Proceedings of the Australian Conference of Economists, 2005 [ISBN 07340 26080] |
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Summary of All Sessions |
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| 1 | 26 September 9:30-10:45 | Copland Theatre | Plenary: John Sutton - Competing in Capabilities: Profitability and Survival | 1 |
| 2 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Commerce Prest Theatre | Applied Bayesian Microeconometrics | 3 |
| 3 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Empirical Analysis of Elections | 2 |
| 4 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre D | Empirical analysis of business cycles | 3 |
| 5 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Commerce Theatre 3 | Economic History | 3 |
| 6 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre A | Monetary policy | 2 |
| 7 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Environmental Economics I | 3 |
| 8 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre E | Labour economics | 3 |
| 9 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre C | Exchange rates | 3 |
| 10 | 26 September 11:15-12:45 | Commerce Wood Theatre | Microeconomics | 3 |
| 11 | 26 September 11:15-13:00 | Old Arts Theatre B | International Trade (Extended session) | 4 |
| 12 | 26 September 13:45-15:15 | Public Lecture Theatre | Keynote: Adrian Pagan - Qualms About Five Popular Macroeconometric Tools | 1 |
| 13 | 26 September 13:45-15:15 | Copland Theatre | Keynote: James Galbraith - Global Inequality and Global Macroeconomics | 1 |
| 14 | 26 September 13:45-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre D | Keynote: Charles Noussair - Experimental Studies of Models of Economic Growth | 1 |
| 15 | 26 September 15:45-17:30 | Old Arts Theatre A | Developments in DSGE Modelling (An extended session) | 4 |
| 16 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Quantitative Analysis of Performance in the Tertiary Education Sector | 3 |
| 17 | 26 September 15:45-17:30 | Commerce Theatre 3 | History of (Australian) Economic Thought | 4 |
| 18 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre B | Water | 3 |
| 19 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre E | Retirement incomes | 3 |
| 20 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Wood Theatre | Industrial organisation | 3 |
| 21 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Immigration | 3 |
| 22 | 26 September 15:45-17:30 | Old Arts Theatre D | Econometrics (An extended session) | 4 |
| 23 | 26 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre C | Finance | 3 |
| 24 | 26 September 17:30-19:00 | Copland Theatre | Plenary: The 2005 Stan Kelly Memorial Lecture: Peter Lloyd - Trade Policy, The Role of Public Enquiries | 1 |
| 25 | 27 September 9:15-10:45 | Copland Theatre | Plenary: The Xiaokai Yang Memorial Lecture: Hugo Sonnenschein - Factor Endowment, Relative Commodity Prices, and Anything Goes | 1 |
| 26 | 27 September 10:30-11:15 | Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union | PhD Poster Session | 0 |
| 27 | 27 September 11:15-12:45 | Public Lecture Theatre | Keynote: James MacKinnon - Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics | 1 |
| 28 | 27 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre D | Keynote: Patrick Rey - Price control in vertical relationships | 2 |
| 29 | 27 September 11:15-12:45 | Copland Theatre | Keynote: The 2005 Giblin Lecture given on behalf of ANZAAS: Ross Williams - Fiscal Federalism | 1 |
| 30 | 27 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre E | Keynote: Papers on Labour market reform | 3 |
| 31 | 27 September 12:30-13:45 | Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union | PhD Poster Session | 0 |
| 32 | 27 September 13:45-15:15 | Copland Theatre | Plenary: Olivier Blanchard - European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas | 1 |
| 33 | 27 September 15:15-15:45 | Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union | PhD Poster Session | 0 |
| 34 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Wood Theatre | Unemployment and inflation | 3 |
| 35 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre A | International Finance | 3 |
| 36 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 3 | Education | 3 |
| 37 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre C | Finance | 3 |
| 38 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre E | International Trade | 3 |
| 39 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Prest Theatre | Law and Economics | 3 |
| 40 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Growth empirics | 3 |
| 41 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Environmental economics II | 3 |
| 42 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre D | Labour economics | 3 |
| 43 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre B | Microeconomics | 3 |
| 44 | 27 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Room 239 | Ideas and their history | 2 |
| 45 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Commerce Prest Theatre | Microsimulation Modelling | 3 |
| 46 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Commerce Theatre 3 | Energy Economics | 3 |
| 47 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Old Arts Theatre C | Intellectual Property | 3 |
