Programme

10th July 2008

Session Time Details (order by speaker) Paper No.
08.30-10.00 Title: A New Test in Parametric Linear Models with Nonparametric Autoregressive Errors (21.1)
  Speaker: Gao, Jiti  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: A Simple Hybrid Bootstrap Test for Predictive Ability Based on Autoregressions (21.3)
  Speaker: Kuo, Biing-Shen  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms (22.1)
  Speaker: Woodland, Alan  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Credit Rationing, Macro Volatility, and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries (22.2)
  Speaker: Bond, Eric  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Intellectual Property Provisions in North-South Trade Agreements (22.3)
  Speaker: Saggi, Kamal  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments: Comment (23.1)
  Speaker: Bayer, Ralph  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Credence goods markets: An Experimental Analysis (23.3)
  Speaker: Dulleck, Uwe  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Discounting and Consumption over an Uncertain Horizon: Draw-down Plans for Family Trusts (24.1)
  Speaker: Thorp, Susan  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Nesting Yield Curve Shifts and Rotations in a Model of Monetary Policy Shocks (5.1)
  Speaker: Claus, Edda  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Contagion in Financial Networks (5.2)
  Speaker: Gai, Prasanna  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: A Macroeconomic Foundation for the Nelson and Siegel Class of Yield Curve Models (5.3)
  Speaker: Krippner, Leo  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: GMM Estimation of Short Dynamic Panel Data Models With Error Cross Section Dependence (26.1)
  Speaker: Sarafidis, Vasilis  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Efficient Estimation of Non-Linear Dynamic Panel Data Models with Application to Smooth Transition Models (26.2)
  Speaker: Skeels, Christopher  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: First and Second Order Asymptotics of Covariance Structure Models (26.3)
  Speaker: Prokhorov, Artem  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: The “Suite” Smell of Success: Complementary Personnel Practices and Firm Performance (27.2)
  Speaker: Fabling, Richard  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Export Market Choice For New Zealand Firms (27.3)
  Speaker: Sanderson, Lynda  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Democracy and Corruption: An Empirical Analysis in a Cross-Country Framework (28.1)
  Speaker: Saha, Shrabani  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Calculating Poverty Measures from the Beta Income Distribution (28.3)
  Speaker: Chotikapanich, Duangkamon  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidences from Japanese Capital Keiretsu (29.2)
  Speaker: Onji, Kazuki  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Tax Evasions, Tax Morale and Institutions (29.3)
  Speaker: Torgler, Benno  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Practical Monetary Policies (30.2)
  Speaker: Guender, Alfred  
08.30-10.00 Title: Structural VAR Approach to Malaysian Monetary Policy Framework: Evidence From Pre- and Post-Asian Crisis Periods (30.1)
  Speaker: Raghavan, Mala  
08.30-10.00 Title: Just Good Friends? Relationship Banking and Access to Finance in New Zealand Firms (27.1)
  Speaker: Stevens, Philip  
08.30-10.00 Title: Relationship Banking and Access to Finance (28.2)
  Speaker: Imai, Katsushi  
08.30-10.00 Title: Testing For Uncorrelated Errors In ARMA Models (21.2)
  Speaker: Nankervis, John  
08.30-10.00 Title: Behavioural And Dynamical Scenarios For Contingent Claims Evaluation In Incomplete Markets (24.2)
  Speaker: Pinto, Alberto  
08.30-10.00 Title: Value-at-Risk Evaluations in Malaysian Stock Exchange: Heavy-Tailed and Long-Memory-ARCH Approaches (24.3)
