity Amsterdam)The restricted core for totally positive games with ordered players

Hanjoon M Jung (Lahore University of Management Sciences)Complete Sequential Equilibrium and Its Alternative

Institutions and Sustainability (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Raouf Boucekkine: Session Chairman

Noël Bonneuil (Ined-Ehess)Sustainability at stake in the pension fund

Fabien Ngendakuriyo (Catholic University of Louvain)Institutions quality and growth

Raouf Boucekkine (CORE)Promoting clean technologies under imperfect competition

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Social Security and Discrimination2 (Room AC214)

Morgane Laouenan: Session Chairman

Devis Geron (Department of Economics - University of Padova)Social security incidence under uncertainty - assessing Italian reforms

Yosr Abid Fourati (NUI Galway)Cathal O'Donoghue (NUI Galway; Rural Economy Research Centre, Teagasc)Aggregating individuals' preferences for reforming state pensions using probabilisticvoting

Morgane Laouenan (GREQAM)What keeps Blacks from being handymen? An investigation using French and US data

Social Choice 1 (Room AC202)

Youngsub Chun: Session Chairman

Vincent R Merlin (CNRS and University of Caen)Laurent Vidu (Universite de Caen)Jean-Louis Rouet (Universite d'Oreleans)Dominique Lepelley (CERESUR, University of la Reunion)Majority efficient representation of the citizens in a federal union

Bernardo Moreno (Universidad de Malaga)Individual versus group strategy-proofness: When do they coincide?

Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University)Rene van den Brink (Department of Econometrics and Tinbergen Institute, FreeUniversity Amsterdam)Balanced contributions, balanced cost reduction, and the minimal transfer rule forqueuing problems

12.30 – 13.45 LUNCH AT THE UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT (ANBHIALANN)

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13.45 – 15.15

Parallel Session 3

Social Security 13 (Room AC214)

Firouz Gahvari: Session Chairman

Marie Louise Leroux (FNRS-FRS and CORE)Pierre Pestieau (Université de Liège, CREPP, CORE, PSE, CEPR)Maria Racionero (School of Economics, Australian National University)Voting on pensions: Sex and marriage

Silvia Platoni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)Dynamic incentives and private savings: a comparison

Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics)Firouz Gahvari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Pierre Pestieay (University of Liege and CORE)Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system

Networks (McMunn Theatre)

Jörg Frank: Session Chairman

Ana Paula Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)Calls and couples: communication, connections, joint – consumption and transferprices

Luca Paolo Merlino (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)Endogenous job contact networks

Jörg Franke (TU Dortmund)Tahir Öztürk (U. Autònoma de Barcelona)Conflict networks

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Issues in Environmental Economics (Room AC213)

Paul O'Sullivan: Session Chairman

Carmen Arguedas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)Sandra Rousseau (Center of Economic Studies, K.U. Leuven)Learning about compliance under asymmetric information

Eftichios S Sartzetakis (University of Macedonia)Anastasios Xepapadeas (Athens University of Economics and Business)Emmanuel Petrakis (University of Crete)The role of information provision as a policy instrument to supplement environmentaltaxes: empowering consumers to choose optimally

Paul O'Sullivan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)Process R&D and pollution abatement innovation: subsidies or joint ventures?

Public Goods 1 (Room AC204)

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka : Session Chairman

Selim Jürgen Ergun (Universidad de Granada)Income redistribution and public good provision in a diverse society

Pierre Boyer (Toulouse School of Economics)Government organization and public goods provision

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)Evagelos Pafilis (University of Bristol)Reputation and ownership of public goods

Labour Economics 2 (Larmor Theatre)

Julien Albertini: Session Chairman

Florent Fremigacci (CREST, EPEE)Xavier Fairise (EPEE, University of Evry)Julien Albertini (EPEE, University of Evry)Screening on the job: should temporary jobs be subsidized?

Magali Recoules (Paris School of Economics and University of Paris 1)How can gender discrimination explain fertility behaviours and family-friendlypolicies?

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Julien Albertini (EPEE, University of Evry)Xavier Fairise (EPEE, University of Evry)Optimal unemployment benefits financing scheme, search frictions and real wagerigidities

Microeconomic Theory 1 (Room AC203)

Paulo Klinger Monteiro: Session Chairman

Kosmas Marinakis (Wake Forest University)Theofanis Tsoulouhas (North Carolina State University)Tournaments and liquidity constraints for the agents

Jan Heufer (TU Dortmund University and Ruhr Graduate School in Economics)Stochastic revealed preference and rationalizability

Paulo K. Monteiro (EPGE, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil)A class of convex preferences without concave representation

Clubs and Coalitions (Room AC215)

Myrna Wooders: Session Chairman

Richard Cornes (Australian National University)Emilson C. D. Silva (Georgia Institute of Technology)Prestige clubs

Emiliya Lazarova (Queen's University Belfast)Dinko Dimitrov (Munich University)Coalitional matchings

Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University)Tone Arnold (University of Hohenheim)Dynamic club formation with coalitional deviations

Macro-Dynamics 1 (Room AC202)

Bertrand Wigniolle: Session Chairman

Gunes Kamber (PSE, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)Stephen Millard (Bank of England)Understanding the monetary transmission mechanism in the United Kingdom: therole of nominal and real rigidities

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Masako Ikefuji (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)Kazuo Mino (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University)Internal vs. external habit formation in a growing economy with overlappinggenerations

Claire Loupias (EPEE Université d'Evry)Bertrand Wigniolle (CES University of Paris I)Population, land and growth

Behavioural Economics and Welfare (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Michael Pickhardt: Session Chairman

Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki)Martin D. Munk (SFI)Martin Junge (CEBR, Copenhagen Business School)Self-selection and earnings of emigrants from a welfare state

Gerd Meinhold (University of Chemnitz)Michael Pickhardt (University of Muenster)Road pricing and access burden avoidance: evidence from an experiment withBraess's paradox

15.15 – 15.30 BREAK (NO COFFEE)

15.30 – 17.00

Parallel Session 4

Welfare Aspects of International Trade and Investment (Larmor Theatre)

Ngo Van Long: Session Chairman

Ngo Long (McGill University)Frank Staehler (University of Otago)Should the good and the selfish be taxed differently?

