Seminars and workshops
Seminars held during 2022 will be a mix of both face-to-face presentations and online via Zoom. If you would like to attend a seminar and/or be placed on our regular seminar mailing list, please contact Dr Qazi Haque.
The School of Economics and Public Policy (SEPP) normally hosts regular seminars on a wide range of economics and cross-disciplinary topics from game theory to trade liberalisation to macroeconomics to econometric theory.
Our presenters are a diverse mix of international and national experts who share their research and expertise over 1.5 hours. Registration is not required.
Time: Fridays 3:00pm - 4:30pm (unless otherwise stated)
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2022 Seminar Schedule
Date Speaker Title of Pressentation Friday, 11 March James Graham (University of Sydney) Stuck at Home: Housing Demand during the Covid-19 Pandemic Friday, 18 March Umair Khalil (Monash University) Social Media, Screen Time, and Adolescent Mental Health Friday, 25 March Yves Sprumont (Deakin University) Two-stage majoritarian choice Friday, 1 April Lionel Page (UTS) Cancelled Friday, 8 April Peter Sedlacek (UNSW) Serial Entrepreneurs and the Macroeconomy Friday, 29 April Gregory Kubitz (QUT) Understanding indicative bidding: An experimental approach Friday, 6 May Michael Jetter (UWA) Religiosity and warfare: Towards causal evidence via pre-Enlightenment solar eclipses Friday, 13 May Sean Pascoe (CSIRO) Estimating target reference points for key species in multispecies multi-métier fisheries Friday, 20 May Anu Rammohan (UWA) Cancelled Friday, 27 May Lionel Page (UTS) Disappointment looms around the corner: Visibility and businesses’ local market power Friday, 3 June Shuping Shi (Macquarie) Weak Identification of Long Memory with Financial Modeling Implications Friday, 29 July Jing Tian (UTS) TBA Friday, 5 August Tushar Bharati (UWA) TBA Friday, 12 August Paul Raschky (Monash) TBA Friday, 19 August George Kudrna (UNSW) TBA Friday, 26 August Zhijun Chen (Monash) TBA Friday, 2 September Peggy Schrobback (CSIRO) TBA Friday, 9 September Asad Islam (Monash) TBA Friday, 16 September Gregor Pfeifer (University of Sydney) TBA Friday, 7 October James Morley (University of Sydney) TBA Friday, 14 October Ryan Edwards (ANU) TBA Friday, 21 October Emilia Tjernstrom (Monash) TBA Friday, 28 October Pratiti Chatterjee (UNSW) TBA -
2021 Seminar Schedule
Date Speaker Title of Presentation Friday, March 5 Xiaojian Zhao (Monash) Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation Friday, March 12 Arpita Chatterjee (UNSW) Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence Friday, March 19 Edwyna Harris (Monash) Initial Land Allocation to British Investors in South Australia in 1837: A Comparison of the Random Serial Dictator and Ascending Price Sequential Auction Mechanisms Friday, March 26 Andrea LeNauze (U of Queensland) Air Pollution and Adult Cognition: Evidence from Brain Training Friday, April 9 Daeha Cho (U of Melbourne) Unemployment Risk, MPC Heterogeneity, and Business Cycles Friday, April 30 Jordy Meekes (U of Melbourne) Fired and Pregnant: Gender Differences in Job Flexibility Outcomes after Job Loss Friday, May 7 Jane Zhang (UNSW)
**POSTPONED**
Friday, May 14 David Byrne (U of Melbourne) Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity Friday, May 21 Ben Wong (Monash) The Decline in the Natural Rate of Interest According to a Robust Multivariate Trend-Cycle Decomposition
Friday, May 28 Elena Capatina (ANU) Health Shocks and the Evolution of Earnings over the Life-Cycle Friday, June 4 Juanyi Xu (HKUST) Labour Mobility and Exchange Rate Regime in Open Economies Friday, August 6 Isaac Gross (Monash) NIMBYs and the Housing Market Friday, August 13 Niven Winchester (AUT) The Climate PoLicy ANalysis (C-PLAN) Model, Version 1.0 Friday, August 20 Fu Ouyang (U of Queensland) Semiparametric Discrete Choice Models for Bundles Friday, August 27
Bingjing Li (U of Hong Kong) Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock? Friday, September 3 Jane Zhang (UNSW)
