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Seminar Series 2005
Semester 2
Seminar Organiser: Murat Genç
Email: mgenc@business.otago.ac.nz
Unless noted otherwise, all seminars will be held
at 3.30 pm on Fridays. Locations vary as we will
be using Room 105 in the Advanced Business Programme, the Marketing
Department's Seminar Room CO.626, or the Boardroom CO.419/420, depending
on availability.
All welcome - please direct any enquiries to the
seminar organiser.
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
22 July
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm |
John C. Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco
"Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in
Micro-Founded Macroeconometric Models." |
29 July
CO.626
3.30 pm |
Tommy Lundgren, Department of Forest Economics,
Swedish University of Agricultural Economics
"The Determinants
of Economic Growth in the Swedish Mountain Region - the Role
of the Forest and Tourism Sector, and Protected Land."
|
19 August
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm |
Bonggeun Kim, University of Canterbury
"Can we trust retrospective recall to replace panel data?" |
23 August
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm
* Please note day change to Tuesday |
George E. Battese, University of New England
"Metafrontier Frameworks for the Study of Firm-Level Efficiencies
and Technology Ratios." |
9 September
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
3.30 pm
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Shaun P. Vahey, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
"Model Uncertainty and Forecasting Revision Probability
Events." |
23 September
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm |
David Hendry, University of Oxford
"Resolving Five 'Intractable' Problems by Automatic Model
Selection." |
30 September
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm |
Stephen Dobson, University of Otago
"Are Football Referees Really Biased and Inconsistent?
Evidence from the English Premier League." |
7 October
MBA Lecture Room 104
* Note time change
to 2.30 pm |
Oguzhan C. Dinçer, Massey University
"Corruption, income inequality and growth: Evidence from
U.S. states."
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14 October
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm |
Sholeh A. Maani, University of Auckland
"Academic Performance, Childhood Economic Resources, and
the Choice to Leave School at Age Sixteen."
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11 November
MBA Lecture Room 104
*Note time change
to 11.00 am |
Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas, USA
"The Economics of Domestic Violence." |
*17 November
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.30 pm
*Please
note day change to Thursday |
Hans Kind, Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration
"Equilibruim Effects of Taxation in Two-sided Markets." |
30 November
MBA Lecture Room 104
11.00 am
*Please note day change to Wednesday |
Jocelyn Findlay, Australian National University
"Life expectancy and economic growth: complementarities
between health and education." |
Semester 1
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
11 February
CO.520
1 pm
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Edward J. Kane, Boston College, Chestsnut
Hill, MA
"Costs & Benefits of Deposit Insurance."
This is a joint Department of Economics and Department
of Finance and Quantitative Analysis Seminar
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1 March
CO.419 /420
3 pm |
Guido Friebel, University of Toulouse
"Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration."
For more information see this
notice in pdf format. |
11 March
CO.419/420
3 pm |
Horst Raff, University of Kiel
"Mergers
vs joint ventures vs greenfield investment: a comprehensive
treatment of foreign direct investment." |
18 March
CO.419/420
3 pm |
Timo Teräsvirta, Stockholm School of
Economics
"Panel smooth transition regression models." |
8 April
CO.626
3.30 pm |
Murray Kemp, Macquarie Universtiy
"International trade without Autarchic Equilibria." |
15 April
CO.419/420
3.30 pm |
Niven Winchester, University of Otago
"Liberating Middle Earth: How will Changes in the Global
Trading System affect New Zealand?" |
22 April
ABP105
3.30 pm |
K. Peren Arin, Massey University
"Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity: U.S Evidence." |
13 May
CO.419/420
3.30 pm |
Frank Stähler, University of Otago
"Revenue Sharing in Professional Sports Leagues."
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20 May
CO.419/420
3.30 pm |
Müge Adalet, Victoria University of
Wellington
"The Effect of Financial Structure on Crises:
Evidence from Interwar Europe." |
27 May
MBA Lecture Room ABP104
3.30 pm |
Daniel P. McMillen, University of Illinois
at Chicago
" Clustering of Auto Supplier Plants in the U.S.: GMM Spatial
Logit for Large Samples." |
3 June
MBA Lecture Room
ABP105
3.30 pm |
Michael A. Shields, University of Melbourne
"Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal?
Evidence from England." |
Brown bag Seminars
The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view
the recent programme here.
Past Departmental Seminar Series
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