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FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 2010


DAY OVERVIEW
09:00 - 10:45 PAIRED INVITED SESSIONS
11:15 - 12:45 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
13:00 - 14:00 POLICY SESSION
14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS
16:45 - 18:15 PLENARY SESSION


09:00 - 10:45 PAIRED INVITED SESSIONS



09:00 - 10:45 COMMUNICATION / ORGANIZATIONS
Chairperson: Ilya Segal, Stanford University
Discussant: Navin Kartik, Columbia University
Room Yellow River Hall

  GIVING AND RECEIVING ADVICE
Joel Sobel, University of California, San Diego

 
  BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND ORGANIZATION: NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Andrea Prat, London School of Economics
Co-Author: Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
 

09:00 - 10:45 TRADE AND FIRM DYNAMICS
Chairperson: Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA
Discussant: Stephen Redding, Princeton University
Room Auditorium

  TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND FIRM DYNAMICS
Marc Melitz, Harvard University
Co-Author: Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles

 
  INTERNATIONAL TRADE: LINKING MICRO AND MACRO
Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago
Co-Author: Jonathan Eaton, New York University
 

09:00 - 10:45 APPLIED ECONOMICS
Chairperson: Martin Browning, Oxford University
Discussant: Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley
Room Century Hall

  MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATION AND PRODUCTIVITY
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics

 
  EXTRAPOLATE-ING: EXTERNAL VALIDITY AND OVERIDENTIFICATION IN A LATE FRAMEWORK
Ivan Fernandez-Val, Boston University
Co-Author: Joshua Angrist, MIT
 

11:15 - 12:45 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS



11:15 - 12:45 MATCHING AND MARKETS I (THY)
Chairperson: Dirk Hofmann, Humboldt-University Berlin
Room Gran Melia B1

  ASSORTATIVE MATCHING AND RISK SHARING
Hailin Sun, Toulouse School of Economics
Co-Author: Sanxi Li, Toulouse School of Economics

 
  ASSORTATIVE LEARNING
Jan Eeckhout, UPF - UPENN
Co-Author: Xi Weng, UPenn

 
  BILATERAL SEARCH WITH HORIZONTAL HETEROGENEITY
Dirk Hofmann, Humboldt-University Berlin
Co-Author: Salmai Qari, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich
 

11:15 - 12:45 REPEATED GAMES I (THY)
Chairperson: Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
Room Gran Melia B2

  LEARNING FROM PRIVATE INFORMATION IN NOISY REPEATED GAMES
Yuichi Yamamoto, Harvard University
Co-Author: Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University

 
  DYNAMIC GAMES WITH INFORMATION LAG
Ichiro Obara, UCLA
Co-Author: Vhaskar V, UCL

 
  COOPERATION IN NOISY�REPEATED�GAMES
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University
Co-Authors: Anna Dreber, Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) and David G. Rand, Harvard University
 

11:15 - 12:45 POLITICAL ECONOMY - THEORY (THY)
Chairperson: C�sar Guerrero-Luchtenberg, University of Castilla la Mancha
Room Gran Melia B3

  LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES AS INFORMATION INTERMEDIARIES: A UNIFIED THEORY OF COMMITTEE SELECTION AND AMENDMENT RULES
Yuichiro Kamada, Harvard University
Co-Authors: Attila Ambrus, Harvard and Eduardo Azevedo, Harvard University

 
  MISINFORMATION
Wei Li, University of British Columbia
Co-Author: Hao Li, University of British Columbia and University of Toronto

 
  TIMING OF PROTECTIONISM
C�sar Guerrero-Luchtenberg, University of Castilla la Mancha
Co-Author: Aurora G�mez-Galvarriato, CIDE
 

11:15 - 12:45 MODELS WITH OPTIMISM AND NON-COMMON PRIORS (THY)
Chairperson: Artyom Shneyerov, Concordia University, CIREQ, CIRANO
Room Gran Melia F1

  SENTIMENTS AND RATIONALIZABILITY
Laurent Mathevet, UT Austin

 
  HETEROGENEOUS BELIEFS IN A CONTINUOUS-TIME MODEL
Chiaki Hara, Kyoto University

 
  HOW OPTIMISM WITHOUT A COMMON PRIOR LEADS TO PRICE DISCOVERY AND EFFICIENCY IN A DYNAMIC MATCHING MARKET
Artyom Shneyerov, Concordia University, CIREQ, CIRANO
Co-Author: Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia University, CIREQ
 


11:15 - 12:45 EXPERIMENTS ON COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING (EXP)
Chairperson: Sandra Ludwig, University of Munich
Room Gran Melia B4

  THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURE IN LEGISLATIVE BARGAINING: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS
Arthur Schram, University of Amsterdam
Co-Authors: Adrian de Groot Ruiz, University of Amsterdam and Roald Ramer, University of Amsterdam

 
  COORDINATING RESISTANCE THROUGH COMMUNICATION AND REPEATED INTERACTION
Vai-Lam Mui, Monash University
Co-Author: Timothy N. Cason, Purdue University

 
  DOES DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING REDUCE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION? THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Sandra Ludwig, University of Munich
Co-Authors: Daniel Houser, George Mason University and Thomas Stratmann, George Mason University
 

11:15 - 12:45 EXPERIMENTS ON SOCIAL PREFERENCES (EXP)
Chairperson: Yohanes E. Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University
Room Gran Melia F2

  CONTRACTING UNDER RECIPROCAL ALTRUISM
Oleg Shchetinin, Gothenburg University

 
  TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS REPUTATIONS IN AN INVESTMENT GAME
Ninghua Du, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Co-Authors: Gary Charness, UC Santa Barbara and Chun-Lei Yang, Academia Sinica

 
  AN EGALITARIAN REGIME BREEDS GENEROSITY: THE EFFECT OF ENDOWMENT ALLOCATION PROCEDURES ON SOCIAL PREFERENCES
Yohanes E. Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University
Co-Author: Jianlin Zhang, Singapore Institute of Management
 


11:15 - 12:45 VOLATILITY II (FIN)
Chairperson: Enrique Sentana, CEMFI
Room 5A

  LONG AND SHORT TERM JUMPS IN COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES: STATISTICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
Ke Tang, Hanqing Institute - Renmin University of China
Co-Authors: Michael Dempster, Cambridge University and Elena Medova, Cambridge University

