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Seminar Series 2001

Organizer: Alan King

Semester 2 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
13 July Professor Martin Richardson, University of Otago "Cultural quotas in broadcasting: local content requirements, advertising limits and public radio."
20 July Mr Colin Smithies, University of Otago "An experiment in experiments: Guinea pigs required!"
27 July Ismael Sanz Labrador, Universidad Complutense de Madrid "The evolution and convergence of the government expenditure composition in the OECD countries: an analysis of the functional distribution"
10 August Dr Nancy Devlin, University of Otago "Looking beneath the data: can qualitative analysis add to quantitative research?"
17 August Dr John McCombie, Downing College, Cambridge University "What do aggregate production functions tell us? A cautionary tale."
7 September Dr John McCombie, Downing College, Cambridge University "Biased technical change, growth and accounting and the conundrum of the East Asian miracle"
14 September Dr Joe Wallis, University of Otago "Different perspectives on leadership in the New Zealand public sector: The curious case of Christine Rankin."
21 September Dr Stephen Knowles, University of Otago "Inequality and economic growth: the empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data."
28 September Professor Michael Wickens,
University of York
"Macroeconomic sources of FOREX risk."
31 October Mrs Arlene Garces-Ozanne,
University of Otago
"A bounds test approach to the study of level relationships in a panel of HPAEs"
16 November Mr Paul Killerby, University of Otago "Social capital, economic performance and human welfare: Evidence and implications."

 

Semester 1 Seminars

 
Date Presenter Title
13 February Professor Moshe Justman, Ben Gurion University "Education, social cohesion and growth."
16 March Professor Peter Kennedy, Simon Fraser University "Buyer behavior in a regional thoroughbred yearling market."
23 March Professor Paul Cheshire, London School of Economics "Policies for urban growth, local public goods, spillovers and convergence/divergence: some empirical and methodological answers"
30 March Associate Professor John Parker, University of Otago "Pharmaceutical patent extensions, 1955-1995: an appraisal."
20 April Dr Jie Zhang,
Victoria University
"Optimal tax mix in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics"
4 May Professor David Parkin, City University London "Studying health care production functions using Data Envelopment Analysis"
11 May Dr Alan King, University of Otago "Balance-of-payments constrained growth: introducing, supply."
18 May Dr Paul Hansen, University of Otago "The impossible made comprehensible? Another simple graphical proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem"