SMYE 2009 Spring Meeting of Young Economists

XIV. Spring Meeting of Young Economists

Scientific Program

Note that we have assigned to each speaker the discussion of a paper. You have to discuss the paper presented before your paper. The last speaker of each session will be the chair of the session. The first speaker discusses the last paper. Please refer to the presentation guidelines for more information.

Program Overview

The program overview can be downloaded here

Thursday 23th of April
15.00 – 17.00	Registration+Wellcome Coctail (Haydarpaşa Campus)
17:00	Free time at Istanbul

Friday 24th of April
9.00 – 10.00	Opening talk (Haydarpaşa Campus)
10.00 - 10.30	Coffee break (Haydarpaşa Campus)
10.30 – 11.30	Keynote speaker : ABADIR (Haydarpaşa Campus)
11.30 – 12.30	Keynote speaker : TALMAIN (Haydarpaşa Campus)
12.30 – 12.45	Transportation
12.45 - 13.30	Lunch (Göztepe Campus)
13.30 – 15.30	Session A (Göztepe Campus)
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break (Göztepe Campus)
16.00 – 17.30	Session B (Göztepe Campus)
18.00 - 20.00	Bosphorus Boat Trip
20.00 - 23.30	Gala Diner

Saturday 25th of April
8.30 - 10.30	Session C (Göztepe Campus)
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break (Göztepe Campus)
11.00 – 12.30	Session D (Göztepe Campus)
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch (Göztepe Campus)
13.30 – 14.30	Keynote speaker : BALCILAR (Göztepe Campus)
14.30 – 16.30	Session E (Göztepe Campus)
16.30 – 17.00	Coffee break (Göztepe Campus)
17.00 - 18.30	Session F (Göztepe Campus)
18.30 - 19.30	Coffee break / Closing (Göztepe Campus)

The Gala Diner will be Yıldız Hisar Kulübü which is located at place where the guests can see the Bosphorus. Both Gala diner and Bosphorus Boat Trip are FREE for the participants.

Sessions Overview

The session overview can be downloaded here

Sessions List

Presentation Guidelines

Please read the presentation guidelines carefully and follow the instructions during the conference. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Room Equipment:
Each room is equipped with computer and beamer. Please bring your presentation file on a USB memory stick. The available software for presentation is PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader. We strongly recommend choosing a PDF format with embedded fonts for presentation. Otherwise it may be possible that the software cannot display all fonts correctly.

Organization:
Sessions last 2 hours or 1.5 hours for 3 or 4 presenters, respectively. All presenters should arrive 10 minutes in advance and make sure that no technical problems occur. Each presenter has 20 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for his or her discussants’ presentation and another 5 minutes for general discussion. Please respect the time limit for presenting your paper and for the discussion. The chairs are advised to enforce the time constraints.

Session's Chair:
The last presenter in the session is assigned the role of the session’s chair. The chair has to supervise that time constraints are met. He or she should welcome and introduce the participants and moderate the open discussion. If the session’s chair is absent, the last presenter listed should take the role of the chair.

Discussants:
Every presenter is discussant of the previous paper as indicated in the detailed program. Accordingly, the second speaker is discussant of the first paper, the third speaker is discussant of the second paper and so forth. The first speaker is discussant of the last paper. Discussants should download the paper they have to discuss in advance from the conference homepage.