Special Invited Sessions

In addition to the five Plenary Sessions there will be eight Special Invited Sessions with 2 speakers per session. See the Conference Program (Special Invited) for the times and locations of these sessions.

  Computable General Equilibrium Modelling

Organiser: Keith McLaren
Speakers:   Peter Dixon, Monash University
Peter Warr, ANU

  Experimental Economics

Sponsored by the Economic Theory Centre at the University of Melbourne
Organisers: Lata Gangadharan and Vai-Lam Mui
Speakers:  Tim Cason, Purdue University
Rachel Croson, Wharton School, U.Penn.

  Financial Econometrics

Organiser: Param Silvapulle
Speakers:   Allan Timmermann, UCSD
Rodney Wolff, QUT

  Forecasting & Signal Extraction

Organiser: Rob Hyndman
Speakers:   David Hendry, Oxford University
Andrew Harvey, Cambridge University

  Microeconometrics

Organisers: Mark Harris and Xueyan Zhao
Speakers:   Bill Greene, New York University*
Alan Duncan, Nottingham University**

  Nonlinear Modelling

Organiser: Heather Anderson
Speakers:   Timo Teräsvirta, University of Stockholm
Stan Hurn, QUT

  Panel Data

Organiser: Farshid Vahid
Speakers:   Badi Baltagi, Texas A&M University
Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University*

  Productivity

Sponsored by the Productivity Commission
Organisers: Mita Bhattacharya and Xueyan Zhao
Speakers:    Knox Lovell, University of Georgia
Subal Kumbhakar, Binghamton University, SUNY*

* Bill Greene's, Peter Schmidt's, and Subal Kumbhakar's travel to Australia is courtesy of the 2004 Asia Pacific Productivity Conference.

** Alan Duncan's visit to Australia is sponsored by the Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research.