Past Research Seminars
Economics Seminar Series
Seminars are held on Wednesdays (15:30-16:45) and Fridays (11:30-12:45). The location is CB08.08.002 (unless otherwise indicated)
UTS Business School
Dr Chau Chak Wing Bldg, Level 8
Room 08.08.002 (map)
Seminar Coordinator: Kentaro Tomoeda
Semester 1, 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | ||
January 28 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Michigan | Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars | ||
February 17 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Rice University | Learning While Setting Precedents | ||
February 19 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Bologna | Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion | ||
Apr 15 15:30, Zoom link Password: UTS | University of Otago | Time inconsistency in games | ||
May 22 11:30, Zoom Password: seminar | UTS | Organisational design and differential treatment | ||
June 12 11:30, Zoom Password: seminar | UTS | Voting to Persuade | ||
June 19 11:00, Zoom Password: seminar | Queen's University | An intertemporal model of growing awareness | ||
June 26 11:30, Zoom Password: seminar | UTS | Optimal Top-n Polic |
Semester 2, 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | ||
July 24 15:30, CB08.05.006 | New York University | Trust Me: Communication and Competition in Psychological Games | ||
July 26 11:30, CB08.04.002 | University of Southern California | Social Media, Information Networks, and Protests in China | ||
July 31 15:30, CB08.08.002 | UTS | Evolutionary foundation of loss aversion and aspiration level formation | ||
Aug 2 11:30, CB05C.02.036 | University of Hong Kong | What You Import Matters: Capital versus Intermediate Goods | ||
Aug 5 15:30, CB08.08.002 | The University of Texas at Austin | O Youth and Beauty: Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development | ||
Aug 7 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Toronto | Belief Formation Under Signal Correlation | ||
Aug 9 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of California-Davis | Robust Inference for Dyadic Data | ||
Aug 15 15:00, CB08.08.002 Sydney Development Economics Seminar | Waseda University | The Effect of Social Interactions on Exporting Activities: Evidence from Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in rural Vietnam | ||
Aug 16 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Sydney | The Influence of Early-life Economic Shocks on Long-term Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Great Depression | ||
Aug 19 11:30, CB08.05.001 | University of Keio | Introducing Virtue Ethics into Normative Economics for Models with Endogenous Preferences | ||
Aug 21 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Melbourne | Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program | ||
Aug 23 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of New South Wales | Continuous versus Abrupt Reorganizations | ||
Aug 28 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Tampere University | Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration | ||
Aug 30 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of New South Wales | Relational Communication | ||
Sep 4 15:30, CB05B.05.017 | University of Sydney | Self-Similar Beliefs in Games with Strategic Substitutes | ||
Sep 6 11:30, CB05C.01.015 | Reserve Bank of Australia | The Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Local Housing Markets | ||
Sep 18 15:30, CB05C.02.037 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Cost-Benefit Analysis in Reasoning | ||
Sep 25 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Uncertainty and the macroeconomy: A real-time out-of-sample evaluation | ||
Sep 27 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Queensland | Manipulation, Dynamic Informed Trading, and the Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Securities Markets | ||
Oct 2 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Peking University | Physician-Induced Demand: Evidence from China’s Zero-Markup Regulation on Drug Prices | ||
Oct 4 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Queensland | Sex Ratios and Long-Term Marriage Trends (with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull and Shannon Seitz) | ||
Oct 9 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Monash University | Manufacturing miracles: Industrial policy and networks in South Korea | ||
Oct 11 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Queensland | Production Network Structure, Service Share, and Aggregate Volatility | ||
Oct 16 15:30, CB05C.02.041 | University of Technology Sydney | Projection of Private Values in Auctions | ||
Oct 18 11:30, CB05C.01.030 | University of Tokyo | Effect of month-of-birth and the underlying mechanisms | ||
Oct 21 15:30, CB08.08.002 | National Research University Higher School of Economics | Immediate acceptance to over-demanded schools: A new school choice mechanism | ||
Oct 23 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Game Show Economics | ||
Oct 25 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Queensland | Mediation Design | ||
Oct 30 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis/ University of Osaka | An experimental comparison of two mechanisms for implementing Shapley value | ||
Nov 1 11:30, CB08.05.006 | Erasmus Rotterdam | The mental health effects of retirement | ||
Nov 6 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Naples Federico II | Vertical Contracting with Endogenous Market Structure | ||
Nov 8 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Incentives in Surveys | ||
Nov 15 11:30, CB08.05.002 | National University of Singapore | The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination | ||
Nov 20 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Northwestern University | Feedback in Dynamic Contests | ||
Nov 22 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Nanyang Technological University | Incentivizing Organ Donation under Blood Compatibility Constraints: Theory and Experiment | ||
Nov 26 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Central European University | Over confidence & Prejudice | ||
