11TH CSEF-IGIER SYMPOSIUM ON ECONOMICS AND INSTITUTIONS
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Morning Session: Macroeconomics
8:45 – 9:30 Matthew Shapiro (University of Chicago)
How Individuals Smooth Spending:Evidence from the 2013 Government Shutdown Using Account Data (joint with M. Gelman, S. Kariv, D. Silverman, S. Tadelis
09.30 – 10.15 Dimitris Christelis (University of Naples Federico II and CSEF)
Uncertainty about Future Consumption and Precautionary Saving (joint with D. Christelis, D. Georgarakos, and M. van Rooij)
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30 Isabella Loretti Dobrescu (University of New South Wales)
Retirement Savings:A Tale of Decisions and Defaults (joint with X. Fan, H. Bateman, B.R. Newell, A. Ortmann, and S. Thorp)
11.30 – 12.15 Amir Kermani (University of California, Berkeley)
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer (joint with M. Di Maggio)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Behavioural Economics
14.00 – 14.45 Matthew Rabin (Harvard University)
Errors in Social Inference: Models and Implications
14.45 – 15.30 Antonio Rosato (University of Technology Sydney)
Loss Aversion in Sequential Auctions: Endogenous Interdependence, Informational Externalities and the "Afternoon Effect"
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.45 Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch (Harvard University)
Naive Social Learning, Mislearning, and Unlearning (joint with M. Rabin)
16.45 – 17.30 Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI)
Electoral Competition with rationally Inattentive Voters (joint with G. Tabellini)
Wednesday 24 June 2015
Morning Session: Micro Theory
8:45 – 9:30 Paul Milgrom (Stanford University)
Adverse Selection and Auction Design for Internet Display Advertising
09.45 – 10.30 Nenad Kos (Bocconi University and IGIER)
Selling to the mean (joint with M. Messner)
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30 Pierpaolo Battigalli (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
A Note on Comparative Ambiguity Aversion and Justifiability (joint with S. Cerreia-Vioglio, F. Maccheroni and M. Marinacci)
11.30 – 12.15 Sarah Auster (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
Competing Mechanisms in Lemon Markets (joint with P. Gottardi)
12.15 – 13.00 Juan-Jose Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions (joint with J. Penalva)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Finance
14.00– 14.45 Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
The I Theory of Money (joint with Y. Sannikov)
14.45 – 15.30 Andrea Polo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE)
Double Bank Runs and Liquidity Risk Management (joint with F. Ippolito, J. Peydró, and E. Sette)
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.45 Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II and CSEF)
Bank Sovereign Exposures, Risk and Lending in the Euro Debt Crisis (joint with C. Altavilla and S. Simonelli)
16.45 – 17.30 Giuseppe Corbisiero (University of Mannheim)
Banks’ Home Bias and Credit Traps in a Monetary Union
20.00 Social Dinner
Thursday 25 June 2015
Morning Session: Applied Economics
08.45 – 9.30 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University)
Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms (joint with L. Caliendo, G. Mion and L. Opromolla)
09.30 – 10.15 Hans‐Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)
Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending (joint with P. Koudijs)
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30 Jerome Adda (Bocconi University)
The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation (joint with C. Dustmann and J.-S. Görlach)
11.30 – 12.15 Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments (joint with M. M. Chingos, and M. R. West)
12.15 – 13.00 Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics)
Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task (joint with S. Simonelli)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Finance
14.00– 14.45 Efraim Benmelech (Northwestern University)
The Real Cost of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles (joint with R. Meisenzahl and R. Ramcharan)
14.45 – 15.30 Andrew Ellul (Indiana University, CEPR, CSEF and ECGI)
Labor Unemployment Risk and CEO Incentive Compensation (joint with C. Wang and K. Zhang)
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.45 Alberto Motta (University of New South Wales)
Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India (joint with P. Maitra, S. Mitra, D. Mookherjee and S.Visaria)
16.45 – 17.30 Emiliano Huet-Vaughn (Middlebury College)
Do Social Camparisons Motivate Workers? A Field Experiment on Relative Earnings and Labor Supply
Friday 26 June 2015
Morning Session: Applied Economics
09:00 – 09:45 Giovanni Pica (University of Milan and CSEF)
Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes (joint with M. Güell, M. Pellizzari and J. V. Rodríguez Mora)
09.45 – 10.30 Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex)
Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: Prison Conditions and Recidivism (joint with D. Terlizzese)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 Marco Maria Sorge (University of Göttingen and CSEF)
Indeterminacy, Misspecification and Forecastability: What a Good Luck in Bad Policy? (joint with L. Fanelli)
11.45 – 12.30 Fulvio Ortu (Bocconi University and IGIER)
A Persistence-based Wold-type Decomposition for Stationary Time Series (joint with F. Severino, A. Tamoni, and C.Tebaldi)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch