Past Seminar Schedule 2008
Find out about upcoming seminars.
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 2008
academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organizer is
Bob Reed.
February
February 29
Nick Hanley
University of Stirling
Economics indicators of sustainable development (PDF, 243KB)
March
March 4
Jeffrey Williamson
Harvard University
Ancient Inequality (PDF, 674KB)
March 7
Chia-Ying Chang
Victoria University
The Role of Market Frictions on Innovative and Imitative Activities: A Search-Theoretical Approach (PDF, 437KB)
March 14
Steve Stillman
Motu
Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand (PowerPoint, 494KB)
March 19
Morris Altman
University of Saskatchewan
Behavioral Economics for Smart People? Behavioral Economics, the Rationality Assumption, and Public Policy (PDF, 188KB)
March 28
Norman Gemmell
NZ Treasury
How, and How Far, Do Corporate or Personal Tax Rates Matter for Growth? Some OECD Evidence (PDF, 269KB)
April
April 4
Alex Field
Santa Clara University
Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004 (PDF, 203KB)
April 11
John McDonald
Flinders University
The Domesday Economy of England, 1086 (PDF, 111KB)
May
May 2
Cary Deck
University of Arkansas
Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits (PDF, 297KB)
May 21
Michael Beenstock
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Evaluating the Effect of Self-selected Treatment on Drug Addiction (PDF, 201KB)
May 23
Ben Marshall
Massey University
How Accurate is the January Barometer? (PDF, 277KB)
May 30
Maros Servatka
University of Canterbury
Strategic Use of Trust (PDF, 296KB)
June
June 6
Lyndon Moore
Victoria University
Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange 1895-1905 (PDF, 209KB)
July
July 25
James Cox
Georgia State University
Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision Under Risk? (PDF, 347KB)
Risky Decisions in the Large and in the Small: Theory and Experiment (PDF, 282KB)
August
August 1
John Holland
University of Glasgow
A Grounded Theory of Fund Management
August 8
Bram Cadsby
University of Guelph
Are You Paying Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation (PDF, 156KB)
August 13
Gregory Clark
University of California at Davis
Survival of the Richest: Malthus, Darwin and Modern Economic Growth (PDF, 598Kb)
August 15
David Mayes
University of Auckland
The Impact of Asset Prices and Their Information Value for Monetary Policy (PDF, 307KB)
August 22
John Panzar
University of Auckland
The Interaction between Regulatory and Antitrust Policies in a Liberalized Postal Sector (PDF, 110KB)
August 29
Jim Engle-Warnick
McGill University
Ambiguity Aversion and Portfolio Choice in Small-Scale Peruvian Farming (PDF, 423KB)
September
September 26
Jarrad Harford
University of Washington
Shareholder Cross-holdings and Their Effect on Acquisition Decisions (PDF, 281KB)
October
October 3
Jim Schallheim
University of Utah
A Test of the Substitution between Debt and Leases Using Sale-and-Leaseback Transactions (PDF, 160KB)
October 10
David Perez-Castrillo
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
Codes of Best Practice in Competitive Markets for Managers
(PDF, 333KB)
October 17
Ananish Chaudhuri
University of Auckland
Conditional Cooperation and Social Learning in a Laboratory Public Goods Game
October 24
Clive Granger
University of California at San Diego
A Discussion of Time Series Methods in Current Economics
October 31 (held in Commerce Coppertop Rm220)
Roger Bowden and Dawn Lorimer
Victoria University
The NZ term structure: Going long in infrastructure (PDF, 114KB)
November
November 10 Monday 3:10-4:30pm (held in Commerce Rm402)
Eric Leeper
University of Indiana
Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics (PDF, 407KB)
December
TBA