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Seminar Series 2006
Semester 2
Seminar Organiser: Murat Genç
Email: mgenc@business.otago.ac.nz
Unless noted otherwise, all seminars will be held
at 3.00 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, our Economics Seminar room CO.520
or the Boardroom CO.419/420, depending on availability.
All welcome - please direct any enquiries to the
seminar organiser.
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
21 July
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm |
Melvyn Weeks, University
of Cambridge
"Jointness of Growth Determinants" |
28 July
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
3.00 pm
|
Viktoria Schneider, Ministry
of Fisheries
"A Bioeconomic Analysis of Marine Reserves
for Paua (Abalone) Management at Stewart Island" |
2 August
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
*Note day change to Wednesday |
Denise Osborn, University
of Manchester
"The New Keynesian Phillips Curve: From
Sticky Inflation to Sticky Prices" |
18 August
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
|
Ngo Van Long, McGill
University
"A Mixed Bentham-Rawls Criterion for Intergenerational
Equity" |
25 August
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm |
Ngo Van Long, McGill
University
"Trade Liberalization in Services: The Case
of Government Procurements" |
8 September
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
|
Ian King, University
of Otago
"Choosing Longevity with Overlapping Generations" |
15 September
Economics Seminar room CO.520
2.30 pm
|
Honours Students Presentations,
|
29 September
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
|
Oguzhan Dinçer,
Massey University
"Taking care of your own: Ethnic
and religious heterogeneity and income inequality" |
9 October
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
*Note day change |
Ron Jarmin, Centre
for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington
"Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly
Traded Versus Privately Held Firms" |
13 October
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
|
Prof. W. Robert Reed,
University of Canterbury
"A Monte Carlo Evaluation of Panel Data Estimators in Stata
and Eviews" |
Semester 1
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
3 March
CO.626
3.00 pm |
Derek Hum, University of Manitoba
"Some
reflections on Visible Minorities, Immigrants and labour Market
Performance" |
10 March
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
3.00 pm
|
Mark Holmes, University of Waikato
"Can
nominal convergence prevent real interest rate misalignments?
Evidence from regime-switching stationarity tests" |
13 March
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
1.00 pm
|
William T Dickens, The Brookings Institution
"Evidence on Wage Rigidity from Micro Data in 13 Countries:
The International Wage Flexibility Project"
Background and a copy of the paper can be found at http://brookings.edu/es/research/projects/iwfp.htm
and http://brookings.edu/es/research/projects/iwfp_jep.pdf |
17 March
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
3.00 pm
|
Jim Markusen, University of Colorado
"Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade through
Imported Expertise" |
29 March
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.00 pm |
Oliver Lorz, University of Aachen
"Citizen
Candidate Mobility and Endogenous Local Policy" |
7 April
CO.626
3.00 pm |
John Gibson, University of Waikato
"Measurement
Error and the Effect of Inequality on Experienced versus Reported
Crime" |
5 May
CO.626
3.00 pm |
Ian King, University of Otago
"
Dynamic Language Policy" |
12 May
MBA Lecture Room 104
3.00 pm |
Bridget Rosewell, Chief Consultant Economist
to the Greater London Authority
"How much transport
investment should we pay for? And how? Examples from the London
experience" |
22 May
Economics Seminar Room CO.520
1.00 pm
*Note day and time change. |
Doug Allen, Simon Fraser University
"The
duel of honor: screening for unobservable social capital" |
26 May
Commerce Board Room CO.419/420
3.00 pm
|
Steve Jones, Auckland University of Technology
"What long depression?: economic growth and structural
change in New Zealand, 1879-1895" |
2 June
Economics Seminar Room CO.520
3.00 pm |
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, University of Colorado
at Boulder
" Partner Search by Multinational Corporations
in a Corrupt Environment"
The paper can be downloaded from the following
link.
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Brown bag Seminars
The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view
the recent programme here.
Past Departmental Seminar Series
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