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Conference program 2016

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Thursday, June 2

Venue: Faculty of Economics and Administration, Lipová 41a, Brno

  • 12:00 - 13:00 | REGISTRATION AND SANDWICH

  • 13:00 - 14:40 | SESSION 1

    Transport Economics 1
    Room S307

    Leonardo Madio (University of York): Asymmetric duopoly with a regulated upstream bottleneck. An analysis on legal and ownership unbundling and vertical integration in the railway industry.

    Ariane Charpin (Paris School of Economics): Merger Efficiency Gains: An Assessment of the French Urban Transport Industry

    Abhishek Ranjan (Technical University of Denmark): Emergence of a macroscopic fundamental diagram

    Alessia Patuelli (University of Pisa): The way we were: the role of the State in British and Italian nineteenth and twentieth century railways

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics 1
    Room S308

    Fabian Braesemann (Vienna University of Economics and Business): The Different Dimensions of Social Capital in Europe

    Viktor Bozhinov (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): Performance and Risk-Taking Behavior under Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Professional Volleyball Players

    Rostislav Staněk (Masaryk University): Optimism bias: The evidence from betting market

    Eugen Dimant (University of Pennsylvania): On Peer Effects: Contagion of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior in Charitable Giving and the Role of Social Identity

    Game Theory
    Room S309

    Gaëtan Fournier (Tel-Aviv University): Hotelling games

    Nikos Pnevmatikos (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne): Uniformity and games decomposition

    Damián Emilio Gibaja Romero (Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla): The Top Trading Cover Algorithm: School Choice with Indifferences

    Ludmila Matyšková (CERGE-EI): Online Social Learning under Cursed Beliefs: Manipulation of Anticipated Quality

    Labour Economics 1
    Room S310

    Mathias Huebener (DIW Berlin): Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

    Marcela Veselková (Government Office of the Slovak Republic): The Impact of Eurofunds on student performance in Slovakia

    Brian Fabo (CEU Budapest): The Importance of Foreign Language Skills in the Labour Markets of Central and Eastern Europe: An assessment based on data from online job portals

    Greta Morando (University of Essex): Determinants and spillover effect of choosing Mathematics at secondary school. Exploiting a curricular reform in England.

    Financial Stability and Risk Management
    Room S311

    István Bakos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): The impact of financial crises on corporate credit ratings

    Martin Hodula (Technical University Ostrava): Time-varying effect of monetary policy changes on systemic risk in Europe

    Juraj Hruška (Masaryk University): High-frequency trading and price volatility in the British stock market

    Bo Tang (University of Sheffield): Does the Yuan's Overseas Expansion Increase the Currency Exposure of Chinese Financial Firms

    Macroeconomic Modelling
    Room S313

    Willi Mutschler (TU Dortmund): Enriching Dynamics in investment adjustment costs using higher-order approximation and nonlinear estimation methods

    Aleš Maršál (National Bank of Slovakia): Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates in a DSGE Model

    Karolína Skupová (Masaryk University): Small open economy with inflation targeting in a period of monetary policy easing (DSGE model approach with constraints)

    Bohdan Vahalík (Technical University Ostrava): Effect of control variables in gravity model: Case of EU-BRICS trade.

  • 14:40 - 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK

  • 15:00 - 16:40 | SESSION 2

    Transport Economics 2
    Room S307

    João Pereira dos Santos (Nova School of Business and Economics): For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Effects of Tolls in an Uncongested Motorway on Road Safety

    Jaroslav Bíl (Masaryk University): Rocket and Feather Effect in Retail Gasoline Market: Evidence from the Czech Republic

    Nayeli Salgado (Vienna University of Economics and Business): Does Transportation Infrastructure Reduce Poverty? Evidence from the Free Federal Trunk Highway System in Mexico

    Yuliia Kleban (Lviv Institute of Economics and Tourism): The Integration of Ukrainian Railway System to the Single European Transport Area