| 48 | 28 September 9:15-11:00 | Old Arts Theatre A | Open economy macroeconomics (Extended session) | 4 |
| 49 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Old Arts Theatre E | Indigenous Australians | 3 |
| 50 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Education | 3 |
| 51 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Economic growth | 3 |
| 52 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Old Arts Theatre D | Labour and productivity | 3 |
| 53 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Old Arts Theatre B | Finance | 3 |
| 54 | 28 September 9:15-10:45 | Commerce Wood Theatre | Some current policy issues | 2 |
| 55 | 28 September 11:15-12:45 | Public Lecture Theatre | Keynote: Alison Booth - Modelling the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labor Supply and Education | 0 |
| 56 | 28 September 11:15-12:45 | Old Arts Theatre D | Keynote: John Quiggin - Research and Discovery | 1 |
| 57 | 28 September 11:15-12:45 | Copland Theatre | Keynote: James Robinson - Income and Democracy | 1 |
| 58 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Commerce Wood Theatre | Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) | 3 |
| 59 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre A | Research and Development | 4 |
| 60 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre C | Taxation | 4 |
| 61 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Consumption and Savings | 4 |
| 62 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre D | Productivity Growth | 4 |
| 63 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre E | Child health and education in developing countries | 4 |
| 64 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Old Arts Theatre B | Industrial Organisation | 4 |
| 65 | 28 September 13:30-15:15 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Economic analysis | 3 |
| 66 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre B | Health Economics | 3 |
| 67 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre E | Affirmative action, Harassment | 3 |
| 68 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre A | Development Macroeconomics | 2 |
| 69 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre D | Labour economics | 3 |
| 70 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Old Arts Theatre C | International trade | 3 |
| 71 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 1 | Human resources | 3 |
| 72 | 28 September 15:45-17:15 | Commerce Theatre 2 | Foreign direct investment | 3 |
72 sessions, 187 papers |
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Proceedings of the Australian Conference of Economists, 2005 [ISBN 07340 26080] |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Plenary: John Sutton - Competing in Capabilities: Profitability and Survival |
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| Session Chair: Jeff Borland, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 9:30 - 10:45 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Competing in Capabilities: Profitability and Survival |
| By John Sutton |
Session 2: Applied Bayesian Microeconometrics |
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| Session Chair: Bill Griffiths, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Commerce Prest Theatre |
| Estimating State-Contingent Production Frontiers |
| By C.J. O'Donnell and W.E. Griffiths |
| Foreign Exchange Intervention by the Bank of Japan: Bayesian Analysis using a Bivariate Stochastic Volatility Model |
| By Michael Smith and Andrew Pitts |
| Bayesian Assessment of Lorenz and Stochastic Dominance in Income Distributions |
| By Duangkamon Chotikapanich and William Griffiths |
Session 3: Empirical Analysis of Elections |
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| Session Chair: Tim Fry, RMIT University |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets |
| By Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers |
| Trust me: It's still the economy |
| By Sinclair Davidson, Lisa Farrell, Clare Felvus and Tim R.L. Fry |
Session 4: Empirical analysis of business cycles |
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| Session Chair: Olan Henry, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Output Volatility in Australia |
| By Philip Bodman and Gareth Leeves |
| The Influence of Consumer Confidence and Stock Prices on the United States Business Cycle 1953-2003 |
| By David Haugh |
| Real Time Representations of the Output Gap |
| By Anthony Garratt, Kevin Lee, Emi Mise and Kalvinder Shields |
Session 5: Economic History |
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| Session Chair: David Merrett, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 3 |
| Business profitability and structural change in interwar Australia |
| By Simon Ville and David Merrett |
| The Financial Sector and Deregulation in Australia: Drivers of Reform or Reluctant Followers? |
| By Dr Amanda Fitzgibbons |
| A re-examination of the origins of American industrial success |
| By David Prentice |
Session 6: Monetary policy |
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| Session Chair: Guay Lim, |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| Asymmetric Monetary Policy in Australia |
| By Shawn Chen-Yu Leu and Jeffrey Sheen |
| Japanese Monetary Policy under Quantitative Easing: Neo-Wicksellian versus Monetarist Interpretations |
| By Stephen Kirchner |
Session 7: Environmental Economics I |
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| Session Chair: Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| Impact of Risk and Uncertainty in the Provision of Local and Global Environmental Goods: An Experimental Analysis |
| By Lata Gangadharan, Veronika Nemes |
| Is a Voluntary Approach an Effective Environmental Policy Instrument? A Case of Environmental Management Systems |
| By Toshi H. Arimura, Akira Hibiki, and Hajime Katayama |
| Green consumer activism and firm profitability |
| By Subhashini Muthukrishnan |
Session 8: Labour economics |
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| Session Chair: Guyonne Kalb, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| Health and Labour Force Status of Older Working-age Australian Men |
| By Lixin Cai and Guyonne Kalb |
| Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency |
| By Knut Roed and Elisabeth Fevang |
| The Displacement Effect of Labour-Market Programs: Estimates from the MONASH Model |
| By Peter B. Dixon and Maureen T, Rimmer |
Session 9: Exchange rates |
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| Session Chair: Neville Norman, public |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| Measuring the Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Investment in Australian Manufacturing Industry |
| By Robyn Swift |
| A Re-examination of the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle: Evidence from Firm Level Data |
| By R. Dekle, H. Jeong, and H. Ryoo |
| The Real Exchange Rate, National Income and the Efficacy of Macropolicy |
| By Tony Makin |
Session 10: Microeconomics |
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| Session Chair: Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Commerce Wood Theatre |
| Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities |
| By Catherine de Fontenay and Joshua Gans |
| Efficient Auctions with Private Participation Costs |
| By Jingfeng Lu |
| Favoritism and Reverse Discrimination |
| By Kwang-ho Kim |
Session 11: International Trade (Extended session) |
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| Session Chair: Christis Tombazos, Monash University |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 13:00 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| A Model of the World Wool Market |
| By George Verikios |
| Commodity Prices and the Dynamics of Inflation in Commodity-exporting countries: Evidence from Australia and Canada |
| By Harry Bloch, A Michael Dockery and David Sapsford |
| De-Regulation as (Welfare Reducing) Trade Reform: |
| By Steve McCorriston and Donald MacLaren |
| Long-terms Patterns in Australia's Terms of Trade |
| By Christian Gillitzer and Jonathan Kearns |
Session 12: Keynote: Adrian Pagan - Qualms About Five Popular Macroeconometric Tools |
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| Session Chair: Bill Griffiths, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Location: Public Lecture Theatre |
| I Have a Little List: Qualms About Five Popular Macroeconometric Tools |
| By Adrian Pagan |
Session 13: Keynote: James Galbraith - Global Inequality and Global Macroeconomics |
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| Session Chair: John King, La Trobe University |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Global Inequality and Global Macroeconomics |
| By James Galbraith |
Session 14: Keynote: Charles Noussair - Experimental Studies of Models of Economic Growth |
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| Session Chair: Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps |
| By Charles Noussair and others |
Session 15: Developments in DSGE Modelling (An extended session) |
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| Session Chair: Viv Hall, Victoria University of Wellington |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:30 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| Taylor Rules for Open Economies with Endogenous Risk Premia |
| By G.C.Lim amd P.D.McNelis |
| On habit formation in a New Keynesian business cycle model |
| By Richard Dennis |
| Financial intermediation and the cost of capital in an open economy |
| By Iris Claus |
| The Price Puzzle and Indeterminacy |
| By Efrem Castelnuovo, Paolo Surico |
Session 16: Quantitative Analysis of Performance in the Tertiary Education Sector |
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| Session Chair: Ian McDonald, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| The Gender Issue Revisited: A Case Study of Student Performance in Economics and Econometrics |
| By Diane Dancer |
| The Impact of HECS Debt on Students Tertiary Academic Performance |
| By Elisa Rose Birch and Paul W. Miller |
| Systematic Influences on Teaching Evaluations: The Case for Caution |
| By Martin Davies, Joe Hirschberg, Jenny Lye, Carol Johnston, and Ian McDonald1 |
Session 17: History of (Australian) Economic Thought |
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| Session Chair: John King, La Trobe University |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:30 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 3 |
