Deakin Business School

Conferences

The Department of Economics hosts several popular conferences and workshops every year, attracting a number of renowned academics, as well as both overseas and interstate visitors.

Learn about our upcoming and past conferences below by taking a look through the programs of each.

Past conferences

2019

Conflict and Economic Development Workshop

4 November 2019

This workshop brought together academics working in the broad area of 'domestic conflict, civil war and economic development'.

Deakin Economic Theory Workshop

Macroeconomics Development Workshop

26 August 2019

We are organising the second Macroeconomics Development Workshop to be held at Deakin Downtown. The aim is to bring together macroeconomists and policymakers from the Australasian region to discuss recent developments in macro-development theory and policy.

The keynote speaker is Professor Masao Ogaki, Keio University.

Venue
Deakin Downtown
Level 12, Tower 2
727 Collins Street
Docklands
3008 Victoria

Paper submission and/or participant registration
If you would like to present a paper in the workshop, please email your paper or abstract as PDF attachments to Dr Xueli Tang by 31 July 2019.

This is a full day event. Registration is free but compulsory.

For presenters and attendees, there is a complimentary workshop conference lunch and a post-workshop conference dinner.

To register and for further enquiries, please email us and indicate if you are attending either the conference lunch/post–conference dinner OR both. Dietary requirement(s) must be listed if any.

The organisation committee:

Dr Xueli Tang (Deakin University)

Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick (Deakin University)

Download the Macroeconomics Development Workshop program (PDF, 465.4KB)

Australian Conference of Economists (ACE) 2019

14-16 July 2019

Theme: Economics for Better Policy; Evidence, Education + Impact
Location: Pullman Melbourne On The Park Hotel

Centre for Banking and Financial Stability workshop

2018

5th Annual Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour

5th Trade and Development Workshop

8 November 2018

Program TBA

Macroeconomics Development Conference

We are organising the first Macroeconomics Development Conference at Deakin Downtown on 27 September 2018. The aim is to bring together development macroeconomists and policymakers from the Australasian region to discuss on recent developments in macro-development theory and policy.

The keynote speaker is Professor Kazuo Mino, Doshisha University.

Venue:

  • Deakin Downtown
    Level 12, Tower 2
    727 Collins Street, Melbourne

For presenters and attendees, there is a complimentary workshop conference lunch and a post-workshop conference dinner.

To register and for further enquiries, please email bl-bs-economics@deakin.edu.au and indicate if you are attending either the conference lunch/post–conference dinner OR both. Dietary requirement(s) must be listed if any.

The organization committee:

View the Macroeconomics Development Conference program (PDF, 132KB)

Chris Waller Public Lecture

8 March 2018

Dr Chris Waller is the Executive Vice President and Research Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and a fractional appointment at the economics department at Deakin University. He attends the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington, D.C., with the Bank’s president, advises the Bank’s president on monetary policy and related matters and makes regular presentations on the US economy to the Bank’s board of directors.

One day workshop with Professor Utku

13 February 2018

Professor Ünver's work on organ allocation policies and kidney exchange clearinghouses has been cited extensively by the Nobel Committee of 2012 and has led to the development of the New England Kidney Exchange Program and Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, as well as the adoption of similar exchange principles at the US National Kidney Exchange Program. His work has been published extensively, including in the AER, Econometrica, JPE, QJE and ReStud. He is currently associate editor at Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design, the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, and the Journal of Dynamics and Games.

2017

Applied Micro Econometrics Workshop

4th Annual Workshop on "Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour"

2017 Annual Australasian Public Choice Conference

4 - 5 December 2017

The Australasian Public Choice Scholars Network promotes research in public choice and political economy in the region.

View the 2017 Annual Australasian Public Choice Conference Program.

Industry and Market Workshop

4th Trade and Development Workshop

Australian Political Economy Network Conference

4 July 2017

The Australian Political Economy Network brings together academic political economists across Australian universities. We aim to share ideas and pull resources together to advance quantitative and theoretical research in the field. The network organises a yearly workshop in Political Economy to discuss the latest work of researchers in Australia and overseas.

Find out more about the Australian Political Economy Network

Professor Robert Chirinko Public Lecture

16 March 2017

Robert S. Chirinko is currently a professor in the Finance Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies (Munich), a faculty affiliate at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (University of Illinois), and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has held faculty positions at the Economics Departments of Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Emory University and visiting positions at Stanford University, the University of Munich, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research examines business behaviour with a focus on financial markets, capital formation, corporate governance and finance, macroeconomics, and tax policy.

His public lecture was on U.S. Economic Policy After the Recent Election.
This non-technical, non-political talk addressed three questions:  What are the economic challenges facing the new president? What policies is he likely to pursue? How successful are they likely to be in confronting these challenges?

Economics Policy Workshop

Chris Waller Public Lecture

8 February 2017 

Dr Waller is the Executive Vice President and Research Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and attends the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington, D.C., with the Bank's president. He advises the Bank's president on monetary policy and related matters, and makes regular presentations on the US economy to the Bank's board of directors. 

His public lecture talked about the state of the US economy and the impact of the new Trump administration. 

View Dr Waller's lecture

2016

3rd Annual Workshop on “Natural Experiments in History: Labour, Development and Health”

3rd Trade & Development Workshop

Tuesday 2 August 2016

View the 3rd Trade & Development Workshop 2016 program (PDF, 141.1KB)

Association of Public Economic Theory Workshop - Democracy, Public Policy & Information

Australasian Development Economics Workshop

2015

2nd Trade & Development Workshop

Wednesday 18 November 2015

View the 2nd Trade & Development Workshop 2015 program (PDF, 127.7KB)

Workshop - “Natural Experiments in History: Labour, Development and Health”

Australasian Economic Theory Workshop

2014

Trade and Development Workshop

Thursday 27 November 2014

View the Trade and Development Workshop 2014 program (PDF, 396.4KB)

Learning from History: Institutions, Health and Labour