programme
18th May 2021 (via Zoom)
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Keynote (Professor Andrew Clark)
11:00 Sessions
1a: Behaviour/Theory (Chair in bold)
Cooperation between Spouses: Do Kinder People Select into Love Matched Marriages in Pakistan? Uzma Afzal, University of Nottingham
Impacts of Urbanization on Trust: Evidence from an Experiment in the Field Elvis Cheng Xu, University of Nottingham
Agenda-Manipulation in Ranking Gregorio Curello, University of Bonn
1b: Macro (Chair in bold)
Does financial integration generate potential benefits? An Empirical Evidence from India Rakesh Padhan, Indian Institute of Technology
Quo Vadis, Britain? – Implications of the Brexit Process on the UK’s Real Economy Kaan Celebi, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Transmission Mechanisms of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies in Open Economies Ivan Hajdukovic, Universtitat de Barcelona School of Economics
1c: Labour/Health (Chair in bold)
Structural Transformation in India: The Role of the Service Sector Rafael Serrano-Quintero, Universidad de Alicante
Errors in financial expectations and unhealthy behaviours- evidence from Russia Wei Jin, University of Birmingham
Migrant health and healthcare utilisation Gretta Mohan, ESRI
1d: Development Economics (Chair in bold)
Standard Essential Patents: Forming a Policy Framework for SEPs in India – Lessons from a comparative study of International Regulatory Regimes Keerti Pendyal, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
The long-run gains from the early adoptions of electricity Björn Brey, University of Nottingham
Quantifying externalities: evidence from Ugandan farmers Benedetta Lerva, Stockholm University
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Publishing Session with RES Editor
13:45 Break
14:00 Sessions
2a: Development Economics (Chair in bold)
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Co-Evolution of Kin Ties and Institutions Gian Luca Tedeschi, University of Nottingham
Assessing the (a)symmetric effect of global climate anomalies on food prices: Evidence from local prices Lotanna Ernest Emediegwu, University of Manchester
Multi-product firms, networks and quality-upgrading: Evidence from China in India Alexander Copestake, University of Oxford
2b: Political Economy (Chair in bold)
The One and Only: Single Bidding in Public Procurement Vitezslav Titl, KU Leuven
Rewarding Allegiance: Political Alignment and Fiscal Outcomes in Local Government Samuel Obeng, University of East Anglia
The moral hazard of devolution: Applying fiscal federalism to the evolution of Northern Ireland’s public finances, 1920-1972 David Jordan, Queen's University Belfast
2c: Labour Economics (Chair in bold)
Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities when Commitment between Spouses is Limited Jan Gravert, University of Wuppertal
Marriage and income risk in the United Kingdom Johanna Tiedemann, The University of Glasgow
Knockin’ on the Bank’s Door: Why is Self-Employment Going Down? Alina Malkova, University of North Carolina
2d: Finance (Chair in bold)
Stock Price Wealth Effects and Monetary Policy: An Imperfect Knowledge Approach Adrian Ifrim, UAB & Barcelona GSE
Global Spillovers of Fed Information Effect Andrzej Szczepaniak, Ghent University
Firm Heterogeneity in Production-Based Asset Pricing: The Role of Habit Sensitivity and Lumpy Investment Zhiting Wu, The University of St Andrews
15:30 Break
15:45 Sessions
3a: Finance (Chair in bold)
Optimal Factor Investing in FX Markets: Model Sparsity in a Data-Rich Environment Ruirui Liu, King’s College London
Optimal Financial Regulation Hormoz Ramian, University of Glasgow
Corporate-Sovereign Debt Nexus and Externalities Jun Hee Kwak, University of Maryland
Risk-Taking, Competition and Uncertainty: Do CoCo Bonds Increase the Risk Appetite of Banks? Ioana Neamtu, University of Amsterdam
3b: Applied Economics (Chair in bold)
Preferences for Cash vs. Card Payments: An Analysis using German Household Scanner Data Calogero Brancatelli, Goethe University Frankfurt
Price Discrimination and Market Competition: Evidence from the laundry detergent market Thiago Cacicedo, University of Alicante
Severance Savings Accounts and life-cycle savings R.R. Azevedo, Insper
3c: Macro (Chair in bold)
Towards HANK: Investigating Credit and Labour market interactions in a New Keynesian Economy Matthew McKernan, University of Oxford
Resolving Indeterminacy with Neural Network Learning: sinks become sources Julian Ashwin, University of Oxford
Inequality, Taxation, and Sovereign Default Risk Minjie Deng, University of Rochester
Monetary Policy, Sticky Wages, and Household Heterogeneity: TANK vs HANK Ghislain Afavi, University of Montreal
3d: Micro (Chair in bold)
The sorting effect of high-powered incentives in the mission-oriented sector Monika Pompeo, University of Nottingham
Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering for Selecting Valid Instrumental Variables Xiaoran Liang, University of Bristol
Cyclical Attention to Saving Alistair Macaulay, University of Oxford
Over-austerity in a model of electoral competition with heterogeneous beliefs Anastasia Papadopoulou, University of Leicester
17:45 Conference Ends