EconCon

Princeton University       August 19-20, 2010


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EconCon offers economics PhD students the opportunity to share their research with their peers from other universities and gain experience presenting to a diverse and unfamiliar audience before going on the job market.

Conference participants should see our Travel & Accommodations for details.

Sponsored by Princeton's Graduate School, Department of Economics, Graduate Student Government, and Graduate Economics Club. Organized by Giri Parameswaran and Paul Scott.

Schedule

All presentations are in the Friend Center with room numbers (110, 111, or 112) listed below.



Thursday 8/19

Breakfast 8:30-9:30a, Friend Center convocation room

9:30-10:45a

110: "Deficits, Gifts, and Bequests"
Daniel Barczyk, NYU

111: "Duration Models with Dynamic Unobserved Heterogeneity"
Irene Botosaru, Yale

10:50a-12:05p

110: "Collective Bargaining in the Labor Market and Inequality"
Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Princeton

111: "Per-Capita Incomes and the Extensive Margin of Bilateral Trade"
Christian Hepenstrick, University of Zurich

112: "Rational Habits and Uncertain Relative Prices: Simulating Petrol Consumption Behaviour"
Rebecca Scott, Oxford

Lunch in Friend Center convocation room, 12:05-1:10p

1:10-2:25p

110: "On the Use of Credit Risk Models in Macro Stress Testing"
Jean-Francois Kagy, Princeton

111: "Isolation from the Technological Frontier and Economic Development"
Omer Ozak, Brown

112: "Issue Emphasis & Opportunistic Redistribution in U.S. Presidential Elections"
Ioanna Grypari, Minnesota

2:30-3:45p

110: "Factor Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression"
Jau-er Chen, NYU

111: "A Firm Delocation Theory of WTO Domestic Subsidy Rules"
David DeRemer, Columbia

112: "The Dynamics of Municipal Spending: Theory and Evidence"
Ryan Booth, NYU

Coffee break 3:45-4p

4-5:15p

110: "The Observational Equivalence Between a News Shock Process and a Moving Average Process"
Han Chen, University of Pennsylvania

111: "Impact of Offshoring on Firm Average Wage: Analyzing Rent Sharing and Composition Effect"
Madhura Maitra, Columbia

112: "The Longevity Gains of Education"
Yuri Sanchez, Chicago

Activities, board games, etc., Campus Club, 5:30-7p

Dinner, Campus Club, 7:30-10p

Dbar (Graduate College), 10p-

Friday 8/20

Breakfast 8-9a, Friend Center convocation room

9-10:15a

111: "Convertibility Restriction in China’s Foreign Exchange Market and its Impact on Forward Pricing"
Yi David Wang, Stanford

112: "Scalarization Method and Expected Multi-Utility Representations"
Ozgur Evren, NYU

10:20-11:35a

110: "Bankruptcy Cycles"
Christoph Ungerer, LSE

111: "Debt Enforcement and Aggregate Productivity"
Bernardo Morais, UCLA

112: "Social Learning in Regime Change Games"
Huang Chong, University of Pennsylvania

Coffee break 11:35-11:50a

11:50a-1:05p

110: "Illiquidity and Foreclosures in a Directed Search Model of the Housing Market"
Aaron Hedlund, University of Pennsylvania

111: "Terms of Trade Volatility and Precautionary Savings in Developing Economies"
Salim B. Furth, Rochester

112: "Representativeness Heuristics in Evolutionary Dynamics"
Jiabin Wu, Wisconsin-Madison

Lunch in Friend Center convocation room, 1:05-2p

2-3:15p

110: "Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Hayek in a Model of Innovation"
Pedro Bento, Toronto

111: "School to Work Transitions in South Africa: A Structural Approach"
Todd Pugatch, Michigan

112: "The good and bad of liquidity risk"
Thomas M. Eisenbach, Princeton

3:20-4:35p

110: "Contracting Institutions and Economic Development"
Alvaro Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania

112: "Audits or Distortions: The Optimal Scheme to Enforce Self-Employment Income Taxes"
Eduardo Zilberman, NYU