The School of Economics run a regular seminar program to enable our academic staff and higher degree by research students to keep abreast of the latest research topics and interact with international, national and internal experts in the field. There are six types of seminar series with its own academic coordinator: Applied Economics, Econometrics Colloquium, Economic Theory, Macroeconomics, Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) and Brown Bag.

2024 Seminar Coordinators

 

Equity ATMs

20 March 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto

Insurer Switching and Broker Incentives in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance

21 March 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Yaying Zhou, The University of Queensland

Firm Life-Cycle Learning and Misallocation

18 March 2024 11:30am12:45pm
Presented by Dr Ying Feng, National University of Singapore

The Political Consequences of Vaccines: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Eligibility Rules

14 March 2024 1:00pm2:30pm
Presented by Prof Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify?

13 March 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by A/Prof Seojeong Lee, Seoul National University

Intelligence, Wealth of Nations and Democracy: A look at UK data

13 March 2024 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota

From Design to Disclosure

7 March 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Kun Zhang, The University of Queensland

Safety, in Numbers

6 March 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University

Work2vec: Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia

29 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Sarah Bana, Chapman University

Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning

28 February 2024 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Ben Bushong, Michigan State University

On the Benefits of Robo-advice in Financial Markets

23 February 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Prof Simon Weidenholzer, University of Essex

The Formation of Social Groups under Status Concern

22 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Manuel Staab, The University of Queensland

Firm Life-Cycle Learning and Misallocation

20 February 2024 11:30am12:45pm
Presented by Dr Ying Feng, NUS

Drained Away: Oil Lost from First Nations Reserves

23 November 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Lucija Muehlenbachs, University of Calgary

Matching Funds in Innovation

22 November 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Jun Xiao, University of Melbourne

The Silent Treatment? Imperfect Correlation of Spousal Expectations and Communication Frictions

17 November 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Adeline Delavande, The University of Technology Sydney

Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation

15 November 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Prof Leeat Yariv, Princeton University

The Virtuous Cycle between Skills and Technology

9 November 2023 2:00pm3:30pm
Presented by Prof Sascha Becker, Monash University

Microfoundations of Myersonian Common Knowledge and Implications for Incomplete Information Core

8 November 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Hülya Eraslan, Rice University

On Loss Aversion

7 November 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Erik Snowberg, The University of Utah

Taxation and Sources of Inequality

7 November 2023 9:30am10:45am
Presented by A/Prof Yena Park, Seoul National University

Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal R&D Policy

27 October 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Dr Nisvan Erkal, The University of Melbourne

Improving Information Acquisition in School Choice

25 October 2023 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Dr Siqi Pan, The University of Melbourne

Labor Market Sorting and Social Security in Developing Countries

24 October 2023 9:30am10:45am
Presented by Dr Han Gao, University of New South Wales

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Seminars 2024

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
AprilFriday 19thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota)
 Thursday 18thBrown Bag Seminar SeriesA/Prof Julie Moschion (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 17thEconomic Theory Prof Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
 Thursday 11thApplied EconomicsProf Hitoshi Shigeoka (University of Tokyo)
 Wednesday 10thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Roberto Weber (University of Zurich)
 Wednesday 10thEconometricsDr Moyu Liao (University of Sydney)
 Tuesday 9thMacroeconomicsA/Prof Kai Zhou (University of Connecticut)
MarchThursday 28thApplied EconomicsProf Sangyoon Park (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
 Wednesday 27thEconometricsDr Didier Nibbering (Monash University)
 Wednesday 27thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Emanuel Vespa (UC San Diego)
 Thursday 21stBrown BagDr Yaying Zhou (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 20thEconomic TheoryDr Anton Tsoy (University of Toronto)
 Monday 18thMacroeconomicsDr Ying Feng (National University of Singapore)
 Thursday 14th Applied EconomicsProf Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
 Wednesday 13thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
 Wednesday 13thEconometricsA/Prof Seojeong Lee (Seoul National University)
 Thursday 7thBrown BagDr Kun Zhang (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 6thEconomic TheoryDr Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State University)
 Tuesday 5thMacroeconomicsProf Kozo Ueda (Waseda University)
 Friday 1stEconometricsProf Shuping Shi (Macquarie University)
FebruaryThursday 29thApplied EconomicsDr Sarah Bana (Chapman University)
 Wednesday 28thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Ben Bushong (Michigan State University)
 Friday 23rdCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Simon Weidenholzer (University of Essex)
 Thursday 22ndBrown BagDr Manuel Staab (The University of Queensland)