Ngo Van Long (McGill University)Antoine Soubeyran (GREQAM, Université de la Méditerranée)Raphaël Soubeyran (INRA-MOISA)The pace of technology transfer in anticipation of joint venture breakup

Olaf Muenster (University of Passau)Does economic integration eliminate a government’s ability of independent incomeredistribution?

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Markets with Restricted Participation (McMunn Theatre)

Jean-Marc Bonnisseau: Session Chairman

Zaier Aouani (University of Kansas)Bernard Cornet (Paris School of Economics and University of Kansas)Existence of financial equilibria with restricted participation

Andrea Loi (University of Cagliari)Stefano Matta (University of Cagliari)A note on the structural stability of the equilibrium manifold

Jean-Marc Bonnisseau (Paris School of Economics and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)Orntangar Nguenamadji (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)Discrete Walrasian exchange process

Allocation and Social Conflict (Room AC204)

James Jordan: Session Chairman

James Jordan (The Pennsylvania State University)The legitimacy of nations

Colin Rowat (University of Birmingham)An exchange economy with pillage

Massimo Morelli (Columbia University)Dominic Rohner (University of York)Natural resource distribution and multiple forms of civil war


Francesco Sobbrio: Session Chairman

Tommaso Gabrieli (City University London and Catholic University Milan)Different societal beliefs and redistributive policies: the trade-off effect of information

Jan Klingelhöfer (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)The swing voter and electoral competition

Francesco Sobbrio (IMT Lucca)A citizens-editors model of news media

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Games and Mechanisms (Room AC203)

Andrea Finicelli: Session Chairman

Megan M Khoshyaran (ETC Economics Traffic Clinic)The coming of age of capitalism

Stefano Galavotti (Department of Decision Mathematics, University of Florence)Nozomu Muto (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)Daisuke Oyama (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, and ParisSchool of Economics)On efficient partnership dissolution under ex post individual rationality

Andrea Finicelli (Bank of Italy)Endogenous information and credibility of beliefs in a global coordination game ofregime switch

Behavioural Economics (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Sina Risse: Session Chairman

Stefan Dodds (Carleton University)Redistributive taxation with heterogeneous relative consumption concerns

Munetomo Ando (Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities,Nihon University)The benefit of low expectations

Sina Risse (Technische Universität Dortmund)Rent-seeking contests of heterogeneous players with interdependent preferences

Crime and Punishment (Room AC215)

Karen Pittel: Session Chairman

Cécile Bazart (LAMETA Université Montpellier 1)Marc Willinger (LAMETA Université Montpellier 1)Tax evasion: presumption of guilt presumption of innocence

Martin Gregor (Charles University in Prague)Lenka Stastna (Charles University in Prague)Mobile criminals, immobile crime: the efficiency of decentralized crime deterrence

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Karen Pittel (ETH Zurich)Dirk T.G. Rübbelke (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research -Oslo (CICERO))Decision processes of a suicide bomber - integrating economics and psychology

Voting (Room AC202)

Mathieu Martin: Session Chairman

Valentino Larcinese (London School of Economics and Political Science)Leonzio Rizzo (University of Ferrara)Cecilia Testa (Royal Holloway College)Do small states get more federal monies? Myth and reality about the us senatemalapportionment

Stephane Rossignol (Universite de Versailles)Fabian Gouret (University Paris Est)Guillaume Hollard (Paris School of Economics)An empirical analysis of valence in electoral competition

Mathieu Martin (THEMA University of Cergy Pontoise)Fabrice Barthelemy (THEMA University of Cergy Pontoise)Ashley Piggins (National University of Ireland, Galway)U.S. presidential elections and the referendum paradox

Social Security 24 (Room AC214)

Joachim Thøgersen: Session Chairman

Massimo D'Antoni (Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università di Siena)Ennio Bilancini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)Pensions and intergenerational risk-sharing when relative consumption matters

Cagri Kumru (University of New South Wales)Chung Tran (University of New South Wales)Temptation and social security in dynastic framework

Joachim Thøgersen (University of Agder)Human capital, public pensions and endogenous growth

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Environmental Economics 1 (Room AC213)

Ian MacKenzie: Session Chairman

Mouez Fodha (University of Paris 1, CES and PSE)Alain Ayong Le Kama (University of Lille 1)Optimal nuclear waste burial policy under uncertainty

Huong Hue Nguyen (Inra Aliss)Food safety and nutritional quality – the public intervention

Nick Hanley (University of Stirling)Ian MacKenzie (ETH Zurich)How should regulators respond to rent-seeking over tradable pollution permits?