Nov 27 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Arizona | Sequential Search with a Price Freeze Option: Theory and Experimental Evidence | ||
Dec 4 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Stanford GSB | The Power of Referential Advice |
Semester 1, 2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | ||
February 6 15:30, CB08.05.002 | Florida State University | Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails | ||
February 13 15:30, CB08.05.002 | Monash University | Social Norms In Networks | ||
February 15 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Bayesian Elicitation of Unverifiable Truths | ||
February 22 11:30, CB08.05.002 | Indian School of Business | Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India | ||
February 25 11:30, CB08.08.003 | Purdue University | Semiparametric Bayesian Quantile Regression | ||
March 4 15:30, CB08.05.002 | University of California, Los Angeles | The Role of Women and Men in Choices of Residential and Work Locations in Israel | ||
March 6 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Cambridge | Financial Contagion in Networks: A Market Experiment | ||
March 8 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Melbourne | Estimating fixed effects: Perfect prediction and bias in binary response panel models, with an application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program | ||
March 13 15:30, CB08.08.002 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | University of Lausanne | Iterative versus standard deferred acceptance: Experimental Evidence | ||
March 15 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Sydney | Why has the U.S. economy stagnated since the Great Recession? | ||
March 20 15:30, CB08.08.003 | UTS | Interdistrict school choice: A Theory of student assignment | ||
March 22 11:30, CB08.08.003 | University of Arizona | Escalation of Scrutiny: The gains from dynamic enforcement of environmental regulations | ||
March 25 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap | ||
March 27 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of California, Los Angeles | A Kinky Consistency: Experimental Evidence of Behavior Under Linear and Non-linear Budget Sets | ||
March 29 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Calgary | Coarse Bayesianism | ||
April 1 9:00, CB08.08.002 | Lancaster University | Choosing Schools and School Choice | ||
April 3 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of New South Wales | The Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Agriculture: The Roles of Adaptation Techniques and Emissions Reductions | ||
April 5 11:30, CB05B.05.017 | University of Adelaide | Prison work and recidivism | ||
April 10 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | Consumer Search and the Uncertainty Effect | ||
April 12 11:30, CB05C.01.030 | University of Wisconsin Madison | Skills Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men | ||
April 15 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of California Berkeley | Price Salience and Product Choice | ||
April 17 15:30, CB08.08.002 | King's College London | Gender, Competition and Performance: Evidence from Real Tournaments | ||
May 1 15:30, CB08.08.002 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | Florida State University | Learning and Contagion in Teams | ||
May 3 11:30, CB05D.02.019 | University of Melbourne | Does Imperfect Foresight Matter After All? | ||
May 8 15:30,CB05C.02.054 | Case Western Reserve University | Status and Economic Rents: Experimental Evidence on the Matthew Effect | ||
May 10 11:30, CB05C.01.030 | University of New South Wales | Uncertainty Shocks, Financial Frictions and Business Cycle Asymmetries Across Countries | ||
May 17 11:30, CB05C.01.029 | UTS | Paying to Brag? A Structural Model of Cheap Talk in Online Crowdlending | ||
May 22 15:30, CB05C.01.030 | University of Warwick | Inequality in Diet and Obesity | ||
May 29 15:30, CB08.08.002 | UTS | The Effect of Payment Medium on Productivity | ||
May 31 11:30, CB08.08.002 | UTS | Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century | ||
June 5 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Shingo Ishiguro Osaka University | Relational Contracts and Savings | ||
June 7 11:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Toronto | Monotonic Norms and Orthogonal Issues in Multi-Dimensional Voting | ||
June 12 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Melbourne | Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Prizes in Innovation Contests | ||
June 19 15:30, CB08.08.002 | University of Queensland | The Continuity Postulate in Economic Theory |
Semester 2, 2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | |||
July 24 (Tuesday) 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Northwestern University | Social Custom versus Fashion Cycle: Path-Dependence and Limit Cycle in Best Response Dynamics | |||
July 25 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Boston University | Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance | |||
August 3 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Lausanne | How Lotteries in School Choice Help Leveling the Playing Field | |||
August 9 (Thursday) 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Vanderbilt University | Inference for Moments of Ratios with Robustness against Large Trimming Bias and Unknown Convergence Rate | |||
August 10 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Pennsylvania & ANU | The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference | |||
August 15 15:30, CB08.08.02 | New York University: Stern School of Business | Linear IV Regression Estimators for Single-Agent Dynamic Discrete Choice Models | |||
August 17 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Houston | Pay What Your Dad Paid: Commitment and Price Rigidity in the Market for Life Insurance | |||
August 22 15:30, CB08.08.02 | UNSW | Seemingly Exploitative Contracts | |||
August 23 11:30, CB05C.01.013 | University of Alicante | The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy | |||
August 29 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Sydney | Startup search costs | |||
