Thursday, June 11, 2009

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:45

Welcome

9:45-10:30

Plenary Speech 1

• A. Hackethal , M. Haliassos and T. Jappelli:
  "Financial Advisors: A Case of Babysitters?"

10:30-11:15

Plenary Speech 2

• E. Varelas:
  "Decomposition of Greek Real GDP: 1858-1938"

11:15-11:40

Coffee Break

11:40-13:30

Session 1: Quantitative Analysis I (Chair: A. Adam)

• G. Panos and I. Theodossiou:
  "Union Mediation and Adaption to Reciprocal Loyalty Arrangements"

• D. Papadopoulos, D., N. Subeniotis and I. Tampakoudis:
  "An empirical analysis of financial ratios for the Greek IT sector firms during a bullish market to investigate the consistency of fundamental analysis with stock market performance"

• S. Mankai and C. Bruneau:
  "Economic Capital and Optimal Investment for Non-Life Insurance Companies"

• G. Kaimakamis and K. Kiriakopoulos:
  "A Note on Temporal Aggregation Effects on the Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization Approach - Some Empirical Results"

• E. Thanou and D. Tserkezos:
  " Non linear diachronic effects between stock returns and mutual fund flows: Additional empirical evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange"

13:30-15:00

Lunch

15:00-15:45

Plenary Speech 3

• L. Michelis :
  "Structural Breaks and Monetary Policy Convergence Between the New EU and the EMU"

15:45-17:00

Session 2: Economic Analysis I (Chair: C. Carpetis)

• T. Palivos and N. Tsakiris:
  "Trade and Tax Reforms in a Cash-in-Advance Economy"

• C. Angyridis and D. Sen:
  "Relative Preference for Quality and Strategic Behavior"

• A. Litina and T. Palivos:
  "The Behavior of the Saving Rate in the Neoclassical Optimal Growth Model"

• M. Chletsos and S. Roupakias:
  "Immigration, Growth, Unemployment and Prices: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach"

17:00-17:20

Coffee Break

17:20-18:30

Session 3: Quantitative Analysis II (Chair: P. Vlamis)

Session 4: Quantitative Analysis III (Chair: C. Angyridis)

• S. Karagiannis,
  Y. Panagopoulos and P. Vlamis :
  "Are Retail Oil Price Adjustments Asymmetric? Evidence from the Eurozone"

• M. Rezac and F. Rezac:
  "Quality indexes of predictive models in risk and portfolio management"

• D. Tzavara :
  "CRS as a signal to inform collective action"

• S., N. Rao and S. Dandale:
  "Earnings Management: Study of Indian Equity Rights Issues and their Post-Issue Performance"

• M. Chletsos and S. Dimou:
  "On the negative effect of long-term unemployment on health. Evidence from the Greek General Health Questionnaire"

• I. Bournakis :
  "Sources of TFP Growth in a Framework of Convergence: Evidence from Greece "

• R. Karagiannis and K. Velentzas:
  "Estimating Productivity and Quality Malmquist Index for Public Hospitals in Greece "

20:30

Dinner

Friday, June 12, 2009

9:30-10:15

Plenary Speech 4

• J. Malley and U. Woitek:
  "Productivity Shocks and Aggregate Cycles in an Estimated Endogenous Growth Model "

10:15-11:00

Plenary Speech 5

• A. Karaganis:
  "Alternative Representations of space"

11:00-11:20

Coffee Break

11:20-13:30

Session 5: Economic Analysis II (Chair: I. Livanos)

• E. Kyriakopoulou and A. Xepapadeas:
  "Environmental Policy, Spatial Spillovers and the Emergence of Economic Agglomerations"

• T. Bassetti :
  "Education As Social Agreement"

• O. Karakosta :
  "Ad-valorem Taxation and the Balance of Externalities in Federations"

• K., G. Papadopoulos and L., C. Koutsougeras:
  "A Strategic Market Game of Carry Trades and Equilibrium Profits"

• D. Hounwanou :
  "Impact of risk aversion on bidder's optimal strategy in takeover contests"

• G. Stamatopoulos and M. Vlassis:
  "An oligopoly game with endogenous objectives and endogenous mode of competition"

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-17:00

Session 6: Quantitative Analysis IV (Chair: T. Bassetti)

Session 7: Economic Analysis III (Chair: A. Stavrakoudis)

• G. Smirnova, O. Saldakeeva and S. Gelman:
  "Financial Crises and Structural Breaks in Autocorrelation on the Brics' Stock Market"

• I. Livanos and K. Pouliakas: " The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in Greece "

• G. Filis and K. Kentzoglanakis:
  " An examination of the transmission mechanisms between Stock Market, Oil Prices and Macroeconomic Indicators in EU: Training a VAR model using Particle Swarm Optimization"

• M., S. Katsaiti and M., A. Cohen:
  "The Macroeconomic Implications of the Health Care Cost of Obesity: Who is picking up the tab?"

• E., G. Parcharidis and N., C. Varsakelis:
  " Determinants of R&D Decisions: Evidence from the firms listed in the Athens Stock Exchange "

• P. Sousounis :
  "The Impact of Work Related Training on Employee Earnings: Evidence from Great Britain "

• E. Andriopoulou and P. Tsakloglou:
  "Once poor, always poor? Do initial conditions matter? Evidence from the ECHP"

• T. Efthimiadis and P. Tsintzos:
  "Central Bank Independence , Transparency and Public Debt Issuing Policy"

• P. Gioti and M. Vlassis:
  "A Unionized Mixed Oligopoly Model with Stochastic Demand Shocks: Are Firing Restrictions Responsible for Public-Private Wage Differentials?"

17:00

End of Meeting