*Cancelled
Multiple Switching and Data Quality in the Multiple Price List Friday, September 17 Rigissa Megalokonomou (U of Queensland) Longer-Term Effects of Teachers: Evidence from a Random Assignment of Teachers to Students Friday, October 8 Guido Ascari (Oxford) Fiscal foresight and the effects of government spending: It's all in the monetary-fiscal mix Friday, October 15 Ye Lu (U of Sydney) Bootstrap Inference for Hawkes and General Point Processes Friday, October 22 Tom Wilkening (U of Melbourne TBA -
2020 Seminar schedule
Zoom meeting ID: 853 7521 8466
Zoom meeting passcode: 668237Date Speaker Title of Presentation Tuesday 18 February, 12:00-1:30pm Marianne Stephanides You are welcome. How ex-post communication affects incidence of and reactions to helping. Monday 2 March, 2:10-3:30pm Alexander Chudik, Dallas Federal Reserve The heterogeneous effects of global and national business cycles on employment in U.S. states and metropolitan areas. Friday 6 March, 3:10-4:30pm Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia Business School The welfare effect of a current account surplus: a new channel Friday 13 March Rigissa Megalokonomou, University of Queensland Is Justice Blind? Gender Interactions in the Supreme Court Friday 20 March
Alastair Fischer Towards a general methodology for the evaluation of healthcare projects
CANCELLED
Friday 9 October
Instrumental Variable Estimation of State-dependent Government Spending Multipliers under Sectoral Heterogeneity Friday 16 October Yusuf Mercan, University of Melbourne Melbourne TBC Friday 23 October Scott French, UNSW TBC Friday 30 October Maria Recalde, University of Melbourne TBC -
2019 Seminar schedules
Date Speaker Title of Presentation 1 March Giacoma Rondina, University of California, San Diego Samuelson's Dictum: Evidence, Theory, and Implications 8 March Phil Curry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A Non-Parametric Estimation of the Effect of Police on Crime 15 March Frank Stahler, University of Tubingen, Germany How Importers May Hedge Demand Uncertainty joint work with Horst Raff, University of Kiel, and Nicolas Schmitt, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
22 March Ross Hickey, University of Melbourne The Effect of Tax Price on Donations: Evidence from Canada 28 March (Thurs 3.30) Ryan Oprea, UC of Santa Barbara Revealed Preferences and General Equilibrium: A Laboratory Study 29 March Wenying Yao, Deakin University Estimating the rank of cojumps in high-dimensional financial data with market microstructure noise 5 April Acelya Altuntas, Deakin University A New Family of Rules for Probablistic Assignment Based on Trading Right and Priorities 8 April (Mon 12.10)
Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Italy”, with Paolo Berta and Stefano Verzillo 12 April Chris Gibbs, University of Sydney A Unified Model of Learning to Forecast 26 April Dennis Petrie, Monash University Validating health gains for health technology assessment decision-making. A practical guide for analysing “real-world” data 3 May Ilke Onur, University of South Australia Successful ageing, gender and health care utilisation: evidence from rural South Africa
10 May Jacob Goeree, University of New South Wales M Equilibrium: A dual theory of beliefs and choices 15 May (Wed 2-3pm) Future of Employment and Skills Seminar: Michael Dockery, Curtin University Inter-generational transmission of Indigenous culture and children’s 17 May Gary Magee, Monash University Bad News From the Front: Military Fatalities and the Death Penalty in Nazi Germany 31 May James Hansen, University of Melbourne The Role of Auctions and Negotiation in Housing Prices
Monday 3 Jun Cedric Wasser, Universitat Bonn Buyer-Optimal Robust Information Structures 7 June Christopher Skeels, The University of Melbourne Distributions You Can Count On 14 June 126 Majoribanks Santos Lecture Theatre
Rebecca Taylor, University of Sydney Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data 2 August Bettina Klaus, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Serial Dictatorship Mechanisms with Reservation Prices
