2012 – Munich
Wednesday, 22 February, 2012
- 8.00 pm: Get together at L'angolo della Pizza, Breisacherstrasse 30, 81667 Munich
Thursday, 23 February, 2012
- 9.00 - 9.15 am: Welcome
Session I, Moderation: Winand Emons, University of Bern
- 9.15 - 10.15 am: "Exchange of Private Demand Information by Simultaneous Signaling" (PDF, not accessible, 120 KB)
Speaker: Manfred Stadler, University of Tübingen
Discussant: Georg Götz, Giessen University
- 10.15 - 11.15 am: "The Benefits of Sequential Screening" (PDF, not accessible, 395 KB)
Speaker: Roland Strausz, Humboldt University in Berlin
Discussant: Thomas Gehrig, University of Vienna
- 11.15 - 11.30 am: Coffee break
- 11.30 - 12.30 pm: "Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up" (PDF, not accessible, 474 KB)
Speaker: Monika Schnitzer, LMU Munich
Discussant: Burcin Yurtoglu, WHU Vallendar
- 12.30 - 2.00 pm: Lunch break
Session II, Moderation: Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
- 2.00 - 3.00 pm: "Government policy and the dynamics of market structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals" (PDF, not accessible, 1.3 MB)
Speaker: Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, University of Mannheim
Discussant: Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
- 3.00 - 4.00 pm: "Markets for Ideas, Asymentric Information and the Allocation of Managerial Skills" (PDF, not accessible, 245 KB)
Speaker: Hendrik Hakenes, University of Bonn
Discussant: Gerd Mühlheusser, University of Hamburg
- 4.00 - 4.30 pm: Coffee break
Speaker: Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim
Discussant: Justus Haucap, University of Düsseldorf
- 5.30 - 6.30 pm: Meeting of members
- ab 07.00 pm: Dinner at the restaurant "am Chinesischen Turm", Englischer Garten 3, 80538 Munich
Friday, 24 February, 2012
Session III, Moderation: Ulrich Kaiser, University of Zurich
- 9.00 - 10.00 am: "Comparing Contests"
Speaker: Armin Schmutzler, University of Zurich
Discussant: Wolfgang Leininger, Dortmund University
- 10.00 - 11.00 am: "The Market for Deceptive Products" (PDF, not accessible, 388 KB)
Speaker: Paul Heidhues, ESMT Berlin
Discussant: Veronika Grimm, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 11.00 - 11.30 am: Coffee break
- 11.30 am - 12.30 pm: "Advertising Congestion and Media Economics"
Speaker: Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim
Discussant: Ulrich Kamecke, Humboldt University in Berlin
- 12.30 pm: Snack