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8th PhD-Student Workshop in

Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE)

Thursday February 6th 2020 Sala de Graus (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

08:30 – 08:45: Registration.

09:00 – 09:30: Welcome: Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod (Director of

CREIP) and José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez (Secretary of CREIP).

09:30 – 11:00: Session 1 “Public Economics and Regulation”.

Chair: Ferran Mañé.

Martin Brun (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona): “Preferences for Redistribution and Cognitive Ability” (joint with X.

Ramos). Discussant: Susana Iranzo.

Londoño van Rutten, Rodrigo (Center for Research in Economics, UCLouvain):

“Lobbying Activity and the Outcome of Cartel Enforcement?” (joint with A. Girarda, and J.-Y. Gnabob).

Discussant: David Rodríguez. Abraham Lartey (Universidad de Alicante):

“Do giant oilfield discoveries make countries poor at taxation?”. Discussant: Yuliya Lovcha.

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break – Poster session.

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11:30 – 13:00: Session 2 “Energy and Sustainability”.

Chair: Maria Victòria Soldevila.

Jordi Planelles-Cortes (Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne): “Carbon taxation in a global production chain”.

Discussant: Maria Llop.

Laura Fernández-Herrero (URV - CREIP):

“Global patterns of the metabolic rate and the material footprint per capita: a comparative study for the years 1990-2010” (joint with J.A.

Duro). Discussant: Nektarios Aslanidis.

Françeska Tomori (URV – CREIP): “The impact of environmental regulatory capture on innovation and

emissions: The case of the automobile industry” (joint with B. Theilen). Discussant: Juan Antonio Duro.

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

14:00 – 15:30: Session 3 “Industrial Organization”.

Chair: Sabine Flamand. Erqi GE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “Social Networks, Career Incentives and Interregional Trade in China”.

Discussant: Carles Méndez.

Miryam Martin-Sanchez (Universitat de les Illes Balears): “The effect of opportunistic litigation on interorganizational tie formation” (joint with A. Lucena).

Discussant: Asier Mariscal.

Binur Yermukanova (Universidad de Alicante): “Vertical Foreign Direct Investment and Tax Motivated Transfer Pricing” (joint with J. Sandonís).

Discussant: Ricardo Flores-Fillol.

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15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break – Poster session.

16:00 – 17:30: Session 4 “Health”.

Chair: Cori Vilella.

Iban Ortuzara (University of Girona):

“Effects of public healthcare budget cuts on life satisfaction in Spain”

(joint with G. Renart, and À. Xabadia). Discussant: TBA.

Grace Armijos-Bravoy (University of Barcelona - IEB):

“Terrorist attacks, islamophobia and newborns' health” (joint with J.

Vall). Discussant: Luis Díaz-Serrano.

María José Hernández (URV- CREIP):

“Barriers and Facilitators for Shared Decision-Making in Screening

Program: Systematic Review” (joint with M.J. Pérez-Lacasta, and M. Feijoo-Cid, and V. Ramos- García, and M. Carles-Lavila). Discussant: Catalina Jordi.

17:45 – 19:15: Invited Lecture: Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance):

“Preemption Contests between Groups” (joint with S. Barbieri, and D. Malueg”.

20:30: Dinner at “TBA”.

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Friday February 7th 2020 Sala de Graus (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

9:00 – 11:00: Session 5 “R&D and innovation”.

Chair: Alejandro Pérez-Laborda.

Federico Riccio (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna): “Innovation Shaping Sectoral Deindustrialization Patterns”.

Discussant: Damián Tojeiro.

Gabriel Rodríguez Garnica (Universidad Carlos III): “Investors’ Behaviour in Reward Based Crowdfunding: Do followers

actually follow?” (joint with M. Gutiérrez, and J.A. Tribó). Discussant: Carlos Cercós.

Sebastiano Cattaruzzo (URV-CREIP): “On the role of exporting and finance in high-growth firms”.

Discussant: Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod. Juan Ducal Vidal (University of Barcelona-IEB):

“On the (In)Efficiency of R&D Public Funding: A Quantitative Assessment” (joint with R. Santaeulàlia-Llopis).

Discussant: Mercedes Teruel

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break – Poster session.

11:30 – 13:00: Session 6 “Microeconomics”. Chair: José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez.

Thiago Cacicedo (Universidad de Alicante: “Frequently purchased goods and price expectation”. Discussant: Lina Maddah.

Konstantinos Protopappas (Lancaster University):

“Loss aversion, reference-dependent preferences and optimal pricing”. Discussant: António Osório.

Ceesay Muhammed (University of Naples Federico II):

“Secret vs Public Rings in Common Value Auctions”. Discussant: Carolina Manzano.

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13:15: The Chair for the Promotion of Firm Innovation will announce

the winner of the prize "PREMI-INNOVA" to the young researcher presenting the best paper on R&D and innovation.

13:25: The Chair of Local and Regional Economy will announce the

winner of the prize "PREMI-REGIONAL" to the young researcher presenting the best paper on regional and sustainability studies.

13:35: The Department of Economics will announce the winner of the

best paper.

Farewell.

13:45 – 16:00: Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics,

Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

Useful information.- Wifi: WIPE_2017 // Password: urv09FEB2017

Financial suport:

Economics and Business

URV PhD programme