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Workshop and Seminar Archive

2005 Seminars

The speakers in Semester 1, 2005 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
4th March	Mark Weder	Humboldt	Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?
11th March	Doug Irwin	Dartmouth College	The Effect of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows
18th March	Tim Hatton	ANU	Asylum Applications and Asylum Policy
25th March	Good Friday
1st April	Kris Inwood	University of Guelph, Canada	The Social Consequences of Legal Reform: Women and Property in a Canadian Community
8th April	Murali Agastya	Sydney	Strategic Uncertainty and the Hirschliefer Effect
15th April	Mid Semester Break
22nd April	Mid Semester Break
29th April	Andrew Leigh	ANU	Inequality and Health: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries
13th May	Frank Neri & Joan Rodgers	Wollongong	Research Productivity of Australian Academic Economists: Human-Capital and Fixed Effects
20th May	Nisvan Erkal	Melbourne	Optimal Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development
17th June	Gary Fields	Cornell	Income Mobility in Developing Countries

The speakers in Semester 2, 2005 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
5th August	John Siegfried	Vanderbilt	How Long Does it Take to get a PhD in Economics?
12th August	Russell Hillberry	Melbourne	Estibration: an Illustration of Structural Estimation as Calibration
19th August	Jong-Wha Lee	Korea University	Proliferating Regional Trade Arrangements: Why and Wither?
26th August	Charles van Marrewijk	Erasmus	Mergers and Acquisitions: On Waves and Comparative Advantage
2nd September	Robert Cairns	McGill University	Sunk Costs and Cost Functions
9th September	Gerald Pruckner	Innsbruck	Volunteering and Income - The Fallacy of the Good Samaritan
16th September	Flavio Menezes	ANU	Bundling and Imputation Testing in a Procurement Context
23rd September	Mid Semester Break
30th September	Mid Semester Break
7th October	Jeff Borland	Melbourne	Does the AFL draft cause perverse incentive effects?
14th October	Denzil Fiebig	UNSW	Non-random thoughts on measurement error, recall bias and survey design
21st October	Bruce Chapman	ANU	The impact on students of the 2005 changes to the HECS system
4th November	Suren Basov	Melbourne	Quality and Product Variety in a Monopolistic Screening Model with Nearly Rational Agents
11th November	Warwick McKibbin	ANU	Sensible climate policy
25th November	Christian Dustmann	University College, London	Is Immigration Good or Bad for the Economy? Analysis of Attitudinal Responses
8th December	Valentyn Panchenko Job market candidate	Amsterdam	Estimating and Evaluating the Predictive Abilities of Semiparametric Multivariate Models with Application to Risk Management
14th December	Jocelyn Finlay Job market candidate	ANU	Endogenous Longevity and Economic Growth

2005 Workshops

The speakers in Semester 1, 2005 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
7th March	Tony Cavoli	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Have Exchange Rate Regimes in Asia Become More Flexible Post Crisis? Re-visiting the Evidence
14th March	Marvin McInnis	Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada	The Great Emigration from Canada
21st March	Guillaume Haeringer	UAB Barcelona	The Making of International Environmental Agreements
28th March	Public Holiday
4th April	Cancelled
11th April	Mid Semester Break
18th April	Mid Semester Break
25th April	Public Holiday
2nd May	Justin Trogdon	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Cigarette Taxes and the Master Settlement Agreement?
9th May	Gordon de Brouwer	Treasury	G20/APEC and International Relations
16th May	Public Holiday
23rd May	Kwang-ho Kim	Adelaide Uni, Economics	A model of entry of a third party
30th May	Ludovic Renou	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Treaties
13th June	Public Holiday

The speakers in Semester 2, 2005 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1st August	Janice Gaffney	Adelaide Uni, Maths	Modelling the adaptive behaviour of agents in a cobweb market
8th August	Ralph Bayer	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Intertemporal price discrimination and competition
15th August	Natalie K. Goodpaster	Duke University	The Effects of the FMLA on a Mother's Labor Force Participation Decision
22nd August	Ludovic Renou	Adelaide Uni, Economics	More Strategies, More Nash Equilibria
29th August	Colin Rogers	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Electronic money and the concept of a cashless economy
5th September	Raul Barreto	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Foreign aid, corruption and growth: some empirical evidence
12th September	TBA
19th September	Mid Semester Break
26th September	Mid Semester Break
3rd October	Public Holiday
10th October	Brian Bentick	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Simulating Financial Crises
17th October	Richard Pomfret	Adelaide Uni, Economics	The Industrial Organization of Professional Team Sports
24th October	Victor Pontines	Adelaide Uni, Economics	A Regime Switching approach to correlation-based test of contagion
31st October	Eran Binenbaum	Adelaide Uni, Economics	The Hay and the Carrot: A Model of Corporate Sponsoring of Academic Research
7th November	Quoc Hoi Le	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Determinants of Technology Transfer: Evidence from Vietnamese provincial data
14th November	TBA
21st November	TBA
28th November	Francesca Cornaglia	University College London, IZA Bonn	The effect of taxes and bans on passive smoking

2004 Seminars

The speakers in Semester 1, 2004 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
5th March	Andrew Wait	Sydney	Decision Making in Organizations
12th March	Daniel Leonard	Flinders	Endogenous labour, human capital formation and growth in an overlapping generations mode
19th March	Rob Taylor	Birmingham	Modified tests for a change in persistence Paper tables
24th April (2 pm - 3 pm, @ LG 14)	Ludovic Renou	European University Institute	Beliefs about belief and endogenous formation of a multi-lender coalition in a costly state verification model
26th March	Tom Rutherford	Colorado via Monash	Coalition formation and international trade in greenhouse gas emission rights
2nd April	Roberto Raimondo	Melbourne	Market Clearing and Option Pricing
9th April	Good Friday (no seminar)
16th April	Mid Semester Break
23rd April	Mid Semester Break
30th April (3:10 pm @ LG14)	Michael MacLeer	U. of western Australia	Automated Inference and Learning in Modelling Financial Volatility
5th May (2-3 pm @ LG14)	Tomoya Suzuki	Griffith University	Credit Channel of Monetary Policy in Japan: Resolving the Supply vs. demand Puzzle
14th May	Randal Ellis	Boston University	Using Fuzzy Diagnosis for Risk Management
21st May	TBA
28th May	TBA
4th June	Glenn Otto	NSW	The dynamic adjustment of consumption, net national income and net external liabilities
11th June	Paul Frijters	ANU	Contacts, social capital and market institutions: a theory of development There are two versions: technical and intuitive
23rd June	Yothin Jinjarak	UC Santa Cruz	On the hidden links between financing costs and international trade patterns

The speakers in Semester 2, 2004 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
30th July	Charles van Marrewijk	Erasmus University, Netherlands	P-P plots and the Harmonic Mass index: an application to comparative advantage
6th August	Stephen Whelan	Sydney University	The Impact of Income Support Programs on Labour Market Behaviour
13th August	Elena del Rey Canteli	Univeristat de Girona	Prices versus Exams as Student Allocation Devices
20th August	Albert Tsui	National Univ. of Singapore	Reverse Mortgages as Retirement Financing Instrument: An Option for “Asset-rich and Cash-poor” Singaporeans
27th August	Perry Shapiro	Univ. of California at Santa Barbara	Trembling Centipede
3rd September	Sir Partha Dasgupta	Cambridge	Sustainable Development: Theory and evidence
10th September	Iwan J. Azis	Cornell, Regional Studies Dept.	A Critical Evaluation of Policy Responses to the Asian Financial Crisis, paper 1 & paper 2
17th September	Buly Cardak	LaTrobe University	Why the poor don't go to university: Attainment constraints and two-staged education
24th September	Mid Semester Break
1st October	Mid Semester Break
8th October	Robert Breunig	ANU	The male-female wage gap in France
15th October	Zen Lu	UniSA	Modelling Heterogeneity in Explanatory Mechanism with Applications to Censored Data of Labor Supply
22nd October	Suhejla Hoti	Univ. of Western Australia	Modelling the Uncertainty in International Tourist Arrivals to the Canary Islands
29th October	Quentin Grafton	ANU	Productivity, Factor Accumulation and Social networks: Theory and Evidence
12th November	Alan Taylor	UC, Davis	Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle

2004 Workshops

The speakers in Semester 1, 2004 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
8th March	Ralph Bayer & Mickey Chan	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Game consoles for free? An experimental investigation into dynamic pricing in markets with network externalities.
15th March	Raul Barreto	Adelaide Uni, Economics	When Does Foreign Aid Work?
22nd March	Jim Hancock	SACES	Property taxation and aged homeowners: a consideration of tax equity issues
29th March	Cliff Walsh	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Tourism and Market Failure
5th April	Eran Binenbaum	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Avoiding Biases in International Comparisons of Living Standards Presentation Slides Avoiding Biases
12th April	Mid Semester Break
19th April	Mid Semester Break
26th April	Public Holiday
3rd May	cancelled
10th May	Lyndon Zimmermann	Adelaide Uni, Earth and Environmental Sciences	DPSIR 'State of the Environment' modelling for industry
17th May	Public Holiday
24th May	Keith Hancock	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Australian Economists and Wage Policy Before World War II
31st May	Minh Ha Nguyen	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Environmental preference and long run growth
7th June	Lona Fowdur	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Different plant variety protection for different countries?
14th June	Public Holiday

The speakers in Semester 2, 2004 were:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
2nd August	John Siegfried	Vanderbilt	The Market for New Ph.D. Economists in 2002
9th August	Do Duc Nhat Quang	Ecole Polytechnique, Paris	Financial development and economic growth
16th August	Cancelled
23rd August	Ralph Bayer	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Cancelled - postponed to 22/11/04
30th August	Stephen Lincoln	Chemistry, Adelaide Uni	Global Warming, Fossil Fuels and Future Energy
6th September	Justin Trogdon	Adelaide Uni, Economics	The Responsiveness of Treatment Choices to Changes in Quality
13th September	John Hatch and Ralph Bayer	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Spix's Macaw: A Case Study in Extinction
20th September	Mid Semester Break
27th September	Mid Semester Break
4th October	Public Holiday
11th October	Tin Nguyen	Adelaide Uni, Economics	The Appropriate Level of Significance, Decision Rules for Statistical Hypothesis Testing & Model Selection Procedures Short Abstract Long Summary
18th October	Kwang-ho Kim	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Valence characteristics and split-ticket voting of partisan voters
25th October	Rupert Sausgruber	University of Innsbruck	Buyer Reciprocity in a Natural Gift Exchange Market (abstract)
1st November	Arnab Gupta, Richard Damania	Adelaide Uni, Economics	The Political Economy of Resources and Development in India
8th November	Charles van Marrewijk	Erasmus University Rotterdam	On the dynamic costs of trade restrictions Abstract: We discuss the static and dynamic welfare costs of increasing trade restrictions in a simple economic growth model for a small developing economy.
15th November	Jim Larkin	Lecturer, School of Commerce, Adelaide Uni	Why we should legalise MDMA and should not prohibit Chinese Tea
22nd November	Colin Rogers	Adelaide Uni, Economics	Electronic Money
29th November	Barbara Pocock	QEII Fellow, Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Adelaide Uni	Labour market Deregulation, Neo-classical Economic Theory of Labour Supply, and Australia’s Work/Care Regime. (abstract)