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Conference Program

Thursday, June 16

18:00 – 20:00 Registration (Room 1)

19:00 – 21:00 Welcome reception (Room 7)

Friday, June 17

09:00 – 10:00 Plenary lecture by Ľuboš Pástor, University of Chicago (Room 7)

“Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices”

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 Parallel session 1:

Labor 1/Economic History (Room 9)

Experimental Economics (Room 10)

Corporate Finance (Room 11)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Parallel session 2:

Empirical Micro 1 (Room 9)

Industrial Organization (Room 10)

Political Economy (Room 11)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 Parallel session 3:

Labor 2 (Room 9)

Micro Theory (Room 10)

Financial Markets/Other Topics (Room 11)

20:00 – 23:00 Conference dinner (cruise on Vltava river)

Saturday, June 18

9:30 – 10:30 Plenary lecture by Adam Szeidl, University of California, Berkeley (Room 7)

“A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice”

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel session 4:

Empirical Micro 2 (Room 9)

Public Finance (Room 10)

Empirical Macro (Room 11)

LIST OF PARALLEL SESSIONS:

Please note: Each presentation is allocated 30 minutes, including questions and answers. It is up to each presenter to let audience know whether he/she will be taking questions during the presentation or only at its end. The last presenter in each session is also the session chair and is responsible for managing the time schedule of the session.

Parallel session 1 (Friday, June 17, 10:30-12:00)

Labor 1/Economic History (Room 9)

· Wadim Strielkowski: “The Determinants of Remittance Behaviour in CEECs: A Case Study of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in the Czech Republic”

· Miroslav Štefánik: “Changes in Returns to Education Caused by the Tertiary Education Expansion in Slovakia”

· Tomáš Cvrček: “Convergence and Catch-up in Central Europe? Living Standards in the Habsburg Empire, 1829 – 1910”

Experimental Economics (Room 10)

· Peter Katuščák: “Perceptions of Ad-Valorem Consumption Taxes”

· Silvester Van Koten: “Structural versus Behavioral Remedies in the Deregulation of Electricity Markets: An Experimental Investigation Guided by Theory and Policy Concerns”

· Julie Chytilová: “The Development of Other-Regarding Preferences, Patience and Cognitive Skills in Childhood”

Corporate Finance (Room 11)

· Karin Joeveer: “Number of Bank-Relationships: Evidence from Emerging Markets”

· Helena Címerová: “The Influence of CEO Experience and Education on Firm Policies”

· Jan Hanousek: “Efficiency and Ownership of the Czech Firms”

Parallel session 2 (Friday, June 17, 13:30-15:00)

Empirical Micro 1 (Room 9)

· Ján Žilinský: “Social Determinants of Stock Ownership”

· Mafalda Sampaio: “Strategic Behavior in Conversational Networks: Seeking HIV-Related Information”

· Filip Pertold: “Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Youth Smoking”

Industrial Organization (Room 10)

· Vahagn Jerbashian: “The Impact of Telecommunication Technologies on the Competition in Services and Goods Markets: Evidence from the E.U. countries”

· Darina Graczová: “Knapsack Problem for Perishable Inventories”

· Natalia Shestakova: “Price-Discrimination with Boundedly Rational Consumers: When Do Dominated Offers Pay Off?”

Political Economy (Room 11)

· Sónia Félix: “Democracy and Fertility”

· Branco Rúben: “Capital, cabinets and taxes: political and policy determinants of financial flows”

· Dragana Stanišić: “The Effect of Terrorist Attacks on Foreign Direct Investment”

Parallel session 3 (Friday, June 17, 15:30-17:00)

Labor 2 (Room 9)

· Barbara Pertold-Gebicka: “ Job Market Polarization and Employment Protection in Europe”

· Martin Guzi: “Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU”

· Alena Bičáková: “Gender Unemployment Gaps across EU: Blame the Family (Culture)”

Micro Theory (Room 10)

· Eugen Kováč: “Market Share Dynamics in a Duopoly Model with Word-of-Mouth Communication”

· Filip Matějka: “Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model”

· Jakub Steiner: “Price Distortions in High-Frequency Markets”

Financial Markets/Other Topics (Room 11)

· Evžen Kočenda: “Long-Term and Short-Term Growth Effects of the Exchange Rate Stability and Price Flexibility”

· Jan Novotný: “Were Stocks during the Crisis More Jumpy: A Comparative Study”

· Martin Lábaj: “Qualitative Input-Output Analysis, Technology Flows, and Foreign Direct Investments”

· Miroslav Zajíček: “Are Eurostat Electricity Prices Data Reliable?”

Parallel session 4 (Saturday, June 18, 11:00-12:30)

Empirical Micro 2 (Room 9)

· Mário Vozár: “Marriage Dot EU: The Effect of Internet Usage on Marriage Hazard”

· Michal Zděnek: “How Do the Elderly Respond to Prices of Health Care? Evidence from a Quasi- Experiment”

· Gueorgui (Joro) Kolev: “Overconfidence in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment”

Public Finance (Room 10)

· Tomáš Lichard: “Measuring the Shadow Economy: A Case for Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation”

· Lenka Šťastná: “Local Government Efficiency: Evidence from the Czech Municipalities”

· Libor Dušek: “How Much Intergenerational Risk Sharing Does the U.S. Social Security System Really Provide?”

Empirical Macro (Room 11)

· Jorn Halvorsen: “Are Bank Lending Shocks Important for Economic Fluctuations?”

· Menbere Workie Tiruneh: “Overshooting the Maastricht debt target in the European Union: An Empirical Exploration”

· Zuzana Fungáčová and Laurent Weill: “Bank Capital, Liquidity Creation and Deposit Insurance”