Thursday, May 14

9:15 - 9:45	Coffee
9:45 - 10:00	Welcome
10:00 - 10:45	Paul Wilson Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee
11:15 - 12:00	Abdelaati Daouia Frontier Estimation and Extreme Values Theory
12:00 - 12:45	Alois Kneip A new panel data treatment for heterogeneity in time trends
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	Valentin Zelenyuk Categorical variables in non parametric stochastic frontier estimation
14:45 - 15:30	Byeong Park Asymptotic Distribution of Conical-Hull Estimators of Directional Edges
15:30 - 16:15	Coffee
16:15	Homage to Professor Léopold Simar
17:30	Cocktail
19:30	Conference dinner

Friday, May 15

8:45 - 9:15	Coffee
9:15 - 10:00	Luiza Badin Bias Correction for Nonparametric Conditional and Unconditional Efficiency Estimators: A Monte Carlo Study
10:00 - 10:45	Jean-Pierre Florens Functional instrumental regression
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee
11:15 - 12:00	Irène Gijbels Nonparametric partial-frontier estimation: robustness and efficiency
12:00 - 12:45	Cinzia Daraio Statistical Inference in Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Models
12:45 - 14:30	Lunch + poster session
14:30 - 15:15	Wolfgang Härdle Copulae in tempore varientes (applied to CDO valuation)
15:15 - 16:00	Robin Sickles The Skewness Problem in Stochastic Frontier Models: Fact or Fiction?
16:00	Closing