Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2017 Programme

2017,

4th - 5th May

Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2017

Conference Programme

Thursday, 4th May
Thursday 09:00 - 10:30	1A Industrial Organisation & Game Theory Venue Meeting Room 1
09:00 - 09:20 Are Different Innovation Policy Instruments Complements or Substitutes? A Microeconometric Evaluation Using Panel Data » Kevin Mulligan (University of Limerick), Helena Lenihan (University of Limerick), Justin Doran (University College Cork) 09:22 - 09:42 High Frequency Trading: Strategic Competition Between Slow and Fast Traders » Fabrice Rousseau (May), Laurent Germain (University of Toulouse, Toulouse Business School), Herve Boco (University of Toulouse, Toulouse Business School) 09:44 - 10:04 It's Good to be Bad: A Model of Low Quality Dominance in a Full Information Consumer Search Market » Stuart Baumann (University of Edinburgh), Margaryta Klymak (Trinity College Dublin) 10:06 - 10:26 On the Firms' Decision to Hire Academic Scientists » Sarah Parlane (ucd), Catalina Martinez (Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC-IPP, Madrid)
Thursday 09:00 - 10:30	1B Macroeconomics 1 Venue Meeting Room 2
09:00 - 09:20 Measuring international uncertainty » luca onorante (Centr), Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (vienna university of economics and business), Florian Huber (vienna university of economics and business) 09:22 - 09:42 News, Noise and Oil Price Swings » Laura Moretti (Central Bank of Ireland), Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE) 09:44 - 10:04 Household Wealth and the Net International Investment Position » Cian Allen (Trinity College Dublin) 10:06 - 10:26 The Effectiveness of Forward Guidance in an Estimated DSGE Model for the Euro Area: the Role of Expectations » Alessia Paccagnini (University College Dublin), Roberta Cardani (University of Pavia), Stelios Bekiros (European University Institute)
Thursday 09:00 - 10:30	1C Development Economics 1 Venue Meeting Room 3
09:00 - 09:20 Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: A Randomized Social Entrepreneurship Intervention in Uganda » Andrea Guariso (Trinity College Dublin), Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), Jakob Svensson (Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University), David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich) 09:22 - 09:42 Mobile Phone Coverage and Education as Means of Farmers' Empowerment: Are they Complements or Substitutes? » Bruno Morando (Trinity College Dublin) 09:44 - 10:04 Impact of Micro-insurance on Financial Outcomes and Health Decisions: Evidence from Rwanda » Anuj Singh (Trinity College Dublin) 10:06 - 10:26 So fresh and so clean: urban community engagement to improve the sustainability of drainage infrastructure » Tara Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin), Marcus Holmlund (The World Bank), Chloe Fernandez (The World Bank)
Thursday 10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
Thursday 11:00 - 12:30	2A International Trade 1 Venue Meeting Room 1
11:00 - 11:20 Adapting to within-country export barriers: Evidence from the Japan 2011 Tsunami » Wessel Vermeulen (Newcastle University Business School), Masashige Hamano (Waseda University) 11:22 - 11:42 Measuring Discriminatory and Non-discriminatory trade costs » Arman Mazhikeyev (University College Dublin) 11:44 - 12:04 R&D Promotion with Footloose Production » Gerda Dewit (Maynooth University), Dermot Leahy (Maynooth University) 12:06 - 12:26 The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Exporting Behavior » Ron Davies (University College Dublin), Arman Mazhikeyev (University College Dublin)
Thursday 11:00 - 12:26	2B Macroeconomics 2 Venue Meeting Room 3
11:00 - 11:20 Producing Short-Term Forecasts of the Irish Economy: A Suite of Models Approach » Niall Conroy (Irish Fiscal Advisory Council), Eddie Casey (Irish Fiscal Advisory Council) 11:22 - 11:42 The effect of fiscal policy and forward guidance with preferences over wealth » Ansgar Rannenberg (Central Bank of Ireland) 11:44 - 12:04 The consolidated wealth of nations: a first step using BIS data » Agustín Bénétrix (Trinity College Dublin) 12:06 - 12:26 Leverage, Borrower Behaviour and Macroprudential Policy: Exploring Impacts Across the Distribution » Christina Kinghan (Central Bank of Ireland), Conor O'toole (Central Bank of Ireland), Yvonne Mccarthy (Central Bank of Ireland)
