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Australian School of Business > Schools > Economics > News & events > Seminar series > 2012 seminars

2012 seminars

 
Developing Shared Knowledge
Date: 27 January, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Hongyi Li
Affiliation: Harvard PhD, MIT post-doc
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Evaluating Default Policy: The Business Cycle Matters
Date: 01 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Grey Gordon
Affiliation: U. Penn
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Nonneutrality of Money, Preferences and Expectations in Laboratory New Keynesian Economies
Date: 07 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Luba Peterson
Affiliation: UC Santa Cruz
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A Bayesian Approach to Energy R&D Portfolio Analysis
Date: 13 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Christopher Guo
Affiliation: UCSB
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Asymptotic Refinements of a Misspecification-Robust Bootstrap for Generalized Method of Moments Estimators
Date: 14 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: SeoJeong (Jay) Lee
Affiliation: Wisconsin
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Internal Labor Markets and the Modern Firm
Date: 16 February, 2012 10:30 AM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Guido Friebel
Affiliation: Goethe University Frankfurt
 
Turnout, Political Preferences and Information: Experimental Evidence from Perú
Date: 16 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Gianmarco Leon
Affiliation: Berkeley
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An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Inquisition's Motivations and Consequences
Date: 22 February, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Jordi Vidal-Robert
Affiliation: BU
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Bounded Rationality - Theoretical Framework and Experimental Evidence
Date: 01 March, 2012 10:00 AM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Werner Guth
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Jena (Germany)
 
Optimal Information Revelation
Date: 01 March, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 220 
Speaker: Anton Kolotili
Affiliation: MIT
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A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Date: 07 March, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Jonathan Eaton
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, USA
 
Preferences, Age, and Predictability of Behavior in the Field. Economic Experiments with Children and Adolescents
Date: 14 March, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Martin Kocher
Affiliation: University of Munich
 
A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design
Date: 15 March, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: QUAD 1001 
Speaker: Jacob Goeree
Affiliation: University of Zurich
 
Trade and Insecure Resources: Implications for Welfare and Comparative Advantage
Date: 16 March, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Costas Syropoulos
Affiliation: Drexel University
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Subjective Entitlements in a Gift Exchange Experiment
Date: 20 March, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: QUAD 2093 
Speaker: Gary Bolton
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
 
Quantitative Easing: A Model-Free Investigation of the Portfolio Balance Channel
Date: 21 March, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Daniel Thornton
Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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Financial Crises, Bank Risk Exposure and Government Financial Policy
Date: 22 March, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: TBC 
Speaker: Nobu Kiyotaki
Affiliation: Princeton University
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Date: 23 March, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Andreas Roider
Affiliation: University of Heidelberg
 
TBA
Date: 28 March, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Shiko Maruyama
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Antidumping in the Aggregate
Date: 30 March, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Kim Ruhl
Affiliation: NYU
 
Paths to Stability in the Assignment Problem
Date: 04 April, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Bettina Klaus
Affiliation: University of Lausanne
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Estimation and Solution of Rational Expectations Models with Anticipated Structural Changes
Date: 18 April, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: Law 162 
Speaker: Mariano Kulish
Affiliation: RBA
 
Massively Parallel Sequential Monte Carlo for Bayesian Inference
Date: 20 April, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: John Geweke
Affiliation: UTS
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Institutions, Culture and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo on the Causal Effect of Legal Institutions
Date: 02 May, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Pauline Grosjean
Affiliation: UNSW
 
