Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Economics

Previous seminars

Departmental Seminar Series 2008
24-Jan Jürgen Eichberger
University of Heidelberg
Multiple Priors as Frequency Weighted Similarities
04-Mar Murray Kemp
University of New South Wales
Consumption Takes Time
18-Mar Jacob Goeree
California Institute of Technology
Designing the FCC's 700MHz auction
26-Mar Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago
Moving Costs, Nondurable Consumption and Portfolio Choice
01-Apr John Quiggin
University of Queensland
The Evolution of Awareness
22-Jul Bruce Weinberg
The Ohio State University
Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
29-Jul Michael Intriligator
University of California, Los Angeles
Globalization of the World Economy: Potential Benefits and Costs and a Net Assessment
01-Aug Glenn Harrison
University of Central Florida
Neuroeconomics: a Critical Reconsideration
12-Aug Richard Burkhauser
Cornell University
Estimating Trends in United States Income Inequality using the Internal March Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
26-Aug Charles Noussair
Tilburg University
Three Asymmetries in Pricing in Experimental Asset Markets
23-Sep David Vines
University of Oxford
Strategic Interactions Between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt
07-Oct John Gibson
The University of Waikato
The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
21-Oct Denzil Fiebig
University of New South Wales
3 things that bother me about mixed logit

Economic Theory Workshops 2008
24-Jan Jurgen Eichberger
University of Heidelberg
Multiple Priors as Frequency Weighted Similarities (joint with Departmental Seminar Series)
04-Feb Joao Montez
University of Lausanne and Columbia University, post-doctoral researcher
Downstream mergers and producer's capacity choice
06-Feb Ruben Juarez
Rice University (PhD student)
'Group Stategyproof Cost-Sharing"
07-Feb Tom Wilkening
MIT (PhD student)
The Informational Properties of Institutions: An Experimental Study of Persistence in Markets with Certification
08-Feb Christian Traeger
Heidelberg University and University of California (Berkeley) Post-Doctoral Researcher
Intertemporal Risk Aversion, Stationarity, and the Rate of Discount
21-Feb Nikos Nikiforakis
University of Melbourne
The Fragility of Cooperation in a Public-Good Experiment with Peer Punishment
07-Mar Hikmet Gunay
University of Manitoba
Who Will Wait Before Buying? Strategic Delay and Dynamic Monopoly Pricing
14-Mar Heski Bar-Isaac
New York University (Stern School of Business)
Information and Human Capital Management
18-Mar Jacob Goeree
California Institute of Technology
Designing the FCC's 700MHz auction (joint with Departmental Seminar Series)
28-Mar Uwe Dulleck
Queensland University of Technology
Price Discrimination in Markets for Credence Goods.
01-Apr John Quiggin
University of Queensland
The evolution of awareness (joint with Departmental Seminar Series)
11-Apr Suren Basov
Latrobe University
Mechanism Design under Hidden Information by Risk-Averse Principals
18-Apr David Prentice
Latrobe University
Quality and product variety in a monopolistic screening model with nearly rational consumers
24-Apr Jose Rodrigues-Neto
Australian National University
From Posteriors to Priors via Cycles
02-May Nisvan Erkal
University of Melbourne
Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
09-May Marco Casari
Purdue University
"Peer punishment in teams: expressive or instrumental choice?" (joint with Luigi Luini)
19-May Elif Incekara Hafalir
Carnegie Mellon University
Credit Card Competition with Time Inconsistent Consumers
23-May Isa E. Hafalir
Carnegie Mellon University
Revenue and Efficiency Effects of Resale in First-Price Auctions
26-May Ted O'Donoghue
Cornell University
The Heat of the Moment: Modeling Interactions Between Affect and Deliberation
16-Jun Okan Yilankaya
UBC
Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation
27-Jun Sergei Guriev
New Economic School
Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements
11-Jul Preston McAfee
California Institute of Technology and Yahoo! Research
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Enforcement with Error
17-Jul Joshua Gans
Melbourne Business School
Contracting Over Scientific Disclosure
17-Jul Andrew Clausen
University of Pennsylvania (joint with Peter Bardsley)
Cryptographic Commitment and Simultaneous Exchange
21-Jul Richard Holden
MIT Sloan
A Theory of Rule Development
01-Aug Glenn Harrison
University of Central Florida
Neuroeconomics: A Critical Reconsideration
04-Aug Gregory Clark
University of California, Davis
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
15-Aug James Cox
Georgia State University
Is there a Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk?
22-Aug Christian Roessler
University of Queensland
Firm Creation and Design
26-Aug Charles Noussair
Tilburg University
Three Asymmetries in Pricing in Experimental Asset Markets
29-Aug Phillip McCalman
University of California, Santa Cruz
Trade Policy in the Presence of a Discriminating Foreign Monopolist
05-Sep Reiko Aoki
University of Auckland
Collective Rights Organizations and Upstream R&D Investment
12-Sep Kieron Meagher
University of New South Wales and Australian National University (RSSS)
Imperfect Competition in Incomplete Contracts: Public Private Partnerships
19-Sep Simon Loertscher
University of Melbourne
Intermediation, Fee Setting, and Random Matching
10-Oct Ronald Stauber
Australian National University
Knightian Games and Robustness to Ambiguity
17-Oct Gautam Bose
University of New South Wales
Intermediaries in Corruption Markets
24-Oct Shino Takayama
University of Queensland
Information and Market Price Manipulation in the Unique Equilibrium of a Sequential Trade Model
05-Nov John Asker
Stern Business School, New York University
A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel
07-Nov Michael Raith
University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business
Optimal Incentives and the Time Dimension of Performance Measurement
14-Nov Morten Bennedsen
Copenhagen Business School
Incentives and Entrenchment Effects in European Ownership
26-Nov Fuhito Kojima
Yale University
Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms (with Yeon-Koo Che)
28-Nov Dan Peled
University of Haifa
"R&D Subsidies in Dynamically Competitive Industries"