Thursday 11:00 - 12:48	2C Labour Economics 1 Venue Meeting Room 3
11:00 - 11:20 Migration in a model with workers and hours per worker » Frank Walsh (ucd) 11:22 - 11:42 Disability Onset, Disability Exit, and Welfare Benefit Receipt » Melanie Jones (Cardiff Business School), duncan mcvicar (Queen's University Belfast) 11:44 - 12:04 Unemployment Durations and Local Labour Market Conditions » Tom Pierse (National University of Ireland, Galway), John McHale (National University of Ireland, Galway) 12:06 - 12:26 Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% cut in Unemployment Assistance » Donal O'Neill (Maynooth University), Aedin Doris (Maynooth University), Olive Sweetman (Maynooth University)
Thursday 12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
Thursday 13:30 - 15:00	3A Financial Economics 1 Venue Meeting Room 1
13:30 - 13:50 Measuring and Analyzing Liquidity and Volatility Dynamics in the Euro-Area Government Bond Market » Vassilios Papavassiliou (University College Dublin), Conall O' Sullivan (University College Dublin) 13:52 - 14:12 Which stocks are integrated? » John Cotter (University College Dublin), Niall McGeever (University College Dublin) 14:14 - 14:34 Sovereign Bond Backed Securities: A VAR for VaR and Marginal Expected Shortfall Assessment » Peter Dunne (Centra Bank of Ireland), Maite De Sola Perea (National Bank of Belgium), Martin Puhl (Oesterreichishe Nationalbank), Thomas Reininger (Oesterreichishe Nationalbank) 14:36 - 14:56 Accounting for Employee Stock Options: a small refinement to the lattice approach » Brian Byrne (Dublin Institute of Technology), Jennifer Shang (Dublin Institute of Technology), Yinqui Zhang (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Thursday 13:30 - 15:00	3B Labour Economics2 Venue Meeting Room 2
13:30 - 13:50 Marital instability and retirement » Karina Doorley (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Elena Stancanelli (Paris Jourdan School of Economics) 13:52 - 14:12 Job Tasks and Mismatch Within Occupations » Aspasia Bizopoulou (University of Edinburgh) 14:14 - 14:34 Economic Migration and Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy with Matching Frictions » Matija Lozej (Central Bank of Ireland) 14:36 - 14:56 Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho: The Way We (Would Like to) Work Now » Rowena Pecchenino (Maynooth University), Julie Byrne (ucd)
Thursday 13:30 - 15:00	3C The Economics of Housing 1 Venue Meeting Room 3
13:30 - 13:50 Can tenants aff ord to care? Investigating the willingness-to-pay for improved energy efficiency of rental tenants in a stressed rental market and returns to investment for landlords » Matthew Collins (Economic and Social Research Institute), John Curtis (Economic and Social Research Institute) 13:52 - 14:12 The affordability of house purchases across the distribution: a Lorenz-style approach » Fergal McCann (Central Bank of Ireland) 14:14 - 14:34 Moral Hazard in the Mortgage Market: The Impact of Foreclosure Moratoria on Default » Terry O'Malley (Central Bank of Ireland; University College Dublin) 14:36 - 14:56 How will future Irish housing demand be funded? » Kieran McQuinn (Economic and Social Research Institute), Daniel Foley (ECB), Niall Mc Inerney (Economic and Social Research Institute)
Thursday 15:00 - 15:30	Coffee
Thursday 15:30 - 16:45	4A Monetary Economics 1 Venue Meeting Room 1
15:30 - 15:50 Gender and Monetary Policymaking: Trends, Drivers and Effects » Davide Romelli (Trinity College Dublin), Donato Masciandaro (Bocconi University), Paola Profeta (Bocconi University) 15:52 - 16:12 Financial Globalisation, Monetary Policy Spillovers and Macro-Modelling: Tales from 1001 Shocks » Georgios Georgiadis (ECB), Martina Jancokova (ECB and Goethe University Frankfurt) 16:14 - 16:34 Monetary Policy Transmission and Non-Performing Loans » David Byrne (Central Bank of Ireland), Robert Kelly (Centra Bank of Ireland)
Thursday 15:30 - 16:56	4B Environmental Economics & Urban Planning Venue Meeting Room 2
15:30 - 15:50 Heterogeneity and Habit Formation in the Effect of Demand Side Management Stimuli on Residential Gas Consumption » Jason Harold (National University of Ireland, Galway), Sean Lyons (Economic and Social Research Institute), John Cullinan (NUI Galway) 15:52 - 16:12 Giants and midgets: the effect of public goods' provision on urban population concentration » Viacheslav Yakubenko (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) 16:14 - 16:34 The indirect economic costs of flooding: Evidence from transport disruptions during Storm Desmond » Tom McDermott (UCC), Paul Kilgarriff (UCC), Amaya Vega (NUI Galway), Cathal O'donoghue (NUI Galway), Karyn Morrissey (University of Exeter)