 
  RISK. UNCERTAINTY AND MONETARY POLICY
Marie Hoerova, European Central Bank

 
  VALUATION OF VIX DERIVATIVES
Enrique Sentana, CEMFI
Co-Author: Javier Mencia, Bank of Spain
 

11:15 - 12:45 INVESTMENT DYNAMICS (FIN)
Chairperson: Maria Cecilia Bustamante, London School of Economics
Room 5B

  INVESTMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
Kenichi Ueda, International Monetary Fund
Co-Authors: Stijn Claessens, International Monetary Fund and Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University

 
  NO BANK, ONE BANK, SEVERAL BANKS: DOES IT MATTER FOR INVESTMENT
Alexander Karaivanov, Simon Fraser University
Co-Authors: Sonia Ruano, Banco de Espa�a, Jesus Saurina, Banco de Espa�a and Robert Townsend, MIT

 
  INVESTMENT AND ASSET RETURNS' DYNAMICS IN OLIGOPOLIES
Maria Cecilia Bustamante, London School of Economics
 


11:15 - 12:45 COLLUSION AND TYING: THEORY (IND)
Chairperson: Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne
Room Gran Melia F3

  ASYMMETRIC COST PASS-THROUGH IN SUPPLY FUNCTION EQUILIBRIA, COORDINATING BIDS IN POWER SPOT MARKETS
Nikolas Woelfing, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

 
  MULTI-MARKET COLLUSION WITH DEMAND LINKAGES AND ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
Heiko Gerlach, Univeristy of Auckland
Co-Author: Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State Univesity and Yonsei University

 
  THE DETERRENCE EFFECT OF EXCLUDING RINGLEADERS FROM LENIENCY PROGRAMS
Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne
Co-Author: Jesko Herre, University of Cologne
 

11:15 - 12:45 PRICING: THEORY II (IND)
Chairperson: Simon Weidenholzer, Universit�t Wien
Room Gran Melia F5

  ONLINE AUCTIONS WITH COMPETITIVE SELLERS
Jianxia Yang, School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology
Co-Authors: Xing Bao, School of Business Administration, Zhejiang GongShang University, Hongmin Chen, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hong Wang, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 
  MULTIPRODUCT PRICING AND THE DIAMOND PARADOX
Andrew Rhodes, University of Oxford

 
  PRICE DISPERSION, SEARCH EXTERNALITIES, AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Simon Weidenholzer, Universit�t Wien
Co-Authors: manfred nermuth, Economics Department, University of Vienna, Giacomo Pasini, University of Venice and Paolo Pin, Universit� di Siena
 


11:15 - 12:45 FINANCIAL CRISES II (INT)
Chairperson: Kannika Thampanishvong, University of St Andrews
Room Yellow River Hall

  THE COMPOSITION MATTERS: CAPITAL INFLOWS AND LIQUIDITY CRUNCH DURING A GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Hui Tong, IMF
Co-Author: Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University

 
  DEBT MATURITY WITHOUT COMMITMENT
Dirk Niepelt, Study Center Gerzensee; U Bern; IIES Stockholm

 
  DELAY AND HAIRCUTS IN SOVEREIGN DEBT: RECOVERY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Kannika Thampanishvong, University of St Andrews
Co-Authors: Sayantan Ghosal, University of Warwick and Marcus Miller, University of Warwick
 

11:15 - 12:45 TRADE INTEGRATION (INT)
Chairperson: Calin Arcalean, ESADE Business School
Room 3I

  THE GAINS FROM VARIETY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Michael Seitz, University of Munich
Co-Author: Lukas Mohler, University of Basel

 
  ASYMMETRIC TRADE INTEGRATION AND GROWTH
Alan Woodland, University of New South Wales
Co-Authors: Seppo Honkapohja, Bank of Finland and Arja Turunen-Red, University of New Orleans

 
  DYNAMIC FISCAL INTERACTIONS AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
Calin Arcalean, ESADE Business School
 


11:15 - 12:45 EDUCATION DECISIONS (LAB)
Chairperson: Chao Fu, University of Pennsylvania
Room 5F

  RISK AVERSION AND SCHOOLING DECISIONS
Marco Leonardi, University of Milan
Co-Author: Christian Belzil, Ecole Polytechnique

 
  MODELING COLLEGE MAJOR CHOICES USING ELICITED MEASURES OF EXPECTATIONS AND COUNTERFACTUALS
V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University
Co-Authors: Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University and Songman Kang, Duke University

 
  EQUILIBRIUM TUITION, APPLICATIONS, ADMISSIONS AND ENROLLMENT IN THE COLLEGE MARKET
Chao Fu, University of Pennsylvania
 

11:15 - 12:45 LABOR CONTRACTS II (LAB)
Chairperson: Agata Maida, RWI-ESSEN
Room 5G

  INTERPRETING WAGE BARGAINING NORMS
Juhana Vartiainen, National Institute of Economic Research

 
  IMPLICIT VS. EXPLICIT INCENTIVES: THEORY AND A CASE STUDY
Oliver Fabel, University of Vienna

 
  RENT-SHARINH HOLD_UP AND WAGES
Agata Maida, RWI-ESSEN
Co-Authors: David Card, UC berkeley and Francesco Devicienti, University of Torino
 

11:15 - 12:45 WAGE INEQUALITY (LAB)
Chairperson: Ken Yamada, Singapore Management University
Room 5H

  INEQUALITY AND SPECIALIZATION: THE GROWTH OF LOW-SKILL SERVICE JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES
David Dorn, CEMFI
Co-Author: David Autor, MIT

 
  UNION WAGE SETTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYEES' EARNINGS: EVIDENCE FROM CERTIFICATION ELECTIONS
Brigham Frandsen, MIT Economics Department

 
  THE MINIMUM WAGE IN A DEFLATIONARY ECONOMY: THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE, 1994--2003
Ken Yamada, Singapore Management University
Co-Authors: Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University and Daiji Kawaguchi, Hitotsubashi University
 


11:15 - 12:45 FINANCIAL FRICTIONS II (MAX)
Chairperson: Varadarajan Chari, University of Minnesota
Room Century Hall

  CREDIT SHORTAGES, COLLATERAL VALUE, AND LACK OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE
Gabriela Mundaca, Johns Hopkins University

 
  THE DYNAMICS OF LOAN CONTRACTS
Celine Rochon, University of Oxford
Co-Author: Christophe Chamley, Boston University

 
  REPUTATION AND SUDDEN COLLAPSE IN SECONDARY LOAN MARKETS
Varadarajan Chari, University of Minnesota
Co-Authors: Ali Shourideh, University of Minnesota and Ariel Zetlin Jones, University of Minnesota
 

11:15 - 12:45 MONETARY THEORY (MAX)
Chairperson: Daniela Puzzello, University of Illinois
Room 3A

  A THEORY OF THE NON-NEUTRALITY OF MONEY WITH BANKING FRICTIONS AND BANK RECAPITALIZATION
Zhixiong Zeng, Monash University

 
  MONEY AND PRICE POSTING UNDER PRIVATE INFORMATION
Mei Dong, Bank of Canada
Co-Author: Janet Jiang, University of Manitoba

 
  THE INFORMATIONAL ROLE OF PRICES AND THE ESSENTIALITY OF MONEY IN THE LAGOS-WRIGHT MODEL
Daniela Puzzello, University of Illinois
Co-Authors: Luis Araujo, Michigan State University, Braz Camargo, University of Western Ontario and Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University
 

11:15 - 12:45 FISCAL POLICY II (MAX)
Chairperson: Ruediger Bachmann, University of Michigan, IFO, CESifo
Room 3D

  DEFAULT RISK PREMIA ON GOVERNMENT BONDS IN A QUANTITATIVE MACROECONOMIC MODEL
Andreas Schabert, TU Dortmund University
Co-Authors: Falko Juessen, TU Dortmund and IZA and Ludger Linnemann, TU Dortmund University

 
  OPTIMAL FISCAL POLICY OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE REVISITED
Alessandro Mennuni, University of Southampton and European University Institute
Co-Author: Martin Gervais, University of Southampton

 
  GOVERNMENT PURCHASES OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE: THE ROLE OF HETEROGENEITY ANDWEALTH BIAS IN POLITICAL DECISION MAKING
Ruediger Bachmann, University of Michigan, IFO, CESifo
Co-Author: Bai Jinhui, Georgetown University
 

11:15 - 12:45 ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE DIRECTION OF TECHNICAL CHANGE (MAX)
Chairperson: Ioana Schiopu, ESADE Business School
Room 3E

  IN DUBIO, PRO CES: TECHNICAL PROGRESS SPECIFICATION AND THE ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
Miguel Leon-Ledesma, University of Kent and Alpo Willman, European Central Bank
Co-Author: Peter McAdam, European Central Bank

 
  A GENERALIZATION OF THE SAMUELSON-ARA SURROGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTION
Takashi Yagi, Meiji University (School of Political Science and Economics)

 
  DIRECTED TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Ioana Schiopu, ESADE Business School
 

11:15 - 12:45 CREDIT MARKETS II (MAX)
Chairperson: Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
Room 3H

  ENDOGENOUS LIQUIDITY AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE
Saki Bigio, New York University

 
  CREDIT SCORES AND COLLEGE INVESTMENT
Felicia Ionescu, Colgate Univ / visiting Univ of Pennsylvania
Co-Author: Nicole Simpson, Colgate University

 
  FINANCIAL STRUCTURE, INFORMALITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
Co-Author: Pablo D'Erasmo,
 


11:15 - 12:45 PUBLIC FINANCE: EMPIRICAL ISSUES II (PUB)
Chairperson: Ignez Tristao, Interamerican Development Bank
Room 3G

  ROAD INVESTMENT AND INVENTORY REDUCTION: EVIDENCE ON CAUSALITY AND EXTERNALITY
Zhigang Li, University of Hong Kong

 
  TAX FAIRNESS PERCEPTIONS AND WORK EFFORT: EVIDENCE FROM ABSENTEEISM
Oliver Himmler, MPI Bonn
Co-Authors: Thomas Cornelissen, UC London and Tobias Koenig, University Hannover

 
  RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS: PRODUCTIVITY OR QUALITY GROWTH? AN ESTIMATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH SECTOR AT THE HOSPITAL LEVEL
Ignez Tristao, Interamerican Development Bank
Co-Authors: Juan Contreras, Congressional Budget Office and Elena Spatoulas, University of Michigan
 


11:15 - 12:45 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND FISCAL POLICY (POL)
Chairperson: Bj�rn Hinnerich, Stockholm Univerisity
Room 3C

  ELITE CAPTURE OF LOCAL INSTITUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT IN AFGHANISTAN
Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School
Co-Authors: Beath Andrew, Harvard University and Christia Fotini, MIT

 
  HOW DO ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AFFECTS FISCAL POLICY? EVIDENCE FROM STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Christina Gathmann, University of Mannheim

 
  THE POLICY CONSEQUENCES OF DIRECT VERSUS REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY APPROACH
Bj�rn Hinnerich, Stockholm Univerisity
Co-Author: Per Pettersson-Lidbom, Stockholm University
 

11:15 - 12:45 POLITICAL PARTIES AND LEADERS (POL)
Chairperson: Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick
Room 3J

  SPLIT-TICKET VOTING: AN IMPLICIT INCENTIVE APPROACH
Galina Zudenkova, University Carlos III of Madrid

 
  MEDIOCRACY
Andrea Mattozzi, Caltech
Co-Author: Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania

 
  THE LEADER AS CATALYST: ON MASS MOVEMENTS AND THE POLITICAL MECHANICS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick
Co-Author: Sumon Majumdar, Queens University
 


11:15 - 12:45 INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT I (DEV)
Chairperson: Manasa Patnam, University of Cambridge
Room 3B

  CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT: A POLITICAL ECONOMY MODEL OF LEGAL DEVELOPMENT
Fali Huang, Singapore Management University

 
  HOW DOES CENTRAL AUTHORITY GOVERN THE PROVINCIAL LEADERS? EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Wu Mingqin, School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

 
  POWER, POLITICS AND PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL PERSISTENCE IN RURAL PUNJAB
Manasa Patnam, University of Cambridge
 


11:15 - 12:45 IV/GMM WITH WEAK OR MANY INSTRUMENTS (ECO)
Chairperson: Jan Kiviet, University of Amsterdam
Room Yangtze Hall

  INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ESTIMATION WITH HETEROSKEDASTICITY AND MANY INSTRUMENTS
John Chao, University of Maryland
Co-Authors: Jerry Hausman, MIT, Whitney Newey, MIT, Norman Swanson, Rutgers University and Tiemen Woutersen, Johns Hopkins University

 
  ON THE ASYMPTOTIC SIZE DISTORTION OF TESTS WHEN INSTRUMENTS LOCALLY VIOLATE THE EXOGENEITY ASSUMPTION
Patrik Guggenberger, UC San Diego, Department of Economics

 
  COMPARING THE ASYMPTOTIC AND EMPIRICAL (UN)CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF OLS AND IV IN A LINEAR STATIC SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION
Jan Kiviet, University of Amsterdam
Co-Author: Jerzy Niemczyk, European Central Bank
 

11:15 - 12:45 STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION I (ECO)
Chairperson: Thierry Magnac, Toulouse School of Economics
Room 5C

  INFERENCE ON A GENERALIZED ROY MODEL, WITH AN APPLICATION TO SCHOOLING DECISIONS IN FRANCE
Arnaud Maurel, CREST-ENSAE
Co-Author: Xavier d'Haultfoeuille, CREST-INSEE

 
  ESTIMATION OF A MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIUM GAME WITH COMPLETE INFORMATION: HUSBAND AND WIFE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN MEXICO
Brasil Alberto Acosta-Pena, CIDE

 
  COLLEGE ENTRY EXAMS: A DYNAMIC DISCRETE CHOICE MODEL
Thierry Magnac, Toulouse School of Economics
Co-Author: Jos� Raimundo Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Ceara
 

11:15 - 12:45 QUANTILES I (ECO)
Chairperson: Anil Bera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 5D

  NONPARAMETRIC QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH DISCONTINUITIES
Tatsushi Oka, Boston University

 
  QUANTILE REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH MISSING RESPONSE, WITH APPLICATIONS TO INEQUALITY MEASURES AND DATA COMBINATION
Jungmo Yoon, Claremont McKenna College

 
  WHICH QUANTILE IS THE MOST INFORMATIVE? MAXIMUM ENTROPY QUANTILE REGRESSION
Anil Bera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

11:15 - 12:45 GARCH MODELS II (ECO)
Chairperson: Jean-michel Zakoian, CREST and University Lille 3
Room 5E

  OPTIMAL PREDICTIONS OF POWERS OF CONDITIONALLY HETEROSKEDASTIC PROCESSES
Christian Francq, University Lille 3
Co-Author: Jean-michel Zakoian, CREST and University Lille 3

 
  A ROBUST ESTIMATOR OF CONDITIONAL VOLATILITY
Chi Wan, Carleton Univer4sity
Co-Author: Zhijie Xiao, Boston College

 
  STRICT STATIONARITY TESTING AND ESTIMATION OF EXPLOSIVE ARCH MODELS
Jean-michel Zakoian, CREST and University Lille 3
 

11:15 - 12:45 STRUCTURAL CHANGE II (ECO)
Chairperson: Leandro Magnusson, Tulane University
Room 5I

  DATING THE TIMELINE OF FINANCIAL BUBBLES DURING THE SUBPRIME CRISIS
Jun Yu, Singapore Management University
Co-Author: Peter Phillips, Yale University

 
  TESTING STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS VIA QUANTILE REGRESSIONS
Liangjun Su, Singapore Management University
Co-Author: Zhijie Xiao, Boston College

 
  IDENTIFICATION USING STABILITY RESTRICTIONS
Leandro Magnusson, Tulane University
Co-Author: Sophocles Mavroeidis, Brown University
 

11:15 - 12:45 NONSTATIONARY TIME SERIES (ECO)
Chairperson: Offer Lieberman, University of Haifa
Room 5J

  EXPONENTIALS OF UNIT ROOT PROCESSES
Robert de Jong, Ohio State University

 
  LINEAR TRENDS AND INITIAL CONDITIONS IN LONG MEMORY TIME SERIES
Heiko Rachinger, Universidad Carlos III

 
  A SIMILARITY-BASED APPROACH TO TIME-VARYING COEFFICIENT NONSTATIONARY AUTOREGRESSION
Offer Lieberman, University of Haifa
 

11:15 - 12:45 MOMENT INEQUALITIES I (ECO)
Chairperson: Donald Andrews, Yale University
Room Pearl Hall

  BOUNDING ENDOGENOUS PARAMETERS WITH GENERALIZED INSTRUMENTAL MOMENT INEQUALITIES
JinYoung Choi, Boston College
Co-Author: Myoung-jae Lee, Korea University

 
  ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE FOR UNCONDITIONAL MOMENT INEQUALITY RESTRICTIONS MODELS ESTIMATED VIA GMM AND GENERALIZED EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD
Nicky Grant, University of Cambridge
Co-Author: Smith Richard, University of Cambridge

 
  INFERENCE BASED ON CONDITIONAL MOMENT INEQUALITIES
Donald Andrews, Yale University
Co-Author: Xiaoxia Shi, Yale University
 

13:00 - 14:00 POLICY SESSION



13:00 - 14:00 PLENARY POLICY PANEL III
Chairperson: Jonathan Levin, Stanford University
Room Auditorium

  PATENTS: PROS AND CONS FOR INNOVATION AND EFFICIENCY
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University, Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA and Scott Stern, Northwestern University
 

14:15 - 16:15 CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS



14:15 - 16:15 DECISIONS - LEARNING AND IMITATION (THY)
Chairperson: Tymon Tatur, Bonn University
Room Century Hall

  SUBJECTIVITY IN INDUCTIVE INFERENCE
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Co-Author: Itzhak (Tzachi) Gilboa, HEC and Tel Aviv University

 
  MODELING THE CHANGE OF PARADIGM: NON-BAYESIAN REACTIONS TO UNEXPECTED NEWS
Pietro Ortoleva, California Institute of Technology

 
  UNBEATABLE IMITATION
Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis
Co-Authors: Peter Duersch, University of Heidelberg and Joerg Oechssler, University of Heidelberg

 
  ON AN EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMIC WITH ENDOGENOUS EXPERIMENTATION RATES
Tymon Tatur, Bonn University
 

14:15 - 16:15 MECHANISM DESIGN IV (THY)
Chairperson: Luca V. A. Colombo, Catholic University - Milano
Room 3A

