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21st Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2016 |
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March 31st - 2nd April 2016 |
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ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, Portugal |
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW |
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Thursday, March 31st 2016 |
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08:30-09:00 |
Arrival and Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Welcoming address |
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09:30-11:00 |
Keynote Speaker: Jan Fagerberg The Triple Challenge for Europe: Economic Development, Climate Change and Governance |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-13:00 |
Parallel Session 1 |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Session 2 |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-17:30 |
Keynote Speaker: Robert Frank Success and Luck |
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18:00-20:00 |
Welcome and Information Session |
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Friday, April 1st 2016 |
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09:30-11:00 |
Parallel Session 3 |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11.30-13:00 |
Parallel Session 4 |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Session 5 |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-17:30 |
Keynote Speaker: Mirjam van Praag Research in Entrepreneurship Economics: Some Personal Examples |
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19:00-22:30 |
Conference Dinner |
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Saturday, April 2nd 2016 |
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Time |
Activity |
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09:30-11:00 |
Parallel Session 6 |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11.30-13:00 |
Keynote Speaker: Pedro Portugal The returns to education unveiled |
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Session 7 |
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Thursday, March 31st 2016 |
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Parallel Session 1: 11.30am - 1.00pm |
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Development Economics I (Room C202) |
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Michael Schleicher |
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How to Target the Poor: Evidence from Rural Burkina Faso |
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Atika Pasha |
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Impact of Cash Grants on Multidimensional Poverty in South Africa |
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Alexander Coutts |
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Social Learning in Experimental Games: Evidence from Rwanda |
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Economics of Education I (Room C205) |
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Christian Eggenberger |
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Occupational Specificity of Vocational Education and Training – The Content of Training Curricula and its Impact on Labor Mobility |
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Stefano Alderighi |
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The cyclicality of university enrollments in Italy. |
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International Economics I (Room C104) |
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Maria Domenica Tito |
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Import Exposure and Productivity Gaps: are Privately Owned Enterprises pulling away? |
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Xianjia Ye |
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Does Factor Endowment Difference Predict Bilateral Factor Trade? |
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Vera Z. Eichenauer |
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Towards a Harmonious World? How Chinese Economic Activity Influences Individual Perceptions of China in Latin America |
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Labour Economics I (Room C103) |
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Alex Wolf |
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An empirical Bayes method to estimate resource shares of household members |
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Philipp Doerrenberg |
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Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes. Evidence from a field experiment |
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Michael Christl |
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Employment effects of minimum wages in Europe revisited |
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Macroeconomics I (Room B202) |
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Robert Unger |
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Traditional Banks, Shadow Banks and the US Credit Boom - Credit Origination vs. Financing |
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Arno Hantzsche |
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Sovereign Credit Ratings under Fiscal Uncertainty |
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Hendrik Hüning |
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Optimal Public Information Dissemination - Introducing Observational Learning into a Generalized Beauty Contest |
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Monetary Economics I (Room B201) |
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Joris Wauters |
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The Missing Disinflation Puzzle: An Investigation for the Euro Area |
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Michal Marencák |
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Nominal threshold prices, microeconomic and aggregate price stickiness |
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Wojtek Paczos |
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Optimal Inflation, Average Markups and Asymmetric Sticky Prices |
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Economics of Migration I (Room C301) |
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Marlon Seror |
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Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China |
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Matthias Wieschemeyer |
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Short-Run and Long-Run Dynamics of International Migration Flows - New Evidence from Europe 1946 to 2013 |
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Marianna Marino |
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Mobility research fellowships: A policy evaluation |
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Behaviour Economics (Room C302) |
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Mario Mechtel |
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Forced to Be Generous - Experimental Evidence on the Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages outside the Laboratory |
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Ricardo Correia |
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Water consumer behaviours and perceptions |
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Arnd Klein |
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A matter of perspective: relative income and endogenous fairness views |
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Political Economy I (Room C201) |
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Anna Maria Koukal |
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The Paradox of Democracy |
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Matteo Alpino |
