4. PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES

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1 4. PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES Angelov, Nikolay Unit Root and Cointegration Testing Conference, Faro, Portugal, Sept. 29- Oct. 1, Paper: Structural breaks in iron-ore prices: the impact of the 1973 oil crisis Microdata RTN Meeting, Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Copenhagen, Dec. 2-3, Paper: Modelling firm mergers as a discrete-response economic game: two empirical approaches. Bali Swain, Ranjula The European Dialogue Conference on Microfinance, Luxemberg, Oct , Invited Speaker: Impact of Microfinance. International Conference on The Microfinance Industry Ready to take off?, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 29, Invited Speaker: Microfinance in 2020 A Global vision. International Seminar The Potential of Finance, Improving People s Life through Financial Services and Institutions, Skokloster, Sweden, Nov. 28, Invited Speaker: Microfinance creating an inclusive financial system conducive for growth. Berg, Lennart Luxembourg Wealth Study Meeting, Perugia, Italy, Jan , Discussant ENHR Conference, Reykjavik, June 29-July 2, Paper: The Q theory and the Swedish housing market - an empirical test. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, Paper: The Q theory and the Swedish housing market - an empirical test. 22

2 Chen, Jie ENHR (European Network of Housing Research) annual conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, July Paper: Duration of Swedish housing allowance spells a discrete-time hazard analysis. Dahlberg, Matz American Economic Association Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, Jan. 7-9, Paper: Is There a Race-to-the-Bottom in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention. Econometric Society North-American Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, Jan. 7-9, Paper: Is There a Race-to-the-Bottom in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention. Workshop on Fiscal Federalism, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-7, Paper: On the Size of Political Jurisdictions An Examination of Local Democracy. NBER Political Economy Working Group Meeting, Boston, USA, Nov. 19, Paper: An Empirical Approach for Estimating the Causal Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Economic Outcomes. Edmark, Karin 61st Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Jeju Island, South Korea, Aug Paper: Spatial Interactions in Public Spending Evidence from Swedish Municipalities. Eklöf, Matias Paper: Estimating early retirement with special early retirement offers. NETSPAR, Meeting Europe's social needs, Tilburg, Netherlands, Jan , Paper: Estimating early retirement with special early retirement offers. 23

3 Fredriksson, Peter Labor Market Workshop, Montreal, Canade, April Paper: Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance. (With B Öckert.) Paper: Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance. (With B Öckert.) Education and Training in Europe, Venice, Italy, June 11, Paper: The Macroeconomics of Education, manuscript. (With A Lamo, J Messina, G Peri, and E Wasmer.) 2nd conference of the network Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe, Uppsala, Oct. 7-8, Organizer. Gottfries, Nils Currency Seminar, Samfunnsökonomenes forening, Sanderstölen, Norge, Jan , Invited speaker: Monetary policy and globalization real freedom of action outside EMU? How do you publish? Seminar arranged by Gothenburg University, April 27, Invited speaker: Publications for millions. Econometric Society World Congress, London, UK, Aug Paper: Price and Investment Dynamics. European Economic Association Annual Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug , Paper: Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open economies. Quantitative Evidence on Price Determination, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, USA, Sept , Paper: Price and Investment Dynamics. Hallberg, Daniel 1st SHARE/ELSA/HRS User Conference, Lund, Sweden, Sept , Paper: Socio-economic status, health, and economic distress of Europe s

4 Hesselius, Patrik Paper: Sickness Absence and Subsequent Wages. RTN workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 2-3, Paper: The Impact of Employer Provided Sick-pay on Employees Sickness Absence. Holmén, Martin European Financial Management Corporate Governance Symposium, Leeds, England, April 28-30, Paper: The Impact of Family Ownership and Dual Class Shares on Takeover Risk. European Financial Management Annual Meeting, Milano, Italy, June 29- July 2, Paper: Owner-managers Equity Portfolio Choice. European Finance Association Annual Meeting, Moscow, Russia, Aug , Paper: Pyramidal Discounts: Tunneling or Overinvestment? Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida, USA, Nov , Paper: Capital Budgeting and Political Risk: Empirical Evidence. Holmlund, Bertil EU Conference on Policies to Make Work Pay, Brussels, March 17, Paper: Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research. Paper: Sickness Absence, Search Unemployment, and Social Insurance. The 20th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Amsterdam, Aug , Paper: Sickness Absence, Search Unemployment, and Social Insurance. 25