  Speaker: Chin, Wencheong  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Can Capital Requirements Counteract Procyclicality in New Zealand Housing Lending Margins? (30.3)
  Speaker: Ng, Tim  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Combining Forecast Densities from VARs with Uncertain Instabilities (31.1)
  Speaker: Vahey, Shaun  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Analysing Shock Transmission in a Data-rich Environment: A large BVAR for New Zealand (31.2)
  Speaker: Bloor, Chris  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Combining Multivariate Density Forecasts Using Predictive Criteria (31.4)
  Speaker: Gerard, Hugo  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: On-Campus Housing: Theory vs. Experiment (32.1)
  Speaker: Guillen, Pablo  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Performance Incentives and the Dynamics of Voluntary Cooperation (32.3)
  Speaker: Gaechter, Simon  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Mispricing in the Japanese Corporate Bond Market (34.1)
  Speaker: McKenzie, Colin  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models: An Emerging Market Perspective (34.3)
  Speaker: Iqbal, Javed  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Macroeconomic Impacts of Foreign Exchange Reserve Accumulation: A Theory and Some International Evidence (15.1)
  Speaker: Fukuda, Shin-ichi  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: The relative size of New Zealand exchange rate and interest rate responses to news (15.2)
  Speaker: Coleman, Andrew  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Semiparametric Estimation of Duration Models When the Parameters are Subject to Inequality Constraints and the Error Distribution is Unknown (36.1)
  Speaker: Ranasinghe, Kula  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Semiparametric estimation of the tail of the error distribution in multivariate regression (36.2)
  Speaker: Silvapulle, Param  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Robust Rank Regression for Limited Dependent Variable (36.3)
  Speaker: Ghosh, Aurobindo  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Inferential Methods for Elasticity Estimates (37.1)
  Speaker: Hirschberg, Joe  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models (37.2)
  Speaker: Lee, Wang-Sheng  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: An Examination Of Systematic Risk In a Scaled Market Model: a Conceptual Critique Of The CAPM Using a Closed Index System (34.2)
  Speaker: Gold, Martin  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Are There Complementarities in Educational Peer Effects? (38.1)
  Speaker: Foster, Gigi  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Do Research Assessment Exercises Raise the Returns to Publication Quality? Evidence from the New Zealand Market for Academic Economists (38.3)
  Speaker: Tressler, John  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Nowcasting, Business Cycle Dating and the Interpretation of Information when Real Time Data are Available (31.3)
  Speaker: Shields, Kalvinder  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: The Role of a Tax-Free Threshold: Tax Policy Design and Simulating its Abolition in Australia (39.1)
  Speaker: Creedy, John  
11:40 - 13:10 Title: A Comparison of a Large Number of Model Selection Criteria (37.3)
  Speaker: Qin, Xiaochuan and Reed, W. Robert  
14.10-15.40 Title: Elucidating Easter’s Economic Effects (40.1)
  Speaker: Créquer, John  
14.10-15.40 Title: How Do Public Announcements Affect the Frequency of Trading in Stocks? (40.2)
  Speaker: Nowak, Sylwia  
14.10-15.40 Title: The Location of Crime (41.1)
  Speaker: de Fontenay, Catherine  
14.10-15.40 Title: Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? (41.3)
  Speaker: Abrams, David  
14.10-15.40 Title: Preferred Suppliers and Vertical Integration in Auction Markets (42.1)
  Speaker: Burguet, Roberto  
14.10-15.40 Title: Comparing Bertrand And Cournot Outcomes In The Presence Of Public Firms (42.2)
  Speaker: Ghosh, Arghya  
