9:00-9:30	Coffee & Tea
9:30-10:30	Eren İnci – Sabancı University Success Breeds Success Locally: A Tale of Incubator Firms Discussant: Burçin Ünel – Boğazici University
10:30-11:30	Murat Taşçı – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Specificity of Human Capital and European Unemployment Discussant: Gökçe Kolaşin - Bahçeşehir University
11:30-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:45	Selva Demiralp – Koç University An Investigation of the Forward Looking Behavior in Equity Markets: Responsiveness to Monetary Policy (joint with Kamil Yılmaz) Discussant: Refet Gürkaynak – Bilkent University
12:45-14:00	Lunch at Faculty Club
14:00-15:00	Nuray Akın – University of Miami Search, Moral Hazard, and Equilibrium Price Dispersion (joint with Brennan C. Platt) Discussant: Murat Taşçı - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
15:00-16:00	Murat Üngör – University of Southern California De-industrialization of the Riches and the Rise of China Discussant: Selo İmrohoroğlu – University of Southern California
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:15	Burcu Eyigüngör – Koç University Maturity, Indebtedness and Default Risk (joint with Satyajit Chatterjee) Discussant: İnci Gümüş – Sabancı University
17:15-18:15	Mehmet Ekmekci – Northwestern University Reputation with Long Run Players (joint with Alp Atakan) Discussant: Özgür Kıbrıs – Sabancı University
* Conference Venue: Koç University, Istinye Campus ** Sponsored by TUSIAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum