Seminar Schedule 2009
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 2009 academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organizer is Andrea Menclova.
Previously recorded seminars on UC TV.
February
Feb 27
NZESG meeting, no seminar
March
Mar 2 (Monday; C402 - Virtual Europe Room)
Michael Grossman
City University of New York
Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan (PDF, 219KB)
Mar 6
Ted Bergstrom
University of California at Santa Barbara
One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry (PDF, 305KB)
Mar 13
Guo Jian Wu (Allan)
University of Canterbury
The Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure for New Zealand (PDF, 485KB)
Mar 18 (Wednesday)
Hal Varian
University of California at Berkeley
Condliffe lecture
Mar 20
Hal Varian
University of California at Berkeley
NA
Mar 27
Chris Bruce
University of Calgary
The Use of Collaborative Decision-Making Processes to Develop Public Policy
April
Apr 3
Nicholas Schmitt
Simon Fraser University
Retailers, International Trade and Competition (PDF, 217KB)
Apr 15 (Wednesday, 10-11:30am)
Simon Anderson
University of Virginia
Comparative Advertising (PDF, 507KB)
May
May 1
Liam Lenten
La Trobe University
A Hedonic Model of Player Wage Determination from the Indian Premier League Auction (PDF, 180KB)
May 8
Honours presentations, no seminar
May 15
Ron Balvers
West Virginia University
What Do Financial Markets Reveal about Global Warming? (PDF, 212KB)
May 22
Takashi Kurosaki
Hitotsubashi University
Intertemporal Choice and Inequality in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from Thailand, Pakistan, and India (PDF, 666KB)
June
June 5
Richard Meade
ISCR
Is Vertical Integration the Natural State of Affairs in Electricity? (PDF, 727KB)
June 12
Daniel Waggoner
Atlanta Fed
Understanding Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models (PDF, 573KB)
July
July 17
Stuart Gillan
Texas Tech University
On Litigation Risk, Disclosure, and Regulation: Evidence from Canadian Firms Cross-listed in the United States
July 24
Kirdan Lees
RBNZ
Monopolistic Banks, Fixed Retail Rates and Housing: Implications for Open Economy Inflation Targeting (PDF, 504KB)
July 29 (Wednesday)
Ed Bayley
University of Canterbury Graduate
Good Faith in Contract: A Law and Economics Perspective (PDF, 130KB)
August
Aug 7
John F. Raffensperger
University of Canterbury
Matching Users’ Rights to Available Ground Water with a Smart Market (PDF, 198KB)
Aug 14
Marcelo Medeiros
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Let's Do It Again: Bagging Equity Premium Predictors (PDF, 266KB)
Aug 21
Qian Sun
Xiamen University
Non-negotiable Shares, Controlling Shareholders, and Dividend Payments in China (PDF 487KB)
September
Sept 11
Honours presentations, no seminar
Sept 18
Honours recruitment, no seminar
Sept 25
Seamus Hogan
University of Canterbury
"$4.3b? How much overcharging has there been in the electricity market?"
October
Oct 2
Robin Grieves
University of Otago
"The Search for Relative Value in Bonds"
Oct 9
James Alm
Georgia State University
"Taxpayer Information Assistance Services and Tax Reporting Behavior"
Oct 16
Janet Johnson
Georgia State University
"Structure, Conduct and Performance of the Nonprofit Sector: Some Research Questions"
Staff Club LUNCHEON: Nonprofit Organisations
Oct 23
Kevin Davis
University of Melbourne
Exchange-Traded Contracts for Difference: Design, Pricing and Effects
Oct 30
IIke Onur
University of New South Wales
Last-Minute Bidding in Sequential Auctions, with Unobserved, Stochastic Entry (PDF 305KB)
November
Nov 13
Show Day, no seminar
December
Dec 11
Lew Evans
Victoria University of Wellington
An Equilibrium Model of the New Zealand Electricity Market
Dec 16 (Wednesday)
Martin Dufwenberg
University of Arizona
Hold-Up: With a Vengeance
Dec 18
Isabelle Sin
Stanford University
Book Translations as Information Flows: How detrimental was Communism to the flow of ideas?