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Would you vote for me if I lower your taxes? |
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Felix Arnold |
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East German Voter Preferences: The Role of Communist Socialisation versus Experiences of Repression |
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Parallel Session 2: 2.00 - 3.30pm |
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Microeconomics I (Room C201) |
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Helene Mass |
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Robust Bidding |
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Uta Schier |
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Moral values and increasing stakes in a dictator game |
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Yang Jiang |
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Non-annuitization in the Annuity Market |
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Macroeconomics II (Room C104) |
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Gene Ambrocio |
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Forecast optimism and over-confidence in the Survey of Professional Forecasters |
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Sarah Fischer |
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Anticipated and unanticipated productivity shocks: Implications for monetary policy |
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Maria Bolboaca |
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News Shocks: Different Effects in Boom and Recession? |
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Corporate Finance (Room C202) |
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Sebastian Link |
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Do Firms Expect Heterogeneous Shocks? |
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Davide Melcangi |
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Firms' precautionary savings and employment during a credit crisis |
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Michela Altieri |
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Corporate Bond Guarantees and The Value of Managerial Flexibility |
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Labour Economics II (Room B201) |
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Jonathan Stoeterau |
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Can market-based approaches generate the income needed to disseminate modern energy products via small-scale entrepreneurs? Impact evaluation of a training program in pico-solar and improved cook stoves. |
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Patrick Schulte |
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Skill-Specific Technology Diffusion: Evidence from a Panel of Countries and Industries |
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International Economics II (Room B202) |
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Linda Borrs |
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Domestic wage effects of German FDI in the Czech Republic |
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Jan Behringer |
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Income Distribution and the Current Account: A Sectoral Perspective |
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Catherine Laffineur |
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The effect of foreign direct investments on job-mobility and its consequence on wages |
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Economics of the Environment I (Room C302) |
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Mónica Meireles |
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Clean and dirty technologies under environmental policy |
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Claudia Schwirplies |
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(Un)Fair Delegation: Exploring the strategic use of equity rules in international climate negotiations |
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Giulia Felber |
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Maritime Trade, Economic Activity and Air Pollution: Evidence from the EU from 2000 to 2010 |
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Industrial Organization I (Room C103) |
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Jascha Tutt |
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Price Discrimination Based on Downstream Regulation: Evidence from the Market for SO2 Scrubbers |
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Astrid Similon |
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Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium |
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Jonas Teusch |
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Yardstick Competition, Unobserved Heterogeneity and Merger Incentives |
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Economics of the Media (Room C205) |
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Boriss Siliverstovs |
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Google Trends and Reality: Do Proportions Match? |
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Anna Kerkhof |
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Coverage bias on Wikipedia - Evidence from biographies of German Members of Parliament |
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Adrian Chadi |
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Does TV Consumption Impair People’s Health and their Well-being? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the German Public |
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Economics of Migration II (Room C301) |
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Lisa Sofie Höckel |
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Collectivism vs. Individualism - How inherited cultural values affect the income of second-generation immigrants in the US |
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Lea Eilers |
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Migrants and the housing market: Is there discrimination in Germany? |
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Anica Kramer |
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Immigration inflows, inter-regional migration and the boundaries of local labour markets: An empirical study for the post-war Germany |
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Friday, April 1st 2016 |
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Parallel Session 3: 9.30 -11.00am |
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Development Economics II (Room C302) |
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Marco Delogu |
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Infrastructure Policy: the role of informality and brain drain |
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Jolan Mohimont |
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Empirical Framework for Macroeconomic Policies in South Africa |
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Aixa Maria Garcia Ramos |
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Woman's relative wage and intimate partner violence: the case of Mexico |
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Econometrics (Room C201) |
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Inna Tsener |
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A tractable framework for analyzing a class of nonstationary Markov models |
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Christian Leschinski |
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Multivariate Spurious Long Memory and a Robust Local Whittle Estimator |
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Economics of Health I (Room C202) |