  PROCUREMENT AND DEBT
Malin Arve, Toulouse School of Economics

 
  A DYNAMIC MODEL OF THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
Maria Yudkevich, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Co-Author: Irina Khovanskaya, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

 
  PUBLIC-GOOD PROVISION IN A LARGE ECONOMY
Felix Bierbrauer, Max Planck Institute
Co-Author: Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute

 
  THE WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF COSTLY INFORMATION PROVISION
Luca V. A. Colombo, Catholic University - Milano
Co-Author: Gianluca Femminis, Catholic University - Milano
 

14:15 - 16:15 FOUNDATIONS (THY)
Chairperson: Jie Zheng, Washington University in Saint Louis
Room 3B

  KNIGHTIAN GAMES AND ROBUSTNESS TO AMBIGUITY
Ronald Stauber, Australian National University

 
  WHAT IS BACKWARD INDUCTION?
Amanda Friedenberg, Arizona State University
Co-Author: Adam Brandenburger, New York University

 
  DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT I THINK YOU THINK? FINITE BELIEF HIERARCHIES IN GAMES
Willemien Kets, Santa Fe Institute

 
  STRONG BUBBLES AND COMMON EXPECTED BUBBLES IN A FINITE HORIZON MODEL
Jie Zheng, Washington University in Saint Louis
 

14:15 - 16:15 PRINCIPLE-AGENT MODELS II (THY)
Chairperson: Tsung-sheng Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Room 3C

  MINIMUM PAYMENTS, INCENTIVES, AND MARKET
Ohad Kadan, Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Authors: Ohad Kadan, Washington University in St. Louis and Jeroen Swinkels, Northwestern University

 
  OPTIMAL CONTRACTS WITH COSTLY INFORMATION ACQUISITION
Natalia Kovrijnykh, Arizona State University
Co-Author: Hector Chade, Arizona State University

 
  INCORPORATING MILESTONES IN CONTRACTS
Bin Chen, School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong

 
  THE ALLOCATION OF DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY WHEN PRINCIPAL HAS REPUTATION CONCERNS
Tsung-sheng Tsai, National Tsing Hua University
Co-Author: Yasunari Tamada, Keio University
 


14:15 - 16:15 EXPERIMENTS ON THE ROLE OF GENDER IN OUTCOMES (EXP)
Chairperson: Huibin Yan, UCSC
Room Yellow River Hall

  COMPETITION FOR TROPHY TRIGGERS MALE GENEROSITY
Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan, ICES, George Mason University
Co-Author: Daniel Houser, George Mason University

 
  GENDER, COMPETITIVENESS AND SOCIALIZATION AT A YOUNG AGE: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM A MATRILINEAL AND A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY
Seda Ertac, Koc University
Co-Authors: Steffen Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Uri Gneezy, , John List, University of Chicago and Sandra Maximiano, Purdue University Krannert School of Management

 
  THE IMPACT OF FEMALE SEX HORMONES ON COMPETITIVENESS
Thomas Buser, University of Amsterdam

 
  GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DICTATOR GAMES IN A MATRILINEAL AND A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES
Huibin Yan, UCSC
 

14:15 - 16:15 EXPERIMENTS ON COMPETITION AND MARKET DESIGN (EXP)
Chairperson: Jean-Louis Rulliere, University of Lyon
Room 3H

  SCREENING, COMPETITION AND JOB DESIGN
Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich
Co-Authors: Bjorn Bartling, University of Zurich and Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich

 
  MONEY TALKS? AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF REBATE IN REPUTATION SYSTEM DESIGN
Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Co-Author: Erte Xiao, Carnegie Mellon University

 
  CAN CONTRACTS SOLVE THE HOLD-UP PROBLEM? EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Eva Hoppe, University of Cologne
Co-Author: Patrick Schmitz, University of Cologne

 
  BREAKING COLLUSION IN AUCTIONS THROUGH SPECULATION: AN EXPERIMENT ON CO2 EMISSION PERMIT MARKET
Jean-Louis Rulliere, University of Lyon
Co-Authors: Michel MOUGEOT, , Florence NAEGELEN, and Benjamin PELLOUX, University of Lyon
 


14:15 - 16:15 TERM STRUCTURE MODELS II (FIN)
Chairperson: Christopher Otrok, University of Virginia
Room 5B

  TERM PREMIA AND THE NEWS
Michael Bauer, University of California, San Diego

 
  A DSGE MODEL OF THE TERM STRUCTURE WITH REGIME SHIFTS
Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank

 
  A MULTIFREQUENCY THEORY OF THE INTEREST RATE TERM STRUCTURE
Adlai Fisher, University of British Columbia
Co-Authors: Laurent Calvet, HEC Paris and Liuren Wu, Baruch College

 
  NEWS SHOCKS AND THE SLOPE OF THE TERM STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES
Christopher Otrok, University of Virginia
Co-Author: Andre Kurmann, University-Quebec Montreal
 

14:15 - 16:15 ASSET PRICING V (FIN)
Chairperson: M. Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University and USC
Room 5C

  BEAUTY CONTESTS AND ASSET PRICES UNDER ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION
Noritaka Kudoh, Hokkaido University
Co-Author: Ryuichiro Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba

 
  HIGHER ORDER BELIEFS AND ASSET MARKET DYNAMICS
Liangfei Qiu, Department of Economics, UT Austin
Co-Author: Ho-Mou Wu, CCER, NSD, Peking University

 
  A SENTIMENT-BASED EXPLANATION OF THE FORWARD PREMIUM PUZZLE
Jianfeng Yu, University of Minnesota

 
  OPTIMALITY AND DIVERSIFIABILITY OF MEAN VARIANCE AND ARBITRAGE PRICING PORTFOLIOS
M. Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University and USC
Co-Author: Paolo Zaffaroni, Imperial College, UK
 

14:15 - 16:15 CRISES / CRASHES (FIN)
Chairperson: Ferre De Graeve, Sveriges Riksbank
Room 5F

  CREDIT CONDITIONS AND RECOVERIES FROM RECESSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FINANCIAL CRISES
Prakash Kannan, IMF

 
  A LARGE TRADER IN BUBBLES AND CRASHES: AN APPLICATION TO CURRENCY ATTACKS
Mei Li, Economics department, University of Guelph
Co-Author: Frank Milne, Queen's University

