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Seminar Series 2004
Semester 2
Organizers: Dorian
Owen and Murat Genç
Email: dowen@business.otago.ac.nz
mgenc@business.otago.ac.nz
Unless noted otherwise, all seminars will be held
3:00 p.m. on Fridays. Locations
vary as this semester we will be using Room 105 in the Advanced
Business
Programme, the Marketing Department’s Seminar Room CO626,
or the
Boardroom CO420, depending on availability.
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
16 July
ABP105 |
Niven Winchester, University of Otago
"Classroom Tariff Wars: A Tariff-Setting Game." |
23 July
ABP105 |
Michael Graff, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
"New Evidence on Financial Activity and Economic Performance." |
6 August
CO420 |
Nancy Devlin, City University
"A Hicks Utility Theory Framework for Health State Valuations:
Four Methods and a Pilot Study." |
13 August
ABP105 |
Frank Stähler, University of Otago
"Market Entry and Foreign Direct Investment." |
20 August
CO420 |
David Law, Treasury
"Trade and Migration to New Zealand." |
27 August
ABP105 |
Alan King, University of Otago
"The Balassa-Samuelson Effect in the Asia-Pacific Region." |
10 September
CO420 |
Colin Campbell-Hunt, University of Otago
"Is Agency Theory Really All There Is?" |
17 September
ABP105 |
Murat Genç, University of Otago
"Gender and Ethnicity in the New Zealand Labour Market." |
24 September
ABP105 |
Dean Hyslop, Treasury
"The Impact of Employment Experiences and Benefit-Spell
Duration on Benefit-to-Work Transitions." |
8 October
CO207
NB: 1pm |
Roger Willett, Queensland University of Technology
"An Empirical Approach to Dynamic Modelling of the Long
Run Relationship Between Accounting Data and Share Market Values
Using Single Company Data” (joint seminar with Accountancy
and F&QA)." |
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5 November CO626
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Steve Stillman,
MOTU
"Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence
on Employment and Earnings." |
| 12 November CO626 |
Deb
Trendle,
University
of Otago
"What causes Ill-Health? An Empirical Investigation into
the Determinants of Selected Diseases for New Zealand." |
| 19 November CO626 |
Steve
Jones,
University
of Dundee
"Ross Glendinning and the Clothing, Footwear and Textile
Industries in New Zealand, 1938-1966: A Case of Strategic Management
Failure." |
| 26 November CO626 |
David Fielding,
University of Otago
"Are Americans More Gung-Ho than Europeans? Some Evidence
from Tourism in Israel During the "Intifada"." |
Semester 1
Organizers: Dorian
Owen and Murat Genç
Email: dowen@business.otago.ac.nz
mgenc@business.otago.ac.nz
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
12 March
ABP105 |
Richard Froyen, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Monetary Policy and Long-Term US Interest Rates” |
19 March
CO626 |
Charles Nelson, University
of Washington
“The Zero-Information-Limit Condition and Spurious Inference
in Weakly Identified Models” |
2 April
ABP105 |
Ananish Chaudhuri, University
of Auckland
“Talking Ourselves to Efficiency: Coordination Conventions
in Weakly Identified Models” |
23 April
ABP105 |
Peter Chang, Victoria University
of Wellington
“Real and Financial Development Traps” |
30 April
CO626 |
Viktoria Schneider, University
of Otago
“Simulating the Effects of Marine Reserves as an Additional
Management Tool to Paua Harvest Around Stewart Island: An
Economic Analysis” |
14 May
CO420 |
Özer Karagedikli,
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
“Estimating the Output Gap: A Kalman Filter Approach”
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21 May
ABP105 |
Robert Alexander and Mohammad
Jaforullah, University of Otago
“Explaining Efficiency Differences of New Zealand Secondary
Schools” |
28 May
CO626 |
Paul Thorsnes, University
of Otago
“Central-City Boundary Effects Over the Age of the Highway:
Estimates from House Sales in a Two-City Subdivision”
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11 June
C0626 |
Alan King, University of
Otago
“Risk Adjustment Uncovered Interest Disparity”
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