Research seminars
Learn all about the Department of Economics’ past seminars, guest speakers and topics. We have many speakers and research partners who visit Deakin throughout the year to share insights and encourage debate on topics relevant to the department and its students.
Upcoming seminars
Economics Convenor: Dr Wenying Yao, Dr Francesco Carli
Time of Seminar: 4.00pm — 5.15pm
Room: LB3.210 (unless specified)
| Seminar date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2018 | Dr Xueli Tang, Deakin University | How Two-day Weekend Policy Affects Labor Supply and Household Work in China? |
| 9 May 2018 | Professor Jorge Miranda-Pinto, University of Queensland | TBA |
| 16 May 2018 | Associate Professor Takashi Kunimoto, Singapore Management University | TBA |
| 23 May 2018 | Dr Stephane Verani, Federal Reserve Board | TBA |
Past seminars
| Seminar date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 Preacautionary 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |