Seminar Schedule 2007
All seminars will be given on Friday in Room 534 (Commerce
Building) unless stated otherwise. All seminars will begin at 3:10pm unless
stated otherwise. The list of scheduled seminars for the remainder of the 2007
academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organizer is
Bob Reed.
February
February 22
Panicos Demetriades University of Leicester
Financial Development, Openness and Institutions: Evidence from Country Panel Data
February 27
John Landon-Lane
Rutgers University
A Full Information Bayesian Approach to the Evaluation and Estimation of DSGE Models
March
March 2
Dean Hyslop
New Zealand Treasury
Worker-Firm Heterogeneity and Matching: An analysis using worker and firm fixed effects estimated from LEED
March 9
Karen Conway
University of New Hampshire
The Taxation of Social Security Benefits and Elderly Labor Supply: An Unexplored Natural Experiment
March 16
Mark Blaug
University of Amsterdam
The Fundamental Theorems of Modern Welfare Economics
March 23
Ruth Towse
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Regulating Copyright Collecting Societies
March 30
Peter Morgan
University of Buffalo
Matching and Segregation: An Experimental Study
April
April 13
Richard Watt
University of Canterbury
Two Developments in the Economic Theory of Risk Aversion
April 20
Nikos Nikiforakis
University of Melbourne
Sanctioning Without Thinking of the Consequences? A Social Dilemma Experiment
April 27
Rhema Vaithianathan
University of Auckland
Lucky Last? Intra-Sibling Allocation of Child Labor and Schooling
May
May 4
Mark Holmes
Waikato University
On the Sustainability of the EU’s Current Account Deficits
May 18
David Fielding
Otago University
Regional Asymmetries in the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Prices: Evidence from U.S. Cities
May 25
Marc Weidenmier
Claremont-McKenna College
Competing with the NYSE
June
June 1
Jeremy Clark
University of Canterbury
The efficiency of collaborative public policy making: an experimental test
June 8
Ignacio Moreno
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
An Experimental Comparison of Two Insurance Contracts
July
July 20
Eugenio Miravette
University of Texas
Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Endogenous Participation
July 27
Toby Daglish
Victoria University
Default Risk in the U.S. Mortgage Market
August
August 3
Bob Breunig
Australian National University
Improved Estimates of Short and Long-run Price Elasticities of Petrol for Australia
August 10
Laura MeriluotoUniversity of Canterbury
Price Competition When Not All Customers Know of All Firms
August 17
Arthur Grimes
Motu
Spatial Determinants of Land Prices in Auckland: Does the Metropolitan Urban Limit Have an Effect?
August 22 (Wednesday 3:10 - 4:30pm)
Robin Hanson
George Mason University
The Irrationality of Disagreement
August 31
Dyuti Banerjee
Monash University
Copyright protection and innovation in the presence of commercial piracy
September
September 7
Tim Hazledine
Auckland University
Pricing, Competition and Policy in Australasian Air Travel Markets
September 14
Viv Hall
Victoria University
An Unobserved Components Common Cycle for Australasia? Implications for a Common Currency
October
October 3 (Wednesday 3:10 - 4:30pm, Coppertop - Second level of the Commerce Building)
Andrew Harvey
University of Cambridge
Modelling the Phillips Curve with Unobserved Components
October 5
Eric Crampton
University of Canterbury
Implementing election stock markets … and beyond!
October 12
Johannes Van Biesebroeck
University of Toronto
Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
October 17 (Wednesday 3:10 - 4:30pm)
Sumon MajumdarQueens University
The Leader as Catalyst
November
TBA
December