Research seminars - Department of Economics

Upcoming seminars

Economics Convenor: Dr Acelya Altuntas, Dr Yan Liang

2022

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
28 September	Michael Jetter	Theory
5 October	Prof. Dinko Dimitrov	TBA
12 October	Marco Mariotti	TBA
19 October	Arghya Ghosh	TBA
26 October	Shahe Emran	TBA
9 November	Kaveh Majlesi	TBA

Past seminars

2022

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
21 September	Assoc. Prof. Joshua B Miller	TBA
14 September	Negat Anbarci	TBA
7 September	Dr Chengsi Wang	Applied theory, competition policy
17 August	Dr Nabeeh Zakariyya/Dr Yasin Kursat Onder	Progressive pensions and optimal tax progressivity/TBA
1 June 2022	Prof. Arthur Campbell	TBA
8 June 2022	Assoc. Prof. Zhijun Chen	TBA
15 June 2022	Prof. James Fenske	TBA
18 May	Assoc. Prof. Saumitra Jha, Stanford Business School CA	Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets
11 May	Prof. Debasis Mishra, Indian Statistical Institute, India	Rank-Preserving Multidimensional Mechanisms
4 May	Assoc. Prof. Paolo Piacquadio, University of St Gallen, Switzerland	Fairness and Paretian Social Welfare Functions
27 April	Prof. Rachel Ong ViforJ Curtin University, Perth	Intergenerational Transfers and Home Ownership Outcomes: Transmission Channels and Geographic Differences
13 April	Assist. Prof. Onur Altindag Bentley Uni, Waltham MA	Public Health Policy At Scale: Impact Of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign On Infant Mortality in Denmark
6 April	Assoc. Prof. Bilge Erten Northeastern Uni, Boston	Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health
30 March	Prof. Paul Burke ANU	The effectiveness of electric vehicle subsidies in China: A panel study
23 March	Dr Milda Norkute Scorify, Lithuania

2021

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
20 October 2021	Prof. Geoffroy de Clippel	Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation
13 October 2021	Assoc. Prof. Alexander James	Geography, Geology, and Regional Economic Development
6 October 2021	Dr Xiaodong Fan	Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing
29 September 2021	Prof. Maarten Lindeboom	Why life gets better after age 50 for some: mental well-being and the social norm of work
15 September 2021	Prof. Francesco Vona	A Broad Overview on Green Labour Markets
8 September 2021	Prof. Christina Gathmann	In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
1 September 2021	Assoc. Prof. Huaxia Zeng	A Taxonomy of Non-dictatorial Domain in Uni-dimensional Models
24 August 2021	Dr Florian Brandl	A Natural Adaptive Process for Collective Decision-Making
11 August 2021	Assoc. Prof. Ville Korpela	Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
4 August 2021	Assoc. Prof. Abdulaziz Shifa	The Political Scar of Epidemics
28 July 2021	Assoc. Prof. Orkun Saka	The Political Scar of Epidemics
21 July 2021	Assoc. Prof. Gaurab Aryal	Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
14 July 2021	Assoc. Prof. James Graham	Age, Industry, and Unemployment Risk During a Pandemic Lockdown
7 July 2021	Assoc. Prof. James Lake	Did COVID-19 cost Trump the election?
26 May 2021	Assoc. Prof. Sutanuka Roy	Impact of British Colonial Gender Reform on Early Female Marriages and Gender Gap in Education: Evidence from Child Marriage Abolition Act, 1929
19 May 2021	Prof. Juan F. Vargas	Peaceful entry: The dynamics of entrepreneurship during the Colombian post conflict
5 May 2021	Dr. Zhen Huo	Bridging Micro and Macro under Incomplete Information
28 April 2021	Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy	First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees
21 April 2021	Dr William Phan	Allocating Medical Resources During a Pandemic
14 April 2021	Dr Leslie Martin	Which drivers, which trips? The effectiveness and distributional impacts of congestion-targeted road use prices (co-authored with Sam Thornton)
31 March 2021	Dr Huixin Bi	Flight to Liquidity or Safety? Recent Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
26 March 2021	Prof. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak	Emerging research areas in the post-Covid world
24 March 2021	Prof. Christopher Chambers	Recovering Preferences from Finite Data
10 March 2021	Dr Yusuf Mercan	A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations

2020

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
11-Nov-20	Professor Prashant Bharadwaj	Surviving a Mass Shooting
05-Nov-20	Professor Roberto Serrano	Interim Rationalizable Implementation of Functions
21-Oct-20	A/Prof. Jeanet Sinding Bentzen	God Politics: Religion, Attitudes, and Outcomes (With Lena Lindbjerg Sperling)
30-Sep-20	Dr Benedikt Heid	Structural Gravity and the Gains from Trade under Imperfect Competition
23-Sep-20	Dr Denni Tommasi	Time of Day, Cognitive Tasks and Efficiency Gains
16-Sep-20	Dr. Joseph Flavian Gomes	Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Participation
09-Sep-20	A/Prof Quoc Anh Do	Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians
03-Sep-20	Prof. Denzil Fiebig	Private provider incentives in health care: The case of birth interventions
26-Aug-20	Professor Sascha Becker	Shallow Christianity and the Rise of Hitler
20-Aug-20	Dr Ye Lu	Understanding Regressions with Observations Collected at High Frequency over Long Span
12-Aug-20	Dr Eik Swee	Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization
06-Aug-20	Dr Yong Song	Bull and Bear Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic
29-Jul-20	Professor Pushkar Maitra	The Long Shadow of Infrastructure Development: Railways in Colonial India
1-Jul-20	Professor Ching-Jen Sun	Multilateral Bargaining in the Shadow of Eminent Domain
24-Jun-20	Marc Chan	Do caps on tax-favoured contributions to private pension really save the tax-payer?
10-Jun-20	Dr Hongyi Li	Gradual versus Abrupt Reorganizations
27-May-20	Professor Utku Unver	A Market Design Solution to Unfair Distribution of Teachers in Schools
20-May-20	Dr Faisal Sohail	Skill-Biased Entrepreneurial Decline
29-Apr-20	Dr Xing Xu	Aid competition for political allegiances in Africa.
10-Mar-20	Dr Lars Kirkebeon	College as a Marriage Market
3-Mar-20	Professor Bruce Preston	Anchored Inflation Expectations
5-Feb-20	Associate Professor Takashi Kunimoto	Continuous Implementation with Small Transfers
22-Jan-20	Dr Kai Gehring	External threat, group identity, and support for common policies - The effect of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on European Union identity

