Program of the 27th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop
All sessions, breaks, and lunches take place in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres (NW). Please refer to the campus map to locate them. The dinner takes place at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, situated in walking distance from the Spencer on Byron and the Emerald Inn.
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| Massey University's Auckland campus 20 - 21 February, 2009 |
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| Friday 20th February 2009 |
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| 08.30am - 8.50am | Registration and Morning Coffee Venue: NW Foyer |
| 08.50am - 9.00am | Welcome Lawrence Rose (Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Business, Massey University) Venue: NW200 |
| 9.00am - 9.45am | Invited Session I Clemens Puppe, University of Karlsruhe The Median Voter Theorem Revisited Venue: NW200 Chair: Steffen Lippert, Massey University |
| 9.50am - 11.00am | Parallel Session 1A Venue: NW100 Chair: Lawrence Rose, Massey University |
| 9.50am - 10.25am | Intertemporal effects of capital
requirements on risk taking behaviour of banks Gerhard Hambusch, University of Technology, Sydney (with Sherrill Shaffer & David Finnoff) Discussant » William Schworm, UNSW |
| 10.25am - 11.00am | Disciplining Banks: Subordinated Debt
Regulation versus Bank Capital Regulation. Yehning Chen, National Taiwan University (with Iftekhar Hasan) Discussant » Martin Young, Massey University |
| 9.50am - 11.00am | Parallel Session 1B Venue: NW200 Chair: Oliver Lorz, RWTH Aachen University |
| 9.50am - 10.25am | FDI, Technology Spillover, and Vertical
Product Differentiation Xuan T Nguyen, University of New South Wales (with Hodaka Morita) Discussant » Oliver Lorz, RWTH Aachen University |
| 10.25am - 11.00am | Offshoring Along the Production Chain Oliver Lorz, RWTH Aachen University (with Philipp Harms & Dieter Urban) Discussant » Xuan T Nguyen, University of New South Wales |
| 11.00am - 11.20am | Coffee/Tea Break Venue: NW Foyer |
| 11.20am - 1.05pm | Parallel Session 2A Venue: NW100 Chair: Mamoru Kaneko, University of Tsukuba |
| 11.20am - 11.55am | Nash Demand Game and the KalaiSmorodinsky
Solution Nejat Anbarci, Deakin University (with John H. Boyd III) Discussant » Yuji Tamura, Australian National University |
| 11.55am - 12.30pm | Production in the Absence of Secure
Property Rights Yuji Tamura, Australian National University (with Richard Cornes) Discussant » Nejat Anbarci, Deakin University |
| 12.30pm - 1.05pm | Simple Characterizations of the Nash,
Kalai/Smorodinsky and Discrete Raiffa Solutions via Common Disagreement Point Axioms Ching-Jen Sun, Deakin University (with Nejat Anbarci) Discussant » Mamoru Kaneko, University of Tsukuba |
| 11.20am - 1.05pm | Parallel Session 2B Venue: NW200 Chair: Catherine de Fontenay, University of Melbourne |
| 11.20am - 11.55am | A Theory of Dumping and Antidumping Frank Staehler, University of Otago (with Phillip McCalman & Gerald Willmann) Discussant » Steffen Lippert, Massey University |
| 11.55am - 12.30pm | Market Entry by Two Multinational Firms Onur Koska, University of Otago Discussant » Catherine de Fontenay, University of Melbourne |
| 12.30pm - 1.05pm | The re-location
of crime Catherine de Fontenay, University of Melbourne Discussant » Frank Staehler, University of Otago |
| 1.05pm - 2.05pm | Lunch Venue: NW Foyer |
| 2.05pm - 2.50pm | Invited Session II Julian Wright, National University of Singapore (with Younghwan In) Signaling Unobservable Choices Venue: NW200 Chair: Simona Fabrizi, Massey University |
