Program Zurich Workshop on Economics September 5-7, 2012 Lucerne, Switzerland

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2 Wednesday, September 5 Lunch & Registration Organization Committee Welcome Organization Committee Ron Siegel Asymmetric Contests with Interdependent Valuations Chair: Armin Schmutzler Session I Chair: Paul Heidhues Chair: Almuth Scholl Stefan Jönsson Managing Effort Dispersion with All-Pay Auctions Arnd Heinrich Klein Multiperiod Incentive Systems in Sequential Tournaments Peter Rosenkranz Financial Frictions and the Business Cycle in Emerging Markets Rahel Suter Interest rates, carry trade returns and the cross section of consumption growth rates Coffee Break Session II Chair: Nick Netzer Chair: Guy Michaels Igor Letina Competition and innovation Yingnan Zhao Application of the Magill-Quinzii approach to a two-sector macroeconomic model Andreas Müller Optimal Taxation of Trade with International Capital Income Tax Evasion Maria Stella Chiaruttini Structural Change within the Service Sector with a Particular Emphasis on the Financial Industry Dinner Location: Grottino Page 2/6

3 Thursday, September 6 Breakfast Paul Heidhues Inferior Products and Profitable Deception Chair: Nick Netzer Andrew Oswald Randomization and Wellbeing as the Foundations of Rational Policy Design: An Experiment. Chair: Björn Bartling Coffee Break Session III Chair: Andrew Oswald Chair: Almuth Scholl Raphael Studer Parenthood and life satisfaction Lasse Steiner European Capitals of Culture and Life Satisfaction Liu Liu House Prices, Homeownership Rates and Household Saving in Urban China Jan-Aaron Klaassen The effect of Napoleonic annexation on economic outcomes in 19th century Switzerland Lunch 12:30-13:30 Page 3/6

4 13: Uwe Sunde Democratization and Development: The Role of Violence During the Transition Chair: Andreas Müller Session IV Chair: Paul Heidhues Chair: Uwe Sunde André Volk Reciprocity and Ex-post Implementation Lea Cassar Auctioning Incentive Contracts with Motivated Agents Coffee Break Philippe Ruh Relative Earnings and Health in the General Population: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Panel Data Yikai Wang Is high economic growth in the oligarchy sustainable? Session V Chair: Ron Siegel Chair: Guy Michaels Silvia Graetz Facing a Dilemma: Cooperative Behavior and Beauty Florian Engl Ignorance is no excuse in norm enforcement? Lobsang Tshering Time-varying equity premia and stochastic volatility Samuel Cudre Imbalances and Capital Allocation Puzzle in Chinese Provinces Dinner Location: Sunset Bar (BBQ) Page 4/6

5 Friday, September 7 Breakfast Almuth Scholl A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and Conditionality Chair: Fabrizio Zilibotti Session VI Chair: Nick Netzer Chair: Uwe Sunde Steve Heinke Experimental Asset Price Bubbles Andreas Beerli Demand Forces of Technical Change Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry Coffee Break Reto Cueni Bold Analysts or Bold Banks: Do Institutional Factors Drive Herding Behavior? Patricia Feubli The Effects of Liquidity Injections on Interbank Money Markets Lunch 12:15-13:15 Timo Boppart How does mechanization and structural change sum up to a constant aggregate labor s income share Simon Alder Using Light Intensity Measured by Weather Satellites to Assess the Effects of Chinese Economic Reforms Session VII Chair: Ron Siegel Chair: Guy Michaels Johannes Kunz Analyzing school attainment differences among native and migrant students across countries Sabrina Studer Structural Change and Demand driven Financial Innovation in a Two-sector Growth Model with Financial Markets Page 5/6

6 Marc Sommer Network Effects on Child Aggression Franziska Weiss Structural change, market size and sector specific endogenous growth Guy Michaels Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts? Chair: Michelle Rendall Goodbye Coffee Break Organization Committee Page 6/6