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Seminar Series

Date, Time and Venue

Wednesday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Australian School of Business Building, Room 207

Friday 3.30pm - 5:00 pm: Australian School of Business Building, Room 105

Alternative dates, locations and times will be noted under the Date column below

Coordinator

Internal seminar coordinator in 2009: Carlos Pimienta

External seminar coordinator in 2009: Shiko Maruyama

2009

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Mon, 19 Jan 330-5pm ASB 232	Carlos Martins-Filho	Oregon State University	Nonparametric Regression Estimation with General Parametric Error Covariance
Fri, 23 Jan 330-5pm ASB 232	Simon Anderson	University of Virginia	Competition for Attention in the Information (Overload) Age
Mon, 2 Feb 330-5pm ASB232	Christophe Rothe	University of Mannheim	Nonparametric Estimation of Distributional Policy Effects
Fri, 6 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Pauline Grosjean	UC Berkeley	Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences
Mon, 9 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Jie April Cai	University of British Columbia	Knowledge Spillover and Firm Size Heterogeneity
Tues, 10 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Tarun Jain	University of Virginia	Where there is a will: Fertility behaviour and sex bias in large families
Fri, 13 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Pedro Gomis	University of Miami	Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Search Theoretic Model of Monetary Exchange
Mon, 16 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Paul Anton Raschky	University of Innsbruck	Natural Hazards, Growth and Risk-Transfer: An Empirical Comparison between Risk-Transfer-Mechanisms in Europe and the USA
Tues, 17 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Moritz Ritter	University of Toronto	Offshoring, Trade in Tasks and Occupational Specificity of Human Capital
Wed, 18 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Guiying (Laura) Wu	University of Oxford	A Structural Estimation for the Effects of Uncertainty on Capital Accumulation with Heterogeneous Firms
Thur, 19 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Evgenia Dechter	University of Rochester	After Motherhood: Effects of Maternity Leave and Effort Reallocation on Earnings
Fri, 20 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Clinton John Levitt	University of Iowa	Learning through Oil and Gas Exploration
Mon, 23 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Anthony Ziegelmeyer	Max Planck Institute	Collaborative Networks in Experimental Triopolies
Tues, 24 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Loretti Dobrescu	University of Venice	To love or to pay: On consumption, health and health care
Wed, 25 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Alberto Motta	University of Padua	Collusion and Selective Supervision
Fri, 27 Feb 330-5pm ASB 232	Arthur Campbell	MIT	Tell Your Friends! Word of Mouth and Percolation in Social Networks
Tues, 3 Mar 330-5pm ASB 232	Lucy Qian Liu	Queens University	Inflation and Unemployment: The Roles of Goods and Labor Markets Institutions
Fri, 6 Mar 330-5pm ASB 232	Ariel BenYishay	University of Maryland	Mobility Curse? The Impact of Migration on Access to Credit
Fri, 13 Mar	Luis Corchon	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Peace agreements without commitment
Mon, 16 Mar	Hideo Owan	Aoyama Gakuin University	Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Inventors
Fri, 20 Mar	Nicole Fortin	UBC	Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS, and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery
Mon, 23 Mar 1200-1pm	Jota Ishikawa	Hitotsubashi University	Greenhouse-Gas Emission Controls and International Carbon Leakage through Trade Liberalization
