Conference Programme for 2013
April 8th, 2013 – April 10th, 2013

Monday, April 8th

Time

Event

09:00 - 12:00

Conference registration

(Mercure Hotel Perth Foyer)

10:00 - 12:00

SES Council Meeting

- Councillors only -

(Jolly Miller Suite)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch and President's Welcome

(The Brasserie)

13:00 - 15:00

Economic Classroom Experiments

(with the Economics Network)

John Guest

Sören Enkelmann / Thorben Kundt


(Kinnoull Suite)

Open session #1

Economics of Education


Chair: Anne Gasteen

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open session #2

Economics Unbounded: Studies in "Imperialism"


Chair: Peter Dawson 

(Tay Room)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee & tea break

(Kinnoull Gallery)

15:30 - 17:00

Recent Developments in Teaching Economics

(with the Economics Network)

Guglielmo Volpe

John Houston


(Kinnoull Suite)

Open session #3

Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Preference Formation


Chair: Michael Berlemann

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #4:

Natural and Laboratory Experiments


Chair: 

(Tay Room)

17:00 - 18:30

SES Policy Forum

"Higher Education Financing, Demographics, and Student Mobility"

John Sloman, EN and Bristol U

Robert E. Wright, U of Strathclyde

Klaus Beckmann, SES and HSU


(Kinnoull Suite)

19:00 - 20:00

Civic Reception

hosted by: Provost Liz Grant, Perth & Kinross Council

(The Brasserie)

20:00 - 22:00

Sir Alec Cairncross Memorial Dinner

Cairncross Prize Awards

awarded by Prof. Anton Muscatelli, Principal, University of Glasgow

(Kinnoull Suite)

22:00 - 24:00

Live Piano Music at the Mercure Bar

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Tuesday, April 9th

Time

Event

08:30 - 09:30

Late bird registration

08:30 - 10:30

Organised session #5: 

Family Background, Economic and Social Outcomes


Chair: Silke Anger

 

(Kinnoull Suite)

Open session #6:

Industrial Economics


Chair: Haoyong Zhou

 

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #7:

Public Choice and Political Economy


Chair: Jan Fidrmuc


(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #8:

Public Economics


Chair: Christine Ho 


(Tay Room)

Open Session #9:

Financial Economics I

Chair: Oege Dijk

 

(Mountaineering Society Meeting Room)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee & Tea Break

11:00 - 12:40

Organised session #10:

Sports Economics

 

Chair: Bernd Frick

(Kinnoull Suite)

Open session #11:


Labour Economics II


Chair: Alvaro A. Novo

  

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #12:

Financial Economics I


Chair: Jacky Mallett

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #13:

Economics of Growth & Development

  

Chair: Taiwo Owoeye

(Tay Room)

Open session #14

Organisation, Health, & Happiness 


Chair: Keith A. Bender 

(Mountaineering Society Meeting Room)

12:40 - 13:30

Lunch (the brasserie)

13:30 - 15:00

Organised session #15:

Macro Labour

 

Chair: Heiko Stüber

(Kinnoull Suite)

Open session #16:

Health Economics II


Chair: Heather Brown

  

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #17:

Migration, Accumulation, & Growth


Chair: Robert E. Wright

 

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #18:

Money, Policy, & Trade

  

Chair: Marta Wisniewska

(Tay Room)

Open Session #19:

 Labour Economics II


Chair: Christine Singer


(Mountaineering Society Meeting Room)

15:10 - 16:00


Annual General Meeting

(Members only - Kinnoull Suite)


16:00 - 17:00

Bus transfer to Blair Castle

17:00 - 18:30

Wine Reception & Canapés


Tour of Blair Castle

19:00 - 22:00

Annual Conference Dinner

President's Guest: 

Dr. John Hulbert

Former Provost, Perth & Kinross Council

22:30 - 23:30

Bus transfer to Perth

00:00 - 02:00

Traditional SES Nightcap

(Mercure Bar)

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Wednesday, April 10th

Time

Event

0900 - 11:00

Organised session # 20:

Economic History and the History of Economics

 Jointly chaired by: Tim Barmby and Ioannis Theodossiou

(Kinnoull Suite)

Open Session #21: 

Economics of Higher Education

 

Chair: Caroline Elliott

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #22: 

Gender Issues and (Re-)Distribution

 

Chair: Lori J. Curtis

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #23:

Labour Economics III

 

Chair: Oege Dijk

(Tay Room)

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee & tea break

(Kinnoull Gallery)

11:30 -

13:00

How to Get Your Article Published - A Workshop for Young Researchers

Anna O'Brien (Wiley Blackwell) and Tim Barmby (editor-in-chief, SJPE)

Open Session #24:

 Public Economics and the Environment


Chair: Rabindra Nepal

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #25:

International Trade

 

Chair: Jaap W.B. Bos

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #26:

Empirical and Estimation Techniques

 

Chair: Rozen Asad Chowdhury

(Tay Room)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

(the Brasserie)

14:00 -

15:30

SES President's Lecture

"Higher Education in a Multijurisdictional Area"

Prof. Marcel Gérard

Université catholique de Louvain 

(Kinnoull Suite)

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee & tea break

(Kinnoull Gallery)

16:00 - 17:30

Tips and Tricks in Econometrics

Nick Horsewood (University of Birmingham)


(Kinnoull Suite)

Open Session #27:

 The European Union, Federalism, and Scotland


Chair: Susanne Ross

(Summit Suite)

Open Session #28:

The Dark Side of the Force

 

Chair: Markus Ludwig

(Jolly Miller Suite)

Open Session #29:

International Trade II 


Chair: Sonia Mukherjee

(Tay Room)

18:00 - ???

Traditional SES Late Bird Shindig

Wine Reception, Excursion, and More … 

(Starting at the Mercure Bar, separate registration required)

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An outline of conference events

The conference begins on Monday, April 8th, with four sessions of three refereed papers each and two special sessions geared towards teaching economics at the undergrad and the high school level. The annual SES Policy Forum is to follow. The topic for 2013 will be “Higher Education Financing, Demographics, and Student Mobility”.

Monday night is the first social highlight of the conference. After a Civic Reception hosted by Elizabeth Grant, Provost of Perth and Kinross Council, the Society will sit down to the formal Sir Alec Cairncross Memorial Dinner, which includes the award ceremony for the Cairncross Prize for best paper submitted by a PhD student or young lecturer. Prof. Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow, will deliver the after-dinner speech and award the prize. The evening concludes with chitchat on Economics and other things, accompanied by piano music at the Mercure Bar.

Tuesday will be devoted to the presentation of new research in 15 sessions carrying three papers each.

The Society will hold its Annual General Meeting (all resident delegates become members for a year) in the early afternoon and then depart on its annual excursion, which will lead us to Blair Castle, a wine reception, castle tour, and subsequent Annual Conference Dinner. SES President’s Guest of Honour will be Dr. John Hulbert, who as Provost of Perth and Kinross did much to welcome our learned society in the City of Perth. Upon our return, the traditional SES Shindig event will commence at the Mercure Perth Hotel.

On the Wednesday, there will be nine sessions of three refereed papers each and further sessions especially designed for PhD students and young lecturers, including a seminar on Econometrics tips & techniques as well as a talk on How to Get Your Article Published by representatives of the publishers of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Wiley Blackwell.

Wednesday also includes the President’s Lecture as the main event. We are happy to announce that next year’s lecture will be held by Prof. Marcel Gérard of the Université catholique de Louvain on the topic of “Higher Education in a Multijurisdictional Area”.

Delegates who come from abroad will be happy to know that we extended our “late bird” programme to provide a final great night in Scotland.

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