| Date |
Presenter |
Title |
| 29 June |
Professor Ronald MacDonald, Strathclyde
University |
"International parity relationships
between Germany and the United States: a joint modelling approach"
|
| 21 July |
Professor R. Andrew Muller, McMaster
University |
"Can auctions control market power
in emissions trading markets?" |
31 July
(Monday) |
Associate Professor Harry Paarsch,
University of Iowa |
"Identification estimation anf
testing in empirical models of sequential ascending-price auctions
with multi-unit demand: An application to Siberian timber-export
permits" |
| 4 August |
Des O'Dea, Wellington School of
Medicine |
"The changes in New Zealand's income
distribution" |
| 7 August |
Professor Francis Tapon,
University of Guelph |
"Are research collaborations an
effective strategy for pharmaceutical firms? An empirical study:
1988-1995" |
| 25 August |
Dr Robert Alexander, University
of Otago |
"Maori disadvantage in the labour
market" |
| 1 September |
Stuart McDougall and Professor Dorian
Owen, University of Otago |
"The 'Scholarship of Teaching Economics'
conference" |
| 15 September |
Drs Nancy Devlin and Paul Hansen,
University of Otago |
"Does it matter whose valuations
are used to estimate health state tariffs, and which tariffs
are used for cost utility analysis?" |
| 18 September |
Professor Wing T. Woo, University
of California at Davis |
"Transition strategies: the second
round of debate" |
| 29 September |
Dr Lance Fisher, University of New
South Wales |
"Permanent income, the yield spread
and transitory variation in investment and GDP" (this seminar
is presented jointly with the Finance Department) |
| 6 October |
Arlene Garces, University of Otago
|
"Total factor productivity and its
determinants" |
| 20 October |
Professor Clive Granger, University
of California at San Diego, |
"Stylized facts for stock market
prices: some methodological implications" |
| 27 October |
Dr Joe Wallis, University of Otago
|
"Evaluating the New Zealand model
of strategic reform: a case study of local government policy
evolution since 1987" |
| 24 November |
Paul Killerby, University of Otago |
"Modelling social capital" |
| 13 December (Wednesday) |
Paula Lorgelly, University of Nottingham
|
"For Richer for Poorer, in Sickness
and in Health: Income and Health Inequalities in England" |
| Date |
Presenter |
Title |
| 4 February |
Dr Peter Robertson, University of
New South Wales |
"The sources of TFP in developing
economies" |
16 February
(Wednesday) |
Associate Professor Denise Hazlett,
Whitman College |
"Classroom experiments in economics" |
| 17 March |
Professor Peter Kennedy, Simon Fraser
University |
"Sinning in the basement: what
are the rules? The ten commandments of applied econometrics" |
23 March
(Thursday) |
Professor Pranab Bardhan, University
of California at Berkeley |
"A critique of the New Institutional
Economics from the point of view of Development" |
| 24 March |
Associate Professor Susan Skeath,
Wellesley College |
"The international pattern
of antidumping use" |
| 31 March |
Professor Peter Kennedy, Simon Fraser
University |
"Eight reasons why real versus
nominal interest rates is the most important concept in macroeconomics
principles course" |
| 14 April |
Dr Steve Jones, University of Dundee |
"Scotch on the rocks: brand
management and attempts to revive the Scotch whiskey industry
since 1980" |
| 28 April |
Associate Professor Martin Richardson,
University of Otago |
"The knowledge economy? No!
More business as usual" |
| 12 May |
Associate Professor Martin Richardson,
University of Otago |
"Trade policy and parallel imports" |
| 19 May |
Dr John Gibson, University of Waikato |
"Why is job security lower for
Maori and Pacific Island workers? The role of employer-provided
training" |