August 31 11:30, CB08.08.02 | The Role of Communication in Managing Multi-level Conflicts | ||||
September 5 15:30, CB08.08.02 | ANU | Place, jobs, peers and the teenage years: exposure effects and intergenerational mobility | |||
September 12 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Auckland University of Technology | Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity | |||
September 19 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Benjamin Young UTS | Contract Design with Framing Effects and Endogenous Cognition | |||
September 21 11:30, CB08.08.02 | John Simon Reserve Bank of Australia | The Property Ladder after the Financial Crisis: The First Step is a Stretch but Those Who Make It Are Doing OK | |||
September 26 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Monash University | Search platforms: Showrooming and price parity clauses | |||
September 28 11:30, CB08.08.02 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | University of Queensland | Centralized Assignment of Students to Majors: Evidence from the University of Costa Rica | |||
October 3 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Melbourne | Difference-in-Differences when Trends are Uncommon and Stochastic | |||
October 5 11:30, CB08.08.02 | National University of Singapore | Early Life Exposure to Tap Water and the Development of Cognitive Skills | |||
October 10 15:30, CB08.08.02 | UTS | A model of network formation for the overnight interbank market | |||
October 12 11:30, CB08.08.02 | UTS | An Economic Theory of Affirmative Action | |||
October 17 15:30, CB08.08.02 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | University of Melbourne | Price Discovery Using a Double Auction | |||
October 19 11:30, CB08.08.02 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? The Effect of Elite College and Intergenerational Transfer | |||
October 24 15:30, CB08.08.02 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | WZB Berlin Social Science Centre | How to avoid black markets for appointments at public offices | |||
November 2 11:30, CB08.08.02 EDG - CPMD joint seminar | University of Toronto | Compromising Quality to Stay Relevant | |||
November 7 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Queensland | Relative Performance Feedback and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment | |||
November 9 11:00, CB08.08.02 | University of Bath | Growth Regressions: An Integrated Approach | |||
November 14 15:30, CB08.08.02 Business of Health seminar series | University of York | Equity, Opportunity and Health | |||
November 16 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Lottery Auctions and Mechanism Design with Loss-Averse Agents | ||||
November 21 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University College Dublin | Fantasy Football Points and Arrest Records as Determinants of National Football League Player Salaries |
Semester 1, 2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | |||
February 5 15:30, CB08.04.10 | National University of Singapore | Ellsberg meets Keynes: Missing links among attitudes toward sources of uncertainty | |||
February 6 15:30, CB08.08.02 | New York University |
co-authored with Alessandro Lizzeri and Jacopo Perego | |||
February 28 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Alberta | ||||
March 7 15:30, CB08.08.02 | ANU | Capital taxation in a life cycle economy with firm
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March 9 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Utrecht | Asset Pricing when Long-Horizon Expectations Matter: a lab experiment, joint with George Evans, Cars Hommes and Bruce McGough | |||
March 14 15;30, CB08.08.02 | University of Melbourne | ||||
March 16 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Essex | ||||
March 21 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Purdue University | ||||
March 23 11:30, CB08.12.092 | University of Essex | ||||
March 28 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Deakin | ||||
April 4 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Melbourne | ||||
April 6 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Sydney | ||||
April 9 15:30, CB08.08.02 | U of I Urbana-Champaign | ||||
April 11 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Bocconi University | ||||
April 13 11:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Sydney | The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities | |||
April 18 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | ||||
May 2 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Melbourne | The Long-term Consequences of a Heroin Supply Shock | |||
May 4 12:30, CB08.08.002 | UTS | ||||
May 9 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Catholic University of Milan | Dispersed Information, Social Networks and Aggregate Fluctuations | |||
May 16 15:30, CB08.08.02 | National University of Singapore | Optimal Mechanisms with Costly Information Acquisition | |||
May 18 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Monash University | Censored Quantile Difference in Differences | |||
May 25 11:30, CB08.04.010 | Sabancı University | Efficient and Incentive Compatible Mediation: An Ordinal Mechanism Design Approach | |||
May 30 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Queensland | ||||
June 1 11:30, CB08.08.002 | Auckland University of Technology | ||||
June 6 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of Auckland | ||||
June 8 11:30, CB08.08.002
| UTS | ||||
June 20 15:30, CB08.08.02 | University of California | Geometrically Stopped Markovian Random Growth Processes and Pareto Tails | |||
June 27 15:30, CB08.08.002 | Harvard University | Channeled Attention Stable Errors | |||
July 6 11:30, CB08.08.002
| University of Bristol | Referral Incentive Design |
Semester 2, 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | |||
July 21 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Jiangtao Li UNSW
| Strategically Simple Mechanism | |||
July 26 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Cedric Wasser University of Bonn | Buyer-Optimal Robust Information Structures | |||
