18th annual Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory - July 10th to 13th 2017

Coffee

Hall

Session Didier Laussel

401

Didier Laussel

› When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going - Tanguy VAN YPERSELE, Aix Marseille School of Economics 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Fiscal decentralization and the performance of higher education institutions: the case of Europe - Julien JACQMIN, HEC Liège - Mathieu LEFEBVRE, BETA 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› The determination of Public Tuition Fees in a Mixed Education System: A Majority Voting Model - Didier LAUSSEL, Aix Marseille School of Economics 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Session Alberto Pinto

402

Alberto Pinto

› Who Controls the Controller? A dynamical model of corruption - Filipe Martins, Departamento de Matemática [Porto] and LIAAD-INESC 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Duopolies with social propensity - Renato Soeiro, Inesc tec 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Trading in the core and Walrasian price in a random exchange market - Alberto Pinto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisão - INstituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência. 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Session Jennifer Reinganum - Law and Economics

403

Jennifer Reinganum

› Regulation of Professional Services: Licensing in a Moral Hazard Context - Dominique DEMOUGINS 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Compensation of third party victims, and liability sharing rules in oligopolistic markets - Eric Langlais, EconomiX, CNRS and university Paris-Nanterre 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Information Suppression by Teams and Violations of the Brady Rule - Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University - Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

405

Willem Vanlaer

› Power-law distribution in the external debt-to-ﬁscal revenue ratio: empirical evidence and a theoretical model - Gilles DUFRENOT, Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS and EHESS; CEPII; Banque de France 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Corruption and Monetary Policy in a Cash-in-Advance Economy - Réda MARAKBI, Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Debt Dynamics in Belgium - Towards Maastricht Convergence - Willem Vanlaer, Hasselt University 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

406

Yoshiaki Sugimoto

› To Migrate with or without ones' Children - the Chinese Case - Yiwen CHEN, Université du Luxembourg 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Illegal immigration in a dynamic economy with elastic labor supply and fiscal policies - Hyun Park, Kyu Y. Lee 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Economic Growth with Locked-in Fertility: Under- and Over-Investment in Education - Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Kansai University 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Taxation

407

Ahmed Aidara Ould abdou Salem

› Income Inequality, Small Business Taxation and Lobbying - Joe Lesica, Department of Economics, McMaster University 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Taxation under Oligopoly in a General Equilibrium Setting - David Collie, Cardiff University 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Tax Competition, Quality and Quantity of Public Goods Provision - Ahmed Aidara Ould abdou Salem, CREM, UMR-CNRS 6211. 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Public sector

602

Emma Hooper

› Decentralization and Economic Growth in Europe: For Whom the Bell Tolls? - Riccarda Longaretti, University of Milan-Bicocca 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers - Andras Simonovits, Institute of Economics, RCERS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Could Long-Term Investments in Infrastructure Reduce Inequality? - Emma Hooper, AMSE-GREQAM 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Theory, Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium

603

Stéphane Gonzalez

› On Stable Outcomes of the Multilateral Matching - Toshiyuki Hirai, University of Toyama 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Inflow Independence in Transboundary River Problems - René van den Brink, Department of Econometrics and Tinbergen Institute, VU University Amsterdam 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› The social cost problem, rights and the (non)empty core - Stéphane Gonzalez, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Network

604

Emilio Carrera Felix

› Mutual Insurance Networks and Unequal Resource Sharing in Communities - pascal billand, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique - Lyon Saint-Eteinne 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› CHANGING THE RULES: UNIVERSAL SERVICE, QUALITY CAPS AND NET NEUTRALITY - Emilio Carrera Felix, Centre de Recherches en Economie et Droit 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Industrial Organization

606

Camelia Bejan

› Simultaneous Innovation and Economic Growth - Miroslav Gabrovski, University of California [Riverside] 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Competition and welfare consequences of information platforms - Amedeo Piolatto, Barcelona Economics Institute 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› On the shareholders versus stakeholders debate - Camelia Bejan, University of Washington, Bothell 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Taxation

607

Marko Koethenbuerger

› Social Welfare for Independent Workers - Guillaume Wilemme, Aix-Marseille University 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Tax revenue losses through cross-border loss offsets:an insuperable hurdle for implementing formula apportionment? - Michael Stimmelmayr, KOF, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms - Marko Koethenbuerger, Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Hall

