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QASS

Conference on “Macro and Financial Economics”

May 24, 2012

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Parallel Session II

Gaskell Building, Room 169

9.30-10.00: Coffee Reception

ECONOMICS . Chair: Dr Alexia Ventouri (Brunel University)

10.00-10.25	Weonho Yang (Brunel University): Macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks: new evidence using natural disaster relief in Korea.
10.25-10.50	Ishak Demir (Birkbeck, University of London): Keep your word: time varying inflation targets and inflation targeting performance.
10.50-11.15	Francesco Guidi (University of Greenwich): Dynamic cointegration and correlations among the Greater China, UK and US stock markets.
11.15-11.30	Faek Menla Ali (Brunel University): On the linkages between stock prices and exchange rates: Evidence from late-2000s financial crisis.

11.30-12.00: Coffee Break

13.30-14.30: Lunch (Room GB239)

FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS: Chair: Dr Qiwei Chen (Brunel University)

14.30-15.00	Dimitris Rovithis (University of Oxford): Methods to address selection bias in cost-effectiveness analysis
15.00-15.30	Daphne Athanasouli (UCL): Corruption and management practices,  firm level evidence
15.30-16.00	Alekos Paraskevopoulos/Stavros Dafnos (University of Patra/Brunel University): Universal algorithms for the solution of higher order linear difference equations with variable coefficients

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS. Chair: Dr Russ Moro (Brunel University)

16.30-17.00	Nikolaos Balafas (University of Liverpool): Is financial constraints risk priced? Comprehensive evidence from London Stock Exchange.
17.00-17.30	Matthew Osborne (CASS Business School): In good times and in bad: bank capital ratios and lending rates.
17.30-18.00	Vasileios Pappas (Lancaster University): Financial fragility of Islamic versus conventional banks: A survival-time analysis.

Dinner: 19.30