| A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists |
| By J. E. King |
| A Biographical Sketch of William Edward Hearn (1826-1888) |
| By Gregory C. G. Moore |
| D. B. Copland and the Aftershocks of the Premier's Plan 1931-1939 |
| By Alex Millmow |
| Effective Protection and I |
| By Max Corden |
Session 18: Water |
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| Session Chair: Peter Bardsley, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| Salinity in Water Markets: An Experimental Investigation of the Sunraysia Salinity Levy, Victoria. |
| By Charlotte Duke, Lata Gangadharan |
| Demand Management for Melbourne's Water |
| By Geoff Edwards |
| Modelling residential water demand with fixed volumetric charging in a large urban municipality: The case of Brisbane, Australia |
| By M. Hoffmann, A. Worthington H. Higgs |
Session 19: Retirement incomes |
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| Session Chair: John Creedy, |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| Australia's Retail Superannuation Fund Industry: Structure, Conduct and Performance |
| By Adam Clements, Gemma Dale, Michael E. Drew |
| Comparative performance of retirement income systems in the Anglosphere |
| By Hazel Bateman, Geoffrey Kingston |
| The Determinants of Occupational Pensions |
| By Erik Hernaes, John Piggott, Steinar Strom, Tao Zhang |
Session 20: Industrial organisation |
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| Session Chair: David Prentice, La Trobe University |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Wood Theatre |
| Overinvestment in European Football Leagues |
| By Helmut M. Dietl, Egon Franck, Markus Lang |
| Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War |
| By Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz |
| Reputational Incentives for Restaurant Hygiene |
| By Ginger Jin and Phillip Leslie |
Session 21: Immigration |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Clarke, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| The Impact of Immigration on Native Workers in Australia |
| By Jaai Parasnis, Dietrich Fausten and Russell Smyth |
| Immigrant Overeducation: Evidence from Recent Arrivals to Australia |
| By Green, C., Kler, P. and Leeves, G. |
| Intersectoral Size Differences and Migration: Kuznets Revisited |
| By Nejat Anbarci and Mehmet Ulubasoglu |
Session 22: Econometrics (An extended session) |
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| Session Chair: Bill Griffiths, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:30 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Finite Sample Properties of the Block Bootstrap and the Markovian Bootstrap for Conditional Moment Models |
| By Rachida OUYSSE |
| Applications of the Fast Double Bootstrap |
| By James MacKinnon |
| Bayesian Model Averaging over Distinct Groups of Models |
| By Chew Lian Chua and Peter Summers |
| Improvements to Long-run Identifications |
| By Mau-Ting Lin |
Session 23: Finance |
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| Session Chair: Olan Henry, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| Equity Return and Short-term interest rate volatility: level effects and asymmetric dynamics |
| By Olan Henry, Nilss Olekalns, Sandy Suardi |
| Behaviors of Liquidity Patterns in a Limit Order-Driven Market, an evidence from Chinese stock markets |
| By Mingyuan Guo and Gary Tian |
| Intraday Data and Volatility Models: Evidence from Chinese Stocks |
| By Gary Tian and Mingyuan Guo |
Session 24: Plenary: The 2005 Stan Kelly Memorial Lecture: Peter Lloyd - Trade Policy, The Role of Public Enquiries |
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| Session Chair: Peter Dawkins, |
| Date: September 26, 2005 |
| Time: 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Trade Policy: The Role of Public Enquiries |
| By Peter Lloyd |
Session 25: Plenary: The Xiaokai Yang Memorial Lecture: Hugo Sonnenschein - Factor Endowment, Relative Commodity Prices, and Anything Goes |
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| Session Chair: Professor Richard Larkins, VC - Monash University |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Factor Endowment, Relative Commodity Prices, and Anything Goes |
| By Hugo Sonnenschein |
Session 26: PhD Poster Session |
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| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 10:30 - 11:15 |
| Location: Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union |
Session 27: Keynote: James MacKinnon - Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics |
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| Session Chair: Guay Lim, |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Public Lecture Theatre |
| Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics |
| By James G. MacKinnon |
Session 28: Keynote: Patrick Rey - Price control in vertical relationships |
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| Session Chair: Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Resale price maintenance and horizontal cartels |
| By Patrick Rey and Thibaud Verge |
| Slotting Allowances and Conditional Payments |
| By Patrick Rey, Jeanine Thal and Thibaud Verge |
Session 29: Keynote: The 2005 Giblin Lecture given on behalf of ANZAAS: Ross Williams - Fiscal Federalism |
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| Session Chair: Peter Lloyd, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Fiscal Federalism: Aims, Instruments and Outcomes |
| By Ross Williams |
Session 30: Keynote: Papers on Labour market reform |
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| Session Chair: Paul Miller, University of Western Australia |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| The American Model and the Chimera of Labour Market Reforms (in Europe and Elsewhere) |
| By James Galbraith |
| Reforming Industrial Relations and Social Equity |
| By John Freebairn |
| Australia's Industrial Relations Reform Agenda |
| By Mark Wooden |
Session 31: PhD Poster Session |
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| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 12:30 - 13:45 |
| Location: Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union |
Session 32: Plenary: Olivier Blanchard - European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas |
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| Session Chair: Ian McDonald, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:15 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas |
| By Olivier Blanchard |
Session 33: PhD Poster Session |
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| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: Grand Buffet: First Floor MU Student Union |
Session 34: Unemployment and inflation |
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| Session Chair: Philip Bodman, University of Queensland |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Wood Theatre |
| The Phillips Curve and Long-Term Unemployment |
| By Ricardo Llaudes |
| Australia's Inflation Barrier, 1965:4 to 2003:3 |
| By Jenny N. Lye,Ian M. McDonald |
| Estimating substitution bias in the Consumer Price Index: An empirical investigation using scanner data |
| By Lorraine Ivancic |
Session 35: International Finance |
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| Session Chair: Vance Martin, private |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| Endogenous Contagion - A Panel Analysis |
| By Dirk Baur and Renee Fry |
| Tests for RIP among the G7 when structural breaks are accommodated |
| By Bruce Felmingham and Arusha Cooray |
| International Monetary Policy Surprise Spillovers |
| By Roger Craine and Vance L. Martin |
Session 36: Education |
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| Session Chair: Brian Dollery, |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 3 |
| Time and Money: Understanding the Education Choices of Working Australians |
| By Sue O'Keefe, Lin Crase, Brian Dollery |
| Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Labor-Market Return to High School Sports |
| By Betsey Stevenson |
| Why does educational attainment differ across U.S. states? |
| By Lutz Hendricks |
Session 37: Finance |
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| Session Chair: David Beggs, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| A Time-Series Analysis of the Demand for Life Insurance Companies in Australia: An Unobserved Components Approach |
| By Liam J. A. Lenten and David N. Rulli |
| Market Arbitrage of Cash Dividends and Franking Credits |
| By David Beggs and Christopher L Skeels |
| An Empirical Model for Durations in Stocks |
| By Ola Simonsen |
Session 38: International Trade |
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| Session Chair: Russell Hillberry, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| The Restrictiveness of Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements |
| By Paul Gretton and Jyothi Gali |
| Trade Creation, Trade Diversion, and Non-Members of Free Trade Areas |
| By Robert Waschik |
| The degree of Independence in European Goods Markets |
| By Roger Hammersland |
Session 39: Law and Economics |
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| Session Chair: Rhonda Smith, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Prest Theatre |
| Valuing Criminal Court Services |
| By Andrew Torre |
| Rent seeking and judicial bias in weak legal systems |
| By Peter Bardsley and Quan Nguyen |
| Addictive Drug Use Management Policies in a Long Run Economic Model |
| By Harry Clarke and Martin Byford |
Session 40: Growth empirics |
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| Session Chair: Hsiao-chuan Chang, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| Corruption, Income Inequality, and Growth: Evidence From U.S. States |
| By Oguzhan C. Dincer, Burak Gunalp |
| Trade, Openness and Domestic Conflict: An Empirical Investigation for Latin America |
| By Prasad S. Bhattacharya and Dimitrios D. Thomakos |
| Root Causes of Economic Progress Re-examined |
| By Sambit Bhattacharyya |
Session 41: Environmental economics II |
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| Session Chair: Veronika Nemes, The School for Field Studies |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| Common and endangered species: How does society allocate support for their conservation? |
| By Clevo Wilson and Clem Tisdell |
| Assessing the Value of Clean Air in Jakarta-Indonesia: A Spatial Hedonic Price Analysis of Housing Values |
| By Arief Yusuf and Budy Resosudarmo |
| Valuing the willingness to pay for environmental conservation and management: A case study of scuba diving levies in Similan Islands Marine Park, Thailand |
| By Miss Sorada Tapsuwan |
Session 42: Labour economics |
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| Session Chair: Mark Wooden, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Does "Work for the Dole" work? |
| By Jeff Borland and Yi-Ping Tseng |
| The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for sole parents from microsimulation and quasi-experimental evaluation |
| By Lixin Cai, Guyonne Kalb, Yi-Ping Tseng, and Hong Ha Vu |
| How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment |
| By Rafael Lalive, Jan van Ours, Josef Zweimueller |
Session 43: Microeconomics |
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| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| Exhaustible Resources, Nonconvexity and Competitive Equilibriu |
| By Robert D. Cairns |
| Domestic and Global sourcing |
| By Wenli Cheng and Dingsheng Zhang |
| Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy |
| By Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark L. J. Wright |
Session 44: Ideas and their history |
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| Session Chair: John King, La Trobe University |
| Date: September 27, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Room 239 |
| The Non-competing groups : J.E.Cairnes's approach on labour market segmentation and industrial organisation |
| By Michel Dimou |
| Economics of scientific research: origins, nature and structure |
| By Mario Coccia |
Session 45: Microsimulation Modelling |
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| Session Chair: Guyonne Kalb, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Commerce Prest Theatre |
| Sectoral labor supply, choice restrictions and functional form |
| By John:K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strom |
| Dynamic Microsimulation for Policy Analysis - Problems and Solutions |
| By N. Anders Klevmarken |
| Evaluating Policy Reforms in Behaviour Tax Microsimulation Models |
| By John Creedy and Guyonne Kalb |
Session 46: Energy Economics |
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| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 3 |
| Capex Interuptus: Deferal Values and Incentives for Electricity Network Demand Management in NSW |
| By Robert Smith |
| Using a Real Options Approach to Model Technology Adoption under Carbon Price Uncertainty: An Application to the Australian Electricity Generation Sector |
| By Luke Reedman, Paul Graham and Peter Coombes |
| Risk and regulatory truncation |
| By Dr John Salerian |
Session 47: Intellectual Property |
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| Session Chair: Nisvan Erkal, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| The Dynamics of Intellectual Property Practices |
| By Joshua Gans |
| The Effects on Firm Profits of the Stock of Intellectual Property Rights |
| By Bill Griffiths, Paul Jensen and Beth Webster |
| Determinants of international patent examination outcomes |
| By Palangkaraya, A., Jensen, P.H. and E. Webster |
Session 48: Open economy macroeconomics (Extended session) |
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| Session Chair: Guay Lim, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 11:00 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| An Australasian currency, New Zealand adopting the US dollar, or an independent monetary policy? |
| By Viv B Hall |
| Expenditure Switching Effect and Exchange Rate Regime Debate |
| By Wei Dong |
| Terms-of-trade Shocks and Exchange Rate Regimes in a Small Open Economy |
| By Joseph D. Alba and Wai Mun Chia |
| Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Pass-through |
| By Alessandro Flamini |
Session 49: Indigenous Australians |
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| Session Chair: Matthew Gray, The Australian National University |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| The Economics of Australian Apartheid: The Causes of Indigenous Deprivation |
| By Helen Hughes |
| Between a Rock and Hard Place |
| By R G Gregory |
| Changes in the economic, health and social status of Indigenous Australians in remote and settled Australia, 1994-2002 |
| By Boyd Hunter |
Session 50: Education |
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| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| Ranking Australian economics departments by research productivity |
| By Frank Neri and Joan Rodgers |
| School Cost Functions: A Meta-regression Analysis |
| By Andrew Colegrave, Margaret Giles |
| determining the relative efficiency of European Higher Education institutions |
| By Othman Joumday et Catherine Ris |
Session 51: Economic growth |
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| Session Chair: David Lansley, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| Education and Growth in the Presence of Capital Flight |
| By Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Chetan Ghate, Areendam Chanda |
| Increased Labour Supply, Foreign Investment and Welfare in the presence of Productive Public Infrastructure |
| By Sajid Anwar |
| Bank Capital, Bank Lending and Endogenous Growth |
| By Wieneke, Axel |
Session 52: Labour and productivity |