9 August Claudio Mezzetti, University of Queensland Mediation Design
16 August Simon Ville, University of Wollongong Overcoming Market failure: Transaction Choice in the Natural History trade 23 August Olena Stavrunova, University of Technology Sydney Health and Economic Effects of Direct Household Exposure to Disaster Events
30 August Gianni La Cava, Reserve Bank of Australia The Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Local Housing Markets
13 September Joshua Miller, University of Melbourne Tra i Leoni: Revealing the Preferences Behind a Superstition ( with Giovanna Invernizzi,Tommaso Coen, Martin Dufwenberg, Luiz Edgard R. Oliveira)
20 September Arthur Lewbel, Boston College Innefficient Collective Households: Abuse and Consumption, Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University
27 September Efrem Castelnuovo, University of Melbourne Global Uncertainty (with Giovanni Caggiano, Monash University) 11 October Christiern Rose, University of Queensland Identification of Spillover Effects using Panel Data Oct 14 Mon (12:10) Fabio Canova, European University Institute FAQs: How do I measure the output gap? Are gaps and cyclical fluctuations the same? 25 October
Majoribanks Santos Lecture Theatre
Alastair Fraser, University of Sydney Intensive and Extensive Margin Responses in Electricity Conservation: How Households Respond to Financial Rewards 15 November Andrea Ichino, European University Institute, Italy The civicness drain -
2018 Seminar schedules
Date Speaker Title of presentation February 2 Utku Unver - Boston College, Massachusetts, USA Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange February 16 Frank Stahler - University of Tubingen, Germany and Adjunct Professor, School of Economics University of Adelaide The Organization of International Trade
March 2 Tim Guinnane - Yale University The Impact of Social Insurance on Fertility: Germany 1875-1905 March 9 Jasmin Groeschl - Ifo Institute, Germany Undoing Europe in a New Quantitative Trade Model” (co-authored by Gabriel Felbermayr and Inga Heiland)
March 16 Natalia Bailey - Monash University Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Models with Heterogeneous Coefficients”, by M. Aquaro (European Commission), N. Bailey (Monash University), M. H. Pesaran (University of Southern California and Trinity College, Cambridge) March 23 Simon Loertscher - University of Melbourne Multi-Party Competition March 26 Pascal Michaillat - Brown University
Please note: Seminar is on Monday 12:00-1:30pm
Pricing When Customers Care about Fairness but Misinfer Markup
April 6 Maros Servatka - Macquarie Graduate School of Management Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behavior: An Experimental Investigation April 13 Paul Johnson, Institute of Fiscal Studies, UK Poverty and low pay in the UK April 20 Giovanni Caggiano - Monash University Uncertainty-Driven Comovements in Booms and Busts: A Structural Interpretation" (joint with E. Castelnuovo and G. Pellegrino April 27 Ian Mackenzie - University of Queensland Sharing contests with general preferences May 4 Michael Jetter - University of Western Australia Mediated terrorism: US news and Al-Qaeda attacks
May 11 Timothy Moore - University of Melbourne The Long-term Consequences of a Heroin Supply Shock" (with Kevin Schnepel) May 18 Peter Siminski - University of Technology, Sydney Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia By: by Chelsea Murray, Robert Clark, Silvia Mendolia and Peter Siminski
May 25 Chris Edmond - University of Melbourne How Costly Are Markups? (joint with Virgiliu Midrigan and Daniel Yi Xu) June 8 Prasad Bhattcharya - Deakin University Exchange rate forecasting using a new dynamic panel estimator
June 15 James Morley - University of Sydney Why Has the U.S. Economy Stagnated Since the Great Recession Aug 10 Ha Nguyen - Curtin University Explaining the evolution of nativity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Aug 14 Nicolas de Roos - University of Sydney Startup search costs
