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Seminar/Events Program - 2008

Semester 1

Date Venue Presenter Topic
7 Mar Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Hugh Sibly (UTAS) Vertical Product Differentiation and Quality Distortion
14 Mar Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr John Stachurski (Kyoto University) Computing Distributions of Economic Models via Simulation
4 Apr Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan (UTAS) Yet Another Autoregressive Conditional Duration Model: The ACDD Model
11 Apr Commerce Building
Com104, 12.00noon
Professor Alex Frino (USYD & Capital Markets CRC Ltd) To be advised
17 Apr Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Lyndon Moore (Victoria Uni of Wellington, NZ) Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange 1895-1905
18 Apr Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Honours Students' Presentation (UTAS)  
2 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Bruce Felmingham (UTAS) Sigmoid Utility Transformations
9 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Associate Professor Graeme Wells (UTAS)

Subsitution between Public and Private Consumption in Australian States
16 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Nikos Nikiforakis (UMelbourne) Feuds in the Laboratory
23 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Roland Hodler (UMelbourne) Different Reasons why a Conservative may run a Budget Deficit
30 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Paul Blacklow (UTAS) Assessing Graduate Employment in the Presence of Endogeneity and Sample Selection Bias (with Aaron Nicholas)

 

Semester 2

Date Venue Presenter Topic
18 July Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Honours Students' Presentation (UTAS)  
25 July Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Nahar Arshad Measuring the Efficiency of Public Secondary Education Investment in Malaysia
1 Aug Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Guneratne Wickremasinghe (Victoria U) Integration of South Asian Stock Markets with Developed Stock Markets: An Investigation of Portfolio Diversification Possibilities
15 Aug Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Mr Alexis Wadsley (PhD Candidate, UTAS)

The Neo-Classical Dependent Economy Model and What Makes a Dependent Economy
25 Aug

Commerce Building
Room 511, 3.00pm

Dr John Salerin (Assistant Commissioner, Productivity Commission, Melbourne) Modelling the Economy-Effects of Future Assistance Options for the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries
29 Aug Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Associate Professor Michael Brooks (UTAS) Revenue Risk and Revenue Timing
12 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Honours Students' Presentation (UTAS)  
19 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Professor Xiin Meng (ANU) The Causes of Cross-Sectional Inequity in Exposure to China’s Great Famine and Its Long Run Health and Economic Consequences on Survivors
26 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Catherine de Fontenay (UMelbourne) Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities
8 Oct Commerce Building
Room 204, 4.00pm
David N Laband (Forest Policy Centre, Auburn University) Empirical Test of Expressive Voting
17 Oct Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Ms Ann Marsden (PhD Candidate, UTAS)

An investigation of Price Discrimination in the Tourist Accommodation Industry in Tasmania - Some Initial Findings.

 

The 2008 Giblin Lecture

To be delivered by

Professor Warwick McKibbin

Executive Director
Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis
College of Business and Economics
Australian National University

Climate Change Policy Post 2013

Tuesday 28 October at 5.30pm
Centenary Lecture Theatre
Ground Floor, Centenary Building
University of Tasmania
Grosvenor Crescent, Sandy Bay
Contact Sue Abel at the School
for further information at 6226 2308
or e-mail sue.abel@utas.edu.au

ALL WELCOME

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