XXIII
RESEARCH CONFERENCE PROGRAM
June,
2 - 3- 4, 2008 Nakhimovsky
Prospect 47, 117418 Moscow ABSTRACTS 9:45
– 10:00, room
521, Registration 10:00
– 10:10, room
521, Opening 10:10
– 11:30,
Session 1
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A (room 521) Chairman:
Anton Suvorov
Project leader: Sergei
Guriev
Topics in organizational economics and contract theory
Konstantin
Bayandin: Political preferences of Russian electorate in 2007-2008
Andrey Savochkin:
Commitment Not To Learn And Incentives
Pavel Fadeev: Political Connections
and Evolution of Ownership Structurein Russian Industry
|
B
(room
1121-1)
Chairman:
Project leader: Grigory Kosenok
Topics in the economics of
advertising and the economics of regulation
Georgy
Idrisov: Opinion Leaders and Ratchet Effect in Advertising Response Function
Vittoria
Kukushkina: Optimal advertising strategy under S-shaped response function and
importunity of advertisement
Svetlana Pivovarova: Advertising and Market Segmentation
Ilia
Sirotovskiy: Quality vs price advertising on the market of durable goods
|
11:30–
12:00, Coffee/Tea
(first floor) 12:00–
13:20, Session
2
| A
(room 521)
Chairman: Grigory Kosenok
Project leader:
Konstantin Sonin
Games
of mutual insurance: understanding economic, political, and financial risks
Dmitriy
Kovalev: Manipulation of public opinion under limited rationality of the agents
Sergey
Kolbin: Negative campaigning in primaries
Alexander Pavlov: Endogenous Coalition
Formation with Side Payments
Anton Tatkin: How rent can impede reforms |
B (room
1121-1)
Chairman:
Vladimir Popov
Project leader: Natalia Volchkova
International
trade, development and diversification in resource abundant economies
Olga
Demidenko: Diversification in economy and its relation with natural resources
Alexey
Kamenev: Correlation between Export Diversification and Trade Barriers
Larisa
Korableva: Effect of FDI on export diversification due to influence of PTAs
Andrey
Kucherov:
| 13:20–
14:30, Lunch
Break 14:30–
16:30,
Session
3
| A
(room 521)
Chairman:
Natalia Volchkova
Project leaders: Victor Polterovich, Vladimir Popov
Economic miracles: institutions and growth promoting policies
Maria Godunova: Influence of economic policies on growth in different economic
stages
Roman Zhdanov: Investment in R&D: Role of Size of a Firm
Alexander
Knobel: Vertical Integration, technology cohesion and opportunistic behavior
Anna
Kovaleva: Trade and Wealth at Different Stages of Development
Maria Putintseva:
Financial Liberalization and Economic Development
Ekaterina Rezepina: German-Japanese
vs. Anglo American Credit Models: the Problem of Choice
|
B (room
520)
Chairman:
Anatoly Peresetsky
Project leaders: Oleg Eismont, Sergey Chernavsky
Efficiency of Russian policy in domestic and foreign energy markets
Tatiana Diyankova: Scenario of Russian economic development in terms of Kyoto
protocol
Mikhail Panfilov: Tacit collusion in retail gasoline market
Petr
Shelakhaev: Analysis of free gas market in Russia
Roman Shkoller: Perspectives
of Russia on the world gas market
Project leader: Alexander Vasin
Analysis and regulation of electricity markets
Igor Munkuev:
Study of forward electricity market with discrimination of consumers
Nikolay
Shevyrev: Role of forward markets in decreasing the bargaining power of oligopolies
in electricity markets
| 16:30–
17:00, Break 17:00
- 18:30,
room
521 Chairman:
Sergei Guriev
|
| Distinguished
Lecture: Dr.
Daniel Treisman (Professor of Political Science, University
of California, Los Angeles): "Rethinking
Political Decentralization"
| 18:30,
room 520
Wine&Cheese 10:30–
11:50, Session
4
| A
(room 521)
Chairman: Victor Polterovich
Project leaders:
Sergey Stepanov, Anton Suvorov
Topics
in microeconomics: knowledge, incentives, corporate governance (Part
I)
Ekaterina Voronkova: Agency problem, monitoring, and the choice
of the ownership structure: outside blockholders as a signaling device
Valentin
Vrzhesch: Transfers of corporate control under asymmetric information: the choice
between a negotiated block trade and a tender offer
Irina Kirysheva: Reaching
Effective Equilibrium in Coordination Games - Experimental Approach
Magruk
Sergey:
| B
(room 520)
Chairman:
Project leaders: Andrei Bremzen,
Irina Denisova
Health care in Russia: incentives, practices and outcomes
(Part I)
Dmitriy
Badzyan: Welfare effects of patent protection extension
Maria Grigorieva: Why
do adult Russians start smoking?
Diana Lachinova: Induced abortion and family
planning in Russia: Microanalysis
Irina Malkova: The Influence of Health Education
on Doctor-Patient Relationship
| 11:50–
12:20,
Coffee/Tea (first floor) 12:20–
13:40,
Session 5
| A
(room 521)
Chairman:
Project leaders: Sergey Stepanov,
Anton Suvorov
Topics
in microeconomics: knowledge, incentives, corporate governance (Part
II)
Pavel Myshkov: Performance measures, managerial effort and investment
incentives
Natalia Tennova: Unobservable choice of risk and revelation of talent
Evgeniy
Shabashov: Competition between proprietary and open source software, the scope
of public policy in the case of Russian schools
Igor Yakovlev: Duration of
Bureaucrats' Employment and Incentives for Predatory Behavior
|
B (room
520) Chairman:
Stanislav Anatolyev
Project leaders: Andrei Bremzen, Irina Denisova
Health
care in Russia: incentives, practices and outcomes (Part II)
Kirill Melkumyants: Relative’s Health and Labor Supply Decision: Sick Kids
and Elderly
Taisia Paltseva: Impact of children’s health on their parents’
wage
Daria Rudneva: Stress and health: is there any difference across occupational
groups?
