QED European Netwok Meeting 2018

The QED Meeting 2018 will held in ALicante from May 11 to May 12

2018-05-11

PROGRAM QED JAMBOREE 2018 – University of Alicante

Friday, May 11    Venue:Sala Ernest Lluch, Faculty of Economics at University of Alicante; Building N. 31 in the Campus Map.

9:15h.Opening and Welcome Carmen Beviá (U. Alicante)

9:30-11:00h.: Taxation. Chair: Stéphane Gauthier (U. Paris)

·        Luis Pinheiro De Matos (U. Cardiff): Fiscal Federalism and Tax Competition: A Double-Edged Sword?

·        Katrine Marie Tofthøj Jakobsen (U. Copenhagen): Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark

·        Rocío Fernández (U. Alicante): Entrepreneurship and Tax Evasion

11:00-11:30h.:Coffee Break

11:30-13:00h.: Macroeconomics. Chair: Bernhard Eckwert (U. Bielefeld)

·        Robert Forster (U. Cardiff): The Credit Boom Revisited - A DSGE Analysis

·        Chaowei Wang (U. Cardiff): Modelling the Shadow Banking System in China using Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium

·        Elisa Baku (U. Paris): Exchange Rates Predictability In Emerging Markets

13:00-14:00h.:Lunch

14:00-15:00h.:Consumer Search. Chair: Ian Long (U. Cardiff)

·        Edona Reshidi (U. Vienna): Wholesale Price Discrimination and Consumer Search

·        Simon Martin (U. Vienna): Market transparency and consumer search - Evidence from Austrian retail gasoline market

15:00-15:30h.:Coffee Break

15:30-16:30h.:Econometrics. Chair: Lola Collado (U. Alicante)

·        Jacob Macdonald (U. Lisbon): The Capitalization of Geohazard Risks on Residential Red Estate: Applicants to Lisbon, Portugal

·        Lingwei Kong (U. Amsterdam): Finite sample distributions of identification robust factor pricing statistics

16:30-17:00h.:Presentation regarding job market. Irem Demirci (U. Lisbon)

20:00h.: Dinner Restaurante Plaza Canalla(Down Town); Plaza Gabriel Miró 10

Saturday, May 12

Venue:Edificio San Fernando (Down Town); Calle San Fernando, 40, 03001 Alicante.

10:00-11:00h.: Social networks. Chair: Marco van der Leij (U. Amsterdam)

·        Rute Caeiro (U. Lisbon): Agricultural Innovations and Social Networks in Guinea-Bissau

·        Sevak Alaverdyan (U. Bielefeld): Search Channels of Workers and Firms over the Business Cycle

11:00-11:30h.: Coffee Break

11:30-12:30h.: Applied Public Economics. Chair: Marianna Battaglia (U. Alicante)

·        Anne-Line Koch Helsø (U.Copenhagen):A structural model of retirement with preference heterogeneity

·        Nina Pallarés (U. Alicante): Family Planning and Health Care: Evidence form a Permanent Aggressive Intervention

12:30-14:00h.:Lunch.  Coordinators Meeting

14:00-15:00h.:Microeconomics. Chair: Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (U. Vienna)

·        Federica Ceron (U. Paris): Aggregation of Bayesian preferences: Unanimity vs Monotonicity

·        Alessandro Basurto (U. Amsterdam): Asset pricing dynamics under expectations diffusion: the effect of social influence, homophily and stubborn agents

15:00h.:Closing