Macroeconomic Workshop Series 2008
26-Feb Harris Dellas
University of Bern, Switzerland
Misperceived vs Unanticipated Money: A Synthesis
07-Mar Olan Henry
University of Melbourne
Between the Rock and a Hard Place: Regime Switching in the Relationship Between Short-Term Interest Rates and Equity Returns in the UK
31-Mar Alexander Field
Santa Clara University, California
Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004
03-Apr Michele Lenza
European Central Bank
Monetary Policy and Core Inflation
11-Apr Shawn Leu
La Trobe University
A Small State-Space Model of the Australian Economy
18-Apr Roshan Perera
University of Melbourne
22-Apr Florian Misch
University of Nottingham
Growth and Welfare Maximization in Models of Public Finance and Endogenous Growth
02-May Heather Anderson
Australian National University
Constructing Historical Euro Area Data
16-May Don Harding
La Trobe University
Some issues in using unobserved components models to decompose GDP into permanent and transitory components
27-May Solmaz Moslehi
The Composition of Government Expenditure in an Overlapping Generations Model
20-Jun Shankha Chakraborty
University of Oregon
DISEASES AND DEVELOPMENT: A Theory of Infection Dynamics and Economic Behavior
25-Jul Christian Kascha
Norges Bank
Combining inflation density forecasts: some cross country evidence
08-Aug Frank Milne
Queen's University
Credit Crises, Risk Management Systems and Liquidity Modeling
15-Aug Leonard Mirman
University of Virginia
Optimal growth and uncertainty: Learning
01-Sep Amartya Lahiri
University of British Columbia
Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-monotonic Tale
12-Sep Benoit Julien
University of New South Wales
Money, Capital and Unemployment
19-Sep Michael Burda
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Solow Residuals without capital stocks
23-Sep David Vines
University of Oxford
Strategic interactions between an independent central bank and a myopic government with government debt
03-Oct Jaime Alonso-Carerr
Universidade de Vigo
Growth, sectoral composition, and the evolution of income levels
10-Oct Chia-Ying Chang
Victoria University of Wellington
Can a Home Country Benefit fromFDI? A Theoretical Analysis
17-Oct Richard Dutu
Liquidity Constrained Competing Auctions
24-Oct Horag Choi
University of Auckland
Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics, and the Effects of Trade Liberalization
07-Nov Birthe Larsen
Copenhagen Business School

Microeconometrics Workshops 2008
23-Jan Jeffrey Racine
McMaster University
Smooth Varying-Coefficient Estimation and Inference for Qualitative and Quantitative Data
29-Jan Rob Fairlie
University of California, Santa Cruz
"Are Computers Good for Children? The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes" (PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME AND VENUE)
27-Feb Carol Propper
Unviersity of Bristol
Do Current Levels of Air Pollution Kill? The Impact of Pollution on Population Mortality in England
12-Mar Tim Cason
Department of Econmics, Purdue University
Explicit versus Implicit Collusion for Dividing the Benefits of Cooperation
19-Mar Michelle Goeree
Claremont McKenna College
Do Research Joint Ventures Facilitate Collusion?
26-Mar Nadya Baryshnikova
School of Economics, University of Adelaide
Pollution Abatement and Environmental Equity: A Dynamic study
16-Apr Cary Deck
University of Arkansas
Measuring Risk Attitiudes Controlling for Personality Traits
07-May David Prentice
LaTrobe University
The origins of American industrial success: Evidence from the US portland cement industry
14-May Stefanie Schurer
Melbourne Institute
Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: The Role of Observable and Unobservable Heterogeneity
21-May Monika Büetler
Universität St. Gallen
The Role of the Annuity's Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy Experiment
28-May Angela Lou
LaTrobe University
How Does the Product Life Cycle Affect Estimating the Demand for New Durable Products?
18-Jun Seema Jayachandran
Department of Econmics, Stanford University
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires (joint with the Asian Economics Centre)
06-Aug Mikal Skuterud
Department of Econmics, University of Waterloo
Immigrant Wage Assimilation: The Role of Model Specification, Measurement Error and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Estimation
13-Aug Ron Cheung
Department of Economics, Florida State University
Picking the Lock on the Homestead Property Exemption: Evidence from the 2008 Florida Portability Referendum
20-Aug Mario Fiorini
School of Finance & Economics, University of Technology Sydney
The Effect of Home Computer Use on Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
27-Aug Elliott Fan
RSSS, Australian National University
Maternity Payment and Fertility Plans in Australia
03-Sep Joe Hirschberg
Department of Econmics, University of Melbourne
A Geometric Comparison of the Delta and Fieller Confidence Intervals
10-Sep Juan Baron
RSSS, Australian National University
Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Inter-generational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
17-Sep Shiko Maruyama
School of Economics, University of New South Wales
Measuring the Welfare Effect of Entry in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Medicare HMO's
03-Oct David Laband
Auburn University
Patriotism, Pigskins and Politics: An Empirical Examination of Expressive Behavior and Voting
15-Oct David Prentice
Department of Economics and Finance, Latrobe University
An Empirical Analysis of a Merger in the Australian Cigarette Industry
22-Oct Stephane Mahuteau
Department of Economics, Macquarie University
CANCELLED
29-Oct Peter Siminski
Department of Economics, University of Wollongong
A Quasi-Differenced Panel Data Analysis of the Australian Public-Private Sector Wage Differential
05-Nov John Asker
Stern School of Business, New York University
A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel

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