Research Seminar Series 2007
| Venue | Building E4A Seminar Room Level 6 (Room 623) |
| Time | Friday 2:00 - 4:30pm* |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Stephane Mahuteau Phone (02) 9850 8489 Location: E4A 528 email: stephane.mahuteau@mq.edu.au |
| Mailing List | To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Macquarie Economics seminar mailing list, send an email message to stephane.mahuteau@mq.edu.au |
| Previous Series |
2006 |
*Unless otherwise indicated
As titles are received they will be be made available to download.
2007 Seminar Series
A Comparison Between Tests for Changes in the Adjustment Coefficients in Cointegrated Systems
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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16 February 2:00 pm E4B 314 |
A/Prof Suk-Joong Kim, School of Banking and Finance UNSW Professor Mansur Masih |
Sovereign credit ratings, capital flows and financial sector development in emerging markets Does the ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve’ exist? An application of long-run structural modeling to Saudi Arabia (Abstract) |
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9 March |
University of Warwick, Research Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies |
The Impact of Parental Income and Education on Child Health: Further Evidence for England |
| 23 March |
Professor Kazuhiro Arai Hitotsubashi University, Japan |
An Economic Approach to Trust and Culture |
| 13 April |
Professor Dominique Gueguan Director of the Ecole Normale Superieure (Cachan) |
Global and Local stationary modelling in finance: Theory and empirical evidence (Abstract) |
| 20 April |
Annastiina Silvannoinen |
Multivariate Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity with Time-Varying Conditional Correlations - Possibly Doubly Smooth The paper is a blend of the following two papers: |
| 4 May |
David Hensher The University of Sydney |
Modelling Interdependent Behaviour: IACE and Sequentially-Administered Stated Choice Experiments |
| 14 May 10:00-1:00pm |
Thierry Bros General Directorate for Energy and Raw Materials- France |
Main features of the Gaz Market |
| 18 May |
Dr Robert Breunig ANU |
A richer understanding of Australia's productivity performance in the 1990's: Improved estimates based upon firm-level panel data |
| 25 May |
Mark Johnson Tulane University, New Orleans, USA |
Algebraic Complexity of Strategy-implementing Semiautomata for Repeated-play Games |
| 29 May |
Leanne J. Ussher Queens College, City University of New York |
Allocative Efficiency of a Speculative Futures Market with Zero-Patience |
| 1 June | Assoc. Prof. David Harris Department of Economics, University of Melbourne |
Fractional Dickey-Fuller Tests under Heteroskedasticity |
| 6 June | Professor Carlo Scarpa University of Brescia, Italy |
Exporting Collusion under Capacity Constraints: an Anti-Competitive Effect of Market Integration |
| 8 June |
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, University of Melbourne |
The Importance of Individual and Environment Characteristics in Analysing Students’ Year 10 Academic Achievements |
| 27 June |
Brunel University, UK |
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| 28 June |
Brunel University, UK |
Modelling the US, UK and Japanese Unemployment Rates: Fractional Integration and Structural Breaks |
| 17 July 2:00PM E4A 323 |
University of Iowa |
Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space: An Application to British Columbia Forestry |
| 2 August 1:30PM |
Rodney Wolff QUT |
Non-parametric moment-based copula estimation |
| 2 August 2:30PM |
George Milunovich Macquarie University |
Market Efficiency and Price Discovery in the EU Carbon Futures Market |
| 17 August |
Laurence Lester NILS, FLinders University |
Labour Market Success of Immigrants to Australia: An analysis of an Index of Labour Market Success |
| 31 August 9:30AM |
Paris X Nanterre University |
The Economics of Digital Business Models: A Framework for Analyzing the Economics of Platforms |
| 31 August 2:00PM |
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Business and Economics, and University of Cambridge |
Identifying Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy VAR |
| 14 September 10:00AM E4A 323 |
Professor Ronald Ratti University of Missouri, USA |
Bank Concentration and Financial Constraints on Firm-Level Investment in Europe (co-author S. Lee) |
| 14 September 2:00PM |
A/Prof Jeffrey Sheen Sydney University |
A Small State-Space Model of the Australian Economy |
| 5 October 2:00PM |
Prof Harry Bloch |
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| 5 October 3:00PM |
Prof Uri Ben-Zion
Max Stern Academic College and Ben Gurion University, Israel |
Investors' decisions to trade stocks: An Experimental study |
| 19 October E4A 523 |
Prof. Deborah Cobb Clark Head of Department, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU |
A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap |
| Tuesday 23 October 12 noon E4A 523 |
Nicola Spagnolo Brunel University, UK |
Predicting Markov Volatility Switches Using Monetary Policy Variables |
| 2 November |
Michael Falta Queensland University of Technology |
Modelling Construction Business Performance |