Wed, 25 Mar 330-5pm	Gigi Foster	University of South Australia	Estimating Spillovers using Panel Data, with an Application to the Classroom
Fri, 27 Mar	Peter Kennedy	Simon Fraser University	Common Mistakes Made in Classroom Research
Wed, 1 Apr 330-5pm, Quad 2063	Jeff Kline	Bond University	Transpersonal Understanding through Social Roles, and Emergence of Cooperation
Fri, 3 Apr	Dirk Bethmann	Queensland University of Technology	World War 11, Missing Men and Out-Of-Wedlock Childbearing
Tues, 7 Apr	Luis Corchon	Universidad Carloss III Madrid	Contest Success Functions
Wed, 8 Apr	Rod Falvey	University of Nottingham	Trade Liberalisation and Skill Adjustment
Fri, 17 Apr	Niven Winchester	University of Otago	An Innovative Approach to National Football League Standings using Optimal Bonus Points
Wed, 22 Apr	Stanley Cho	UNSW	Beggar-thy-parents? A Lifecycle Model of Intergenerational Altruism
Thur, 23 Apr 330-5pm Quad 2063	Ben Sand	UC Berkeley	Industrial Composition, Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from U.S. Cities
Fri, 24 Apr	Harry J. Paarsch	University of Melbourne	Using Grid Distributions to Test for Affliation in Models of First-Price Auctions with Private Values
Mon, 27 Apr	Sid Winter	Wharton Business School, UPenn	Agent-based Modeling of Economic Evolution: Principles and Examples
Wed, 29 Apr	Arye Hillman	Bar-Ilan University, Israel	Expressive Behavior in Economics and Politics
Fri, 1 May	Lisa Cameron	University of Melbourne	Mistargetting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction and Crime in Indonesia
Wed, 6 May	Shino Takayama	University of Queensland	Market Price Manipulation in a Sequential Trade Model
Fri, 8 May	Andrew McLennan	University of Queensland	Games with Discontinuous Payoffs: a Strengthening of Reny's Existence Theorem
Wed, 13 May	Ben Greiner	UNSW	Promises, Coalition Formation, and Coalition Stability in a Repeated Dictator Election Game
Fri, 15 May	Chris Edmond	University of Melbourne	Aggregate Implications of Micro Asset Market Segmentation
Wed, 20 May Lecture: 1200 ASB 207	Mario Crucini	Vanderbilt University	Accounting for Real Exchange Rates with Micro-Data
Wed, 20 May Seminar: 1530 Quad 2093	Mario Crucini	Vanderbilt University	A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates
Fri, 22 May	Carlos Pimienta	UNSW	Costly Network Formation and Regular Equilibria
Fri, 22 May Cancelled See details of his talk below	Michael Devereux	University of British Columbia
Wed, 27 May Talk to be held 530-7pm ASB 219	Michael Devereux	University of British Columbia	Michael Devereux will give a talk to the Macro reading group
Wed, 27 May 330-5pm, Quad 2063	Andreas Blume	University of Pittsburgh	Intentional Vagueness
Fri, 29 May 1100-1230, ASB 205	Mark Rosenzweig	Yale University	The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Mon, 1 June 1200-1300 ASB 205	Devasish Mitra	Syracuse University	Search and Offshoring in the Presence of "Animal Spirits"
Wed, 3 June	Sasan Bakhtiari	UNSW	Outsourcing and Firm Characteristics: Evidence from the Australian Manufacturing
Fri, 5 June	Randy Silvers	Deakin University	The Value of Information in a Principal-Agent Model with Moral Hazard and Ex Ante Contracting
Fri, 12 June	Mario Fiorini	University of Technology Sydney	How the Allocation of Children's Time Affects the Stimulation of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development
Fri, 19 June	Jed DeVaro	California State University East Bay	Internal Promotion and External Recruitment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Wed, 24 June	George Kudrna	UNSW	Australia's suprannuation tax reforms in a life-cycle framework
Thur, 25 June	Jean-Robert Tyran	University of Copenhagen	The Demand for Discrimination
Fri, 26 June	Lorenz Goette	University of Geneva	Is Overconfidence a Judgment Bias? Theory and Evidence
Wed, 1 Jul	Ana Ferrer	University of Calgary	Does the Market Help Workers Balance Work-Family Conflict?
