Thursday, June 10, 2010

 Day 1

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:45

Welcome

9:45-10:30

Plenary Speech 1

Chair: N. Benos

• F. Canova and T. Menz:
  " Does Money matter in shaping domestic business cycles? An International Investigation"

10:30-11:15

Plenary Speech 2

Chair: Y. Goletsis

• A. Marcus:
  "The Global Financial Crisis: What Happened and Where It May Lead"

11:15-11:45

Coffee Break

11:45-13:45

Session 1: Economic Analysis I

Chair: A. Adam

Session 2: Quantitative Analysis I

Chair: A. Lapatinas

• T. Bassetti, N. Benos, and S. Karagiannis:
  "How Policy can influence human capital accumulation and environment quality"

• N. Papanikolaou and C.P. Wolff:
  "Leverage and risk in US commercial banking in the light of the current financial crisis"

• Z. Weifeng:
  "The ASEM: Building a New Silk Road?"

• S. Papadamou and T. Tzivinikos:
  "Market measures of risk and accounting variables in the era of International Accounting Standards: Evidence from Greek banks"

• B. Mamadou-Diang:
  "Financial development and economic growth: evidence from west Africa"

• A. Gkaintes and K. Koufopoulos:
  "CEO's stock incentives and how they affect corporate payout policy"

• T. Diasakos:
  "Comparative Statics of General Equilibrium Asset Prices"

• Q. Youfsi:
  "Leveraged Buy Out: does Write-off option increase the agents' incentives?"

• F. Antoniou and N. Tsakiris:
  "Information Sharing and Environmental Policies"

• J Goulionis, V. K. Benos and D. Nikolakis :
  " Computer-Assisted Instruction and Statistics as an effective teaching in Economics "

13:45-15:15

Lunch

15:15-17:15

Session 3: Economic Analysis II

Chair: P. Cammas

Session 4: Quantitative Analysis II

Chair: N. Tsakiris

• N Hristov:
  "Customer Markets, Non-Separable Utility and the real effects of monetary policy shocks"

• S. Goktug, S. Afsin and A. Serdar:
  "The Role of the Short-Run Interest Rate for Managing Expectations: Time Series Evidence from Turkey, 2001-2009"

• P. Deli and S. Kalyvitis:
  "Capital Maintenance and Investment Specific Shocks in a stochastically Growing Economy"

• L. Michelis and C. Ning:
  "The Dependence Structure Between the Canadian Stock Market and the US/Canada Exchange Rate: A Copula Approach"

• G. Stamatopoulos:
  "Intra-firm bargaining in a Cournot market"

• C. Angyridis and L. Michelis:
  "Structural breaks and the tax smoothing hypothesis in the G7 countries"

• L. Rova, A. Bejko, and I. Zyberi:
  "The impact of world economic crisis on Albanian macroeconomic indices"

• D. Hatzinikolaou:
  "Revisiting the conditions for deficit sustainability"

• K. Remoundou, P. Koundouri and Y. Kountouris:
  "Does Institutional context affect preference formation? Evidence from a stated preference valuation study"

• P. Vlamis, S. Karagiannis, and N. Benos:
  "Property Sector and Regional Economic Growth: the case of Greece"

17:15-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:15

Plenary Speech 3

Chair: Sp. Symeonides

• K. Koufopoulos:
  "Optimal golden parachutes"

20:30

Dinner

Friday, June 11, 2010

 Day 2

9:30-10:15

Plenary Speech 4

Chair: M. Dellis

• P. Molyneux, J. Goddard, H. Liu and J. O.S. Wilson:
  "Do bank profits converge?"

10:15-11:00

Plenary Speech 5

Chair: N. Mylonidis

• E. Pappa and M. Bruckner :
  "Fiscal Expansions affect unemployment but may increase it"

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-14:00

Session 5: Economic Analysis III

Chair: A. Drichoutis

Session 6: Quantitative Analysis III

Chair: A. Adam

• T. Efthimiadis:
  "Studying Inflation Differentials Using a DSGE Approach: The Case of Greece"

• A. Mattig and S. Westerfeld:
  "Beyond cost and competition: Why do electronic markets not (yet) prevail in mutual fund distribution?"

• M. Chletsos, R Mano and L. Rova:
  "Assessment of the quality of life in South Albania. Some empirical evidence"

• K. Chowdhury:
  "Modeling tourist arrivals in Australia in the presence of structural breaks"

• E. Kyriakopoulou and A. Xepapadeas:
  "Spatial Location Decisions: The Emergence of Residential and Industrial Clusters under Environmental and Housing Externalities"

• D. Panagiotou:
  "Trade Bans, Imperfect Competition, and Welfare: BSE and the US Beef Industry"

• A. Vassilopoulos, A. Drichoutis, P. Lazaridis and R. M. Nayga:
  "Food stamp participation and obesity: Matching estimators and their sensitivity"

• D. Dimitriou and T. Simos:
  "Market integration and currency risk between EMU and international markets"

• I. Laliotis, J. J. Daouli, M. Demoussis, and N. Giannakopoulos :
  "The establishment-size wage premium in Greece"

• A. I. Kalaitzoglou :
  " OTC transactions and Asymmetry in Duration Modelling "

• G. Panos and I. Theodossiou :
  "Unionism and peer-referencing"

• G. Giotis and M. Chletsos :
  "The impact of minimum wages on unemployment: preliminary empirical results"

• A. Kero:
  "Banks Risk Taking, Financial Innovation and Macroeconomic Risk"

• M. Alboosoveilem, T. Komeil and S. Fattaneh :
  "International financial crisis and money demand in Greece and its comparison with Iran"

• A. Alavi Rad and M. Eftekhari:
  "The effect of import prices on domestic inflation: evidence from Iran"

14:00-15:30

Lunch

15:30

End of Meeting