Programme

8:30 – 8:50

Inscription / Registration
 

8:50 – 9:00

Mot de bienvenue / Welcome address : Professor Paul Gomme (Concordia University, CIREQ)
 

9:00 – 10:30

SÉANCES PARALLÈLES I / PARALLEL SESSIONS I
 

  
ECONOMETRICS I
 

 
  Salle / Room 1155-45

Saurin Patel (McGill University)
Cross-Market Linkages among Credit Default Swap, Equity and Options Market Indices : Evidence from the Subprime Credit Crisis

Rachidi Kotchoni (Université de Montréal)
The Redistributive Effect of Financial Crisis

Nérée Noumon (Université de Montréal)
Optimal Portfolio Selection using Regularization
 

MACRO I
 

Salle / Room 1155-54

Samer Attallah (McGill University)
Economic Foundations of Dictatorship in Resource Exporting Countries

Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau (Queen’s University)
The Decline in High-Intensity Participation : A Model of Party Activism and Special-Interest Influence on Policy

Yan Zhao (Concordia University)
Trade Friction and Risk Sharing in Small Open Economy Models
 

10:30 – 11:00

Pause / Break
 

11:00 – 12:30

SÉANCES PARALLÈLES II / PARALLEL SESSIONS II
 

 
ECONOMETRICS II
 

 
Salle / Room 1155-45

Rami Tabri (McGill University)
A Consistent Test for Infinite Order Stochastic Dominance

Roman Tymkiv (Université de Montréal)
Temporal Irreversibility of Time-Series

Mohammed Bouaddi (HEC Montréal)
A Factor-GMM Estimator : Dealing with Weak and Invalid Instruments in a Data Rich Environment
 

MICRO
 

Salle / Room 1155-54

Messan Agbaglah (Université de Montréal)
The Core of a Cover Function Game

V. Yang Song (University of Calgary)
Product Competition, Uncertainty and Strategic Adoption of Trade Credit by Upstream Firms

Ondelansek Kay (HEC Montréal)
Les contraintes de financement des PME en Afrique : le rôle des registres de crédit
 

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch
 

13:45 – 15:15

SÉANCES PARALLÈLES III / PARALLEL SESSIONS III
  

 
ECONOMETRICS III
 

 
Salle / Room 1155-45

Helen Shang (Concordia University)
Macroeconomic Factors and the Cross Section of Commodity Returns

Ali Fakih (HEC Montréal)
Determinants of Vacation Leave and Relations to Work Hours and Wages in Canadian Establishments

Ismael Yacoub Mourifie (Université de Montréal)
Testing Euclidian Preferences in Multiple Elections
 

 
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS I
 

 
Salle / Room 1155-54

Justin Johnson Kakeu (Université de Montréal)
The Pricing of Nonrenewable Resource Stocks with a Generalized Habit Formation Utility : A Martingale Approach

Javad Sadeghzadeh (York University)
Environmental Policy, Productivity and Competition

Calvin Atewamba (Université de Montréal)
Pricing of Durable Exhaustible Resources under Stochastic Investment Opportunities
 

15:15 – 15:30

Pause / Break
 

15:30 – 16:15

SÉANCES PARALLÈLES IV / PARALLEL SESSIONS IV
  

 
ENVIRONMENTAL II
 

 
Salle / Room 1155-54

Eleftherios Filippiadis (Concordia University)
Environmental Kuznets Curves in a Multicountry Setting

Bruno Nkuiya Mbakop (Université de Montréal)
Trade Structure, Transboundary Pollution and Multilateral Trade Liberalization : The Effects on Environmental Taxes and Welfare
 

 
MACRO II
 

 
Salle / Room 1155-45

Modeste Y. Some (Université de Montréal)
A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Term Structure

Dalibor Stevanovic (Université de Montréal)
Dynamic Effects of Credit Shock in Data-Rich Environment

16:15

FIN / END