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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] |
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 |
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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 |
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Estimating State-Contingent Production Frontiers |
By C.J. O'Donnell and W.E. Griffiths |
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Foreign Exchange Intervention by the Bank of Japan: Bayesian Analysis using a Bivariate Stochastic Volatility Model |
By Michael Smith and Andrew Pitts |
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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 |
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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets |
By Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers |
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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 |
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Output Volatility in Australia |
By Philip Bodman and Gareth Leeves |
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The Influence of Consumer Confidence and Stock Prices on the United States Business Cycle 1953-2003 |
By David Haugh |
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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 |
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Business profitability and structural change in interwar Australia |
By Simon Ville and David Merrett |
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The Financial Sector and Deregulation in Australia: Drivers of Reform or Reluctant Followers? |
By Dr Amanda Fitzgibbons |
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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 |
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Asymmetric Monetary Policy in Australia |
By Shawn Chen-Yu Leu and Jeffrey Sheen |
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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 |
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Impact of Risk and Uncertainty in the Provision of Local and Global Environmental Goods: An Experimental Analysis |
By Lata Gangadharan, Veronika Nemes |
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Is a Voluntary Approach an Effective Environmental Policy Instrument? A Case of Environmental Management Systems |
By Toshi H. Arimura, Akira Hibiki, and Hajime Katayama |
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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 |
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Health and Labour Force Status of Older Working-age Australian Men |
By Lixin Cai and Guyonne Kalb |
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Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency |
By Knut Roed and Elisabeth Fevang |
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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 |
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Measuring the Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Investment in Australian Manufacturing Industry |
By Robyn Swift |
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A Re-examination of the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle: Evidence from Firm Level Data |
By R. Dekle, H. Jeong, and H. Ryoo |
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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 |
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Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities |
By Catherine de Fontenay and Joshua Gans |
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Efficient Auctions with Private Participation Costs |
By Jingfeng Lu |
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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 |
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A Model of the World Wool Market |
By George Verikios |
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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 |
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De-Regulation as (Welfare Reducing) Trade Reform: |
By Steve McCorriston and Donald MacLaren |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Taylor Rules for Open Economies with Endogenous Risk Premia |
By G.C.Lim amd P.D.McNelis |
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On habit formation in a New Keynesian business cycle model |
By Richard Dennis |
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Financial intermediation and the cost of capital in an open economy |
By Iris Claus |
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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 |
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The Gender Issue Revisited: A Case Study of Student Performance in Economics and Econometrics |
By Diane Dancer |
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The Impact of HECS Debt on Students Tertiary Academic Performance |
By Elisa Rose Birch and Paul W. Miller |
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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 |
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A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists |
By J. E. King |
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A Biographical Sketch of William Edward Hearn (1826-1888) |
By Gregory C. G. Moore |
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D. B. Copland and the Aftershocks of the Premier's Plan 1931-1939 |
By Alex Millmow |
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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 |
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Salinity in Water Markets: An Experimental Investigation of the Sunraysia Salinity Levy, Victoria. |
By Charlotte Duke, Lata Gangadharan |
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Demand Management for Melbourne's Water |
By Geoff Edwards |
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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 |
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Australia's Retail Superannuation Fund Industry: Structure, Conduct and Performance |
By Adam Clements, Gemma Dale, Michael E. Drew |
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Comparative performance of retirement income systems in the Anglosphere |
By Hazel Bateman, Geoffrey Kingston |
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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 |
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Overinvestment in European Football Leagues |
By Helmut M. Dietl, Egon Franck, Markus Lang |
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Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War |
By Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz |
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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 |
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Workers in Australia |
By Jaai Parasnis, Dietrich Fausten and Russell Smyth |
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Immigrant Overeducation: Evidence from Recent Arrivals to Australia |
By Green, C., Kler, P. and Leeves, G. |
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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 |
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Finite Sample Properties of the Block Bootstrap and the Markovian Bootstrap for Conditional Moment Models |
By Rachida OUYSSE |
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Applications of the Fast Double Bootstrap |
By James MacKinnon |
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Bayesian Model Averaging over Distinct Groups of Models |
By Chew Lian Chua and Peter Summers |
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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 |
