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Economics and Finance Internal Workshops

Next Workshop

Date: August 28

Speaker: Warwick McKibbin (Australian National University)

Topic: Building on Kyoto: Towards a Realistic Global Climate Agreement

Discussant: N/A

Venue: DWB 222

Time: 1-2pm

All Economics & Finance seminars are held on Thursdays in Conference Room 222, Donald Whitehead Building from 1.00pm to 2.00pm, unless otherwise stated.

Converner: Dr. Liam Lenten

Email l.lenten(at)latrobe.edu.au to join the Economics and Finance Internal Workshop mailing list or schedule a seminar (the TBA slots are still available).

The 2008 Schedule (the TBA slots are still available, for 2007 speakers see below)

August 28	Warwick McKibbin (Australian National University)
12-1pm Thursday DWB 222	Building on Kyoto: Towards a Realistic Global Climate Agreement

September 4	Don Harding
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

September 11	Suren Basov
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

September 18	Liam Lenten
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	A Test for Asymmetry in the 'Uncertainty of Outcome' Hypothesis?

September 25	Nobuaki Yamashita
12-1pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

October 9	Robin Luo
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

October 16	David Prentice
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

October 23	PhD Candidate: Meg Elkins
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

November 6	TBA
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	TBA

Semester 1:

Mar 13:	Jan Libich
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Welfare Improving Coordination of Fiscal and Monetary Policy (download paper and slides) Discussant: Shawn Leu

Mar 20:	Robert Waschik
2-3pm Thursday DWB 222	The Effects of Aggregation and Elasticities on Optimal Tariffs in a Nash Tariff-Setting Game (download paper)

Apr 10:	Liam Lenten
2-3pm Thursday DWB 222	Is the Decline in the Frequency of Draws in Test Match Cricket Detrimental to the Long Form of the Game? Discussant: David Walker

Apr 17:	External Speaker: Thomas Meier (University of Regensburg, Germany)
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Grading, Forecasting and Optimizing Player Performance in Professional Football (Soccer)

Apr 24:	External Speaker: Alfred Guender (University of Canterbury, NZ)
12-1pm Thursday SS 429	Practical Monetary Policies

May 1:	Sandy Suardi
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Do Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Uncertainties Determine Stock-Bond Returns Correlation? (download abstract) Discussant: Chrismin Tang

May 8:	Don Harding
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Some issues in using unobserved components models to decompose GDP into permanent and transitory components

May 15:	PhD Candidate: Weifang (Angela) Lou
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	How Does The Product Life Cycle Affect Estimating The Demand For New Durable Products?

May 22:	External Speaker: Joe Hirschberg (University of Melbourne)
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Inferential Methods for Elasticity Estimates (download paper)

May 29:	Buly Cardak
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	The Determinants of Household Risky Asset Holdings: Background Risk and Other Factors (download paper)

June 5	Jan Libich
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	Fiscal Rigidity in a Monetary Union: the Calvo Timing and Beyond (download paper and slides) Discussant: Suren Basov

June 12	Daisy Chou
1-2pm Thursday DWB 222	What Influences Independent Board Member Appointments When Ownership is Concentrated? Discussant: Darren Henry

The 2007 Schedule

Feb 22:	John Kennan (University of Wisconsin Madison)
1-2pm Thursday	Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations

Mar 1:	Liam Lenten
1-2pm Thursday	The Extent to Which Unbalanced Schedules Affect Reported Competitive Balance in the Scottish Premier League Discussant: Damien Eldridge

Mar 8:	PhD Candidate: Murat Besnek
1-2pm Thursday	Is Competition the Cause of Retail Price Cycles?

Mar 15:	Anke Leroux
1-2pm Thursday	The Optimal Time to Remove Quarantine Bans Under Uncertainty: the Case of Australian Bananas Discussant: John Kennedy

Mar 22:	Larry Li
1-2pm Thursday	The Beginning of the End of Non-Tradable Shares in China

Mar 29:	Ian Walker (Warwick)
11-12pm Thursday MARB 362	Do Dads matter? Or is it just their money that matters?

Apr 5:	Suren Basov
1-2pm Thursday	On reducibility of a multi-dimensional screening problem to a uni-dimensional one Discussant: Heidi Ryoo

Apr 26:	Axel Wieneke
1-2pm Thursday	Persistent Bank Concentration and Limited Growth of SMEs in Russia Discussant: Heidi Ryoo

May 3:	John King
1-2pm Thursday	Microfoundations? Discussant: Troy Lynch

May 17:	Bill Reed (Victoria University, Canada)
12-1pm Thursday MARB 362	Normal-Laplace Distribution and Application

May 24:	Eduardo Roca (Griffith)
12-1pm Thursday MARB 362	An Analysis of the Sensitivity of Australian Superannuation Funds to Market Movements: A Markov Regime Switching Approach

May 31:	Heidi Ryoo
1-2pm Thursday	Current Account and Asset Prices

June 7:	Hayat Khan
1-2pm Thursday	Economics of Agents with Social Preferences: The Third Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics

July 26:	Damien Eldridge
1-2pm Thursday	Hidden costs of development: Multi-market contact and the management of local commons

Aug 2:	Jan Libich
1-2pm Thursday	Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction with Various Degrees and Types of Commitment (download paper) Discussant: Damien Eldridge

Aug 9:	PhD Candidate: Fahad Al-Ahmed
1-2pm Thursday	Effects of Event Study on Kuwaiti Markets � ISO registered Firms

Aug 16:	PhD Candidate: Cuong Nguyen
1-2pm Thursday	Recent Development in Modelling Financial Risk Using Copula Method

Aug 23:	Xiangkang Yin
1-2pm Thursday	Information and Capital Asset Pricing (download paper)

Aug 30:	Hayat Khan
1-2pm Thursday	Private Intergenerational Transfers and their ability to Alleviate The Fiscal Burden of Ageing

Sep 6:	Harry Clarke
1-2pm Thursday	Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change

Sep 13:	Louise Collis
1-2pm Thursday	A Game to Explain Persistent Low and High Reserve Prices on Ebay Discussant: Suren Basov

Sep 20:	PhD Candidate: Bek Abdullaev
1-2pm Thursday	Basic Flat Income Tax: Equity and Efficiency Considerations

Oct 4:	Suren Basov
1-2pm Thursday	Asymmetric auctions with risk-averse bidders: A perturbation theory approach (download paper)

Oct 11:	Damien Eldridge
1-2pm Thursday	A learning theory of referrals

Oct 18:	Master's Candidate: Panos Priftakis
1-2pm Thursday	The End of Non Tradable Shares in China

Oct 25:	Shawn Leu
1-2pm Thursday	A Small State-Space Model of the Australian Economy

Nov 1:	A/Prof. Zhengmao Ye (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
1-2pm Thursday	Enterprise Profit Sharing and the Evolution and Innovation of Modern Enterprise Systems

Nov 15:	Prof. George Athanassakos (University of Western Ontario)
12-1pm Thursday DWB 132	Value vs. Growth Stock Returns and the Value Premium: The Canadian Evidence 1985-2002

Nov 22:	Liam Lenten
1-2pm Thursday MARB 362	Bananas and Petrol: Further Evidence on the Forecasting Accuracy of the ABS �Headline� and �Underlying� Rates of Inflation Discussant: Shawn Leu

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