Conference
Program
Friday, 4th April 2008
| 13:30h | Welcome and Coffee |
| 14:00h | Does Publicity Affect Competition? Evidence from Discontinuities in Public Procurement Auctions *Decio Coviello (European University Institute) Mario Mariniello (European University Institute) |
| Discussant: Rein Jüriado (Stockholm University) | |
| 14:40h | Managed Care and the Safety Net. More Pain for the Uninsured? *Núria Mas (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) |
| Discussant: Erik Lindqvist (Stockholm School of Economics) | |
| 15:20h | Reforms in Business Regulation: Evidence from Russia Evgeny Yakovlev (University of California, Berkeley) *Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School, Moscow and CEPR) |
| Discussant: Timo Välilä (European Investment Bank) | |
| 16:00h | Coffee Break |
| 16:30h | Does Within-tenure Experience Make You "Tougher"? Evidence from Competition Law Ludivine Garside (University of Bristal and CMPO) *Paul Grout (University of Bristol and CMPO) Anna Zalewska (University of Bath and CMPO) |
| Discussant: Bruno Cassiman (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) | |
| 17:10h | Coalition Formation in Nondemocracies Daron Acemoglu (MIT and CEPR) *Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Moscow and CEPR) Georgy Egorov (Harvard University) |
| Discussant: Thomas Renström (University of Durham and CEPR) | |
| 17:50h | End of day 1 |
| 20:00h | Dinner |
Saturday, 5th April 2008
| 09:15h | Political Allocation of Finance Enrico Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam and CEPR) *Marcel Vorage (University of Amsterdam and IDEI Toulouse) |
| Discussant: Marian Moszoro (Nowy Sacz School of Business -National-Louis University) | |
| 09:55h | A Government Debt-Rating Perspective on Public Projects and Privatization *Ady Pauzner (Tel Aviv University) Nadav Levy (SUNY, Albany) |
| Discussant: Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics) | |
| 10:35h | Coffee Break |
| 11:00h | Capital Structure and Regulation: Does Ownership Matter? Bernardo Borlotti (Universitá di Torino) Carlo Cambini (Politecnico di Torino) Laura Rondi (Politecnico di Torino) *Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University and CEPR) |
| Discussant: Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel University and CMPO - Centre for Market & Public Organization) | |
| 11:40h | The Public Management of Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors Yolande Hiriart (TSE) *David Martimort (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) Jerôme Pouyet (PSE and CEPR) |
| Discussant: Nadav Levy (SUNY, Albany) | |
| 12:20h | Governing the Governors: A Clinical Study of Central Banks Lars Frisell (Sveriges Riksbank) Kasper Roszbach (Sveriges Riksbank) *Giancarlo Spagnolo (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, SITE - Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR) |
| Discussant: Kai-Uwe Kühn (University of Michigan and CEPR) | |
| 13:00h | Lunch |
| 14:00h | Keynote Speech: "The Basic Public Finance of public-Private Partnerships"
*Eduardo Engel (Yale University) Ronald Fischer (Universidad de Chile) Alexander Galetovic (Universidad de los Andes) |
| Discussant: Ian Jewitt (University of Oxford and CEPR) | |
| 14:50h | Coffee Break |
| 15:10h | The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel *Sergei Guriev (New Economic School, Moscow and CEPR) |
| Discussant: Matthew Ellman (Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC)) | |
| 15:50h | Regulating a Multi-Utility Firm *Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna and CEPR) Carlo Scarpa (University of Brescia) |
| Discussant: Ángel Luis López (SP-SP Center, IESE Business School) | |
| 16:30h | End |
| (*)Denotes presenter. | |
| Program Committee Mathias Dewatripont (ECARES and CEPR) Pascal Courty (European University Institute and CEPR) Eduardo Engel (Yale University) Paul Grout (University of Bristol and CMPO) Xavier Vives (IESE Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR) |
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April 4-5, 2008
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08034
Barcelona (Spain)
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