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| Session Chair: David Prentice, La Trobe University |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Flexibility, dual labour markets, and temporary employment: Empirical evidence from German establishment data |
| By Christian Pfeifer |
| Skill dispersion and productivity: an analysis with matched data |
| By Susana Iranzo, Fabiano Schivardi, Elisa Tosetti |
| Outsourcing and Unionization. A tale of misallocated (resistance) resources |
| By Elisabetta Magnani and David Prentice |
Session 53: Finance |
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| Session Chair: Olan Henry, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| Combining Skill and Capital: Alternate Mechanisms for Achieving an Optimal Fund Size |
| By Bruce D. Grundy |
| An Analysis of Hedge Fund Styles using the Gap Statistic |
| By Robert Bianchi, Michael Drew, Madhu Veeraraghavan, Peter Whelan |
| Long memory, heterogeneity and trend chasing |
| By Xue-Zhong He and Youwei Li |
Session 54: Some current policy issues |
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| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 9:15 - 10:45 |
| Location: Commerce Wood Theatre |
| Policy Issues in Aged Care |
| By Warren Hogan |
| The Distributional Impact of the Proposed Welfare-to-Work Reforms Upon Sole |
| By Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu, Richard Percival and Gillian Beer |
Session 55: Keynote: Alison Booth - Modelling the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labor Supply and Education |
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| Session Chair: John Creedy, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Public Lecture Theatre |
Session 56: Keynote: John Quiggin - Research and Discovery |
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| Session Chair: John Freebairn, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Learning and Discovery |
| By John Quiggin |
Session 57: Keynote: James Robinson - Income and Democracy |
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| Session Chair: Jeff Borland, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 11:15 - 12:45 |
| Location: Copland Theatre |
| Income and Democracy |
| By James Robinson |
Session 58: Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) |
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| Session Chair: Mark Wooden, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Commerce Wood Theatre |
| Labour Supply of Australian Couples |
| By Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, and Xiaodong Gong |
| Effects of household joblessness on subjective wellbeing |
| By Rosanna Scutella and Mark Wooden |
| Property Owners in Australia: A Snapshot |
| By Marion Kohler and Anthony Rossiter |
Session 59: Research and Development |
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| Session Chair: Shuyun May Li, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| The Role of Human Capital and Physical Capital Accumulation in an R&D-based Growth Model |
| By Thanh Le |
| Collective Action in Plant Breeding |
| By Eran Binenbaum, Philip G. Pardey |
| Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development |
| By Nisvan Erkal and Deborah Minehart |
| The Role of Market Frictions on Innovative and Imitative Activities: A Search Theoretical Approach |
| By Chia-Ying Chang |
Session 60: Taxation |
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| Session Chair: Brian Dollery, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| A critical note on local government charges in Australia: Have we lost sight of how to fund public and merit goods? |
| By Lin Crase and Brian Dollery |
| Taxation and Subsidies for Housing and Land: Market Impacts and Economic Efficiency Implications |
| By Peter Abelson |
| Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence |
| By Ralph-C. Bayer and Frank A. Cowell |
| Dynamic optimal taxation with human capital |
| By Leslie J. Reinhorn |
Session 61: Consumption and Savings |
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| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| Consumption and Stock Prices: Can We Distinguish Signalling from Wealth Effects? |
| By Nicolaas Groenewold |
| Response of consumption to income, credit and interest rates in Australia |
| By Penny Smith and Lei Lei Song |
| The Consumption of The Elderly: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys |
| By Daniel T. Slesnick and Aydogan Ulker |
| Does Mandatory Pension savings Crowd out Private Savings?: The Experience of Sri Lanka |
| By Wasana Karunarathne and Tilak Abeysinghe |
Session 62: Productivity Growth |
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| Session Chair: Harry Bloch, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| The Contributions from Firm Entry, Exit and Continuation to Labour Productivity Growth in New Zealand |
| By David Law and Nathan McLellan |
| Microeconomic reform and productivity - boom or blip |
| By Margaret McKenzie |
| Sources of Productivity Growth in Australian Textile and Clothing Firms |
| By IKM Mokhtarul Wadud |
| Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Australia Banking Sector under Deregulation |
| By Su Wu |
Session 63: Child health and education in developing countries |