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Olga Lorenz |
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“Is your commute really making you fat?”: The causal effect of commuting distance on height-adjusted weight |
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Majlinda Joxhe |
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Be Happy, Be Healthy! Exploring health outcomes among migrants using Italian microdata |
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Matthias Minke |
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Allocation of health resources at the end-of-life: The case of learning spillovers |
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Labour Economics III (Room C103) |
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Eva Hank |
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Job displacement and household income: Evidence from German survey data |
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Wolfgang Nagl |
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Income Taxation with Collective Households-An Analysis for Austria |
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Majda Benzidia |
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A Bayesian Look at American Academic Wages, The Case of Michigan State University |
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Microeconomics II (Room C301) |
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Merike Kukk |
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Debt repayment problems: what are the implications for consumption? |
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Nhung Luu |
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Housing price, growth and business cycle |
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Carl Maier |
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Local public goods as perfect substitutes -- Equivalence of centralization and decentralization |
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Political Economy II (Room B201) |
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Dijana Zejcirovic |
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War and Political Participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Svitlana Tyahlo |
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How war affects political attitudes: Evidence from eastern Ukraine |
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Dirk Foremny |
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'Hold that ghost': Using notches to identify manipulation of population-based grants |
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Public Finance (Room B202) |
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Julian Hackinger |
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Not All Income is the Same for Everyone: Cognitive Ability and the House Money Effect in Public Goods Games |
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Mariona Segu |
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Taxing Vacant Apartments: Can fiscal policy reduce vacancy? |
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Mathias Klein |
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Austerity and Private Debt |
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International Economics III (Room C104) |
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Kevin Lampaert |
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Intraday Momentum in FX Markets: Disentangling Informed Trading from Liquidity Provision |
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Charlotte Sandoz-dit-Bragard |
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Productivity, Misallocation and Trade |
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Parallel Session 4: 11.30am - 1.00pm |
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Development Economics III (Room C202) |
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Marie Lechler |
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Decentralized Despotism: How Indirect Colonial Rule Undermines Contemporary Democratic Attitudes |
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Victoire Girard |
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Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Segregation and Afirmative Action. |
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Simone Schotte |
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Not Middle Class, But Middle Classes: An Assessment for South Africa |
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the EU (Room C301) |
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Luciana Barbosa |
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Lending relationships and the real economy: evidence in the context of the euro area sovereign debt crisis |
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Andrin Bögli |
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European Puttable Bonds: An Alternative Instrument for Managing the Sovereign Debt Crisis |
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Sophie Piton |
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Monetary Integration, Competition and the Nontradable Sector: A European Disease? |
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Banking and Finance I (Room C205) |
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Ming-Jin Jiang |
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Banks in the Venture Capital Market |
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Johannes Tischer |
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Bank' Trading after the Lehman Crisis - Flight to Liquidity instead of Fire Sales |
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Thomas Krause |
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Bank-specific Shocks, House Price Growth and Macroeconomic Performance in the U.S. |
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International Economics IV (Room B202) |
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Bo Gao |
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Export Quality, Price and Income Distribution |
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Katharina Erhardt |
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Nonparametric Effects of Tariff and Nontariff Policy Barriers in General Equilibrium |
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Elsa Leromain |
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Politics of Global Value Chains |
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Labour Economics IV (Room B201) |
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Povilas Lastauskas |
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Global Perspective on Structural Labour Market Reforms in Europe |
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Lucas van der Velde |
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Task dispersion and within occupation wage inequality |
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Theodor Vladasel |
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Entrepreneurship: Results from Sibling Correlation Models |
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Microeconomics III (Room C201) |
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Xing Han |
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Can Investor Sentiment Be a Momentum Time-Series Predictor? Evidence from China |
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Nicolas Duran |
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Theory and evidence for spatial dependency in the housing market: addressing the effect of earthquakes on housing prices |
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Iana Zborshchyk |
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Why do managers misrepresent financial statements? |
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Monetary Economics II (Room C103) |