17.15 – 18.00

Plenary Lecture 1 (O’Flaherty Lecture Theatre)

Hubert Kempf (Paris School of Economics, Universite Paris-1)Bargaining over public goods provision

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Friday 19th June

09.00 – 10.30

Parallel Session 5

Income Inequality and Redistribution (Room AC214)

Tommaso Gabrieli: Session Chairman

Filippo Gregorini (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)Political geography and income inequalities

Tim Lohse (Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB))Peter F. Lutz (Leibniz University Hannover)Redistributional consequences of early childhood intervention

Tommaso Gabrieli (City University London and Catholic University Milan)Inequality, intergenerational mobility and redistributive policies under endogenousinformation

Religion and Democracy (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Dennis Mueller: Session Chairman

Mario Ferrero (University of Eastern Piedmont)The rise and fall of theocracy: theory and some evidence

Vani K Borooah (University of Ulster)Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)Religion, literacy, contraceptive usage, and the female-to-male ratio in India

Dennis C. Mueller (University of Vienna)Democracy, rationality and morality

Matching (schools and science) (Larmor Theatre)

Patrick Legros: Session Chairman

Antonio Miralles (Boston University)School choice: the case for the Boston mechanism

Andrea Canidio (Boston University)Absorptive capacity and the production of science

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Patrick Legros (Free University of Brussels)Thomas Gall (University of Bonn and Boston University)Andrew Newman (Boston University)Mismatch, rematch, and investment

R&D and Games (Room AC203)

Rabah Amir: Session Chairman

Rabah Amir (University of Arizona)Christine Halmenschlager (Ermes, University of Paris II, Paris)R&d-induced industry polarization and shakeouts

Gregoire Rota Graziosi (CERDI, Université d'Auvergne)Tax competition revisited: an endogenous timing game.

Rabah Amir (University of Arizona)Malgorzata Knauff (Warsaw School of Economics)Strategic complementarities and substitutes in R&D duopoly

Location Models (Room AC202)

Jaime Luque: Session Chairman

Jaime Luque (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)Where to live? Wages, community composition and public goods

Marta Faias (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)Alberto Pinto (Universidade do Minho)Juan Brida (Free University of Bolzano)Maria Defesa (Universidad de Alcal)Equilibrium in a tourism model with different types

Munirul Nabin (Deakin Business School, Deakin University)Pasquale Sgro (Deakin Business School, Deakin University)Illegal migration, technology adoption and welfare analysis

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Networks and Markets (McMunn Theatre)

Jacomo Corbo: Session Chairman

Domenico Delli Gatti (Università Cattolica)Mauro Gallegati (Università Politecnica delle Marche)Bruce Greenwald (Columbia University)Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)Alberto Russo (Università Politecnica delle Marche)Financially constrained fluctuations in an evolving network economy

Ruggiero Cavallo (University of Pennsylvania)Jacomo Corbo (University of Pennsylvania)Minimizing the probability of individual rationality or budget-balance violations inefficient mechanisms

Gara M Afonso (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University)Systemic risk and liquidity in payment systems


Giovanni Prarolo: Session Chairman

Julia Cage (Harvard University)Asymmetric information, rent extraction and aid efficiency

Mathias Hungerbühler (University of Namur)Gani Aldashev (University of Namur)Credit markets and employment protection: towards a new political economy of labormarket reform

Giorgio Bellettini (University of Bologna, CESIfo)Carlotta Berti Ceroni (University of Bologna)Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna)Political persistence, connections and economic growth


Craig Brett: Session Chairman

Spencer Bastani (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)Sören Blomquist (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)Luca Micheletto (Faculty of Law, University of Milan)Public provision of private goods in a nonlinear income taxation model withheterogeneity in needs

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Alan Krause (University of York)Optimal nonlinear income taxation with learning-by-doing

Craig Brett (Department of Economics, Mount Allison University)John Weymark (Vanderbilt University)Comparative statics of optimal nonlinear income taxation in the presence of apublicly provided input

Mechanism Design 1 (Room AC204)

Mark R. Johnson: Session Chairman

Gorkem Celik (UBC)Michael Peters (UBC)Equilibrium rejection of a mechanism

Gizatulina Alia (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)Details behind belief hierarchies matter

Mark R Johnson (A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University)A multidimensional, incentive-compatible mechanism for contract specification andaward

Development Economics 1 (Room AC213)

Victor Hiller: Session Chairman

Atsue Mizushima (Kyoto University)Kouki Sugawara (Osaka University)Koichi Futagami (Osaka University)Perverse effects of a ban on child labour in an overlapping generations model

Thomas Baudin (Paris School of Economics - University of Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne)A role for cultural transmission in fertility transitions

Victor Hiller (University of Paris I - Paris School of Economics)Gender inequality, endogenous cultural norms and economic development


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11.00 – 12.30

Parallel Session 6

Industrial Organization 1 (Room AC214)

Robert Driskill: Session Chairman

Carmen Beviá (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)Luis C. Corchon (Universidad Carlos III)Oligopolistic equilibrium and bankruptcy

Wouter Vergote (CEREC, FUSL and CORE, UCL)Marco Marinucci (CoRE-Université Catholique de Louvain)Endogenous network formation and optimal efforts in an R&D race

Robert Driskill (Vanderbilt University)Monopoly and oligopoly supply of a good with dynamic network externalities.


