Past Conferences

	Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 5-6 March 2010 Programme
	Friday, 5 March 2010
08:45 - 09:00	Welcome & Introduction CHRISTIAN GOLLIER
	Session 1 Chair: Vivek Ghosal
09:00 - 10:00	Keynote Lecture: Demographics and the Term Structure of Stock Market Risk CARLO A. FAVERO (University of Bocconi) and Andrea Tamoni
10:00 - 10:50	Competition in Shareholders Protection and Portfolio Diversification BRUNO M. PARIGI (University of Padova), Loriana Pelizzon and Ernst Ludwig Von Thadden Discussant: Ray Rees
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:00	Should CEOs be Insured Against Failure? D&O Insurance and Managerial Incentives Peter Egger, Doina Radulescu and RAY REES (University of Munich) Disscusant: Sjur Didrik Flåm
12:00 - 12:50	Demographic Change and Bank Profitability: Empirical Evidence from German Savings Banks Michael Berlemann, Marco Oestmann and MARCEL THUM (Dresden University of Technology) Discussant: Vivek Ghosal
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 2 Chair: Jean-Pierre Ponssard
14:00 - 14:50	Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations STEFAN BUEHLER (University of St. Gallen) and Dennis L. Gärtner Discussant: Philippe Choné
14:50 - 15:40	Capacity Decisions with Demand Fluctuations and Carbon Leakage Guy Meunier and JEAN-PIERRE PONSSARD (Ecole Polytechnique) Discussant: Jay Pil Choi
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 -16:50	A Model of Voting in Boards with Heterogenous Outside Directors Paolo Balduzzi, CLARA GRAZIANO (University of Udine) and Annalisa Luporini Discussant: Stefan Buehler
16:50 - 17:40	Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives JAY PIL CHOI (Michigan State University) and Byung-Cheol Kim Discussant: Markus Reisinger
	Saturday, 6 March 2010
	Session 3 Chair: Ray Rees
09:00 - 09:50	Anthropometry of Love: Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages Michèle Belot and JAN FIDRMUC (Brunel University) Discussant: Francesco Cinnirella
09:50 - 10:40	Competitive Effects of Vertical Integration with Downstream Oligopsony and Oligopoly Simon Loertscher and MARKUS REISINGER (University of Munich) Discussant. Marcel Thum
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50	Foreign Bank Entry and Credit Allocation in Emerging Markets HANS DEGRYSE (University of Tilburg), Olena Havrylchyk, Emilia Jurzyk and Sylwester Kozak Discussant: Bruno M. Parigi
11:50 - 12:40	Remittances, Bancarization and the Demand for Insuring Schemes Dorothée Crayen, CHRISTA HAINZ (Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and Christiane Ströh de Martínez Discussant: Hans Degryse
12:40 - 13:50	Lunch
	Session 4 Chair: Bruno Parigi
13:50 - 14:40	Competition and Innovation in the US Automobile Market VIVEK GHOSAL (Georgia Institute of Technology) Discussant: Oliver Falck
14:40 - 15:30	Advertising Heterogeneous Products to Heterogeneous Consumers Frédéric Koessler and REGIS RENAULT (University of Cergy-Pontoise) Discussant: Marco Sahm
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:40	Monitoring Lukewarm Friends, Not Foes: Ignorance as Comittment Device Silvia Dominguez Martinez, FERDINAND VON SIEMENS (University of Amsterdam) and Randolph Sloof Discussant: Régis Renault
16:40 - 17:40	Keynote Lecture: The Use of Economics in Antitrust Enforcement: Some Thoughts by a Practitioner PHILIPPE CHONE (ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique)
19:30	Conference Dinner

Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 5-6 March 2010

Programme

Friday, 5 March 2010

Session 1 Chair: Vivek Ghosal

Session 2 Chair: Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Session 3 Chair: Ray Rees

Session 4 Chair: Bruno Parigi

Area Conference
on Applied Microeconomics

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
5-6 March 2010

Session 1
Chair: Vivek Ghosal

Session 2
Chair: Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Session 3
Chair: Ray Rees

Session 4
Chair: Bruno Parigi