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The School of Economics and Finance hosts a Research Seminar on Fridays, starting at 11:00am (unless otherwise noted on the schedule below). All university staff and other researchers are welcome to attend.
If you would like to participate or require further information please feel free to contact the Seminar Coordinator, Dr. Jing Tian.
Venue: Commerce Room 511 Level 5, Commerce Building - view Hobart Campus Map (PDF 348.1KB) (unless otherwise noted).
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Coordinator: Dr Jing Tian.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 30 January | Professor Marco Wilkens (Universitat Augsberg) | Survivorship Bias and Fund Performance |
| Friday 24 February | Professor John Quiggin (University of Queensland) | Stabilising the Global Climate: Is There Still time? (525.2KB) |
| Friday 2 March | Professor Tom Kompas (Australian National University) | Economics for Biosecurity Measures and Optimal 'Early Detection of Invasive Weeds' |
| Friday 9 March | Dr Minh Phuong Doan (RMIT) | Is the Market Portfolio Mean-Variance-Skewness-Kurtosis Efficient? Some International Evidence |
| Friday 16 March | Dr Tom Wilkening (University of Melbourne) | Recursive Contracts, Firm Longevity and Rat Races: An Experimental Analysis (691.1KB) |
| Friday 23 March | Professor Andreas Ortmann (UNSW) | Group Incentives or Individual Incentives? A Real-Effort Weak-Link Experiment |
| 5 April to 11 April 2012 | Easter Break | |
| April 12 - 13, 2012 | 17th Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop - Monash University | |
| Friday 20 April | Professor Nick Hanley (University of Stirling) | Choice Experiments on Coastal Ecosystems |
| Friday 27 April | Maria Yanotti (UTAS) | Characteristics and Costs in Mortgage Choice |
| Friday 4 May | Professor Denise Osborn (University of Manchester) | Inference on structural breaks: A Monte Carlo analysis and application to Euro area monetary policy |
| Friday 11 May | Honours Presentations | |
| Friday 18 May | Gianni La Cava (Reserve Bank of Australia) | Lending Distance and US Home Mortgage Credit Quality: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2.3MB) |
| Friday 25 May | ||
| Friday 1 June | ||
| Friday 8 June | Dr Peter Siminski (Wollongong) | I was only nineteen, 45 years ago: What can we learn from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries? (547.8KB) |
| Friday 15 June | Prof Martin Richardson (ANU) | Faddists, enthusiasts and Canadian divas: The supply response to broadcasting quotas |
| Friday 22 June | ||
| Friday 29 June | Professor John Tisdell | An experimental study of fisheries congestion |
| July 4 - 6, 2012 | Australasian Meetings, Econometric Society - ESAM 2012 - Deakin University | |
| July 8 - 12, 2012 | Australian Conference of Economists - Melbourne University | |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 12 July 3:30pm |
Prof Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University) | Identification-robust analysis of DSGE and structural macroeconomic models |
| Friday 13 July |
Emeritus Professor Sir James Mirrlees (University of Cambridge) | Finance and the Crisis |
| Friday 13 July |
Professor James Mirrlees, Economic Society of Australia Eminent Speaker Series, 'Eradicating Poverty', Centenary Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm | |
| Friday 20 July 9:00am Room 511 |
Prof George Tauchen (Duke University) | TBA |
| Friday 27 July |
Prof Aman Ullah (University of California, Riverside) | TBA |
| Friday 3 August |
Prof Renee Adams (UNSW) | TBA |
| Monday 13 August 9:30am Room 223 |
Dr Alexandre Dmitriev (UNSW) | Time Separability, Wealth Effects and International Business Cycles |
| Friday 17 August |
Associate Professor Seth Macinko (University of Rhode Island) | Honest Brokers? Reconsidering fisheries economics |
| Friday 24 August |
Professor Francis Tapon (University of Guelph) | Risk, Compensation and Stress |
| Friday 31 August |
Honours presentations | |
| Friday 7 September |
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| Friday 14 September |
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| Friday 21 September |
Dr Joaquin Vespignani (UTAS) | Liquidity and Crude Oil Prices: Chinas Influence Over 1997-2011 |
| Friday 28 September |
Prof John Tisdell (UTAS) |
An experimental study of fisheries congestion |
| Friday 5 October |
Prof Timothy Cason (Purdue University) | Misconceptions and Game Form Recognition of the BDM Method: Challenges to Theories of Revealed Preference and Framing |
| Monday 8 October |
Economic Society, Tasmanian Economic Forum | |
| Thursday 11 October 3:00pm, RM223 |
Dr Jing Zhao (La Trobe University) |
A Hidden Markov Approach to Information-based Trading |
| Friday 12 October |
Prof Drusilla Brown (Tufts University) |
Monitoring and Evaluation of Complex Large Scale Interventions |
| Thursday 18 October |
Giblin Lecture, Associate Professor Judy Yates (University of Sydney), "Housing and the distribution of wealth" | |
| Friday 19 October |
Housing Finance Workshop | |
| Friday 26 October |
Professor Andy Tremayne (UNSW) | Modelling Conditional Means for Count Time Series |
| Friday 2 November |
Prof Joakim Westerholm (University of Sydney) | The Wisdom of Crowds: How the Hi-Tech Bubble Enriched Household Investors |
| November 9-11, 2012 |
Financial Integrity Research Network (FIRN) Conference | |
| Friday 16 November |
Dr Hugh Sibly (UTAS) | Turn-taking' in the lab |
| Friday 23 November |
Dinesh Gajurel (UTAS) | Equity Market Contagion During the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the World's Eight Largest Economies |
| Tuesday 27 November |
Prof Prof Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University) | Two Centuries of International Lending Cycles: A View from Latin America (630KB) |
| Wednesday 5 December 11am in 511 |
Professor Neil Kellard (University of Essex) | Forecasting EUR-USD Implied Volatility: The Case of Intraday Data |
| Thursday 6 December 2pm in 511 |
Ms Wenying Yao (Monash University) | Forecasting with error-correcting VARMA models |
| December 10-11, 2012 |
Australasian Public Choice Conference, Hobart | |
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3 April, 2013
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