9:30 - 9:40 Opening
9:40 - 10:40 Imre Fertő (IE) and L J Hubbard:
Intra-Industry Trade in Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU
Discussant: Gábor Kőrösi (IE)
11 - 12 Réka Horváth (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona):
Cooperative Research and Firm Performance
Discussant: László Halpern (IE)
13:40 - 14:40 Loránd Ambrus-Lakatos (CEU) and Tamás Meszerics:
An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations
Discussant: András Simonovits (IE)
14:40 - 15:40 Éva Nagypál (Stanford --> NWU):
Fixed-Term Contracts in Europe: A Reassessment in Light of the Importance of Match-Specic Learning
Discussant: István R. Gábor (BUES)
16 - 17 Balázs Váradi (CEU):
Multiproduct Cost Function Estimation for American Higher Education
Discussant: János Köllő (IE)
10 - 11 Gábor Virág (Princeton U) and József Molnár (NWU):
Optimal auctions with externalities and signaling
Discussant: Loránd Ambrus-Lakatos (CEU)
11:15 - 12:15 Attila Rátfai (CEU and IE):
Relative Price Skewness and Inflation
Discussant: Gábor Kőrösi (IE)
14 - 15 Beatrix Paál (Stanford U) and B.D. Smith:
The sub-optimality of the Friedman rule and the optimum quantity of money
Discussant: János Vincze (NBH)
15 - 16 Péter Benczur (NBH):
Learning, noise traders, the volatility and the level of bond spreads
Discussant: András Simonovits (IE)