Fri, 3 Jul	Francisco Gonzalez	University of Calgary	The Supply of Social Insurance in Historical Perspective
Fri, 10 Jul	Ali Khan	John Hopkins University	On the Mitra-Wan Forestry Model: A Unifed Analysis
Wed, 15-21 Jul	EDN Winter School on Repeated Games and Reputations	UNSW
Wed, 22 Jul	Yongseok Shin	Washington University	Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
Fri, 24 Jul	Susumu Imai	Queens University	A Practitioner's Guide to Bayesian Estimation of Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Models
Wed, 29 Jul	James Morley	Washington University, St Lois	The Asymmetric Business Cycle
Fri, 31 Jul	Arie Kapteyn	RAND	Life Satisfaction
Mon, 3 Aug ASB114, 1130-1pm	Heiko Gerlach	University of Auckland	Multi-Market Collusion with Demand Linkages and Antitrust Enforcement
Tue, 4 Aug Quad 2063, 1130-1pm	Begona Dominguez	University of Auckland	The Time-Consistency of Government Debt and Institutional Restrictions on the Level of Debt
Wed, 5 Aug	Ricardo Alonso	University of Southern California	Organize to Compete
Wed, 12 Aug	Ajit Mishra	University of Bath	Optimal Enforcement Policies under Collusion and Extortion
Fri, 14 Aug	Horag Choi	University of Auckland	Do Falling Iceberg Costs Explain Recent US Export Growth?
Tues, 18 Aug Quad 2063, 330-5pm	Fumio Ohtake	Osaka University	Fat Debtors: Time Discounting, Its Anomalies, and Body Mass Index
Fri, 21 Aug John Niland Scientia Building 0930-5pm	National Honours Colloquium	Australasia	Program
Mon, 24 Aug Quad 2063 330-5pm	Lutz Kilian	University of Michigan	Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks
Fri, 28 Aug	Michael Keane	UTS	Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers
Wed, 2 Sept	Chung Tran	UNSW	Temptation and Social Security in a Dynastic Framework
Fri, 4 Sept	Cahit Guven	Deakin University	"You can't be happier than your wife." Divorce and the distribution of life satisfaction across spouses
Wed, 9 Sept	Kamal Saggi	Southern Methodist University	Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Fri, 11 Sept	Wouter Botzen	Vrije Universiteit	Monetary Valuation of Insurance against Climate Change Risk
Wed, 16 Sept	Lance Fisher	Macquarie University	Structural Cointegrated Systems under Weak Exogeneity
Fri, 18 Sept	Jeremy Clark	University of Canterbury	The Effects of Historical Entitlement and Inequality on Collaborative Bargaining: An Experiment
Wed, 23 Sept	Carlos Pimienta	UNSW	Bayesian and Consistent Assessments
Fri, 25 Sept	Robert Shimer	University of Chicago	Unemployment and Human Capital
Wed, 30 Sept	Valentyn Panchenko	UNSW	Efficient estimation of parameters in marginals in semiparametric multivariate models
Fri, 2 Oct	Nisvan Erkal	University of Melbourne	Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it
Fri, 9 Oct	Juergen Meinecke	ANU	Nonparametric Estimation of Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Overcoming Ability and Selection Bias
Wed, 14 Oct	Yusaku Horiuchi	ANU	Estimating Incumbency Advantage: Evidence from Three Natural Experiments
Fri, 16 Oct	Michael Coelli	University of Melbourne	Leadership Effects: School Principals and Student Outcomes Paper
Wed, 21 Oct	April Cai	UNSW	Information Heterogeneity and GDP Volatility
Fri, 23 Oct	Juan Carlos Carbajal Ponce	University of Queensland	Characterizing Dominant Strategy Mechanisms in Continuous Domains
Wed, 28 Oct 1530-1700 ASB 105	Kevin Lang	Boston University	Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Fri, 30 Oct	John Geweke	UTS	Optimal Prediction Pools
Mon, 2 Nov ASB 105 1530-1700	Bernard Salanie	Columbia University	Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics
Wed, 4 Nov ASB 105 1530-1700	Shulamit Kahn	Boston University	How Important is US Location for Research in Science Paper
Fri, 6 Nov	Silvio Contessi	St. Louis Fed	U.S. Commercial Banks' (and Thrifts) Propensity to lend during the Financial Crisis
Wed, 11 Nov 1530-1700 ASB 105	Bruce Preston	Columbia University	Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Co-Movement
Fri, 13 Nov	Jan van Ours	Tilburg University	Age, Wage and Productivity
Wed, 18 Nov	Paul Ormerod	Volterra Consulting	Rationality or zero intelligence: which is the better 'null model' of the agent?"
