Seminar Schedule 2010
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 2010 academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organizer is Andrea Menclova.
Previously recorded seminars on UC TV.
January
February
15-Feb
Simon Gächter
University of Nottingham
Performance incentives and the dynamics of voluntary cooperation
26-Feb
David S. Jacks
Simon Fraser University
Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
March
5-Mar
Brendan Moyle
Massey University
Trade Bites Back: The Economics of the Estuarine Crocodile Recovery
17-Mar
Stuart Gillan
Texas Tech University
Expertise, connections, and the labor market for corporate directors: Is it what you know or who you know?
19-Mar
Nicolas Treich
Toulouse School of Economics
Eliciting beliefs: proper scoring rules, incentives, stakes and hedging
Martin Berka
Massey University
What determines European real exchange rates?
April
9-Apr
Charles Plott
California Institute of Technology
Multiple Market Interactions and General Equilibrium in Economics Experiment
30-Apr
Jan Magnus
Tilburg University
WALS Model Averaging
May
7-May
Honours presentations (NO seminar)
14-May
Anthony Endres
University of Auckland
Schumpeter's 'Conduct Model' of the Dynamic Entrepreneur: Nature, Scope and Distinctiveness
21-May
Laura Meriluoto
University of Canterbury
Email Pricing
28-May
Michael McAleer
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Optimal Risk Management Before, During and After the 2008-09 Financial Crisis
download two papers here: Paper 1 and Paper 2
June
4-Jun
Julian Wright
National University of Singapore
Punishment strategies in repeated games: Evidence from experimental markets
July
14-Jul (WEDNESDAY)
Alex Frino
University of Sydney
The impact of maker-taker pricing of exchange services on securities market behaviour: evidence from the NZ stock exchange
16-Jul
Ronald Oaxaca
University of Arizona
You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You are a Woman or a White? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
23-Jul
Tomasz Wisniewski
University of Leicester
Piety and Profits: Stock Market Anomaly During the Muslim Holy Month
30-Jul
Hope Corman
Rider University
Effects of Child Health on Housing
August
6-Aug
Hugh Rockoff
Rutgers University
Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and The Crisis of 1772
11-Aug (WEDNESDAY)
Morten Lau
Newcastle University
Intertemporal Utility and the Discount Rate
13-Aug
Max Stearns
University of Maryland
Direct (Anti-)Democracy
20-Aug
Nicolas Groshenny
RBNZ
Evaluating monetary policy shocks in the post-1984 era
September
10-Sep
Honours presentations (NO seminar)
15-Sep (WEDNESDAY, 2-2:45pm, lunchroom)
Morten Lau
Newcastle University
An Introduction to Bahavioral Econometrics
17-Sep
Honours recruitment (NO seminar)
24-Sep
Jonathan Klick
University of Pennsylvania
Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies
October
1-Oct
Cary Deck
University of Arkansas
Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence
15-Oct
Susmita Roy
University of Canterbury
The impact of unemployment rates on marriage and divorce
November
December
INTERNAL BROWN-BAG SERIES
15-Jan Bob Reed
University of Canterbury
"Measuring the Impact of Switching to All-Multiple Choice Assessments: Resampling the Counterfactual".
Jedrzej Bialkowski
University of Canterbury
"Emerging Market Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence for Poland".
Andrea Menclova
University of Canterbury
"Midwifery in New Zealand and Other Research Tales".
Stephen Hickson
University of Canterbury
"Are Constructed-Response and Multiple-Choice Questions the Same for Everyone?".
NETWORK ECONOMICS SERIES
By Julian Wright, National University of Singapore
All talks are on Friday, 9:00-11:00am, in room C534, with the exception of Thursday 6 May which is from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in room C534.
30-Apr - Network effects
6-May - Introduction to two-sided platforms
14-May - Optimal two-sided platform pricing for a monopoly
21-May - Application to the price structure in a payment card network
28-May - Competition in two-sided platforms
4-June - Application to mobile phone termination pricing