2007 Australasian Meeting Of The Econometric Society |
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Summary of All Sessions |
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| 1 | July 3, 2007 17:30-19:00 | UQ Centre Foyer | Registration | 0 |
| 2 | July 4, 2007 8:00-8:45 | UQ Centre Foyer | Registration | 0 |
| 3 | July 4, 2007 8:45-9:00 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Conference Opening - Professor John Hay, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland | 0 |
| 4 | July 4, 2007 9:00-10:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Plenary Session - Colin Clark Lecture | 1 |
| 5 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Econometric Methods - Testing for Unit Roots in Panel Data | 3 |
| 6 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - Working Hours and Productivity | 3 |
| 7 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | International Monetary Economics | 3 |
| 8 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods | 3 |
| 9 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Industrial Organisation | 3 |
| 10 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Games and Information | 3 |
| 11 | July 4, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Health | 3 |
| 12 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Microeconomics - consumption | 3 |
| 13 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Financial Economics: Applications in Banking | 3 |
| 14 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - Wages and Earnings | 3 |
| 15 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Econometric Methods | 3 |
| 16 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods - Forecasting | 3 |
| 17 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Game Theory - Applications and Misapplications | 3 |
| 18 | July 4, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Education | 3 |
| 19 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | EDN Symposium - Competition and Regulatory Economics | 3 |
| 20 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics | 2 |
| 21 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Microeconomics - Experimental Economics | 3 |
| 22 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Macroeconomics - Monetary Policy | 3 |
| 23 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Wealth Dynamics, Household Choices, Innovation and Technical Change | 3 |
| 24 | July 4, 2007 16:00-17:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Econometric Methods | 3 |
| 25 | July 5, 2007 9:00-10:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Plenary Session - Presidential Address | 1 |
| 26 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - HILDA | 3 |
| 27 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Education and Economic Development | 3 |
| 28 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods - Hypothesis Testing | 3 |
| 29 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Microeconomics - Economics of Innovation | 3 |
| 30 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Industrial Organisation - Economic Theory | 3 |
| 31 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Macroeconomics - Macroeconomic Modelling | 2 |
| 32 | July 5, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Time Series Analysis - Finance | 3 |
| 33 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Microfinance and Development | 3 |
| 34 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Microeconomics - Information and Uncertainty | 3 |
| 35 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Time Series Analysis - Nonlinear Models | 3 |
| 36 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Industrial Organisation - Financial Intermediation | 2 |
| 37 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - HILDA | 2 |
| 38 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Macroeconomics - Applied Macroeconomic Modeling | 3 |
| 39 | July 5, 2007 14:00-15:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods - Hypothesis Testing | 3 |
| 40 | July 5, 2007 16:00-17:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Plenary Session - A.W. Phillips Lecture | 1 |
| 41 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Index Numbers and Aggregation | 3 |
| 42 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods | 3 |
| 43 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Auctions and Games | 3 |
| 44 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Econometric Methods - Bayesian Methods | 3 |
| 45 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Financial Economics: Volatility and Correlation | 3 |
| 46 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - Labour Supply and Labour Force Participation | 3 |
| 47 | July 6, 2007 9:00-10:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Macroeconomics - Targeting | 3 |
| 48 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - Migration | 2 |
| 49 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Public Economics | 3 |
| 50 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods | 3 |
| 51 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Productivity and Efficiency - Econometric Methods | 3 |
| 52 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Time Series Analysis - Inflation and Monetary Policy | 3 |
| 53 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Dynamic Games | 2 |
| 54 | July 6, 2007 11:00-12:30 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Financial Economics: Applications to Firm Level Data | 3 |
| 55 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 213 | Microeconomics - Information and Uncertainty | 2 |
| 56 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 214 | Productivity and Efficiency - Programming Methods | 2 |
| 57 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 207 | Time Series Analysis | 3 |
| 58 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 209 | Foreign Direct Investment and Economics Growth | 3 |
| 59 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Corporate Finance and Contract Theory | 2 |
| 60 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 215 | Labour Economics - Wages and Earnings | 2 |
| 61 | July 6, 2007 13:30-15:00 | Gordon Greenwood 211 | Econometric Methods - Qualitative Dependent Variable Models | 3 |
