Conferences

We are organizing the first Macroeconomic Development Conference at Deakin on 27 Sep 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 Melbourne Corporate Centre. Collins Square, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne.

For presenters and attendees, there is a complementary workshop lunch and a post-workshop dinner free-of-charge.

Please register here if you will like to attend this conference. Agenda and times will be posted closer to the date.

If you have any questions, please contact the department at bl-bs-economics@deakin.edu.au.

The organization committee:

• Dr Xueli Tang (Deakin University)
• Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick (Deakin University)
• Dr. Qingyuan Du (Monash University)
• Dr. Mei Dong (University of Melbourne)

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.

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.

14 December 2017

View the Applied Micro Econometrics Workshop 2017 Program (PDF, 127.2KB).

11 - 12 December 2017

View the 4th Annual Workshop on "Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour" 2017 Program (PDF, 171.8KB).

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.

Friday 17 November 2017

View the Industry and Market Workshop 2017 program (PDF, 213.0KB).

Thursday 9 November 2017

View the 4th Trade and Development Workshop 2017 program (PDF, 106KB).

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

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?

17 February 2017

View the Economics Policy Workshop agenda (PDF, 130KB)

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

Thursday 15 December 2016

View the 3rd Annual Workshop on “Natural Experiments in History: Labour, Development and Health” 2016 program (PDF, 79.2KB)

Tuesday 2 August 2016

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

18-19 July 2016 

View the Association of Public Economic Theory Workshop on: Democracy, Public Policy & Information 2016 program (PDF, 182.7KB)

9-10 June 2016 

View the Australasian Development Economics Workshop 2016 program (PDF, 281.4KB)

Wednesday 18 November 2015

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

Tuesday 3 November 2015

View the Workshop on “Natural Experiments in History: Labour, Development and Health” 2015 program (PDF, 183.9KB)

11-13 February 2015

View the Australasian Economic Theory Workshop 2015 program (PDF, 245.7KB)