A Structural Model of Demand, Cost and Export Market Selection
Date: 03 May, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: Quad G035 
Speaker: Mark Roberts
Affiliation: PSU
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Common Tongue The Impact of Language on Economic Performance
Date: 04 May, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Tarun Jain
Affiliation: ISB
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Size Evolution and Outsourcing: Theory and Evidence from Australian Manufacturing
Date: 09 May, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Sasan Bakhiari
Affiliation: UNSW
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Export markets and labor reallocation: Evidence from the U.S.‐Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
Date: 11 May, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Brian McCaig
Affiliation: ANU
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Selection in Private Health Insurance and the Effects on Hospital Utilization
Date: 16 May, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Denise Doiron
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Real Exchange Rate Adjustment In and Out of the Eurozone
Date: 18 May, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Martin Berka
Affiliation: Victoria University of Wellington
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Runoff Elections and Duverger’s Hypothesis
Date: 23 May, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Gabriele Gratton
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Copula modelling of temporal dependence in time series
Date: 25 May, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Mike Smith
Affiliation: MBS
 
Behavioral Responses towards Risk Mitigation: An Experiment with Wild Fire Risks
Date: 30 May, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Lisa Rutström
Affiliation: Georgia State
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When is it optimal to delegate: The theory of fast-track authority
Date: 01 June, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115  
Speaker: Bilgehan Karabay
Affiliation: University of Auckland
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Cartel versus Merger
Date: 06 June, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Leslie Marx
Affiliation: Duke
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Cognitive ability and illicit behaviours
Date: 08 June, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Michael Shields
Affiliation: Monash
 
GMM Estimation of Short Dynamic Panel Data Models with Error Cross-sectional Dependence
Date: 15 June, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Vaslis Sarafidis
Affiliation: University of Sydney/Monash University
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Selection Committees, Statistical Discrimination and Global Games: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment (with Tom Gole (Harvard))
Date: 20 June, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Simon Quinn
 
TBA
Date: 22 June, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Ed Glaeser
Affiliation: Harvard
 
Overbooking
Date: 27 June, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 115  
Speaker: Daniel Garrett
Affiliation: Toulouse
 
USA total energy demand and energy efficiency: A stochastic demand frontier approach
Date: 29 June, 2012 02:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Massimo Filippini
Affiliation: ETH Zürich
 
Inequality in Conflicts
Date: 04 July, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Santi Sanchez-Pages
Affiliation: University of Barcelona/Edinburgh
 
TBA
Date: 06 July, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Mike Luca
Affiliation: Harvard Business School
 
Cadet-Branch Matching in US Army Programs
Date: 09 July, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 105 
Speaker: Tyfun Somnez
Affiliation: Boston College
 
The suboptimality of commitment equilibrium when agents are learning
Date: 10 July, 2012 06:00 PM
Location: Law 201 
Speaker: Antonio Mele
Affiliation: Oxford
 
Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies
Date: 11 July, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Scott Taylor
Affiliation: University of Calgary
 
Kidney Exchange - Theoretical Developments and Practical Challenges
Date: 12 July, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 215 
Speaker: Al Roth
Affiliation: Harvard University
 
Identification of Time and Risk Preferences in Buy Price Auctions
Date: 13 July, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 115 
Speaker: Keisuke Hirano
Affiliation: University of Arizona
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A Rationale for Intra-Party Democracy
Date: 18 July, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Galina Zudenkova
Affiliation: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Large Constrained Auctions: The Victorian Machine Auction
Date: 20 July, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Charls Plott
Affiliation: Caltech
 
"Endogenous Strength in Conflicts " (with C Bevia)
Date: 27 July, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Luis Corchon
Affiliation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi
Date: 31 July, 2012 01:00 PM
Location: ASB 105  
Speaker: Jeremy Magruder
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
 
Auctions and bargaining
Date: 07 August, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: QUAD 2063 
Speaker: Jason Shachat
Affiliation: Xiamen University
 
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History
Date: 08 August, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: QUAD 1001 
Speaker: Professor Zvi Eckstein
Affiliation: The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya - IDC
 
Simulated Likelihood Estimation by Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Date: 10 August, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: Ivan Jeliazkov
Affiliation: UC Irvine
 
Learning from leaders or peers? Experimental evidence on communication and incentives among Malawian farmers
Date: 15 August, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Ariel Ben Yishay
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Optimism, Information, and Optimal Disinformation
Date: 22 August, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Gigi Foster
Affiliation: UNSW
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Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments
Date: 24 August, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Ana Nuevo-Chiquero
Affiliation: Universitat de Barcelona
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A Model of Firm Experimentation Under Demand Uncertainty with an Application to Multi-Destination Exporter
Date: 29 August, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Zhanar Akhmetova
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Dynamic Competing Mechanisms
Date: 31 August, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Sambuddah Ghosh
Affiliation: BU
 
Trade Integration and the Skill Premium: Evidence from a Transition Economy
Date: 05 September, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Stanley Cho
Affiliation: UNSW
 
AdaptSPEC: Adaptive Spectral Estimation for Nonstationary Time Series
Date: 07 September, 2012 04:00 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Sally Wood
Affiliation: MBS
 
Continuous improvement and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation
Date: 12 September, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Hodaka Morita
Affiliation: UNSW
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An Empirical Analysis of Competitive Nonlinear Pricing
Date: 14 September, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Gaurab Aryal
Affiliation: ANU
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Probabilistic Forecasting for Inflation Warnings from the Federal Reserve
Date: 19 September, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: LAW 303 
Speaker: Shaun Vahey
Affiliation: ANU
 
Practical Panel Conditional Logit Estimators for Binary, Ordered Discrete and Multinomial Responses
Date: 28 September, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Myoung-jae Lee
Affiliation: ANU
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Wealth Shocks, Unemployment Shocks and Consumption in the Wake of the Great Recession
Date: 03 October, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Dimitris Christelis
Affiliation: CSEF Research Centre at Universita' Federico II of Naples and Centre for Financial Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt
 
Larger groups may alleviate collective action problems
Date: 05 October, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: Sung-Ha Hwang
Affiliation: Sogang University
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Railroad expansion and entrepreneurship: evidence from Meiji Japan
Date: 12 October, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: John Tang
Affiliation: Australian National University
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How well does “core” CPI capture permanent price changes?
Date: 17 October, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Tara Sinclair
Affiliation: George Washington University
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Can trade agreements curtail trade creation and prevent trade diversion?
Date: 19 October, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Juyeong Cheong
Affiliation: UQ
 
Multitasking, Learning, and Incentives: A Cautionary Tale
Date: 24 October, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Richard Holden
Affiliation: UNSW
 
The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium
Date: 25 October, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Charles Engel
Affiliation: Wisconsin-Madison
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The Global Economic Crisis: Long Term Unemployment in the OECD
Date: 31 October, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB205 
Speaker: Raja Junankar
Affiliation: UWS
 
The Impact of Consolidation on Cable TV Prices and Product Quality
Date: 02 November, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: David Byrne
Affiliation: Uni of Melbourne
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On Trend-Cycle Decomposition and Data Revision
Date: 07 November, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Simon van Norden
Affiliation: HEC Montreal
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Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control
Date: 09 November, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: Mike Waldman
Affiliation: Cornell University
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Scoring Rules: A Game-Theoretical Analysis
Date: 14 November, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Carlos Pimienta
Affiliation: UNSW
 
(Don’t) Make My Vote Count
Date: 16 November, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: Marco Faravelli
Affiliation: University of Queensland
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From female labor force participation to boardroom gender diversity
Date: 21 November, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Renne Adams
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Optimal Market Size
Date: 23 November, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119  
Speaker: Kei Kawamaki
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
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TBA
Date: 26 November, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 216 
Speaker: Jacek Suda
Affiliation: Banque de France
 
Skill Prices over the Business Cycle
Date: 28 November, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205 
Speaker: Geni Dechter
Affiliation: UNSW
 
To be pro-social or anti-social (or both)? That's the question…
Date: 05 December, 2012 12:00 PM
Location: ASB 205  
Speaker: Lyla Zhang
Affiliation: UNSW
 
Fiscal Devaluations
Date: 12 December, 2012 03:30 PM
Location: ASB 119 
Speaker: Gita Gopinath
Affiliation: Harvard University
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