| 62 | July 6, 2007 15:30-17:00 | UQ Centre Lecture Theatre | Plenary Session - E.J. Hannan Lecture | 1 |
62 sessions, 159 papers |
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2007 Australasian Meeting Of The Econometric Society |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Registration |
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| Date: July 3, 2007 |
| Time: 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Location: UQ Centre Foyer |
Session 2: Registration |
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| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 8:00 - 8:45 |
| Location: UQ Centre Foyer |
Session 3: Conference Opening - Professor John Hay, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland |
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| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 8:45 - 9:00 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
Session 4: Plenary Session - Colin Clark Lecture |
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| Session Chair: John Foster, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Mechanism Design with Bilateral Contracting and Private Communication |
| JEL codes: D82 |
| By David Martimort, Universite des Sciences Sociales |
Session 5: Econometric Methods - Testing for Unit Roots in Panel Data |
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| Session Chair: Alicia Rambaldi, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE EU’S CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICITS |
| JEL codes: C33, F32, F41 |
| By Mark J. Holmes, Waikato University Jesús Otero, Universidad del Rosario Theodore Panagiotidis, Loughborough University |
| Panel Unit Root Test under Smooth Transition |
| By Min-Hsien Chiang, National Cheng Kung University Chung-Ming Kuan, Academia Sinica Chih-Hsien Lo, National Cheng Kung University |
| A panel stationarity test for series with breaks in either level or trend. |
| By Stephanie de Silva School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney |
Session 6: Labour Economics - Working Hours and Productivity |
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| Session Chair: Gareth Leeves, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Coming to Work? The Hours of Work of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in America |
| JEL codes: J21 |
| By Fernando Lozano, Department of Economics Pomona College |
| Dispersion in Working Hours |
| By Noritaka Kudoh Graduate School of Economics, Hokkaido University Masaru Sasaki Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University |
| Did the Australian Workplace Relations Act Increase Productivity? |
| By Samantha Farmakis-Gamboni La Trobe University David Prentice La Trobe University |
Session 7: International Monetary Economics |
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| Session Chair: Kam-Ki Tang, |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Expenditure-Switching Effect and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime |
| JEL codes: F4 |
| By Wei Dong Bank of Canada |
| A Monetary Union in East Asia: Common Cycles Approach |
| By Kiyotaka Sato, Yokohama National University Zhaoyong Zhang, Edith Cowan University |
| Local linear impulse responses for a small open economy |
| By Alfred A. Haug, University of Otago, New Zealand Christie Smith, Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
Session 8: Econometric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Bill Griffiths, University of Melbourne |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| On the limiting and empirical distribution of IV estimators when some of the instruments are invalid |
| JEL codes: C13, C15, C30 |
| By Jan F. Kiviet, University of Amsterdam Jerzy Niemczyk, University of Amsterdam |
| GMM Redundancy Results for General Missing Data Problems |
| By Artem Prokhorov, Concordia University Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University |
| Statistical Inference with Generalized Gini Indices of Inequality, Poverty and Welfare |
| By Garry Barrett, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052 Stephen Donald, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 |
Session 9: Industrial Organisation |
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| Session Chair: Dmitriy Kvasov, The University of Auckland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| A dynamic duopoly with endogenous horizontal and vertical differentiation |
| JEL codes: L13 |
| By Borghan Narajabad, Univ. of Texas-Austin Randal Watson, Univ. of Texas-Austin |
| Welfare Enhancing Mergers under Product Differentiation |
| By Tina Kao, Australian National University Flavio Menezes, University of Queensland |
| Price Discrimination in Markets for Credence Goods |
| By Uwe Dulleck, QUT Rudolf Kerschbamer, University of Innsbruck and CEPR |
Session 10: Games and Information |
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| Session Chair: Simon Grant, Rice University |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| When the type is just a number: a group-theoretic analysis of a multidimensional screening problem |
| JEL codes: D82 |
| By Suren Basov, La Trobe University |
| Trust Signaling |
| By Maroš Servátka, Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Steven Tucker, Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Radovan Vadovič, Department of Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
| The Dirty Faces Game Revisited |
| By Ralph-C Bayer, University of Adelaide Mickey Chan, University of Adelaide |
Session 11: Health |
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| Session Chair: Sukhan Jackson, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Specialist Payment Schemes and Patient Selection in Private and Public Hospitals |
| JEL codes: I10 |
| By Donald J Wright Economics University of Sydney |
| Decisions about Pap tests: what influences women and providers? |
| By Denzil Fiebig, School of Economics, UNSW; CHERE, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney Marion Haas, CHERE, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney Ishrat Hossain, CHERE, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney Rosalie Viney, CHERE, Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney |
| THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE DIFFERENT HEALTH MEASURES WITH RESPECT TO LIFE STYLE CHOICES |
| By Paul Frijters,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Aydogan Ulker, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
Session 12: Microeconomics - consumption |
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| Session Chair: Jie Zhang, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| The Optimal Draw-down for a Charity |
| JEL codes: D91 G23 |
| By S.E.SATCHELL, Faculty of Economics,University of Cambridge,Cambridge, UK S.THORP,School of Finance and Economics University of Technology Sydney Australia |
| Bounded Rationality, Taxation, and Prohibition |
| By Suren Basov, La Trobe University Svetlana Danilkina, The University of Melbourne |
| Contact Geometry, Symplectic Geometry, and the Maximization Hypothesis in Economics. |
| By Thomas Russell Dept. of Economics Santa Clara University Santa Clara Ca USA e mail trussell@scu.edu |
Session 13: Financial Economics: Applications in Banking |
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| Session Chair: Daniel Smith, Simon Fraser University |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| The Impact of Strategic Sale: An Empirical Analysis of Indonesian Banks |
| JEL codes: C21,C23,G21G28 |
| By Rasyad A. Parinduri; SCAPE, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore Yohanes E. Riyanto; Department of Economics, National University of Singapore |
| Implementation cost of bank capital regulation |
| By Michal Kowalik University of Mannheim, CEMFI and ECGTN |
| Herd Behavior by Japanese Banks: An Impact of Financial Deregulation |
| By Ryuichi Nakagawa Center on Japanese Economy and Business Columbia University and Faculty of Economics Kansai University and Hirofumi Uchida Faculty of Economics Wakayama University |
Session 14: Labour Economics - Wages and Earnings |
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| Session Chair: David Prentice, La Trobe University |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Nonparametric Evidence on Extent and Functional Form of Downward Nominal Rigidity in Germany: An Application of the Kernel-Location Approach |
| JEL codes: E24; J30. |
| By Christoph Knoppik Thomas Beissinger Barno Blaes |
| Labor Market Institutions: Curse or Blessing? |
| By Carsten Ochsen, University of Rostock, Germany Heinz Welsch, University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| The Persistence of Differences in Productivity, Wages, Skill Mix and Profits Between Firms |
| By Katsuya Takii, Osaka School of International Public Policy Osaka University |
Session 15: Econometric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Umut Oguzoglu, University of Melbourne |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| Testing for no cointegration with structural breaks in panel data |
| JEL codes: C12, C15, C23 |
| By Pui Sun Tam |
| Determining the Finite Dimensionality of Functional Data |
| By D. S. Poskitt Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia. Arivalzahan Sengarapillai Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia. |
| Dynamic Validity of Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis |
| By Yi-Chia Wang |
Session 16: Econometric Methods - Forecasting |
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| Session Chair: Vlad Pavlov, QUT |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| Economic Value of Stock Return Forecasts: An Assessment on Market Efficiency and Forecasting Accuracy |
| JEL codes: C22, C53, G11 |
| By Jing Tian, School of Economics, the Australian National University. |
| Does the option market produce superior forecasts of noise-corrected volatility measures? |
| By Gael M. Martin (Monash University) Andrew Reidy (Monash University) Jill Wright (Monash University) |
| Some new approaches to forecasting the price of electricity |
| By Eduardo Mendes University of Canterbury Les Oxley University of Canterbury Marco Reale University of canterbury |
Session 17: Game Theory - Applications and Misapplications |
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| Session Chair: Ralph-C Bayer, Adelaide University |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Limited Government Commitment and Heterogeneous Agents |
| JEL codes: C61; C73; D86; |
| By Timothy Kam, Australian National University Ronald Stauber, Australian National University |
| Inefficient Policies and Incumbency Advantage |
| By Roland Hodler, University of Melbourne Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne Dominic Rohner, University of Cambridge |
| Can Game Theory be Saved ? |
| By Flavio Menezes, University of Queensland John Quiggin, University of Queensland |
Session 18: Education |
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| Session Chair: Pushkar Maitra, Monash University |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Procrastination, Prompts, and Class Preferences: Evidence from Daily Records of Self-learning English-Listening Activities |
| JEL codes: C93 D82 D91 I21 |
| By Kazuki Onji, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University Rina Kikuchi, Faculty of Economics, Shiga University |
| School Systems and Efficiency and Equity of Education |
| By Jung Hur and Changhui Kang Department of Economics National University of Singapore |
| The Importance of Observing Early School Leaving and Usually Unobserved Background and Peer Characteristics in Analysing Academic Performance |
| By Guyonne Kalb, University of Melbourne Sholeh Maani, University of Auckland |
Session 19: EDN Symposium - Competition and Regulatory Economics |
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| Session Chair: Stephen King, ACCC |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Recent Developments on Postal Liberalization and Regulation |
| JEL codes: D2, |
| By John Panzar, U Auckland and Northwestern U |
| Recent Developments in Two-Sided Markets |
| By Julian Wright, National University of Singapore |
| Maverick Firms: An Exploratory Analysis of Mortgage Providers in Australia |
| By Flavio Menezes, U of Queensland |
Session 20: Labour Economics |
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| Session Chair: Fernando Lozano, Pomona College |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| World War II, Missing Men, and Out-Of-Wedlock Childbearing |
