4. Doctoral Student Colloquium

Topics in Finance

Room: A76

Chair: Ye Bai

Luo, Di (NUBS): "Financial constraints, stock liquidity, and stock returns"
Discussant: Han Zhang

Zhang, Han (NUBS): "Causality on crude oil prices with structural breaks"

Discussant: Patrick Roberts

Roberts Patrick (NUBS):  "Measuring risk in UK quoted firms"

Discussant: Di Luo

Topics in Energy and Competition

Room A76
Chair: Monica Giulietti

Burlington, Andrew (WBS): "The decision to connect to district heating: Evidence from a survey of households in Birmingham"
Discussant: Johannes Meya

Meya, Johannes (University of Göttingen): "Dynamics of the Yardstick regulation:  Historcial cost data and the Ratchet effect"
Discussant: Eleni Statopoulou

Statopoulou, Eleni (University of Leicester): "Endogenous technology choice in the presence of pollution"

Discussant: Andrew Burlinton

Topics in Innovation and R&D

Room A76

Chair: Pia Weiss

Bhatti, Sabeen (WBS): "Innovation management and performance measurement of knowledge-based services in the open innovation paradigm"
Discussant: James Waters

James Waters  (NUBS): "Introduction of innovations during the 2007/8 financial crisis: The role of innovator type"
Discussant: Zheng Zehong

Zehong, Zheng (OU): "Credit constraints and cyclicality of R&D investment: An empirical study of the UK"
Discussant: Sabeen Bhatti

Coffee Break

PG Atrium

A76

Chair: David Paton

Demir, Ayse (University of Leicester): "Disentangling size and efficiency effects of finance:  New evidence from transition countries"

Discussant: Brahmi Mohsen

Mohsen, Brahmi (IAE): "World trade liberalisation, dimensions of game rules: Agreements of commercial involvement for Tunesia"

Discussant: Ayse Demir

Concluding Remarks 

Monica Giulietti and

Awarding the prize for the best empirical paper sponsored by the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society.

Giuliana Battisti