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

 

CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions

11 April 2024 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Hitoshi Shigeoka, University of Tokyo

Robust Bayesian Method for Refutable Models

10 April 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Moyu Liao, University of Sydney

Homelessness

9 April 2024 9:30am10 April 2024 10:45am
Presented by A/Prof Kai Zhao, University of Connecticut

Education and Wartime Mobilization: Evidence from Colonial Korea during WWII

28 March 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Prof Sangyoon Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Instrument-based Estimation of Full Treatment Effects with Partial Compliers

27 March 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by Dr Didier Nibbering, Monash University

Decomposing the Winner’s Curse

27 March 2024 10:00am11:30am
Presented by Prof Emanuel Vespa, UC San Diego

Insurer Switching and Broker Incentives in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance

21 March 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Yaying Zhou, The University of Queensland

Equity ATMs

20 March 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto

Firm Life-Cycle Learning and Misallocation

18 March 2024 11:30am12:45pm
Presented by Dr Ying Feng, National University of Singapore

The Political Consequences of Vaccines: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Eligibility Rules

14 March 2024 1:00pm2:30pm
Presented by Prof Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify?

13 March 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Presented by A/Prof Seojeong Lee, Seoul National University

Intelligence, Wealth of Nations and Democracy: A look at UK data

13 March 2024 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota

From Design to Disclosure

7 March 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Kun Zhang, The University of Queensland

Safety, in Numbers

6 March 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Mark Whitmeyer, Arizona State University

Work2vec: Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia

29 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Sarah Bana, Chapman University

Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning

28 February 2024 10:00am11:15am
Presented by Prof Ben Bushong, Michigan State University

On the Benefits of Robo-advice in Financial Markets

23 February 2024 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Prof Simon Weidenholzer, University of Essex

The Formation of Social Groups under Status Concern

22 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Manuel Staab, The University of Queensland

Firm Life-Cycle Learning and Misallocation

20 February 2024 11:30am12:45pm
Presented by Dr Ying Feng, NUS

Drained Away: Oil Lost from First Nations Reserves

23 November 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Lucija Muehlenbachs, University of Calgary

Matching Funds in Innovation

22 November 2023 11:00am12:15pm
Presented by Dr Jun Xiao, University of Melbourne

The Silent Treatment? Imperfect Correlation of Spousal Expectations and Communication Frictions

17 November 2023 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Prof Adeline Delavande, The University of Technology Sydney

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Seminars 2026

MonthDaySeminarSpeaker
MarchFriday 27thMacroeconomicsProf Henry Siu (The University of British Columbia)
Thursday 26thApplied EconomicsA/Prof Huailu Li (Fudan University)
Monday 23rdCentre for Unified Behavioural and Economic SciencesDr Sili Zhang (LMU Munich)
Friday 20thBrown BagDr Elcin Tuzel / Prof KK Tang (The University of Queensland)
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)