| JEL codes: J12, J13, N34 |
| By Michael Kvasnicka, Humboldt University Berlin Dirk Bethmann, Korean University Seoul |
| Law and Borders |
| By Peter E. Robertson UNSW Arghya Ghosh UNSW |
Session 21: Microeconomics - Experimental Economics |
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| Session Chair: Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| Minding Your Business |
| JEL codes: C90, C91, C92, |
| By Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin and Marshall |
| Moral Hazard and Peer Monitoring in a Laboratory Microfinance Experiment |
| By Timothy N. Cason, Purdue University Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne Pushkar Maitra, Monash University |
| The effect of researcher scrutiny on donation behaviour |
| By John Randal, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Richard Martin, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
Session 22: Macroeconomics - Monetary Policy |
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| Session Chair: Kam-Ki Tang, |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Competitive Search Equilibrium with Private Information on Monetary Shocks |
| JEL codes: E40 |
| By Xiuhua Huangfu (University of Sydney) |
| The Importance of Bank Loan Supply for Real Economic Activity in the Euro Area -- A Panel Data Analysis |
| By Christian Melzer University of Bonn |
| Approximating Monetary Policy: Case Study for the ASEAN-5 |
| By Arief Ramayandi Crawford School of Economics and Government ANU |
Session 23: Wealth Dynamics, Household Choices, Innovation and Technical Change |
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| Session Chair: D.S. Prasada Rao, The University of Queensland |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Spatial Autocorrelation and Household Choices in Indonesia |
| JEL codes: C21; O18; R20 |
| By John Gibson, University of Waikato Susan Olivia, University of California, Davis |
| Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability |
| By Paulo Santos, Cornell University Christopher Barrett, Cornell University |
| Concerning Inequality, Technology Adoption, and Structural Change |
| By Radhika Lahiri Queensland University of Technology Shyama Ratnasiri Queensland University of Technology |
Session 24: Econometric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Benno Torgler, |
| Date: July 4, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| Effective Global Regularity and Empirical Modeling of Direct, Inverse and Mixed Demand Systems |
| JEL codes: D11, D12 |
| By Keith R. McLaren, Monash University K. K. Gary Wong, The University of Macau |
| Evaluating the Effects of a Mandatory Government Program using Matched Groups within a Similar Geographic Location |
| By Wang-Sheng Lee, University of Melbourne |
| Towards a New Dynamic Measure of Competitive Balance: A Study Applied to Australia’s Two Major Professional ‘Football’ Leagues |
| By Liam J. A. Lenten, La Trobe University |
Session 25: Plenary Session - Presidential Address |
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| Session Chair: Trevor Breusch, |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Risk Over Long Horizons: An Econometric Perspective |
| JEL codes: C |
| By Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago |
Session 26: Labour Economics - HILDA |
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| Session Chair: Parvinder Kler, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia |
| JEL codes: C33,J28,I12,C81 |
| By Umut Oguzoglu,University of Melbourne |
| Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Incarceration on Labour Market Outcomes |
| By Malathi Velamuri Victoria University of Wellington; Steven Stillman Motu Economic and Public Policy Research |
| The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model |
| By Lixin Cai, University of Melbourne |
Session 27: Education and Economic Development |
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| Session Chair: Colin Green, Lancaster University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Lucky Last? Intra-Sibling Allocation of Child Labor and Schooling |
| JEL codes: O12, J13, J22 |
| By Tatyana Chesnokova, University of Auckland Rhema Vaithianathan, University of Auckland |
| Motivation, School Inputs, and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from NGO Schools in Bangladesh |
| By Pataporn Sukontamarn School of Economics, University of Adelaide |
| Gender Discrimination in Child Schooling: Why do we observe it? |
| By ITISMITA MOHANTY, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY |
Session 28: Econometric Methods - Hypothesis Testing |
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| Session Chair: Param Silvapulle, Monash University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| A New Procedure for Multiple Testing of Econometric Models |
| JEL codes: C01, C12, C14. |
| By Maxwell L. King, Xibin Zhang, Muhammad Akram |
| A New Class of Test for Testing a Composite Null against a Composite Alternative Hypothesis |
| By Nelufa Begum and Maxwell L. King Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia |
| A New Class of Tests of Contagion: Application to Asian Real Estate and Equity Markets |
| By Renée Fry, CAMA, ANU, and CERF, University of Cambridge Vance L. Martin, The University of Melbourne Chrismin Tang, The University of Melbourne. |
Session 29: Microeconomics - Economics of Innovation |
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| Session Chair: Tina Kao, Australian National University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Technology Adoption |
| JEL codes: L14 |
| By Stephen Ryan, MIT Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan |
| Innovation and Adoption of Electronic Business Technologies |
| By Kai Suelzle, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich & Dresden University of Technology |
| Copyright protection and innovation in the presence of commercial piracy |
| By Dyuti S. Banerjee Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia. E-mail: dyuti.banerjee@buseco.edu.au Teyu Chou Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Melbourne Business School, Australia. E-mail: dychou@nccu.edu.tw |
Session 30: Industrial Organisation - Economic Theory |