Fri, 20 Nov	Lata Gangadharan	Univesity of Melbourne	Cooperation Spillovers and Price Competition in Experimental Markets
Wed, 25 Nov	Denzil Fiebig	UNSW	tba
Fri, 27 Nov	Hiroshi Ohashi	University of Tokyo	Assessing the Consequence of a Horizantal Merger and its Remedies in a Dynamic Environment
Wed, 2 Dec	Chikako Yamauchi	ANU	Public Spending Efficacy under Decentralized Social Program Implementation
Fri, 11 Dec ASB 115 1530-1700	Artem Prokhorov	Concordia University	tba
Mon, 14 Dec ASB 105	Isabelle Brocas	University of Southern California	tba
Tues, 15 Dec ASB 105	Juan Carrillo	University of Southern California	tba
Wed, 16 Dec	Fabio Feriozzi	Tilburg University	Financial Integration, Liquidity and the Depth of Systemic Crises

2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Wed, 30 Jan	Jocelyn Finlay	Harvard University	Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
Thur, 31 Jan	Ben Greiner	Harvard Business School	Engineering Trust: Strategic Behavior and the Production of Reputation Information
Mon, 4 Feb	John Lynham	University of California, Santa Barbara	Information Spillovers Among Resource Extrators
Tues, 5 Feb	Guido Cataife	Washington University, St Louis	The Pronouncements of Paranoid Politicians
Fri, 8 Feb	Chiaki Moriguchi	Northwestern University	The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2005: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
Mon, 11 Feb	Brian McCraig	University of Toronto	Exporting Out of Poverty: Provincial Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. Market Access
Tues, 12 Feb	Sang Soo Park	Vanderbilt University	Confidence Sets for Some Partially Identified Parameters
Thur, 14 Feb	Christian Traeger	University of California, Berkley	Intertemporal Risk Aversion, Stationarity and Discounting
Fri, 15 Feb	Nina Walton	UCLA	Advice, Information and the Reputation of CEOs
Tues, 19 Feb	Oleksandr (Alex) Shcherbakov	University of Arizona	Measuring consumer switching costs in the television industry
Thur, 28 Feb	Nandini Krishnan	Boston University	Political Reservations and Rural Public Good Provision in India
Wed, 27 Feb	Chris Bidner	University of British Columbia	A Spillover-Based Theory of Credentialism
Fri, 29 Feb	Nishith Prakash	University of Houston	Impact of Reserving Jobs for Minorities on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from India
Mon, 3 Mar 12-130pm	Guillaume Roger	University of Southern California	Media competition: a two-sided duopoly with costly differentiation
Wed, 5 Mar 330-5pm	Jian Hong	Pennsylvania State University	Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Production Functions Using Control Function Approaches to Endogeneity

Wed, 12 Mar	Michael Baker	University of Toronto	Evidence from Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
Wed, 12 Mar Room 2063, Quadrangle Building 5-6pm	Carl Chiarella		The Stochastic Dynamics of Speculative Prices
Fri, 14 Mar	Sergio Koreisha	University of Oregon	Inference in Regressions with Correlated Residuals
Tues, 18 Mar Quad 2093, 330-5pm	Jota Ishikawa Hitotsubashi	Hitotsubashi University	FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition
Wed, 19 Mar LAW 101, 330-5pm	Nancy Stokey	University of Chicago	Moving Costs, Nondurable Comsumption and Portfolio Chioce
Thurs, 20 Mar ASB 114, 330-5pm	Curtis Eaton	University of Calgary	Existence Advertising, Price Competition and Asymmetric Market Structure
Tues, 1 Apr Biomedical Theatre A (Building E27), 6-9pm	Rajnish Mehra	University of California	‘The Equity Premium: Why Is It a Puzzle?”
