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	Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 9-10 March 2012 Programme

	Friday, 9 March 2012
08:45 - 09:00	Welcome & Introduction
	Session 1 Chair: Markus Reisinger
09:00 - 10:00	Keynote Lecture: Language, Internet and Platform Competition BRUNO JULLIEN (Toulouse School of Economics)
10:00 - 10:50	Compulsory Licensing, Price Controls, and Access to Patented Foreign Products ERIC BOND (Vanderbilt University) and Kamal Saggi Disscussant: Jay Pil Choy
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:00	A Treatment Effect Method for Merger Analysis with an Application to Parking Prices in Paris Philippe Choné and LAURENT LINNEMER (CREST-Paris) Discussant: Jörg Claussen
12:00 - 12:50	Vertical Integration with Complementary Inputs MARKUS REISINGER (WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management) and Emanuele Tarantino Discussant: Eric Bond
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 2 Chair: Christian Gollier
14:00 - 14:50	Selection Biases in Complementary R&D Projects JAY PIL CHOI (University of New South Wales and Michigan State University) and Heiko Gerlach Discussant: Markus Reisinger
14:50 - 15:40	Optimal Illusions and the Simplification of Beliefs Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics) Discussant: Johannes Maier
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 3 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates Chair: Christian Gollier
16:00 - 16:50	Social Value of Public Information without Common Knowledge ALIA GIZATULINA (Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods)
16:50 - 17:40	First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics STEPHEN HANSEN (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Michael McMahon
19:30	Conference Dinner

	Saturday, 10 March 2012
	Session 4 Chair: Andrea Attar
09:00 - 09:50	When is Ambiguity-Attitude Constant? JÜRGEN EICHBERGER (University of Heidelberg), Simon Grant and David Kelsey Discussant: Ray Rees
09:50 - 10:40	Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd PAUL BELLEFLAMME (Catholic University of Louvain), Thomas Lambert and Armin Schwienbacher Discussant: Marco Sahm
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50	On the Non-Exclusivity of Loan Contracts: An Empirical Invstigation HANS DEGRYSE (Catholic University of Leuven and Tilburg University), Vasso Ionnadiou and Erik von Schedvin Discussant: Laurent Linnemer
11:50 - 12:40	Multiple Lenders, Strategic Default and the Role of Debt Covenants ANDREA ATTAR (Toulouse School of Economics and University of Roma Tor Vergata), Catherine Casamatta, Arnold Chassagnon, Jean Paul Décamps Discussant: Hans Degryse
12:40 - 13:40	Lunch
	Session 5 Chair: Mark Schelker
13:40 - 14:30	Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households Patricia Apps,Yuri Andrienko and RAY REES (University of Munich) Discussant: Mark Schelker
14:30 - 15:20	Consumer Search Costs and the Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition JOSE LUIS MORAGA-GONZALEZ (Free University of Amsterdam) and Vaiva Petrikaite Discussant: Anrea Attar
15:20 - 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30	How Effective are Advertising Bans? On the Demand for Quality in two-sided Media Markets Tanja Greiner and MARCO SAHM (TU Munich) Discussant: Paul Belleflamme
16:30 - 17:20	Lame Ducks and Divided Government: How Voters Control the Unaccountable MARK SCHELKER (University of St. Gallen) Discussant: Jürgen Eichberger
	End of Conference

Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 9-10 March 2012

Programme

Friday, 9 March 2012

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Saturday, 10 March 2012

Session 4

Session 5

Area Conference
on Applied Microeconomics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
9-10 March 2012