School of Economics events
Seminars
2024 Seminar Coordinator: Brendan Beare.
Our seminars regularly take place in Room 650, Social Sciences Building (SSB) and online via Zoom on Thursday 11am - 12.30pm, unless otherwise stated.
Find School Seminars on our events page and events calendar.
Our meetings provide a forum for ongoing research on econometric theory and application. Speakers from both within and outside the School are welcome. We intend to to use this platform to foster the exchange of ideas and maintain a collaborative econometrics research environment.
If you would like to contribute a presentation or have any queries, please contact Brendan Beare.
The purpose of this seminar series is to create an environment for researchers from the fields of International Trade and Macroeconomics to present their ongoing research. The meetings normally take place fortnightly in Room 650, Social Sciences Building (SSB). Please contact James Graham if you would like to join the mailing list or contribute with a presentation.
Theory seminars take place fortnightly on Tuesdays 4pm-5.30pm in the Social Sciences Building (A02) at the University of Sydney and online.
Contact Jingni Yang or Mert Kimya if you would like to contribute or join the mailing list.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (the Life Course Centre) is a national research centre uniquely positioned to tackle the intergenerational transmission of deep and persistent disadvantage in Australian families.
The School of Economics (Life Course Centre Sydney node) runs seminars periodically, designed to provide a network and collaborative opportunities for academics from Australia and abroad.
For further information and any queries, please contact Jade Lor-Chan.
Reading Groups
The group provides an opportunity for academic staff working on empirical microeconomics and public policy, broadly understood, to present ongoing research, including at the earliest stages. Interested faculty and Ph.D. students with research relevant to the themes of the group are invited to present from time to time.
There can be more than one presenter in a given week, depending on how much material each presenter has ready. However, keeping in mind the need to allow ample time for discussion of early-stage work, we usually plan to have a single presenter present for 30-40 minutes, and allow the remainder of the time for questions and discussion.
For 2024, please contact Gregor Pfeifer or Rebecca McKibbin if you would like to get on the mailing list or contribute a presentation. In Semester 1, 2024, MPP seminars will be held fortnightly on Fridays from 1 - 2pm.
The purpose of the group is to meet on a regular basis and discuss major publications or presenter's own work-in-progress in dynamic macroeconomics. Further information can be found on the Sydney Macro Reading Group Webpage (https://sites.google.com/site/sydneymacroreading/home)
The group convenes on Tuesdays, 4.30-6pm every fortnight at the presenter's university. If you would like to receive announcements or contribute with a presentation, please contact christopher.gibbs@sydney.edu.au.
The main aim of the reading group is to create a collaborative environment for exchange of research ideas, presentation of early research work and research funding proposals among staff and research students with interest in agricultural, environmental and resource economics.
The group also aims to facilitate the establishment of new collaborations, and to foster existing research collaborations across disciplines with interest in these areas within the University of Sydney. The group also links with researchers that have interest in this area across several universities based in Sydney.
The reading group meets fortnightly during semester sessions, and at other times when the need or opportunity arises. The usual time and place for meetings is 11am-12pm on Wednesdays at the University of Sydney.
To register for the group’s mailing list or to suggest a presentation please contact alastair.fraser@sydney.edu.au.
The Centre of Behavioural Economics: Science and Policy (CoBE SaP) is a small group of academic staff at the School of Economics working on all topics related to behavioural economics and policy. CoBE SaP members meet informally to discuss current research and potential projects, and to share their passion for interesting data. A key goal of the group is to build collaborations with and between ECRs, Postdocs, Predocs, Honours and advanced undergraduate students interested in policy-relevant topics focused on the economics of behavioural economics. CoBE SaP members are especially interested in using novel data to enhance public policy decisions in the spheres of education, environment and health, among others. We believe that data advances scientific advances which leads to meaningful policy changes.
If you and your students love to discuss economic research on behavioural economics and policy topics, please join our weekly discussions.
