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Seminar Series 2008
Semester 1
Seminar Organiser: Frank Stähler
Email: fstaehler@business.otago.ac.nz
All seminars will be held at 3.00 pm on
Fridays in our Economics Seminar room CO.520. However,
locations could vary as we might 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 |
4 April
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Liam Lenten, La
Trobe University:
" Is the Decline in the Frequency
of Draws in Test Match Cricket Detrimental to the Long Form
of the Game?" Download
this paper as a pdf |
11 April Economics
Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Kevin Duncan, Colorado
State University-Pueblo
"The Effects of Prevailing Wage Regulations on
Construction Efficiency"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
18 April
Room CO2.07, Level 2 Commerce Building
3.00 pm
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Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 1 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
28 April
Room CO2.07, Level 2, Commerce Building
1.00
pm
*Note Monday |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 2 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
2 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Morris Altman, University
of Saskatchewan:
"Experiments in Consumer Cooperatives:
Economic and Social Variables as Determinants of Demand"
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5 May
Room CO5,20 Level 5, Commerce Building
1.00
pm
*Note Monday and change of venue |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lecture 3 in a series of five.
Download the
slides for this series as a pdf |
9 May
Economics Seminar room CO.520
3.00 pm |
Norman Gemmell,
New Zealand Treasury:
"Personal and corporate taxes:
do they affect long-run growth?" |
12 May
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
1.00-2.30 pm
*Note Monday and change of venue |
Michael Beenstock,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Evans Fellow, Economics:
"Family, Economics, Genes & Inequality: Deconstructing
Correlations between Parents, Children & Siblings",
Lectures 4 & 5 in a series
of five.
Download
the slides for this series as a pdf
**This will be the final lecture in the series. Please note
the 23 May lecture has been cancelled. |
16 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Nicholas Hanley,
University of Sterling:
" A Panel Data Analysis of
Price Impacts on Biodiversity over a 400 Year Period"
Download this paper as a
pdf |
30 May
Economics Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00 pm |
Niven Winchester,
University of Otago:
"Shifting the 'goal posts': Optimising
the allocation of competition points for sporting contests"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
Semester 2
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
4 July
Economics Seminar room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Professor Wing Thye Woo,
Brookings Institution, Washington DC
University of California, Davis
Central University of Finance & Economics, Beijing
"Understanding
the Sources of Friction in U.S.-China Trade Relations: The Exchange
Rate Debate Diverts Attention away from Optimum Adjustment"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
18 July Economics
Seminar Room CO5.20
3.00pm |
Alexander Zimper, University
of Johannesburg
"Asset pricing in a Lucas "fruit-tree" economy
with non-additive beliefs"
Download
this paper as a pdf |
Brown bag Seminars
The department also runs a brown bag seminar, view
the recent programme here.
Past Departmental Seminar Series
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