August 24 Xiaodong Fan - Monash University Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labour Supply and Retirement
August 31 Hasin Yousaf - UNSW Sticking to one's guns: Mass Shootings and the Political Economy of Gun Control in the U.S
Sep 7 Leslie Martin - University of Melbourne Carbon Offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism: What non-participants reveal about counterfactual emissions (co authored with Kim Lu, Deloitte Access Economics) Sep 14 Lionel Page - Queensland University of Technology How much information is incorporated in financial asset prices? Experimental Evidence Sep 21 Guillaume Roger - University of Woolongong
Contracting on unobserved volatility" (with Ben Goldys, Sydney Uni Mathematics) Sep 28 Ching-Jen Sun - Deakin University A Sandwich Theorem for Generic nxn Two Person Games Oct 5 Laura Panza - University of Melbourne The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine
Oct 12 Thomas A. Lubik - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Assessing US Aggregate Fluctuations Across Time andFrequencies with Christian Matthes Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Fabio Verona Bank of Finland Oct 19 Jorge Pinto - University of Queensland Production Network Structure, Service Share, and Aggregate Volatility Oct 26 Phillip McCalman - University of Melbourne International Trade, Product Lines and Welfare: The roles of firm and consumer heterogeneit
Nov 2
Napier 205
Ratbek Dzhumashev - Monash University Consumption externalities and fertility choice
Nov 5 Yves Zenou - Monash University Social Norms in Public: Philip Ushchev and Yves Zenou Nov 9 Timothy Kam - ANU Inflationary Redistribution vs. Trading Opportunities:
A New-Monetarist Heterogeneous-agent Quantitative Theory
Workshops
The School of Economics Brainbag Workshop is a forum for academic staff, visiting faculty and postgraduate students to present research that is in its early stages.
Everyone is welcome to attend. Those interested in presenting in the Brainbag or who would like more information can contact the coordinator, Dr Yaping Shan.
Location: Level 3 Boardroom, Nexus 10 Building
Time: 12:10pm -1:00 pm (unless otherwise stated)
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2021 Workshop Schedule
Date Speaker March 23 Qazi Haque (U of Adelaide) October 11 Sundar Ponnusamy -
2020 Workshop Schedule
Date Speaker Status 12 May Dr Raul Barreto, University of Adelaide Virtual (Zoom) -
2019 Workshop Schedule
Date Speaker March 4 Giulio Zanella, University of Adelaide
March 18 Henning Muhlen, Hohenheim University
March 25 Aditi Roy, University of Adelaide May 13 Yaping Shan, University of Adelaide May 20 Lingyu Kong, University of Adelaide May 27 Terence Cheng, University of Adelaide June 3 Cedric Wasser, Bonn Graduate School of Economics June 17 George Kurdna, University of NSW Sept 9 Yasunobu Tomoda, Hiroshima University Sept 16 Sebastian Wende, Commonwealth Treasury Oct 21 Sundar Ponnusamy, University of Adelaide -
2018 Workshop schedule
Date Speaker Title of Presentation March 5 Linke Hou, Shandong University
Distributive Politics under Institutionalized Authoritarianism: Evidence from China’s Sub-national Land Finance (with Qi Zhang) March 19 Britta Kohlbrecher, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation (with Brigitte Hochmuth, Christian Merkl, and Hermann Gartner) April 16 Atsue Mizushima, Otaru University of Commerce
Endogenous Timing and Income Inequality in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Theory and Experiment May 7 Adrian Pagan, University of Sydney
Seven Problems in Macroeconometric Modelling (with X. Liu and T. Robinson) May 28 George Kudrna, CEPAR and UNSW
Population Ageing and Fiscal Policy Responses Oct 22
Lachlan Deer
Social Media Generated Word of Mouth and New Product Performance (with Gregory S Crawford and Pradeep K Chintagunta) Nov 12 Florian Ploeckl "Uniform Service? Political and Regional Capture of the German Imperial Postal Service" Dec 3 Wenxiao Wang Global Value Chains, Firms and Wage Inequality Evidence from China