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Seminar program 2008

Department of Economics and Finance

Semester 2 Seminars
Jul 25: Dr Prasad Bhattacharya
(School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Deakin University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 An explanation of efficient market hypothesis and unbiasedness using Markov switching framework

Aug 1: Prof Francis Vella
(Department of Economics Georgetown University, USA)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages

Aug 8: Dr Jonathan Reeves
(School of Banking and Finance University of NSW)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Monthly forecasts of systematic risk: an evaluation

Aug 15: Dr George Messinis
(Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Valuable skills, human capital and technology diffusion

Aug 22: Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani
(High Commissioner for Pakistan)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Regional security and economic situation: Pakistan's perspective

Aug 28: Prof Warwick McKibbin
(College of Business and Economics Australian National University)
12pm-1pm
Thursday		 Building on Kyoto: Towards a realistic global climate agreement

Sep 5: Prof Kuldeep Kumar
(Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development, Bond University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Business failures prediction using decision trees

Sep 12: Ms Amy Auster
(ANZ Bank)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Public lecture on the recent financial market turmoil and subprime mortgage crisis

Sep 19: A/Prof Lin Crase
(School of Business La Trobe University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Public lecture on sustainability and environment # 4

Sep 26: Prof Harry Paarsch
(Department of Economics University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Implementing Faustmann: stochastic dynamic programming in space

Oct 8: Dr. Geoff Edwards
(Productivity Commission)
10am-12pm
Wednesday		 Towards reform of urban water

Oct 10: Dr Randal Watson
(Department of Economics University of Texas at Austin, USA)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 TBA

Oct 17: Dr Jacob Wong
(School of Economics University of Adelaide)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 TBA

Oct 24: Dr David Kim
(Discipline of Economics University of Sydney)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 TBA

Oct 31: Dr Shams Pathan
(Department of Accounting and Finance Monash University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 TBA

Semester 1 Seminars
Feb 8: Prof Hiroshi Kinokuni
(College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
12pm-1pm
Friday

Patent pools and the allocation rule

Feb 29: Dr Sirimon Treepongkarunga
(Department of Finance and Statistics, Australian National University)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Realizing the impacts of sovereign ratings on stock and currency markets

Mar 7: Prof Rabee Tourky (School of Economics, University of Queensland)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 From imitation games to Kakutani

Mar 14: Dr Jonathan Dark (Department of Finance, University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Dynamic hedging with futures that are subject to price limits

Mar 28: Dr Glenn Denning (Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Sustainable development and climate change: Can Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals?

Apr 4: Dr Michele Lenza (European Central Bank)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Monetary Policy and Core Inflation

Apr 18: Prof Michael Carter (Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wiscousin-Madison, USA)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Poverty Traps and Social Protection

Apr 24: Assoc Prof Alfred Guender (Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
12pm-1pm
Thursday		 Practical Monetary Policies

May 2: Dr Lawrence Uren (Department of Economics University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Inequality, Volatility and Labour Market Efficiency

Mar 9: Dr Duygu Yengin (School of Economics, University of Adelaide)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Groves mechanisms and welfare bounds in a variable population setting

May 16: Dr Alex Millmow (School of Business, University of Ballarat)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 The transition from Keynesian to Monetarist economics in Australia: Joan Robinson's 1975 visit to Monash

May 23: Prof Peter Lloyd (Department of Economics, University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Partial equilibrium measures of trade restrictiveness

May 30: Dr Roland Hodler (Department of Economics, University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Different reasons why a Conservative may run a budget deficit

Jun 6 : Prof John Quiggin (School of Economics, University of Queensland)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Discounting and intergenerational equity

Jun 13 : Prof Ian King (Department of Economics, University of Melbourne)
12pm-1pm
Friday		 Directed search, unemployment and wage dispersion

 

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