 
  FINANCIAL CRISES AND THE EVAPORATION OF TRUST
Kartik Anand, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Co-Authors: Prasanna Gai, The Australian National University, Crawford School of Economics and Government and Matteo Marsilii, ICTP Trieste

 
  INFORMATION-BASED BANK RUNS OR PANICS?
Ferre De Graeve, Sveriges Riksbank
 


14:15 - 16:15 TWO-SIDED MARKETS I (IND)
Chairperson: Matthieu BOUVARD, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
Room 3D

  WHEN TO ALLOW BUYERS TO SELL? BUNDLING IN MIXED TWO-SIDED MARKETS
Ming Gao, London Business School

 
  MIXED BUNDLING IN TWO-SIDED MARKETS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Yong Chao, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
Co-Author: Timothy Derdenger, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

 
  ISSUER COMPETITION AND THE CREDIT CARD INTERCHANGE FEE PUZZLE
Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Co-Author: Jean-Charles Rochet, Universty of Zurich - TSE

 
  HUMOURING BOTH PARTIES: A MODEL OF TWO-SIDED REPUTATION
Matthieu BOUVARD, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
Co-Author: Raphael Levy, European University Institute
 

14:15 - 16:15 STRATEGIC ENTRY: EMPIRICAL STUDIES (IND)
Chairperson: Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics
Room 3E

  ESTIMATING A MODEL OF STRATEGIC NETWORK CHOICE: THE CONVENIENCE-STORE INDUSTRY IN OKINAWA
Nishida Mitsukuni, Johns Hopkins University

 
  BRAND EFFECTS AND ENTRY DETERRENCE: AN EXAMINATION OF SPATIAL PREEMPTION
Nathan Wilson, University of Michigan

 
  DISCRETE GAMES WITH FLEXIBLE INFORMATION STRUCTURES: AN APPLICATION TO LOCAL GROCERY MARKETS
Paul Grieco, Northwestern University

 
  ESTIMATING THE �COORDINATED EFFECTS� OF MERGERS
Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics
Co-Author: Peter Davis, Competition Commission
 


14:15 - 16:15 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (INT)
Chairperson: Robert Kollmann, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR
Room Gran Melia B1

  FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND ANIMAL SPIRITS
Takuma Kunieda, City University of Hong Kong

 
  EXPLAINING EXTERNAL ASSET ALLOCATION: A MULTI-COUNTRY MODEL WITH PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY
Sergejs Saksonovs, University of Cambridge

 
  MONEY, OUTPUT, ASSET PRICES AND INFLATION: A TWO-COUNTRY PORTFOLIO MODEL WITH HETEROGENEOUS BELIEFS FOR THE EURO AREA AND THE UNITED STATES
Roberto De Santis, European Central Bank
Co-Author: Carlo Favero, Bocconi University

 
  LIMITED ASSET MARKET PARTICIPATION AND THE CONSUMPTION-REAL EXCHANGE RATE ANOMALY
Robert Kollmann, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR
 

14:15 - 16:15 INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS IV (INT)
Chairperson: Andrei Zlate, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Room Gran Melia F2

  UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIVE PRICES: THE ROLE OF NEWS SHOCKS
Jian Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Co-Author: Deokwoo Nam, City University of Hong Kong

 
  VALUATION EFFECTS WITH TREND AND TRANSITORY PRODUCTIVITY SHOCKS
Ha Nguyen, The World Bank

 
  UNINSURED IDIOSYNCRATIC INVESTMENT RISKS AND INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS
Haiping Zhang, Singapore Management University
Co-Author: J�rgen von Hagen, University of Bonn, Indiana University, CEPR

 
  IMMIGRATION, REMITTANCES AND BUSINESS CYCLES
Andrei Zlate, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Co-Author: Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
 


14:15 - 16:15 JOB SEARCH AND HIRING (LAB)
Chairperson: Christian Dustmann, University College London
Room 3I

  WAGE AND PRODUCTIVITY DISPERSION: LABOR QUALITY OR RENT SHARING?
Jesper Bagger, Royal Holloway, University of London
Co-Authors: Bent Jesper Christensen, University of Aarhus and CREATES and Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University

 
  BENEFIT DURATIONS AND JOB SEARCH BEHAVIOR
Su-Hsin Chang, Johns Hopkins University

 
  ETHNIC AND GEOGRAPHIC NETWORKS INFLUENCE JOB SEGREGATION
Michael Ransom, Brigham Young University
Co-Author: Laura Giuliano, University of Miami

 
  REFERRAL-BASED JOB SEARCH NETWORKS
Christian Dustmann, University College London
Co-Authors: Albrecht Glitz, Pompeu Fabra and Uta Schoenberg, UCL
 

14:15 - 16:15 PROGRAM EVALUATION I (LAB)
Chairperson: Pinto Rodrigo, University of Chicago
Room 3J

  DYNAMIC EVALUATION OF JOB SEARCH TRAINING
Stephen Kastoryano, University of Amsterdam

 
  SHORT-TERM TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR IMMIGRANTS: DO EFFECTS DIFFER FROM NATIVES AND WHY?
Thomas Walter, ZEW Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim
Co-Authors: Alisher Aldashev, Kazakh-British Technical University of Almaty and Stephan Thomsen, University of Magdeburg

 
  THE EFFECTS OF TAX INCENTIVES FOR SMALL FIRMS ON EMPLOYMENT LEVELS
Rodrigo Moura, EPGE/FGV
Co-Author: Carlos Henrique Courseuil, IPEA

 
  A REANALYSIS OF THE HIGH/SCOPE PERRY PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
Pinto Rodrigo, University of Chicago
Co-Authors: James Heckman, University of Chicago, Seong Hyeok Moon, Department of Economics, University of Chicago , Peter Savelyev, The University of Chicago, Department of Economics and Adam Yavitz, University of Chicago
 

14:15 - 16:15 THE ROLE OF SCHOOLS (LAB)
Chairperson: Giacomo De Giorgi, Stanford University
Room Pearl Hall

  WHO BENEFITS FROM KIPP?
Christopher Walters, MIT
Co-Authors: Joshua Angrist, MIT, susan dynarski, , thomas kane, and parag pathak,

