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Department of Economics

Research Seminar Series 2009

Venue Building E4A Seminar Room Level 5 (Room 523)*
Time Friday 2:00 - 4:00pm
Co-ordinator

Semester 1
Dr Natalia Ponomareva
Phone (02) 9850 6194
Location: E4A 428
email: nponomar@mq.edu.au

 

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2009 Seminar Series


Date
Presenter
Title
18 December
Professor Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
The Fiscal Impact of Foreign Aid in Rwanda: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
4 December
Associate Professor Rafael Espinosa, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
Political Policies, Foreign Investment and Drug Traffic
27 November
Dr Bill Russell,
University of Dundee

An Industry Based Analysis of Inflation and the Markup in the United States        Abstract

13 November
Professor David Feldman, University of NSW
The CAPM relation for inefficient portfolios
6 November
Professor Chris O'Donnell, University of Queensland
Measuring and decomposing agricultural productivity and profitability change
23 October
Dr David Kim, University of Sydney
Are Empirical Measures of Macroeconomic Uncertainty Alike?
16 October
Associate Professor Abbas Valadkhani, University of Wollongong
Modelling the Price of Unleaded Petrol in Australia’s Capital Cities
9 October

Dr Abhijit Sengupta, University of Sydney

A Dynamic Model of Search and Intermediation
(with Gautam Bose)
18 September
Associate Professor Guyonne Kalb,
University of Melbourne
The dynamics of welfare participation among women who experienced teenage motherhood in Australia
11 September
Dr Kent Deng,
London School of Economics
Economic Growth of the PRC, 1949-2009
4 September
Katja Ignatieva
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Stochastic Volatility and Jumps: Exponentially Affine Yes or No?
An Empirical Analysis of S&P500 Dynamics

21 August
Professor Alan Woodland, UNSW
An Inter-temporal General Equilibrium Analysis of the Australian Age Pension
14 August
Prof Adrian Pagan, UNSW and QUT Implications of Permanent Components for Model Design
7 August
Hazel Bateman
University of New South Wales
Retirement investor risk tolerance when risk is range:
experimental survey evidence from tranquil and crisis periods

26 June Kostas Mavromaras
University of Melbourne
Disabilities, Vocational Education and Employment
(Abstract)
12 June Ilke Onur
University of New South Wales
Last-Minute Bidding in Sequential Auctions with Unobserved, Stochastic Entry
29 May Professor Peter Abelson
University of Sydney
Economic Evaluation of Taxi Industry Reform in Sydney
15 May Vladmir Smirnov
University of Sydney
Communication Breakdown: consultation or delegation from experts with uncertain bias
1 May Prof. Gordon Mills
University of Sydney
Competition and collusion in short-haul airline markets (Abstract)
3 April Professor Robert Breunig
RSSS, ANU
The accuracy of predicted wages of the non-employed and implications for policy simulations from structural labour supply models (Abstract)
20  March
*Room 323
Dr Liam Lenten
School of Economics and Finance
La Trobe University
The Extent to Which Unbalanced Schedules Cause Distortions in Sports League Tables