5 Workshop on unemployment insurance, Copenhagen, Sept. 6, Paper: Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms. Workshop on Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe; Uppsala, Oct. 7-8, Co-organizer. Conference on What Should the EU Do? Stockholm, Oct. 24, Discussant of paper by Giuseppe Bertola. Huttunen, Kristiina Paper: Internationalization of markets and ownership: effects on innovations, productivity growth and the labor market, Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. Johansson, Per Workshop om Varför vi svenskar är så sjuka, Stockholm, 15 March, Paper: Skillnaden mellan mäns och kvinnors sjukfrånvaro. Workshop on Social Insurance, Uppsala. May 12-13, Organizer and Paper: Monitoring sickness insurance: evidence from a social experiment Workshop on The Evaluation of European Labour Market programmes, Uppsala, May 19, Co-organizer. FAS-worshop on intervention research, Umeå, June 15-16, Paper: Causal inference in economics. Nordic Social Science Conference, Copenhagen, Aug , Paper: Are objective, official measures of disability reliable. Advances in Econometrics conference, Dallas, Oct , Paper: Graphical Diagnostics of Endogeneity. Jordahl, Henrik Public Choice Society, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 10-13, Paper: Trust and Growth in the 1990s: A Robustness Analysis. 26

6 Klevmarken, N Anders Presentation of the SHARE First results book, Brussels, April 28, Participated as Swedish CTL. The Economics Conference of Australia 2005, Melbourne, Sept , Paper: Dynamic Microsimulation for Policy Analysis Problems and Solutions. Stigende Wirtschaftliche Ungleicheit bei steigende Reichtum? Vermögensverteilung als Herasuforderung für die Wirtschaftspolitik, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Vienna, Nov. 7, Paper: The distribution of Wealth in Sweden: Trends and Driving Factors. Time-use and Economic Well-Being, The Levy Economic Institute of Bard College, New York, Oct , Paper: Using auxiliary data to compensate for noisy time-use data. SHARE/AMANDA planning conference, Freisheim, Nov , Participated as Swedish CTL and core group member. Lagerström, Jonas Paper: Blind Dates: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Discrimination. Nordic Health Economists Study Group, Uppsala, Sverige. Aug , Paper: The Effects of Economic Incentives and Job Environment on Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. ACE, Turku, Finland, Nov. 16, Paper: The Effects of Economic Incentives and Job Environment on Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Mörk, Eva Workshop on Decentralization, Governance and Economic Growth, Barcelona, Spain, June 6-7, Paper: On the Size of Political Jurisdictions: Preference Matching in Local Governments. 27

7 Ohlsson, Henry Paper: Long-term consequences of job loss in Sweden shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North. Construction and Usage of Comparable Microdata on Household Wealth: The Luxembourg Wealth Study, Perugia, Italy, Jan , Paper: Intergenerational transfers accounting, prediction, and motives. Oreland, Carl Management Association Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy, June 29, Paper: Family and Dispersed Ownership in Swedish Public Companies. An Analysis of Costs of Private Benefits of Control and Agency Costs. Pekkarinen, Tuomas CEPR Conference on Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe, Uppsala, Oct.7-8, Paper: Gender differences in educational attainment. Paper: Gender differences in educational attainment. ZEW Workshop on Education and Training: Markets and Institutions, Mannheim, Germany, March 18-19, Paper: Gender differences in educational attainment. Sundberg, Gun 26th Nordic Health Economists Study Group Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, Aug , (Organizer) Söderström, Martin Paper: School choice and segregation: evidence from an admission reform. 28

8 Welz, Peter 20th Congress of the European Economic Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aug , Paper: Interest Rate Smoothing versus Serially Correlated Errors in Taylor Rules: Testing the Tests. (With P Österholm.) Annual Congress of the Verein für Social Politik, Bonn, Germany, Sept , Paper: Can a Time-Varying Equilibrium Real Interest Rate Explain the Excess-Sensitivity Puzzle? (With A Alexius.) Westermark, Andreas Paper: Worker Substitutability, union structure and strike length. 61 st Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Jeju Island, South Korea, Aug Paper: Worker Soft Budget Constraints as a Risk Sharing Arrangement in an Economic Federation. (With E Lindahl.) Zamac, Jovan CESifo/CEBR Pension Reform Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June Paper: Pension design when fertility fluctuates: the role of capital mobility and education financing. 61st Congress of the IIPF, Jeju, South Korea, Aug. Paper: Winners and Losers from a Demographic Shock under Different Intergenerational Transfer Schemes. Ågren, Martin Arne Ryde Workshop in Financial Economics, Lund, Sweden, Nov , Paper: Oil Shocks and Stock Market Volatility. Österholm, Pär 20th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug , 29