Workshop in Quantitative Economics

University of Alicante, May 31^st and June 1^st , 2018

25th Anniversary of the QED program 

Organizers: Carmen Beviá and Lola Collado

Program

Thursday, May 31^st

10:30-11:30 Session A1 Social Choice (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: Carmen Herrero  (Universidad de Alicante)

• Bernardo Moreno (Universidad de Málaga) “The Role of Domain Restrictions in Mechanism Design: Ex Post Incentive Compatibility and Pareto Efficiency” (with Salvador Barberà and Dolors Berga)
• Aitor Calo-Blanco (Universidad de A Coruña) “Health and fairness with other-regarding preferences”

10:30-11:30 Session B1 Applied Micro I (Ernest Lluch room)

 Chair: Lola Collado (Universidad de Alicante)

• Jaromir Kovarik (Universidad del País Vasco) “Diffusion of mobile banking among rural women: A field experiment” (with Pablo Brañas-Garza and Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez)
• Marcello Sartarelli (Universidad de Alicante) “Does Campaign Spending Affect Local Elections? Evidence from Colombia” (with Enrique Javier Burbano Valencia)

11:45-12:00 Opening Ceremony (Salón de Grados)

• Raúl Ruíz, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business
• Juan Mora, Head of the Department of Economics
• Carmen Beviá, Director of the PhD Program

12:00-13:00 Invited Conference (Salón de Grados)

Chair: Carmen Beviá (Universidad de Alicante)

• Fernando Vega-Redondo (Bocconi University) “Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development”

13:00-14:00 Lunch (Hall – Second floor)

14:00-15:30 Session A2 Experimental Economics (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: Adam Sanjurjo (Universidad de Alicante)

• Hubert János Kiss (MTA KRTK KTI) “Does risk sorting explain bubbles?” (with Balázs Sziklaix, Ágnes Pintér and László Kóczy)
• Vita Zhukova (UCAM) “The Role of Firms’ Trustworthiness in Business Angels’ Investment. Experimental Evidence from 3-player Trust Game” (with Giovanni Ponti)
• Carlos Cueva (Universidad de Alicante) “Cognitive dissonance, investor beliefs and the disposition effect” (with Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Giovanni Ponty and Josefa Tomás)

14:00-15:30 Session B2 Energy Economics (Ernest Lluch room)

Chair: Ángeles Carnero (Universidad de Alicante)

• Alicia Pérez-Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) “Drivers of Carbon Intensity trends in the EU” (with Miguel Rodríguez)
• Iryna Sikora (KPMG) “Economics in the Energy Sector”
• Ángeles Carnero (Universidad de Alicante) “Outliers and misleading leverage effect in asymmetric GARCH-type models” (with Ana Pérez)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break (Hall – Second floor)

16:00-17:00 Session A3 Applied Micro II (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: Anna Sanz de Galdeano (Universidad de Alicante)

• Mariya Melnychuk (University College London) “The economic costs of child maltreatment in the UK” (with Steve Morris, Elena Pizzo and Gabriella Conti)
• Ana Moro-Egido (Universidad de Granada) “Intra-household arrangements and household level of material deprivation” (with Elena Bárcena-Martín and Maite Blázquez)

16:00-17:00 Session B3 Macroeconometrics (Ernest Lluch room)

Chair: Ángel León (Universidad de Alicante)

• Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca) “Time-varying relationship between oil price and exchange rate” (with César Castro)
• Matias Pacce (Banco de España) “Short-term forecasting of business cycle turning points: a mixed-frequency Markov-switching dynamic factor analysis” (with Siem Jan Koopman and Gabriel Pérez Quirós)

Friday, June 1^st

10:45-11:45 Session A4 Networks (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: Coralio Ballester (Universidad de Alicante)

• Alfonso Rosa García (UCAM) “Researchers’ predictions about own impact evolution” (with Raúl Baños)
• Lorenzo Ductor (Middlesex University London) “Connections to Decision Makers” (with Bauke Visser)

10:45-11:45 Session B4 Time Series (Ernest Lluch room)

Chair: Juan Mora López (Universidad de Alicante)

• Yuliya Lovcha (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) “Identification of Technology Shocks by Matching the SVAR Decomposition of the Variance in the Frequency Domain” (with Alejandro Perez-Laborda)
• Trino-Manuel Ñíguez (University of Westminster) “Time-varying SNP distribution and portfolio performance” (with Ángel León)

12:00-13:00 Invited Conference (Salón de Grados)

Chair: Luis Corchón (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante) “Equality of Opportunity. Some insights”

13:00-14:00 Lunch (Hall – Second floor)

14:00-15:30 Session A5 Economic Theory I (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: David Jiménez (Universidad de Alicante)

• Carlos Alos-Ferrer (University of Zurich) “Think, but Not Too Much: A Dual-Process Model of Willpower and Self-Control”
• Arnold Polanski (University of East Anglia) “Coalition bargaining in repeated games” (with Fernando Vega-Redondo)
• Miguel Ángel Meléndez Jiménez (Universidad de Málaga) “Institutional flexibility, political alternation and middle-of-the-road policies” (with Ascensión Andina Díaz and Francesco Feri)

14:00-15:30 Session B5 Macroeconomics/Econometrics (Ernest Lluch room)

Chair: Fidel Pérez (Universidad de Alicante)

• Alejandro Perez Laborda (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) “Frequency-Domain Estimation of the SVAR vs. Filtering Low-Frequency Cycles” (with Yuliya Lovcha)
• Danilo Leiva-Leon (Banco de España) “Fluctuations of Global Macro Volatility” (with Lorenzo Ductor)
• Lillia Maliar (Universidad de Alicante and Stanford University) “Forward Guidance: Is It Useful After the Crisis?” (with John B. Taylor)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break (Hall – Second floor)

16:00-17:30 Session A6 Economic Theory II (Vicens Vives room)

Chair: Ramón Faulí-Oller (Universidad de Alicante)

• Roman Chuhay (NRU Higher School of Economics) “Word of Mass: The Relationship between Mass Media and Word-of-Mouth”
• José A. García-Martínez (Universidad Miguel Hernández) “Reputation and news suppression in the media industry” (with Ascensión Andina Díaz)
• Ascensión Andina Díaz (Universidad de Málaga) “A careerist judge with two concerns” (with José A. García-Martínez)

16:00-17:30 Session B6 Applied Micro III (Ernest Lluch room)

Chair: Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe (Universidad de Alicante)

• Carlos Aller (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera) “The Effect of the Financial Crisis on Default by Spanish Households” (with Charles Granty)
• Marisa Hidalgo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) “Non-cognitive Skills and Remedial Education: Good news for girls” (with Marianna Battaglia)
• Laura Crespo (Banco de España) “Inequality in Life Expectancies across Europe” (with Radim Bohacek, Jesús Bueren, Pedro Mira and Josep Pijoan-Mas)

17:45-19:00 25th Anniversary of the QED program (Salón de Grados)

20:00 Dinner – Finca la Torreta