Previous Seminars
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Dan Millimet | Singapore Management University | Fixed Effects and Causal Inference |
| Hibiki Ichiue | Keio University | Central Bank Communication and Households' Ability to Adjust Spending |
| Chris Karbownik | Emory University | Birth Order in the Very Long Run |
| Soumen Banerjee | National University Singapore | Combating Algorithmic Collusion: A Mechanism Design Approach |
| Ayden Higgins | University of Oxford | Instrumental Variables for Dynamic Spatial Models with Interactive Fixed Effects |
| Sean Higgins | Northwestern University | Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities |
| Ryohei Hayashi | Kochi University of Technology | The Superior Peer Improves Me: Evidence from Swimming Data |
| Wei Huang | University of Melbourne | Nonparametric estimation of the continuous treatment effect with measurement error |
| Albert Ma | Boston University | Antibiotic Resistance, Drug Prices, and Entry |
| Francisco Silva | Deakin University | Communication through biased intermediators |
| Ippei Fujiwara | Australian National University | A Technology-Gap Model of Premature Deindustrialisation |
| Marco Bertoni | University of Padova | Subjective Gendered-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis |
| Ryan Oprea | University of California, Santa Barbara | Simplicity Equivalents |
| Ryan Edwards | Australian National University | The labour market impacts of lower-skilled temporary migration: evidence from the PALM scheme |
| Dick Startz | University of California, Santa Barbara | Recessions, Recoveries, and Leverage |
| Shelly Lundberg | University of California, Santa Barbara | How Economics Dicovered Women |
| Joao Montez | University of Lausanne | Signaling new model quality with old models: delist or discount? |
| Regina Betz | Zurich University of Applied Sciences | Carbon Market Challenges: lessons for the Australian Safeguard Mechanism |
| Claudio Labanca | Monash University | Campaign Connections |
| Qazi Haque | University of Adelaide | Can We Use High-Frequency Yield Data to Better Understand the Effects of Monetary Policy and Its Communication? Yes and No! |
| Anna Zhu | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Spatial Heterogeneity in Welfare-to-Work Reform Success |
| Andrew Simon | University of Chicago | Inequality in Property Tax Appeals: Evidence from Field Experiments with Homeowners and Assessors |
| Gordon Leslie | Monash University | Incentivising within-day shifting of household electricity use |
| Federico Masera | University of New South Wales | The Long Civil War: Battle Exposure and Anti-Black Racism in the US South |
| Mushfiq Mobarak | Yale University | Trade Policy, Migration Restrictions, and Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children |
| Gemma Altinger | University of New South Wales | Revisiting medical decision making in situations that offer multiple alternatives |
| Robert Hill | University of Graz | Comparing Housing Rents in Cities Around the World: Can an Airbnb Big-Mac Index Help? |
| Dacheng Xiu | University of Chicago | Prediction When Factors are Weak |
| Guillem Riambau | University of Barcelona | Can National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Experimental Evidence from Singapore |
| Ho Leung (Ryan) Ip | Charles Sturt University | A Mixture Distribution for Modelling Bivariate Ordinal Data |
| Paul Raschky | Monash University | Friends, Key Players and Product Adoption |
| Dmitry Ryvkin | Florida State University | Competition for loyal customers: An experimental study |
| Isaac Gross | Monash University | Housing Supply and NIMBYism |
| Charles Noussair | University of Arizona | Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions |
Hülya Eraslan |
Rice University | Board Elections: Effects of Universal Ballot |
| Rigissa Megalokonomou | Monash University | Does the Share of Female Judges Assigned to Supreme Court Cases Affect Trial Outcomes? |
| Michele Garagnani | Bocconi University | Identifying Nontransitive Preferences |
| Andres Bellofatto | University of Queensland | Wealth Taxation and Life Expectancy |
| Josh Graff Zivin | University of California, San Diego | Disparities in Pollution Capitalisation Rates: The Role of Direct and Systemic Discrimination |
| Laura Liu | University of Pittsburgh | Binary Models with Extreme Covariates: Estimation and Prediction |
| Jun Zhang | University of Technology Sydney | Identification of Bayesian Games |
| Lucija Muehlenbachs | University of Calgary | Drained Away: Oil Lost from First Nations Reserves |