Session Cuong Le Van - Assets General Equilibrium: existence, ambiguity, possibly negative

401

Cuong Le Van

› Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Equilibrium in Finite Dimensional Asset Markets with Short-Selling and Preferences with Half-Lines - Thai Ha-Huy 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Arbitrage and equilibrium in economies with short-selling and ambiguity - Cuong TRAN-VIET 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Assets with possibly negative dividends - Ngoc Sang PHAM, Montpellier Business School 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Session Claudine Desrieux - Contract theory

402

Claudine Desrieux

› Dynamic Procurement under Uncertainty: Competition and Auctions - Malin Arve, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - David Martimort, Paris School of Economics 11:00-12:30 (1h30)

› Incentives, procedure and the extra mile - Antoine Prévet, Paris School of Economics 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Residual Deterrence - Daniel Garett, Toulouse School of Economics 11:30-12:00 (30min)

Industrial Organization

403

Rabah Amir

› Stability of Cartels in Multi-market Cournot Oligopolies - Subhadip Chakrabarti, Queen's University Belfast, Management School 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Cartel Trigger Price Strategies and Time Inconsistency - Stuart McDonald, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

404

Julio Dávila

› Imperfect Mobility of Labor across Sectors and Fiscal Transmission - Olivier Cardi, LEO - Universite de Tours 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› The Distributional Consequences of Tariff Liberalization: Consumption versus Investment Tariff Reduction - Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Optimal Human Capital Bequeathing - Julio Dávila, Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain] 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

405

Fabien Moizeau

› Taxation and Aggregate Price Stickiness - Zhiyong An, Fannie Mae 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Public debt, productive public spending and economic growth - Alfred Greiner, Alfred Greiner 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Amenities and the social structure of cities - Fabien Moizeau, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Management 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Environmental Economics

406

Jan Siegmeier

› Border adjustments supplementing nationally determined carbon pricing - Melanie Hiller, European University Viadrina 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Transition from a Linear Economy toward a Circular Economy in the Ramsey Model - Kiyoka Akimoto, Graduate School of Economics Osaka University 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Keeping Pigou on tracks: second-best carbon pricing and infrastructure provision - Jan Siegmeier, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Berlin 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Taxation

407

Niku Määttänen

› The Impact of Tax Frequency: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations - Adrien Pacifico Aix-Marseille School of Economics 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Optimal rent taxation - Gregor Schwerhoff, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Welfare effects of housing transaction taxes - Niku Määttänen, ETLA, Aalto University 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Game theory

601

Nicolas Sahuguet

› Cooperation in Social Dilemmas through Position Uncertainty - Andrea Gallice, University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Benevolent Mediation in the Shadow of Conflict - Andrea Canidio, INSEAD 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Incentives in team contests - Nicolas Sahuguet, HEC Montréal 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Public sector

602

Sebastian Kessing

› Impacts of Misperceptions about Disastrous Events on International Security - Shintaro Nakagawa, Faculty of Economics, Konan University 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Pooling natural catastrophe risks in a community - Arnaud Goussebaile, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Louis Bachelier 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Competition for Natural Resources and the Hold-Up Problem - Sebastian Kessing, University of Siegen - Carsten Hefeker, University of Siegen 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Social Choice

603

Guilhem Lecouteux

› The Distribution of Power in the Lebanese Parliament Revisited - Mostapha Diss, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne, France 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Micro-microfoundations: Strategic Preference Formation and Policy Design - Guilhem Lecouteux, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Gredeg (France) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

Political Economics and voting

604

Antoni Rubí-Barceló

› Fiscal Policy Adjustments to Budget Shocks - Désirée I. Christofzik, German Council of Economic Experts 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Policy diffusion and the competition for mobile resources - Andrea Schneider, University of Munster 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Within-group heterogeneity in endogenous-policy contests - Antoni Rubí-Barceló, Universitat de les Illes Balears 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Labour Economics

606

Frederic Jouneau-Sion

› Family Background, After-school Tutoring, and Student Achievement: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rural China - Simon Fan, Lingnan University 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› The good MOOC and the universities - fred jouneau-sion, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique 11:30-12:00 (30min)

Taxation

607

Thomas Gaube

› Work incentives on the intensive margin in France - Michael SICSIC, INSEE Paris, Centre de recherches en économie et droit - Paris 2 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Optimal Redistribution with a Shadow Economy - Pawel Doligalski, University of Bristol [Bristol] 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Efficiency Gains from Tagging - Thomas Gaube, University of Osnabrueck 12:00-12:30 (30min)

