CEE 2018 Annual Conference

17 December 2018, Monday

Natuk Birkan Building, Ibrahim Bodur Auditorium

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

09:30 - Registration

09:50 - Welcome Note
Refik Erzan, Honorary Chairperson (CEE, Boğaziçi University)

10:00 - 11:30 - Session 1: Inequality and Structural Change

Chair: Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo)

• Orhan Torul, Boğaziçi University (with M. Nazım Tamkoç, Arizona State University)

  “Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists: Wage, Income and Consumption Inequality in Turkey”

• Murat Koyuncu, Boğaziçi University (with Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, McGill University)

  “Structural Change and Income Inequality”

11:30-12:00 - Coffee Break

12:00- 13:30 - Session 2: Experimental Economics and Redistribution

Chair: Markus Jäntti (Stockholm University)

• Erik Ø. Sørensen, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) (with Alexander Cappelen, NHH; Sebastian Fest, NHH; Bertil Tungodden, NHH)

  “Choice and Personal Responsibility: What is a Morally Relevant Choice?”

• Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal, Boğaziçi University (with Orhan Torul, Boğaziçi University; Alexander Vostroknutov, University of Trento)

  “Norm Compliance, Enforcement, and the Survival of Redistributive Institutions”

13:30-15:00 - Lunch, Kennedy Lounge

15:00- 16:30 - Session 3: Intergenerational Income Mobility

Chair: Erik Ø. Sørensen (Norwegian School of Economics, NHH)

• Markus Jäntti, Stockholm University

  “Inequality of Opportunity, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality of Income”

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• Mehmet Ali Soytaş, Özyeğin University (with Musab Kurnaz, Koç University)

  “Early Childhood Investment and Income Taxation”

16:30-17:00 - Coffee Break

17:00- 18:30 - Session 4: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Chair: Orhan Torul (Boğaziçi University)

• Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Sabancı University (with Hakkı Yazıcı, Sabancı University)

  “Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development”

• Oğuz Öztunalı, Istanbul Bilgi University (with Orhan Torul, Boğaziçi University)

  “Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey”

18:30-19:00 - Coffee Break

19:00-20:00 - Key Note Lecture

• Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo (with Bo Zhao, Peking University; Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University)

  “Business Cycle during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective”

20:00-22:00 - Cocktail Prolongé – Natuk Birkan Building, 2. Floor