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Sessions:
Plenary
Special
General
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Programme
A brief timetable
can be downloaded from here in pdf format.
A detailed timetable can be
downloaded from here in pdf format.
Plenary sessions
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Hahn Lecture
Bengt Holmstrom (MIT) Title: 'Corporate governance in context'
Chair: John Sutton (President, RES)
Bengt Holmstrom is Paul A Samuelson Professor of Economics at
MIT, having been a Professor of Economics at MT since 1994. Prior
to that he had been Professor of Economics at Yale from 1983.
He has published extensively in many fields of economics including
game theory, organisational theory and on models of wage determination.
He is a Board member of Nokia.
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Sargan lecture
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton); Title: 'Measuring the value of
a statistical life'
Chair: Steve Machin (CEP, LSE: Editorial Board, Economic Journal)
Orley Ashenfelter is Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics
at Princeton University. His areas of specialisation include labor
economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He is director
of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and
has been director of the Office of Evaluation of the U.S. Department
of Labor and editor of The American Economic Review.
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Economic Journal lecture
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv); Title: 'Introduction to the economics
of the jungle: A comment on how we teach economics'
Chair: Leonardo Felli (LSE, Editorial Board, Economic Journal)
Ariel Rubinstein is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University
and also (since 2004) Professor of Economics at New York University.
He is well known for his research into bargaining theory and in
the field of games and economic behaviour, as well as economic
psychology and economic philosophy. He is currently past President
of the Econometric Society.
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Plenary lecture
Clive Granger (UCSD): Title: 'Evaluation in economics'
Chair: Richard Disney (Nottingham, Conference Chair RES 2005)
Clive Granger is a Professor in the Department of Economics at
the University of California at San Diego, having been a student,
and commencing his teaching career, at the University of Nottingham.
He is well known for his research in the field of time series
econometrics - in particular in forecasting methods and concepts
of causality in economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the
American Economic Association. In 2003 he shared in the award
of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Special sessions (provisional list)
Strategic Tax Analysis (Chair: Norman Gemmell, Nottingham)
Participants:
Steven Bond (Oxford/IFS), Michael Devereux (Warwick): 'Corporate tax
policy'
Marisa Rattso (Bristol), Richard Thomas, David Ulph (Inland Revenue)'
'Tax compliance as a social norm'
Alan Duncan (Nottingham) and John Creedy (Melbourne): 'Evaluation methods
for tax and labour market policies'.
Executive Remuneration (Chair: Michael Orszag, Watson Wyatt)
Participants:
Brian Main (Edinburgh): The ABI Guidelines for share-option based incentive
Schemes: setting the hurdle too high?
Martin Conyon (Wharton School): Corporate governance and executive compensation
Ali Choudhary (Surrey) and Michael Orszag (Watson Wyatt): On Target?
An Examination of CEO Stock Options Performance Hurdles.
Discussant: TBA
The New Economics of the Brain Drain: View and Counterview
(Chair: Maurice Kugler, Southampton)
Participants:
Oded Stark (Bonn) 'The new economics of the brain drain: Mapping the
gains'.
Riccardo Faini (Tor Vergata, Rome): 'Does the brain drain boost growth?'
Maurice Kugler (Southampton) and Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan): 'Skilled
Emigration, Business Networks and FDI inflows'.
Discussant: Maurice Schiff (World Bank).
The Economics of Conflict and War (Chair: Paul Dunne, UWE)
Participants:
Paul Dunne, Maria Garcia Alonso (Kent), Paul Levine (Surrey) and Ron
Smith (Birkbeck) "Economics, Technology and War"
Keith Hartley (York) "The Costs and Implications of the War in
Iraq"
Paul Collier and Anke Hoffler (Oxford) "The Costs of Civil War"
Commentator: Dan Plesch (Birkbeck): Author of "The Beauty Queen's
Guide to World Peace"
The Economics of Road Pricing (Chair: Chris Riley, Chief Economist,
Department of Transport)
Participants:
David Newbery (Cambridge): 'Optimal urban road pricing'
Eric Verhoef (Free University, Amsterdam): 'Second best pricing under
public-private partnerships'
Tom Worsley (Department of Transport): 'Transport modelling with policy
requirements'
Discussant: Stephen Glaister (Imperial, London)
Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy
Participants:
Richard Layard (LSE) 'Happiness and public policy'
John Helliwell (UBC) 'Well being, social capital and public policy'
Discussant: Michael Jacobs (HM Treasury)
School Quality and School Outcomes (Chair: John Elliott, Chief
Economist, DfES)
Participants:
Stephen Gibbons (LSE), Steve Machin (UCL/CEP) 'Paying for Primary Schools:
Supply Constraints, School Popularity or Congestion?'
Eric. Hanushek (Stanford), Ludger Wößmann (Ifo, Munich) 'Does
Early Tracking Increase Inequality? Difference-in-Difference Evidence
across Countries'.
Martin West, William Howell, Paul Peterson (Harvard) 'Accountability
for Failing Schools: Evidence from Florida's "Opportunity Scholarships"
Program'
Discussant: DfES official
The Economics of Wine (Chair: Alan Duncan, Nottingham)
Victor Ginsburgh (Free University, Bruxelles): 'Endowments, production
technologies and the quality of wines'.
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton): 'Climate change and trends in Bordeaux
wine quality'.
Michael Visser (INRA, Paris): 'The impact of gurus: Parker grades and
en primeur wine prices'.
Discussant: [to be announced]
General sessions
Accepted Papers for General Sessions
A list of accepted papers for the RES
Conference 2005, March 21-23 2005, can be viewed here. There may
be one or two additional accepted papers if there are withdrawals. Corresponding
authors of accepted papers will have received an email in the week beginning
December 13th 2004 detailing submission instructions. A letter will
follow in the mail. Deadline for final drafts (in .pdf format) is January
24th 2005. A letter informing authors whose papers could not
be accepted will be sent very early in January 2005.
For papers accepted for the programme, details for submission to the
Economic Journal Conference Volume 2005 can be found in Conference
Volume 2005.pdf. (see also http://www.res.org.uk/society/confvolume.asp)
Since some authors are always disappointed, a brief description of
the reviewing procedure can be found in the attached document: STATISTICS
ON ACCEPTANCE RATES.pdf
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