3. Weihnachtstreffen deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
im Ausland

CESifo Group und
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
20 - 22 Dezember 2006

	Programm
	Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006
19:30	Informelles Abendessen
	Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006
09:15 - 09:30	Registrierung, Kaffee, Begrüßung der Teilnehmer
	Parallel Sessions 1
	1A: Experimente
09:30 - 10:00	An Experiment on Forward versus Backward Induction: How Fairness and Levels of Reasoning Matter DIETER BALKENBORG (University of Exeter)
10:00 - 10:30	It is Hobbes, not Rousseau: An Experiment on Social Insurance ROSEMARIE NAGEL (University Pompeu Fabra)
10:30 - 11:00	Adding a Stick to the Carrot? The Interaction of Bonuses and Fines KLAUS SCHMIDT (Universität München)
	1B: Makroökonomie
09:30 - 10:00	Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies MICHELE TERTILT (Stanford University)
10:00 - 10:30	Exploring the Implications of Large Decreases in Transportation Costs BERTHOLD HERRENDORF (Arizona State University)
10:30 - 11:00	Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History SASCHA BECKER (Universität München)
	1C: Angewandte Mikroökonomie
09:30 - 10:00	Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers ASTRID KUNZE (Norwegian School of Business and Administration)
10:00 - 10:30	Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicard Part D Prescription Drug Plans JOACHIM WINTER (Universität München)
10:30 - 11:00	Compensating Wage Differentials for Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Occupational Pension Scheme Benefits JOACHIM INKMANN (Tilburg University)
11:00 - 11:30	Kaffee
	Parallel Sessions 2
	2A: Präferenzen
11:30 - 12:15	Depression Babies - Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking? STEFAN NAGEL (Stanford Business School)
12:15 - 13:00	Self-Control through Second-Order Preferences KLAUS NEHRING (UC Davis)
	2B: Industrieökonomie
11:30 - 12:00	Network Externalities, Compatibility Choice, and Industriy Dynamics: The Duopoly Case ULRICH DORASZELSKI (Harvard University)
12:00 - 12:30	Modeling Joint Pricing and Product Assortment Choices MICHAELA DRAGANSKA (Stanford Business School)
12:30 - 13:00	Should a Monopolist Sell Before or After Buyers Know Their Demands? MARC MOELLER (Universidad Carlos III)
13:00 - 14:30	Mittagessen
	Parallel Sessions 3
	3A: Arbeitsökonomie
14:30 - 15:00	Changes in Black-White Returns to Education 1940 - 2000 FABIAN LANGE (Yale University)
15:00 - 15:30	How General is Specific Human Capital? CHRISTINA GATHMANN (Stanford University)
15:30 - 16:00	Diversity, Profiling, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education HOLGER SIEG (Carnegie Mellon University)
	3B: Mikroökonomie
14:30 - 15:00	Resource Allocation and Firm Scope GUIDO FRIEBEL (University of Toulouse)
15:00 - 15:30	Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope VOLKER NOCKE (University of Oxford)
15:30 - 16:00	Contractual Incompleteness as a Signal of Trust FLORIAN HEROLD (Northwestern University)
16:00 - 16:30	Kaffee
	Parallel Sessions 4
	4A: Angewandte Mikroökonomie
16:30 - 17:00	Do Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from Germany MARKO KÖTHENBÜRGER (Universität München)
17:00 - 17:30	Distance and Information Asymmetries in Lending ROBERT HAUSWALD (American University)
17:30 - 18:00	Does Political Connectedness Affect Firm Value? JÖRG ROCHOLL (University of North Carolina)
	4B: Mikroökonomie
16:30 - 17:15	Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture FERDINAND VON SIEMENS (Universität München)
17:15 - 18:00	Dynamic Recontracting Processes with Multiple Indivisible Goods MARKUS WALZL (Maastricht University)
	4C: Theorie
16:30 - 17:00	Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts BETTINA KLAUS (Maastricht University)
17:00 - 17:30	Sharing a River Among Satiable Agents LARS EHLERS (University of Montreal)
17:30 - 18:00	Welfarism, Preferencism, and Judgementism FRANZ DIETRICH (Maastricht University)
19:30	Konferenzessen (mit Feedback und Diskussion zukünftiger Treffen)
	Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006
	Parallel Sessions 5
	5A: Makroökonomie
09:30 - 10:00	Closing Open Economy Models MARTIN BODENSTEIN (Federal Reserve Board)
10:00 - 10:30	Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model CHRISTIAN HELLWIG (UCLA)
	5B: Angewandte Mikroökonomie
09.30 - 10:00	A Note on Dynamic Patterns of Implicit Contracts with Imperfect Public Monitoring FLORIAN ENGLMAIER (Harvard Business School)
10:00 - 10:30	Exclusive vs. Overlapping Viewers in Media Markets MARKUS REISINGER (Universität München)
	5C: Theorie
09:30 - 10:00	Strategic Experimentation with Poisson Bandits SVEN RADY (Universität München)
10:00 - 10:30	Designing Non-Parametric Estimates and Tests for Means KARL SCHLAG (European University Institute)
10:30 - 10:45	Kaffee
	Parallel Sessions 6
	6A: Makroökonomie
10:45 - 11:15	Debt-Maturity without Commitment DIRK NIEPELT (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)
11:15 - 12:45	Women: From Wife to Citizen MATTHIAS DOEPKE (UCLA)
	6B: Mikroökonomie
10:45 - 11:15	Does Relationship Specific Investment Demand Depend on Asset Ownership? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Housing Market GEORG GEBHARDT (Universität München)
11:15 - 11:45	The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification DANIEL STURM (London School of Economics)
11:45 - 12:00	Kaffee
	Keynote Lecture
12:00 - 13:00	Exportweltmeister oder Schlusslicht? HANS-WERNER SINN (ifo institute für Wirtschaftsforschung und Center for Economic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
13:00 - 14:30	Informelles Mittagessen





Organisationskommittee Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University) Volker Nocke (University of Pennsylvania) Karl Schmedders (Northwestern University) Michèle Tertilt (Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania) Lokale Organisation Klaus Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)

3. Weihnachtstreffen deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler im Ausland

CESifo Group und Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 20 - 22 Dezember 2006

Programm

3. Weihnachtstreffen deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
im Ausland

CESifo Group und
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
20 - 22 Dezember 2006