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.

2025 Seminar Coordinators

 

Promotions and Group Identity

5 August 2025 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Maroš Servátka, Macquarie Business School

The Costs of Variety: Productivity of Differentiated Production Inputs

7 August 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Filip Premik, Monash University

Building Authority/Influence: Is it better to be right or to be followed?

30 July 2025 12:00pm1:15pm
Presented by Prof George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania

Revisiting the Sources of U.S. Imbalances: A Wavelet Approach

29 July 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Prof Jun-Hyung Ko, Aoyama University

Time-based Team Competition: Theory and Experiment

24 July 2025 10:00am11:15am
Presented by A/Prof Ailin Leng, Shandong University

The Impact of Interest: Firms’ Investment Sensitivity to Interest Rates

15 July 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Prof Benjamin Born, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Electrification in the Long Run

2 July 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Andrew Yates, University of North Carolina

Welfare-enhancing Public and Private Insurance Arrangements for Long-term Care Risk

23 June 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Markups, Lack of Financing and Business Structures

13 June 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Andrés Bellofatto, The University of Queensland

Interventions Against Machine-Assisted Statistical Discrimination

11 June 2025 12:00pm1:15pm
Presented by A/Prof John Yiran Zhu, University of Kansas

Sins of the Fathers: The Legacy of Frontier Violence on Australian Communities

6 June 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by A/Prof Julie Moschion, The University of Queensland

Dimension Reduction for Conditional Density Estimation with Applications to High-Dimensional Causal Inference

30 May 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Fu Ouyang, The University of Queensland

Robust Implementation in Approximate Payoff-monotone Equilibrium

28 May 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Rodrigo Velez, The University of Texas

Changes in Australian Price-setting Behaviour Around a Large Shock: Evidence From Microdata

27 May 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Jonathan Hambur, Reserve Bank of Australia

Loose Cannons and Lone Wolves: Native-White Violence on the American Frontier

22 May 2025 3:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Dr Kiang Diao, French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and the Environment

Firm Learning, Innovation, and Growth

16 May 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by A/Prof Marek Ignaszac, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy: the Labour Mobility Channel

13 May 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Ekaterina Shabalina, Reserve Bank of Australia

Testing Inputs or Outputs: What to Test and How to Test

12 May 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Christoph Carnehl, Bocconi University

Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms

8 May 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Kieu-Trang Nguyen, University of Melbourne

Cooperating on networks: inequality and social structure

2 May 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Manuel Staab, The University of Queensland

Dynamic Programming: from Local Optimality to Global Optimality

30 April 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Jingni Yang, University of Sydney

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Seminars 2025

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
 Tuesday 26thMacroeconomicsDr Alan Hal Spencer (University of Bonn)
 Monday 25thEconomic TheoryProf Prof Antonio Nicolò (University of Padua)
 Friday 22ndApplied EconomicsDr Niolau Jaoquim Martin Bassols (University of Bologna)
 Wednesday 20thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Sherry Li (University of Arkansas)
 Tuesday 19thEconomic TheoryDr Bobby Pakzad-Hurson (Brown University)
 Friday 15th Brown BagKieran Gibson (The University of Queensland)
 Tuesday 12thMacroeconomicsDr Conor Walsh (Columbia University)
 Friday 8thApplied EconomicsDr Gianluca Russo (Barcelona School of Economics)
 Thursday 7thEconometrics ColloquiumDr Filip Premik (Monash University)
AugustTuesday 5thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Maroš Servátka (Macquarie Business School)
 Wednesday 30thEconomic TheoryProf George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
 Tuesdsay 29thMacroeconomicsProf Jun-Hyung Ko (Aoyama University)
 Wednesday 23rdCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesA/Prof Ailin Leng (Shandong University)
 Tuesday 15thMacroeconomicsProf Benjamin Born (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)
JulyWedensday 2ndEconomic TheoryProf Andrew Yates (University of North Carolina)
 Monday 23rdMacroeconomicsDr Karen Kopecky (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
 Friday 20thEconomic TheoryA/Prof Songzi Du (University of California San Diego)
 Friday 13thBrown BagDr Andrés Bellofatto (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 11thEconomic TheoryProf John Yiran Zhu (University of Kansas)
 Wednesday 11thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesScott Dickinson (University of Exeter)
 Tuesday 10thMacroeconomicsDr Gianna La Cava (e61 Institute)
 Friday 6thBrown BagA/Prof Julie Moschion (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 4thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Tim Wilkening (University of Melbourne)
JuneMonday 2ndCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesDr Dooseok Jang (University of Ulsan)
 Friday 30thBrown BagDr Fu Ouyang (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 28thEconomic TheoryProf Rodrigo Velez (The University of Texas)
 Tuesday 27thMacroeconomicsJonathan Hambur (Reserve Bank of Australia)
 Wednesday 21stCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Masaki Aoyagi (Osaka University)
 Friday 16thBrown BagA/Prof Marek Ignazac (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
 Tuesday 13thMacroeconomicsDr Ekatarina Shabalina (Reserve Bank of Australia)
 Monday 12thEconomic TheoryDr Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi University)
 Thursday 8thApplied EconomicsDr Kieu-Trang Nguyen (University of Melbourne)
 Wednesday 7thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Erte Xiao (Monash University)
MayFriday 2ndBrown BagDr Manuel Staab (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 30thEconomic TheoryDr Jingni Yang (University of Sydney)
 Wednesday 23rdCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesA/Prof Sevgi Yuksel (New York University)
 Thursday 17thBrown BagDr David Smerdon (The University of Queensland)
 Friday 11thApplied EconomicsDr Gregor Pfeifer (University of Sydney)
 Wednesday 9thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
 Tuesday 8thMacroeconomicsAudrey Soedjito (Brandeis University)
AprilThursday 3rdBrown BagDr Axel Wieneke (The University of Queensland)
 Friday 28thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University)
 Tuesday 25thMacroeconomicsDr Shu Lin Wee (University of Melbourne)
 Thursday 20thBrown BagProf Makoto Hanazono (Nagoya University)
 Wednesday 19thEconomic TheoryA/Prof Chen Zhao (University of Hong Kong)
 Thursday 13thApplied EconomicsDr Ha Nguyen (University of Western Australia)
MarchWednesday 12thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf David Porter (Chapman University)
 Thursday 27thApplied EconomicsDr Naijia Guo (Hong Kong University)
 Thursday 13thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Sherzod Akhundjanov (Utah State University)
FebruaryTuesday 11thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Nageeb Ali (Penn State University)