Seminars - School of Economics - University of Queensland

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

Applied Economics – Yaying Zhou
Brown Bag - Arianna Gatta
Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) – Zachary Breig
Econometrics – Mohamad Khaled
Economic Theory – Carlos Oyarzun
Macroeconomics – Andres Bellofatto

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Applied Economics Seminar Series

Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences e-seminars

Econometrics Colloquium Seminar Series

Economic Theory Seminar Series

Macroeconomics Seminar Series

School Seminar Series

Past Seminars

A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage

16 August 2022 9:30am

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by Nicolas Werquin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Unbundling Labor

12 August 2022 2:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Chris Edmond, University of Melbourne

Optimal Discriminatory Disclosure

9 August 2022 11:00am

in Economic Theory Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Li Hao, The University of British Columbia

Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation

3 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Kareen Rozen, Brown University.

Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation

26 July 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by A/Prof Burhan Kuruscu, University of Toronto

Hidden Stagflation

26 July 2022 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by A/Prof Yuta Takahashi, Hitotsubashi University

Intergenerational Wealth Effects of House Price Changes

13 July 2022 2:00pm–4:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Presented by Dr James Graham, The University of Sydney

Macroeconomics Seminar

20 June 2022 9:30am–11:00am

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by Professor John Quiggin.

Monopolies amplify demand shocks

20 June 2022 9:30am–11:00am

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof John Quiggin, University of Queensland

The Large Number of Incompatible Choices Implied by Representing Risk Through Curvature

15 June 2022 10:00am–11:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Ned Augenblick, University of California, Berkeley

Experimental Auctions with Securities

8 June 2022 10:00am–11:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Allan Hernandez-Chanto, The University of Queensland

Macroeconomics Seminar

6 June 2022 9:30am–11:00am

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Presented by Nicolas Werquin from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Sectoral Transformation, the Natural Rate of Unemployment and the Dutch Disease

3 June 2022 2:00pm–4:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Mariano Kulish, The University of Sydney

Which Performs Best? Comparing Discrete Choice Models

1 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor Geoffroy de Clippel from Brown University.

Which Performs Best? Comparing Discrete Choice Models

1 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Geoffroy de Clippel, Brown University

Walras, Lindahl and Samuelson vs Vickrey, Clarke and Groves

31 May 2022 11:00am–12:30pm

in Economic Theory Seminar Series

Presented by Claudio Mezzetti from The University of Queensland.

Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naïve Play in Hawk Dove Games (joint with Tridib Sharma (ITAM) and Radovan Vadovic (Carleton))

18 May 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Tim Cason from Purdue University.

Revealed Preference Tests for Linear Probability

17 May 2022 11:00am–12:30pm

in Economic Theory Seminar Series

Presented by Zachary Breig from The University of Queensland

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Motivations for Indirect Reciprocity

11 May 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Kieran Gibson from The University of Queensland

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A Puzzling Forecast Combination

29 April 2022 2:00pm–4:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Seminar presented by Associate Professor David Frazier from Monash University

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Testing for selection bias and moral hazard in private health insurance

4 April 2022 11:00am–12:00pm

in CBEH Research Seminar Series

Presented by Clifford Afoakwah, Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University

Large-scale generalized linear longitudinal data models with grouped patterns of unobserved heterogeneity

1 April 2022 2:00pm–4:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Presented by Professor Tomohiro Ando from The University of Melbourne

The Strategy of Single Transferable Vote

29 March 2022 11:00am–12:30pm

in Economic Theory Seminar Series

Presented by Dr Shino Takayama with Andrew McLennan, and Terence Yeo from The University of Queensland, School of Economics.

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What's Driving the Decline in Entrepreneurship?

21 March 2022 9:30am–11:00am

in Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Nic Kozeniauskas will discuss reasons why there has been a steady decline in entrepreneurship in recent decades.

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Two-stage majoritarian choice

18 March 2022 2:00pm–4:00pm

in School Seminar Series

Presented by Professor Yves Sprumont from Deakin University

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Seminars 2025

Month	Day	Seminar	Speaker
	Thursday 13th	Applied Economics	Dr Ha Nguyen (University of Western Australia)
	Wednesday 12th	Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences	Prof David Porter (Chapman University)
March	Friday 7th	Brown Bag	Dr Manuel Staab (The University of Queensland)
	Thursday 27th	Applied Economics	Dr Naijia Guo (Hong Kong University)
	Thursday 13th	Applied Economics	A/Prof Sherzod Akhundjanov (Utah State University)
February	Tuesday 11th	Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences	Prof Nageeb Ali (Penn State University)