2019

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
27-Nov-19	Professor Pallab Mozumder	The Deadly Connection between Hurricanes and Sinkholes: Analyzing Market Responses to Multiple Environmental Risks
20-Nov-19	Professor Christian Bjørnskov	Institutional Shocks and Economic Crises
13-Nov-19	Dr Bogdan Kilschuk	Speculative Trade and Market Newcomers
6-Nov-19	Professor Andrew Jones	Equity, opportunity and health
30-Oct-19	Professor Jan van Ours	The mental health effects of retirement
23-Oct-19	Dr Daniel Avdic	Family matters: Parental leave and the intergenerational transmission of skills
16-Oct-19	Professor Shuping Shi (rescheduled)	Common Bubble Detection in Large-Dimensional Financial Systems
9-Oct-19	A/Professor Choon Wang	Determining the extent of statistical discrimination: Evidence from a field experiment in India
2-Oct-19	Dr Simon Kwok	The PCDID Approach: Difference-in-Differences when Trends are Potentially Unparallel and Stochastic
18-Sep-19	Professor Efrem Castelnuovo	Fiscal Multipliers: Playing with Multiple Instruments
16-Sep-19	Dr Nicholas Garvin	Emergency Liquidity Injections
11-Sep-19	Dr Chengsi Wang	Platform investment and price parity clauses
4-Sep-19	Dr Michael Palmer	Disability and employment over the life cycle
28-Aug-19	Dr Pratiti Chatterjee	Perceived Uncertainty Shocks, Excess Optimism-Pessimism, and Learning in the Business Cycle
21-Aug-19	Professor David Johnston	The Causal Effect of Education on Chronic Health Conditions in the UK
12-Aug-19	Professor Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay	Does Affirmative Action in Politics Hinder Performance? Evidence from India
7-Aug-19	Professor David Ribar	Four Dimensions of Quality in Australian Jobs
31-Jul-19	James Hansen	The Efficiency of Central Clearing – A Segmented Markets Approach
24-Jul-19	Dr Xiaoguang Chen	Taxational Resource Curse -- Evidence from China
17-Jul-19	Professor Alberto Posso	Child Labour and Well-Being
12-Jun-19	A/Professor Resul Cesur	Did the War on Terror ignite a Veteran Opioid Epidemic?
5-Jun-19	Dr Siqi Pan	Commitment and Cheap Talk in Search Deterrence: Exploding Offer vs Buy Now Discount
29-May-19	Firmin Doko Tschatoka	Identifying Marginal Returns to Treatment through Social Networks
22-May-19	Dr Umair Khalil	Maternal Smoking Across Trimesters and Birth Outcomes: A study of Nonrandom Selection with Carolina Caetano and Kenneth Chay
3-May-19	Dr Valentina Duque	How Early-life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human Capital Investments? Evidence from administrative data
17-Apr-19	Professor Chih-Sheng Hsieh	Superstar Economists: Co-authorship networks and research output
3-Apr-19	Dr Terence Cheng	Can Health Insurance Speed Up Hedonic Adaptation to Major Health Shocks? Evidence from a Monthly Panel of Elderly Singaporeans
27-Mar-19	Dr Haishan Yuan	Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress (joint with Ethan Kaplan and Jörg L. Spenkuch)
20-Mar-19	Dr Kate Hynes	Competition in Taxes and Intellectual Property Rights
6-Mar-19	Professor Robert Chirinko	Islamic Banking and Firm Performance: Costs, Benefits, and Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
4-Mar-19	A/Professor Minshung Hsu	Marriage, Fertility, and Market Participation: Implications for the Shrinking Population in Japan - Junichi Fujimoto (GRIPS), Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)
20-Feb-19	Professor Justin Tobias	Semiparametric Bayesian Quantile Regression (Chan, Mumford Tobias)
13-Feb-19	Professor Iain Fraser	Preference Reversals in Discrete Choice Experiments. Inattention or Preference Uncertainty? Some Evidence Using Eyetracking
15-Jan-19	Dr Ritesh Jain	A Systematic Test of the Independence Axiom: Around Certainty

