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Department of Economics

Research Seminar Series 2008


Venue Building E4A Seminar Room Level 5 (Room 523)*
Time Friday* 2:00 - 4:00pm*
Co-ordinator
Dr Stephane Mahuteau
Phone (02) 9850 8489
Location: E4A 528
email: smahutea@mq.edu.au
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Previous Series
2006, 2007

*Unless otherwise indicated

2008 Seminar Series


Date
Speaker
Title
Friday
7  March
Terrie Walmsley
Research Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Global Trade Analysis at Purdue University
 Asian Migration Prospects
Friday
14 March
Professor Dick Van Dijk
Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Getting the Most Out of Macroeconomic Information for Predicting Stock Returns and Volatility
*Thursday
20 March
Julian Inchauspe
PhD student presentation

*Thursday
27 March
*2:30PM 

Prof Marcel Prokopczuk, Chair of Finance at Mannheim University, Germany Integrating Multiple Commodities in a Model of Stochastic Price Dynamics
Friday
28 March
Doug McLeod
The efficient market and market bubbles explained by a heterogenous least squares learning approach to fundamental analysis
Friday
4 April
Bruno Decreuse, University of Aix-Marseilles (GREQUAM) FDI and the labor share in developing countries: A theory and some evidence

Friday
11 April
Prof. Steve Dowrick, ANU Measuring Global Poverty: Why PPP Methods Matter

Friday
18 April
Prof. Paul Oslington, University of Notre Dame Divine Action, Providence and Adam Smith's Invisible Hand

Friday
2 May
2:00PM

Boyd Hunter, ANU

The quality of administrative data must not be strained: analysing the validity of indigenous data collections in NSW local court data
Friday
2 May
3:30PM
Paul Fritjers, QUT What is the shadow price of crime and bereavement to well-being?
Friday
9 May
Ilke Onur, Visiting Lecturer, UNSW
Capital Gains and Housing as a Quasi-Giffen Good
Friday
30 May
Dr Max Tani, Macquarie University
Regional Skill Endowments, International Migrants, and Employment Structure: A European Study
Friday
6 June
Professor Daniel Leonard, Flinders University, Adelaide
Is Emulation Good for you? The Ups and Downs of Rivalry
Friday
13 June
Karine Gente, University of Aix-Marseille (France) - currently invited by UNSW
Net Foreign Assets, Productivity and Real Exchange Rates in Constrained Economies
Friday
20 June
12:30PM

Dr Paul McGuiness, Chinese University of Hong Kong
An Overview of the Evolving Equity Structure of China’s Leading Listed State-owned Entreprises (SOEs) and Developments in the Associated A- and H- Share Markets
Friday
20 June

Peng Liu, ANU (PhD candidate)
English Proficiency and Labour Supply of Immigrants in Australia

Wednesday
25 June
2:00PM
Professor William Greene, NYU Stern

Friday
15 August
Vladimir Smirnov, University of Sydney
Treasure Game
Friday
22 August
Quan Gan, UNSW
Measuring Housing Affordability: Looking Beyond the Median
Friday
29 August
Professor Garry Barrett, UNSW
Using Engel Curves to Estimate the Bias in the Australian CPI
Friday
19 Sept
Malathi Velamuri, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Victimisation on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being
Friday
26 Sept
Dr Paul Chen, ANU
Reciprocity at the Workplace: Do Fair Wages Lead to Higher Effort, Productivity, and Profitability?
Friday
3 October
(Rescheduled to Nov)
Jonathan Dark, Melbourne University

Friday
10 October
Prof. Denzil Fiebig, UNSW
3 things that bother me about mixed logit
Friday
17 October
Prof. Xavier Greffe, University of Paris
The Sustainability of New Cultural Companies
Friday
24 October
Dr Petko Kalev, Monash University
Order Book Slope and Price Volatility
Friday
31 October
Prof. Vance Martin, Melbourne University
Testing Continuous Time Models of Interest Rates
Friday
7 November
A/Prof. Graeme Wells, University of Tasmania
The Term Spread and GDP Growth in Australia
Friday
14 Nov
Dr Susan Thorp, UTS
An experimental survey of investment decisions for retirement savings
Friday
21 Nov
Dr Daehoon Nahm, Macquarie University
Profit Efficiency and Productivity of Vietnamese Banks: A New Index Approach