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2007 Labsi
International Conference
on
Political Economy and Public Choice: Theory and Experiments
27-29 September 2007
Certosa
di Pontignano, Siena - Italy
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PROGRAM
Session A1 - PUBLIC GOODS Chair: Patrizia Sbriglia
Nicolao Bonini,* Ilana Ritov** and Michele Graffeo* (*University of Trento, **Hebrew University) “When does a referent problem affect willingness to pay for a public good?”
Luca Corazzini,* Marco Faravelli** and Luca Stanca*** (*University of East Anglia and Bocconi University Milan, ** Edinburgh University, ***University of Milan Bicocca) “A Prize to Give for: An Experiment on Public Good Funding Mechanisms”
Ravi Gurajala,* Busenna Pesala* and Martina Pignatti Morano** (*University of Hyderabad. **University of Siena) “Provision of public goods through participatory planning: Inequality and Collective Action in Indian villages”
Stefan Ambec, Alexis Garapin, Laurent Muller and Carine Sebi (GAEL, INRA-Université Pierre Mendés France) “The regulations of a common pool resource with heterogeneous agents: an experimental investigation”
Markéta Řežuchová (Masaryk University) “Alternative Arrangements for Providing Public Goods and Services”
Annamaria Fiore,* M. Vittoria Levati** and Andrea Morone* (*Universitŕ di Bari, **Universitŕ di Bari and Max Planck Institute of Economics) “Voluntary contributions with imperfect information: An experimental study”
Session A2 - REGULATION / FINANCE AND BANKING Chair: Alessandro Vercelli
A2.1 - REGULATION
Michal Krawczyk (CREED, University of Amsterdam) “A glimpse through the veil of ignorance: equality of opportunity and support for redistribution”
Andreas Leibbrandt* and Raúl López-Pérez** (*University of Zurich, **Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) “The Envious Punisher: Understanding Second and Third Party Punishment with Simple Games”
Benito Arruńada* and Marco Casari** (*Pompeu Fabra University, **Purdue University) “How enforcement institutions affect markets"
A2.2 - FINANCE AND BANKING
Alexander Klos and Norbert Sträter (University of Münster) “Global Games and Demand-Deposit Contracts: An Experimental Study of Bank Runs”
Alessandro Cappellini* and Gianluigi Ferraris** (*ISI Foundation, **University of Turin) “Social Learning in Financial Markets”
Raffaella Barone* and Anna Grazia Quaranta** (*Universitŕ di Lecce, **Universitŕ di Camerino) “Banking Competition, Switching Costs and Customer Vulnerability”
Session A3 - FISCAL AND LOCAL POLICIES Chair: Massimo Di Matteo
Fabrizio Balassone, Daniele Franco and Stefania Zotteri (Banca d'Italia) “The Reliability of EMU Fiscal Indicators: Risks and Safeguards”
Valérie Berenger* and Matthieu LLorca** (*University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis CEMAFI, **University of Burgundy, LEG/FARGO) “Political determinants of the fiscal sustainability: evidence from six individual developed countries”
Gabrielle Fack and Camille Landais (Paris School of Economics) “Are Fiscal Incentives Towards Charitable Giving Efficient ? Evidence from France”
Juan González Alegre (European University Institute, Florence) “An Evaluation of EU regional policy. Do Structural Actions crowd-out Public Spending?”
Lenka Gregorova and Martin Gregor (IES Charles University, Prague) “Competition of Municipalities via Spending Composition: The Case of the Czech Republic”
Stijn Goeminne and Carine Smolders (University College Ghent) “Vote expectations and pre-electoral tariff cuts in Flemish municipalities”
Session B1 – POLITICAL ECONOMY Chair: Luigi Luini
Sanna Nurmikko (University of Essex) “Survival of Political Leadership”
Florian Schuett and Alexander Wagner (University of Tolouse) “Evaluating political decision makers: With the benefit of hindsight bias?”
