CentER

Bulletin 2010


Seminars
Visitors
Ph.D. defenses
Discussion Papers

SEMINARS

Unless mentioned otherwise, all seminars will be held in Building K, Room 834. Specific information on seminars can be found here.

March 31, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Andrea Krajina, Tilburg University
To be announced

March 31, Wednesday 11.45 a.m. Marketing
Room DZ 3
Young-Hoon Park, Cornell University, New York
To be announced

March 30, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge
To be announced

March 29, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Dmitry Livdan, University of California, Berkeley
To be announced

March 26, Friday 12.00 a.m. Graduate Students' Society
Room K 702
Peter van Oudheusden, Tilburg University
To be announced

March 25, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Jeroen Suijs, Tilburg University
To be announced

March 24, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Sonia Oreffice, University of Alicante
Fatter attraction: Marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply

March 24, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Ben Vollaard, Tilburg University
Selective incarceration of junkies: A natural experiment in twelve urban areas

March 24, Wednesday 11.45 a.m. Marketing
Room K 702
Jeremy Fox, University of Chicago
To be announced

March 23, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Gilles Saint-Paul, Toulouse School of Economics
To be announced

March 22, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto
To be announced

March 19, Friday 12.00 a.m. Organization
Room K 702
Govert Vroom, IESE Business School
To be announced

March 18, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Shane Dikolli, Duke University
To be announced

March 18, Thursday 12.45 p.m. Operations Research
Nayat Horozoglu, London School of Economics
Cost sharing in shortest path tree games

March 17, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Elie Tamer, Northwestern University
Sensitivity analysis in parametric structural methods

March 17, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University
Energy abundance, trade and industry location

March 16, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Eyal Winter, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Mental equilibrium and rational emotions

March 16, Tuesday 12.30 p.m. Information Management
Kishore Sengupta, INSEAD, Fontainbleau
Can technology “back Channels” improve learning in face-to-face settings? Evidence from the use of a second channel in academic sessions.

March 15, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Ioanid Rosu, University of Chicago
To be announced

March 12, Friday 12.00 a.m. Graduate Students' Society
Room K 702
Dolores de la Mata, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Spillovers of health education at school on parental health lifestyles

March 11, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Barbara Schöndube-Pirchegger, University of Magdeburg
To be announced

March 11, Thursday 12.45 p.m. Organization
Room WZ 204
Atul Nerkar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
To be announced

March 10, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Bill Evans, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The short-term mortality consequences of income receipt

March 10, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Marta Serra-Garcia, Tilburg University
Relational contracting under the shadow of accumulation: Experimental evidence

March 9, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Dimitrios Tsomocos, University of Oxford
To be announced

March 8, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Christophe Pérignon, HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas
To be announced

March 4, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
George Serafeim, Harvard Business School
To be announced

March 3, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Andreea Halunga, University of Exeter
Consistent model specification testing

March 3, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Hide-Fumi Yokoo, Tilburg University
Theory of global reuse

March 3, Wednesday 11.45 a.m. Marketing
Room K 702
Suresh Ramanathan, University of Chicago
To be announced

March 2, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Kelly Bedard, University of California, Santa Barbara
To be announced

March 2, Tuesday 11.30 a.m. Information Management
Matthias Weske, University of Potsdam
From Process Orchestrations to Process Choreographies

March 1, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance and European Banking Center
Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
What matters in executive compensation? The role of internal governance, corporate culture, and the labor market

February 26, Friday 3.00 p.m. Graduate Students' Society
Room K 702
Joaquin Gomez Miñambres, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Temptation, horizontal differentiation and monopoly pricing

February 25, Thursday 1.00 p.m. Organization
Room K 702
Africa Ariño, IESE Business School
To be announced

February 24, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Fangfang Tan, Tilburg University
Other-regarding preferences of individuals and groups

February 22, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance, AFM-Chair and TILEC
Christine Parlour, University of California, Berkeley
Laying off credit risk: Loan sales versus credit default swaps

February 18, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Jan Bouwens, Tilburg University
Control systems and the innate preferences of managers

February 15, Thursday 12.30 p.m. Organization
Room K 702
Louis Mulotte, Tilburg University
Does experience imply learning?