2018

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
21 Nov 2018	Professor Valentyn Panchenko, UNSW	Planar Beauty Contests
14 Nov 2018	A/Professor Elias Khalil, Monash University	Naturalizing the Sacred
12 Nov 2018	Dr Christian Krekel, London School of Economics	Quantifying the Intangible Impacts of Mega Events Using Subjective Well-Being Data: The Case of the 2012 Olympics in London
8 Nov 2018	Dr Bing Peng, University of Bath	Growth Regressions: An Integrated Approach
7 Nov 2018	A/Professor Shyamal Chowdhury, University of Sydney	Racial discrimination and white first name adoption: a field experiment in the Australian labour market
31 Oct 2018	A/Professor Marco Faravelli, The University of Queensland	Relative Performance Feedback and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
17 Oct 2018	Professor Lisa Cameron, University of Melbourne	Does access to sanitation improve health?
3 Oct 2018	Dr Claudio Labanca, Monash University	Coordination of Hours within the Firm
26 Sep 2018	Dr Marian Vidal-Fernandez, University of Sdyney	Wheeling into school and out of crime: Evidence from linking driving licenses to minimum academic requirement”, jointly with Rashmi Barua
19 Sep 2018	Dr Jing Tian, University of Tasmania	Evaluating Multi-horizon Electricity Demand Forecasts in Australia
12 Sep 2018	Dr David Smerdon, The University of Queensland	Belief Coordination and Bad Norm Adherence: Evidence from Female Genital Cutting in Somalia
29 Aug 2018	Dr Asad Islam, Monash University	Non-Financial Incentives, Selectivity and Performance of Volunteers: Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment
28 Aug 2018	Dr Jose Ignacio Silva, UDG	Labor Market Effects of Reducing the Gender Gap in Parental Leave Entitlements
22 August 2018	Professor Xin Meng, Australia National University	The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval
15 August 2018	Dr Jaai Parasnis, Monash	Why do women have more or less number of children than their ideal?
13 Aug 2018	Professor Jean-François Mercier, Loyola Marymount University	Selecting contestants for a rent-seeking contest
8 August 2018	Dr Ha Vu, Deakin Business School	Teenage Mothers' Health over the Life Course
1 August 2018	Professor Pascalis Raimondos, Queensland University of Technology	What is a foreign firm? Implications for productivity spillovers
25 July 2018	Dr Amanuel Elias, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University	Ethnic disparities in psychological distress: A prospective analysis of working age adults in Australia
11 July 2018	Dr Ayushi Bajaj, Monash University	Digitization and Demonetization in a Shadow Economy Model
4 July 2018	Associate Professor Duygu Yengin, University of Adelaide	Second-Best Mechanisms for Land Assembly and Hold-Out Problems
6 June 2018	Dr Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, University of Auckland	Public Enterprises and the Rise and Fall of Labor share
30 May 2018	Dr Ha Nguyen, Curtin University	Rain, rain, go away: Weather and children's time allocation
23 May 2018	Dr Stephanie Verani, Federal Reserve Board	Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from U.S Life Insurance Industry (with Nathan Foley-Fisher and Borghan Narajabad)
16 May 2018	Associate Professor Takashi Kunnimoto, Singapore Management University	Maskin Meets Abreu and Matsushima
10 May 2018	Professor Claudio Mezzetti, University of Queensland	What do Mediator Do? Information and Bargaining Design
9 May 2018	Professor Jorge Miranda-Pinto, University of Queensland	Production Network Structure, Service Share, and Aggregate Volatility
3 May 2018	Dr Xueli Tang, Deakin University	How Two-day weekend Policy Affects Labor Supply and Household Work in China?
18 April 2018	Dr Natalia Bailey, Monash University	A Multiple Testing Approach to the Regularisation of Large Sample Correlation Matrices
11 April 2018	Professor Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University	Tourism and the Output Gap
29 March 2018	Dr Cahit Guven, Deakin University	Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks
27 March 2018	Associate Professor Chi-Chur Chao	Capital Utilisation, Firm Dynamics and Wage Inequality in a Developing Economy
22 March 2018	Professor Nejat Anbarci, Deakin University	Investing in Bargaining Positions with Counter Offers and Pre-emptive Offers
21 March 2018	Professor Kevin Fox, University of NSW	The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare: Theory and Evidence
14 March 2018	Associate Professor Deniz Gevrek, Texas A&M	Impact of Early-Life Conditions on Childhood and Adult Outcomes: First-Generation American Immigrants
7 March 2018	Professor Dinko Dimitrov, Saarland University	Fair Competition Design
28 February 2018	Dr Lucas Herrenbrueck, Simon Fraser	The Liquidity-Augmented Model of Macroeconomic Aggregates
27 February 2018	Roland Hodler, University of St. Gallen	Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence
14 February 2018	Professor Utku Unver, Boston College	Efficient and Incentive – Compatible Exchange
31 January 2018	Yana Petrova	Testing for cointegration between insurance market activity and economic growth
17 January 2018	Professor Axel Dreher	The Political Economy of International Finance Corporation Lending

2017

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
22 Nov 17	Professor Chetan Ghate	A monetary business cycle model for India
15 Nov 17	Professor Rodney Strachan	Reducing dimensions in a large TVP-VAR
25 Oct 17	Dr Jun Xiao	Idea scarcity and Optimal Awards in Innovation Contests
18 Oct 17	Dr Mengxi Zhang	Auctions vs. Negotiations: Optimal Selling Mechanisms with Endogenous Bidder Values
11 Oct 17	Professor Benno Torgler	Tax Compliance and National Pride: An Experimental Investigation Using a Psychological Marker
27 Sept 17	Dr Wei Wei	A Stochastic Price Duration Model for Estimating High-Frequency Volatility
20 Sept 17	Professor Abigail Payne	The impact of government funded initiatives on charity revenues
14 Sept 17	Dr Ivan Balbuzanov	Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange
13 Sept 17	Dr Georgy Artemov	Strategic `Mistakes': Implications for Market Design Research
6 Sept 17	Professor Uwe Dulleck	Law & Behavioural Economics
23 Aug 17	Dr Duygu Yengin	Fairness and Strategic Issues in Queuing Problems
9 Aug 17	Professor Ngo Van Long	Interactions between Kantian and Non-Kantian agents in games of contributions to public goods
2 Aug 17	Professor Jeff Borland	Will robots take our jobs?
18 July 17	Professor Cesar Martinelli	Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy
28 June 17	Dr Jinhu Li	Physician Competition and low Value Health Care; Evidence from Primary Care
14 June 17	Dr Andres Bellofatto	Regional State Capacity and the Optimal Degree of Fiscal Decentralization (joint with Martin Besfamille)
13 June 17	Professor Sushanta Mallick	Does Easing Controls on External Commercial Borrowings boost Exporting Intensity of Indian Firms?
7 June 17	Dr Chung Tran	Fiscal Space under Demographic Shift
31 May 17	Dr Barbara Broadway	Keep Calm and Consume? Subjective Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
26 May 17	Professor Sugata Marjit	Topic 1. Inequality and Distribution-Neutral Fiscal Policy Topic 2. Distribution-neutral Welfare Ranking-Extending Pareto Principle
23 May 17	Professor Sandro Brusco	Internal Financing, Managerial Compensation and Multiple Tasks
17 May 17	Professor Simon Loertscher	On dominant strategy mechanisms
3 May 17	Dr Andrew Clarke	A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?
26 Apr 17	Professor Jonathan Chiu	The Economics of Cryptocurrency -- Bitcoin and Beyond
19 Apr 17	Professor Mutlu Yuksel	Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
5 Apr 17	Dr Eric Eisenstat	Bayesian Model Comparison for Time-Varying Parameter VARs with Stochastic Volatility
30 Mar 17	Professor Lenonor Modesto	The Failure of Stabilization Policy: Fiscal Rules in the Presence of Incompressible Public Expenditures
29 Mar 17	Dr Peter Siminski	The Effects of World War II Military Service: Evidence from Australia
22 Mar 17	Dr Anton Kolotilin	Persuasion of a Privately Informed Receiver
15 Mar 17	Professor William Thomson	Properties of Rules for the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims
8 Mar 17	Dr Liam Lenten	A Comparison of Anti-Doping Measures in Sporting Contents
16 Feb 17	Dr Stephan Bruns	Indirect evidence for reporting biases in economics and management
15 Feb 17	Associate Professor Takashi Kunimoto	Rationalizable Implementation of Correspondences
18 Jan 17	Professor Jan-Egbert Sturm	The Effect of Policy Uncertainty on Investment Plans: Evidence from the Unexpected Acceptance of a Far-Reaching Referendum in Switzerland