 
  LEADERSHIP EFFECTS: SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND STUDENT OUTCOMES
Michael Coelli, University of Melbourne
Co-Author: David Green, University of British Columbia

 
  PEER EFFECTS AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ELEMENTARY TO MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION
Hongliang Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 
  UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THE CLASSROOM
Giacomo De Giorgi, Stanford University
Co-Author: Michele Pellizzari, IGIER-Bocconi University
 


14:15 - 16:15 WAGES AND MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES (MAX)
Chairperson: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
Room Gran Melia B2

  SOME EVIDENCE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STICKY WAGES
Alessandro Barattieri, Boston College
Co-Authors: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER and Peter Gottschalk, Boston College and IZA

 
  EX-ANTE SELECTION AND EX-POST LEARNING: IMPLICATIONS FOR LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
Gonul Sengul, European University Institute

 
  THE EFFECT OF WAGE RISK AND CROSS-SECTIONAL AGGREGATION ON THE LABOR SUPPLY RESPONSE IN MACROECONOMIC MODELS
Juan Contreras, Congressional Budget Office
Co-Author: Sven Sinclair, Social Security Administration

 
  INFERRING LABOR INCOME RISK FROM ECONOMIC CHOICES: AN INDIRECT INFERENCE APPROACH
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
Co-Author: Anthony Smith, Yale University
 

14:15 - 16:15 MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS (MAX)
Chairperson: Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University
Room Gran Melia F1

  A UNIFIED SOLUTION TO INVENTORY PUZZLES
Huntley Schaller, Carleton University
Co-Authors: Louis Maccini, Johns Hopkins University and Bartholomew Moore, Fordham University

 
  INFORMATION HETEROGENEITY BY FIRM SIZE AND BUSINESS CYCLE
Jie Cai, University of New South Wales, School of Economics

 
  UNCERTAINTY AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM BUSINESS SURVEY DATA
Steffen Elstner, IFO Institute Munich
Co-Author: Eric Sims, Notre Dame University

 
  STOCHASTIC GROWTH WITH SHORT-RUN PREDICTION OF SHOCKS
Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University
Co-Author: Itzhak Zilcha, Tel Aviv University and Southern Methodist University
 

14:15 - 16:15 LIFE CYCLE STUDIES I (MAX)
Chairperson: Wenli Li, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
Room Gran Melia F3

  THE LIFE CYCLE AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE OF WAGE RISK: A CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISON
Falko Juessen, TU Dortmund and IZA
Co-Author: Christian Bayer, University of Bonn

 
  LIFE CYCLE EARNINGS AND THE HOUSEHOLD SAVING PUZZLE IN A FAST-GROWING ECONOMY
Zheng Song, Fudan University
Co-Author: Dennis Yang , Chinese University of Hong Kong

 
  ON THE PERSISTENCE OF INCOME SHOCKS OVER THE LIFE CYCLE: EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS
Fatih Karahan, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Author: Serdar Ozkan, University of Pennsylvania

 
  CONSUMPTION AND TIME USE OVER THE LIFE CYCLE
Wenli Li, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
Co-Authors: Mike Dotsey, and Fang Yang,
 

14:15 - 16:15 MONETARY POLICY IV (MAX)
Chairperson: Ana Galvao, Queen Mary University of London
Room Gran Melia F5

  WORLD FOOD PRICES AND MONETARY POLICY
Luis Catao, Inter_American Development Bank
Co-Author: Roberto Chang, Rutgers University

 
  MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND POLICY EVALUATION IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN
Xiangrong Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 
  INFLATION TARGETING AND RELATIVE PRICE VARIABILITY: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES INFLATION TARGETING MAKE?
Chi-Young Choi, University of Texas at Arlington
Co-Authors: Young Se Kim, University of North Texas and Roisin O'Sullivan, Smith College

 
  ENDOGENOUS MONETARY POLICY REGIMES AND THE GREAT MODERATION
Ana Galvao, Queen Mary University of London
Co-Author: Massimiliano Marcellino, European University Institute
 


14:15 - 16:15 TAXATION I (PUB)
Chairperson: Jochen Mierau, University of Groningen
Room 3G

  THE OPTIMALITY OF INDIRECT TAXATION
Wan Junmin, Faculty of Economics, Fukuoka University
Co-Author: Fujimoto Hiroaki, Faculty of Economics, Fukuoka University

 
  INCOME TAXATION IN A LIFE CYCLE MODEL WITH HUMAN CAPITAL
Michael Keane, University of Technology Sydney

 
  TWO-TIER GOVERNMENTS, REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES AND PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION
Pierre Boyer, Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ) and EHESS

 
  GROWTH EFFECTS OF CONSUMPTION AND LABOUR-INCOME TAXATION IN AN OVERLAPPING-GENERATIONS LIFE-CYCLE MODEL
Jochen Mierau, University of Groningen
Co-Author: Ben Heijdra, University of Groningen
 


14:15 - 16:15 DEVELOPMENT: CHINA'S TRANSFORMATION (DEV)
Chairperson: Thomas Vendryes, Paris School of Economics, French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
Room Gran Melia B3

  EDUCATION�S ROLE IN CHINA�S STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Soohyung Lee, University of Maryland, College Park
Co-Author: Benjamin Malin, Federal Reserve Board

 
  RETURN MIGRANTS: THE RISE OF NEW ENTREPRENEURS IN RURAL CHINA
Hui Xu, GATE - University of Lyon - ENS-LSH
Co-Author: Sylvie D�murger, CNRS

 
  ACCOUNTING FOR RISING WAGES IN CHINA
Suqin Ge, Virginia Tech
Co-Author: Dennis Yang , Chinese University of Hong Kong

 
  LAND RIGHTS INSECURITY AND TEMPORARY MIGRATION IN RURAL CHINA.
Thomas Vendryes, Paris School of Economics, French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
Co-Authors: Maelys de la Rupelle, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Quheng Deng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Shi Li, Beijing Normal University (BNU)
 

14:15 - 16:15 DEVELOPMENT: EMPIRICAL ISSUES I (DEV)
Chairperson: Shiyi Chen, Fudan University
Room Gran Melia B4

  THE BLESSING OF NATURAL RESOURCES: EVIDENCE FROM A PERUVIAN GOLD MINE
Juan Pablo Rud, Royal Holloway, University of London
Co-Author: Fernando Aragon, London School of Economics

