THURSDAY, JANUARY 11

Session I : 2 :30 p.m. – 4 :00 p.m.

Michael Jansson (University of California, Berkeley)

"Testing for Unit Roots with Stationary Covariates" joint with Graham Elliott (University of California, San Diego)

Alain Hecq (University Maastricht)

"Separation, Weak Exogeneity and P-T Decomposition in Cointegrated VAR systems with Common Cyclical Features" joint with F.C. Palm (University Maastricht) and J.-P. Urbain (University Maastricht)

Coffee

Session II : 4 :30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Jan Tuinstra (University of Amsterdam)

"Endogenous Fluctuations under Evolutionary Pressure in Cournot Competition" joint with Edward Droste (Tilburg University) and Cars Hommes (University of Amsterdam)

Omer Moav (Hebrew University)

"Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth" joint with Oded Galor (Hebrew University)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12

Session III : 9 :30 a.m. – 11 :00 a.m.

Dirk Niepelt (Stockholm University)

"Tax Smoothing versus Tax Shifting"

Hannu Vartiainen (University of Helsinki)

"Stable Auction Design"

Coffee

Session IV : 11 :30 a.m. – 1 :00 p.m.

Magdalena Sokalska (Warsaw School of Economics)

"Common Fluctuations in Emerging Market Equity Prices"

Lorenzo Cappiello (University of Genova)

"A Conditional Multi-Asset Intertemporal CAPM with Switching Prices of Risk"

Lunch

Session V : 2 :30 p.m. – 4 :00 p.m.

Giovanni Immordino (Università di Salerno)

"Hormone Beefs, Chloridric Chickens, and International Trade: the Normative Analysis"

Jonathan Temple (University of Oxford)

"Rich Nations, Poor Nations: How Much Can Multiple Equilibria Explain?" joint with Bryan Graham (Havard)

Coffee

Session VI : 4 :30 p.m. – 6 :00 p.m.

Sayantan Ghosal (University of Warwick)

"Educative Stability in an Intertemporal Economiy"

Ana Fernandes (CEMFI Madrid)

"Altruism, Labor Supply and Redistributive Neutrality"

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13

Session VII : 9 :30 a.m. – 11 :00 a.m.

Joachim Inkmann (University of Kanstanze)

"Accounting for Nonresponse Heterogeneity in Panel Data"

Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)

"Income Risk Dynamics and Heterogeneity" joint with Costas Meghir (University College London)

Coffee

Session VIII : 11 :30 a.m. – 1 :00 p.m.

Gabriel Desgranges (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

"Information Revealed By Prices and Common Knowledge of Rationality: An Example"

Roman Inderst (University College London)

"Influence Costs and Hierarchy" joint with H. Mueller, K. Waerneryd

Lunch

Session IX : 2 :30 p.m. – 4 :45 p.m.

Ingolf Dittmann (Humbolt University, Berlin)

"Crime and Punishment: On the Optimality of Imprisonment Although Fines Are Feasible"

Bas van der Klaauw (Free University Amsterdam)

"Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Social Experiment" joint with Gerard J. van den Berg (Free University Amsterdam)

Antoni Calvo-Armengol (Universidad Carlos III)

"La Crema: a Case Study of Mutual Fire Insurance" joint with Antonio Cabrales (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Matthew O. Jackson (Caltech)