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics 2
    Room S308

    Katharina Werner (University of Passau): Whom do people trust after a violent conflict? Experimental Evidence from Maluku, Indonesia

    Fabian Stephany (University of Cambridge): Bonds and Bridges - An Empirical Analysis of Trust

    Marco Stimolo (University of Naples Federico II): Extreme information and the fragility of market representativeness

    Miloš Fišar (Masaryk University): Experimental study of Bribery in Public Procurement

    Economic Theory 1
    Room S309

    Lorenzo Bastianello (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne): A topological approach to delay aversion

    Lalaina Rakotonindrainy (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne): Existence of equilibrium in OLG economies with durable goods

    Abhishek Ranjan (Technical University of Denmark): Existence of financial quasi-equilibria with restricted participation

    Vincenzo Platino (Masaryk University): On the regularity of smooth production economies with externalities: Competitive equilibrium à la Nash

    Labour Economics 2
    Room S310

    Zsófia Kőmíves (CEU Budapest): The Effect of Incarceration on Labor Market Outcomes in Hungary

    Štěpán Mikula (Masaryk University): Reforms that keep you home: Migration in Transition Economies

    Sudipa Sarkar (University of Salamanca): Is employment polarization creating more over-educated workers? Evidence from Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK

    Josef Montag (Mendel University Brno): Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes in Transition Economies

    Financial Access and Corporate Finance
    Room S311

    Nargiza Alimukhamedova (CERGE-EI): The Importance of Geographic Access for the Impact of Microfinance

    Jiří Tresl (University of Nebraska): Payout Policy (Dividend Smoothing and Firm Valuation)

    Tomáš Plíhal (Masaryk University): Increasing Impact of Stock Market Performance on Government Tax Revenues

    Marinella Boccia (University of Salerno): Financial Access and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mauritania

  • 16:40 - 17:00 | TEA

  • 17:00 - 18:15 | INVITED LECTURE – STIJN BAERT (Room P101)

    Stijn Baert (Ghent University)
    "Sticky Floors: Due to Employer or Employee Preferences?"

  • 19:00 - 22:00 | DINNER

Friday, June 3

  • 9:00 - 10:40 | SESSION 3

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics 3
    Room S308

    Luca Fumarco (STATEC): Disability Discrimination in the Italian Rental Housing Market. A Field Experiment on Blind Tenants.

    Monika Jurkovičová (University of Economics in Bratislava): Behavioral Economics in Insurance - The Prospect Theory as an Explanation for Insurance Demand Behavior

    Radek Janhuba (CERGE-EI): Do Victories and Losses Matter? Effects of Football on Life Satisfaction

    Valerio Capraro (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica): Towards Homo Moralis: Non-consequentialist injunctive norms guide pro-social behaviour in Dictator Game and Prisoner's Dilemma experiments

    Michal Ďuriník (Masaryk University): Decoy Effect and Cognitive Reflection

    Economic Theory 2
    Room S309

    Luca Picariello (Norwegian School of Economics): Organizational Design with Portable Skills

    Anthi Chondrogianni (University of Bristol): A model of venture capital with career concerns and pay for performance contracts

    Shahir Safi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Listen Before You Link: Optimal Rules for Network Formation in the Presence of Externalities

    Joanna Syrda (University of Bath): Economics of Music Charts: Market Concentration and Product Variety

    Labour Economics 3
    Room S310

    Tobias Brändle (University of Tübingen): Offshoring Jobs: Are Manual Workers the Victims of Mass Lay-Offs?

    Francesco Principe (University of Salerno): What makes you a 'superstar'? New evidence from a panel analysis of football players' earnings

    Peter Tóth (National Bank of Slovakia): Wage rigidities and jobless recovery in Slovakia: new survey evidence

  • 10:40 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK

  • 11:00 - 12:15 | INVITED LECTURE – JAKUB STEINER (Room P101)

    Jakub Steiner (CERGE-EI and University of Edinburgh)
    "Optimal Perception Biases"

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