| Sebastian Merkel | University of Exeter | Flight to Safety in a New Keynesian Model |
| Tung Dang | University of Sydney | Childcare Quality, Maternal Labor Market Outcomes, and Child Development: Evidence from Australia’s First Decade of the National Quality Framework |
| Yongmiao Hong | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | Time-Varying Factor Selection: A Sparse Fused GMM Approach |
| Michael Boutros | Bank of Canada | The Macroeconomic Implications of Coholding |
| Massimo Franchi | Sapienza Università di Roma | Estimation and inference on stochastic trends in large dimensional systems |
| David Molitor | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | A Causal Concentration-Response Function for Air Pollution: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Soo Hong Chew | National University of Singapore | Source Recursive Expected Utility with Evidence from Laboratory Experiments relating to Home Bias |
| Hanbaek Lee | University of Tokyo | Solving DSGE Models Without a Law of Motion: An Ergodicity-Based Method and an Application |
| Thomas Sargent | New York University | Distributions and Aggregates in HAOK and HANK Models -- Detecting Factors with Dynamic Mode Decompositions |
| Mirjam Stockburger | Justus Liebig University Giessen | Does Smoking Affect Wages? |
| Yves Zenou | Monash University | Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects |
| Daniel Campbell | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Making Saving Salient at Tax Time |
| Bonsoo Koo | Monash University | What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify? |
| Kristina Strohmaier | University of Duisburg-Essen | Culture of Opportunity: On the Origins of Intergenerational Mobility |
| Timothy Richards | Arizona State University | Health Coverage and Farmworker Productivity |
| Chung Tran | Australian National University | Dividend Imputation, Investment and Capital Accumulation in Open Economies |
| Beatrix Eugster | University of St Gallen | Ethnic Clustering in Schools and Early Career Outcomes |
| David Butler | Griffith University | Decomposing risk-attitude from inequality aversion in simple games: an experiment |
| James Duffy | University of Oxford | Cointegration with Occasionally Binding Constraints |
| Gawain Heckley | Lund University Sweden | Inequality Impacts of Raising Minimum Years of Schooling |
| Moriah Bostian | Lewis & Clark College | A Productivity Indicator for Adaptation to Climate Change |
| Cathy Zhang | Purdue University | On the Emergence of an International Currency |
| Philipp Sadowski | Duke University | Risk Sharing and Strategic Choice |
| Hugo Freeman | University College London | Multidimensional Interactive Fixed-Effects |
| Sascha Becker | Monash University | From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler |
| Jeff Michler | University of Arizona | The Mismeasure of Weather: Using Remotely Sensed Weather in Economic Contexts |
| Yves Sprumont | Deakin University | Randomized collective choices based on a weighted tournament |
| Martin Berka | Massey University | Deviations in real exchange rate levels in OECD countries and their structural determinants |
| Fedor Iskhakov | Australian National University | Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles |
| Tatyana Avilova | University of Tokyo | Patient Cost Sharing and Prescription Drug Trends: Evidence from Japan |
| Jiti Gao | Monash University | A Unified Approach to Estimating Time-Varying Trends |
| Nathan Kettlewell | University of Technology Sydney | Financial incentives and private health insurance demand on the extensive and intensive margins |
| Vladimir Smirnov | University of Sydney | Elimination Tournaments Where Players Have Fixed Resources |
| Elena Capatina | Australian National University | Long Term Care Risk For Couples and Singles |
| Hanlin Shang | Macquarie University | Detecting structural breaks in high-dimensional functional time series |
| Lusine Ivanov-Davtyan | Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute | The Evolution of the Gender Aspiration Gap: Evidence from 50 Years of Alpine Skiing |
| Duygu Yengin | University of Adelaide | Expropriation Power in Private Dealings: Quota Rule in Collective Sales |
| Oscar Pavlov | University of Tasmania | Superstar firms, product scope, and economic fluctuations |
| Michael Vallely | University of Glasgow | The social origin pay gap in the UKHLS |
| Yanrong Yang | Australian National University | Eigen-analysis of High-dimensional Time Series |
| Fu Ouyang | University of Queensland | High-Dimensional Binary Choice Models with Unknown Heteroskedasticity or Instrumental Variables |
