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.

Upcoming conferences

2021

8th Annual Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health and Labour

Wednesday 8 December 2021
Online via Zoom

Find out more about the workshop program

Past conferences

2020

7th Annual Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour

2019

6th Annual Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour

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'.

View the Conflict and Economic Development Workshop program (PDF, 475KB)

Deakin Economic Theory Workshop

Macroeconomics Development Workshop

26 August 2019

The second Macroeconomics Development Workshop was held at Deakin Downtown. It was organised by Dr Xueli Tang and associate Professor Debdulal Mallick. It aimed to bring together macroeconomists and policymakers from the Australasian region to discuss recent developments in macro-development theory and policy.

The keynote speaker was Professor Masao Ogaki, Keio University.

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

Centre for Banking and Financial Stability workshop

2018

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

5th Trade and Development Workshop

Macroeconomics Development Conference

The first Macroeconomics Development Conference was held at Deakin Downtown on 27 September 2018. It brought together development macroeconomists and policymakers from the Australasian region to discuss on recent developments in macro-development theory and policy. It was organised by:

The keynote speaker was Professor Kazuo Mino, Doshisha University.

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 Ünver

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 with Professor Erdal Tekin

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

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