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2011 seminars
Nearly Optimal Tests when a Nuisance Parameter is Present Under the Null Hypothesis
Date: 14 December, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Graham Elliott
Affiliation: UCSD
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Equilibrium Dynamics in Markets for Lemons
Date: 09 December, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Diego Moreno
Affiliation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Adaptive Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation: Empirical Choice of the Regularization Parameter
Date: 07 December, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Joel Horowitz
Affiliation: Northwestern University
 
Competition, Markups and the Gains from International Trade
Date: 30 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Chris Edmund
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
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Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Under Mandatory Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing
Date: 25 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: David Rapson
Affiliation: UC Davis
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Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard and the Demand for Medigap Insurance
Date: 24 November, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Olena Stavrunova
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Date: 18 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: David Jacks
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
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Domestic Subsidies, Cooperation and Coalition Formation (with Manipushpak Mitra)
Date: 16 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Arghya Ghosh
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Public and Private Mix of Health Expenditure: Some Insights from a Political Economy Approach
Date: 11 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Shuyun Li
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
 
The Use of Alternative Elicitation Methods in Complex DCEs
Date: 10 November, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Hong Il Yoo
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Optimal Audit of Soft Information Under Moral Hazard
Date: 09 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Guillaume Roger
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Blind Stealing: Experience and Expertise in a Mixed-Strategy Poker Experiment
Date: 04 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: John Wooders
Affiliation: University of Technology, Sydney
 
International Prices and Endogenous Quality
Date: 03 November, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Professor John Romalis
Affiliation: University of Chicago
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Comparing the Accuracy of Copula-Based Multivariate Density Forecasts in Selected Regions of Support
Date: 02 November, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Valentyn Panchenko
Affiliation: UNSW
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A Unifying Impossibility Theorem
Date: 28 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Priscilla Man
Affiliation: University of Queensland
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Labor Supply of Fishermen: An Empirical Analysis
Date: 27 October, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Tess Stafford
Affiliation: UNSW
 
No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time
Date: 26 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Marian Vidal-Fernandez
Affiliation: UNSW
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Sovereign Ratings and Oil-Producing Countries: Do Sovereign Ratings Run Ahead of Fundamentals?
Date: 21 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Robert Breunig
Affiliation: ANU
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Date: 20 October, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Professor Nic Schmitt
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
 
Small Business Redefined: A Quasi-Linear Fuzzy Classification of Firm Size
Date: 19 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Sasan Bakhtiari
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Loss Evasion and Tax Aversion
Date: 14 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Henry Ohlsson
Affiliation: University of Uppsala
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The Role of Media Outreach in the Growth of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (‘SNAP’ - formerly known as Food Stamps) Caseload
Date: 13 October, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Affiliation: Michigan State University
 
Efficient Method of Moments Estimators for Integer Time Series Models
Date: 12 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Andrew Tremayne
Affiliation: UNSW
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Discrimination Makes Me Sick! Establishing a Relationship Between Discrimination and Health
Date: 07 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Grace Lordan
Affiliation: University of Queensland
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Time-Separability, Wealth Effects and International Business Cycles
Date: 05 October, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Alexandre Dmitriev
Affiliation: UNSW
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Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors
Date: 30 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Stacey Dickert-Conlin
Affiliation: Michigan State University
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TBA
Date: 29 September, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Zhanar Akhmetova
 
The Composition of Exports and Gravity
Date: 28 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Scott French
Affiliation: UNSW
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FDI and Technology Spillovers under Vertical Product Differentiation
Date: 22 September, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Hodaka Morita
Affiliation: UNSW
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Love At What Price? Estimating the Value of Marriage
Date: 21 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Michael Conlin
Affiliation: Michigan State University
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Favor Exchange with Stochastic Costs
Date: 16 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Virgine Masson
Affiliation: University of Adelaide
 
Part-time Employment and Firm Characteristics: Evidence from Australian Industries
Date: 15 September, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Sasan Bakhtiari
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Labor Supply of Fishermen: An Empirical Analysis
Date: 14 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Tess Stafford
Affiliation: UNSW
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Economic Growth and Political Survival
Date: 09 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Paul Burke
Affiliation: Australian National University
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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games
Date: 07 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Tim Cason
Affiliation: Purdue
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Estimation of Dynamic Hedonic Model of Housing with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Date: 02 September, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Susumu Imai
Affiliation: Queen’s University
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Imperfect Public Monitoring with Costly Punishment - An Experimental Study
Date: 01 September, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Ben Greiner
 
Should I Stay or Should I go?
Date: 31 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Paul Pezanis-Christou
Affiliation: University de Strasbourg / UNSW
 
Shaking the World of Labour: The Awakening of Chinese Workers
Date: 30 August, 2011
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Richard Freeman
Affiliation: Harvard
Abstract: This paper will describe the new militancy among Chinese workers and the impact of the 2008 Contract labour law on worker well-being.
 