July 28 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Matt Van Essen University of Alabama | Mimic Martingales in Sequential Auctions | |||
August 2 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Ed Green Pennsylvania State University | Identifying the Occurrence or Non-Occurrence of Cognitive Bias in Situations Resembling the Monty Hall Problem | |||
August 4 11:30, CB08.08.02 | John Wooders New York University Abu Dhabi campus & UTS | Nash at Wimbledon | |||
August 9 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Arthur Campbell Monash University | Word of Mouth Communication and Search | |||
August 11 11;30, CB08.08.02 | Scott French UNSW | Comparative Advantage and Biased Gravity | |||
August 16 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Severine Toussaert London School of Economics | Multi-market Simultaneous Search: More Can Be Less | |||
August 18 11:00, CB08.08.02 | Daisuke Hirata Hitotsubashi University | Organizational Design and Career Concerns | |||
August 23 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Xiaodong Fan
| Multi-market Simultaneous Search: More Can Be Less | |||
August 25 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Arpita Chatterjee UNSW | Full Information Estimation of Household Income Risk and Consumption Insurance | |||
August 30 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Galina Zudenkova Univerisity of Mannheim | Incumbents’ Performance and Political Polarization | |||
September 1 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Shuheng Lin
| Pricing under Innovation: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms | |||
September 6 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Erte Xiao Monash University | Incentives to Persevere | |||
September 8 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Wendun Wang Tinbergen Institute | Heterogeneous structural breaks in panel data models | |||
September 15 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Yanlin Chen UTS | Mechanism design and information design by an informed seller | |||
September 20 16:00, CB08.08.02 | David Byrne The University of Melbourne | Learning to coordinate: A study in retail gasoline | |||
September 27 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Yves Zenou Monash University | CONFORMISM, SOCIAL NORMS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ASSIMILATION | |||
September 29 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Aleksei Chernulich UTS | Comparing Adaptive Switching Mechanisms in Selected Binary Choice Experiments | |||
October 4 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Michaela Pagel Columbia Business School | The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: New Evidence on Individual Spending and Financial Structure | |||
October 11 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Jan Kabatek University of Melbourne | Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce | |||
October 13 11:30, CB08.08.02 | Juan Carlos Carbajal UNSW | Policy Persistence and Economic Reform | |||
October 18 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Reshad Ahsan University of Melbourne | How Do Exporters Cope with Violence? Evidence from Political Strikes in Bangladesh | |||
October 20 11:30, CB08.08.03 | Evgeniya Goryacheva UTS | Demand Estimation with the Subjective Individual Product Evaluations | |||
October 25 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Ivan Balbuzanov University of Melbourne | Short Trading Cycles: Kidney Exchange with Strict Ordinal Preferences | |||
October 27 11:30, CB08. 04.02 | David Goldbaum UTS | An Experiment on an Evolving Social Network | |||
November 1 16:00, CB08.08.02 | Tim Kam ANU | Inflationary Redistribution vs. Trading Opportunities | |||
November 8 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Bart Lipman Boston University | Mechanisms with Evidence: Commitment and Robustness | |||
November 17 11:30, CB08.04.02 | Xin Zhao UTS | Competing for Talents: The Role of Job Offer Acceptance Deadline | |||
November 22 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Rigissa Megalokonomou University of Queensland | Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study (joint with Victor Lavy) | |||
November 24 11:30, CB08.12.092 | Robert Akerlof University of Warwick | Capital Assembly | |||
November 29 15:30, CB08.08.02 | Michael Shields Monash University | The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions: Evidence from two UK reforms | |||
December 6 15:30, CB08,08.02 | Maryam Naghsh Nejad IZA Institute of Labour Economics | The Human Capital Effects of Hosting Refugees: Evidence from Kagera | |||
December 13 15:30,CB08.08.02 | Daiji Kawaguchi University of Tokyo | The Effects of Genes on Alcohol Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Japan and Korea (co-authored with Jungmin Lee and Izumi Yokoyama). |
Semester 1, 2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | |||
February 1 (11:00, CB08.05.002) | David Frankel (Iowa State University) | Efficient Ex-Ante Stabilization of Firms | |||
February 2 (11:00, CB08.05.002) | Elena Mattana (University of Chicago) | Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior | |||
February 6 (11:00) | John Ham (National University of Singapore) | Novelty, Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation: Evidence from Nobel Laureates | |||
February 10 (11:00, CB08.08.003) | Peter Siminski (University of Wollongong) | The Effects of World War II Military Service: Evidence from Australia | |||
February 14 (11:00, CB08.05.002) | Elif Incekara Hafalir (Carnegie Mellon, Tepper) | A Zero Effect Explains Deviations from Expected Utility in Allais-type Tasks | |||
February 15 (11:00, room CB08.04.002) | Isa Hafalir (Carnegie Mellon, Tepper) | College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized | |||
February 17 (11:00, CB08.05.002) | Junji Xiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | Welfare Impacts of Fuel Economy Regulation in China | |||
February 20 (11:00, CB08.04.002) | Rene Saran (Yale-NUS) | Level-k Mechanism Design | |||
