Economics/COPS Wednesday Seminar Semester 2, 2009

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

22 July
Natural Resources, Corruption and Democracy
Roland Hodler, Uni. of Melbourne

29 July
The Lure of Authority
Tom Wilkening, Uni. of Melbourne

5 August
Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Robert Slonim, Uni. of Sydney

12 August
Sharing the products of a collectively owned world in a non-atomic game
Alex Coram, UWA and Robert Gordon University, UK

19 August
Gradual repayment with sequential financing in micro-finance
Kunal Sengupta, Uni. of Sydney

26 August
Interactions with uncontrolled information network
Virginie Masson, Uni. of Adelaide

2 September
Health Aid and Governance in Developing Countries
David Fielding, Uni. of Otago, New Zealand

9 September
Politically correct co efficients
Chris Doucouliagos from Deakin University

16 September
Robustness of Intermediate Agreements and Bargaining Solutions
Nejat Anberci, Deakin University (this seminar will be held in Caulfield)

23 September
Vertical Disintegration and Training: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Survey
Lisa Magnani, UNSW.

7 October
Can Variation in Household Survey Methods Explain a Consumption Puzzle? Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania
John Gibson , University of Waikato, New Zealand

14 October
Measuring Output Gap Uncertainty
Shaun Vahey, University of Melbourne

21 October
Cyclical flows in the Australian labour market
Jeff Sheen, Macquarie University

11 November
A New Global Auto Industry
Henryk Kierkowski, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

18 November
Missing Public Funds under Decentralized Program Implementation
Chikako Yamauchi, ANU

2 December
Earnings, Occupation and Schooling Decisions of Immigrants with Medical Degrees: Evidence for Canada and the US
Chris Worswick, Carleton University, Canada
Please note different venue, Room 11E.457, Clayton

Co-ordinator: Professor Ranjan Ray