Bratislava Economic Meeting 2012

Program

Thursday, June 7 : Slovak Pub, Obchodná ulica 62
18:00 – 20:00 Registration + cash bar
The restaurant also offers typical and inexpensive Slovak dishes
Friday, June 8 : Austria Trend Hotel, Vysoká 2A
Parallel Session 1A: POLITICAL ECONOMY
8:30 – 8:50 Orestis Troumpounis: “Participation Quorums in Costly Meetings”
8:50 – 9:10 Ján Fidrmuc: “Crises, Reforms and Ideology”
9:10 – 9:30 Branimir Jovanovic: “How Policy Actions Affect Short-Term Post-Crisis Recovery?”
9:30 – 9:50 Marek Hlaváč: “The Effect of Political Leaders' Educational and Professional Background on Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Tariff Rates, 1988-2005”
Parallel Session 1B: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
8:30 – 8:50 Corina Haita: “Endogenous Market Power in an Emissions Trading Scheme with Auctioning”
8:50 – 9:10 Tibor Lalinský: “Firm Competitiveness Determinants: Results of a Panel Data Analysis”
9:10 – 9:30 Sherzod Tashpulatov: “Estimating the Volatility of Electricity Prices: The Case of the England and Wales Wholesale Electricity Market”
9:30 – 9:50 Mariya Teteryatnikova: “Horizontal Product Differentiation: Disclosure and Competition”
9:50 – 10:20 Coffee Break
Parallel Session 2A: EXPERIMENTAL I
10:20 – 10:40 James Tremewan: “Experiments on Multilateral Bargaining in Continuous Time”
10:40 – 11:00 Jana Vyrasteková: “Parental altruism: Evidence from field experiments in Tanzania”
11:00 – 11:20 Radovan Vadovič: “ABC on Deals”
11:20 – 11:40 Maroš Servátka: “Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission”
Parallel Session 2B: GAME THEORY & MODELING
10:20 – 10:40 Emma Svensson: “Bargaining over a Coca Cola - Reference Prices as a Source of Price Rigidity”
10:40 – 11:00 Dmitriy Vorobyev: “Participation in Fraudulent Elections”
11:00 – 11:20 Lucia Fašungová: “Parametric studies of CGE models”
11:20 – 11:40 Simone Marsiglio: “Reassessing Edgeworth’s Conjecture when Population Dynamics is Stochastic”
11:40 – 13:00 Lunch
KEYNOTE LECTURE
13:00 – 14:00 Jean-Robert Tyran: “Public Goods and Voting on Sanction Schemes”
Parallel Session 3A: ECONOMIC HISTORY & HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
14:10 – 14:30 Tomáš Cvrček: “The Spread of Steam: How Neighbors Mattered, 1841 - 1863”
14:30 – 14:50 Július Horváth: “The Life and Work of Imrich Karvaš”
14:50 – 15:10 Tomáš Cvrček: Cultural vs Economic Factors in Fertility Transition: the Case of Central Europe 1880 - 1910
Parallel Session 3B: EXPERIMENTAL II
14:10 – 14:30 Miroslav Zajíček: “Asset Market Bubbles and OLG”
14:30 – 14:50 Anna Gunnthorsdottir: “A Laboratory Study of Social Stratification and “Class””
14:50 – 15:10 Andreas Ortmann: “Self-Regulating Organizations under the Shadow of Governmental Oversight: An Experimental Investigation”
15:10 – 15:30 Urban Kovac: “ Forestry experiments: A study from Slovakia and Czech Republic”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Parallel Session 4A: LABOR I
16:00 – 16:20 Wadim Strielkowski: “New Evidence for Occupations Being the Structural Channels for Migration: Ukrainian Migration in the Czech Republic in the International Context”
16:20 – 16:40 Martin Labaj: “Labor Productivity Changes and Wages: The Case of Slovakia”
16:40 – 17:00 Matúš Senaj: “Human Capital, Consumption and Housing Wealth in Transition”
17:00 - 17:20 Martin Kahanec: “Inclusion of Immigrants into Welfare: The Myths and the Veracity in the EU”
Parallel Session 4B: FINANCE
16:00 – 16:20 Gabriela Pasztorová: “Credit Scoring of Bank-Affiliated Captive Finance Companies”
16:20 – 16:40 Michael Princ: “Dynamic Portfolio Analysis of Czech Stock Companies”
16:40 – 17:00 Zdeneˇk Kudrna: “International Banking Standards in Emerging Markets: Testing the Adaptation Thesis in the European Union”
17:00 - 17:20 Gueorgui I. Kolev: “Out-of-Sample Equity Premium Predictability and Sample Split Invariant Inference”
19:00 Conference Dinner
Reštaurácia Balass,Panská 15,811 01 Bratislava
Saturday, June 9 : Austria Trend Hotel, Vysoká 2A
Parallel Session 5A: BEHAVIORAL
8:30 – 8:50 Martin Petkov: “Fear of Negative Reciprocity and Risk Aversion”
8:50 – 9:10 Pavlo Blavatskyy: “A Model of Ambiguity Aversion”
9:10 – 9:30 Peter Katuščák: “Feedback-Triggered Belief Distortions: Theory and Evidence”
Parallel Session 5B: EMPIRICAL
8:30 – 8:50 Daniel Dujava: “Causes of Lagging behind of New Member States of EU: Empirical Analysis by Montgomery Decomposition”
8:50 – 9:10 Dragana Stanišić: “Gender, Education and Terrorism”
9:10 – 9:30 Štefan Rehák: “Local Economic Impact of Sport Events: The Case Study of Ice Hockey World Championship in Bratislava 2011”
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break
Parallel Session 6A: MACRO & FINANCE
10:00 – 10:20 Martin Pospíšil: “Investment and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Ten Years of Czech Economic Development”
10:20 – 10:40 Nargiza Alimukhamedova: “Macroeconomics of Microfinance: How Do the Channels Work?”
10:40 – 11:00 Peter Toth: “Currency Shocks to Export Sales of Importers. A Heterogenous Firms Model and Czech Micro Evidence”
Parallel Session 6B: LABOR II
10:00 – 10:20 Lucia Kurekova: “Formal Qualifications versus Non-Cognitive Skills in Lower-Skilled Labor Market Segment: Analyzing Online Job Advertisements in Slovakia”
10:20 – 10:40 Miroslav Štefánik: “Does the Increase in the Availability of Education Press the Returns to Education Down?”
10:40 – 11:00 Pavol Minárik: “Employment, Wages and Religious Revivals in Post-Communist Countries”
11:00 – 11:20 Martin Labaj: “Income Convergence Prospects in Europe: Assessing the Role of Human Capital Dynamics”
11:20 – 11:40 Martin Guzi: “Hi honey, I'm home! Work commutes in Slovakia”