Keynote Lecture Survey Expectations M. HASHEM PESARAN (University of Cambridge) and Martin Weale (National Institute of Economic and Social Research)
Coffee Break
Plenary Session 1: Expectations and Rationality
Discussant: Ricardo Mestre
Rationality of Survey-Based Inflation Expectations: The Euro Area Case RICARDO MESTRE (European Central Bank)
Discussant: Steffen Henzel
Long-Run Effects of Innovation on Employment STEFAN LACHENMAIER (Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and Horst Rottman (University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden)
Discussant: Klaus Wohlrabe
Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation: Are innovators special? ULF VON KALCKREUTH (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Discussant: Stefan Lachenmaier
Plenary Session 3: Business Cycles
Convergence of Business Cycles in the Euro Area: Evidence from Survey Data CHRISTIAN GAYER (European Commission) and PETER WEISS (European Commission)
Discussant: Gernot Nerb
Business and consumer expectations and macroeconomic forecasts OSCAR CLAVERIA (University of Barcelona), Ernest Pons (University of Barcelona) and Raúl Ramos (University of Barcelona)
Discussant: Peter Weiss
Plenary Session 4: Special Topics I
Use of deflators in the Bank of Italy's business surveys LEANDRO D'AURIZIO (Bank of Italy) and Raffaele Tartaglia Polcini (Bank of Italy)
Discussant: Fernando Martins
The Price Setting Behaviour of Portuguese Firms Evidence from Survey Data FERNANDO MARTINS (Banco de Portugal)
Discussant: Leandro D´Aurizio
A Multi-Sectoral Flash Indicator for the Swiss Business Cycle Michael Graff (Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research), SIBYLLE GÜBELI (Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research), MARC WILDI (Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research)
Sample Design and Sample Maintenance of TANKAN AKIRA TSUCHIKAWA (Bank of Japan)
Short-run variations in households' financial market expectations Michael Hurd (RAND Corporation), Maarten van Rooij (De Nederlandsche Bank) and JOACHIM WINTER (University of Munich)
Labor supply model along the intensive and extensive margin, in regular and irregular labor markets ISILDA SHIMA (University of Turin)
Discussant: Matthias Dischinger
What can happiness research tell us about altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Johannes Schwarze (University of Bamberg) and RAINER WINKELMANN (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Lorenzo Trapani
Cross-Section vs. Time Series Measures of Uncertainty Ciaran Driver (Tanaka Business School), LORENZO TRAPANI (Cass Business School) and Giovanni Urga (Cass Business School)
Discussant: Klaus Abberger