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Seminar Series 2007

Semester 1

Seminar Organiser: Frank Stähler

Email: fstaehler@business.otago.ac.nz

Unless noted otherwise, all seminars will be held at 3.00 pm on Fridays. Locations vary as we could 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
12 February Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
*Note Monday
Panicos Demetriades, University of Leicester: "Financial Development, Openness and Institutions"
15 February Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
*Note Thursday
Svetlana Andrianova, University of Leicester: "The theory of political economy of financial development"
2 March Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada:
"Revisiting the Coyne Affair: A Singular Event that Changed the Course of Canadian Monetary History" Download this paper as a pdf
9 March Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen, Aarhus School of Business:
"Economies of Scale and scope, firm heterogeneity and exports"
Download this paper as a pdf
12 March
Economics Seminar room CO.520
1.00pm
*Note Monday
Viktoria Kahui, University of Tromsø
"A bio-economic model of fisheries-habitat interactions"
Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled.
16 March Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm
Peter Lambert, University of Oregon
"Measuring Pro-Poor Growth"
Download this paper as a pdf
23 March Economics Seminar room CO.520
1.00 pm
Horst Raff, University of Kiel:
"The Effects of Trade Liberalization on R&D, Industry Productivity and Welfare When Firms Are Heterogeneous"
Download this paper as a pdf
26 March
Economics Seminar room CO.520
1.00pm
*Note Monday
Tim Hazledine, Univeristy of Auckland
"Pricing, Competition and Policy in Australasian Air Travel Markets"
Download this paper as a pdf
20 April Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Richard Cornes, University of Nottingham
"Weak links, good shots, and other public good games"
Download this paper as a pdf
23 April Economics Seminar room CO.520
1.00pm
*
Note Monday
Anthony Heyes, Royal Holloway College London
"An Economic Model of Whistleblower Policy"
Download this paper as a pdf
4 May
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Philip Liu, Australian National University
"Stabilizing the Australian business cycle: Good luck or good policy?"
Download this paper as a pdf
18 May
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Alfred Haug, University of Otago
"Local linear impulse responses for a small open economy"
Download this paper as a pdf
25 May
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Phillip McCalman, University of California-Santa Cruz
"The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity Within and Across Industries: Theory and Evidence"
Download this paper as a pdf

 

Semester 2

Date Speaker and Topic
6 July
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Henryk Kierzkowski, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
"Outsourcing and Trade Imbalances:
The U.S. – China Case"
and "Globalization and Country-Specific Service Links"
9 July
Economics Seminar room CO.520
1.00pm
*
Note Monday
Alexander Zimper, University of Leicester
"Propositions versus events"
13 July
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin
"Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Endogenous Participation"
Download this paper as a pdf
3 August
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Dmitriy Kvasov, University of Auckland
"Imperfect competition in financial markets and capital structure"
Download this paper as a pdf
24 August
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Philip Nel, University of Otago,
"Odious Inequality: The Politics of Economic Inequality in Developing Countries"
Download this paper as a pdf
7 September
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Steffen Lippert, Massey University
"Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information and Ownership in the Innovation Process"
14 September
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Mark Holmes, University of Waikato
"Are EU Budget Deficits Sustainable?"
Download this paper as a pdf
21 September Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Biman Prasad, University of the South Pacific
"Small States, Big Problems, Small Solutions from Big Countries"
28 September Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Shawn Leu, La Trobe University
"A Small State-Space Model of the Australian Economy"
Download this paper as a pdf
5 October
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Donggyu Sul, University of Auckland
"Economic Transition and Growth"
Download this paper as a pdf
12 October Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Sumon Majumdar, Queen's University
"The Leader as Catalyst: On Leadership and the Mechanics of Change"
Download this paper as a pdf
19 October Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Christie Smith, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
"Daily Forecasting of New Zealand GDP"
26 October Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
William Dewald, Ohio State University
"Inflation and Bond Market Inflation Expectations, 1880 - 2007"
9 November Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00pm
Steven Tucker, University of Canterbury
"Trust Signaling"
Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled.

 

Brown bag Seminars

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

Past Departmental Seminar Series