Thursday 15:30 - 16:45	4C Industrial Organisation of Sport and the Auto Market Venue Meeting Room 3
15:30 - 15:50 The Allocation of Additional Time in the English Premier League – Fergie Time post Sir Alex » Robbie Butler (University College Cork), David Butler (University College Cork), Rory O'Riordan (University College Cork) 15:52 - 16:12 Ad Valorem Tax Regimes and Differentiated Products: Evidence from the Irish Automobile Market » Patrick Walsh (Univrsity College Dublin) 16:14 - 16:34 What a difference a day makes: the impact of fixture scheduling on the demand for Irish soccer » Farai Jena (University of Sussex), Barry Reilly (University of Sussex), Hannah Sam (University of Sussex)
Thursday 17:00 - 18:30	KN-1 Plenary session:The Economic and Social Review Guest Lecture Venue Main Auditorium
17:00 The One True Explanation of the Great Enrichment: Liberal Ideas. » Deirdre McCloskey The University of Chicago at Illinois
Thursday 19:00 - 22:30	Conference Dinner Venue Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane
Friday, 5th May
Friday 09:00 - 10:30	5A International Trade 2 Venue Meeting Room 1
09:00 - 09:20 Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage E ects of Foreign Ownership » Holger Goerg (Kiel Institute for the World Economy and University of Kiel) 09:22 - 09:42 International Taxation, Financial Centres and the Shadow Banking System in Europe » Neill Killeen (University College Dublin / ESRB Secretariat), Ron Davies (ucd) 09:44 - 10:04 Old Firms and New Products: Does Experience Increase Survival? » Zuzanna Studnicka (ESRI), Martina Lawless (ESRI) 10:06 - 10:26 Exporting under Financing Constraints:Firm-level Evidence from EU Countries » Iulia Siedschlag (Economic and Social Research Institute), Gavin Murphy (Department of Finance)
Friday 09:00 - 10:26	5B Financial Economics 2 Venue Meeting Room 2
09:00 - 09:20 The Credit Reallocation Effect of Macroprudential Regulation - Evidence from Ireland » Katharina Bergant (Trinity), Fergal McCann (Central Bank of Ireland), Matteo Crosignani (Federal Reserve Board), Viral Archarya (Reserve Bank of India, NYU), Tim Eisert (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 09:22 - 09:42 Financial sector origins of economic growth delusion » Frederic Malherbe (London Business School), Michael McMahon (University of Warwick) 09:44 - 10:04 Forbearance Patterns in the post-crisis Period » Thore Kockerols (Central Bank of Ireland / Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne), Katharina Bergant (Trinity) 10:06 - 10:26 Household Debt Composition across the Life Cycle in the light of the Global Financial Crisis: How is Ireland Di erent from the US and the UK » Apostolos Fasianos (Central Bank of Ireland / University of Limerick), Tara McIndoe Calder (Centra Bank of Ireland), Julia Le Blanc (Bundesbank), Reamonn Lydon (Centra Bank of Ireland)
Friday 09:00 - 10:30	5C Inequality Venue Meeting Room 3
09:00 - 09:20 Projecting Household Income in Ireland using a Spatial Microsimulation Model » Cathal O'donoghue (NUI Galway), Jason Loughrey (Teagasc), John Lennon (Teagasc), Paul Kilgarriff (UCC) 09:22 - 09:42 Supporting pension contributions through the tax system: outcomes, costs and examining reform » Micheal Collins (University College Dublin), Gerry Hughes (Trinity College Dublin) 09:44 - 10:04 The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2012 » Neil Rowland (Queen's University Belfast), Ian Shuttleworth (Queen's University Belfast), duncan mcvicar (Queen's University Belfast) 10:06 - 10:26 The Great Recession, Austerity and Inequality » Michael Savage (ESRI), Tim Callan (ESRI), Brian Nolan (Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
Friday 10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Friday 11:00 - 12:30	6A Labour Economics 3 Venue Meeting Room 1
11:00 - 11:20 Back to School: Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling » Petri Böckerman (Turku School of Economics, Labour Institute for Economic Research, and IZA), Mika Haapanen (University of Jyväskylä & UCD), Christopher Jepsen (University College Dublin) 11:22 - 11:42 Promise kept? Free community college and attainment in Tennessee » Celeste Carruthers (University of Tennessee), William Fox (University of Tennessee), Christopher Jepsen (University College Dublin) 11:44 - 12:04 Does Crime pay? Criminal versus Human Capital » Andreina Naddeo (Royal Holloway, University of London) 12:06 - 12:26 Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets » Paul Devereux (University College Dublin)
