Papers
Friday, September 12, 2014
08:30-09:10 Keynote Speaker
Martin Paldam
Simulating economics: Why is publication bias so common? (presentation)
09:10-11:00 Plenary Session I: Meta-Analysis Methods (Chair: Georgios Chortareas)
Robert Reed
Simulating meta-analysis estimators in the presence of publication bias (presentation)
Tom Stanley
A quarter century on: Where are we, and where are we going? (presentation)
Margaret Giles
The effectiveness of correctional education in reducing recidivism (presentation)
11:15-12:45 Plenary Session II: Environmental Economics (Chair: Chris Doucouliagos)
Randall Rosenberger
Modeling dependencies of wetland valuation estimates across space (presentation)
Allan Beltrán
Estimating the benefits from flood risk reduction (presentation)
Robert Johnston
Enhanced geospatial data for meta-analysis and benefit transfer (presentation)
14:15-15:30 Plenary Session III: Transition Economics (Chair: Martin Paldam)
Ichiro Iwasaki
Radicalism versus gradualism: A systematic review (presentation)
Jan Babecky
Structural reforms and growth in transition (presentation)
15:45-17:45 Parallel Session IA: Mostly Macroeconomics (Chair: Tom Stanley)
Pedro Bom
Sample overlapping in meta-analysis
Arbresh Mamudi
Fiscal multipliers (presentation)
Diana Žigraiová
The relationship between bank competition and financial stability
Salim Dehmej
Augmented Taylor rule versus macroprudential rule. What DSGE tell us?
Emeka Okoye
Income inequality and economic growth: Kuznets hypothesis
15:45-17:45 Parallel Session IB: Mostly Productivity (Chair: Randall Rosenberger)
Binyam Demena
Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers in developing countries (presentation)
Mehmet Ugur
Innovation and employment at the firm and industry levels
Petr Polak
Andreas Schneck
Effectiveness conditions of incentives in self-administered surveys (presentation)
Sefa Awaworyi
Impact of microfinance on poverty and microenterprises
Saturday, September 13, 2014
09:00-10:30 Plenary Session IV: Finance (Chair: George Magkonis)
Chris Doucouliagos
Efficiency of Asian and Australasian stock markets.
Ann-Marie Nienaber
The impact of hostility, environmental munificence, dynamism and complexity on financial performance
10:45-12:45 Plenary Session V: Development Issues (Chair: Jan Babecky)
Maren Duvendack
Policies associated with in-country income inequality (presentation)
Piers Steel
Information, communication and technology and economic growth
Nikos Benos
Health and economic performance
14:00-14:40 Keynote Speaker
John Ioannidis
Credibility and empirical economics
14:40-16:00 Plenary Session VI: School and Marriage (Chair: Margaret Giles)
Jhon James Mora Rodriguez
On the size of the sheepskin effect
Megan de Linde Leonard
16:15-18:15 Parallel Session IIA: Growth (Chair: Mehmet Ugur)
Sridevi Yerrabati
Economic governance and economic growth in Asia & Pacific regions
Sefa Awaworyi
The effect of military expenditure on growth
Christian Bellak
Four in one: The effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI
Ensar Yesilyurt
Economic growth and military expenditures with spatial modeling
16:15-18:15 Parallel Session IIB: Education and Environment (Chair: Robert Johnston)
Ayaz Zeynalov
Natural resource richness and economic growth (presentation)
Refk Selmi
The nexus between electricity consumption and Economic growth
Nicolas Fleury
Intergenerational transmission of education
Jean-Christian Tisserand