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Department of Economics

Research Seminar Series 2006


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

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*Unless otherwise indicated

 

As titles are received they will be be made available to download.

 

Date Speaker Title
10 March

Dr Suren Basov

The University of Melbourne

Connectedness of the product line and the inverse screening problem

 

Thursday

16 March

Makoto Tawada

Nagoya University, Japan

A unified model of international trade with increasing returns and oligopoly

24 March

Remy Cottet

University of NSW

Variable selection and modeling averaging in semiparametric overdispersed generalized linear models

Abstract

31 March

Chris Heaton

Macquarie University

Estimation of Approximate Factor Models: Is it Important to have a large number of variables?

7 April

Paul Fritjers

QUT

Income and Happiness: Measurement, Evidence and Policy implications

14 April

Good Friday

21 April

Philip Clarke

University of Oxford, UK

Modelling Lifetime Health Care Costs: Insights from Australian Individual Health Expenditure Data

28 April

Sam Tang

University of Western Australia

Does Technical Change Reduce Growth Volatility?

Mid Semester break: 18 - 29 April
5 May

Murali Agastya

Sydney University

Cancelled

12 May

Partha Gangopadhaya

UWS

Interest Groups and an (In)Elegant Model of Inflation

Abstract

19 May

Xiadong Gong

ANU

Increasing returns to education: Theory and evidence
26 May

Svetlana Danilkina

University of Melbourne

Talking Rationally about Rational Addiction

2 June

 

Paul Oslington

University of NSW

Trade and Migration in a World Without Factor Price Equalisation

9 June

 

Bruce Chapman

ANU

Do Very High Tax Rates Induce Bunching? Implications for the Design of Income-Contingent Loan Schemes

 

13 June

Harry J. Paarsch

University of Iowa

TBA
Semester 2
19 July

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania

The Inattentive Participant: Portfolio Trading Behavior in 401 (k) Plans
11 August Mariano Kulish

Ageing, Retirement and Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis

18 August
2:00-3:30PM

3:30-5:00PM
Junishiro Ishida, Osaka University

Paulo Santos, Cornell University
  Dynamically Sabotage-Proof Tournaments

Informal insurance in the prescence of poverty traps: Evidence from southern Ethiopia

22 August

Seminar Room
Level 3

Dr. Qin Tin

Institute of World Economics & Politics, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences

Using Choice Experiments to Analyze Consumers
Preferences for the Attributes of Non-Market Goods

Abstract

25 August

Seminar Room
Level 5

Mark Wooden

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,
University of Melbourne
The HILDA Survey: The First 5 Years (or so)
1 September

Hodaka Morita

UNSW

Firm Dynamics, Labor Mobility, and Specific Human Capital
8 September
Paul Thornes
Tiebout Dynamics: Residential Neighbourhood Adjustment to a Decline in the Quality of Local Public Services
15 September
Denise Doiron
State dependence in youth labor market experiences in Australia
22 September
Riccardo Welters
Recruiting long-term unemployed: lessons from wage subsidies
29 September
Karel Nolles
Introducing the SIRCA
Experimental Economics Lab
– Electricity, Water, Mergers
Policy, Renewable Energy

6 October No seminar this week

13 October John Mangan

Queensland University
Home is Where the Hurt is: A Statistical Analysis of Injuries Caused By Spousal Assault
20 October Jennifer Foster

University of Adelaide
"The Quantity and Quality of Child Care Provision in Australian Households".
27 October Cancelled

3 November

Pr. David Vines

University of Oxford

Stiglitz versus the IMF on the Asian debt crisis: An intertemporal model with real exchange rate overshooting
10 November Kausik Chaudhuri
IGIDR (Mumbai, India)
Mid-day Meals and School Attendance: Evidence from Rural India
17 November
Adrian Ellis

AEA Consulting, New York and London

Valuing Culture - the Changing Place of the Arts in Public Policy