Economics News

Professor Christopher Findlay's jointly-authored paper with Professor Peter Drysdale was reported widely by Australian and international media outlets. The paper argues that a confusion has been introduced into policy over the questions of state-ownership and supplier-buyer relations in respect of Chinese investments and that clarifying these issues is likely to be important to Australia's capturing the full benefits from the growth of Chinese resources demand. The draft of the paper is available here; The Age's report on the paper is available here.

Professor Kym Anderson's work for Copenhagen Consensus project on the gains from trade reform has been widely reported around the world, such as in The Guardian.

Professor Mark Weder was recently listed in the leading German financial newspaper Handelsblatt as one of the leading ex-patriate German economists in the world.

Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary of The Department of Climate Change

Dr Parkinson graduated with a Bachelor of Economics in 1980 and a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) in 1981 from the University of Adelaide. He also holds a M.Ec from the Australian National University and a Ph.D from Princeton University. In December 2007 Dr Parkinson was appointed Secretary of the Department of Climate Change. His appointment follows appointments as Deputy Secretary in Treasury with responsibility for domestic and international macroeconomic issues and as Deputy Secretary of the Climate Change Group in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet with responsibility for leading and coordinating implementation of the emissions trading scheme and coordinating climate change policy.

The School of Economics warmly invites you to attend Dr Parkison's seminar on Friday, 12 September. To RSVP, please contact Luke van Trigt at luke.vantrigt@adelaide.edu.au.

The Wine 2030 Research Network is holding a conference that will examine the future of the wine industry and consider what technologies could transform it.

The wine industry is a unique and successful industry that combines a blend of traditional craftsmanship with the latest in technological innovation. However, it is facing a challenging future. To maintain our competitive advantage, the Australian wine industry must remain at the forefront of technological innovation. As well as investing in incremental improvements in technology and management, the industry must also investigate the potential of technology to create paradigm shifts that fundamentally change the economics of wine production and sale.

The Wine 2030 Conference will look to the future and consider what technologies could transform the wine industry.

Conference registration is now open and a list of speakers and conference papers is now available on its website.

• Kym Anderson and A. Valdes (eds), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies, Washington DC: World Bank, 2008
• Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela (2008), "Where To For Agricultural Policies in East Asia?", East Asian Bureau of Economic Research Newsletter, March, The Australian National University, Crawford School.
• Mark Dodd (2008), "Obesity and time-inconsistent preferences", Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 2(2):83-89.
• Chunlai Chen, Jun Yang and Christopher Findlay (2008),"Measuring the effects of food safety standards on China's Agricultural Exports", Review of World Economics, 144 (1).
• Casas, I. and Jiti Gao (2008), "Econometric estimation in long-range dependent volatility models: theory and practice", forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics.
• Jiti Gao, Gijbels, I. and Van Bellegem, S. (2008), "Nonparametric simultaneous testing for structural breaks", Journal of Econometrics 143, 123-142.
• Jiti Gao, Gijbels, I. (2008), "Bandwidth selection in nonparametric kernel testing," Forthcoming in Journal of the American Statistical Association.
• Tom Sheridan and Pat Stretton (2008), "Pragmatic Procrastination: Governments, Unions and Equal Pay, 1949-1968", Labour History, No. 94, May 2008, pp.133-156.
• Andrew Watson, "Civil Society in a Transitional State: The Rise of Associations in China" in Jonathan Unger (ed), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008).
• Murat Atlamaz and Duygu Yengin (2008), "Fair Groves Mechanisms", Journal of Social Choice and Welfare.

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• Kym Anderson, J. Giesecke and Ernesto Valenzuela, "Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Australian Economic Development", C/KREI International Symposium on Globalization and the Rural-Urban Divide, Seoul National University, 30 June-1 July 2008.
• Jiti Gao, "Specification Testing in Nonlinear Time Series Econometrics with Nonstationarity", International Symposium on Recent Developments of Time Series Econometrics, Xiamen University, China, 10-11 May 2008.
• Jiti Gao, "A New Specification Test in Nonlinear Autoregression," ESAM 2008, Wellington, New Zealand, July 9-11, 2008.
• Richard Pomfret, "Trade Costs", Monash University, 23 May 2008.
• Richard Pomfret, keynote speaker, International School of Economics (a joint venture between LSE and the Kazakh-British University), Almaty (Kazakhstan), June 5-6 2008.
• Richard Pomfret, keynote speaker, launch of the OECD's Economic Outlook of the Black Sea and Central Asia, Bucharest, June 23 2008.
• Richard Pomfret, "Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi", Central Asia Forum, Johns Hopkins University Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Washington DC, 16 July 2008.
• Richard Pomfret, "Managing an Oil Boom: Has Kazakhstan used its Energy Resources to Promote Diversification through Support for Agriculture?", International Economic Association Triennial Congress, Istanbul 25 August 2008.
• Duygu Yengin, "Groves Mechanisms and Welfare Bounds in a Variable Population Setting," 9th International Meeting of the Society of Social Choice and Welfare, Concordia University, Montreal, 19-22 June 2008.
• Duygu Yengin, "Groves Mechanisms and Welfare Bounds in a Variable Population Setting," SED 2008 5th Conference on Economic Design, University of Michigan, 15-17 June 2008.
• Duygu Yengin, "Fixed-route travelling salesman games and the shapley value," Games 2008, Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Northwestern University, 13-17 July 2008.

• Roland Hodler, The University of Melbourne.
• Kieron Meagher, The University of New South Wales, "Imperfect Competition in Incomplete Contracts : Public-Private Partnerships".
• Georgy Artemov, The University of Melbourne.
• Tim Kam, The Australian National University, "On a Dynamic Public Insurance Game with Heterogeneous Agents".
• Okan Yilankaya, The University of British Columbia, "Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation".
• Alexander Matros, The University of Pittsburgh, "Chinese Auctions".
• Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, "Estimation of Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models with Possibly Nonsmooth Moments".
• Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, "Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Conditional Moment Models with Possibly Nonsmooth Residuals".
• Francis Vella, Georgetown University.
• Stella Huangfu, The University of Sydney.
• Ron Cheung, Florida State University, "Picking the Lock on the Homestead Property Tax Exemption: Evidence from the 2008 Florida Portability Referendum".
• William Coleman, ANU, "A Democracy's Choice of the Minimum Wage: A Theory".
• Amartya Lahiri, The University of British Columbia, "Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale".
• Roger Bowden, Victoria University of Wellington, "Infrastructure, Growth and Trade: the Signalling Content of China's Free Trade Agreements".
• Jonathan Pincus, University of Adelaide, "An equitable and efficient developmental approval process?" (co-authored with Perry Shapiro).
• Stephanie McWhinnie, University of Adelaide, "The Tragedy of the Commons in International Fisheries: An Empirical Examination".
• Colin Rogers, University of Adelaide, "Reassessing the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes' Relevance Today?".
• Zhang Wei, University of Adelaide, "Trade Agreements in an Asymmetric Framework".
• Daniel Leonard, Flinders University, "Is Emulation Good for You? The Ups and Downs of Rivalry".
• Risti Permani, University of Adelaide, "The Economics of Islamic Schools".
• Ernesto Valenzuela (with Prof Kym Anderson), University of Adelaide, "Fifty Years of Distortions in Global Agricultural Markets".
• Andrew Watson, University of Adelaide, "Land Ownership and Farmers' Livelihoods in China".
• Ralph Bayer (with Frank Cowell), University of Adelaide, "Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments: A Note".
• Lisa Hill, University of Adelaide, "Irrational Homo Economicus in Adam Smith".
• Zen Lu, University of South Australia, "Finite Mixture of Binary Logistic Regression Analysis on Labor Supply of Mothers with Disabled Children".
• Kwo Ping Tam, University of Adelaide, "Empirical Models Comparing Free Floating and Currency Board Regimes in Hong Kong".
• Keith Hancock, University of Adelaide, "Australian Wage Policy in the Great Depression, 1929-1934".
• Pipat Wongsaart (with Professor Jiti Gao and Dr David E. Allen), University of Adelaide, "The Third Generation ACD Model: Theory and Practice".
• Jim Larkin, University of Adelaide, "An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Use, Drug Prohibition Enforcement and Major Crime Using State Level Data for the 1990s".
  
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