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Seminar Series 2012

Semester 1

Seminar co-coordinators: Steve Stillman and Steffen Lippert

Email addresses: steven.stillman@otago.ac.nz and steffen.lippert@otago.ac.nz

All seminars will be held at 3.00 pm on Fridays in our Economics Seminar room CO.520. However, locations could vary as we might be using other venues, please check below each seminar date for venue variations.

All welcome - please direct any enquiries to the seminar co-coordinators.

Date Speaker and Topic
17 February Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Francis Bloch, École Polytechnique
"Oates' Decentralization Theorem with Household Mobility" (joint with Unal Zenginobuz)
Download this paper as a pdf
5 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
*Note Monday
Martin Kocher, University of Munich
"Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior"
Download this paper as a pdf
Additional material
9 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Prasanna Gai, University of Auckland
"Biased Banking" (joint with Mark Carney, Kartik Anand and Etienne Bordeleau)
12 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
*Note Monday
Dan Thornton, VP Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"The Identification of the Response of Interest Rates to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks"
Download this paper as a pdf
Download Dan's VEP lecture "The Fed's Response to the Financial Crisis: What it did and what it should have done"
16 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Jan Fidrmuc, Brunel University
"How Persistent is Social Capital?"
Download this paper as a pdf
23 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Bilgehan Karabay, University of Auckland
"Trade Policy-Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining"
Download this paper as a pdf
30 March Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Norman Gemmell, Victoria University Wellington
"Taxpayers' responses to income tax rate increases. Do they reduce revenue?"
Download the paper used as a basis for this presentation
2 April
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Sherrill Shaffer, University of Wyoming
"Assessing Competition with the Panzar-Rosse Model: The Role of Scale, Costs, and Equilibrium"
Download this paper as a pdf
Additional material
13 April Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Brendan Moyle, Massey University
"A Tale of Two Species: Why Tigers are Vanishing and Crocodiles are Recovering"
20 April Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland
"Ambiguity Aversion, Innovation and Investment Bubbles" (joint with Rhema Vaithianathan and Luca Rigotti)
Download this paper as a pdf
27 April Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics
"Vertical Integration, Information and Foreclosure" (joint with Marie-Laure Allain and Claire Chambolle)
Download this paper as a pdf
18 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
2.30pm
Sholeh Maani, University of Auckland
"Private Returns to Tertiary Education: How Does NZ Compare among the OECD Countries?"
25 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
John Tang, The Australian National University
"Railroad expansion and entrepreneurship: evidence from Meiji Japan"
8 June
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Dorian Owen, University of Otago
"Simulating distributions of competitive balance measures in sports leagues"

Semester 2

Date Speaker and Topic
13 July
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona
Title TBA
27 July
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Maros Servatka, Canterbury University
Title TBA
3 August
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Jason Shachat, Xiamen University
Title TBA
10 August
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Nicholas Groshenny, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Title TBA
24 August
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Cristina Echevarria, University of Saskatchewan
Title TBA
31 August
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Isabelle Sin, MOTU
Title TBA
14 September
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Bob Breunig, The Australian National University
Title TBA
24 September
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm

*Note Monday
Rebecca Valenzuela, Monash University
Title TBA
28 September
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Yuji Tamura, The Australian National University
Title TBA
12 October
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Marjan van den Belt, Massey University
Title TBA
26 October
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm
Gigi Foster, University of New South Wales
Title TBA

 

Brown bag Seminars

The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view the current programme here.

Past Departmental Seminar Series