School of Economics Seminars

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Next Economics Seminar:

** Tuesday 22nd May
Paul Pezanis-Christou
UNSW
"Asymmetric information quality in multi-object first-price auctions"
Merewether room 498
4-5:30pm

&

Thursday 24th May
Marian Vidal-Fernandez
UNSW
"No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time"
Merewether room 498
4-5:30pm

Economics Seminar Series 2012

*All seminars are scheduled 4-5:30pm unless otherwise stated

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic/Title

Thursday   1st March

Costantinos Syropoulos

Drexel University 

"Trade and Insecure Resources: Implications for Welfare and Comparative Advantage"

Thursday  8th March

Reshad Ahsan

 

University of Melbourne

"Input Tariffs, Speed of Contract Enforcement, and the Productivity of Firms in India"

Thursday  15th March

Barbara Hanel

 

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

"Monetary and Non-monetary Determinants of Nurses' Labour Supply"

*Friday    16th March

Russell Davidson

 

McGill University

"The Iterated Boostrap"

Tuesday   20th March

Andreas Roider

University of Heidelberg

"The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment"

Thursday   22nd March

Dale O. Stahl

 

University of Texas at Austin

"Between-game rule learning in dissimilar symmetric normal-form games"

Thursday  29th March

Javier Fernández Blanco

 

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

"A Directed Serach Model of Ranking by Unemployment Duration"

*Tuesday   3rd April

John Wooders

UTS Business School

"Blind Stealing: Experience and Expertise in a Mixed-Strategy Poker Experiment"

Thursday   5th April

Bettina Klaus

University of Lausanne

"Paths to Stability in the Assignment Problem"

Thursday  19th April

Jan Eeckhout

University College London

"Matching Information"

Thursday  26th April

Pietro Peretto

Duke University

"Technology, Population and Exhaustible Resources: A Theory of Convergence to Sustainable Growth"

Thursday  3rd  May

Florian Hoffman

UBC

"An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics"

Thursday  10th May

David Byrne

University of Melbourne

"Local Market Structure and Within-City Heterogeneity in Retail Gasoline Price Cycles"

Thursday  17th May

Christopher Barrett

Cornell University

"A Stochastic Dominance Approach to Program Evaluation with an Application to Child Nutritional Status in Kenya"

*Tuesday  22nd May

Paul Pezanis-Christou

UNSW

"Asymmetric information quality in multi-object first-price auctions"

Thursday 24th May

Marian Vidal-Fernandez  UNSW "No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time"

Thursday  31st May

Juan Carlos Carbajal

University of Queensland

"Optimal contracts for loss averse consumers"

Tuesday  19th June

Simon Quinn

University of Oxford

TBA

Thursday  28th June

 

Nizar Allouch

Queen Mary, University of London

TBA