3rd LeeX International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics
in Universitat Pompeu Fabra. June 18-19, 2012
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Preliminary Program, Third LeeX International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics, June 18-19 2012, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain
Sunday, June 17
20:00 Welcome Reception
Monday, June 18
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks, John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh
9:15-10:00 TBA
Keynote Speaker, Ramon Marimon,
European University Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10:00-10:45 "Forecasting Security Prices in Experimental Call-auction and Double-auction Markets"
Tibor Neugebauer, University of Luxembourg
10:45-11:15 Coffeebreak
11:15-12:00 "Another Avenue for Anatomy of Income Comparisons:
Evidence from Hypothetical Choice Experiments"
Katsunori Yamada, Osaka University
12:00-12:45 "The Excess Smoothness Puzzle - An Experimental Investigation of Consumption"
Marcus Giamattei and Johan Graf Lambsdorff, University of Passau
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 "Eliminating Laboratory Asset Bubbles by Paying Interest on Cash"
Janet Hua Jiang, Bank of Canada
15:15-16:00 "Experiments With The Lucas Asset Pricing Model"
Peter Bossaerts, California Institute of Technology
16:00-16:30 Coffeebreak
16:30-17:15 "Building Trust in Secondary Markets"
Rosemarie Nagel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
17:15-18:00 "The Role of Public and Private Information in a Laboratory Financial Markets"
Eva Camacho, Universitat Jaume I
20.30 Conference Dinner
Tuesday, June 19
9:00-9:45 TBA
Keynote Speaker, Shyam Sunder, Yale University
9:45-10:30 "Learning, Forecasting and Optimizing: An Experimental Study"
Te Bao, University of Amsterdam
10:30-11:00 Coffeebreak
11:00-12:15 "Non-neutrality of Money, Preferences and Expectations in Laboratory New
Keynesian Economies"
Luba Petersen, Simon Fraser University
12:15-1:00 Roundtable Discussion: Open Issues in Macroeconomic Experiments
1:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 "Reducing Overreaction to Central Banks' Disclosures: Theory and Experiment"
Camille Cornand, University of Lyon
15:15-16:00 "Central Bank Transparency and Cheap Talk as Substitutes for Commitment:
Experimental Evidence"
Frank Heinemann, Technical University Berlin
16:00-16:30 Coffeebreak
16:30-17:15 "Rational Inattentiveness in a Forecasting Experiment"
Michael Roos, Ruhr-University Bochum
17:15-18:00 "An Experimentally Microfounded Agent-based Macroeconomic Model Calling
Hyman Minsky's Economic Thought to Mind"
Gianfranco Giulioni, University of Chieti-Pescara
18:00 Adjourn
Organizers: John Duffy, Frank Heinemann, and Rosemarie Nagel