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| Session Chair: Simon Loertscher, University of Bern |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Contestability of Australian Federal Elections |
| JEL codes: D72, L11 |
| By Sinclair Davidson, RMIT University Lisa Farrell, University College Dublin Tim Fry, RMIT University Sandra Mihajilo, RMIT University |
| International Collaborations |
| By Arghya Ghosh Pinijsorn Luechaikajohnpan Hodaka Morita |
| Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund-Raising:Matching Grants or Seed Money? |
| By Ning Gong, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, 200 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia. Bruce D. Grundy, Department of Finance, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. |
Session 31: Macroeconomics - Macroeconomic Modelling |
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| Session Chair: Philip Bodman, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| The Price Puzzle Revisited: Can the Cost Channel explain a Rise in Inflation after a Monetary Policy Shock? |
| By Steffen Henzel, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany Oliver Hülsewig, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany Eric Mayer, University of Würzburg, Department of Economics, Sanderring 2, 97070 Würzburg, Germany Timo Wollmershäuser, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany |
| The New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Australia |
| By Brett Ryder, University of Queensland |
Session 32: Time Series Analysis - Finance |
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| Session Chair: Simone Grose, Monash University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| Temporal aggregation of Markov switching financial return models |
| JEL codes: C22, C43 |
| By Wai-Sum Chan, Department of Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China Li-Xin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, PR China Siu Hung Cheung, Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China |
| Reported Earnings and Analysts Forecasts as Competing Sources of Information: A new Approach |
| By H. M. Anderson (Australian National University) H. Chan (University of Melbourne) R. Faff (Monash University) Y.K. Ho (National University of Singapore) |
| EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON RELATIONSHIPS IN INSURANCE MARKETS |
| By Paul KOFMAN The University of Melbourne Gregory P NINI Federal Reserve Board |
Session 33: Microfinance and Development |
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| Session Chair: James Laurenceson, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Microcredit Programs and Consumption Behaviour: Are the Borrowers Better Off? Evidence from Bangladesh |
| JEL codes: C81, D19 |
| By Sayma Rahman, Ph.D Student, School of Economics and Finance, UWS Dr. Girijasankar Mallik, Senior Lecture, UWS Professor P. N. (Raja) Junankar, School of Economics and Finance, UWS |
| Using Non-experimental Methods to Evaluate the Impact of Microfinance: |
| By Asadul Islam, Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia |
| Infant Mortality and Child Nutrition in Bangladesh: Modelling Sample Selection Using Copulas |
| By Diane Dancer, The University of Sydney Anu Rammohan, The University of Sydney Murray Smith, The University of Sydney and the University of Aberdeen |
Session 34: Microeconomics - Information and Uncertainty |
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| Session Chair: Randolph Silvers, Deakin University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| Rank Dependent Non-Immediacy |
| JEL codes: D01; D53; D84. |
| By Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan School of Economics and Finance University of Tasmania |
| Infrequent Changes of Policy Target: Stop-Go Monetary Policy under Knightian Uncertainty |
| By Shin-ichi Fukuda, University of Tokyo |
| The Pygmalion and Galatea Effects: An Agency Model with Reference-Dependent Preferences and Applications to Self-Fulfilling Prophecy |
| By Kohei Daido: School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University. Hideshi Itoh: Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University. |
Session 35: Time Series Analysis - Nonlinear Models |
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| Session Chair: Ashton de Silva, RMIT University |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| REGIME SWITCHING GARCH MODELS |
| JEL codes: C11, C22, C52 |
| By Luc Bauwens, CORE and department of economics, UCL Arie Preminger, department of economics Haifa University Jeroen V.K. Rombouts, HEC Montreal and Cirano |
| MODELLING THE US, UK AND JAPANESE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES: FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION AND STRUCTURAL BREAKS |
| By Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Brunel University, London Luis A. Gil-Alana, University of Navarra |
| Issues with ESTAR Models for Real Exchange Rate Modelling |
| By Daniel Buncic, UNSW |
Session 36: Industrial Organisation - Financial Intermediation |
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| Session Chair: Flavio Menezes, Universithy of Queensland |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Information transmission and optimal intermediation |
| By Frederique Bracoud, School of Economics, University of Queensland, AU Ioannis Lazopoulos, Keele University, UK |
| Imperfect competition in financial markets and capital structure |
| By Kvasov, Dmitriy (University of Auckland) Guriev, Sergei (New Economic School) |
Session 37: Labour Economics - HILDA |
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| Session Chair: Lixin Cai, The University of Melbourne |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Parental Income Shocks and the Education Attainment of Youth |
| JEL codes: I29, J63, I39 |
| By Michael B. Coelli, The University of Melbourne |
| Volunteering for work and pleasure? |
| By Cain Polidano Monash University Mark Harris Monash University Xueyan Zhao Monash University |
Session 38: Macroeconomics - Applied Macroeconomic Modeling |
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| Session Chair: Philip Bodman, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Which predictor is the best to predict inflation in Europe: |