February 22 (11:00, CB08.05.002) | Dean Hyslop (MOTU Economic and Public Policy Research) | Earnings dynamics and measurement error in matched survey and administrative data | |||
March 3 (11:15, CB08.04.002) | Murali Agastya (University of Sydney) | Continuing War of Information | |||
March 10 (11:30) | Mengxi Zhang (University of Technology Sydney) | Auctions vs. Negotiations: Optimal Selling Mechanism with Endogenous Bidder Values | |||
March 15 (16:00) | Heiko Gerlach (University of Queensland) | A Model of Patent Trolls | |||
March 17 (11:30, CB08.04.002) | Kentaro Tomoeda (University of Technology Sydney) | Finding a Stable Matching under Type-specific Minimum Quotas | |||
March 22 (16:00) | Andreas Leibbrandt (Monash University) | Behavioral constraints on price discrimination:Experimental evidence on pricing and customer antagonism | |||
March 24 (11:30) | Alberto Gaggero (University of Pavia) | The hidden side of dynamic pricing in airline markets | |||
March 29 (16:00) | Toru Kitagawa (University College London) | Equality-Minded Treatment Choice | |||
April 5 (16:00) | Sander Heinsalu (Australian National University) | Investing in trading opportunities in dynamic adverse selection | |||
April 6 (11:00, CB08.02.006) | Emil Temnyalov (University of Technology Sydney) | Liability insurance: Optimal contracts under monopoly and competition | |||
April 7 (11:30) | Stefanie Schurer (University of Sydney) | Survey item response behavior as proxy for unobservable skills: Theory and application | |||
April 12 (16:00) | Terence Cheng (University of Adelaide) | Monthly spending and labour market dynamics of the elderly following a health shock: Insights from the Singapore Life Panel | |||
April 19 (16:00) | Dong Hyuk Kim (University of Queensland) | Empirical relevance of biased belief in first-price auctions | |||
May 4 (11:00, CB08.04.009) | Lily Yang (University of Sydney) | ||||
May 5 (11:30) | Xiaoyu Xia (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | ||||
May 10 (16:00) | Sonja Kassenboehmer (Monash University) | ||||
May 17 (16:00) | Tom Wilkening (University of Melbourne) | ||||
May 19 (11:00) | Antonio Rosato (University of Technology Sydney) | ||||
May 26 (11:15) | Peer Skov (Auckland University of Technology) | ||||
May 29 (16:00, CB08.08.004) | Zhijun Chen (Monash University) | ||||
May 31 (16:00) | Takeshi Murooka (LMU Munich) | ||||
June 2 (11:30) | Guglielmo Briscese (University of Sydney / Behavioural Insights) | ||||
June 26 (15:00, CB08.02.002) | John Williams (San Francisco Federal Reserve) |
Semester 2, 2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC | |||
| August 5 (11:30) | Matt Van Essen (University of Alabama) | A Simple Market-Like Allocation Mechanism for Public Goods | |||
| August 17 | Graham Elliott (University of California San Diego) | Forecasting Conditional Probabilities of Binary Outcomes under Misspecification | |||
| August 19 (11:30) | Tsz-Ning Wong (Aalto University) | Free Riding and Duplication in R&D | |||
| August 24 | Fabio Michelucci (CERGE-EI) | How to Boost Revenues in FPAs? The Magic of Disclosing only Winning Bids from Past Auctions | |||
| August 31 | Jan Kabatek (University of Melbourne) | Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of an Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands | |||
| September 7 | Tong Li (Vanderbilt University) | Partial Identification Subnetwork Approach to Discrete Games in Large Networks: An Application to Quantifying Peer Effects | |||
| September 21 | Paul Pezanis-Christou (University of Adelaide) | A Naïve Impulse Balance Equilibrium for First-Price Auctions | |||
| September 23 (11:30) | Jiemai Wu (University of Sydney) | Beneficially imperfect persuaders | |||
| September 28 | Andy McLennan (University of Queensland) | No Lonely Toy! A Combinatoric Algorithm for Computing Brouwer Fixed Points | |||
| October 6 (11:15) | Weili Ding (Queen's University and NYU Shanghai) | Estimating Context-Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments | |||
| October 7 (11:15) | Steven Lehrer (Queen's University and NYU Shanghai) | Heterogeneity in Child Development: Universal Child Care And Parental Investments | |||
| October 12 | Lionel Page (Queensland University of Technology) | Knowing When to Stop and Make a Choice, an Experiment on Optimal Sequential Sampling | |||
| October 19 (CB08.02.002) | Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne) | Prior-free Asymptotically Optimal Clock Auctions | |||
| October 21 (11:30, CB08.05.001) | Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne) | Project Selection and Strategic Information Disclosure | |||
| October 26 | Valentin Zelenyuk (University of Queensland) | Nonparametric Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models for Time Series Data | |||
| October 28 (11:15) | Qiying Wang (University of Sydney) | Current developments in nonlinear cointegrating regression | |||
| November 9 | Ryuji Sano (Kyoto University) | A Dynamic Mechanism Design with Multiple Deadlines and Multi-Unit Demands | |||
| November 10 (11:15) | Siyang Xiong (University of Bristol) | Designing (BREXIT) Referendum: An Economist's Pessimistic Perspective | |||
| November 25 (11:15) | Xu Tan (University of Washington) | Learning in Local Networks | |||
| December 2 (11:15) | Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology) | Optimal Dynamic Matching | |||
| December 15 (11:15) | Audrey Hu (University of Amsterdam) | Sequential Auctions with General Interdependent Values |
Semester 1, 2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | FIELD | TOPIC | |||
| February 26 | Roman Sheremeta (Case Western Reserve University) | Theory | Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Output: An Experimental Investigation of the Quality-Quantity Trade-off | |||
| March 4 | Yoko Ibura (Tohoku University) | Empirical | Dynamics of Health and the Economy over Time in Japan | |||
| March 9 | Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne) | Theory | Norm enforcement on eBay | |||
| March 16 | Nicholas Salamanca (University of Melbourne) | Empirical | Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development | |||
