Research seminars - Department of Economics

Upcoming seminars

Economics Convenor: Dr Jinhu Li, Dr Francesco Carli

Time of Seminar: 3.00pm — 4.15pm

Room: LB3.210 (unless specified)

Seminar date	Presenter	Topic
13 February 2019	Professor Iain Fraser	Preference Reversals in Discrete Choice Experiments. Inattention or Preference Uncertainty? Some Evidence Using Eyetracking
20 February 2019	Professor Justin Tobias	Semiparametric Bayesian Quantile Regression (Chan, Mumford Tobias)
4 March 2019 Room LB3.323	A/Professor Minshung Hsu	Marriage, Fertility, and Market Participation: Implications for the Shrinking Population in Japan - Junichi Fujimoto (GRIPS), Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)
6 March 2019	Professor Robert Chirinko	Islamic Banking and Firm Performance: Costs, Benefits, and Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
20 March 2019	Dr Kate Hynes	Competition in Taxes and Intellectual Property Rights
27 March 2019	Dr Haishan Yuan	Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress (joint with Ethan Kaplan and Jörg L. Spenkuch)
3 April 2019	Dr Terence Cheng	Can Health Insurance Speed Up Hedonic Adaptation to Major Health Shocks? Evidence from a Monthly Panel of Elderly Singaporeans
17 April 2019	Professor Chih-Sheng Hsieh	Superstar Economists: Coauthorship networks and research output
3 May 2019	Dr Valentina Duque	How Early-life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human Capital Investments? Evidence from administrative data
22 May 2019	Dr Umair Khalil	Maternal Smoking Across Trimesters and Birth Outcomes: A study of Nonrandom Selection with Carolina Caetano and Kenneth Chay
29 May 2019	Firmin Doko Tschatoka	Identifying Marginal Returns to Treatment through Social Networks
5 June 2019	Dr Siqi Pan	Commitment and Cheap Talk in Search Deterrence: Exploding Offer vs Buy Now Discount
12 June 2019	A/Professor Resul Cesur	Did the War on Terror ignite a Veteran Opioid Epidemic?
17 July 2019	Professor Alberto Posso	Child Labour and Well-Being
24 July 2019	Dr Xiaoguang Chen	Taxational Resource Curse -- Evidence from China
31 July 2019	James Hansen	The Efficiency of Central Clearing – A Segmented Markets Approach
7 August 2019	Professor David Ribar	Four Dimensions of Quality in Australian Jobs
12 August 2019	Professor Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay	Does Affirmative Action in Politics Hinder Performance? Evidence from India
21 August 2019	Professor David Johnston	The Causal Effect of Education on Chronic Health Conditions in the UK
28 August 2019	Dr Pratiti Chatterjee	Perceived Uncertainty Shocks, Excess Optimism-Pessimism, and Learning in the Business Cycle
4 September 2019	Dr Michael Palmer	Disability and employment over the life cycle
11 September 2019	Dr Chengsi Wang	Platform investment and price parity clauses
16 September 2019	Dr Nicholas Garvin	Emergency Liquidity Injections
18 September 2019	Professor Efrem Castelnuovo	Fiscal Multipliers: Playing with Multiple Instruments
2 October 2019	Dr Simon Kwok	The PCDID Approach: Difference-in-Differences when Trends are Potentially Unparallel and Stochastic
9 October 2019	A/Professor Choon Wang	Determining the extent of statistical discrimination: Evidence from a field experiment in India
16 October 2019	Professor Shuping Shi (rescheduled)	Common Bubble Detection in Large-Dimensional Financial Systems
23 October 2019	Dr Daniel Avdic	Family matters: Parental leave and the intergenerational transmission of skills
30 October 2019	Professor Jan van Ours	The mental health effects of retirement
6 November 2019	Professor Andrew Jones	Equity, opportunity and health
13 November 2019	Dr Bogdan Kilschuk	Speculative Trade and Market Newcomers
20 November 2019	Professor Christian Bjørnskov	Institutional Shocks and Economic Crises
27 November 2019	Professor Pallab Mozumder	The Deadly Connection between Hurricanes and Sinkholes: Analyzing Market Responses to Multiple Environmental Risks

Past seminars

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
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

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