| 2.55pm - 4.05pm | Parallel Session 3A Venue: NW100 Chair: Kim Hang Pham Do, Massey University |
| 2.55pm - 3.30pm | Strategic Issues in Global Climate Change Policy Harry Clarke, La Trobe University Discussant » Michinori Uwasu, University of Osaka |
| 3.30pm - 4.05pm | Estimating the Experience-Weighted
Attractions for the Migration-Emission Game Michinori Uwasu, University of Osaka (with Stephen Polasky) Discussant » Harry Clarke, La Trobe University |
| 2.55pm - 4.05pm | Parallel Session 3B Venue: NW200 Chair: Christoph Schumacher, Massey University |
| 2.55pm - 3.30pm | Teaching or sorting: The role of tests in
education and work training Svetlana Danilkina, University of Melbourne Discussant » Eberhard Feess, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
| 3.30pm - 4.05pm | Contracts as rent seeking
devices: theory and evidence from German soccer Eberhard Feess, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (with Michael Gerfin & Gerd Muehlheusser) Discussant » Svetlana Danilkina, University of Melbourne |
| 4.05pm - 4.25pm | Coffee/Tea Break Venue: NW Foyer |
| 4.25pm - 6.10pm | Parallel Session 4A Venue: NW100 Chair: Anne de Bruin, Massey University |
| 4.25pm - 5.00pm | Contracting for Dynamic Efficiency Vladimir Petkov, Victoria University of Wellington (with Paul Calcott) Discussant » Jyh-Bang Jou, Massey University |
| 5.00pm - 5.35pm | Endogenous Monetary Commitment Jan Libich, La Trobe University and CAMA (with Petr Stehlik) Discussant » Chung Tran, UNSW |
| 5.35pm - 6.10pm | Monetary Policy Facing Fiscal Indiscipline
Under Generalized Timing of Actions Petr Stehlik, University of West Bohemia (with Jan Libich) Discussant » Vladimir Petkov, Victoria University of Wellington |
| 4.25pm - 6.10pm | Parallel Session 4B Venue: NW200 Chair: Jeff Kline, Bond University |
| 4.25pm - 5.00pm | Backward Induction in Games with Imperfect
Recall John Hillas, University of Auckland (with Dmitriy Kvasov) Discussant » Clemens Puppe, University of Karlsruhe |
| 5.00pm - 5.35pm | On choice in a complex environment Arkadii Slinko, The University of Auckland (with Murali Agastya) Discussant » Jeff Kline, Bond University |
| 5.35pm - 6.10pm | Partial Memories, Inductively Derived Views, and their
Interactions with Behavior Jeff Kline, Bond University (with Mamoru Kaneko) Discussant » John Hillas, University of Auckland |
| 6.30pm | Transportation to Takapuna |
| 7.30pm | Drinks and Mingle Venue: Bruce Mason Centre Takapuna |
| 7.50pm | NZIER prize giving ceremony (Lawrence Rose, Massey University and Jean-Pierre de Raad, NZIER) Venue: Bruce Mason Centre Takapuna |
| 8.00pm | Dinner Venue: Bruce Mason Centre Takapuna |
| Saturday 21st February 2009 |
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| 08.30am - 9.00am | Registration and Morning Coffee Venue: NW Foyer |
| 9.00am - 9.45am | Invited Session III Mamoru Kaneko, University of Tsukuba Exploring New Socio-Economic Thought for a Small and Narrow Earth Venue: NW200 Chair: Jeff Kline, Bond University |
| 9.50am - 11.00am | Parallel Session 5A Venue: NW100 Chair: Vladimir Smirnov, University of Sydney |
| 9.50am - 10.25am | The Value of Information in a PrincipalAgent
Model
with Moral Hazard and Ex Ante Contracting Randy Silvers, Deakin University Discussant » Vladimir Smirnov, University of Sydney |
| 10.25am - 11.00am | Communication Breakdown. Vladimir Smirnov, University of Sydney (with Anthony Rush & Andrew Wait) Discussant » Randy Silvers, Deakin University |
| 9.50am - 11.00am | Parallel Session 5B Venue: NW200 Chair: David Goldbaum, University of Technology Sydney |