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Equity Return and Short-term interest rate volatility: level effects and asymmetric dynamics |
By Olan Henry, Nilss Olekalns, Sandy Suardi |
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Behaviors of Liquidity Patterns in a Limit Order-Driven Market, an evidence from Chinese stock markets |
By Mingyuan Guo and Gary Tian |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Resale price maintenance and horizontal cartels |
By Patrick Rey and Thibaud Verge |
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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 |
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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 |
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The American Model and the Chimera of Labour Market Reforms (in Europe and Elsewhere) |
By James Galbraith |
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Reforming Industrial Relations and Social Equity |
By John Freebairn |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Phillips Curve and Long-Term Unemployment |
By Ricardo Llaudes |
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Australia's Inflation Barrier, 1965:4 to 2003:3 |
By Jenny N. Lye,Ian M. McDonald |
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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 |
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Endogenous Contagion - A Panel Analysis |
By Dirk Baur and Renee Fry |
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Tests for RIP among the G7 when structural breaks are accommodated |
By Bruce Felmingham and Arusha Cooray |
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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 |
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Time and Money: Understanding the Education Choices of Working Australians |
By Sue O'Keefe, Lin Crase, Brian Dollery |
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Labor-Market Return to High School Sports |
By Betsey Stevenson |
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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 |
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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 |
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Market Arbitrage of Cash Dividends and Franking Credits |
By David Beggs and Christopher L Skeels |
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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 |
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The Restrictiveness of Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements |
By Paul Gretton and Jyothi Gali |
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Trade Creation, Trade Diversion, and Non-Members of Free Trade Areas |
By Robert Waschik |
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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 |
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Valuing Criminal Court Services |
By Andrew Torre |
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Rent seeking and judicial bias in weak legal systems |
By Peter Bardsley and Quan Nguyen |
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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 |
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Corruption, Income Inequality, and Growth: Evidence From U.S. States |
By Oguzhan C. Dincer, Burak Gunalp |
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Trade, Openness and Domestic Conflict: An Empirical Investigation for Latin America |
By Prasad S. Bhattacharya and Dimitrios D. Thomakos |
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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 |
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Common and endangered species: How does society allocate support for their conservation? |
By Clevo Wilson and Clem Tisdell |
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Assessing the Value of Clean Air in Jakarta-Indonesia: A Spatial Hedonic Price Analysis of Housing Values |
By Arief Yusuf and Budy Resosudarmo |
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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 |
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Does "Work for the Dole" work? |
By Jeff Borland and Yi-Ping Tseng |
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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 |
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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 |
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Exhaustible Resources, Nonconvexity and Competitive Equilibriu |
By Robert D. Cairns |
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Domestic and Global sourcing |
By Wenli Cheng and Dingsheng Zhang |
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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 |
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The Non-competing groups : J.E.Cairnes's approach on labour market segmentation and industrial organisation |
By Michel Dimou |
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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 |
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Sectoral labor supply, choice restrictions and functional form |
By John:K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strom |
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Dynamic Microsimulation for Policy Analysis - Problems and Solutions |
By N. Anders Klevmarken |
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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 |
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Capex Interuptus: Deferal Values and Incentives for Electricity Network Demand Management in NSW |
By Robert Smith |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Dynamics of Intellectual Property Practices |
By Joshua Gans |
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The Effects on Firm Profits of the Stock of Intellectual Property Rights |
By Bill Griffiths, Paul Jensen and Beth Webster |
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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 |
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An Australasian currency, New Zealand adopting the US dollar, or an independent monetary policy? |
By Viv B Hall |
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Expenditure Switching Effect and Exchange Rate Regime Debate |
By Wei Dong |
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Terms-of-trade Shocks and Exchange Rate Regimes in a Small Open Economy |
By Joseph D. Alba and Wai Mun Chia |
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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 |
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The Economics of Australian Apartheid: The Causes of Indigenous Deprivation |
By Helen Hughes |
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Between a Rock and Hard Place |
By R G Gregory |
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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 |
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Ranking Australian economics departments by research productivity |
By Frank Neri and Joan Rodgers |
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School Cost Functions: A Meta-regression Analysis |
By Andrew Colegrave, Margaret Giles |
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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 |
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Education and Growth in the Presence of Capital Flight |
By Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Chetan Ghate, Areendam Chanda |
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Increased Labour Supply, Foreign Investment and Welfare in the presence of Productive Public Infrastructure |
By Sajid Anwar |
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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 |