Wolfgang Leininger: Session Chairman

Sergey Kuniavsky (Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,Technion, Haifa)Rann Smorodinsky (Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,Technion, Haifa)Equilibrium and potential in coalitional congestion games - extended abstract

Dritan Osmani (Max Planck Research School on Earth System Mode)Evolution in time of farsightedly stable coalitions

Wolfgang Leininger (Dortmund University)Evolutionarily stable preferences in contests

Tax Competition and Decentralization (Dillon Theatre)

Ron Davies: Session Chairman

Pascale Duran-Vigneron (University of Paris 10 - Nanterre)When transparency goes against efficiency: fiscal equalization in a context of firmand household mobility

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Takero Doi (Keio University)Toshihiro Ihori (University of Tokyo)Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental debt management

Ron Davies (University College Dublin)Johannes Voget (Oxford)Tax competition in an expanding European union

Identity and Virtue (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Rowena Pecchenino: Session Chairman

Rowena Pecchenino (NUI Maynooth)Defining and redefining self

Miriam Teschl (Robinson College, University of Cambridge)Ritxar Arlegi (Public University of Navarre)Identity and consistent preference change

Fabio Mariani (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)The economic value of virtue

Education and Transport (Room AC213)

Marcus Berliant: Session Chairman

Liqun Liu (Texas A&M University)William Neilson (University of Tennessee)High scores but low skills

Ivan Pastine (University College Dublin)Tuvana Pastine (National University of Ireland Maynooth)Student incentives and student diversity in college admissions

Alex Anas (University of California - Riverside)Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)The commuting game

Education Economics 1 (Larmor Theatre)

Helmuth Cremer: Session Chairman

Brent R Hickman (University of Iowa Department of Economics)Effort, achievement gaps and affirmative action: a new look at college admissions

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Thomas Lange (University of Konstanz and ifo Institute Munich)Return migration of foreign students and the choice of non-resident tuition fees

Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics)Philippe De Donder (University of Toulouse)Pierre Pestieau (CREPP Université de Liège, CORE)Education and social mobility

International Economics 1 (Room AC204)

Lingling Zhang: Session Chairman

Niels Johannesen (University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics)Optimal fiscal barriers to international economic integration in the presence of taxhavens

Julia Cage (Harvard University)Laurent Simula (National University of Singapore)Using multidimensional poverty measures to allocate aid optimally

Lingling Zhang (University of Rhode Island)A model of endogenous trading-bloc formation

Corporate Behaviour (Room AC215)

Fabienne Llense: Session Chairman

Annalisa Luporini (University of Florence)Paolo Balduzzi (Catholic University of Milan)Clara Graziano (University of Udine)A model of voting in boards of directors

Christophe Bravard (CRUESET, Jean Monnet University)Pascal Billand (CRUESET, Jean Monnet University)Subhadip Chakrabarti (Queens University, Belfast)Sudipta Sarangi (Louisiana State University)Corporate espionage

Fabienne Llense (University of Paris 1 (CES) and Ecole Polytechnique)Incidence of fiscal and legal environment on golden parachutes provision and CEOs'turnover

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Axiomatic Approaches (Room AC202)

Richard McLean: Session Chairman

Szilvia Papai (Concordia University)Uniquely core stable coalition structures

Anne van den Nouweland (University of Oregon)An axiomatization of the Euclidean compromise solution

John Conley (Vanderbilt)Richard McLean (Rutgers)Simon Wilkie (USC)Axiomatic foundations for compromise theory


13.45 – 15.15

Parallel Session 7

Macro-Dynamics 2 (Room AC202)

Leonor Modesto: Session Chairman

Stefano Bosi (EQUIPPE, University of Lille 1)Ragot Lionel (EQUIPPE, University of Lille 1)Time, bifurcations and economic applications

Teresa Lloyd-Braga (FCEE-Universidade Católica Portuguesa)Social security benefits of workers and indeterminacy

Leonor Modesto (FCEE-Universidade Católica Portuguesa)Frederic Dufourt (University of Strasbourg)Teresa Lloyd-Braga (FCEE-Universidade Católica Portuguesa)Expected inflation, sunspots equilibria and persistent unemployment fluctuations

Matching (sorting talents) (Larmor Theatre)

Patrick Legros: Session Chairman

Chris Bidner (University of New South Wales)Pre-match investments with search and imperfectly transferable utility

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Thomas Gall (University of Bonn and Boston University)Sorting across markets

Jan Eeckhout (UPF Barcelona and University of Pennsylvania)Roberto Pinheiro (University of Pennsylvania)Diverse organizations and the competition for talent

Political Economy and Law (Dillon Theatre)

Pinghan Liang: Session Chairman

Fabio Fiorillo (Department of Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche,Ancona)Local government: a model on interests’ representation and accountability

Brian C. Rowe (University of Michigan)Discretion and ulterior motives in traffic stops: the detection of other crimes and therevenue from tickets

Pinghan Liang (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)Exit and voice: an economic theory of consumer complaint management


Alexander Karaivanov: Session Chairman

Julio Dávila (CORE, U. Cath. de Louvain - Paris School of Economics, CNRS)The taxation of saving returns in overlapping generations economies with stochasticasset bubbles

Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University)Alessandro Sommacal (University of Verona)Labor income taxation, human capital and growth: the role of child care

Alexander Karaivanov (Simon Fraser University)Fernando Martin (Simon Fraser University)Dynamic optimal insurance and lack of commitment


John P. Conley: Session Chairman

Jonathan Rosborough (University of Western Ontario)A theory of congregational giving

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Al Slivinski (University of Western Ontario)Models of charitable donations with private information

John P. Conley (Vanderbilt University)Fan-chin Kung (City University of Hong Kong)Private benefits, warm glow and reputation in the free and open source softwareproduction model

Microeconomic Theory 2 (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Joosung Lee: Session Chairman

Georgios Katsenos (Leibniz Universität Hannover)Long-term conflict: how to signal a winner?