Galina Zudenkova (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) “Income Redistribution under Sincere Lobbying Formation”
Graziella Bertocchi (Universitŕ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, CEPR, CHILD and IZA) “The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State”
Marina Grusevaja (Universität Potsdam) “Competition Law in Transformation: Impact of Transplanted Competition Law on the Effectiveness of Competition Policy as Economic Institution in Russia”
Masoud Nili and Ideen Ali Rihai (Sharif University of Technology, Azadi) “Democratization in Resource Dependent Economies: A Theoretical Framework”
Session B2 – MONETARY AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Chair: Francesco Farina
Robin Pope,* Reinhard Selten,* Johannes Kaiser* and Jürgen von Hagen** (*Experimental Economics Laboratory Bonn University, **Institute for International Economics, Bonn University) “The Underlying Cause of Unpredictability in Exchange Rates and the Appropriate Exchange Rate Regime: Field and Laboratory Evidence”
Tobias F. Rötheli (University of Erfurt) “An Experimental Comparison of Monetary and Barter Exchange”
Anna Ruocco and Ciro Rapacciuolo (Centro Studi Confindustria Roma) “Did the Economic Policy Matter for the Euro Area Growth? Some Empirical Evidence”
Florina Semenescu (Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans) “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Open Heterogeneous Monetary Union”
Vivian Lei,* Steven Tucker** and Filip Vesely*** (*University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and City University of Hong Kong, **University of Canterbury, ***University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) “Forgive or Buy Back: An Experimental Study of Debt Relief”
Abdoul Ganiou Mijiyawa (CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand) “Inflation and Democracy in Former Extractive Colonies: Analysis with Instrumental Variables”
Session B3 – TAXATION Chair: Maria Grazia Pazienza
Vilen Lipaton (European University Institute, Florence) “Tax Evasion and Coordination”
Stefania Ottone and Ferruccio Ponzano (University of Eastern Piedmont) “Laffer curve in a non-Leviathan scenario, a real effort experiment”
Jan Široký and Kateřina Maková (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava) “Theoretical approaches to measuring of the tax progressiveness (with the practical application)”
Maria Vyshnya (Kyiv Economics Institute) “Accumulation of Tax Arrears in Ukraine: Liquidity Problem or Rent – Seeking?”
Simone Pellegrino,* Massimiliano Piacenza*° and Gilberto Turati* (*Universitŕ di Torino °Ceris-CNR) “The runaway taxpayer. Or: Is prior audit effective in reducing tax evasion?”
László Paizs (Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences) “Asymmetric diesel tax competition: theory and evidence for EU countries”
Session C1 – CORRUPTION Chair: Roberto Ricciuti
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan (Dresden University of Technology) “Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: A MIMIC Approach”
Barr Abigail and Danila Serra (Universiy of Oxford) “Culture and Corruption”
Danila Serra (Universiy of Oxford) “Bargaining for bribes:The role of moral costs and imperfect information”
Ting Jiang (Tillburg University) “Mind the Corruption Club Trap”
Fadi Kanso (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III) “Wages and Penalties in Fighting Hierarchical Corruption (The Case of Tax Administration)”
Sebastian Freille,* M Emranul Haque** and Richard Kneller* (*University of Nottingham, **University of Manchester) “Decentralisation, corruption and economic development”
Session C2 – VOTING BEHAVIOUR Chair: Vincenzo Valori
Lisa Grazzini and Alessandro Petretto (University of Florence) “Voting on Devolution in a Federal Country with a Bicameral National System”
Wolfgang Höechtl,* Rupert Sausgruber* and Jean-Robert Tyran** (*University of Innsbruck, **University of Copenaghen) “Selfishness, Fairness and Voting for Redistribution”
Serguei Kaniovski (Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)) “The Exact Bias of the Banzhaf Measure of Power when Votes are Not Equiprobable and Independent”
Carla Marchese* and Marcello Montefiori** (*Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale, **Universitŕ di Genova) “Voting the public expenditure: an experiment”
Selim Jürgen Ergun (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) “From Plurality Rule to Proportional Representation”
