PARALLEL SESSION A1

Theme: Financial Economics

Ouidad Yousfi EconomiX – Paris X
Leveraged Buy Out: a dynamic agency model with write-off option

Martin Saldias Zambrana Ghent University
Option-implied Distance-to-Default: An indicator to assess banking fragility using information in option prices

Sarah Reilly University of Dublin, Trinity College
Aggregate Merger levels: An explained markov switching analysis accross several countries

 Besik Samkharadze The Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Volatility Spillovers in European Stock Markets: A Multivariate GARCH Analysis

PARALLEL SESSION A2

Theme: Health Economics

Anikó Bíró Central European University
Voluntary health insurance, precautionary saving and consumption level of older people - Evidence based on international data

Anna Rita Bennato University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Patent Policy and Health

Anne Boring Université Paris Dauphine
Lobbying and contributions to influence voters: The example of U.S. drug re-imports

Jean Civet CRESE, Université de Franche-Comté
A comparison of ambulatory health care systems

PARALLEL SESSION A3

Theme: Labour Economics 1

Juliane Parys Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn
On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers if Identification is Weak

Natalia Montinari University of Padova
Horizontal Reciprocity in Teams

Stefanie Neimann TU Dortmund, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics
Labor division between wife and husband and the risk of divorce: New evidence for Germany

Emmanuel Valat ERMES (EAC-7181 CNRS) Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II and ESSEC Business School
Why is there a gap in social networks efficiency between minority and majority groups in the labor market?

PARALLEL SESSION B1

Theme: Management

Duclaux Soupmo Badjio H.E.C Management school of the University of Liege
Building a Model to Predict Banking Difficulties in Central Africa

Christian Westheide Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn
Not so Dumb Money: The Prognostic Power of Investor Sentiment over Time

Natalia Korotkova IAE Toulouse 1
Adoption of innovations : role of lead users, innovators and opinion leaders

PARALLEL SESSION B2

Theme: Microeconomics

Pascal Christian Stiefenhofer University of York
Production in General Equilibrium with Incomplete Markets

Stefanie Aniela Lehmann Bonn Graduate School of Economics and currently London School of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance
When Randomization in Collective Tournaments is Profitable for the Principal

Johannes Müller-Trede Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Random Errors-Systematic Effects: Biases in Decision-Making

Lorenzo Burlon Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Market Structure and Equilibrium Bias of Technology

PARALLEL SESSION C1

Theme: Industrial Organization 1

Houda Soltani Université Paris II Panthéon Assas
Vertical compatibility in two-sided markets

Aude Le Lannier U. Paris 11, IAE-Paris 1 & GDF-SUEZ
The Enforcement of Incentive Regulatory Contracts : Individual versus Yardstick Regulation

Omer Farooq CERGAM, Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille
Modern Relationship Marketing : Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer behavior

PARALLEL SESSION C2

Theme: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics

Ameli Pouya Jabal University of Leicester
Central Bank Independence and Effects of Oil Price on Monetary Policy

Fang Yao Humboldt University Berlin
Time-dependent Pricing and New Keynesian Phillips Curve

Henry Sabrowski TU Dortmund
Inflation news coverage and the impact on inflation expectations across demographic groups

PARALLEL SESSION D1

Theme: Industrial Organization 2

Rosamaria D’Amore IRAT CNR Naples; DISES University of Salerno
The role of knowledge disclosure in the Italian biotechnological system

Pedro Carreira Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, School of Technology and Management
Buyer Power and Product Innovation with Partial Upstream Collusion

Marco Marinucci CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
Cooperative R&D Networks among Firms and Public Research Institutions

Thomas Le Texier GREDEG – CNRS, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
Peer-to-peer networks and complementary goods: The impact of openness and innovation on profitable piracy

PARALLEL SESSION D2

Theme: Labour Economics 2/Unemployment

Florent Sari Université Marne-la-Vallée, CEE et TEPP
Living in a deprived neighbourhood in the Paris agglomeration: an empirical analysis

Linas Tarasonis CREST & Paris School of Economics
Vintage Capital in Matching Models with Credible Bargaining

PARALLEL SESSION D3

Theme: Econometrics

Sofia Anyfantaki Athens University of Economics and Business
Estimation of a Time-varying GQARCH-M model

Senay Sokullu Toulouse School of Economics
Nonparametric Estimation of Simultaneous Equations

Nicolas Debarsy University of Namur (FUNDP)
LM and LR statistics to detect spatial autocorrelation in a fixed effects panel data model

PARALLEL SESSION E1

Theme: Energy Economics

Elena Verdolini Catholic University of Milan and FEEM
At Home and Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Innovation in Energy-Efficient Technologies

Virginie Doumax CAE-CERGAM, Paul Cézanne University, Aix-Marseille III
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Biofuels: the Use of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

PARALLEL SESSION E2

Theme: International Economics 2

Michela Limardi Paris School of Economics
International Labour Standards and Product Differentiation

Raphael Brun-Aguerre Birkbeck College, University of London
A Partner-Country Disaggregated Perspective of the Euro Area Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Mathieu Couttenier Paris 1 Sorbonne – Ens Cachan
Civil Conflict, Diplomacy and Trade

PARALLEL SESSION F1

Theme: Environmental Economics

Julien Jacob BETA, CNRS/ University of Strasbourg/ Nancy-University, Nancy 2 University
Incentives to Technological Change : A “Rules & Taxes” Policy

Jules-Eric Tchouto Centre d’Analyse de Recherche Economie (CARE – EA 2260)
On the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Tradable Emission Permits System in the French Economy: An Applied Multi-sector OLG-CGE Approach.

Ricardo Coelho Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto
Pollution for sale: made in the USA

Myriam Nourry University of Nantes - LEMNA
CO2 emissions dynamics

PARALLEL SESSION F2

Theme: Public Economics

Daniela Witczak Institut fuer Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
Taxable Income Response to Tax Rate Changes – Empirical Evidence from the German Taxpayer Panel

Peter Backus University of Warwick
Substituting Donkeys for Religion?: Testing the Homogeneity of Charity

Sarah Borgloh Centre for European Economic Research
Have You Paid Your Dues? On the Impact of the German Church Tax on Private Charitable Contributions

Steffen Osterloh Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
The Political Economy of Corporate Tax Harmonization – Why Do European Politicians (Dis)like Minimum Tax Rates?