Alexander Trifonov: Health and unemployment in Russia
|
13:40
- 15:10,
Lunch Break 15:10
- 16:30, Session 6
| A
(room 521)
Chairman:
Pavel Katyshev
Project leader: Stanislav Anatolyev
Directional
predictability in financial and macroeconomic markets
Victoria Belyakova:
Sign predictability and stochastic expansions
Alexander Migita: Bivariate conditional
density forecasts and trading strategies
Ivan Mirgorodskiy: An Application
of Binary Autoregressive Moving Average Models to Simultaneous Analysis of Several
Stock Returns
Pavel Yaskov: New approach for predictive ability testing
|
B (room
520)
Chairman:
Andrei Bremzen
Project leader: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Understanding
life in transition using empirical methods
Evgeniy Byzalov: Happiness,
Climate and People’s Attitudes toward Political and Social Institutions.
Evidence from Transition
Ilia Lipkes: Influence of electoral rule on local
government efficient in Russia
Igor Salitskiy: Do unemployment benefits promote
structural changes? Evidence from transition countries
Andrey Tsitsinskiy:
Influence of history on formation of today institutes
|
16:30
- 17:00, Break 17:00
- 18:30, room
521 Chairman:
Sergei Guriev
|
|
Keynote
Address: Andrei
Volkov (Advisor to the RF Minister of Education and Science, Dean
of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO): "Russian
education: modernization scenario"
|
18:30,
room 520
Wine&Cheese 10:30
- 11:10,
Session 7
| A
(room 521) Chairman:
Project leader: Alexei Deviatov
Modeling and forecasting the
Russian economy
Li
Song Gyu: Modeling and Forecasting Russian Economy
Alexander Ushakov: Modeling
and forecasting of Russian economics |
B (room
520)
Chairman:
Dmitry Makarov
Project leader: Alexei Goriaev
Mutual funds
Vitaliy Busko:
Sergey Stikharev: Analysis of different
factors that influence cash inflows for Russian mutual funds
|
11:10
- 11:40, Coffee/Tea
(first floor) 11:40
- 13:40, Session
8
| A
(room 521)
Chairman:
Alexei Deviatov
Project leaders: Oleg Zamulin, Kirill Sosunov
Volatility
and growth
Anton Voronin: Institutions, Resource curse and the Tragedy
of Commons
Oleg Demidov: Using different types of indexes for forecasting economic
activity in Russia
Ilia Levin: Stopping inflation at the times of real appreciation
of national currency
Evgenia Nazrullaeva: Measurement of technological progress
in Russia
Dmitriy Plotnikov: Overheating in developing countries
Vadim Khramov:
Monetary Policy Rules and Indeterminacy
|
B (room
520)
Chairman:
Alexander Vasin
Project leader: Dmitry Makarov
Topics
in portfolio choice theory
Golikov Ivan: Factors affecting the spread
of Russian municipal bonds
Sergey Ilchenko: The Nature of Financial Crises
and the Central Bank’s Role
Alexey Karasev: Post-merger investment efficiency
Andrey
Kozlakov: Informed trading and welfare analysis with the wealth effect in the
CARA-utility
Boris Ustjugov: Network effects of new technologies and investment
bubbles
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13:40
- 15:10,
Lunch Break
15:10
- 17:30,
Session 9
| A
(room 521) Chairman:
Sergei Stepanov
Project leaders: Valery Makarov, Alexei Savvateev
A
game-theoretic approach to public goods, public projects, externalities and economic
geography
Alexander
Garifulin: Allocation of Space in Shopping Centers with Retail Demand Externalities
Dmitriy Dagaev: Optimal form of entrance examinations
Daniil Musatov: Size
and population of regions under single-peaked housing density
Anton Nikitin:
“Dutch disease” in football
Evgeniy Savchenko: Increase of centralization
in Russia
Dmitriy Sobolev: Equilibrium in the regional economics model with
the possibility of the population migration
Maxim Tkachenko: The model of suppressing
counterfeit production
| B
(room 520)
Chairman:
Project leaders: Anatoly Peresetsky, Alexander Karminsky
Trend
of the Banking Sector in Russia and Bank Ratings VII
Stanislav Ostritskiy:
Comparative Efficiency of Russian and Ukrainian Banking Sectors
Yaroslav Linik:
Cost efficiency of Kazakhstan and Russian banks
Kirill Bochkarev: Regional
development of Russian banking sector. Association with standard of living in
regions
Andrey Vaycheslavov: Bond yield and default probability of the bank
Roman
Rozhnov: Modeling of Credit Ratings of Russian Companies using qualitative factors
and financial fundamentals
Dmitriy Schigolev: Models of ratings
of international rating agencies. Russia and Kazakhstan
Fedor
Susov: Tha Analysis of Factors, Influencing the Level of Rates on Emergency Loans
in Russia | 17:30
Closing Contact
information: 129-17-00,
129-32-36, 129-38-44 (ext 137)
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