| JEL codes: E42, E52, E58 |
| By Gilles Dufrénot, ERUDITE and GREQAM Roselyne Joyeux, Macquarie University Anne Péguin-Feissolle, GREQAM-CNRS |
| Housing Market Cycles and Duration Dependence in the United States and Canada |
| By Ilan Kolet Bank of Canada Rose Cunningham Bank of Canada |
| Log versus Level in VAR forecasting: 16 Million empirical answers - expect the unexpected |
| By Johannes Mayr Dirk Ulbricht |
Session 39: Econometric Methods - Hypothesis Testing |
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| Session Chair: Stan Hurn, Queensland University of Technology |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| On a Robust Test for SETAR-Type Non-Linearity in Time Series Analysis |
| JEL codes: C12, C22 |
| By King Chi Hung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Siu Hung Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Wai-Sum Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Li-Xin Zhang, Zhejiang University, PR China |
| Fractional Dickey-Fuller tests under heteroskedasticity |
| By Hsein Kew and David Harris, The University of Melbourne |
| A Note on the Use of the Kalman Filter for Sequential Testing |
| By Martin Fukac, Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
Session 40: Plenary Session - A.W. Phillips Lecture |
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| Session Chair: Adrian Pagan, queensland university of technology |
| Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Time: 16:00 - 17:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Robust Priors in Nonlinear Panel Data Models |
| JEL codes: C23 |
| By Manuel Arellano, CEMFI |
Session 41: Index Numbers and Aggregation |
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| Session Chair: Keith McLaren, Monash University |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| Hedonic Imputed Housing Price Indices from a Model with Dynamic Shadow Prices Incorporating Nearest Neighbour Information |
| JEL codes: C43, E31, O47, |
| By Harry Cominos, University of Queensland Alicia Rambaldi, University of Queensland D.S. Prasada Rao, University of Queensland |
| Systems of Index Numbers for International Price Comparisons Based on the Stochastic Approach |
| By Gholamreza Hajargasht, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane D.S. Prasada Rao, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| Additivity of National Accounts Reconsidered |
| By Bert M. Balk, RSM Erasmus University and Statistics Netherlands Utz-Peter Reich, Fachhochschule Mainz |
Session 42: Econometric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Adam Clements, Queensland University of Technology |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| Modelling tail dependence between exchange rates |
| JEL codes: C14, G15, F31 |
| By Ainura Tursunalieva Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University Param Silvapulle Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University |
| Measuring Conditional Dependence in the Emerging Financial Markets |
| By Param Silvapulle and Xibin Zhang Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3145, Australia |
| Doing Justice to Fundamentals in Exchange Rate Forecasting: A Control over Estimation Risks |
| By Biing-Shen Kuo Department of International Business National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan |
Session 43: Auctions and Games |
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| Session Chair: Frederique Bracoud, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Competition in Auctions in a Monetary Economy |
| JEL codes: D44, E40 |
| By Richard Dutu, University of Waikato Benoit Julien, University of New South Wales Ian King, University of Melbourne |
| Preemption and Jump Bidding: The Case Against Information Aggregation |
| By Vlad Mares, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis |
| N – Person Games: Solutions |
| By Ana Paula Martins, Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
Session 44: Econometric Methods - Bayesian Methods |
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| Session Chair: Gael Martin, Monash University |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| Bayesian Inference in a Cointegrating Panel Data Model |
| JEL codes: C11, C32, C33 |
| By Gary Koop Department of Economics University of Strathclyde Gary.Koop@strath.ac.uk Roberto Leon-Gonzalez Department of Economics University of Leicester rlg19@le.ac.uk and Rodney Strachan Faculty of Business, Economics & Law University of Queensland r.strachan@economics.uq.edu.au |
| Employment Fluctuations, Technology shocks and the Beverdige Curve |
| By Agostino Consolo, Bocconi University, agostino.consolo@unibocconi.it |
| Estimating Income Distributions Using a Mixture of Gamma Densities |
| By Duangkamon Chotikapanich Monash University William E Griffiths University of Melbourne |
Session 45: Financial Economics: Volatility and Correlation |
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| Session Chair: Roger Willett, University of Wollongong Dubai |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Dynamic Conditional Correlations in International Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets: Emerging Market Evidence |
| JEL codes: G11, G15 |
| By Abdul Hakim, School of Economics and Commerce, University of Western Australia, and Faculty of Economics, Islamic University of Indonesia Michael McAleer, School of Economics and Commerce, University of Western Australia |
| Asset pricing with higher-order co-moments and alternative factor models: The case of an emerging market |
| By Javed Iqbal, Monash University Robert D. Brooks, Monash University Don U.A. Galagedera, Monash University |
| The Level and Quality of Value at Risk Disclosure by Commercial Banks |
| By Christophe PÉRIGNON, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University Daniel R. SMITH, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University |
Session 46: Labour Economics - Labour Supply and Labour Force Participation |
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| Session Chair: Garry Barrett, University of N S W |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Employment Contracts and Effort: Why Do Temporary Workers Take Less Absence? |