Joosung Lee (Seoul National University)Youngsub Chun (Seoul National University)Sequential contributions rules for minimum cost spanning tree problems

Brijesh Pinto (University of Southern California)Strongly stable matchings with cyclic preferences

Experimental Economics 1 (Room AC203)

Marie-Pierre Dargnies: Session Chairman

Camille Cornand (CNRS - BETA)Measuring agents’ overreaction to public information in games with strategiccomplementarities

Miguel Sánchez Villalba (University of Alicante)Tax evasion as a global game (tegg) in the laboratory

Marie-Pierre Dargnies (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1)Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments?

Regulation and Tax (Room AC213)

Gerald Pech: Session Chairman

Florian Buck (Center for Economic Studies, Munich)Darko Jus (Center for Economic Studies, 80539 Munich)Liability regimes, competition and the subprime crisis

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David Bartolini (Polytechnic University of Marche)Separation of regulatory powers when contracts are incomplete

Gerald Pech (American University in Bulgaria)Bernhard Neumaerker (University of Freiburg i.Br.)Penalties in the theory of equilibrium tax evasion: solving King John's problem


15.30 – 17.00

Parallel Session 8


Catarina Reis: Session Chairman

Hongyan Yang (Universität Konstanz)Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute, and CESifo)Optimal second-best income taxation with borrowing constraints

Catarina Reis (Universidade Catolica Poruguesa)Social discounting and incentive compatible fiscal policy

Local Public Goods (Room AC204)

Hideo Konishi: Session Chairman

Nicolas Querou (Queen's University Belfast)Joint contributions for multiple public goods and endogenous decision rights

Rongili Biswas (POLIS, university of Eastern Piedmont)Nicolas Gravel (Université de la Méditerranée, IDEP-GREQAM)Rémy Oddou (University of the Mediterranean, IDEP-GREQAM)The segregative properties of endogenous jurisdictions formation with a welfaristcentral government

Hideo Konishi (Boston College)Market for clubs with congestible facilities: nonlinear-pricing equilibria withentrepreneurial managers

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Topics in Economic Theory 1 (Room AC203)

Jean-Pierre Drugeon: Session Chairman

Yunfang Hu (Tohoku University)Kazuo Mino (Osaka University)Financial integration and aggregate stability

Thai Ha Huy (Universite Paris 1)Cones and conditions for existence of equilibrium in economies with short selling

Jean-Pierre Drugeon (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne / Centre National de laRecherche Scientifique)On "sectoral supply functions" and some other dimensions of the roles forconsumptions and leisure arbitrages in the stability properties of a competitiveequilibrium with heterogeneous goods

Political Economy of Education Funding (Dillon Theatre)

Gerhard Glomm: Session Chairman

Dan Anderberg (Royal Holloway University of London)Post-compulsory education: participation and politics

Michele Bernasconi (Università di Venezia)Paola Profeta (Università Bocconi)Public education and redistribution when talents are mismatched

Peter Bearse (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)Buly Cardak (La Trobe University)Gerhard Glomm (Indiana University)B. Ravikumar (University of Iowa)Majority voting and means tested vouchers


Luca Gori: Session Chairman

Emmanuel Thibault (Toulouse School of Economics)Arianna Degan (UQAM, Montreal.)Dynastic accumulation of wealth

Buly Cardak (La Trobe University)Chris Ryan (RSSS, Australian National University)Vance Martin (University of Melbourne)Ability and intergenerational earnings mobility

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Luciano Fanti (University of Pisa)Luca Gori (University of Pisa)PAYG pensions and economic cycles

Inequality and Poverty (Room AC214)

Conchita D''Ambrosio: Session Chairman

Alessandra Michelangeli (University of Milan-Bicocca)Eugenio Peluso (University of Verona)Alain Trannoy (EHESS Greqam Idep)Indirect robust inference on poverty and wealth

François Gardes (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)Measuring persistent poverty

Conchita D'Ambrosio (Universitadi Milano-Bicocca and DIW Berlin)Walter Bossert (University of Montreal)Measuring economic insecurity

Welfare Analysis and Labour (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Yusuke Kinai: Session Chairman

Radhika Lahiri (Queensland University of Technology)Elizabeth Richardson (Queensland University of Technology)Inequality, health, and endogenous time preference: a political economy perspective

Manachaya Uruyos (Chulalongkorn University)Parichamon Chaiyawat (Export Import Bank of Thailand)Could government intervention decrease shirking side effects?

Yusuke Kinai (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University)Social security and the retirement decision: revisited

Tax Evasion (Room AC213)

Mark Phoon: Session Chairman

Vilen Lipatov (Hannover University)Corporate tax evasion: the case for specialists

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Alain Trannoy (EHESS, GREQAM-IDEP, Marseille)Gwenola Trotin (GREQAM-IDEP, Marseille)Do high tax and tax evasion go along?

Radhika Lahiri (Queensland University of Technology)Mark Phoon (Queensland University of Technology)On inequality, tax evasion and progressive taxes

Education and Labour (Larmor Theatre)

Mary Silles: Session Chairman

Clémence Berson (Centre Economie de la Sorbonne - Université Paris1)Is there more discrimination in the public sector than in the private sector? The caseof second generation migrants in France

Mathieu Goudard (GREQAM, Aix-Marseille Universités)Jean François Giret (IREDU - Céreq, université de Bourgogne)Schooling effects and earnings of French university graduates: school quality matters,but choice of disciplines matters more

Mary Silles (Department of Economics, NUI Galway)The causal effect of education on health: evidence from the United Kingdom


17.15 – 18.00 (O’Flaherty Theatre)

Plenary Lecture 2

Ehud Kalai (Northwestern University)Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research)Bargaining in Strategic Games with Private Information5

19.30: Conference Dinner, Radisson Hotel, City Centre, Galway

5 Prof. Kalai’s lecture is sponsored by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund.

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Saturday 20th June

09.00 – 10.30

Parallel Session 9

Health Economics (Room AC215)

Jean Mercier Ythier: Session Chairman

Luigi Siciliani (Department of Economics)Michael Kuhn (Vienna Institute of Demography)Upcoding and optimal auditing in health care

Gregory Ponthiere (ENS - PSE)Marie-Louise Leroux (CORE)Utilitarianism and differential longevity: a remedy?

