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Seminar Series 2009
Semester 2
Seminar Organiser: Alfred Haug
Email: alfred.haug@otago.ac.nz
All seminars are held at 3.00 pm on Fridays
in our Economics Seminar room CO.520. However, locations
could vary as we might be using Room 105 in the Advanced Business
Programme, the Marketing Department's Seminar Room CO.626, or the
Boardroom CO.419/420, depending on availability.
All welcome - please direct any enquiries to the
seminar organiser.
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
24 July
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00
pm |
Victoria Barham,
University of Ottawa
"Whatever You Can Do, I Can Do
Cheaper: Fee-for-Service versus Capitation Physician Payment
Schemes" |
31 July
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Tim Hampton, Reserve
Bank of New Zealand/New Zealand Treasury
"The RBNZ
Projection Process" |
14 August Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Fabio Milani, University
of California-Irvine, visiting RBNZ
"Expectations Shocks and Learning as Drivers of the Business
Cycle" |
21 August Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Mardi Dugney, University
of Tasmania
"International Linkages for Large Open Economies with a
SVAR Representation"
Download this paper as
a pdf |
28 August Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Viktoria Kahui,
University of Otago
" Labour supply of paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand:
If not today then tomorrow" |
11 September
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Arthur Grimes, MOTU
"Over the hedge? Exporters' optimal and selective endogenous
choices"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
25 September Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Chris Hajzler, University
of Otago
"Retail Price Differences across U.S. and Canadian Cities
during the Interwar Period" |
9 October
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Steven Stillman,
MOTU
"Selectivity and the Estimated Impact of Emigration on
Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas: Evidence from the Samoan
Quota Migration Lottery"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
16 October
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Don Webber, Auckland
University of Technology
"Microeconomic foundations
of spatial variations in labour productivity " |
23 October
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Pierre Siklos, William
Evans Visiting Fellow from Wilfrid Laurier University
"Relative Price Shocks, Inflation Expectations, and the
Role of Monetary Policy"
Download this paper as a
pdf |
30 October
Joint Seminar with Dept of Finance and Quantitative
Analysis and Dept of Economics room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Pierre Siklos, William
Evans Visiting Fellow from Wilfrid Laurier University
"A Bridge too Far? RBNZ Communication and the Forward Interest
Rate Track"
Download this paper
as a pdf |
2 November Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
1.00 pm
* Note Monday and different time |
Ozer Karagedikli, The
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
"The effect of Australian macroeconomic news on the New
Zealand dollar"
Seminar has been cancelled
due to illness |
Semester 1
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
9 February
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
1.00 pm
*Note Monday |
Chris Milner, Nottingham
University
"Factor Content of Inter-and Intra-Industry
Trade" |
9 March Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
1.00 pm
*Note Monday |
Clemens Puppe, University
of Karlsruhe, Institute of Technology
"The Median Voter
Theorem Revisited" |
13 March
Commerce Level 2 room CO2.03
12.00 pm
* Note different time |
John McDermott,
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
"Conducting Monetary Policy
in Turbulent Times" |
20 March Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Maros Servatka,
Canterbury University
"Words Speak Louder Than Money"
Download this paper as a pdf |
17 April Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Simon Anderson,
University of Virginia (visiting University of Melbourne)
"Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics
Industry"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
24 April Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Iris Claus, New
Zealand Inland Revenue
"Variable GST/VAT: A tool for
monetary policy?"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
8 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Riccardo Scarpa,
Waikato University
"Exploring scale effects of best/worst
rank ordered choice data to estimate visitors’ benefits
from alpine transhumance"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
15 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Les Oxley, Canterbury
University
"Modelling financial markets: Long memory
or shifting means?" |
22 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Alison Booth, Australian
National University
"Choosing To Compete: How Different are Girls
and Boys"
Download
this paper as a pdf
Seminar
has been cancelled |
25 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
*1.00 pm
Note Monday |
Timothy Hatton, Australian
National University
"Fertility Decline and the Heights
of Children in Britain, 1886-1938"
Download
this paper as a pdf
Seminar
has been cancelled |
15 June Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
*1.00 pm
Note Monday |
Daniel Waggoner,
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, visiting RBNZ
"Understanding
Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
10 July
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Michael Bordo, Rutgers
University, NBER, and RBNZ Professorial Fellow
"Foreign
Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long
Run View"
Download this
paper as a pdf |
Brown bag Seminars
The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view
the recent programme here.
Past Departmental Seminar Series
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