| By Steve Bradley, Lancaster University Colin Green, Lancaster University Gareth Leeves, University of Queensland |
| Joint Taxation and the Labour Supply of Married Women: Evidence from the Canadian Tax Reform of 1988 |
| By Thomas F. Crossley Department of Economics, McMaster University Sung-Hee Jeon Department of Economics, McMaster University and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne |
| Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis |
| By Lachenmaier, Stefan Ifo Institute for Economic Research Rottmann, Horst University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden |
Session 47: Macroeconomics - Targeting |
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| Session Chair: Philip Bodman, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Instrument and Targeting Rules in Monetary Policy when Heterogeneity in Currency Trade |
| JEL codes: C62E44E52F31F41 |
| By Mikael Bask, Bank of Finland |
| KITT: Kiwi Inflation Targeting Technology - A DSGE model for New Zealand |
| By Jaromir Benes, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Andrew Binning, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Felix Delbruck, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Martin Fukac, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Kirdan Lees, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Sharon McCaw, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Troy Matheson, Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
| Inflation Targeting in India: Issues and Prospects |
| By Raghbendra Jha, Australian National University |
Session 48: Labour Economics - Migration |
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| Session Chair: Malathi Velamuri, Victoria University of Wellington |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Social Pensions, Migration and the Anticipation Effect |
| JEL codes: O15, I38, C25 |
| By Mark N. Harris, Monash University Brett Inder, Monash University Pushkar Maitra, Monash University |
| The Early Stage Occupational Assimilation of Immigrants in Australia: Occupational Transitions and Country-of-Origin Effects |
| By Weiping Wu,Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University; Mark Harris,Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University; Xueyan Zhao, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University |
Session 49: Public Economics |
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| Session Chair: Michael Coelli, The University of Melbourne |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| International Evidence on Fiscal Solvency: Is Fiscal Policy "Responsible"? |
| JEL codes: H6 |
| By Enrique G. Mendoza, IMF and NBER Jonathan D. Ostry, IMF |
| Intercompany Loans and Profit Shifting - Evidence from Company-Level Data |
| By Thiess Buettner, ifo Institute/Munich University Georg Wamser, ifo Institute |
| State Care, Crime and its Cost to the State |
| By Catherine S. Forbes, Monash University Brett Inder, Monash University |
Session 50: Econometric Methods - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Robert Breunig, The Australian National University |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION FOR FUNCTIONAL MINIMUM DISTANCE ESTIMATORS |
| JEL codes: C13, C14, C15 |
| By Olivier Scaillet Swiss Finance Institute and HEC Geneva Patrick Gagliardini Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lugano |
| Specification Testing in Nonlinear Time Series Econometrics with Nonstationarity |
| By Jiti Gao, The University of Western Australia Maxwell King, Monash University Zudi Lu, Curtin University of Technology Dag Tjostheim, The University of Bergen |
| An Asymptotic Unbiased Nonparametric Estimator with Prior Parametric Information |
| By Hung-Pin Lai, Assistant professor, Department of Economics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
Session 51: Productivity and Efficiency - Econometric Methods |
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| Session Chair: Bert Balk, Statistics Netherlands |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Flexible Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers:Time Varying Panel Data Models |
| JEL codes: C14,D2 |
| By Gholamreza Hajargasht |
| Econometric Estimation of an Input Distance Function in a System of Equations |
| By Tim Coelli, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, University of Queensland Gholamreza Hajargasht, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, University of Queensland C.A. Knox Lovell, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, University of Queensland |
| Estimating Output Distance Functions |
| By Chris O'Donnell, University of Queensland |
Session 52: Time Series Analysis - Inflation and Monetary Policy |
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| Session Chair: Daniel Buncic, UNSW |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| The vector innovation structural time series framework: a simple approach to multivariate forecasting |
| JEL codes: C32 C51 C53 |
| By Ashton de Silva, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT, VIC 3000, Australia. Rob Hyndman Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, VIC 3800 Ralph Snyder Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia. |
| Monetary Policy Transmission and the Cost Channel in Euro Area Industries |
| By Steffen Henzel, ifo Institute for Economic Research Oliver Huelsewig, ifo Institute for Economic Research Timo Wollmershaeuser, ifo Institute for Economic Research |
| Dynamic Macroeconometric Modelling: Evidence on the Brazilian Monetary System |
| By Wilson Luiz Rotatori, Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil Jan M. Podivinsky, University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
Session 53: Dynamic Games |
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| Session Chair: Suren Basov, LaTrobe University |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Evolution of Walrasian Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy |
| JEL codes: C79, D51, C72 |
| By Chongmin Kim, School of Economics, Kookmin University Kam-Chau Wong, Deparment of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Dynamic Location Games |
| By Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne Gerd Muehlheusser, University of Bern |
