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

 
Seminar

Continuous versus Abrupt Reorganisations

30 August 2019 1:00pm
Presented by Dr Hongyi Li, University of New South Wales

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Incentive-Compatibility, Limited Liability and Costly Liquidation in financial Contracting

27 August 2019 2:00pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Zhengqing Gui, Monash University.
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Dividend Policy of State-Owned Firms – Evidence from German Municipally-Owned Corporations

23 August 2019 2:30pm3:30pm
Presented by Maria Nieswand, Loughborough University
Seminar

Breaking Echo Chambers with Personalised News

20 August 2019 2:00pm3:00pm
Presented by Jiemai Wu, Sydney University.
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Campaign messages, polling and elections: theory and experimental evidence

16 August 2019 2:30pm
Presented by Nicholas Feltovich, Monash University.
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Firm Growth Through New Establishments

13 August 2019 1:30pm
Presented by Professor Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Georgetown

Sharing Cost Information in Oligopoly

9 August 2019 2:30pm3:30pm
Presented by Gregory Kubitz, QUT

Intergenerational Mobility in Australia: National and Regional estimates Using Administrative Data

7 August 2019 1:30pm2:30pm
Presented by Nathan Deutscher, Australian National University
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Prison Work and Recidivism

2 August 2019 2:30pm3:30pm
Presented by Giulio Zanella, University of Adelaide.
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Stochastic Expected Utility for Binary Choice: A Modular Axiomatic Foundation

26 July 2019 2:30pm
Presented by Matthew Ryan, Auckland University of Technology.
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Robust Pricing with Refunds

23 July 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Keiichi Kawai, University of New South Wales.

Denomination structure, digital payments and the shadow economy

17 July 2019 1:30pm
Presented by Ayushi Bajaj, Monash University

Learning to speculate in a basic Kiyotaki-and-Wright Environment

12 July 2019 3:30pm
Presented by Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, University of Paris II

School seminar

28 June 2019 1:00pm
Presented by Pan Jindaapon, University of Alabama

Comparative Risk Apportionment

24 June 2019 2:00pm
Presented by Paan Jindapon, University of Alabama
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Perceived Uncertainty Shocks, Excess Optimism-Pessimism, and Learning in the Business Cycle

5 June 2019 1:30pm2:30pm
Presented by Pratiti Chatterjee, University of New South Wales.

Efficiency of Expert-Mediated Job Matching

10 May 2019 3:30pm
Presented by Kohei Kawaguchi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Skill Biased Entrepreneurial Decline

8 May 2019 1:30pm
Presented by Fasail Sohail, University of Melbourne
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Impulsive Behavior in Competition: Testing Theories of Overbidding in Rent-Seeking Contests

3 May 2019 3:30pm
Presented by Roman Sheremeta, Case Western Reserve University.

Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach

17 April 2019 2:30pm
Presented by Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia (joint with Ali Shourideh)

Excessive Targeting

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16 April 2019 2:30pm
Presented by Dr Heiko Karle with Markus Reisinger

On the Limits of Monetary Policy

10 April 2019 1:30pm
Presented by Bruce Preston, University of Melbourne

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Seminars 2025

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
 Thursday 13thApplied EconomicsDr Ha Nguyen (University of Western Australia)
 Wednesday 12thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf David Porter (Chapman University)
MarchFriday 7thBrown BagDr Manuel Staab (The University of Queensland)
 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)