Bratislava Economic Meeting 2008

Program

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM HERE

 

1st BRATISLAVA ECONOMIC MEETING

Under the patronage of the Vice Prime Minister and the Minister of Education of Slovak Republic

June 12, 2008

 

7:45-8:30       Registration

8:00-8:30       Breakfast

8:30-9:00       Official Opening and Welcome

 

Parallel session 1A: EXPERIMENTAL
                      chair: Martin Kahanec                     

9:00-9:15       Peter Katuščák
                     Why can't a woman bid more like a man?

9:15-9:30       Jana Vyrasteková
                   Higher fines, lower conviction probabilities, and the support for government                     regulation

9:30-9:45       Maroš Servátka
                    Strategic use of trust

9:45-10:00     Katarína Kalovcová
                    The role of risk aversion on experimental betting market
 

Parallel session 1B: MACRO and GROWTH
                      chair: Michal Horváth                    

9:00-9:15       Dalibor Roháč
                     Praiseworthiness and endogenous growth

9:15-9:30       Lívia Šmátralová
                     Riešitelnosť rovníc CGE modelov

9:30-9:45       Lucia Pániková
                     Alternative Closures of CGE models

9:45-10:00     Katarína Bakošová
                    The new Keynesian Phillips curve; The comparison of new member states

 

10:00-10:15    Coffee break

 

Parallel session 2A: MACRO AND FINANCE
                      chair: Jarko Fidrmuc                     

10:15-10:30    Pavol Brunovský
                     Short term fluctuations of exchange rates

10:30-10:45    Zuzana Fungáčová
                     Delisting in the Slovak and Czech Republic: Gradual versus big bang approach

10:45-11:00    Soňa Kilianová
                     Optimal pension planning under risk minimization

11:00-11:15    Pavol Jurča
                     Macro stress testing of the Slovak banking sector

11:15-11:30    Michal Horváth
                     Does government spending optimally crowd in private consumption?

11:30-11:45    František Brázdik
                     Macroeconomic stability: Transition towards the unilateral peg

11:45-12:00    Rudolf Zimka, Peter Maličký
                     Can business cycles arise in a two-regional model with fixed exchange rates?

 

Parallel session 2B: LABOR AND APPLIED MICRO
                      chair: Július Horváth                     

10:15-10:30    Ján Zabojník
                     Disobedience and authority

10:30-10:45    Martin Kahanec
                     Migration, the quality of the labour force and inequality

10:45-11:00    Marián Dinga
                    The impact of territorially concentrated FDI on local labor markets: Evidence from                      the Czech Republic

11:00-11:15    Martin Filko
                     New tests of QALYs when health varies over time

11:15-11:30    Ján Somorčík
                    Simulovanie scenárov boja proti chrípkovej pandémii na Slovensku

11:30-11:45    Tibor Lalinský
                     Competitiveness factors of the Slovak manufacturing industry

 

11:45-13:00    Lunch

 

Parallel session 3A: FINANCE
                      chair: Pavol Brunovský                     

13:15-13:30    Jana Fidrmucová
                     A cultural explanation for the agency model of dividends

13:30-13:45    Jarko Fidrmuc
                     Integrating with their feet: Cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

13:45-14:00    Menbere Workie Tinuneh
                     The causality between capital-deepening and financial development:
                     An empirical exploration from a panel data

14:00-14:15    Ján Klacso
                    Stress testing of interest rate risk

14:15-14:30    Beáta Stehlíková
                     Averaged bond prices in two factor interest rate models

14:30-14:45    Jana Szolgayová
                     Energy investment under uncertainty – A real options analysis

14:45-15:00    Igor Melicherčík, Daniel Ševčovič
                     Dynamic model of pension savings management with stochastic interest rates  
                     and stock returns

15:00-15:15    Urban Kováč, Rudolf Sivák
                     Theoretical approaches to multi-agent models on financial markets         

 

Parallel session 3B: MICRO/APPLIED
                      chair: Ján Zabojník                   

 

13:15-13:30    Mikuláš Ľuptáčik
                     Eco-efficiency as a new principle for the allowance allocation mechanism in
                     emission trading

13:30-13:45    Július Horváth
                     Price rigidity in Slovak retail stores

13:45-14:00    Róbert Zvonár
                     Stability on market with complementary goods

14:00-14:15    Katarína Čechlárová
                     Economic equilibrium and core in discrete exchange economies

14:15-14:30    Martin Guzi
                     Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic: The role of spatial
                     distribution of universities

14:30-14:45    Katarína Svitková
                     Prompted to be good: The impact of certification on the quality of charities

14:45-15:00    Milan Buček, Štefan Rehák
                     Knowledge trajectories in ICT security sector. The case of Bratislava region.

15:15-15:30    Coffee break

 

15:30-16:45    Session 4: Ľuboš Pástor, Keynote address
                     chair: Maroš Servátka

 

16:45-17:00    Coffee break

 

17:00-18:00    Business meeting regarding establishment of Slovak Economic Association
                     (by invitation only)
                     chair: Mikuláš Ľuptáčik

 

18:00-20:00    Closing reception