 
  ACCESS, SORTING AND ACHIEVEMENT: THE SHORT-RUN EFFECTS OF FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION IN KENYA
Isaac Mbiti, Southern Methodist University
Co-Author: Adrienne Lucas, Wellesley College

 
  MARKET ACCESS AFFECTS RURAL INCOME: FARM VS. NON-FARM ACTIVITIES IN CHINA
Zhaoyang Hou, National University of Singapore

 
  STRUCTURAL BONUS, PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN POST-REFORM CHINA
Shiyi Chen, Fudan University
Co-Authors: Gary Jefferson, Brandeis Univeristy and Jun Zhang, Fudan University
 


14:15 - 16:15 FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS II (ECO)
Chairperson: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
Room Yangtze Hall

  MODELLING MULTIVARIATE INTEREST RATES USING TIME-VARYING COPULAS AND REDUCIBLE NON-LINEAR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Ruijun Bu, Liverpool University
Co-Authors: Kaddour Hadri, Queen''s University Belfast and Michel Lubrano,

 
  ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS VIA FILTERING FOR ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY DATA
Yong Zeng, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Co-Authors: Xing Hu, Princeton University and David Kuipers, University of Missouri at Kansas City

 
  CRISIS TRANSMISSION AND CONTAGION: WHICH TEST TO USE?
Renee Fry, Australian National University
Co-Authors: Mardi Dungey, Cambridge and University of Tasmania and Vance Martin, University of Melbourne

 
  MODELING FINANCIAL CONTAGION USING MUTUALLY EXCITING JUMP PROCESSES
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
Co-Authors: Julio Cacho-Diaz, and Roger Laeven, CentER, Tilburg University
 

14:15 - 16:15 NONPARAMETRIC NONSEPARABLE MODELS (ECO)
Chairperson: Anne Vanhems, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse School of Economics
Room 5A

  IDENTIFICATION IN NONSEPARABLE MODELS BY NONPARAMETRIC COPULA RESTRICTIONS
Alexander Torgovitsky, Yale University

 
  CONTROL FUNCTIONS FOR NON-SEPARABLE SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS MODELS WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE CONDITIONS
Kyoo il Kim, University of Minnesota
Co-Author: Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 
  A NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP TEST OF EXOGENEITY TEST
Jinhyun Lee, UCL

 
  WELFARE ANALYSIS USING NONSEPARABLE MODELS
Anne Vanhems, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse School of Economics
Co-Author: Stefan Hoderlein, Brown University
 

14:15 - 16:15 BOOTSTRAP (ECO)
Chairperson: Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan
Room 5D

  A KERNEL BASED BOOTSTRAP METHOD FOR DEPENDENT PROCESSES
Paulo Parente, University of Exeter
Co-Author: Richard J. Smith, University of Cambridge

 
  THE BOOTSTRAP IN THRESHOLD REGRESSION
Ping Yu, University of Auckland

 
  BOOTSTRAPPING REALIZED MULTIVARIATE VOLATILITY MEASURES
Prosper Dovonon,
Co-Authors: Silvia Goncalves, University of Montreal and Nour Meddahi, Toulouse School of Economics

 
  BOOTSTRAPPING DENSITY-WEIGHTED AVERAGE DERIVATIVES
Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan
Co-Authors: Richard Crump, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Michael Jansson, UC-Berkeley and CREATES
 

14:15 - 16:15 SET ESTIMATION (ECO)
Chairperson: Kyungchul Song, University of Pennsylvania
Room 5E

  INFERENCE IN PARTIALLY IDENTIFIED NONPARAMETRIC INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES MODELS
Nese Yildiz, University of Rochester
Co-Author: Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Oregon State University Department of Mathematics

 
  A DUAL APPROACH TO INFERENCE FOR PARTIALLY IDENTIFIED ECONOMETRIC MODELS
Hiroaki Kaido, University of California, San Diego

 
  TESTING FOR INSTRUMENT INDEPENDENCE IN THE SELECTION MODEL
Toru Kitagawa, Lecturer

 
  POINT DECISIONS FOR INTERVAL-IDENTIFIED PARAMETERS
Kyungchul Song, University of Pennsylvania
 

14:15 - 16:15 MOMENT INEQUALITIES II (ECO)
Chairperson: Richard Blundell, University College London
Room 5H

  ASYMPTOTIC SIZE DISTORTIONS IN LOCALLY MISSPECIFIED MOMENT INEQUALITY MODELS
Ivan Canay, Northwestern
Co-Authors: Federico Bugni, Duke University and Patrik Guggenberger, UC San Diego, Department of Economics

 
  MODEL SELECTION TESTS FOR NONNESTED MOMENT INEQUALITY MODELS
Xiaoxia Shi, Yale University

 
  BAYESIAN ANALYSIS IN MOMENT INEQUALITY MODELS
Yuan Liao, Northwestern University
Co-Author: Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University

 
  STOCHASTIC DEMAND AND REVEALED PREFERENCE
Richard Blundell, University College London
Co-Authors: Dennis Kristensen, Columbia University and Rosa Matzkin, University of California, Los Angeles
 

14:15 - 16:15 EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD (ECO)
Chairperson: Sung Yong Park, University of Illinois
Room 5I

  EXISTENCE PROBLEMS WITH EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD AND RELATED ECONOMETRIC METHODS
Marian Grendar, Bel University
Co-Author: George Judge, UC Berkeley

 
  ROBUST EXPONENTIAL TILTING SPECIFICATION TEST UNDER MOMENT RESTRICTION AND LOCAL PARAMETRIC MISSPECIFICATIONS
Haiqi Li, WISE, Xiamen University
Co-Author: Sung Yong Park, University of Illinois

 
  EDGEWORTH EXPANSIONS FOR GMM AND GEL ESTIMATORS
Gubhinder Kundhi, Carleton University
Co-Author: Paul Rilstone, York University

 
  INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACHES TO DENSITY ESTIMATION WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE U.S. PERSONAL INCOME DATA
Sung Yong Park, University of Illinois
Co-Author: Anil Bera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

16:45 - 18:15 PLENARY SESSION



16:45 - 18:15 SHANGHAI LECTURE
Chairperson: Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
Room Grand Ballroom

  NONSEPARABLE MODELS FOR PANEL DATA
Whitney Newey, MIT
 

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