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Seminar Series 2008
Semester 2
Seminar Organiser: Paul Thorsnes
Email: pthorsnes@business.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 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 |
4 July
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Wing Thye Woo,
Brookings Institution, Washington DC
University of California, Davis
Central University of Finance & Economics, Beijing
"Understanding
the Sources of Friction in U.S.-China Trade Relations: The Exchange
Rate Debate Diverts Attention away from Optimum Adjustment"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
18 July Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Alexander Zimper, University
of Johannesburg
"Asset pricing in a Lucas "fruit-tree"
economy with non-additive beliefs"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
8 August Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Laura Meriluoto, University
of Canterbury
" Spam – solutions and their problems"
Download this paper as a pdf |
22 August Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Alfred A. Haug,
University of Otago
"Breaks, Cointegration, and the
fisher Effect", with A. Beyer (European Central Bank) and
W. G. Dewald (Ohio State University) |
5 September Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
**3.30pm Note changed time** |
Stanley Cho, University
of New South Wales
"Welfare Impact of Trade Liberalization"
Download this paper
as a pdf |
12 September Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Peter Robertson,University
of New South Wales
"Dynamic Comparative and Advantage
and China’s Education Revolution" |
19 September Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Philip McCann, Waikato
University
"Migration, Relationship Capital and International
Travel: Theory and Evidence"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
26 September Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Suzy Kerr, MOTU
"A prototype nutrient trading system for managing water
quality"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
10 October Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Arthur Grimes, MOTU
"Water water somewhere: The value of water in a drought-prone
farming region"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
17 October Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Harry Paarsch, University
of Melbourne
"Using Grid Distributions to Test for
Affiliation in Models of First-Price Auctions with private values"
Download this paper as a pdf |
24 October Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Ross Cullen, University
of Canterbury
"Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
of yellow-eyed penguin recovery"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
7 November Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Eric Leeper, Indiana
University
"Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics"
Download this paper
as a pdf |
14 November Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Sandra Eickmeier,
Deutsche Bundesbank
"Improving national forecasts with
large international datasets – an application to New Zealand
GDP growth" |
9 December Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
11.00am |
Colin Ash, University
of Reading
"Positional Goods ... or Positional People? Your income
tax and happiness could depend on the answer"
Download this paper as a
pdf |
Semester 1
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
4 April
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Liam Lenten, La
Trobe University:
" Is the Decline in the Frequency
of Draws in Test Match Cricket Detrimental to the Long Form
of the Game?" Download
this paper as a pdf |
11 April Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Kevin Duncan, Colorado
State University-Pueblo
"The Effects of Prevailing Wage Regulations on
Construction Efficiency"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
18 April
Room CO2.07, Level 2 Commerce Building
3.00 pm
|
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 1 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
28 April
Room CO2.07, Level 2, Commerce Building
1.00
pm
*Note Monday |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 2 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
2 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Morris Altman, University
of Saskatchewan:
"Experiments in Consumer Cooperatives:
Economic and Social Variables as Determinants of Demand"
|
5 May
Room CO5,20 Level 5, Commerce Building
1.00
pm
*Note Monday and change of venue |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 3 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
9 May
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm |
Norman Gemmell,
New Zealand Treasury:
"Personal and corporate taxes:
do they affect long-run growth?" |
12 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
1.00-2.30 pm
*Note Monday and change of venue |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lectures 4 & 5 in a series
of five.
Download
the slides for this series as a pdf
**This will be the final lecture in the series. Please note
the 23 May lecture has been cancelled. |
16 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Nicholas Hanley,
University of Sterling:
" A Panel Data Analysis of
Price Impacts on Biodiversity over a 400 Year Period"
Download this paper as a
pdf |
30 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Niven Winchester,
University of Otago:
"Shifting the 'goal posts': Optimising
the allocation of competition points for sporting contests"
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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