Economics

2010 Economics Seminar Series

Spring Session Programme

Date/Topic

Speaker

Location

29 July 2010

Dr Arusha Cooray (UoW)

40A G81

Topic

Migrant Remittances, Financial Sector Development and The Government Ownership of Banks

 

 

 

 

5 August 2010

Dr Brian McCaig (ANU)

40A G81

Topic

The impact of foreign market access on household businesses: Evidence from Vietnam

 

 

 

 

12 August 2010

Dr Gautam Bose (UNSW)

40A G81

Topic

A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

 

 

 

 

19 August 2010

Dr Eduardo Pol (UoW)

40A G81

Topic

Explanation and Causation in Economics

 

 

 

 

26 August 2010

Professor Harry Bloch (Curtin University of Technology) (NOTE: 11:30am – 12:30pm)

40A G81

Topic

Innovation, Real Primary Commodity Prices and Business Cycles

 

 

 

 

2 September 2010

Professor Jeffrey Sheen (Macquarie)

40A G81

 

Seminar Cancelled

 

 

 

 

9 September 2010

Mr Garry Bowditch (SMART, UoW)

40A:G81

Topic

Working with SMART Infrastructure Facility is more than just a smart idea

 

 

 

 

16 September 2010

Professor Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)

40A G81

Topic

Trade Liberalization and Labour's Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms

 

 

 

 

23 September 2010

Dr Cahit Guven (Deakin)

40A G81

Topic

You can't be Happier than your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

 

 

 

 

30 September 2010

Yot Amornkitvikai,  Charles Harvie & Teerawat Charoenrat (UoW)

40A G81

Topic

Measuring Technical Inefficiency: The Case of Thai Manufacturing and Exporting Small and
Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs)

 

 

 

 

7 October 2010

Dr Martin OBrien (UoW)

40A G81

Topic

Discouraged Older Male Workers and the Discouraged Worker Effect

 

 

 

 

14 October 2010

No Seminar

 

 

 

 

 

21 October 2010

Dr Mathias Sinning (ANU)

40A G81

Topic

Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap

 

 

 

 

28 October 2010

No Seminar

 

 

 

 

3 November 2010

No Seminar

 

 

 

 

11 November 2010

Dr Nazmun N. Ratna (Lincoln Uni, NZ)

40A G81

Topic

Denying the Pleasure of Scrumptious Downtowns?: Evidence on Economics of Diversity across US Cities

 


Autumn Session Programme 

Date/Topic

Speaker

Location

4 March 2010

Prof Ahmad Mojtahed (Allameh Tabatabai University)

40.122

Topic

Central Bank of Iran Monetary Policy: A Success or Failure

 

 

 

 

11 March 2010

Dr Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics, ERNA-INRA)

40A G81

Topic

The Effect of Ambiguity Aversion on Risk Reduction and Insurance Demand

 

 

 

 

18 March 2010

Dr Ben Freyens (School of Economics, UoW)

40A G81

Topic

Efficient Allocation of Radio Spectrum

 

 

 

 

25 March 2010

Prof Pierre Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University)

40A G81

Topic

A Failure to Communicate? Central Bank Interest Rate Guidance in Good Times and in Bad

 

 

 

 

1 April 2010

Prof Christos Kotsogiannis (University of Exeter)

40A G81

Topic

Climate Change and International Trade: The Role of Border Tax Adjustments

 

 

 

 

15 April 2010

Prof Jaime Alonso-Carrera (Universidad de Vigo)

40A G81

Topic

The dynamic role of relative prices along the growth
process

 

 

 

 


22 April 2010

Prof Joshua Angrist (MIT)
Annual Economics and Social Policy Public Lecture - for further details please
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12 pm
35.G20

Topic

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools

 

 

 

 

29 April 2010

Prof Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide)

40A G81

Topic

Australian Trade Agreements, Trade Facilitation, and
Participation in East Asian Regionalism

 

 

 

 

6 May 2010

Prof Christopher O'Donnel (University of Queensland)

40A G81

Topic

Measuring and Decomposing Agricultural Productivity and Profitability Change

 

 

 

 

13 May 2010

Assoc Professor Charles Harvie (School of Economics, UOW)

40A G81

Topic

Production Networks in East Asia: Enhancing the Contribution of Regional SMEs

 

 

 

 

20 May 2010

Dr Cassey Lee (School of Economics, UOW)

40A G81

Topic

Spectrum Assignment and Institutions

 

 

 

 

27 May 2010

Assoc Professor Amnon Levy (School of Economics, UoW)

40A G81

Topic

The Theory of Mood-Influenced Investment in Health

 

Last reviewed: 28 February, 2011

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