Jean Mercier Ythier (Université de Metz)Bruno Deffains (Université de Paris Ouest)Optimal production of transplant care services

Communication (McMunn Theatre)

Rajiv Sethi: Session Chairman

Johannes Horner (Yale University)Massimo Morelli (Columbia University)Francesco Squintani (University of Essex)International peace mediation

Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University)Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)Public disagreement

Tanja C. Greiner (University of Munich)Bad news is better - how media coverage distorts policy decisions

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Taxation and Macroeconomics (Room AC202)

Stephen J Turnovsky: Session Chairman

Volker Meier (Ifo Institute, University of Munich)Matthias Wrede (Philipps-Universität Marburg)Reducing the excess burden of subsidizing the stork: joint taxation, individualtaxation, and family tax splitting

Serpil Tekin (University of Washington)Stephen J Turnovsky (University of Washington)The distributional consequences of foreign transfers: Do they reduce or exacerbateinequality

Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa (Greqam)Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)Taxation and income distribution dynamics in a neoclassical growth model

Culture and Ethnicity (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Sergio Currarini: Session Chairman

Fabrizio Panebianco (Advanced School of Economics, Ca Foscari University,Venice)“Driving while black”: a theory for interethnic integration and evolution of prejudice

Elena Fumagalli (University Ca Foscari of Venice)Laura Fumagalli (ISER, University of Essex)Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? Ethnic composition and socialparticipation of young people in England

Sergio Currarini (University of Venice)Fernando Vega Redondo (European University Institute)Homophily and search


Francesco Squintani: Session Chairman

Francisco Martinez Mora (University of Leicester)M. Socorro Puy (Universidad de Málaga)Off-the-optimum preferences and the size of government in two candidate equilibria

Ross David Hickey (University of British Columbia)Intergovernmental transfers and re-election concerned politicians

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Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois)John Duggan (University of Rochester)Francesco Squintani (University of Essex)A vindication of responsible parties


Aude Pommeret: Session Chairman

Magnus Hoffmann (University of Magdeburg)Vilen Lipatov (University of Hannover)Do i want it all? A simple model of satiation in contests

Denes Palvolgyi (Maastricht University)Hans Peters (Maastricht University)Dries Vermeulen (Maastricht University)Existence of Nash-equilibrium in heterogeneous claim games

Aude Pommeret (Universite de Savoie and HEC Lausanne)Anne Epaulard (French Ministry of Finance)Bankruptcy law and firms' behaviour


Edward Cartwright: Session Chairman

Yukio Koriyama (Ecole Polytechnique)Freedom to not join: a voluntary participation game of a discrete public good

Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute, Bonn)Andreas Nicklisch (Max Planck Institute, Bonn)Andreas Glöckner (Max Planck Institute, Bonn)Not observable, but still effective? Hidden and open social sanctions in public-goodsexperiments

Edward Cartwright (University of Kent)Amrish Patel (University of Kent)An upper limit on contributions to a public good increases total contributions to thepublic good

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Akira Yakita: Session Chairman

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (University Paris 1)Mouez FODHA (University of Paris 1, CES and PSE)Environmental tax and the distribution of income with heterogeneous workers

Fabien Prieur (University of Savoie)Thierry Bréchet (CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain)Is education good for growth and the environment?

Akira Yakita (Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Universityof Tsukuba)Hisayuki Yamauchi (University of Tsukuba)Environmental awareness and environmental R&D spillovers in differentiatedduopoly

Education Economics 2 (Larmor Theatre)

Robert Fenge: Session Chairman

Kaname Miyagishima (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)Education and distributive justice with educational externality

Marcel Gerard (FUCAM)Natacha Gilson (Louvain School of Management, FUCaM)Fernando Ruiz (Louvain School of Management, FUCaM)Higher education and firms: on the interaction between research and regionalpolicies

Robert Fenge (University of Munich)Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics)Vertical differentiation in the quality of higher education when students are mobile


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11.00 – 12.30

Parallel Session 10

The Economics of Body Parts (D’Arcy Thompson Theatre)

Rod Garratt: Session Chairman

Ted Bergstrom (UCSB)Rod Garratt (UCSB)International sharing of stem cells

Mario Macis (University of Michigan)Nicola Lacetera (Case Western Reserve University)Robert Slonim (University of Sidney)Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behaviour

Ted Bergstrom (University of California at Santa Barbara)Incentives of stem cell donors

Topics in Economic Theory 2 (Dillon Theatre)

Nicholas Yannelis: Session Chairman

Craig S Webb (University of Manchester)Horst Zank (University of Manchester)Incentive compatible measurement of individual preferences

Jerome Keisler (University of Wisconsin, Madison)Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore)Why saturated probability spaces are necessary

Nicholas Yannelis (University of Manchester and University of Illinois)The role of ambiguity aversion in asymmetric information equilibrium theory

Networks and Financial Stability (McMunn Theatre)

Emanuela Sciubba: Session Chairman

Fabio Castiglionesi (Tilburg University)Noemí Navarro (Universidad de Málaga)Optimal fragile financial networks

Antonio Guarino (UCL)Philippe Jehiel (PSE and UCL)Social learning with coarse inference

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Daniela Di Cagno (LUISS Guido Carli Rome)Emanuela Sciubba (Birkbeck College London)Trust, trustworthiness and social networks: playing a trust game when networks areformed in the lab

Law and Economics 2 (Room AC215)

Andrew Daughety: Session Chairman

Rosa Ferrer (Vanderbilt University)The effect of lawyers’ career concerns on litigation

Dominique Demougin (European Business School)Producers’ intrinsic motivation and class action

Andrew F. Daughety (Vanderbilt University)Jennifer F. Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)A dynamic model of class action formation

General Equilibrium Theory (Room AC204)

Emanuela Randon: Session Chairman

Nizar Allouch (Queen Mary, University of London)A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods

Jacco Thijssen (Trinity College Dublin)Irreversible Decisions under Ex-Post Ambiguity

Emanuela Randon (University of Bologna-Department of Economics)Peter Simmons (Dept of Economics and Related Studies, University of York)Efficient allocations, equilibria and stability in Scarf''s economy


Thomas Eichner: Session Chairman

Agnes Tomini (GREQAM)Hubert Stahn (GREQAM)Conjunctive use of groundwater and rainwater: supplement irrigation andimplications for the resource

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Darko Jus (Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich)Markus Zimmer (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich)How much greener is really green? Carbon taxation design and resource extraction

Thomas Eichner (University of Bielefeld)Rüdiger Pethig (University of Siegen)Carbon leakage, the green paradox and perfect future markets

Experimental Economics 2 (Room AC203)

Luca Corazzini: Session Chairman

Andrei Bremzen (New Economic School)Irina Kirysheva (CEFIR at New Economic School)Anton Suvorov (New Economic School)Group merger as a way to achieve efficient coordination in weak-link games

Elena Molis (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis)Robert Veszteg (Universidad Carlos III)How (rational) agents are when they look for a partner: experimental results

Luca Corazzini (University of Padova)Michel Andre Marechal (University of Zürich)Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute, Bonn)Antonio Nicolò (University of Padua)Towards behavioural public choice, guilt aversion and accountability in the lab

Development and Trade (Larmor Theatre)

Guy Lalanne: Session Chairman

Fernando Jaramillo (Universidad de Rosario Bogota)Hubert Kempf (Banque de France and Paris School of Economics)Fabien Moizeau (Université de Rennes 1, CREM)Risk and the endogenous formation of risk-sharing coalitions

Tomoya Ida (Oita University)Mats Wilhelmsson (Royal Institute of Technology)An empirical test of migration and fiscal externality: the Swedish case

Guy Lalanne (INSEE-CREST)Ines Buono (Bank of Italy)The effect of the Uruguay round multilateral tariff reduction on the intensive andextensive margins of trade

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Arnaud Dellis: Session Chairman

Jorge Alcalde-Unzu (University of the Basque Country)Marc Vorsatz (FEDEA)On measuring consensus

Sebastien Courtin (CREM, Universite Caen)Boniface Mbih (CREM, Universite Caen)How often do sequential positional rules violate the reinforcement axiom?

Arnaud Dellis (Université Laval)Splitting, squeezing and diluting: polarization and endogenous candidacy

Fiscal Competition (Room AC214)

Caterina Liesegang: Session Chairman

Yang Chen (Nanyang Technological University)Hong Wei Huang (Nanyang Technological University)Rethinking tax competition based on the endogenous equilibrium

Matthias Wrede (Philipps-Universität Marburg)Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization

Caterina Liesegang (University of Magdeburg)Marco Runkel (University of Magdeburg)Corporate income taxation of multinationals and fiscal equalization


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13.45 – 15.15

Parallel Session 11

Industrial Organization 2 (Room AC214)

Rabah Amir: Session Chairman

Giuseppe De Feo (University of Strathclyde)Rabah Amir (University of Arizona)Endogenous timing in a mixed duopoly

Yulia Pavlova (University of Jyväskylä, Department of Mathematical InformationTechnology)Credibility of players’ commitment to international environmental agreements

Rabah Amir (University of Arizona)Natalia Lazzati (University of Arizona)Network effects, market structure and industry performance

International Migration (Larmor Theatre)

David De La Croix: Session Chairman

Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University)Oded Stark (University of Bonn)Carlo Devillanova (Bocconi University)Silke Uebelmesser (University of Munich)What policies emerge when both the sending and the receiving countries can setmigration policies?

Giovanni Facchini (Erasmus University Rotterdam)Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University)Prachi Mishra (IMF)Do interest groups affect us immigration policy?

