Economics/COPS Wednesday Seminar Semester 1, 2009

The Wednesday seminar is presented at 4 pm in SGO1, Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus.

Co-ordinator: Professor Ranjan Ray

4 March
The use of partner’s health to identify causal effects ofinsurance on hospital use
Dr Denise Doiron - School of Economics, UNSW

11 March
Optimal Irrational Behavior
Dr Eric Gahramanov, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University

18 March
Enlargement versus Deepening: the Trade-off Facing Economic Unions
Prof Oliver Lorz - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Please note different location: Caulfield Campus, Building H, Room H4.87

25 March
Verifiability in Markets for Credence Goods
Prof Uwe Dulleck, School of Economics, QUT

1 April
Trade, Skills and Wages in The Emerging Giants
Prof Peter Robertson, School of Economics, UNSW

8 April
De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers
Prof Lee Alston, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA and Research Associate at NBER, USA

10-17 April
Mid Semester Break

22 April
Comparative Advertising
Prof Simon Anderson, University of Virginia, Commonwealth Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, USA

29 April
The Global Financial Crisis
Professor Jakob B. Madsen

6 May
Mistargetting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction and Crime in Indonesia
Assoc. Prof., Lisa Cameron, Director, Asian Economics Centre, Dept of Economics, University of Melbourne

13 May
The Big Mac Index Two Decades On: An Evaluation Of Burgernomics
Prof Ken Clements, Graduate Research School, UWA

20 May
Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants
Prof Benno Togler, School of Economics, QUT

27 May
The “Negative” Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Prof Paul Miller, Graduate Research School, UWA 

2 June - SPECIAL SEMINAR
Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement
Professor Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
4.00 - 5.30, Room L1, Law Building, Clayton Campus

3 June
Modelling private health insurance demand and public hospital waiting times.
Dr Elizabeth Savage, Centre for Health Economics, UTS