The Wednesday seminar is presented at 3 pm in Building 60, Room E6, Clayton Campus.
Co-ordinator: Professor Ranjan Ray
Semester 1
3 March
The Dark Side
Klaus Abbink, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, UK
Host: Lata Gangadharan
10 March
The impact of school choice on students' university entrance rank scores in Australia
Christopher Ryan, ANU
Host: Jaai Parasnis
17 March
School Entry Age and Educational Attainment: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
Kevin Lang, Department of Economics, Boston University, USA
Host: Lata Gangadharan
24 March - Caulfield
Insular Decision-making in the Board Room: Why Boards Retain and Hire Substandard CEOs
Meg Sato, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University
Host: Chongwoo Choe
31 March - Caulfield
The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable: Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity
Ian King, University of Melbourne
Host: Chongwoo Choe
14 April
Collusion and Selective Supervision
Alberto Motta, UNSW
Host: Pushkar Maitra
21 April
Informal benchmarks as a source of regulatory threat in unregulated utility sectors
Magnus Soderberg, Univ. of South Australia
Host: Russell Smyth
5 May - Caulfield
A Comparison of Seven Crises: Coskewness Contagion Testing
Renee Fry, ANU
Host: Jakob Madsen
12 May
Involuntary Retirement and the Resolution of the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle
Garry Barrett, UNSW
Host: Rebecca Valenzuela
19 May
Forecasting under Structural Break Uncertainty
Heather Anderson, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash Uni
Host: Ranjan Ray
20 May - 11E.269
Modeling Decision Making under Risk using Neurochemistry
Chew Soo Hong, NUS - Behavioral Economics Summer Institute
Host: Lata Gangadharan
Please note different location:
26 May
The Pcse Estimator Is Good, Just Not As Good As You Think
Robert Reed, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Host: Dyuti Bannerjee
2 June - Caulfield
On the Fixed-Effects Vector Decomposition
Trevor Breusch, Crawford School at the ANU
Host: Jakob Madsen