David De La Croix (Université Catholique de Louvain)Frederic Docquier (Université Catholique de Louvain)An international treaty to break the immigration deadlock

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Mechanism Design 2 (McMunn Theatre)

Mark Walker: Session Chairman

Paul Healy (The Ohio State University)Laurent Mathevet (University of Texas at Austin)Designing stable mechanisms for economic environments

Matt Van Essen (University of Arizona)A simple supermodular mechanism that implements Lindahl allocations

Matt Van Essen (University of Arizona)Natalia Lazzati (University of Arizona)Mark Walker (University of Arizona)An experimental comparison of three Lindahl mechanisms


Stéphane Gauthier: Session Chairman

Alberto Bisin (NYU)Adriano Rampini (Duke - Fuqua School of Business)A Mirrleesian theory of Ramsey taxation

Laszlo Goerke (University of Tuebingen)Commodity tax structure under uncertainty in a perfectly competitive market

Stéphane Gauthier (ENSAE and CREST)Separability and public finance


Paolo Pin: Session Chairman

Stefano Barbieri (Department of Economics, Tulane University)David Malueg (Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside)Threshold uncertainty in the private-information subscription game

Licun Xue (McGill University)Lingling Zhang (University of Rhode Island)Growth heterogeneity and international environmental agreements

Paolo Pin (Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Università di Siena)Optimal equilibria of the best shot game

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Christophe Starzec: Session Chairman

Keshab Bhattarai (University of Hull)Carlo Perroni (University of Warwick)Redistributive taxation and long-run income inequality

Riccarda Longaretti (University of Milan - Bicocca)Floriana Cerniglia (University of Milan - Bicocca)Federalism, education-related public good and growth when agents areheterogeneous

Francois Gardes (University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne)Christophe Starzec (CNRS, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne)Polish households’ behaviour in the regular and informal economies


Gareth Myles: Session Chairman

Alexandru Minea (University of Auvergne)Patrick Villieu (University of Orleans)Can inflation targeting promote institutional quality in developing countries?

Audrey Desbonnet (Department of Economics, University of Vienna)Thomas Weitzenblum (University of Franche-Comté, CRESE and PSE-CEPREMAP)Public debt, steady state and transitional dynamics

Gareth D Myles (University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies)Nigar Hashimzade (University of Reading)Growth and public infrastructure

Development Economics 2 (Room AC213)

Karine Marazyan: Session Chairman

Luciano Greco (University of Padova)Devis Geron (University of Padova)Intra-generational impacts of social security: the case of Italy

Rosaria Vega Pansini (University of Pavia)Multiplier decomposition, poverty and inequality in income distribution in a samframework: the Vietnamese case

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Karine Marazyan (University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)Effects of foster-children supply on biological children education demand: Someevidence from Cameroon


Serge C. Kolm: Session Chairman

Watcharapong Ratisukpimol (University of Colorado at Boulder)Combating maritime piracy: unsecured trade and the optimal provision of the publicgood

Laure Athias (IDHEAP/University of Lausanne)Political accountability, incentives, and contractual design of public privatepartnerships

Serge C. Kolm (EHESS)The theory of rules and the moral provision of public goods


15.30 – 17.00

Parallel Session 12

Networks and the Diffusion of Information and Behaviour (McMunn Theatre)

Markus Mobius: Session Chairman

Yann Bramoulle (Laval University)Brian Rogers (MEDS, Northwestern University)Diversity and popularity in social networks

Markus Mobius (Harvard University)Tuan Phan (MIT)Tracing Social Learning in a Real-World Social Network

Jacomo Corbo (University of Pennsylvania)TBA

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Chris Ellis: Session Chairman

Amedeo Piolatto (Universidad de Alicante - D. de Fundamentos del AnálisisEconómico)Electoral systems and the distortion of voters’ preferences

Christopher Ellis (University of Oregon)John Fender (University of Birmingham)Gradual franchise extensions and growth

Joyce C. Loh (Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder)Economic conditions for democratization

Empirical and Environmental Economics (Room AC215)

Mélanie Heugues: Session Chairman

Olivier Beaumais (Care, University of Rouen, France)Gildas Appéré (University of Brest)Recreational shellfish harvesting and health risks: a pseudo-panel approachcombining revealed and stated preference data with correction for on-site sampling

T. Q. Trang Do (CES - University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne)How firms with different characteristics experience barriers to growth: an empiricalanalysis of micro and small firms in Vietnam

Mélanie Heugues (LAMETA)International environmental cooperation: a new eye on the greenhouse gasesemissions’ control

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International Economics 2 (Room AC204)

Dirk Schindler: Session Chairman

Tu-Anh Nguyen (University Paris 1, CNRS)Cuong Le Van (CNRS, University of Paris 1, CES)Manh-Hung Nguyen (Thema, Cergy Pontoise University)Thai-Bao Luong (National Economics University)New technology, human capital and growth for developing country

Calin Arcalean (ESADE - Ramon Llull University)Dynamic fiscal competition and economic integration

Dirk Schindler (University of Konstanz)Guttorm Schjelderup (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration,Department of Finance)Multinationals, minority ownership and tax-efficient financing structures


Vincent Vannetelbosch: Session Chairman

Gilles Grandjean (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Ana Mauleon (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Vincent J Vannetelbosch (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Strongly rational sets for normal-form games

Gonzalo Olcina (University of Valencia, ERI-CES)Vicente Calabuig (University of Valencia, ERI-CES)Trust and punishment in the market

Pierre Dehez (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)Daniela Tellone (CEREC, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis)Data games sharing public goods with exclusion

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Ashley Piggins: Session Chairman

Aristide Valeu (CREM UMR CNRS 6211 Université de Caen)Boniface Mbih (CREM UMR CNRS 6211 Université de Caen)Louis-Aimé Fono (Université de Douala)Some further on logrolling in committees

Kari Saukkonen (University of Turku)Continuity of infinite state set Arrovian social welfare functions

Ashley Piggins (National University of Ireland, Galway)Juan Perote-Pena (Universidad de Zaragoza)Conal Duddy (NUI, Galway)Arrow’s theorem and max-star transitivity


17.15 – 18.00 (O’Flaherty Theatre)

Plenary Lecture 3

Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University)Small groups in large economies; Past, present and future

Sunday, June 21st

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