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Gregor von Schweinitz |
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Did the Swiss exchange rate shock shock the market? |
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Sang Seok Lee |
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Information Value of the Interest Rate and the Zero Lower Bound |
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Martina Jancokova |
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Do models account for a globalized world? Evidence from a new monetary policy shock database |
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Taxes and Investment Behavior (Room C302) |
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Francisca Rebelo |
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Debt Overhang or Financial Constraints: Which Holds Investment Back? Evidence from the 2013 Investment Tax Credit in Portugal |
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Robert Germeshausen |
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Effects of Attribute-Based Regulation on Technology Adoption - The Case of Feed-In Tariffs for Solar Photovoltaic |
| Eduard Suari-Andreu |
| The Retirement-Savings Puzzle Revisited: The Role of Housing as a Bequeathable Asset |
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Parallel Session 5: 2.00 - 3.30pm |
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Economics of Migration III (Room C202) |
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Yvonne Giesing |
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International Migration, Patenting and Knowledge Flows |
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Joël Machado |
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The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased migration and global welfare |
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Fabian Dehos |
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Immigrants and Crime: Evidence from Germany |
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Economics of the Environment II (Room B201) |
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Cécile Hediger |
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Measuring the Direct and Indirect Rebound Effects in Residential Heating in Switzerland |
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Andreas Gerster |
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The Power of Mandatory Disclosure - Evidence from the German Housing Market |
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Maria Arvaniti |
| When financial imperfections are not the problem but the solution |
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Financial Behaviour (Room C201) |
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Marc-André Luik |
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Human Capital Formation and Financial Behavior: The Case of Adverse Early-Life Health |
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Jessie Vantieghem |
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A credit rating puzzle: are investors fooled by credit ratings? |
| Aida Cumurovic |
| Financial Literacy and Self-Employment: First Evidence from Germany |
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Industrial Organization II (Room C301) |
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Samuel Kembou Nzale |
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Physicians' payment with personalized medicine. |
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Petyo Bonev |
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Implicit Yardstick Competition |
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Markus Nagler |
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Antitrust, Patents, and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Bell Labs |
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Economics of Health II (Room C302) |
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Christian Schmid |
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Moral hazard and forward looking behavior |
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Ingrid Dallmann |
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Dengue, Weather and Urbanization in Brazil |
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Johannes Schünemann |
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Going from Bad to Worse: Adaptation to Poor Health, Health Spending, Longevity, and the Value of Life |
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Labour Economics V (Room C103) |
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Karol Mazur |
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Can Welfare Abuse Be Welfare Improving? |
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Sabrina Jeworrek |
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The impact of basic performance feedback on the gender tournament gap |
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Marco de Pinto |
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Welfare-enhancing Trade Unions in an Oligopoly with Excessive Entry |
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Macroeconomics III (Room B202) |
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Knut-Eric Joslin |
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Market Entry with Frictional Matching and Post-Match Bargaining: An Experimental Study |
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Matthias Wilhelm |
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Investment in Photovoltaics and Job Creation: Evidence from a Billion Dollar Program |
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Michal Kobielarz |
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Sovereign Debt, Bail-Outs and Contagion in a Monetary Union |
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Monetary Economics III (Room C104) |
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Alexander Ziegenbein |
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Assesing the Macroeconomic Effects of Credit Supply Disruptions |
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Donghai Zhang |
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The Information Channel of Monetary Policy |
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Andrej Drygalla |
| Monetary Policy in an Oil-Dependent Economy in the Presence of Multiple Shocks |
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Saturday, April 2nd 2016 |
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Parallel Session 6: 9.30 -11.00am |
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Development Economics IV (Room C302) |
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Claire Zanuso |
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Build back better? The Long-lasting impact of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti. |
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Shailee Pradhan |
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To risk or not to risk after a disaster |
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Guosong Xu |
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Foreign Bribery and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions |
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Economics of Education II (Room C202) |
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Charlotte Ringdal |
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Is female empowerment always good for child welfare? |
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Henning Mueller |
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KIDS-WIN: Working Memory Training for Primary School Children — Field Experimental Data from Germany |
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Lena Detlefsen |