Giuseppe Attanasi,* Luca Corazzini** and Francesco Passarelli** (Toulouse School of Economics**Universitŕ Bocconi Milano) “Voting as a lottery”
Session C3 – COOPERATION AND ALTRUISM Chair: Daniela Di Cagno
Veronika Grimm* and Friederike Mengel** (*University of Cologne, **University of Alicante) “Cooperation in Viscous Populations - Experimental Evidence”
Luigi Bosco (Universitŕ di Siena) “Power, hierarchy and social preferences”
Gianluca Grimalda,* Nancy Buchan,** Marilynn Brewer,*** Enrique Fatas,° Margaret Foddy°°, Rick Wilson°°° (*Warwick University, **South Carolina University, ***Ohio State University, °Valencia University, °°Carleton University, °°°Rice University) "Globalisation Vs. Social Capital as Factors of Co-operation: Experimental Results from a 6-Country Study"
Antonio Cabrales,* Raffaele Miniaci,** Marco Piovesan*** and Giovanni Ponti° (*Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, **Universitŕ di Brescia, ***Universitŕ di Padova, °Universidad de Alicante and Universitŕ di Ferrara) “An Experiment On Markets And Contracts: Social Preferences Under The Veil Of Ignorance”
Anna Conte, Daniela Di Cagno and Emanuela Sciubba (Luiss University Rome) “Demand for Links and Convergence in Social Networks”
Session D1 – SOCIAL LEARNING AND INFORMATION AGGREGATION Chair: Rosemarie Nagel
Christoph March and Anthony Ziegelmeyer (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena) “A Bounded Rationality Model of Social Learning”
Joël van der Weel (European University Institute, Florence) “The Signalling Power of Sanctions in Collective Action Problems”
Christophe Deissenberg* and Patrizia Sbriglia** (*Université de la Méditerranée, **Universitŕ di Napoli 2) “Strategic announcements in a policy game”
Giuseppe Attanasi,* Aurora García-Gallego,** Nikolaos Georgantzís,** and Aldo Montesano° (*Toulouse School of Economics, **Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, °Universitŕ Bocconi, Milano) “Games with Confirmed Proposals”
Joana Pais* and Ágnes Pintér** (*Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and UECE, **Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) “School Choice and Information. An Experimental Study on Matching Mechanism”
Alessandro Innocenti,* Maria Grazia Pazienza,** Alessandra Rufa* and Jacopo Semmoloni (*Universitŕ di Siena, **Universitŕ di Firenze) “Informational Cascades and Gaze Cascade Effect. An Eye-tracking Study”
Session D2 – PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES Chair: Domenico Colucci
Daria Denti (Universitŕ di Modena e Reggio Emilia and European University Institute) “Cleaning the World Doing Maths”
Zuzana Darmopilová and Jiří Špalek (Masaryk University) “Interest groups satisfaction as a factor of successful healthcare reform policy (application of the game theory)”
Martin Duensing (University of Oldenburg) “Child support and custody arrangements in the bargaining family”
Anna Pellanda (Universitŕ di Padova) “The Demand for Contemporary Visual Art by Public Museums between Production and Us”
Marek Pavlik (Masaryk University) “Voting preferences as a factor affecting health care policy implementation”
Jharna Pathak (Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad) “Contribution and performance of water use in Drinking water sector: case studies of municipalities”
Session D3 – INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES AND WELFARE Chair: Marco Casari
Fabrizio Botti, Anna Conte, Daniela Di Cagno and Carlo D'Ippoliti (Universitŕ Luiss, Roma) “Laboratory versus Natural and Framed Field Experiments: Searching for the Counterfactual”
Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori (Universitŕ di Pisa) “Long Run Output, Welfare and Fertility in a Neoclassical OLG Growth Model with Regulated Wage and Involuntary Unemployment”
Andrea Gallice (European University Institute, Florence) “Some Social Welfare Implications of Behavioral Preferences”
Jaromir Kovarik (Universidad de Alicante and LaTEx) “Belief Formation and Evolution in Public Good Games”
Gianna Lotito (Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale) “Resolute Choice in interaction: A qualitative experiment”
Luigi Luini* and Pier Luigi Sabbatini** (*Universitŕ di Siena, **Italian Antitrust Authority) “Demand cross elasticity without substitutability. Evidence from a field experiment”
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