Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network

2015 Prague Colloquium Program

Thursday 10th – Saturday 12th September 2015

Institute of Economic Studies, Opletalova st. 26, 110 00 Prague 1

Paper and workshop presentations: up to 20 minutesKeynote speeches: 35 minutesChair of each session is the last presenter

Thursday 10th September 2015 (Training workshop, free entry)

9:00 – 14:00 Ice-Breaking Prague Walk: meet us at Vysehrad metro station in front of Yam Yam restau-rant at 9am sharp

14:00 – 15:30 Workshop I (room 314)

Bayesian Model Averaging in Meta-Analysis

Havranek, Tomas (Charles University in Prague and Czech National Bank)

Sources of Publication Bias in Social Sciences

Rost, Katja (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Effect Standardization in Meta-Analysis

Zigraiova, Diana (Charles University in Prague and Czech National Bank)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Workshop II (room 314)

Selection of Estimators for Meta-Analysis

Heckemeyer, Jost (Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany)

Time Horizon of the Effect Size in Meta-Analysis

Babecky, Jan (Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic)

20:00 – 22:00 Welcome reception (360◦ Lounge Bar on Panska st. 9): meet us at 19:45 at the lobby of theconference venue

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Friday 11th September 2015

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Opening Remarks by Martin Gregor, IES director (room 314)

9:10 – 10:40 Keynote Lectures (room 314)

Keynote speech: Active Labor Market Programs: New Evidence on What Works

Weber, Andrea (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Keynote speech: What Do Unions Do? A Meta-Meta-Analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris (Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Labor and Information Economics (room 314) – parallel session

The Impact of Employment Protection Legislation on Unemployment in OECD Countries:A Meta-Analysis

Giotis, Georgios (University of Ioannina, Greece)

Friends or Foes? A Meta-Analysis of the Link Between “Online Piracy” and Sales of CulturalGoods

Tyrowicz, Joanna (University of Warsaw and National Bank of Poland)

A Meta-Analysis of the Union-Job Satisfaction Relationship

Laroche, Patrice (ESCP Europe Business School in Paris, France)

11:00 – 12:15 Financial Economics and Management (room 206) – parallel session

What Do We Really Know About Corporate Hedging? A Multimethod Meta-Analytical Study

Stockl, Stefan (ICN Business School in Metz, France)

Credit Risk and the Business Cycle: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Magkonis, George (University of Bradford, United Kingdom)

The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning: A Meta-Analysis of the Environment-Planning-Outcome Link

Hofeditz, Marcel (University of Munster, Germany)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Como restaurant on Wenceslas Square 45/818): meet us at the lobby of the conferencevenue shortly after the previous session

13:45 – 15:00 Macroeconomics (room 314)

Measuring Intertemporal Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Selective Re-porting

Havranek, Tomas (Charles University in Prague and Czech National Bank)

Meta-Analysis of Chinese Business Cycle Correlation

Fidrmuc, Jarko (Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany)

Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Transition Economies: A Comparative Meta-Analysis with Developed and Developing Economies

Iwasaki, Ichiro (Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan)

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break

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15:20 – 16:35 Environmental Economics (room 314)

Publication Bias in Measuring Anthropogenic Climate Change

Reckova, Dominika (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

What Do We Really Know About the Influence of Environmental On Financial Performance?A Meta-Regression Analysis

Stockl, Stefan (ICN Business School in Metz, France)

Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption on Production and Farmers’ Well-Being:A Meta-Regression Analysis

Ugur, Mehmet (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom)

16:35 – 17:50 Industrial Organization and Capital Markets (room 314)

Do Incentive Payments Encourage Innovation? A Meta-Analysis Study

Lotfi, Zahra (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)

Impact of Money Supply on Stock Exchange Prices: Evidence from Meta-Analysis

Kapounek, Svatopluk (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)

Trueconomics: A Meta-Analysis of Job, Team and Organizational Performance

Hofeditz, Marcel (University of Munster, Germany)

20:00 – 22:00 Dinner cruise (meet us at 19:15 at the lobby of the conference venue)

Saturday 12th September 2015

8:30 – 9:00 MAER-Net Open Forum

9:00 – 10:40 Plenary Session (room 314)

Keynote speech: Policy, Politics and Meta-Analysis

Campos, Nauro (Brunel University in London, United Kingdom)

An Analysis of Papers Produced by Rational Economists: The Cases of Clustering and Pa-rameter Heterogeneity

Paldam, Martin (Aarhus University, Denmark)

The Power of Bias in Economics Research

Stanley, Tom (Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Fiscal Policy (room 314) – parallel session

Taxes and Economic Growth in the U.S. States: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Reed, Robert (University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand)

Does Government Size Affect Per-Capita Income Growth? A Hierarchical Meta-RegressionAnalysis

Ugur, Mehmet (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom)

Forty Years of Political Budget Cycles: What Have We Learned?

Cazals, Antoine (University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France)

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11:00 – 12:15 Experimental Economics (room 206) – parallel session

Altruistic or Strategic Considerations: A Meta-Analysis on the Ultimatum and DictatorGames

Tisserand, Jean-Christian (University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France)

The Implications of the ‘Credibility Crisis’ for Experimental Economics: “We Only Knowthat We Know (Almost) Nothing”

Maniadis, Zacharias (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Como restaurant on Wenceslas Square 45/818): meet us at the lobby of the conferencevenue shortly after the previous session

13:45 – 15:00 International Economics and Methodology (room 314)

Do Borders Really Slash Trade? A Meta-Analysis

Havrankova, Zuzana (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

The Euro Trade Effect: A Meta-Analysis

Polak, Petr (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Accounting for Sample Overlap in Meta-Analysis

Rachinger, Heiko (University of Vienna, Austria)

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 – 16:35 Economic Growth (room 314)

Financial Deregulation and Its Effect on Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

Korkames, Joseph (Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA)

Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in South and East Asia & PacificRegion: Evidence from Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analysis

Yerrabati, Sridevi (Sohar University, Oman)

Health and Economic Growth: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Giotis, Georgios (University of Ioannina, Greece)

16:35 – 17:50 Inequality (room 314)

Productivity and Inequality Effects of Rapid Labor Reallocation: Insights from a Meta-Analysis of Studies on Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna (University of Warsaw and National Bank of Poland)

What Policies and Interventions Have Been Strongly Associated with Changes in In-CountryIncome Inequality? A Systematic Review

Anderson, Edward (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)

A Meta-Regression Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Income and the “Great-Gatsby Curve”

Perez-Arce, Francisco (RAND Corporation, Virginia, USA)

20:00 – 22:00 Farewell dinner (Restaurant Epopey on Panska st. 9): meet us at 19:45 at the lobby of theconference venue

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