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Time Preferences and Birth Order |
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Banking and Finance II (Room C301) |
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André Silva |
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Strategic complementarity in banks' funding liquidity choices and financial stability |
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Helge Littke |
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Central Bank Transparency and Cross-Border Banking |
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Swetlana Kreiser |
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Banking and the Macroeconomy: A Micro-Macro Linkage |
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International Economics V (Room C104) |
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Silvia Delrio |
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Estimating the effects of global uncertainty in open economies |
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Boris Georgiev |
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Trade liberalization and firm-level markups |
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Rahel Aichele |
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Going Deep: The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP |
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Labour Economics VI (Room B201) |
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Thuy Yannick |
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Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market. An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination |
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Rahel Felder |
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Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions during the Great Recession: A Cross-Country Analysis |
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Lisa Leschnig |
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Central School Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC |
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Macroeconomics IV (Room B202) |
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Maarten de Ridder |
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Policy Shocks and Wage Rigidity: Empirical Evidence from Regional Effects of National Shocks |
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Clara Martínez-Toledano |
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The distribution of wealth in Spain: Evidence from capitalized income tax data |
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Jelena Zivanovic |
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Corporate Debt Financing and the Business Cycle: US vs. Europe |
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Monetary Economics IV (Room C103) |
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Galina Potjagailo |
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Spillover Effects from Euro Area Monetary Policy across the EU: A Factor-Augmented VAR Approach |
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Christoph Kaufmann |
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Optimal Exchange Rate Substitution in a Monetary Union |
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Rebekka Gätjen |
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Measuring Connectedness of Euro Area Sovereign Risk via Credit Default Swap Premia and Bond Yield Spreads |
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Networks (Room C201) |
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Stijn Baert |
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Do they find you on Facebook? Facebook profile picture and hiring chances |
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Sebastian Blesse |
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Let's stay in touch - Evidence on the role of social learning in local tax interactions |
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Parallel Session 7: 2.00 - 3.30pm |
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Labour Economics VII (Room C103) |
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Benjamin Lochner |
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Labor Market Sorting in Germany |
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Iva Trako |
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Fertility and Parental Labor-Force Participation: New Evidence from a Developing Country in the Balkans |
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Andreja Lenarcic |
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Public wage bill adjustment in a small open economy |
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Economics of Life Cycle (Room C202) |
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Viola Asri |
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Do social pensions reach the elderly poor? Evidence from greying India |
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Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz |
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The Effect of Culture on Savings |
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Veaceslav Grigoras |
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Population ageing and the prospects of the pension system in Romania |
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Microeconomics IV (Room C201) |
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Saara Hamalainen |
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Obfuscation by substitutes |
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Andràs Péchy |
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Only the Data Can Tell: Improving Market Level Demand Function Fit using Micro Level Purchase Histories |
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Daniel Brunner |
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A Copula based Quadrature Approach for Demand Estimation |
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Monetary Economics V (Room B201) |
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Nuno Palma |
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The existence and persistence of liquidity effects: evidence from a large-scale historical natural experiment |
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Joep Lustenhouwer |
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Managing Heterogeneous and Unanchored Expectations: A Monetary Policy Analysis |
| Anwar Khayat |
| Negative Policy Rates, Banking Flows and Exchange Rates |
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International Economics VI (Room B202) |
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Pierpaolo Parrotta |
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Ethnic Diversity and Firm Exporting Behavior |
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Magdalene Silberberger |
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Regulation, Trade and Growth |
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Jens Wrona |
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Border Effects Without Borders: What Divides Japan's Internal Trade? |
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Political Economy III (Room C104) |
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Paul Hufe |
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Beyond Equal Rights: Equality of Opportunity in Political Participation |
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Daniel Hopp |
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The political economy of interregional competition for firms |
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Manuela Krause |
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Electoral cycles in MPs’ salaries: Evidence from the German states |