| March 23 | David Easley (Cornell University) | Theory | Designing On-Line Environments for Behavioral Agents  style="font-size: 0.923em; line-height: 20.0063px;">1 style="font-size: 0.923em; line-height: 20.0063px;"> 2 | |||
| March 30 | Ken Onishi (Singapore Management University) | Empirical | Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Vertical Relationships: The Case of the MRI Market | |||
| April 6 | Vera te Velde (University of Queensland) | Theory | Surprising Gifts | |||
| April 13 | Gianni la Cava (Reserve Bank of Australia) | Empirical | Household Economic Inequality in Australia | |||
| April 27 | Rabar Amir (University of Iowa) | Theory | On the microeconomic foundations of linear demand for differentiated products | |||
| May 4 | Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne) | Empirical | Maternal Depression, Parenting Behaviors and Child Development: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial | |||
| May 11 | Michele de Nadai (University of New South Wales) | Empirical | Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma’s House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement | |||
| May 18 | Indranil Chakraborty (National University of Singapore) | Theory | Procurement Auctions | |||
| May 25 | Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin Madison) | Theory | Decentralized Exchange | |||
| June 1 | Tess Stafford (University of New South Wales) | Empirical | Experience and the Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply |
Semester 2, 2015
| DATE | SPEAKER | FIELD | TOPIC | |||
| July 27 | George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania) | Theory | The Curse of Long Horizons | |||
| July 29 | Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania) | Theory and Empirical | The Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default: A Structural Estimation | |||
| August 5 | James Giesecke (Victoria University) | Empirical | Superannuation Within a Financial CGE Model of the Australian Economy | |||
| August 12 | Steven Williams (University of Illinois) | Theory | Price Discovery Using a Double Auction | |||
| August 19 | David Ribar (University of Melbourne) | Empirical | A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity | |||
| August 26 | TBA | Theory | TBA | |||
| September 2 | Mark Roberts (Pennsylvania State University) | Empirical | Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firms Financial Strength | |||
| September 9 | Heather Royer (University of California Santa Barbara) | Empirical | The Impact of Education on Family Formation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the UK | |||
| September 16 | Jimmy Chan (Fudan University) | Theory | The Value of Linking: Efficiency and Public Punishment | |||
| September 23 | Maros Servatka (Macquarie University) | Theory | Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission | |||
| September 30 | Wooyoung Lim (HKUST) | Theory | Does Jump-bidding Increase Sellers’ Revenue? Theory and Experiment | |||
| October 7 | Jay Lee (University of New South Wales) | Empirical | A Consistent Variance Estimator for 2SLS When Instruments Identify Different LATEs | |||
| October 14 | TBA | Theory | TBA | |||
| October 21 | David Johnston (Monash University) | Empirical | Justification Bias in Self-Reported Disability: New Evidence from Panel Data | |||
| October 28 | Keiichi Kawai (University of New South Wales) | Theory | Competition in Information Disclosure | |||
| November 4 | Christian Gillitzer (Reserve Bank of Australia) | Empirical | The Effect of Consumer Sentiment on Consumption: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Elections |
Semester 1, 2015
Semester 2, 2014
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
| 30 July | Martin Huber (University of St. Gallen) | Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables |
| 6 August | Guy Mayraz (University of Melbourne) | Priors and Desires: a Model of Optimism, Pessimism, and Cognitive Dissonance |
| 13 August | Haishan Yuan (University of Queensland) | National Representation and Local Public Expenditure: A Natural Experiment from Japan |
| 20 August | Carlos Oyarzun (University of Queensland) | Response Functions |
| 27 August | John Romalis (University of Sydney) | International Prices and Endogenous Quality |
| 3 September | Virginie Masson (University of Adeleide) | Social Welfare in Favor Exchange Networks: The Importance of the Degree Distribution |
| 10 September | Stephen Billings (UNC Charlotte) | The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte, NC |
| 17 September | Alberto Motta (University of NSW) | Weak Ex Ante Collusion and Design of Supervisory Institution |
| 24 September | Peter Sivey (La Trobe University) | Should I Stay or Should I Go? Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Times and Demand |
| 8 October | Mark Harris (Curtin University) | A New Formulation for Latent Class Models; and Some Implications for Modelling Body Mass Index |
| 15 Octber | Amnon Levy (University of Wollongong) | A Theory of Mood Influenced Investment in Health |
| 22 October | Jan van Ours (Tilburg University and University of Melbourne) | Cannabis Use and Support for Cannabis Legalization |
| 29 October | Steffen Lippert (University of Auckland) | Learning, Entry and Competition with Uncertain Common Entry Costs |
| 5 November | Peter Siminski (University of Wollongong) | The Role of Education in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Australia |
| 19 December | Alexis Toda (University of California at San Diego) |
Semester 1, 2014
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
| 12 March | Flavio Menezes (University of Queensland) | Public-Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure: Some Efficiency Risks |
| 19 March | Lata Gangadharan (Monash University) | Selection, Tournaments, and Dishonesty |
| 26 March | Heiko Gerlach (University of Queensland) | A Theory of Patent Portfolios |
| 2 April | John Wooders (University of Technology, Sydney) | |
| 9 April | Anton Kolotilin (University of NSW) | |
| 16 April | Guyonne Kalb (University of Melbourne) | What Factors Affect Doctors’ Work Decisions: Comparing a Discrete Choice Structural Approach to a Reduced-Form Approach |
