Date:
27-29 June 2005

Venue:
MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet, 1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45., 807-es terem

Chair:
Károly Fazekas (IEHAS)

9.40-10.40
Péter Vida (UA Barcelona)
A Detail-free Mediator
Discussant: Gergely Csorba (CEU)

11-12
Krisztina Molnár (Pompeu Fabra) - Sergio Santoro
Optimal Monetary Policy When Agents Are Learning
Discussant: Ákos Valentinyi (Southampton, IEHAS)

Chair:
Gábor Kőrösi (IEHAS)

13.40-14.40
Balázs Égert (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) - Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma (University of Vienna) - Ronald MacDonald (University of Strathclyde)
Non-Linear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Target Zones: A Bumpy Road Towards A Honeymoon
Discussant: Zsolt Darvas (Corvinus)

14.40-15.40
Gábor Virág (Rochester)
Wage Inequality in a Burdett-Mortensen World
Discussant: Árpád Ábrahám (Rochester)

16-17
Dóra Kádár (Siena)
Do acquirers only break even?
Discussant: László Halpern (IEHAS)

Chair:
Aladár Madarász (IEHAS)

10-11
Attila Ambrus (Harvard)
Theories of coalitional rationality
Discussant: László Kóczy (U Maastricht)

11-12
Róbert Lieli (Texas) - Graham Elliott
Predicting Binary Outcomes
Discussant: Gábor Kézdi (CEU, IEHAS)

Chair:
László Halpern (IEHAS)

13.40-14.40
András Fülöp (University of Toronto) - Jin-Chuan Duan
Estimating the Structural Credit Risk Model When Equity Prices Are Contaminated by Trading Noises
Discussant: Gábor Kőrösi (IEHAS)

14.40-15.40
Árpád Ábrahám (Rochester) - Eva Carceles-Poveda (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Endogenous Trading Constraints with Incomplete Asset Markets
Discussant: István Kónya (MNB)

16-17
Viktória Kocsis (Amsterdam)
Network Asymmetries and Access Pricing in Cellular Telecommunications
Discussant: András Simonovits (IEHAS)

Chair:
András Simonovits (IEHAS)

10-11
Szabolcs Lőrincz (University of Toulouse)
Persistence Effects in a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model
Discussant: Róbert Lieli (Texas)

11-12
László Kóczy (U Maastricht)
The Core Can Be Accessed with a Bounded Number of Blocks
Discussant: Ádám Szeidl (Berkeley)

Chair:
Jenő Koltay (IEHAS)

13.40-14.40
Kristóf Madarász (Berkeley)
Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
Discussant: Attila Ambrus (Harvard)

14.40-15.40
István Kónya (MNB)
Economic Development, Exchange Rates, and the Structure of Trade
Discussant: Miklós Koren (Harvard, IEHAS)

16-17
Miklós Koren (Harvard and IEHAS) - László Halpern (IEHAS) - Ádám Szeidl (Berkeley)
The Microeconomics of Technology Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from Hungarian Product-Level Data
Discussant: Péter Benczúr (MNB)