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Seminar Series 2011

Semester 2

Seminar Organiser: Arlene Ozanne

Email: arlene.ozanne@otago.ac.nz

All seminars will be held at 3.00 pm on Fridays in our Economics Seminar room CO.520. However, locations could vary as we might be using other venues, please check below each seminar date for venue variations.

All welcome - please direct any enquiries to the seminar organiser.

Date	Speaker and Topic
22 July Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Viktoria Kahui, University of Otago "A bioeconomic model for Hooker's sea lion bycatch in New Zealand" Download this paper as a pdf
29 July Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Tim Cason, Purdue University "Bidder Selection in Common Value Auctions"
12 August Economics Seminar room CO5.20 * Note 2.30 pm	Otto Reich, Massey University "Negotiating with Terrorists: The Costs of Compliance" (co-authored with E. Fees and K.P. Arin) Download this paper as a pdf
19 August Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Mathias Sinning, Australian National University "There Goes the Neighborhood? People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia" Download this paper as a pdf
26 August Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Peter Robertson, University of Western Australia "In China's Wake: Has Asia Gained from China's Growth?" Download this paper as a pdf
9 September Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Russell Hillberry, University of Melbourne "What Triggers an Anti-Dumping Petition? Finding the Devil in the Detail" Download this paper as a pdf
16 September Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Andrew Coleman, University of Otago "Uncovering uncovered interest parity during the classical gold standard era, 1888-1905 Download this paper as a pdf
23 September Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Stefi Schurer, Victoria University "Skills, practice style, or children: What explains the gender wage gap of GPs?" (joint with Daniel Kuehnle, Anthony Scott, and Terence Cheng)
30 September Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Steve Stillman, University of Otago "Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviors?" Download a brief abstract
7 October Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.30 pm	Sarah Baird, (George Washington University) & Berk Ozler (World Bank) "Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health" Download this paper as a pdf
14 October Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	John Gibson, University of Waikato "Methods of Household Consumption Measurement through Surveys: Experimental Results from Tanzania" Download this paper as a pdf
28 October Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	David Fielding, University of Otago "Determinants of Relative Price Variability during a Recession: Evidence from Canada at the Time of the Great Depression" Download this paper as a pdf
11 November Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Trent Smith, University of Otago "Obesity and Economic Insecurity" Download this paper as a pdf
18 November Economics Seminar room CO5.20 2.30 pm	Ric Scarpa, University of Waikato "The influence of individuals in forming collective household preferences for water quality" Download a brief abstract
6 December Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm *Note Tuesday	Friedrich Schneider, Johannes Kepler University of Linz "The size and development of the shadow economy of 162 countries" Download this paper as a pdf

Semester 1

Date	Speaker and Topic
14 March Economics Seminar room CO5.20 * Note 2.00 pm * Monday	David Cashin, University of Michigan, currently visiting Victoria University in Wellington "The Intertemporal Substitution and Income Effects of a VAT Rate Increase: Evidence from Japan" Download this paper as a pdf
18 March Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Alan Musgrave, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago "Explanation versus Strict Empiricism in Science"
25 March Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Leo Krippner, Reserve Bank of New Zealand "A theoretical foundation for the Nelson and Siegel class of yield curve models, and an empirical application to U.S. yield curve dynamics" Download this paper as a pdf
8 April Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Lynda Sanderson, Reserve Bank of New Zealand " Any port in a storm? The impact of new port infrastructure on New Zealand exporter behaviour", with Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes Download this paper as a pdf
15 April Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Mary Hedges, University of Auckland "Pre and post natal drivers of childhood intelligence: Evidence from Singapore" Download this paper as a pdf
13 May Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Steven Lim, Waikato University "What can growth rates tell us? A decomposition method under growth instability" Download this paper as a pdf
20 May Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Dan Farhat, Department of Economics, University of Otago "Bookworms versus Party Animals: An Artificial Labour Market with Human and Social Capital Accumulation" Download this paper as a pdf
27 May Economics Seminar room CO5.20 3.00 pm	Steve Martin, Purdue University "Leadership, Horizontal Integration, Bundling, and Market Performance in Price-Setting Markets: Integer Effects Matter", co-authored with Jan Vandekerckhove, University of Maastricht Download this paper as a pdf

Brown bag Seminars

The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view the current programme here.

Seminar Series 2011

Semester 2

Semester 1

Brown bag Seminars

Past Departmental Seminar Series