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Seminar Series 2002

Organizer: Martin Richardson

Semester 2 Seminars

Date Presenter Title  
12 July N.B.: in room CO:2.07   Rod Carr, RBNZ "Maintaining financial stability: how hard can it be?"  
19 July  Paul Hansen, University of Otago "A new approach to prioritising health decisions"  
 26 JulyN.B.: at 2:00pm Stephen Knowles, University of Otago "Social capital and foreign aid allocations"  
2 Aug.  Victoria Zinde-Walsh, McGill University  "Asymptotic properties of some robust estimators"  
 N.B. Thurs. 15 Aug. at Noon  Mardi Dungey, Australian National University  "International contagion effects from the Russian crisis and the LTCM near-collapse"  
23 Aug. Srikanta Chatterjee, Massey University "Equity, efficiency and social welfare: the application of Lorenz dominance to New Zealand incomes data 1984-98"  
6 Sept.  Grant Scobie, NZ Treasury "Saving and ageing: the research programme at Treasury and some results"  
20 Sept.  Phil McCann, University of Reading "Human capital, higher education and graduate migration"  
27 Sept.   George Fane, ANU (visiting Otago) "The links between growth and poverty reduction: CGE analysis for Indonesia"  
18 Oct.  Graham Haughton, University of Hull (visiting Geography) "Market making: globalisation and the international water business"  
25 Oct. Ann Daly, University of Canberra "Lessons from welfare reform in the US for welfare policy for Indigenous Australians"  

 

Semester 1 Seminars

 
15 March Peter Kenen, Princeton University "Currency unions and policy domains"
22 March Niven Winchester, University of Otago "Trade, technology and relative wages: A CGE analysis"
26 April Caroline Saunders, Lincoln University "On Kyoto and GM foods: trade and environmental modelling"
10 May Martin Richardson, University  of Otago "Globalisation: a neophyte's survey"
17 May Viktoria Schneider, University of Otago "How effective are marine reserves? A spatial bioeconomic modeling approach to the NZ Rock Lobster Industry"
Ken Buckingham "Cost-effectiveness decision rules under uncertainty: on double-kinky curves"
24 May Paul Thorsnes, Grand Valley State University (visiting Otago) "Prospects for a market allocation of land to suburban nature preserves"
31 May Alfred Haug, University of York (Toronto) "A closer look at long run money demand"