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School of Business
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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