Friday 11:00 - 12:30	6B Development Economics 2 Venue Meeting Room 2
11:00 - 11:20 Corruption and Firm Performance in Africa » Derrick Abudu (University of Nottingham) 11:22 - 11:42 In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World » Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin), Doug Gollin (University of Oxford), David Lagakos (UC San Diego) 11:44 - 12:04 The Effects of Foreign Competition on Network Hiring » Margaryta Klymak (Trinity College Dublin) 12:06 - 12:26 To Augment Or Not To Augment? A Conjecture On Asymmetric Technical Change » Adnan Velic (Dublin Institute of Technology), Clemens Struck (University College Dublin)
Friday 11:00 - 12:30	6C Health & Childcare Venue Meeting Room 3
11:00 - 11:20 The Impact of Childhood Overweight and Obesity on Healthcare Utilisation » Edel Doherty (NUI Galway), Michelle Queally (NUI Galway), John Cullinan (NUI Galway), Paddy Gillespie (NUI Galway) 11:22 - 11:42 The effect of public health insurance coverage on child health and healthcare utilisation » Valentina Tonei (University of York), Anne Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute) 11:44 - 12:04 Home and Away: Understanding the Impact of Maternal Employment in Infancy on Non-Cognitive Development in the First Seven Years » Therese McDonnell (University College Dublin) 12:06 - 12:26 Cost effectiveness of early intervention in psychosis » Brendan Kennelly (NUI Galway), Caragh Behan (University College Dublin)
Friday 12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
Friday 13:30 - 15:40	7A The Economics of Housing 2 Venue Meeting Room 1
13:30 - 13:50 Housing Taxation, Financial Regulation and Welfare » Hamed Ghiaie (Universit´e de Cergy-Pontoise) 13:52 - 14:12 Modelling Irish Rents: Recent Developments in Historical Context » Lisa Sheenan (Central Bank of Ireland), Maria Woods (Central Bank of Ireland), Gerard Kennedy (Central Bank of Ireland) 14:14 - 14:34 Value for money in energy efficiency retrofits in Ireland: Grant provider and grant recipients » Matthew Collins (Economic and Social Research Institute), John Curtis (Economic and Social Research Institute) 14:36 - 14:56 Scenarios and Distributional Implications of a Household Wealth Tax in Ireland » Martina Lawless (ESRI), Donal Lynch (Department of Finance)
Friday 13:30 - 15:00	7B Labour Economics 4 Venue Meeting Room 2
13:30 - 13:50 Are job applicants in Germany discriminated by their appearance or religious practice? - A lab experiment » Alexander Straub (Leibniz University of Hannover), Attakrit Leckcivilize (University of Aberdeen) 13:52 - 14:12 Does a Satisfied Student make a Satisfied Worker? » Adele Whelan (ESRI), Seamus Mcguinness (ESRI) 14:14 - 14:34 Greenfield hires » Ragnhild Balsvik (Norwegian School of Economics), Doireann Fitzgerald (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Stefanie Haller (University College Dublin) 14:36 - 14:56 Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market: Is It All Good News? » Elish Kelly (Economic and Social Research Institute), Alan Barrett (Economic and Social Research Institute)
Friday 13:30 - 15:00	7C Monetary Economics 2 Venue Meeting Room 3
13:30 - 13:50 Heterogeneity in the Transmission of ECB Monetary Policy » Michael O'Grady (Central) 13:52 - 14:12 Stabilising virtues of central banks: (re)matching bank liquidity » Urszula Szczerbowicz (Banque de France), Natacha Valla (European Investment Bank), Imène Rahmouni-Rousseau (Banque de France), Vincent Legroux (Banque de France) 14:14 - 14:34 The (missing) Transmission of Quantitative Easing » Katharina Bergant (Central Bank of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin) 14:36 - 14:56 Do highly liquid banks insulate their lending behavior? » supriya kapoor (University College Dublin)
Friday 15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
Friday 15:30 - 15:35	Presenation of Edgeworth and Novartis Prizes Venue Main Auditorium
Friday 15:30 - 17:00	KN-2 Plenary session: Edgeworth Guest Lecture Venue Main Auditorium
15:30 What's Wrong With Macro: Why Central Bank Models Failed and How to Repair Them » John Muellbauer Oxford
Friday 17:00 - 17:30	Irish Economic Association AGM Venue Meeting Room 1

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