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.

2026 Seminar Coordinators

 

The International RBC Model Finally Works!

9 September 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Suchant Acharya, University of Melbourne

Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction

5 September 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Ashley Craig, Australian National University

Forecast Errors and Forecast Sufficiency Under Ambiguity

3 September 2025 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Ignacio Esponda, UC Santa Barbara

Industrial Policy Wars and Inequality: Who Loses and When?

26 August 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Adam Hal Spencer, University of Bonn

Rationalizable Conjectures in Dynamic Matching

25 August 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Antonio Nicolò, University of Padua

Tracing the Genetic Footprint of the UK National Health System

22 August 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Nicolau Martin Bassols, University of Bologna

Equal Pay for Similar Work

19 August 2025 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Bobby Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University

Competing Motivations: When More Incentives Lead to Less Effort

15 August 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Kieran Gibson, The University of Queensland

Growth, Degrowth, and the Use of Natural Resources

12 August 2025 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Conor Walsh, Columbia University

The Double Edge of Broadcasting Justice: Reconciliation and Division in Post-Apartheid South Africa

8 August 2025 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Dr Gianluca Russo, Barcelona School of Economics

The Costs of Variety: Productivity of Differentiated Production Inputs

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

Promotions and Group Identity

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

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

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Seminars 2026

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
MayFriday 22ndBrown BagA/Prof David Smerdon (The University of Queensland)
Thursday 21stEconometrics ColloquiumDr Yanli Lin (University of Western Australia)
Wednesday 20thEconomic TheoryDr Mitchell Watt (Monash University)
Thursday 14thApplied EconomicsProf Kai Gehring (University of Bern)
Friday 8thBrown BagDr Juan Soto-Diaz (The University of Queensland)
Wednesday 6thEconomic TheoryProf Justin Burkett (Georgia Tech)
Friday 1stApplied EconomicsA/Prof Simon Chang (University of Western Australia)
AprilThursday 30th Econometrics ColloquiumDr Hanbat Jeong (Macquarie University)
Wednesday 29thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesA/Prof John Horton (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Tuesday 28thMacroeconomicsDr Pei Cheng Yu (University of New South Wales)
Friday 24thBrown BagDr Fu Ouyang (The University of Queensland)
Thursday 23rdApplied EconomicsDr Davide Pace (LMU Munich)
Wednesday 22ndEconomic TheoryProf Nina Bobkova (Rice University)
Friday 17th Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf David Dickinson (Appalachian State University)
Thursday 16thApplied EconomicsProf Donn Feir (University of Victoria)
Wednesday 15thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf David Cooper (University of Iowa)
Wednesday 8thEconomic TheoryProf Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University)
Wednesday 1stCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Adam Sanjurjo (Universidad de Alicante)
MarchTuesday 31stEconomic TheoryDr Francisco Poggi (Mannheim University)
Friday 27thMacroeconomicsProf Henry Siu (The University of British Columbia)
Thursday 26thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Huailu Li (Fudan University)
Wednesday 25thEconomic TheoryProf Andriy Zapechelnyuk (University of Edinburgh)
Monday 23rdCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesDr Sili Zhang (LMU Munich)
Friday 20thBrown BagDr Elcin Tuzel / Prof KK Tang (The University of Queensland)
Tursday 19thEconomic TheoryProf John Riley (UCLA)
Tursday 19thApplied EconomicsProf Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics)
Wednesday 18thEconometrics ColloquiumProf Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt University)
Friday 13thBrown BagDr Todd Morris (The University of Queensland)
Wednesday 11thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf P.J. Healy (The Ohio State University)
Friday 6thApplied EconomicsDr Claudio Labanca (Monash University)
Tuesday 3rdMacroeconomicsProf Ryo Horii (The University of Osaka)
FebrauryFriday 27thApplied EconomicsDr Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth College)
Thursday 26thMacroeconomicsDr Pierre-Daniel Sarte (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Wednesday 25thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Mónica Capra (Claremont Graduate University)
Tuesday 24thMacroeconomicsA/Prof Sylvia Xiao (Peking University)
Friday 13thApplied EconomicsProf Alessandro Saia (University of Bologna)