Wed, 2 Apr	Monika Butler	University of St. Gallen	Lump-Sum or Annuity: Results From a Policy Experiment
Thurs, 3 Apr Old Main Building, 12-130pm	Rajnish Mehra	University of California	Intermediated Quantitites and Returns
Fri, 4 Apr	Nikos Nikiforakis	University of Melbourne	Institutional Details, Punishment and Cooperation in Public Good Experiments
Tues, 8 Apr Quad 2063, 330-5pm	Sasan Bakhtiary	University of Maryland	On Productivity Dispersion and Plant Size: The Role of Market Structure
Wed, 9 Apr	Cary Deck	University of Arkansas	Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits
Wed, 9 Apr	Abigail Brown	UTS	Social Welfare Costs of Fraud: Evidence from an agent-based model
Thur, 10 Apr Quad 2063, 330-5pm	Marc Kilgour	Wilfrid Laurier University	How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting
Wed, 16 Apr	Maros Servatka	University of Canterbury	Trust Signaling
Fri, 18 Apr	Hugo Gerhard	RBA	Density Forecast Combination
Fri, 18 Apr Quad 2063, 1200-1pm	Judith Watson Simon Angus	UNSW Monach University	Does Regular Online Testing Enhance Student Learning? Evidence from a Large First-Year Quantitative Methods Course
Wed, 23 Apr	Dick van Dijk	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Do Leading Indicators Lead Peaks More Than Troughs
Wed, 30 Apr	Leah Brooks	McGill University	Individual Choices for the Public Good: Voting for and Benefiting From Business Improvement Districts
Fri, 2 May	Nadezhda Baryshnikova	University of Adelaide	Pollution Abatement and Environmental Equity: A Dynamic Study
Wed, 7 May	Hector Sala	UAB	Labour market dynamics in Australia: What drives unemployment?
Fri, 9 May	Quan Gan	UNSW	Measuring Housing Affordability: Looking Beyond the Median
Wed, 14 May	Ted O'Donoghue	Cornell University	Hyperbolic Discounting and Consumer Purchases of Storable Goods
Thur, 15 May ASB Board Room 601, ASB Building	Eric Beinhocker	McKinsey Global Institute	The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
Fri, 16 May	Shawn Leu	La Trobe	A Small State Space Model of the Australian Economy
Wed, 21 May	Moritz Alberto Cruz	UNAM	Is the Accumulation of International Reserves Good for Development? Joint work with Bernard Walters
Fri, 23 May	Simon J. Wilkie	University of Southern California	Price Floors with Random Matching (joint work with Preston McAfee)
Wed, 28 May	Karine Gente	Université de la Méditerranée, GREQAM	Net Foreign Assets, Productiviety and Real Exchange Rates in Constrained Economies
Fri, 30 May	Bruno Decreuse	Université de la Méditerranée, GREQAM	Foreign Direct Investment and the labor share in Developing Countries
Fri, 6 June	Nada Wasi	UTS	Modeling Heterogeneity in Consumer Choice Behavior: Is There a "Right" Choice Model? (joint work with Michael Keane, Denzil Fiebig, and Jordan Louviere)
Fri, 13 June	Shankha Chakrabarty	University of Oregon	Diseases and Development
Wed, 18 June	Neville Norman + Ken Coutts	Melbourne University Cambridge University	Australian Manufacturing Pricing
Fri, 20 June	Okan Yilankaya	UBC	Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation
Wed, 25 June	Duncan James	Fordham University	Arms and Legs: Strategic Isomorphism, Dutch Auctions and Centipede Games
Wed, 16 July	Pham Hoang Van	Baylor Univeristy	Imports "R" Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports
Tues, 22 July 1200-130pm ASB 107	Francesco Ravazzolo	Norges Bank	Predictive gains from forecast combinations using time-varying model weights