Employment Effects of Terminating Disability Benefits: Insights from Removing Drug Addictions as Disabling Conditions
Date: 26 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Tim Moore
Affiliation: University of Maryland
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Skill Premia and Business Cycles
Date: 25 August, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Geni Dechter
 
The Framing and Econometrics of Child Support
Date: 24 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Stuart Birks
Affiliation: Massey University
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Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Labor Market
Date: 19 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Robert Miller
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon
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Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Potato Farmers in West Bengal, India
Date: 17 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Dilip Mookherjee
Affiliation: Boston University
 
Theories of Human Capital, Inequality and Development
Date: 15 August, 2011
Location: ASB, Level 6 business lounge 
Speaker: Dilip Mookherjee
Affiliation: Boston University
 
Turf Wars
Date: 10 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216  
Speaker: Helios Herrera
Affiliation: University of Columbia
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Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk: Theory and Evidence
Date: 05 August, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Glenn Harrison
Affiliation: Georgia State University
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Randomization and Its Discontents
Date: 04 August, 2011
Location: ASB 207 
Speaker: Glenn Harrison
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Market Design with Limited Monetary Transfers
Date: 01 August, 2011
Location: Law Building, Room 101 
Speaker: Professor Yeon-Koo Che
Affiliation: Columbia University
 
College Risk and Return
Date: 27 July, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Gonzalo Castex
Affiliation: Central Bank of Chile
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Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform: Lessons from the Mirrlees Review
Date: 26 July, 2011
Location: QUAD 2063 
Speaker: Richard Blundell
Affiliation: University College, London
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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
Date: 22 July, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Laura Puzzello
Affiliation: Monash University
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Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples
Date: 21 July, 2011
Location: ASB G08  
Speaker: Professor Jim Markusen
Affiliation: University of Colorado
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Trade Liberalization and Labor's Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms
Date: 20 July, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Reshad Nazir Ahsan
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
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Too Big to Compromise? Policy Networks and Weak Regimes in International Banking
Date: 13 July, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: David Earnest
Affiliation: Old Dominion University
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Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals
Date: 11 July, 2011
Location: ASB216 
Speaker: Joseph Hotz
Affiliation: Duke University
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Distribution-free Testing of Random Utility Models (with Joerg Stoye)
Date: 01 July, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Yuichi Kitamura
Affiliation: Yale University
 
TBA
Date: 30 June, 2011
Location: ASB 105 
Speaker: Geni Dechter
 
Occupation Differences and the Gender Wage Gap in Australia: a Detailed Re-assessment
Date: 24 June, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Michael Coelli
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
 
Trade Liberalization and Labor's Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms
Date: 22 June, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Reshad Nazir Ahsan
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
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A Simple Model of the Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with Implications for the Design of a Stimulus Package
Date: 17 June, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Kaushik Basu
Affiliation: Cornell University
 
TBA
Date: 16 June, 2011
Location: ASB 105 
Speaker: Pascalis Raimondos-Moeller
 
Employee Initiative and Managerial Control
Date: 15 June, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Heikki Rantakari
Affiliation: USC
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Conforming to group norms: An experimental study
Date: 08 June, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Gautam Bose
Affiliation: Internal seminar
 
A Foundation for Markov Equilibria in Infinite Horizon Perfect Information Games
Date: 07 June, 2011
Location: ASB 220 
Speaker: George Mailath
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
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A History of Violence: The "Culture of Honor" as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South
Date: 03 June, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Pauline Grosjean
Affiliation: University of San Francisco
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The Effect of Civil War on Social Norms and Market Development
Date: 02 June, 2011
Location: ASB105 
Speaker: Pauline Grosjean
Affiliation: University of San Francisco
 
Efficient Approximation for the Double Bootstrap Bias Correction
Date: 01 June, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Rachida Ouysse
Affiliation: Internal seminar
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Specialization based on Sectoral Knowledge Linkages and Trade
Date: 31 May, 2011
Location:  
Speaker: April Cai
 
Multidimensional deprivation in China, India and Vietnam: A Comparative Study on Micro data
Date: 27 May, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Ranjan Ray
Affiliation: Monash University
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Promotions, Multiskilling and Incentives for Skills
Date: 25 May, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Suraj Prasad
Affiliation: Internal seminar
 
Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom
Date: 23 May, 2011
Location: Quad 2093 
Speaker: Jim Andreoni
Affiliation: University of California
 
Trending Time Series and Non- and Semi-parametric Co-integration
Date: 20 May, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Jiti Gao
Affiliation: Monash University
 
Eliciting and Modeling Job Preferences by Nurses
Date: 19 May, 2011
Location: Quad 2063 
Speaker: Denise Doiron
 
Size and Outsourcing: Theory and Evidence from Australian Manufacturing
Date: 18 May, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Sasan Bakhtiari
Affiliation: Internal seminar
 
Efficient Taxation in a Ramsey Model where Knowledge Stands on the Shoulders of Giants
Date: 17 May, 2011
Location:  
Speaker: Akshay Shanker
 
How the Allocation of Children’s Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development
Date: 13 May, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Mario Fiorini
Affiliation: University of Technology Sydney
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Modeling Vast Panels of Volatilities with Long-Memory Dynamic Factor Models
Date: 05 May, 2011
Location: Law302 
Speaker: David Veradas
Affiliation: ECARES
 
Determinants of Outsourcing in Australian Manufacturing
Date: 05 May, 2011
Location: Quad 2063  
Speaker: Sasan Bakhtiari
 
The Impact of International and NESB Students on Measured Learning and Standards in Australian Higher Education
Date: 04 May, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Gigi Foster
Affiliation: Internal seminar
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GEL Estimation for Semi-Strong Non-Linear GARCH with Robust Empirical Likelihood Inference
Date: 29 April, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Artem Prokhorov
Affiliation: Concordia University
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Competitive Price Coordination in Technology Sharing Agreements
Date: 27 April, 2011
Location: ASB 130 
Speaker: Nancy Gallini
Affiliation: UBC
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How we earn money matters for redistributive justice
Date: 21 April, 2011
Location: Quad 2093 
Speaker: Stephane Luchini
Affiliation: University of Marseille
 
Crime and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico (with Sarah Pearlman (Vassar))
Date: 21 April, 2011
Location: Quad 2063 
Speaker: Ariel BenYishay
 
Auction Format and Auction Sequence in Multi-Item Multi-Unit Auctions: An Experimental Study
Date: 20 April, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Ben Greiner
Affiliation: Internal seminar
 
A Revelation Principle for Competing Mechanisms
Date: 15 April, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Mike Peters
Affiliation: UBC
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Exclusionary Contracts
Date: 13 April, 2011
Location: ASB 130 
Speaker: Ralph Winter
Affiliation: UBC
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Measure Preserving Derivatives and the Pricing Kernel Puzzle
Date: 07 April, 2011
Location: Law 101 
Speaker: Brendan Beare
Affiliation: UC San Diego
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Multi-Product Firms and Exchange Rate Fluctuations (with Rafael Dix Carneiro and Jade Vichyanond)
Date: 07 April, 2011
Location: Quad 2063 
Speaker: Arpita Chatterjee
 
Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
Date: 06 April, 2011
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Raja Junankar
Affiliation: UNSW internal seminar
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Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies: An Investigation
Date: 01 April, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Anne van den Nouweland
Affiliation: University of Oregon
 
On free-riding (and take up) in voluntary contribution games
Date: 30 March, 2011
Location: ElecEng 221 
Speaker: Paul Pezanis-Christou
Affiliation: UNSW internal seminar
 
Trade and the Global Recession
Date: 25 March, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: John Romalis
Affiliation: Chicago University
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An Empirical Analysis of Disability and Household Expenditure Allocations
Date: 24 March, 2011
Location:  
Speaker: Hong Il Yoo
 
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International sourcing
Date: 23 March, 2011
Location: ASB 232 
Speaker: Professor Horst Raff
Affiliation: University of Kiel
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International Trade in Medical Services
Date: 18 March, 2011
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Thierry Verdier
Affiliation: Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? Theory and Experiments on Auctions with Default
Date: 16 March, 2011
Location: ElecEng 221 
Speaker: Dirk Englemann
Affiliation: University of Mannheim
 
Pair Copula Constructions for Discrete Data
Date: 15 March, 2011
Location: Quad 2093 
Speaker: Anastasios Panagiotelis
Affiliation: Technische Universität München
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A Comparison of Three Probabilistic Models of Binary Discrete Choice Under Risk
Date: 10 March, 2011
Location: Quad 1001 
Speaker: Nat Wilcox
Affiliation: Chapman University
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Elicitation of Expectations of Future Health and Income: A Survey Technique
Date: 10 March, 2011
Location: Red Centre room M032  
Speaker: Stephane Luchini
 
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