Lunch

Taxation

401

Etienne Lehmann

› Nonlinear tax incidence and optimal taxation in general equilibrium - Nicolas Werquin, Toulouse School of Economics 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets - Albert Jan Hummel, Erasmus University Rotterdam 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Optimal income taxation with composition effects - Laurence Jacquet, Théorie économique, modélisation et applications 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Session Andrew Daughety - Law and economics

402

Andrew Daughety

› Contract Law with Multi-unit sales - Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Incomplete Contracts and Strategic Ambiguity: Evidence From Silicon Valley - Sarath Sanga, Northwestern University [Pritzker School of Law] 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Stretch It but Don't Break It: The Hidden Cost of Contract Framing - Alexander Stremitzer, University of California Los Angeles 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

403

Been-Lon Chen

› Intergenerational family transfers, tax policies and public debt - Erwan Moussault, Théorie économique, modélisation et applications 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Dynamic Status Effects, Savings, and Income Inequality - Ronald Wendner, University of Graz (Economics), Austria 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Human Capital and Optimal Income Taxes in a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents - Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Macroeconomics

404

Jaime Alonso-Carrera

› Workers' Remittances and Borrowing Constraints in Recipient Countries - Nicolas Destrée, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Self-Financing Education, Borrowing Constraints, Government Policies, and Economic Growth - Fernando Sánchez-Losada, Universitat de Barcelona 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Anatomizing the mechanics of structural change - Jaime Alonso-Carrera, University of Vigo 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Public sector

406

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky

› On the optimal use of correlated information in contractual design under limited liability - Annalisa Vinella, University of Bari 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Endogenous Timing and Income Inequality in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods - Mizushima Atsue 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Accountability in Complex Procurement Tenders - Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Paris School of Economics 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Taxation

407

Steven Slutsky

› Emission Standards and Emission Taxes for Production and Consumption - Jan Vosswinkel, NGU | Nuertingen-Geislingen University 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Two-Sided Capital Taxes - Markus Sihvonen, Aalto University 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Optimal Income Taxation Without Full Government Commitment - Steven Slutsky, University of Florida 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Game theory

601

Emilson Silva

› Sharing the revenues from broadcasting sport events - Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Universidad Pablo de Olavide 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Migrant Distribution in the European Union - A New Scope of Application for Auction Mechanism Design - Gideon Goerdt, Universität Freiburg 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Optimal Timing in Rotten Kid Families - Emilson Silva, University of Alberta 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Public sector

602

Renaud Bourlès

› "Get what you pay for?" The story underneath remunicipalizations in the water sector - Marion Chabrost, Paris School of Economics 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Unwanted side effects of Baumol's cost disease on a balanced-budget rule - Carsten Colombier, FiFo Institute for Public Economics, University of Cologne, Federal Finance Department Switzerland 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› On Safeguards and Incentives - Renaud Bourlès, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Theory, Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium

603

Stéphane Rossignol

› Measuring Income Segregation - Volij Oscar 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Preference Intransitivity, Slutsky Asymmetry and Net Income Growth - Michael Jerison, SUNY-Albany 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Intensity valence - Stéphane Rossignol, LED 15:00-15:30 (30min)

Political Economics and voting

604

Federico Quaresima

› Moderating Conflicts with Radical Hardliners - Bettina Klose, University of Technology, Sydney 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› The patronage effect: a theoretical perspective of patronage and political selection - Federico Quaresima, Università Politecnica delle Marche 14:30-15:00 (30min)

Industrial Organization

605

Takaaki Morimoto

› A model on the impact of multi-firm mergers in an international context - Luis Gautier, University of Texas at Tyler [Tyler] 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Patent Examination Duration in an Endogenous Growth Model - Takaaki Morimoto, Graduate School of Economics Osaka University 14:30-15:00 (30min)

Health

606

Bipasa Datta

› The duration of maternity leave in France and the transitions back to the labour market: results from a competing risks model - Vincent VERGNAT, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Mitigating Upcoding: Incentive Schemes for Risk-Adjusted Payment Contracts in Health Care Markets - Bipasa Datta, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York 14:30-15:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Hall

Redistribution, taxation and land

Grand Amphi

Alain Trannoy