| Begona Dominguez | University of Queensland | Accessing U.S. Dollar Swap Lines |
| Jeanet Bentzen | University of Copenhagen | In the Name of God! Religiosity and the Emergence of Modern Science and Growth |
| Yue Hua | University of New South Wales | Life-cycle effects of Australian student loans with income-contingent repayments |
| Tiffany Tsai | National University of Singapore | Price Competition Under Information (Dis)advantage |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
|
| Matthew Ho | University of Sydney | An instrument of justice and fulfillment? Voting rights and human development in the United States, 1956 to 1970 | |
| Yuta Takahashi | Hitotsubashi University | Hidden Stagflation | |
| Colin Cameron | University of California, Davis | Recent Developments in Cluster-Robust Inference | |
| Julie Moschion | University of Melbourne | Can staying in school longer protect disadvantaged young people from homelessness? | |
| Adam Clements | Queensland University of Technology | Using threshold style volatility measures for estimating HAR model coefficients | |
| Moshe Haviv | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Priorities in Queues: Regulation and Profit Maximization | |
| IKM Mokhtarul Wadud | University of Sydney | Property Price Dynamics and Asymmetric Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty: New Evidence from the Australian Capital Cities | |
| Kentaro Tomoeda | University of Technology Sydney | Tie-breaking or Not: A Choice Function Approach | |
| Nan Zou | Macquarie University | Bootstrap Massive/Chaotic Data | |
| Faisal Sohail | University of Melbourne | Labor Supply and Firm Size | |
| Metin Uyanik | University of Queensland | Are Myersonian Common Knowledge Events Common Knowledge? | |
| Firmin Doko Tchatoka | University of Adelaide | Relevant moment selection under mixed identification strength | |
| Jonny Newton | Kyoto University | Learning and equilibrium in misspecified models | |
| Michael Shin | University of Sydney | Heterogeneous Experience and Constant-gain Learning | |
| Anya Samek | University of California, San Diego | Do Thank-You Calls Increase Charitable Giving? Expert Forecasts and Field Experimental Evidence | |
| Sergey Alexeev | University of Sydney | Robust estimates of intergenerational transmission of drinking | |
| Jane Zhang | University of New South Wales | Multiple switching and data quality in the multiple price list | |
| Vladimir Smirnov | University of Sydney | Choosing the prize in contests | |
| Andrew Patton | Duke University | Testing Forecast Rationality for Measures of Central Tendency | |
| Bob Breunig | Australian National University | COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures | |
| Chris Ruhm | University of Virginia | Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths | |
| Ben Chen | University of Sydney | Contests with Generic Behavioral Success Functions | |
| Tim Christensen | New York University | Adaptive Estimation and Uniform Confidence Bands for Nonparametric Structural Functions and Elasticities | |
| Evgenia Dechter | University of New South Wales | Automation and occupational choice | |
| Federico Zilio | University of Melbourne | Earnings risks and income insurance: evidence from Australian tax data | |
| Boon Han Koh | University of East Anglia | The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender, and competition | |
| Won-ki Seo | University of Sydney | Inference on nonstationarity and common trends in high-dimensional or functional time series | |
| John Stachurski | Australian National University | Asset Pricing with Preference Shocks: Existence and Uniqueness | |
| Elvira Sojli | University of New South Wales | Measuring Advanced Manufacturing and Process Innovation: Applications to Productivity and Growth | |
| James Duffy | University of Oxford | The Cointegrated VAR without Unit Roots | |
| Ashani Amarasinghe | University of Sydney | Competing for Attention – The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US | |
| Luis Vasconcelos | University of Technology Sydney | Optimal Job Design and Information Elicitation | |
| Tang Srisuma | National University of Singapore | Identification and Estimation of a Search Model: A Procurement Auction Approach | |
| Simon Grant | Australian National University | The Sure-Thing Principle and the Optimality of Consistent Plans | |
| Nancy Kong | University of Sydney | Physical isolation and loneliness: Evidence from COVID lockdowns in Australia | |
| Ashley Craig | University of Michigan | Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation: A Unifying Model | |
