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

 

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

Intensity-efficient Allocations

23 October 2023 2:00pm3:30pm
Presented by Prof Georgios Gerasimou, University of Glasgow

Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects

20 October 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Yves Zenou, Monash University

Nonparametric Estimation of Large-Dimensional Binary Choice Models

18 October 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Guo Yan, University of Melbourne

The Complexity of Economic Decisions

18 October 2023 9:00am10:30am
Presented by Prof Xaiver Gabaix, Harvard University

Heterogeneous Labor Market Response to Monetary Policy: Small Versus Large Firms

13 October 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Aarti Singh, University of Sydney

Unobserved Networks and Common Factors in Macroeconomic Fluctuations

12 October 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Jorge Miranda-Pinto, The University of Queensland

How Informed Do You Want Your Principal To Be?

11 October 2023 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Rahul Deb, University of Toronto

Nursing Homes in Equilibrium: Implications for Long-term Care Policies

10 October 2023 9:30am10:45am
Presented by Prof Tatyana Koreshkova, Concordia University

An Axiomatic Characterization of Draft Rules

6 October 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Dr Ivan Balbuzanov, The University of Melbourne

Identification and Forecasting of Bull and Bear Markets using Multivariate Returns

4 October 2023 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Yong Song, The University of Melbourne

Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor

4 October 2023 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Prof Philipp Strack, Yale University

Banking concentration and loan market power in the presence of private information

29 September 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Mei Dong, The University of Melbourne

An Efficient, Computationally Tractable School Choice Mechanism

27 September 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Shino Takayama, The University of Queensland

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations

26 September 2023 9:30am10:45am
Presented by Dr Masao Fukui, Boston University

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Seminars 2025

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
 Friday 20thEconomic TheoryA/Prof Songzi Du (University of California San Diego)
 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)