Seminars
The Discipline of Economics seminar organisers are Pablo Guillen and Stella Huangfu.
All seminars are on Thursdays 4-5:30pm in Room 498 Merewether unless otherwise stated.
| Wednesday 6 February, 3pm | |
| Speaker: | Tomas Sjostrom, Rutgers University |
| Title: | Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace? |
| Thursday 6 March | |
| Speaker: | Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER |
| Title: | Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child development. |
| Thursday 13 March | |
| Speaker: | James Markusen, University of Colorado |
| Title: | Large Firms, Foreign Firms and Domestic Wages |
| Thursday 20 March | |
| Speaker: | Heski Bar-Isaac, New York University (Stern) |
| Title: | Information Gathering and Marketing |
| Tuesday 25 March | |
| Speaker: | Richard Dutu, University of Waikato |
| Title: | Liquidity Constrained Competing Auctions |
| Thursday 3 April | |
| Speaker: | Francesca Cornaglia, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Title: | Public Policy and Passive Smoking |
| Thursday 10 April | |
| Speaker: | Bob Schoeni, University of Michigan |
| Title: | The influence of early-life events on human capital, health status, and labor market outcomes over the life course. |
| Tuesday 15 April | |
| Speaker: | Maros Servatka, University of Canterbury New Zealand |
| Title: | Trust Signaling |
| Thursday 17 April | |
| Speaker: | John Romalis, University of Chicago |
| Title: | Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Poor in America? |
| Thursday 1 May | |
| Speaker: | Leah Brooks, McGill University |
| Title: | Individual Choices for the Public Good: Voting for and Benefiting from Business Improvement Districts |
| Thursday 8 May | |
| Speaker: | Hadi Yektas, University of Melbourne |
| Title: | Optimal Multi-Object Auctions with Risk Averse Buyers |
| Thursday 22 May | |
| Speaker: | Shiko Maruyama, University of NSW |
| Title: | Measuring the Welfare Effect of Entry in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Medicare HMOs |
| Thursday 29 May | |
| Speaker: | Elizabeth Savage, UTS Sydney |
| Title: | Advantageous Selection in Private Health Insurance: The Case of Australia |
| Thursday 12 June | |
| Speaker: | Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon |
| Title: | Diseases and Development: A Theory of Infection Dynamics & Economic Behavior |
| Thursday 19 June | |
| Speaker: | llke Onur, TOBB Economics & Technology University, Turkey |
| Title: | Preemption and Delay in EBay Auctions |
| Tuesday 24 June | |
| Speaker: | Sergei Guriev, NES Russia |
| Title: | Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements |
| Thursday 10 July | |
| Speaker: | Alexander Matros, University of Pittsburg |
| Title: | Chinese Auctions |
| Monday 14 July | |
| Speaker: | Enrique Fatas, University of Valencia |
| Title: | Cooperation and Status in Organizations |
| Thursday 17 July | |
| Speaker: | Alan Spearot, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Title: | Acquisitions, productivity and liberalization |
| Tuesday 22 July | |
| Speaker: | Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham |
| Title: | 'Kinked Conformism’ in Voluntary Cooperation |
| Monday 28 July | |
| Speaker: | Albert Ma, Boston University |
| Title: | Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection |
| Thursday 7 August | |
| Speaker: | Agustin Perez-Barahona, University of Paris 1 |
| Title: | Non-renewable energy resources as input for physical capital accumulation: A new approach |
| Thursday 14 August | |
| Speaker: | Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo |
| Title: | Immigrant Wage Assimilation: The Role of Model Specification, Measurement Error, and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Estimation |
| Thursday 21 August | |
| Speaker: | Charles Noussair, Tilburg University |
| Title: | Three pricing asymmetries in experimental asset markets |
| Thursday 11 September | |
| Speaker: | Ben Greiner, University of New South Wales |
| Title: | Engineering Trust: Reciprocity and Strategic Behavior in the Production of Reputation Information |
| Thursday 18 September | |
| Speaker: | Michael Keane, University of Technology Sydney |
| Title: | Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers |
| Thursday 25 September | |
| Speaker: | Jaime Alonso, Universidade de Vigo |
| Title: | Can consumption spillovers be a source of equilibrium indeterminancy? |
| Thursday 16 October | |
| Speaker: | Anna Gunnthorsdottir, University of New South Wales |
| Title: | Near-Efficient Equilibria in Collaborative Meritocracies |
| Thursday 23 October | |
| Speaker: | Ralph Bayer, University of Adelaide |
| Title: | Tax Compliance and Firms’ Strategic Interdependence |
| Tuesday 28 October | |
| Speaker: | Gigi Foster, University of South Australia |
| Title: | The educational consequences of selection: New quasi-experimental evidence for heterogeneous undergraduate students |
| NB: this seminar is scheduled for a Tuesday, not the usual Thursday. | |
| Thursday 6 November | |
| Speaker: | Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne |
| Title: | Fee setting intermediaries: on real estate agents, stock brokers and auction houses |
| Tuesday 11 November | |
| Speaker: | Philip Inyeob Ji, Monash University |
| Title: | An Empirical Analysis of the Mean-Reversion Property of Real Interest Rates |
| Tuesday 18 November | |
| Speaker: | Gaetano Antinolfi, Washington University |
| Title: | TBA |