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10th Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop

 

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Workshop Program

Wednesday March 30
9.00 to 9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30 to 11.00 Jan Libich "Stackleberg meets Cournot in an inertial world: A theory of convergence to low inflation"
  Tim Kam “Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: The case of liquid bonds”
Morning Break
11.30 to 1.00 Mark Weder “Did sunspot forces cause the great depression?”
Shaun Vahey “UK interwar unemployment: The legacy of ‘just taxes’”
Lunch
2.00 to 3.30 Ross Guest “Population ageing and productivity in a two good model”
Patricia Sourdin “Superannuation as a commitment device for Australian households”
Afternoon break
4.00 to 4.45 Peter Robertson “Barrriers, accumulation and income levels: What can two sector growth models explain?”
6.00 to 7.00 Upper East Dining Room, University House
Panel discussion (with drinks) on “Macroeconomic knowledge from experiences with a common currency”
Panelists - Boris Hofmann, Russell Hillberry and David Fielding
Dinner

Thursday March 31
9.00 to 10.30 Renee Fry “A Monte Carlo Analysis of Alternative Tests of Contagion"
  Aditya Goenka “International capital flows and transmission of financial crises”
Morning Break
11.00 to 12.30 Peter Smith “The asymmetric effect of the business cycle on the relation between stock market returns and their volatility”
  David Vines “The effect of discounting on policy choices in inflation targetting regimes”
Lunch
1.30 to 2.30 Panel discussion on “Macroeconomics from Behavioural Foundations”
Panelists – Yew-Kwang Ng, Hugh Sibly, Patricia Sourdin and Paolo Giordani
Afternoon break
3.00 to 4.30 Boris Hofmann “The rigidity and persistence of prices and wages: Implications for optimal monetary policy
  Jonathon Kearns “Uncertainty and the horizon of monetary policy”
 
 

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