Wed, 23 July	Martin Browning	Oxford University	Spending time and money within the household
Fri, 25 July	Johanna Francis	Fordham University	Entrepreneurs, Wealth and the Capitalist Spirit
Tues, 29 July Lecture 4-6pm, ASB 216	Preston McAfree	California Institute of Technology + Yahoo!	Pricing
Wed, 30 July	Albert Ma	Boston University	Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection
Fri, 1 Aug	Mike So	HKUST	A Note on a Generalization of Weighted Chinese Restaurant Type Processes for a class of Mixture of Time Series Models
Wed, 6 Aug	George Messinis	Victoria University	Valuble Skills, Human Capital and Technology Diffusion
Fri, 8 Aug	Wolfgang Polasek	Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna	Long-term spatial system prediction
Tues, 12 Aug *Quad 2063 4-6pm	Edi Karni	John Hopkins University	Beliefs, Probabilities and Decisions
Wed, 13 Aug	Edi Karni	John Hopkins University	A Theory of Bayesian Decision Making
Fri, 15 Aug	Hajime Katayama	University of Sydney	A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model
Wed, 20 Aug	Artem Prokhorov	Concordia	GMM Redundancy Results for General Missing Data Problems
Fri, 22 Aug	Charles Noussair	Tilburg University	Asymmetries in Pricing in Experimental Asset Markets based on the following two papers: Peaks and Valleys: Experimental asset markets with non-monotonic fundamentals Money Illusion and Nominal Inertia in Asset Markets
Mon, 25 Aug	Andreas Ortmann	Charles University	The Empirical Foundations of Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance based on the following papers: The Cognitive Illusion Controversy: A Methodical Debate in Disguise that Matters to Economists and Valuing a Risky Prospect less than it's worst outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?
Tues, 26 Aug	Ananish Chaudhuri	University of Auckland	Social Learning and Conditional Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Wed, 27 Aug	Jasmina Arifovic	Simon Fraser University	A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning
Fri, 29 Aug	Amartya Lahiri	UBC	Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale
Fri, 5 Sept	Jaime Alonso-Carrera	Universidade de Vigo	Growth, Sectoral composition, and the Evolution of Income Levels
Wed, 10 Sept	Quan Gan	UNSW	A New Perspective on the Relationship Between House Prices and Income
Fri, 19 Sept	Olena Stavrunova	UTS	Background Risk and Household Portfolio Choice in Australia: Evidence from a Generalized Sample Selection Model
Wed, 24 Sept	Ilke Onur	UNSW	Last-Minute Bidding in Sequential Auctions with Unobserved, Stochastic Entry
Wed, 1 Oct	Gautam Bose	UNSW	Search and Intermediation: Toward a Model of the Merchant Trader
Fri, 3 Oct	Michael Burda	Humbold University, Berlin	Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks
Wed, 8 Oct	Sasan Bakhtiari	UNSW	When Input Size Does Not Increase with Productivity: The Forgotten Role of Demand
Fri, 10 Oct	Richard Burkhauser	Cornell University	Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality using the Curren Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Fri, 17 Oct *postponed to 2009	Mario Fiorini	UTS	The Effect of Home Computer Use on Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Fri, 17 Oct	Geoff Harcourt	University of Cambridge	The Legacy of Joan Robinson
Wed, 22 Oct	Shiko Maruyama	UNSW	Socially Optimal Subsidy for Entry: The Case of Medicare Payments to HMOs
Fri, 24 Oct	Mark Weder	University of Adelaide	Technological Change and the Roaring Twenties: A Neoclassical Perspective
Wed, 29 Oct	Chung Tran	UNSW	Macroeconomics of Health Saving Accounts
Wed, 29 Oct 12pm-1pm, Rm EEG3, Electrical Engineering	Shmuel Oren	UC Berkley	Hedging Fixed Price Load Following Obligations in Competitive Electricity Markets
Wed, 29 Oct *Postponed. Date tba.	Rachida Ouysse	UNSW	tba
Fri, 31 Oct	Nejat Anbarci	Deakin University	Nash Demand Game and the Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution
Wed, 5 Nov	Garry Barrett	UNSW	Using Engel Curves to Estimate the Bias in the Australian CPI
Fri, 7 Nov *Postponed. Date tba	Richard Gerlach	University of Sydney	Bayesian time-varying quantile forecasting for Value-at-Risk in financial markets
Fri, 7 Nov	Peter Swan	UNSW	Executive Pay, Talent and Firm Size
Wed, 12 Nov	Hodaka Morita	UNSW	Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Fri, 14 Nov	Michael Raith	University of Rochester	Optimal Incentives and the Time Dimension of Performance Measurement
Mon, 17 Nov 430-6pm QUAD 2063	Gaetano Antinolfi	Washington University	The Optimal Inflation Target in an Economy with Limited Enforcement
Mon, 24 Nov 430-6pm Quad 2063	Jeroen Swinkels	Washington University	First and Second Price Mechanisms in Procurement and Other Asymmetric Auctions
Tues, 25 Nov 1030-12 ASB115	Quentin Grafton	ANU	Economics of Urban Water Supply and Demand
Wed, 26 Nov	Tsuyoshi Tsuru	Hitotsubashi University	Incentives and Gaming in a Nonlinear Compensation Scheme and the Influence of Ethnicity: Evidence from North American Auto Dealership Transaction Data
Fri, 28 Nov	Andrew Tremayne	University of Melbourne	Some Alternative Models for Time Series Of Count Data
Wed, 3 Dec	George Kudrna	UNSW	A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Australian Means-Tested
Fri, 5 Dec	Bart J. Wilson	Chapman University	An Experimental Inquiry into the Origins of Property Rights
Mon, 8 Dec, 1230 - 2pm, ASB 115. Please RSVP to Sussanne Nottage.	Bart J. Wilson	Chapman University	Experimental Gasoline Markets

2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Fri, 13 April	John Geweke	University of Iowa	Smoothly Mixing Regressions
Fri, 20 April	Donggyu Sul	Auckland	Transition Modelling and Econometric Convergence Tests
Fri, 27 April	Anne Koehler	Miami University	Time Series Forecasting: The Case for the Single Source of Error State Space Approach
Wed, 2 May	John Wooders	University of Arizona	Economic Issues in Internet Auctions
Fri, 4 May	John Wooders	University of Arizona	Auctions with a Buy Price
Wed, 9 May	David Goldbaum	UTS	Dissemination in an endogenous random network (or “Follow the leader”)
Fri, 11 May	Kristoffer Nimark	RBA	Dynamic Higher Order Expectations
Fri, 18 May	Virginie Masson	University of Adelaide	The Survival of Altruism in Public Good Games
Wed, 23 May	Dr. Anna Gunnthorsdottir	FOB, AGSM	The Meritocracy as a Mechanism to Overcome Social Dilemmas
Fri, 25 May	Mariano Kulish	RBA	The Butterfly Effect of Small Open Economies
Wed, 30 May	Hodaka Morita (with Arghya Ghosh and Takao Kato)	UNSW	Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement and Competitive Pressure
Wed, 6 June	Nisvan Erkal	University of Melbourne	Cooperative R&D under Uncertainty with Free Entry
Fri, 8 June	Sanghoon Lee	University of British Columbia	Ability Sorting and Consumer City
Wed, 13 June	Carlo Scarpa	Università di Brescia	Collusion and interconnection
Fri, 20 July	David Sahn	Cornell University	Are Africans Practising Safe Sex?
