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Economics Seminars Series

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars run from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm in Room 1012B (Faculty Suite), H. W. Arndt Building (25A).

2008 Seminar Schedule

Date		Topic	Presenter	Organiser and Host
February 28^th		Morbidity, longevity and annuitization with uninsurable medical expenses	Jie Zhang, University of Queensland	Tina Kao
March
March 6^th		Regulation of Australian Service Oligopolies: Economy-Wide Effects	Rod Tyers, ANU	Tina Kao
March 13^th 4:30 to 6 pm, Lecture Theatre, Innovation Building		Incentives and the Welfare State (Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture in Economics)	Professor Sir James Mirrlees Cambridge University	N/A (ANU Public Lecture Series 2008)
March 20^th		Getting the Most Out of Macroeconomic Information for Predicting Stock Returns and Volatility	Dick van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam	Tina Kao
March 28^th(Friday) 3:30 to 5 pm, Seminar room A, Coombs Building		Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How important is on-the-job skill accumulation? (RSSS & School of Economics joint seminar)	Gary Hansen, UCLA	Tina Kao
April
April 3^rd		Technological Transfers, Limited Commitment and Growth	Alexandre Dmitriev, University of New South Wales	Tina Kao
April 10^th		Risk aversion in symmetric and asymmetric contests	Richard Cornes, ANU and Nottingham	Tina Kao
April 17^th	2 to 3 pm	Information and Market Price Manipulation in the Unique Equilibrium of a Sequential Trade Model	Shino Takayama, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
	3:15 to 4:15 pm	Manipulation in Elections with Uncertain Preferences	Andrew McLennan, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
April 23^rd (Wednesday) 2 to 3:30 pm		Explaining movements in the NZ dollar: Central bank communication and the surprise element in monetary policy? (School of Economics & CAMA joint seminar)	Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University	Tina Kao
April 24^th		R&D, Market Structure and Trade: A General Equilibrium Analysis	Leopoldo Yanes, University of Queensland	Akihito Asano
May
May 1^st		Homo Sapiens Meets Homo Strategicus at the Laboratory	Ralph Bayer, University of Adelaide	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
May 8^th		The Fragmentation of Reputation	Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
May 15^th	11:00am to 12:30pm	Stable Firm Design	Christian Roessler, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
May 22^nd		Strongly Connected Components and Coordination	Virginie Masson, University of Adelaide	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
May 26th (Monday) 3:30 - 5 pm		Price Floors with Random Matching	Simon Wilkie, USC and Caltech	Tina Kao
May 29^th		Robust Virtual Implementation: Toward Reinterpretation of Wilson's doctrine	Georgy Artemov, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
June + July
June 5^th		What drives scientific disclosure?	Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
July 24^th		Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer's Theorem	Simon Grant, Rice University	Tina Kao
July 31^st		Trade Policy in the Presence of a Discriminating Foreign Monopolist	Phillip McCalman, University of California Santa Cruz	Tina Kao
August
August 7^th 2:30 to 4 pm		Bayesian Inference in the Time Varying Cointegration Model	Rodney Strachan, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
August 8^th (Friday) 3:30 to 5 pm		Choice and Allocation of a Risky Asset through Markets and Prices (School of Economics & RSSS joint seminar)	Leonard Mirman, University of Virginia	Tina Kao
August 14^th		Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations (School of Economics & CAMA joint seminar)	Bruce Preston Columbia University	Tina Kao
August 21^st		A comparison of methods for spatial-temporal forecasting with an application to real estate prices	Alicia Rambaldi, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
August 22nd (Friday) 1:30 to 3 pm		Lattices, Income Effects, and Lotteries Abstract, Main	Elena Antoniadou	Tina Kao
August 28^th		The Shrinking of Middle Management	Catherine De Fontenay, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
September
September 4^th		Cryptographic Commitment and Simultaneous Exchange	Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
September 11^th		Imprecision as an account of violations of independence	David Butler, University of Western Australia	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
September 12^th (Friday) 2 to 3:30 pm		Collective Rights Organizations and Upstream R&D Investments	Reiko Aoki, Hitotsubashi University and University of Auckland	Tina Kao
September 18^th		TBA (School of Economics & CAMA joint seminar)	Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Universidad de Vigo	Tina Kao
September 25^th		Information Transmission in Electoral Competition	Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
October + November
October 2^nd		Climbing the Drug Staircase: An Analysis of Accessibility, Proneness and Previous Cannabis Use on the Initiation of Hard Drug Use	Liana Jacobi, University of Melbourne	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
October 9^th		TBA	John Quiggin, University of Queensland	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
October 16^th		TBA	Benoit Julien UNSW (AGSM)	Tina Kao
October 23^rd		TBA	Geoff Brennan, ANU	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
October 30^th		TBA	Denzil Fiebig, University of New South Wales	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
November 6^th		TBA	Arghya Ghosh, University of New South Wales	Jose Rodrigues-Neto
November13^th		TBA	Gael Martin, Monash University	Jose Rodrigues-Neto

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