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Seminar/Events Program - 2009

Semester 1

Date Venue Presenter Topic
6 Mar Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Professor Adrian Pagan (UNSW & QUT) Some Developments in Macroeconomic Models Used for Policy Analysis
13 Mar Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Susan Thorp (UTS) An Experimental Survey of Investment Decisions for Retirement Savings
20 Mar Commerce Building
Room 202a, 2.00pm
Professor Rod Tyers (ANU) Service Oligopolies and Australia’s Economy-Wide Performance
27 Mar Commerce Building
Com104, 11.00am
Mr Talis Putnins (USYD) Pricing Accuracy, Liquidity and Trader Behaviour with Closing Price Manipulation
3 Apr Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Paul Blacklow (UTAS) Decomposing the Price Effects on the Cost Of Living for Australian Households
24 Apr Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Lyudmyla Hvozdyk (Uni of Cambridge) Bivariate Jump Tests: Evidence from the US Treasury Bond and Futures Markets
1 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Hugh Sibly (UTAS) Social Comparisons & Reference Group Formation
1 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 3.10pm

Honours Students Presentations (UTAS)

 

8 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Hristos Doucouliagos and T.D. Stanley

Contested Theory and Selectivity: Are All Economic Facts Greatly Exaggerated?

15 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Professor Arye Hillman (Bar-llan University, Israel) Expressive Generosity
22 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Paul Wachtel (Stern NYU) What is happening to the impact of financial deepening on economic growth?
29 May Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Mr Alexis Wadsley (UTAS) The Tasmanian Regional Input/Output Model
30 June Commerce Building
Room 511, 11.00am

Professor Eric Renault
Henry A Latane Distinguished Professor of Economics,
Paris University Dauphine

Efficient Derivative Pricing by the Extended Method of Moments

 

Semester 2

 

 

The 2009 Giblin Lecture

To be delivered by

Professor Eric A Hanushek

Paul and Jean Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Standford University
Professor of Education and Senior Fellow, Standard Center for International Development
Standford Intitute for Economic Policy Research and
Professor Economics


"Can Improved Schools Lead to More Growth?"

Wednesday 15th July 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

COST: FREE, JUST YOUR TIME

 

Date Venue Presenter Topic
24 July Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Professor George J. Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
Reputations
31 July Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Professor Francis Tapon and Bram Cadsby (University of Guelph) The Impact of Risk Aversion and Stress on the Incentive Effect of Performance Pay
7 Aug Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Ms Ann Marsden (UTAS)

Steven Rust - Honours Student Presentations (UTAS)

Price Discrimination in the Tourist Accommodation Industry in Tasmania – Empirical Analysis and Findings

A Valuation of Recreational Fishing in Tasmania

21 Aug

Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00pm

Mr Satoshi Yamazaki (UTAS) Non-Market Values and Optimal Marine Reserve Switching
28 Aug Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Ted McDonald (University of New Brunswick) Earnings, Occupation and Schooling Decisions of Immigrants with Medical Degrees: Evidence for Canada and the US
11 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Eliza Wu (UNSW) International Bank Flows to Emerging Markets: Influence of Sovereign Credit Ratings and their Regional Spillover Effects
18 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan (UTAS) Market Manipulation
25 Sep Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Ms Jing Tian (UTAS) Forecasting Under Structural Break Uncertainty
2 Oct Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Dr Katy Cornwell (Monash University) Labour Market Outcomes of Internal Migrants in Fiji
16 Oct Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am

Dr Abdullah Yalama (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey)

Testing for Correlation Break
28 Oct Commerce Building
Room 104, 11.00am
Mr Shane Evans (ANU) To be advised