Wed, 25 July	Raj Arunachalam	Berkley	The Price of Fertility: Marriage Markets and Family Planning in Bangladesh
Wed, 1 Aug	Luis Cabral	NYU Stern	Dynamic Price Competition with Price Effects
Fri, 3 Aug	Leon Berkelmans	Harvard University	Generally General Equilibrium: Imperfect Common Knowledge and Confusion
Fri, 3 Aug	Nadya Baryshnikova *postponed - new date tba	University of Adelaide	tba
Fri, 10 Aug	Phil McCalman	UCSC	The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity Within an Across Industries: Theory and Evidence
Tues, 14 Aug Time: 330-5pm	Roger Farmer	UCLS	Old Keynesian Economics - Saving and Investment
Thur, 16 Aug Time: 330-5pm	Yuliya Moore	VUW	Macroeconomic Effects of International Outsourcing
Fri, 17 Aug	Bruce Preston	Columbia University	Central Bank Communication and Expectation Stabilization
Mon, 20 Aug Time: 3-415pm	Lyndon Moore	VUW	Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange 1900-05
Fri, 24 Aug	Thomas Lubik	Richmond Fed	On-the-Job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market
Fri, 31 Aug	Liam Lenten	La Trobe	Bananas and Petrol: Further Evidence on the Forecasting Accuracy of the ABS ‘Headline’ and ‘Underlying’ Rates of Inflation
Wed, 5 Sept	Nick Oulton	LSE	Chain Indices of the Cost of Living and the Path Dependence Problem: An Empirical Solution
Fri, 14 Sept	Hamish Lowe	University of Cambridge	Explaining Changes in Female labour Supply in a Life-cycle Model
Thur, 27 Sept 330-5pm	Robert Slonim	Case Western Reserve University	The Effect of Educational Vouchers on Academic and Non-academic Outcomes: Using Experimental Economics to Measure the Effects of a Natural Educational Experiment on Altruism Patience Among Children
Fri, 28 Sept	Nikos Nikiforakis	University of Melbourne	Giving to the less fortunate: A Real-Effort Experiment
Wed, 3 Oct	Cees Diks	University of Amsterdam	Weighted likelihood ratio scores for evaluating forecast densities in tails
Fri, 12 Oct	Dean Hyslop	NZ Treasury	The Dynamic Effects of an Earnings Subsidy For Long-Term Welfare Recipients: Evidence From The SSP Applicant Experiment
Fri, 17 Oct	Jacob Wong	University of Adelaide	Information Acquisition, Dissemination and Transparency of Monetary Policy
Thur, 25 Oct	Simon Loertscher	University of Melbourne	Dynamic House Allocations
Fri, 26 Oct	Jan Libich	La Trobe	Monetary and fiscal interaction with various degrees and types of commitment
Fri, 9 Nov	Timothy Kam	ANU	Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Limited Government Commitment and Heterogeneous Agents
Wed, 14 Nov	Alexandre Dmitriev	UNSW	A note on computing partial derivatives of the value function by simulation
Thurs, 15 Nov	Daniel Ladley	Leeds University	Do stylised facts of order book markets need strategic behaviour?
Wed, 21 Nov	Ilke Onur	TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara	Gone in 60 Seconds: Last-Minute Bidding on eBay Auctions
Fri, 23 Nov	Aarti Singh	Washington University	Human Capital Risk in Life Cycle Economies
Mon, 26 Nov	Peter Phillips	Yale University	Local limit theory and spurious nonparametric regression
Fri, 30 Nov	Charlie Holt	University of Virginia	Hierarchical Package Bidding: A Paper & Pencil Combinatorial Auction
Mon, 3 Dec Pioneer International Theatre, AGSM, Kensington 2:00 - 3:30	David Wolpert	Santa Fe Institute & NASA Ames Research Center	It can be smart to be stupid: persona games
Wed, 5 Dec	Mikhail Anufriev	University of Amsterdam	Evolution of Market Heuristics
Mon, 17 Dec 12-1pm	Rob Fairlie	University of California Santa Cruz	Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

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