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| Session Chair: Pushkar Maitra, Monash University |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| Is the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health Stronger for Older Children in Developing Countries? |
| By Lisa Cameron and Jenny Williams |
| Mother's Status and Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Rural Nepal |
| By Diane Dancer and Anu Rammohan |
| Son preference meets technology |
| By Louise Grogan |
| Schooling and Educational Attainment of South African Children |
| By Katy Cornwell, Brett Inder, Pushkar Maitra and Anu Rammohan |
Session 64: Industrial Organisation |
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| Session Chair: Rhonda Smith, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| Can Budget Constraints Reduce Managers' Information Rents? |
| By Xiangkang Yin |
| Competition and Growth in Virtual Markets |
| By Gary Madden, Truong P Truong, Michael Schipp |
| Measuring Market Power in a Dynamic Oligopoly Model: An Empirical Analysis |
| By Donghun KIM |
| Learning-by-Doing as a Source of Cyclical Markup Variation |
| By Andrew Clarke, Alok Johri |
Session 65: Economic analysis |
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| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| Incorporating Rigidity in Games: A Theory of Convergence to Low Inflation |
| By Jan Libich |
| Computing the Distributions of Economic Models |
| By John Stachurski |
| Solving Models with Saddle-path Instabilities as Model Complexity Increases |
| By Ric D. Herbert and Peter J. Stemp |
Session 66: Health Economics |
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| Session Chair: Elizabeth Webster, public |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre B |
| Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private / Public Hospital System |
| By Donald J Wright |
| Changes in mental health inequality: Some time series evidence for Australia |
| By D.P. Doessel and Ruth F.G. Williams |
| The Income Distributive Implications of Recent Private Health Insurance Policies in Australia |
| By Jongsay Yong, Alfons Palangkaraya, Elizabeth Webster, and Peter Dawkins |
Session 67: Affirmative action, Harassment |
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| Session Chair: Jenny Williams, public |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre E |
| Does a Temporary Affirmative Action Program have a Permanent Affect? |
| By Paul Carlin & Michael Kidd |
| Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities |
| By Heather Antecol and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark |
| Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance |
| By Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner |
Session 68: Development Macroeconomics |
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| Session Chair: K Shields, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre A |
| Post-crisis Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand |
| By George Fane |
| Asymmetries in the Effects of Monetary Policy: The Case of South Africa |
| By David Fielding and Kalvinder Shields |
Session 69: Labour economics |
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| Session Chair: Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Deakin University |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre D |
| Career Progression, Human Capital and Pay Equity in Australian Public Sector Labour Markets |
| By Chris Doucouliagos, Phillip Hone and Mehmet Ulubasoglu |
| Occupational Choice: A Simultaneous Supply and Demand Approach |
| By Sarah Brown, Tim R.L. Fry and Mark N. Harris |
| The happiness of young Australians: empirical evidence on the role of labour market experience |
| By A. M. Dockery |
Session 70: International trade |
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| Session Chair: Donald MacLaren, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Old Arts Theatre C |
| Shaking All Over? International Trade and Industrial Dynamics |
| By Phillip McCalman and Josh Ederington |
| Leontief paradox and the role of factor intensity measurement |
| By Yun-kwong Kwok, Eden S. H. Yu |
| Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data |
| By Russell Hillberry and David Hummels |
Session 71: Human resources |
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| Session Chair: John Creedy, |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 1 |
| Making A Difference |
| By Patrick Francois |
| Delegation of decision making, competition and business strategy |
| By Kieron Meagher and Andrew Wait |
| Why Do Social Skills Matter |
| By Suren Basov |
Session 72: Foreign direct investment |
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| Session Chair: Sisira Jayasuriya, University of Melbourne |
| Date: September 28, 2005 |
| Time: 15:45 - 17:15 |
| Location: Commerce Theatre 2 |
| Does foreign direct investment crowd out domestic investment in China? A time series analysis |
| By Sumei Tang |
| Why do developed countries receive a larger share of cross-border M&A inflows than developing countries? |
| By Jung Hur, Rasyad A. Parinduri, Yohanes E. Riyanto |
| Does exchange rate volatility really affect Foreign Direct Investment in OECD countries? |
| By Alexandre Jeanneret |