Session 54: Financial Economics: Applications to Firm Level Data |
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| Session Chair: Stephen Gray, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Do stock markets value intangibles in the New Economy? Evidence from a panel of Indian software firms |
| JEL codes: C23, G12 |
| By Supriyo De Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney |
| Dynamic analysis of firm-level data generating processes of long-run market value: Implications for the cross-section analysis of returns |
| By Roger Willett, University of wollongong in Dubai Michael Falta, Queesland University of Technology |
| Institutional Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finland |
| By Prasad S. Bhattacharya, Deakin University, Australia Michael Graham, Deakin University, Australia |
Session 55: Microeconomics - Information and Uncertainty |
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| Session Chair: Uwe Dulleck, QUT |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 213 |
| Lost in translation: honest misunderstandings and ex post disputes |
| By Simon Grant Rice University Jeff Kline Bond University John Quiggin University of Queensland |
| Harmful Monitoring |
| By Marco Haan Department of Economics University of Groningen - The Netherlands Bart Los Department of Economics University of Groningen - The Netherlands Yohanes E. Riyanto Department of Economics National University of Singapore |
Session 56: Productivity and Efficiency - Programming Methods |
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| Session Chair: Tim Coelli, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 214 |
| Measuring Productivity Growth Performance using Meta-Frontiers with applications to Regional Productivity Growth analysis in a Global Context |
| By Alicia N. Rambaldi, School of Economics. University of Queensland D.S. Prasada Rao, School of Economics. University of Queensland David Dolan, Reserve Bank of Australia |
| The Impact of Rights-Based Management Regimes on Fishery Productivity |
| By Stephanie F. McWhinnie, University of Adelaide |
Session 57: Time Series Analysis |
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| Session Chair: Rodney Strachan, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 207 |
| Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition with Markov Switching |
| JEL codes: C22, C51, E32 |
| By Heather Anderson The Australian National University Chin Nam Low The University of Melbourne Ralph Snyder Monash University |
| Misspecification and Boostrap-based Inference in Non-Invertible and Fractionally Integrated Processes |
| By S. D. Grose, Monash University D. S. Poskitt, Monash University/University of York |
| “Classical” Probability Distributions for Stochastic Dynamic Models |
| By Greg Hertzler, The University of Western Australia |
Session 58: Foreign Direct Investment and Economics Growth |
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| Session Chair: Raghbendra Jha, Australian National University |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 209 |
| Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment:Indonesian Manufacturing Industry’s Experience 1975-2000 |
| JEL codes: F23;020;O30;L60 |
| By Della Temenggung, Economics Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU |
| FDI and Growth in Indonesia |
| By Parjiono Ph D Student, Economics, School of Business James Cook University, Townsville Australia |
| FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ITS LINKAGE TO ECONOMIC GROWTH IN VIETNAM: A PROVINCIAL LEVEL ANALYSIS |
| By Lan Nguyen,Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis, University of South Australia |
Session 59: Corporate Finance and Contract Theory |
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| Session Chair: Shino Takayama, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information and Ownership in the Innovation Process |
| By Simona Fabrizi, Keele University Steffen Lippert, Massey University Pehr-Johan Norbäck, RIIE Lars Persson, RIIE |
| Incomplete Contracts, Constraints on Subsidies, and Efficiency in A Regulated Activity |
| By Shinji Kobayashi, Nihon University Shigemi Ohba, Nihon University |
Session 60: Labour Economics - Wages and Earnings |
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| Session Chair: John Foster, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 215 |
| Deregulation and Labor Earnings: Three Motor Carrier Industries in Japan |
| By Akira Kawaguchi, Doshisha University Keizo Mizuno, Kwansei Gakuin University |
| Skewness and Location of Distributions of Wage Change Rates in the Presence of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidit |
| By Christoph Knoppik, University of Regensburg (Germany) |
Session 61: Econometric Methods - Qualitative Dependent Variable Models |
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| Session Chair: Chris O'Donnell, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: Gordon Greenwood 211 |
| Finite mixture of binary logistic regression analysis on labour supply of mothers with disabled children |
| JEL codes: C25 ; C51 |
| By Zeng-Hua Lu, University of South Australia |
| Covariance Matrix Correction of a Two-Stage Estimator in a Simultaneous Probit-Ordered Probit Model |
| By Hristos Doucouliagos, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University; Randy Silvers, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University; Mehmet Ulubasoglu, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University; |
| Bayesian estimation of a random effects heteroscedastic probit model |
| By Yuanyuan Gu, School of Economics, UNSW Denzil G Fiebig, School of Economics, UNSW Edward Cripps, Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield Robert Kohn, School of Economics, UNSW |
Session 62: Plenary Session - E.J. Hannan Lecture |
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| Session Chair: Stephen Gray, University of Queensland |
| Date: July 6, 2007 |
| Time: 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Location: UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
| Risk, Uncertainty and Asset Prices |
| JEL codes: G |
| By Geert Bekaert, Columbia University and NBER |
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