| 30 April | Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) | Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India |
| 7 May | Juan Carlos Carbajal (University of NSW) | Plasticity, Monotonicity, and Implementability |
| 14 May | Xin Meng (Australian National University) | |
| 21 May | Jun Xiao (University of Melbourne) | Asymmetric All-Pay Contests with Heterogeneous Prizes |
| 27 May | Stanley Cho, University of NSW | Accounting for Skill Premium Patterns During the EU Accession: Productivity or Trade? |
| 28 May | Satoshi Tanaka (University of Queensland) | Structural Change and the Rise and Fall of Marital Unions |
| 4 June | Ben Greiner (University of NSW) | Reputation Building and Conflict Resolution in Online Markets |
| 11 June | Melissa Tartari (University of Chicago) | Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach |
Semester 2, 2013
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August | Hanaki Nobuyuki (Aix-Marseille University) | It is Not Just Confusion! Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market |
| 14 August | Elena Asparouhova (University of Utah) | 'Lucas' In The Laboratory |
| 16 August | Multiple (University of Zurich and UTS) | Mini-workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Economics |
| 21 August | Benoit Julien (University of NSW) | Bidding for Clubs |
| 28 August | Barry Sopher (Rutgers University) | An Experiment on Partnership Protocols for Bilateral Trade with Incomplete Information |
| 4 September | Tim Cason (Purdue University) | Cycles and Instability in Continuous Time Matrix and Market Games |
| 18 September | Vasilis Sarafidils (Monash University) | Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Models for Short Panels with a Multi-Factor Structure |
| 25 September | Piero Gottardi (European University Institute) | Risk-Sharing and Contagion in Networks |
| 2 October | Claudio Mezzetti (University of Melbourne) | A Multi-Unit Dominant Strategy Double Auction |
| 9 October | James Morley (University of NSW) | Measuring Economic Slack in Asia and the Pacific |
| 10 October | Sylvia Xiaolin Xiao (University of Technology, Sydney) | Liquidity, Monetary Policy and Unemployment |
| 16 October | Cesar Martinelli (ITAM) | Information Acquisition in Collective Choice: Theory and Experiments |
| 23 October | Simon Grant (University of Queensland) | Savage Game |
| 30 October | Rebecca Edwards (University of Sydney) | Women’s Labor Supply - Motherhood and Work Schedule Flexibility |
| 7 November | Frank Heinemann (Technische Universität Berlin) | Characterising Equilibrium Selection in Global Games with Strategic Complementarities |
| 12 November | Alexandre Dmitriev (University of Tasmania) | Lifestyle Habits and International Transmission of Business Cycles |
| 27 November | David Vines (Oxford Universitya) | Macroeconomic Policy Cooperation and the Global Non-System |
Semester 1, 2013
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 21 January | Per Krusell (Stockholm University) | Gross Worker Flows over the Business Cycle |
| 25 January | Helios Herrera (Columbia University) | Turnout and power sharing |
| 31 January | Guillaume Roger (University of NSW) | Optimal contract under moral hazard with soft information |
| 5 February | Kane Sweeney (Northwestern University) | Health Insurance Pre-Exchanges: A Market Design Approach to Insurer-Provider Network Formation |
| 7 February | Shiko Maruyama (University of NSW) | Estimation of Finite Sequential Games |
| 12 February | Myongjin Kim (Boston University) | Strategic responses to used-goods markets: Airbus and Boeing since 1997 |
| 13 February | Antonio Rosato (University of California, Berkeley) | Selling Substitute Goods to Loss-Averse Consumers: Limited Availability, Bargains and Rip-offs |
| 20 February | Dale J. Poirier (University of California, Irvine) | Discrete Covariates |
| 6 March | Michelle Sovinsky (University of Zurich) | Marijuana on Main Street: What If? |
| 15 March | Larry Epstein (Boston University) | Bayesian Inference and Non-Bayesian Prediction and Choice: Foundations and an Application to Entry Games with Multiple Equilibria |
| 20 March | Francoise Forges (Universite Paris-Dauphine) | Bayesian Repeated Games |
| 3 April | Simon Kwok (University of Sydney) | A Nonparametric Test of Granger Causality in Continuous Time |
| 10 April | Bettina Klaus (University of Lausanne) | Strategy-Proofness makes the Difference: Deferred-Acceptance with Responsive Priorities |
| 17 April | David Byrne (University of Melbourne) | The Impact of Consolidation on Cable TV Prices and Product Quality |
| 1 May | Robert Slonim (University of Sydney) | The Market for Blood |
| 7 May | Nicholas Bedard (University of Western Ontario) | The Strategically Ignorant Principal |
| 15 May | Diego Moreno (University Carlos III of Madrid) | Price Cap Regulation with Capacity Withholding |
| 5 July | Ian Walker (University of Lancaster) | Teen Motherhood: Outcomes for the Mother and Child |
Semester 2, 2012
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 10 July | Martin Ravallion (World Bank) | Special seminar: "More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World" |
| 11 July | Jacob Goeree (University of Zurich) | Electoral Design: One Man, One Vote Bid |
| 25 July | Rabah Amir (University of Arizona) | Market Structure, Scale Economies and Industry Performance |
| 1 August | Eckstein Zvi (The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) | Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women |
| 8 August | Jason Shachat (Xiamen University) | The Hayek Hypothesis and Long Run Competitive Equilibrium: An Experimental Investigation |
| 15 August | AJ A. Bostian (University of Virginia) | Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment |
| 22 August | Jonathan Newton (University of Sydney) | Stochastic Stability on General State Spaces |
| 5 September | Mohamad Khaled (University of Technology, Sydney) | Copula Parameterizations for Binary Tables |
| 12 September | Robin Pope (Bonn University) | Godlike Compensation Rationally Linked to Godlike Personal Liabilities through SKAT, the Stages of Knowledge Ahead Theory of Risk |
| 19 September | Tim Robinson (Reserve Bank of Australia) | Housing and Financial Frictions in a Small Open Economy |
| 24 September | Jan Libich (La Trobe University) | Monetary Exit Strategy and Fiscal Spillovers |
| 28 September | Klaus Abbink (Monash University) | An Experiment on Mitigating Harassment Bribes |
| 2 October | Jacob Goeree (University of Zurich) | Stabilizing the Economy: Market Design and General Equilibrium |
| 10 October | Marco LiCalzi (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) | The Power of Diversity Over Large Solution Spaces |
| 17 October | Pauline Grosjean (University of NSW) | A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor and Homicide in the US South |
| 24 October | Garry Barret (University of Sydney) | The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment |
| 31 October | Hamid Sabourian (University of Cambridge) | Repeated Implementation: Finite Mechanisms. Complexity and Incomplete Information |
| 7 November | Guillaume Roger (University of NSW) | Platform Pricing Structure and Moral Hazard |
Semester 1, 2012
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 24 January | Marc Chan (Peking University) | Welfare Reform and the Dynamic Effects of Time Limits |
| 31 January | Toru Suzuki (Max Planck Institute of Economics) | Reminder Game: Persuasion with Silence |
| 3 February | Chengsi Wang (University of NSW) | Informative Advertising, Consumer Search and Transparency Policy |
| 8 February | Bogachan Celen (Columbia University) | The Effect of Endogenous Timing on Coordination Under Asymmetric Information: An Experimental Study |
| 10 February | Christoph Schottmueller (Tilburg University) | Adverse Selection Without Single Crossing |
| 20 February | Lydia Cheung (University of Minnesota) | The Upward Pricing Pressure Test for Merger Analysis: An Empirical Examination |
| 5 March | Marco Faravelli (University of Queensland) | Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections |
| 12 March | Jacob Goeree (University of Zurich) | A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design |
| 15 March | Rabah Amir (University of Arizona) | Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance |
| 19 March | Olena Stavrunova (University of Technology Sydney) | Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard and the Demand for Medigap Insurance |
| 26 March | John Rust (University of Maryland) | The Free Installment Puzzle |
| 2 April | Virginie Masson (University of Adelaide) | Favor Exchange with Stochastic Costs |
| 4 April | Mario Fiorini (University of Technology, Sydney) | How the Allocation of Children's Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development |
| 5 April | Stephen Kirchner (University of Technology, Sydney) | The Long-Run Relationship between Population and Average Living Standards in Australia |
| 5 April | Corrado Di Guilmi (University of Technology, Sydney) | Towards an Analytical Solution for Agent Based Models: An Application to a Credit Network Economy |
| 16 April | Gianni Amisano (European Central Bank) | Prediction with Several Macromodels |
| 23 April | Pietro Peretto (Duke University) | Technology, Population and Resources: A Theory of Convergence to Sustained (and Sustainable) Growth |
| 30 April | Simon Anderson (University of Virginia) | Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices |
| 7 May | James Hansen (Reserve Bank of Australia) | Does Equity Mispricing Influence Household and Firm Decisions? |
| 14 May | Robert Leeson (University of Notre Dame) | The Era of Permanent Financial Crises: Origins, Dynamics and Exit |
| 21 May | Peter Siminski (University of Wollongong) | What Can we Learn from Australia's Conscription Lotteries? |
| 28 May | Nicholas Feltovich (Monash University) | Directed Search, Coordination Failure and Seller Profit: An Experimental Comparison of Posted Pricing with Single and Multiple Prices |
| 4 June | Leslie Marx (Duke University) | Cartel Versus Merger |
Semester 2, 2011
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 August | Nada Wasi (University of New South Wales) | The Influence of Rebate Programs on the Demand for Climate-friendly Water Heaters: The Case of New South Wales |
| 8 August | Robert Slonim (University of Sydney) | To Participate or Not to Participate: non-representative biases in the lab |
| 15 August | Cahit Guven (Deakin University) | Measurement, Determinants and Affects of Corruption: New Findings from the European Social Survey |
| 22 August | Alberto Motta (University of New South Wales) | Measurement, Determinants and Affects of Corruption: New Findings from the European Social Survey |
| 29 August | James Morley (University of New South Wales) | Inflation in the G7: Mind the Gap(s)? |
| 5 September | Stacy Dickert-Conlin (Michigan State University) | Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors |
| 12 September | Susumu Imai (Queen's University) | The Effect of Workfare Policy on Crime |
| 19 September | Michael Conlin (Michigan State University) | Inference by College Admission Departments |
| 10 October | Massimo Scotti (University of Technology Sydney) | A model of expertise with uncertainty on preferences and ability |
| 17 October | Gabriele Gratton (University of New South Wales) | Runoff Elections: Sincere Voting, Push Over, and the Vote Gainst |
| 24 October | John Geweke (University of Technology Sydney) | Inexpensive Massively Parallel Computing and Some Implications for Research in Economics |
| 31 October | Jakob Madsen (Monash University) | The Mechanics of Growth over the Last Millennium: Endogenous Growth Models Meet their Past |
| 7 November | Andreas Ortmann (University of New South Wales) | Group Incentives or Individual Incentives? A Real-Effort Weak-Link Experiment" |
| 14 November | John Stachurski (Australian National University) | Existence, Stability and Computation of Stationary Distributions in Monotone Economies |
| 28 November | Susumu Imai (Queen's University) | Estimation of Dynamic Hedonic Housing Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity |
| 5 December | Diego Moreno (University Carlos III) | Optimal Bank Transparency |
