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THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005
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Economics Seminars

  • Semester 1 2008
  • Semester 2 2008

Semester 1 2008:

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
28 February Fabrice Collard University of Toulouse Gold Rush Fever in Business Cycles (pdf 443kB)
3 March Harris Dellas University of Bern

Misperceived vs Unanticipated Money: A Synthesis  (pdf 212kB)

11 March Suraj Prasad UNSW

Task Assignments and Incentives : Generalists versus Specialist (pdf 270kB)

19 March

5-6:30pm Napier G03

Paul Frijters Queensland University of Technology The Effect of Child Development on Female Labour Supply
21 March No Seminar
 
28 March Alexander Field Santa Clara University Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Output per Hour, 1890-2004 (pdf 199kB)
4 April Cary Deck The University of Arkansas Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits (pdf 294kB) 
11 April Pierre Siklos Wilfrid Laurier University  What Has Inflation Targeting Accomplished?  The Evolution of Inflation Pressure in Australia, Canada and New Zealand (pdf 302kB) 

18 April

Gemai Chen University of Calgary A New Quantile Function Based Model for Modeling Price Behaviors in Financial Markets (pdf 357kB)
25 April No Seminar
 
2 May      
9 May Roland Hodler The University of Melbourne Institutions, Trade, and the Political Economy of Financial Development 
16 May Kieron Meagher The University of New South Wales Imperfect Competition in Incomplete Contracts : Public-Private Partnerships (pdf 357kB) 
23 May

 
30 May Georgy Artemov The University of Melbourne  TBA
6 June Tim Kam The Australian National University

On a Dynamic Public Insurance Game with Heterogeneous Agents

12 June (Thursday)

4-5:30pm Napier LG23

Okan Yilankaya The University of British Columbia Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation (pdf 299kB)
13 June Alexander Matros The University of Pittsburgh Chinese Auctions
20 June No Seminar
 



 


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Semester 2 2008:

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
4 July No Seminar    
11 July No Seminar    
18 July No Seminar    
25 July Xiaohong Chen
Yale University

Estimation of Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models with Possibly Nonsmooth Moments (pdf 1MB)

Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Conditional Moment Models with Possibly Nonsmooth Residuals (pdf 985kB)

30 July (Wednesday)

3:30-5pm Napier 210

Francis Vella
Georgetown University
TBA
1 August Stella Huangfu The University of Sydney Money, Capital and Unemployment
8 August No Seminar

 
15 August Ron Cheung Florida State University Picking the Lock on the Homestead Property Tax Exemption:
Evidence from the 2008 Florida Portability Referendum
22 August William Coleman
ANU
A Democracy's Choice of the Minimum Wage: A Theory
27 August (Wednesday)

3:30-5pm Napier 210

Amartya Lahiri The University of British Columbia Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale
5 September Roger Bowden
Victoria University of Wellington
Infrastructure, Growth and Trade: the Signalling Content of China's Free Trade Agreements (pdf 122kB)
12 September Vance Martin The University of Melbourne Testing Continuous Time Models of Interest Rates
19 September Jose Rodrigues-Neto
 ANU Criminal Records
26 September No Seminar    
1 October (Wednesday)

1-3:30pm Napier LG14

David Laband Auburn University The Impact of Tree Shade on Residential Electricity Consumption
1 October (Wednesday)

4-5:30pm Napier LG14

Michael Burda Humboldt University

Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks

3 October No Seminar
 
10 October Michael Keane
UTS-ARC Federation Fellow

Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers

17 October Christopher Bidner  UNSW A Non-competitive Approach to the Gender Wage Gap Evidence from U.S. Cities.
24 October Xueyan Zhao

Monash University

(Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics)

Impact of Private Health Insurance Status on the Choice of Public versus Private Hospital Services
31 October  Phong Ngo
 ANU Capital-Risk Decisions and Profitability in Banking: Regulatory versus Economic Capital
7 November Stan Hurn
Queensland University of Technology
TBA


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