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Flexibility, dual labour markets, and temporary employment: Empirical evidence from German establishment data |
By Christian Pfeifer |
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Skill dispersion and productivity: an analysis with matched data |
By Susana Iranzo, Fabiano Schivardi, Elisa Tosetti |
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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 |
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Combining Skill and Capital: Alternate Mechanisms for Achieving an Optimal Fund Size |
By Bruce D. Grundy |
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An Analysis of Hedge Fund Styles using the Gap Statistic |
By Robert Bianchi, Michael Drew, Madhu Veeraraghavan, Peter Whelan |
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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 |
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Policy Issues in Aged Care |
By Warren Hogan |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Labour Supply of Australian Couples |
By Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, and Xiaodong Gong |
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Effects of household joblessness on subjective wellbeing |
By Rosanna Scutella and Mark Wooden |
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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 |
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The Role of Human Capital and Physical Capital Accumulation in an R&D-based Growth Model |
By Thanh Le |
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Collective Action in Plant Breeding |
By Eran Binenbaum, Philip G. Pardey |
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Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development |
By Nisvan Erkal and Deborah Minehart |
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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 |
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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 |
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Taxation and Subsidies for Housing and Land: Market Impacts and Economic Efficiency Implications |
By Peter Abelson |
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Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence |
By Ralph-C. Bayer and Frank A. Cowell |
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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 |
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Consumption and Stock Prices: Can We Distinguish Signalling from Wealth Effects? |
By Nicolaas Groenewold |
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Response of consumption to income, credit and interest rates in Australia |
By Penny Smith and Lei Lei Song |
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The Consumption of The Elderly: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys |
By Daniel T. Slesnick and Aydogan Ulker |
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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 |
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The Contributions from Firm Entry, Exit and Continuation to Labour Productivity Growth in New Zealand |
By David Law and Nathan McLellan |
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Microeconomic reform and productivity - boom or blip |
By Margaret McKenzie |
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Sources of Productivity Growth in Australian Textile and Clothing Firms |
By IKM Mokhtarul Wadud |
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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 |
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Is the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health Stronger for Older Children in Developing Countries? |
By Lisa Cameron and Jenny Williams |
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Mother's Status and Child Nutritional Outcomes: Evidence from Rural Nepal |
By Diane Dancer and Anu Rammohan |
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Son preference meets technology |
By Louise Grogan |
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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 |
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Can Budget Constraints Reduce Managers' Information Rents? |
By Xiangkang Yin |
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Competition and Growth in Virtual Markets |
By Gary Madden, Truong P Truong, Michael Schipp |
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Measuring Market Power in a Dynamic Oligopoly Model: An Empirical Analysis |
By Donghun KIM |
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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 |
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Incorporating Rigidity in Games: A Theory of Convergence to Low Inflation |
By Jan Libich |
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Computing the Distributions of Economic Models |
By John Stachurski |
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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 |
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Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private / Public Hospital System |
By Donald J Wright |
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Changes in mental health inequality: Some time series evidence for Australia |
By D.P. Doessel and Ruth F.G. Williams |
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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 |
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Does a Temporary Affirmative Action Program have a Permanent Affect? |
By Paul Carlin & Michael Kidd |
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Racial and Ethnic Harassment in Local Communities |
By Heather Antecol and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark |
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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 |
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Post-crisis Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand |
By George Fane |
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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 |
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Career Progression, Human Capital and Pay Equity in Australian Public Sector Labour Markets |
By Chris Doucouliagos, Phillip Hone and Mehmet Ulubasoglu |
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Occupational Choice: A Simultaneous Supply and Demand Approach |
By Sarah Brown, Tim R.L. Fry and Mark N. Harris |
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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 |
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Shaking All Over? International Trade and Industrial Dynamics |
By Phillip McCalman and Josh Ederington |
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Leontief paradox and the role of factor intensity measurement |
By Yun-kwong Kwok, Eden S. H. Yu |
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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 |
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Making A Difference |
By Patrick Francois |
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Delegation of decision making, competition and business strategy |
By Kieron Meagher and Andrew Wait |
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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 |
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Does foreign direct investment crowd out domestic investment in China? A time series analysis |
By Sumei Tang |
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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 |
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Does exchange rate volatility really affect Foreign Direct Investment in OECD countries? |
By Alexandre Jeanneret |