2016

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
2 Nov 16	Associate Professor Mandar Oak	Subpoena Power and Information Transmission
26 Oct 16	Dr Christie Smith	Identification pathologies in a small open economy model – are foreign data a cure?
12 Oct 16	Dr Timothy Kam	Competitive Search and Monetary Business Cycles: Dynamic Welfare Cost of Inflation
5 Oct 16	Associate Professor Gigi Foster	What women want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households
28 Sep 16	Dr Benjamin Wong	Intuitive and Reliable Estimates of the Output Gap from a Beveridge-Nelson Filter
21 Sep 16	Dr Kenan Kalayci	Chasing Market Share in Platform Markets
14 Sep 16	Dr Marc Chan	Welfare Dependence and Self-Control: An Empirical Analysis
7 Sep 16	Professor David Stern	From Wood to Coal: Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution
5 Sep 16	Associate Professor Kang Rong	The Attraction Effect, Contour Sets and the Nash Product
31 Aug 16	Dr Gabriele Gratton	Drop a Bombshell
24 Aug 16	Dr David Wiczer	The Disability Option: Labour Market Dynamics with Economic and Health Risks
17 Aug 16	Dr Victoria Baranov	Does mental health affect labour market outcomes? Experimental evidence from a long-run follow-up of an RCT treating maternal depression
10 Aug 16	Professor Moshe Justman	Gender streaming and prior achievement in high school science and mathematics
3 Aug 16	Dr Timothy Moore	Do Disability Insurance Payments Reduce Mortality? Evidence from a Regression
27 Jul 16	Dr Tess Stafford	Experience and the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply
20 Jul 16	Dr Begona Dominguez	Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in a Model of Credit and Secondary Markets
13 Jul 16	Dr Joshua Chan	Large Bayesian VARs: A Flexible Kronecker Error Covariance Structure
6 Jul 16	Assoc. Prof Jaideep Roy, Deakin University	Triggering extremism: political consequences of profit-seeking media
22 Jun 16	Professor Chetan Ghate, Indian Statistical Institute	Terms of Trade Shocks and Monetary Policy in India
15 Jun 16	Dr Cain Polidano, University of Melbourne	Impacts from delaying access to retirement benefits on welfare receipt and expenditure: Evidence from a natural experiment
8 Jun 16	Dr Simone Marsiglio, University of Wollongong	Endogenous Growth and Technological Progress with Innovation Driven by Social Interactions
1 Jun 16	Professor Nicholas Feltovich, Monash University	The interaction between competition and unethical behaviour: experimental evidence
25 May 16	Dr David Byrne, University of Melbourne	Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline
18 May 16	Dr Zhi Jun Chen, Monash University	Vertical integration and market foreclosure in dairy markets
11 May 16	Professor Yves Zenou, Monash University	R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications
4 May 2016	Dr Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, University of Melbourne	What’s Mine is Yours: Sovereign Risk Transmission during the European Debt Crisis
27 Apr 2016	Dr Claire Thibout, University of Melbourne	Women’s investment in career and household division of labor
20 Apr 2016	Dr Jeffrey Yu, University of Adelaide	Tournaments and Project Selection under Ambiguity – A Bright Side of Risk-Taking
13 Apr 2016	Professor Robert Hoffman, RMIT	Religion, Discrimination and Trust
8 Apr 2016	Professor Mary Morgan, University of London	Models: Facts, Artefacts or Fictions?
6 Apr 2016	Professor John Wooders, University of Technology Sydney	Dissolving a Partnership Dynamically
30 Mar 2016	Associate Professor Umut Oguzoglu, University of Melbourne (visiting)	Like father, like daughter (unless there is a son): sibling sex Composition and women’s stem major choice in college
23 Mar 2016	Dr Dmitriy Kvasov, University of Adelaide	A Formal Theory of Organizational Routines
16 Mar 2016	Dr Sander Heinsalu, University of Queensland	PageRank vs Bayes' rule
9 Mar 2016	Professor Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University	Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance
2 Mar 2016	Professor Charles Horioka and Associate Professor Yoko Niimi (dual seminar), Asian Growth Research Institute	The Impact of Pre-marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in India and Korea: The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited The “Costs” of Informal Care: An Analysis of the Impact of Elderly Care on Caregivers’ Subjective Well-being in Japan
24 Feb 2016	Professor Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University	Financial Constraints, Firms’ Supply Chains and Internationalization
27 Jan 2016	Professor Hong Hwang, National Taiwan University	Bertrand vs. Cournot Competition with Product Innovation and Licensing
20 Jan 2016	Professor Jan-Egbert Sturm, KOF Swiss Economic Institute	Finance and income inequality revisited

2015

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
25 Nov 2015	Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, Melbourne University	Parenting style as an investment in child development
21 Oct 2015	Associate Professor Efrem Castelnuovo, Melbourne University	Uncertainty and monetary policy in good and bad times
14 Oct 2015	Associate Professor Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales	Investment in public defense in a contest model
30 Sept 2015	Professor Hodaka Morita	An economic model for structures of the legal profession
23 Sept 2015	Associate Professor Alex Millmow	A scoping paper on the writing of a history of Australasian economic thought in the 20th century
16 Sept 2015	Dr Martin Byford, RMIT	Permission to exist
9 Sept 2015	Professor Markus Brueckner, University of Queensland	Rent extraction by capitalists
2 Sept 2015	Dr Daniel Melsar, RMIT	Revealed preference measures of quality of life in Australia's urban and regional areas
26 Aug 2015	Associate Professor Erte Xian, Momash University	Time delay and support for taxation
19 Aug 2015	Professor Lionel Page, Queensland University of Technology	Time delay and support for taxation
12 Aug 2015	Professor Bettina Klaus, Université de Lausanne	Object allocation via deferred acceptance: strategy-proofness and comparative statics
7 Aug 2015	Professor Steven R. Williams, University of Illinois	Price discovery using a double auction
5 Aug 2015	Professor Arghya Ghosh, University of New South Wales	Horizontal mergers in the presence of vertical relationships
29 Jul 2015	Professor Stephen King, Monash University	Farmers cooperatives and competition: Who wins, who loses and why?
22 Jul 2015	Dr Guillem Roig, Toulouse School of Economics	Competition and the hold-up problem: a setting with non-exclusive contracts
17 Jun 2015	Professor Tom Stanley, Hendrix College	Meta-regression analysis as: meta-research and evidence-based practice
10 Jun 2015	Dr Jose A. Rorigues-Neto, Australian National University	On Harsanyi consistency problem
3 Jun 2015	Professor Peter Hartley, University of Western Australia	Employment impacts of upstream oil and gas investment in the United States
2 Jun 2015	Dr Pawan Gopalakrishnan, ISI, India	Factor income taxation, growth, and investment-specific technological change
27 May 2015	Dr Abu Shahriar, Monash University	Gender differences in cooperation: evidence from matrilineal, patriarchal and gender-neutral societies
20 May 2015	Dr Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney	Completive search equilibrium and moral hazard. (Presenting along sig Benoit Julien)
13 May 2015	Associate Professor Terra Mckinnish, University of Colorado	Same occupation spouses: preferences and search costs
6 May 2015	Professor Lata Gangadharan from Monash University	Regulatory performance of audit tournaments and compliance observability
1 May 2015	Associate Professor Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University	Religion and health in early childhood: evidence from the Indian subcontinent
29 Apr 2015	Professor Garry Barrett, University of Sydney	Pension incentives and the retirement decisions of couples
22 Apr 2015	Professor Simon Grant, Australian National University	Savage games
15 Apr 2015	Professor Pushkar Maitra, Monash University	Social norms and governance: the behavioural response to female leadership
31 Mar 2015	Professor John Rolfe, Central Queensland University	Using reverse tenders for conservation in Australia
25 Mar 2015	Associate Professor Bilgehan Karabay, RMIT	Market thickness, labour market flexibility and wage dynamics
18 Mar 2015	Associate Professor Bilgehan Karabay, RMIT	The substitution elasticity, factor shares, long-run growth, and the low-frequency panel model
11 Mar 2015	Dr Catherine de Fontenay, Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University	Explosive crime rates
26 Feb 2015	Diego Vilan, University of Southern California	Demand shocks and endogenous uncertainty
25 Feb 2015	Professor Chris Waller, Senior Vice President and Director of Research of US Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis	Optimal monetary policy with heterogeneous agents
29 Jan 2015	Matt Leister, University of California	Information acquisition and response in peer-effects networks

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