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Seminar Series 2003Semester 1 Seminars
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| Date | Speaker and Topic |
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| 28 July | Guglielmo Caporale,
South Bank University, London “The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Revisited: A Monte-Carlo Study” |
| 5 August NB: Tuesday |
David Fielding,
University of Leicester and UNU/WIDER “How does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor? Evidence from the West African Economic and Monetary Union” |
| 6 August NB: Wed |
Hans-Martin Krolzig,
University of Oxford “Wage and Price Phillips Curves: An Empirical Analysis of Destabilizing Wage-Price Spirals” |
| 12 August | Jan Dutta, Rutgers
University “Economics of Globalization and Regionalization” |
| 12 September NB: CO 4.20 | Paul Hansen, University
of Otago “A Practical Demonstration of a New Method and Computer Program for Scoring Additive Multiattribute Value Models (a.k.a. Points Systems)” |
| 19 September | Philip Nel, Political
Studies, University of Otago “Income Inequality, Economic Growth, and Political Instability In Sub-Saharan Africa” |
| 26 September | Dorian Owen, University
of Otago “Productivity, Factor Accumulation and Social Networks" |
| 11 October | Niven Winchester,
University of Otago “Capital-Skills Complementarity and Rising Wage Inequality in the UK” |
13 October |
Suhejla Hoti, University
of Western Australia “An Empirical Assessment of Country-Risk Ratings and Associated Models” |
| 24 October | Carlyn Ramlogan,
University of Otago “Is Latin America Catching Up? A Time Series Approach” |
| 29 October NB: Wed, 4pm |
Quentin Grafton,
Australian National University “On Marine Reserves: Rents, Resilience and 'Rules of Thumb'” |
| 31 October | Andrew Tremayne,
University of Sydney and University of York “Using the Wild Bootstrap to Implement Heteroskedasticity-Robust Tests for Serial Correlation in Dynamic Regression Models” |
Semester 1
Organizer: Martin Richardson
All seminars are in Commerce CO: 5.20 on Fridays and commence at 3:00 pm unless otherwise indicated.
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| 7 March | 
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Steven Stillman, Labour
Mkts. Policy Group, DoL "The effect of economic crises on nutritional status: evidence from Russia" Abstract |
| 17 March N.B. Monday @ noon |
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Jota
Ishikawa, Hitotsubashi University "Who benefits from rules of origin in a free trade area?" Abstract and Masahiro Endoh, Keio University "Country size and the choice of partner countries in forming preferential trading agreements" Abstract |
| 21 March |  |
Simon
Anderson, University of Virginia "Market provision of public goods: the case of broadcasting" Abstract |
| 28 March | 
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Matthew
Shapiro, University of Michigan "Monetary policy with trend growth uncertainty" Abstract |
| 4 April |  |
Peter
Kennedy, Simon Fraser University "Does teaching enhance research in economics?" Abstract |
| 11 April |  |
Matt Hickman, Ministry
for the Environment "Using economics in environmental management" Abstract |
| 14 April N.B. Monday @ noon |
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Ken
West, University of Wisconsin "Exchange rates and fundamentals" Abstract |
| 9 May |  |
Nils Bjorksten, Reserve
Bank of NZ "The neutral real interest rate in New Zealand" |
| POSTPONED TO SEMESTER II |
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John Creedy, NZ
Treasury "The welfare effects of indirect tax changes in New Zealand" |
| 19 May N.B. Monday @ noon |
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Hyejoon Im, University of
Virginia "Trading blocs and Foreign Direct Investment: endogenous coalition structure in the presence of FDI" Abstract |
| 23 May |  |
Rick
Garside, University of Otago (history) "What went wrong with the Japanese economy? An historical perspective from 1945" Abstract |
| 30 May |  |
Stephen
Dobson, University of Otago "Why do rates of convergence differ? A meta regression analysis" |
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