8:15-8:30 - Conference Registration 8:30-8:45 - Welcome and Opening Remarks Nerijus Pačėsa (President of the ISM University of Management and Economics) Vitas Vasiliauskas (Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania) 8:45-10:00 - Session I Overcoming the winner's curse in common value auctions Diego Aycinena (Universidad Francisco Marroquín), Rimvydas Baltaduonis (Gettysburg College), and Lucas Rentschler (Universidad Francisco Marroquín) On the effects of price discrimination on optimal income taxation Robertas Zubrickas (University of Zurich) The statistical content and empirical testing of the MIDAS restrictions Virmantas Kvedaras (Vilnius University) and Vaidotas Zemlys (Vilnius University) 10:00-10:20 - Break 10:20-11:35 - Session II Trends and developments in the Dutch market for retail gasoline Tadas Bružikas (University of Groningen) and Adriaan R. Soetevent (University of Amsterdam) Business cycle drivers in Lithuania Aurelija Proškutė (Vilnius University) Covered bonds and asset encumbrance: policy implications Jin Cao (Norges Bank) and Marius Jurgilas (Bank of Lithuania) 11:35-11:45 - Introduction to the National Academy of Students (Economics Section) Modestas Gelbūda (ISM University of Management and Economics) 11:45-13:00 - Lunch (by invitation) 13:00-14:30 - Keynote Speech Field experiments in economics David Reiley (Google) 14:30-14:50 - Break 14:50-16:05 - Session III The cost of capital and optimal financing policy in the dynamic setting Sigitas Karpavičius (Flinders University) Trading volume elasticity of analyst compensation Eglė Margevičiūtė (Stockholm School of Economics) Credit supply and corporate innovation Mario Daniele Amore (Università Bocconi), Cédric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School), and Alminas Žaldokas (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) 16:05-16:25 - Break 16:25-17:40 - Session IV Gender quotas and the quality of politicians Audinga Baltrunaitė (Stockholm University), Piera Bello (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Alessandra Casarico (Università Bocconi), and Paola Profeta (Università Bocconi) Old-age state social insurance: may its failure be averted? Kaetana Leontjeva (Lithuanian Free Market Institute) Transition towards new global setting in Lithuania Margarita Starkevičiūtė (Vilnius University) 18:30 - Dinner (by invitation) |
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