| 9.50am - 10.25am | Exclusion in multidimensional screening models Suren Basov, La Trobe University (with Ian King) Discussant » David Goldbaum, University of Technology Sydney |
| 10.25am - 11.00am | Follow the Leader: Steady State analysis of a Dynamic Social Network David Goldbaum, University of Technology Sydney Discussant » Suren Basov, La Trobe University |
| 11.00am - 11.20am | Coffee/Tea Break Venue: NW Foyer |
| 11.20am - 1.05pm | Parallel Session 6A Venue: NW100 Chair: Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland |
| 11.20am - 11.55am | Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts Chung Tran, UNSW (with Juergen Jung) Discussant » Damien Eldridge, La Trobe University |
| 11.55am - 12.30pm | A learning theory of referrals. Damien Eldridge, La Trobe University Discussant » Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland |
| 12.30pm - 1.05pm | Truth-In-Advertising Laws and Pharmaceutical Promotion. Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland (with Rhema Vaithianathan) Discussant » Simona Fabrizi, Massey University |
| 11.20am - 1.05pm | Parallel Session 6B Venue: NW200 Chair: Kieron Meagher, UNSW and ANU |
| 11.20am - 11.55am | Delegation and Incentives: Complements or Substitutes Suraj Prasad, University of New South Wales Discussant » Kieron Meagher, UNSW and ANU |
| 11.55am - 12.30pm | Who Decides about Change and Restructuring in Organizations Kieron Meagher, UNSW and ANU (with Andrew Wait) Discussant » Frank Formby, UNSW |
| 12.30pm - 1.05 pm | Limit State Refinement. Dan Sasaki, University of Tokyo Discussant » Shravan Luckraz, Bond University |
| 1.05pm - 2.05pm | Lunch Venue: NW Foyer |
| 9.00am - 9.45am | Invited Session IV Michael Riordan, Columbia University Quality Competition and Multiple Equilibria Venue: NW200 Chair: Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne |
| 2.55pm - 4.05 pm | Parallel Session 7A Venue: NW100 Chair: Ben Jacobsen, Massey University |
| 2.55pm - 3.30pm | Various Notions of Game Trees. Shravan Luckraz (with Jeff Kline) Discussant » Otto Reich, Massey University |
| 3.30pm - 4.05pm | Email pricing. Laura Meriluoto, University of Canterbury (with B. Curtis Eaton & Ian MacDonald) Discussant » Suraj Prasad, University of New South Wales |
| 2.55pm - 4.05 pm | Parallel Session 7B Venue: NW200 Chair: Simona Fabrizi, Massey University |
| 2.55pm - 3.30pm | Death and Defalcation: Barriers to Collusion-Proofness. Abigail Brown, University of Technology, Sydney Discussant » Igor Muraviev, State University - Higher School of Economics Moscow |
| 3.30pm - 4.05pm | Collusion and Price Leadership. Igor Muraviev, State University - Higher School of Economics Moscow (with Patrick Rey) Discussant » Abigail Brown, University of Technology, Sydney |
| 04.05pm - 4.25pm | Coffee/Tea Break Venue: NW Foyer |
| 4.25pm - 5.35pm | Session 8 Venue: NW200 Chair: Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne |
| 4.25pm - 5.00pm | Stable Institutions. Dmitriy Kvasov, University of Auckland (with Georgy Artemov & Sergei Guriev) Discussant » : Juan Carlos Carbajal, University of Queensland |
| 5.00pm - 5.35pm | Characterization of dominant strategy mechanisms in rich domains. Juan Carlos Carbajal, University of Queensland (with Rabee Tourky) Discussant » Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne |
| 5.40pm | EDN Meeting and Closing of the Workshop Venue: NW 200 |
The Organisers gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Economic Design Network (EDN) and New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER).
