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

 

Deception by Design

28 June 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Prof Lauren Willis, Loyola Law School

Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets

21 June 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Prof Hector Chade, Arizona State University

Inertial Updating

14 June 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Dr Matthew Kovach, Virginia Tech

Employer Engagement: Making active labour market policies work

13 June 2023 1:45pm3:45pm
Presented by A/Prof Jo Ingold, Deakin University

Asymmetrical Information Sharing and Oligopoly Pricing: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline

2 June 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor David Byrne, The University of Melbourne.

Repeated Games with Many Players

31 May 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Prof Alex Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Long-Run Phillips Curve is ... a Curve

30 May 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Qazi Haque, The University of Adelaide

Coarse Information Design

24 May 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presenter by Professor Wing Suen, University of Hong Kong

On Endogenous Markups Distribution and the Pecuniary Externality of Credit on Monetary Exchange

19 May 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Timothy Kam, Australian National University.

Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences

17 May 2023 5:00pm6:30pm
Presented by Professor Dorothea Kübler, Technical University of Berlin.

Identification and Estimation in a Time-Varying Endogenous Random Coefficient Model

17 May 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Dr Ming Li, National University of Singapore.

Accessing U.S. Dollar Swap Lines: Macroeconomic Implications for a Small Open Economy

16 May 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Professor Pedro Gomis-Poqueras, Queensland University of Technology

Identifying Marginal Returns to Treatment Through Social Networks

12 May 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor Firmin Doko Tchatoka, University of Adelaide.

Energy Prices and Electric Vehicle Adoption

11 May 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Associate Professor Erich Muehlegger, University of Calinfornia, Davis.

Optimal Prizes in Tournaments Under Nonseparable Preferences

10 May 2023 5:00pm6:15pm
Presented by Professor Mikhail Drugov, New Economic School.

It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality

3 May 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Professor Alessandra Cassar, University of San Fransisco.

The Effect of Search Frictions on Extreme Outcomes (With Louis Becker)

2 May 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Sephorah Mangin, Australian National University.

“Workhorses of Opportunity:” Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility

27 April 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Greg Howard, University of Illinois.

(In)complete Information Bargaining

26 April 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Toan Le, University of Melbourne.

Should Platforms be Held Liable for Defective Third-Party Goods?

21 April 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor Yusuke Zennyo from Kobe University.

Choice Overload

19 April 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Associate Professor Mark Dean, Columbia University.

Identifying Structural Shocks to Volatility through a Proxy-MGARCH Model

19 April 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Professor Dr Matthias Fengler, University of St Gallen.
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The Heterogeneous Effect of Minimum Wage on Labor Market Flows in Colombia

17 April 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Luz Adriana Flórez, Central Bank of Colombia.

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Seminars 2024

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
MayFriday 17thApplied EconomicsProf Yuting Zhang (University of Melbourne)
 Thursday 16thBrown BagDr Metin Uyanik (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 15thEconomic TheoryA/Prof Silvana Krasteva (Texas A&M University)
 Friday 10thEconomic TheoryA/Prof Audrey Hu (University of Hong Kong)
 Thursday 9thBrown BagA/Prof Eric Eisenstat (The University of Queensland)
 Wednesday 8th EconometricsProf Ryo Okui (University of Tokyo)
 Wednesday 8thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University)
 Tuesday 7thMacroeconomicsDr Bettina Brueggemann (McMaster University)
 Friday 3rdEconometricsProf Brendan Beare (University of Sydney)
 Thursday 2ndApplied EconomicsProf Jefferey Clemens (University of California)
 Wednesday 1stEconomic TheoryA/Prof Laura Doval (Columbia Business School)
AprilTuesday 30thEconomic Theory A/Prof Szilvia Palai (Concordia University)
 Friday 26thApplied EconomicsDr Brian Varian (Newcastle University)
 Wednesday 24thCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesProf Mira Frick (Yale University)
 Tuesday 23rdMacroeconomicsDr Faisal Sohail (University of Melbourne)
 Friday 19thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota)
 Thursday 18thBrown BagA/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 Zhao (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)