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APPLIED MICRO & MICROECONOMETRICS
WORKSHOP*
PROGRAM SUMMARY
Monday 29th June
21:00 Get-together tapas dinner with meeting point in front of Hotel NH Rambla de
Alicante, Calle López Torregrosa 11 (see map on p. 4)
Tuesday 30th June
8:30 Meeting point in front of Hotel NH Rambla de Alicante to go to U. Alicante
together by public transport
9:30 - 10:00 Registration in room Ernest Lluch (first floor), Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas building (click here for campus map and see address on p. 4)
10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 1
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30 Keynote speech
13:30 - 14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Poster session
15:00 - 16:30 SESSION 2
16:30 - 16:45 Mini coffee break
16:45 - 18:15 SESSION 3
21:00 Social dinner at Restaurante Casa Ibarra, Calle Mayor 33 (see map on p. 4)
*
Financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (ECO2013-43119) and
the Universidad de Alicante is gratefully acknowledged.
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DETAILED WORKSHOP PROGRAM
10:00-11:30 SESSION 1
Alex Armand (U. Navarra) “Identifying the Effect of Targeted Money Transfers on
Women’s Empowerment” (joint with I. Almås, O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro)
Bauke Visser (Erasmus U. Rotterdam) “Learning from Others? Decision Rights,
Strategic Communication and Reputational Concerns” (joint with O. Swank)
Federico Crudu (Pontificia U. Cátolica Valparaiso) “Specification Tests for
Instrumental Variables Models in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity and Many
Instruments” (joint with G. Mellace and Z. Sandor)
12:00-13.30 Keynote speech by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE) “A Quantitative Analysis
of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs”
14:00-15:00 POSTER SESSION
Cristina Belles-Obrero (U. Pompeu Fabra) “The Unintended Effects of Increasing the
Legal Working Age on Family Behaviour”
Norbert Czinkán (U. Alicante) “The Role of Individual Firms in Aggregate
Fluctuations: Evidence from Colombia”
Emma Duchini (U. Pompeu Fabra) “How Does Maternal Labor Supply Respond to
Changes in Children’s School Schedule”
Lorenzo Ductor (U. Midlessex) “Gender Differences in Scientific Collaboration”
Laurine Martinoty (ENS Lyon) “Intra-Household Coping Mechanisms in Hard Times:
the Added Worker Effect in the 2001 Argentine Economic Crisis”
Violeta Misheva (Erasmus U. Rotterdam) “Does victimization lead to offending?”
Eduard Suari Andreu (U. Groningen) “The Effect of Declining House Prices on
Household Savings”
Haihan Yu (U. Alicante) “Better Fooling than Pooling. An Experiment on Signaling”
Vita Zhukova (U. Alicante) “Trust Game and Investor”
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15:00-16:30 SESSION 2
Sonia Oreffice (U. Surrey) “The Role of Body Size in Economic Research Above and
Beyond Beauty” (joint with C. Quintana-Domeque)
Michele Valsecchi (U. Gothenburg) “Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?” (joint
with G. Deluca, R. Holder and P. A. Raschky)
Viola Angelini (U. Groningen) “Late-life Health Effects of Teenage Motherhood” (joint
with J. O. Mierau)
16:45-18:15 SESSION 3
Rebekka Christopoulou (U. Macedonia) “The Inter-generational and Social
Transmission of Cultural Traits: Theory and Evidence from Smoking Behaviour” (joint
with A. Jaber and D. R. Lillard)
Elsa Orgiazzi (U. Rennes I) “Development and the Labor Share” (joint with P. Maarek)
Alessandro Tampieri (U. Luxembourg) “Corporate Social Responsibility and Profits:
Friends or Foes? Evidence from Europe” (joint with M. Sartarelli and V. Zhukova)
TRANSPORT AND ACCOMMODATION DETAILS
Transport
From the airport: Bus C6 to the city centre (outside departure hall) or taxi (outside
arrival hall)
From the train station: NH Hotel is 15’ walk and B&B La Milagrosa 25’ walk
From city center to U. Alicante: TRAM line 2 from stop Mercado (underground
station) to stop U. Alicante (direction Sant Vicent del Raspeig); tickets sold at stations
and onboard
Tele Taxi, tel. 965 10 13 55
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Addresses and maps of relevant spots
Workshop coordinates: Aula Ernest Lluch (first floor), Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas, Universidad de Alicante, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig (click for
campus map here and for google maps here)
Hotel NH Rambla
de Alicante, Calle
López Torregrosa
11
Tel. 965 14 36 59
B&B La
Milagrosa, Calle
de la Villavieja 8
Tel. 965 21 69 18
Restaurante Casa
Ibarra, Calle
Mayor 33
Tel. 965 14 56 25
Organising committee members’ contact details
Georgios Chrysanthou, gmc@ua.es, mobile (+34) 652 407 534
Marcello Sartarelli, marcello.sartarelli@ua.es, mobile (+34) 691 941 704
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PARTICIPANTS LIST
Name
Pedro
Estefanía
Viola
Alex
Francisco
Marianna
Cristina
Qun
Rebekka
Georgios
Lola
Surname
Albarran
Albentosa Galiano
Angelini
Armand
Baeza Lorente
Battaglia
Belles-Obrero
Cao
Christopoulou
Chrysanthou
Collado
Email
albarran@ua.es
ealbentosa@ua.es
v.angelini@rug.nl
aarmand@unav.es
barciadistorsionoriginal@gmail.com
mbattaglia@ua.es
cristina.belles@upf.edu
sunnycao1@hotmail.com
christopoulou@uom.gr
gmc@ua.es
collado@ua.es
Czinkán
Duchini
Ductor
Gavazza
Guilló
Iturbe-Ormaetxe
Jiménez Raneda
Affiliation
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
University of Groeningen
Universidad de Navarra
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Universidad de Alicante
University of Macedonia
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Pontificia Universidad Cátolica
de Valparaiso
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Midlessex Univesity
London School of Economics
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Federico
Crudu
Norbert
Emma
Lorenzo
Alessandro
María Dolores
Iñigo
Ignacio
Manuela
Magalhaes
Universidad de Alicante
mmagalhaes@ua.es
Laurine
Martinoty
Violeta
Sonia
Elsa
Nina
Josep E.
David
Pedro
Marcello
Teófilo
Eduard
Begoña
Alessandro
Michele
Bauke
Haihan
Vita
Misheva
Oreffice
Orgiazzi
Pallares
Peris
Refi
Rodenas
Sartarelli
Sogorb Pomares
Suari Andreu
Subiza
Tampieri
Valsecchi
Visser
Yu
Zhukova
ENS Lyon/Aix-Marseille
University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
University of Surrey
University of Rennes I
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
University of Groeningen
Universidad de Alicante
University of Luxemburg
University of Gotheborg
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante
federico.crudu@gmail.com
nczinkan@ua.es
emma.duchini@upf.edu
lductor@gmail.com
a.gavazza@lse.ac.uk
guillo@ua.es
iturbe@ua.es
raneda@ua.es
martinoty@gate.cnrs.fr
misheva@ese.eur.nl
s.oreffice@surrey.ac.uk
Elsa.Orgiazzi@univ-rennes1.fr
nina.pallares@ua.es
peris@ua.es
dvidrefi@gmail.com
rodenas@ua.es
marcellosartarelli@gmail.com
sogorb@ua.es
e.suari.andreu@rug.nl
subiza@ua.es
alessandro.tampieri@uni.lu
michele.valsecchi@economics.gu.se
bvisser@ese.eur.nl
hy2@alu.ua.es
vitazhukova19@gmail.com
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