14.10-15.40 Title: Dynamic Moral Hazard with History-Dependent Reservation Utilities (42.3)
  Speaker: Morfov, Stanimir  
14.10-15.40 Title: Booms and Busts as Exchange Options: Valuing the Decision to Enter and Exit from an Emerging Market (43.2)
  Speaker: Miller, Stephen  
14.10-15.40 Title: Multinational Ownership And Subsidiary Investment (43.3)
  Speaker: Carlin, Wendy  
14.10-15.40 Title: Money, Capital and Unemployment (44.1)
  Speaker: Dutu, Richard  
14.10-15.40 Title: Modelling a Regime-Shifting New Zealand Beveridge Curves (44.2)
  Speaker: Holmes, Mark  
14.10-15.40 Title: Gains from Migration in a New-Keynesian Framework (44.3)
  Speaker: Engler, Philipp  
14.10-15.40 Title: Instability and Nonlinearity in the Euro Area Phillips Curve (45.1)
  Speaker: Stracca, Livio  
14.10-15.40 Title: The Impact of Evolving Labor Practices and Demographics on U.S. Inflation and Unemployment (45.2)
  Speaker: Campbell, Carl  
14.10-15.40 Title: Two Concerns For The Phillips Curve (45.3)
  Speaker: Siklos, Pierre  
14.10-15.40 Title: Using Engel’s Law to Estimate Income Under-Reporting by the Self-Employed (46.1)
  Speaker: Kim, Bonggeun  
14.10-15.40 Title: Using Engel Curves to Estimate the Bias in the Australian CPI (46.2)
  Speaker: Barrett, Garry  
14.10-15.40 Title: Assessing Graduate Employment In The Presence Of Endogeneity And Sample Selection Bias (47.1)
  Speaker: Blacklow, Paul  
14.10-15.40 Title: The Effect of Home Computer Use on Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills (47.2)
  Speaker: Fiorini, Mario  
14.10-15.40 Title: Credential Changes and Education Earnings Premia in Australia (47.3)
  Speaker: Coelli, Michael  
14.10-15.40 Title: Testing For Price Convergence in Chinese Energy Markets (P1.1)
  Speaker: Ma, H  
14.10-15.40 Title: The Economic Impact of Foreign Domestic Workers in Malaysia: Estimates from Induced Labour Market Activity (P1.2)
  Speaker: Leong, Tan P and Gibson J  
14.10-15.40 Title: Ready (or not) to get engaged or get married? Co-movement towards a Monetary or Currency Union amongst Pacific Island Countries (P1.3)
  Speaker: Lahari, Willie  
14.10-15.40 Title: Keynesian Microeconomics and Institutional Change (P1.5)
  Speaker: Kesting, Stefan  
14.10-15.40 Title: Do Returns To Schooling Go Up During Transition? Evidence From Vietnam (P1.6)
  Speaker: Doan T and Gibson J and Holmes M  
14.10-15.40 Title: Assessing Design Options for a Nutrient Trading System Using an Integrated Model (P1.8)
  Speaker: Kelly Lock, Suzi Kerr, Tim Cox and Kit Rutherford  
14.10-15.40 Title: Modelling the Effects of Socio-Economic Characteristics on Survey Trust: Empirical Evidence from Cameroon (P1.9)
  Speaker: Alvin Etan  
14.10-15.40 Title: Finding the invisible hand: an objective model of financial markets (P1.10)
  Speaker: McLeod, Doug  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: The Location of Crime (41.1)
  Speaker: de Fontenay, Catherine  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Regional Energy Demand: An Analysis of Substitution Possibilities for China (P1.12)
  Speaker: Hengyun MA, Oxley L, Gibson J and Bonngeun K  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Earnings Mobility in Korea - Pseudo Panel Approach (P1.16)
  Speaker: Panel  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Water, Water Somewhere: The Value of Water in a Drought-Prone Farming Region (P1.19)
  Speaker: Grimes, Arthur  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Credible Assignments and Performance Bonuses in the Minimum Effort Coordination Game (P1.22)
  Speaker: Ananish Chaudhuri  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: A Word of Caution on Indices (P1.13)
  Speaker: Birks, Stuart  
17.20 - 18.20 Title: Immigration and the Economic Status of African-American Men (KN12)
  Speaker: Borjas, George  
17.20 - 18.20 Title: Toward a Theory of Optimal Tax Systems (KN8)
  Speaker: Slemrod, Joel  
18.20 - 19.20 Title: Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China? (KN9)
  Speaker: Greif, Avner