Welcome to the School of Economics
 The teaching of economics in the University began in 1901, with the first professor appointed in 1929. A separate Department of Economics was established in 1946. Former Professors in the School include Leslie Melville, Edward Shann, Brian Tew, Peter Karmel, Eric Russell, Frank Jarrett, Geoffrey Harcourt, Cliff Walsh and Jonathan Pincus.
The School of Economics is located in the Faculty of the Professions, which also includes the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, the School of Education, the Business School and the Law School. The current Executive Dean of the Faculty is Professor Pascale Quester.
WORKSHOP
The School is hosting a one day workshop on 8 July entitled 'Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Trade and and Finance in Asia' to be held in Napier 108 Seminar Room, commencing at 8.30am.
Paper presenters and topics include :
Tony Cavoli (UniSA) - "What drives monetary policy in Asia - interest rate rules or exchange rate rules"
Victor Pontines (Flinders) - "The international dimensions of inflation targeting"
Colin Rogers (Adelaide) - "A new monetary order or trapped on the US dollar standard?"
Richard Pomfret (Adelaide) - "The post-2007 financial crisis and policy challenges facing Australia”
Shandre Thangavelu (NUS) - "The impact of outsourcing provision on wage inequality: Manfuacturing firm level evidence from Thailand"
Jenny Corbett ( ANU) – “What does Asian financial integration mean”
Dr Friska Parulian (ERIA Jakarta) - "Linkages between real and financial aspects of economic integration in East Asia" (ppt presentation)
The School of Economics will provide lunch to participants who respond to this invitation. To assist catering arrangements, please RSVP to Gerry 8303 4768 or geraldine.hunter@adelaide.edu.au at your earliest convenience.
Staff News
Reprint - Global wine markets, 1961 to 2003: a statistical compendium
By Glyn Wittwer and Kym Anderson
The University of Adelaide Press in conjunction with Professor Kym Anderson has organised to reprint this publication. A PDF is available for download at the University Press website www.adelaide.edu.au/press, three other publications have been reprinted with an updated set of the Joseph Fisher Lecture Series pending.
GTAP Research Fellow 2009-2012
Congratulations to Dr Ernesto Valenzuela who has received the award of "GTAP Research Fellow 2009-2012", a recognition given to only 5 people every year. Dr Valenzuela was awarded this distinction at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis for hard work in his respective fields. The GTAP website is (http://www.gtap.org)
Fabrice Collard (pdf 314kB), Monetary Misperceptions, Output and Inflation Dynamics
Kym Anderson (pdf 822kB), Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries Since the 1980s
Keith E. Maskus (pdf 206kB), Labor Skills and Foreign Investment In A Dynamic Economy: Estimating The Knowledge-Capital Model For Singapore
Kym Anderson (pdf 369kB), Long Run Implications of WTO Accession for Agriculture in China
Ralph Bayer (pdf 99kB), The Dirty Faces Game Revisited
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What’s Happening
6 July, 2009 Special Seminar Presentation
1-2.30pm, Napier 210
Dr Chiara Tomasi, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) Scuola Supieriore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy and Universita degli Studi di Urbino http://ideas.repec.org/e/pto137.html
29 June (Monday) Anne Arnold, PhD student.
For Complete details of the 2009 Workshop Series, please click here.
Our next School Seminar will be on Friday 17 July, presented by Professor Ngo van Long, McGill University click here for bio
For Complete details of the 2009 Series, please click here
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