Economics Seminars

• Semester 1 2008
• Semester 2 2008

Semester 1 2008:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
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

 

Semester 2 2008:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
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