February 11, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Belen Blanco Pelaez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The complementarity between segment disclosure and earnings quality, and its eeffect on cost of capital

February 11, Thursday 1.00 p.m. Organization
Room K 702
Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris
Gradual response to scandal in contested fields

February 11, Thursday 12.45 p.m. Operations Research
Monique Laurent, Centre for Mathematics and Informatics (CWI), Amsterdam and Tilburg University
Optimization over polynomials with sums of squares and semidefinite programming

February 9, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Information Management
Room K 702
Yehia Taher, Claude Bernard University, Lyon
A framework for web service adaptation: An incompatibility detection and resolution approach

February 5, Thursday 12.45 p.m. Organization
Room DZ 3
Melissa Schilling, New York University
Technology shocks, alliances, and the global technology collaboration network

February 4, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Sophie Hoozée, Ghent University
The impact of refinement on the precision of time-driven ABC

January 22, Thursday 12.30 p.m. Organization
Room K 702
Mark Peterson, Florida Atlantic University
Manager collaboration with subordinates and colleagues across North America Michael Minkov, International University College, Sofia
Cultural values predict subsequent economic growth

January 21, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Arnt Verriest, Tilburg University
Quality of IFRS adoption

January 20, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Jan Eeckhout, University of Pennsylvania
Identifying sorting – In theory

January 14, Thursday 3.15 p.m. Faculty Seminar
Room TZ 5
Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Accounting discretion, loan loss provisioning, and discipline of banks’ risk-taking

January 14, Thursday 12.30 p.m. Organization
Room WZ 105
Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Investments in pharmaceuticals before and after TRIPS

January 12, Tuesday 12.30 p.m. Information Management
Kishore Sengupta, IESE Business School
Balancing agility and schedule pressure in software development projects

December 21, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, New York University
Macroeconomic implications of housing wealth, housing finance, and limited risk-sharing in general equilibrium

December 18, Friday 12.00 a.m. Graduate Students' Society
Room K 702
Pinghan Liang, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Transfer of authority within hierarchical organization

December 16, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Geert Ridder, University of Southern California
Partial identification and confindence intervals

December 16, Monday 12.00 p.m. Finance
Room WZ 103
Robert Marquez, Arizona State University, Tempe
Corporate financing/banking

December 16, Monday (to be announced)Organization
Room (to be announced)
Taco Reus, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Transfer effects in large acquisitions: How size-specific experience matters

December 15, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Eyal Winter, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Mental equilibrium and rational emotions

December 14, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Peter Kondor, Central European University, Budapest
The delegated Lucas-tree

December 10, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Holly Skaife, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The cross-country comparability of IFRS earnings and book values: Evidence from France and Germany

December 10, Thursday 12.45 p.m. Operations Research
Alexander Gutfraind, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Network interdiction models

December 10, Thursday 12.30 p.m. Organization
Room DZ 5
Jeff Reuer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
The choice between joint ventures and acquisitions: Insights from signaling theory

December 9, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Roger Laeven, Tilburg University
Mathematical statistics of extreme values

December 9, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Amrita Ray Chaudhuri, Tilburg University
Cleaner technologies in a transboundary pollution game

December 8, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund
Is newer better? The Penn world table revisions and the cross-country growth literature

December 7, Monday 4.00 p.m. Finance
Asani Sarkar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Capital constraints, counterparty risk and deviations from covered interest rate parity

December 7, Monday 12.00 a.m. Accountancy
Peter Easton, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Pre-earnings announcement drift

December 4, Friday 14.45 p.m. Game Theory
Flip Klijn, Harvard Business School and Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC), Barcelona
Farsighted stability for roommate and housing markets
Mark Voorneveld, Tilburg University and Stockholm School of Economics
As good as it gets

December 4, Friday 1.00 p.m. Graduate Students' Society
Room K 702
Patrick Arni, University of Lausanne
Early intervention to reduce long-term unemployment risk: Evidence from a social experiment

December 3, Thursday 3.30 p.m. Accountancy
Christian Hofmann, University of Mannheim
Incentives, motivational crowding-out, and the value of information

December 3, Tuesday 12.30 p.m. Information Management and Operations Research
Zuo-Jun Max Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Supply disruptions and the reverse bullwhip effect

December 2, Wednesday 4.00 p.m. Econometrics and statistics
Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam
The causal effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods

December 2, Wednesday 1.00 p.m. Economics Workshop
Jeffrey James, Tilburg University
Paradoxes of African industry

December 2, Wednesday 12.30 p.m. Marketing
Room K 702
Pierre Chandon, INSEAD, Fontainebleau
To be announced

December 1, Tuesday 1.00 p.m. Economics
Christian Traxler, Max Planck Institute
Enforcement spillovers

VISITORS

More information on visitors can be found here.

