Seminar Schedule 2011
Find out about upcoming seminars.
All seminars will be given on Friday in KH01 (Kirkwood Village) unless stated otherwise. All seminars will begin at 3:10pm unless stated otherwise. The list of scheduled seminars for the remainder of the 2011 academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organiser is Kuntal Das.
Previously recorded seminars on UC TV.
January
February
18-Feb
Ronald Bird
University of Technology, Sydney
Performance Implications of Active Management of Institutional Mutual Funds
23-Feb (WEDNESDAY) (Cancelled)
Dirk Engelmann
University of Mannheim
Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? Theory and Experiments on Auctions with Default
25-Feb (Cancelled)
Philipp Engler
Free University of Berlin
Beggar-Thyself or Beggar-Thy-Neighbour? The Welfare Effects of Monetary Policy
March
4-Mar (Cancelled)
Robert Cairns
McGill University
Measurement of Traded and Non-traded Capital
11-Mar (Cancelled)
Gunes Kamber
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Financial Intermediation and International Business Cycle
18-Mar (Cancelled) Rescheduled on 12-Aug
Leo Krippner
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
A theoretical foundation for the Nelson and Siegel class of yield curve models, and an empirical application to U.S. yield curve dynamics
25-Mar (Cancelled)
Jack Cooney
Texas Tech University
April
1-Apr (Cancelled)
El-hadj Bah
University of Auckland
8-Apr (Cancelled)
Stephen Knowles
University of Otago
Giving to Africa and Perceptions of Poverty
May
4-May (WEDNESDAY) (Cancelled)
Jerry Parwada
University of New South Wales
Were Bank Bailouts Effective during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis? Evidence from Contagion Risk in the Global Hedge Fund Industry
6-May (Cancelled)
Simon Loertscher
University of Melbourne
13-May
Honours presentations (NO seminar)
20-May (Cancelled)
Steven Stillman
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
27-May (Cancelled)
Roger Stover
Iowa State University
June
10-Jun (Cancelled)
Bruce Elmslie
University of New Hampshire
July
15-Jul
Honours presentations (NO seminar)
August
3-Aug (WEDNESDAY)
Volodymyr Lugovskyy
Indiana University, Bloomington
Export Growth and Credit Constraints
5-Aug
Daniela Puzzello
Indiana University, Bloomington
Gift Exchange versus Monetary Exchange: Experimental Evidence
10-Aug (WEDNESDAY) (Cancelled)
Tim Cason
Purdue University
Bidder Selection in Common Value Auctions
12-Aug
Leo Krippner
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
A theoretical foundation for the Nelson and Siegel class of yield curve models, and an empirical application to U.S. yield curve dynamics
19-Aug
Stephen Knowles
University of Otago
Giving to Africa and Perceptions of Poverty
September
9-Sep
Honours recruitment (NO seminar)
16-Sep
Stratford Douglas
West Virginia University
Coal Counties, Sample Selection, and Jed Clampett's Curse
23-Sep
Seamus Hogan
University of Canterbury
A Coordination-Failure Model of Demand Management in Electricity Markets
30-Sep
El-hadj Bah
University of Auckland
Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa
October
5-Oct (WEDNESDAY 11:00am - 12:00pm)
Anthony Leddin
University of Limerick
The Crisis in the Eurozone: An Irish Perspective
7-Oct
Hodaka Morita
University of New South Wales
Knowledge transfer and partial equity ownership
14-Oct
Charles Noussair
Tilburg University
Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, and Financial Decisions
21-Oct
Mahendrarajah (Nimal) Nimalendran
University of Florida
Informed Trading in Dark Pools
November
18-Nov
Martin Weitzman
Harvard University
Economics of Climate Change (Video)
30-Nov (WEDNESDAY)
Dieter Nautz
Free University of Berlin
Central Bank Communication and the Perception of Monetary Policy by Financial Market Experts
December