| Thomas Tao Yang | Australian National University | A One-Covariate-at-a-Time Multiple Testing Approach to Variable Selection in Additive Models | |
| Jonathan Levy | University of Sydney | Who wants to move first? | |
| Erik Madsen | New York University | Incentive Design for Talent Discovery | |
| Bruce Preston | University of Melbourne | Asset Pricing with Non-rational Expectations | |
| Hasin Yousaf | University of New South Wales | Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing | |
| Sonia Bhalotra | University of Warwick | Domestic violence: the potential role of job loss and unemployment benefits |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Wooyong Lee |
University of Technology Sydney | Identification and estimation of dynamic random coefficient models |
| Feng Chen | University of New South Wales | Renewal Hawkes Processes |
| Zhenting Sun | Peking University | Pairwise Valid Instruments |
| Stefanie Schurer | University of Sydney | Zero-COVID Policies: Melbourne’s 112-Day Hard Lockdown Experiment Harmed Mostly Mothers |
| Carol Propper | Imperial College London | Team composition and productivity: evidence from nursing teams in the English National Health Service |
| Aurore Delaigle | University of Melbourne | Estimating a Covariance Function from Fragments of Functional Data |
| Dakyung Seong | University of Sydney | Functional instrumental variable regression with an application to estimating the impact of immigration on native wages |
| Rebecca McKibbin | University of Sydney | Medical Practice Shutdowns and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Simon Kwok | University of Sydney | A Consistent and Robust Test for Autocorrelated Jump Occurrences |
| Yichong Zhang | Singapore Management University | Regression-Adjusted Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects under Covariate-Adaptive Randomizations |
| Giridhar Parameswaran | Haverford College | A Theory of Objective Standards of Care |
| Gregor Pfeifer | University of Sydney | The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice |
| Stephen Whelan | University of Sydney | Underemployment, Life Satisfaction and Mental Health - Australian Evidence |
Past Conferences and Workshops
Reconciliation, Opportunities for, and Wellbeing of First Nations Peoples: Yarning and learning together
- 2 - 3 February
17th Australian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW)
- 9 - 10 June
- Download the workshop program (pdf, 185kb)
The 17th Australian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW) was held at the University of Sydney on June 9-10, 2022, hosted by the School of Economics and organized by Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Valentina Duque (American University), Emilia Tjernström (Monash University), and Russell Toth (University of Sydney). ADEW is the leading development economics conference in Australia, often also involving participantsfrom the broader Asia-Pacific region. It is analogous to NEUDC, MWIEDC or Pacdev, with a small number of parallel sessions for submitted papers, a keynote presentation, and a policy panel. The keynote speaker for the workshop was Pascaline Dupas (Princeton University).
15th Australia and New Zealand Workshop on Experimental Economics (ANZWEE)
- 26 - 27 September
- Download the workshop program (pdf, 134kb)
This workshop hosted keynote speakers Daniel Zizzo (University of Queensland), Ganna Pogrebna (University of Sydney), Ben Newell (University of New South Wales) and Lata Gangadharan (Monash University).
Organisational Economics Symposium 2022
- 8 December
Workshop of the Australian Macroeconomics Society (WAMS) 2022
- 8 - 9 December
- Download the workshop program (pdf, 529kb)
This workshop hosted keynote speakers Mariano Kulish (University of Sydney) and Ippei Fujiwara (Keio University/Australian National University)
Asia Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (APIOC)
- 9 - 11 December
- Download the workshop program (pdf, 173kb)
In the twilight of 2022, a selection of outstanding researchers gathered in Sydney for the 2022 Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (APIOC). With 14 invited and keynote speakers from the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, and 78 contributed papers, APIOC 2022 provided a feast for industrial organisation enthusiasts.
Virtual Australian Macroeconomics Society Workshop (VAMS)
- 12 - 13 December
- Download the workshop program (pdf, 82kb)
Image: Nobel Laureate Thomas J Sargent presenting his seminar to the School of Economics, March 2 2023. Photo credit: Dave Mc Manamon
Economics Research