Luigi Leva, Bank of Italy
Finance
April 1 - May 31

Gyöngyi Lóránth,University of Vienna
Financial regulation, corporate governance and financial institutions, bankruptcy and financial distress
March 28 - April 2

Karen Poghosyan, ViaCell
Operations research
March 21 - 29

Jeffrey Campbell, Chicago Feed
Operations research
March 14 - 27

Nayat Horozoglu, London School of Economics
Operations research
March 2 - April 2

Marissunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
Corporate finance, international finance, development economics
March 1 - 7

Oliver De Jonghe, Ghent University
Economics of financial institutions, empirical banking, corporate diversification, competition policy, applied microeconometrics
January 11 – June 30

Felix Sundheim, Bocconi University
Finance
January 11 – February 22

Hide-Fumi Yokoo, Kyoto University and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Environmental economics
December 8 – March 31, 2010

Anna Giraldo, University of Padua
Data quality in sample surveys, missing data, imputation, measurement of employment, impact evaluation of public policies
December 8 – 18

Alexander Gutfraind, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Complex networks and systems, mathematical models of terrorism, mathematical models for biology
December 6 – 12

Flip Klijn, Harvard Business School and Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC), Barcelona
Game theory, matching theory, market design and social choice theory
December 3 – 5

Carles Rafels, University of Barcelona
Operations research
December 1 – 4

Pedro Calleja, University of Barcelona
Operations research
December 1 – 4

Ernan Haruvy, University of Texas, Dallas
Asset markets, auctions, matching and business-to-business markets
October 16 – October 31, 2010

Ksenia Panidi, Free University Brussels
Behavioral economics and health economics
October 2 – July 7, 2010

Patrick Arni, University of Lausanne
Microeconometric policy evaluation
September 1 –February 29, 2010

Jonathan Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Generalized method of moments and trimmed means, extreme value theory, model specification test
August 24 – January 15, 2010

PH.D. DEFENSES

Unless mentioned otherwise, all PhD defenses will be held in the auditorium (Cobbenhagen building).

April 14, Wednesday 4.15 p.m.
Henry van der Wiel
Competition and innovation. Together a tricky rollercoaster for productivity
Promotor: Prof.dr. Jan Boone

April 14, Wednesday 2.15 p.m.
Jun Zhou
Access to justice: An economic approach
Promotor: Prof.dr. Eric van Damme

January 22, Friday 2.15 p.m.
John Kleppe
Modelling interactive behaviour, and solution concepts
Promotor: Prof.dr. Peter Borm

December 18, Friday 2.15 p.m.
Gerd van den Eede
Two cases in high reliability organizing: A hermeneutic reconceptualization
Promotor: Prof.dr. Piet Ribbers
Copromotor: Dr. Bartel van de Walle

December 18, Friday 10.15 a.m.
Room C 186 (Ruth First)
Zhen Shi
Threeessays in pension finance
Promotor: Prof.dr. Bas Werker

December 16, Wednesday 4.15 p.m.
Piotr Stryszowski
Essays on growth and migration
Promotor: Prof.dr. SjakSmulders

December 9, Wednesday 4.15 p.m.
Akos Nagy
Adoption of interorganizational information systems: The adoption position model
Promotor: Prof.dr. Piet Ribbers

December 9, Wednesday 10.15 a.m.
Ilya Cuypers
Essays on equity joint ventures, uncertainty and experience
Promotor: Prof.dr. Xavier Martin

December 7, Monday 4.15 p.m.
Maciej Szymanowski
Consumption-based learning about brand quality: Essays on how private labels share and borrow reputation
Promotor: Prof.dr. Els Gijsbrechts

December 4, Friday 4.15 p.m.
Karen van der Wiel
Essays on expectations, power and social security
Promotors: Prof.dr. Arthur van Soest and Prof.dr. Frederic Vermeulen

December 4, Friday 10.15 a.m.
Bariş Çiftçi
A cooperative approach to sequencing and connection problems
Promotors: Prof.dr. Peter Borm and Prof.dr. Herbert Hamers

DISCUSSION PAPERS

More information on discussion papers can be found here.

2010-27Sylvester Eijffinger, Zongxin Qian
Globalization and the output-inflation tradeoff: New time series evidence (This is also an EBC Discussion Paper No. 2010-04)

2010-26 Cédric Argenton
Predation under perfect information

2010-25 Jan Boone, Jacob Goeree
Optimal market design

2010-24 Abe de Jong, Steven Ongena, Marieke van der Poel
The international diversification of banks and the value of their cross-border M&A advice (This is also an EBC Discussion Paper No. 2010-03)

2010-23 Patricio Dalton
Income aspirations and cooperation: Experimental evidence

2010-22 Patricio Dalton, Sayantan Ghosal
Behavioral decisions and welfare

2010-21 Patricio Dalton, Sayantan Ghosal
Decisions with endogeneous preference parameters

2010-20 Rob Nijskens, Sylvester Eijffinger
The lender of last resort: Liquidity provision versus the possibility of bail-out (This is also an EBC Discussion Paper No. 2010-02)

2010-19 Willem Haemers, Hadi Kharaghani, Maaike Meulenberg
Divisible design graphs

2010-18 Harry van Dalen, Kène Henkens, Kees Koedijk, Alfred Slager
Decision making in the pension fund board room: An experiment with Dutch pension fund trustees

2010-17 Marina Martynova, Luc Renneboog
A corporate governance index: Convergence and diversity of national corporate governance regulations

2010-16 Matteo Picchio, Chiara Mussida
Gender wage gap: A semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction

2010-15 Peter van Oudheusden
Fiscal policy reforms and dynamic Laffer effects

2010-14 Kim Peijnenburg, Theo Nijman, Bas Werker
Health cost risk and optimal retirement provision: A simple rule for annuity demand

2010-13 Allen Berger, Scott Frame, Vasso Ioannidou
Tests of ex ante versus ex post theories of collateral using private and public information (This is also an EBC Discussion Paper No. 2010-01)

2010-12 Jan van Ours, Lenny Stoeldraijer
Age, wage and productivity

2010-11 Kim Peijnenburg, Theo Nijman, Bas Werker
Optimal annuitization with incomplete annuity markets and background risk during retirement

2010-10 Edwin van Dam, William Martin, Mikhail Muzychuk
Uniformity in association schemes and coherent configurations: Cometric Q-antipodal schemes and linked systems

2010-09 Jack Kleijnen
Ethical issues in engineering models: Personal reflections

2010-08 William Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog, Christophe Spaenjers
Art and money

2010-07 Jan van Ours, Sander Tuit
How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

2010-06 Ton van Schaik, Theo van de Klundert
Productivity growth and the labour market

2010-05 Alison Booth, Jan van Ours
Part-time jobs: What women want?

2010-04 Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan van Ours, Milan Vodopivec
Incentive effects of unemployment insurance savings accounts: Evidence from Chile

2010-03 Kai Konrad, Florian Morath, Wieland Müller
Taxation and market power

2010-02 Clara Kulich, Grzegorz Trojanowski, Michelle Ryan, Alexander Haslam, Luc Renneboog
Who gets the carrot and who gets the stick? Evidence of gender disparities in executive remuneration

2010-01 Bas van Groezen, Lex Meijdam
At whose service? Subsidizing services and the skill premium

2009-94 Hans Degryse, Olena Havrylchyk, Emilia Jurzyk, Sylwester Kozak
Foreign bank entry and credit allocation in emerging markets (This is also an EBC Discussion Paper No. 2009-23)

2009-93 David Hollanders, Barbara Vis
Voters’ commitment problem and welfare-program reforms

2009-92 Jan Jacobs, Jenny Ligthart, Hendrik Vrijburg
Dynamic panel data models featuring endogenous interaction and spatially correlated errors



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