Department of Economics | Seminar Series
Department of Economics   |  University of Melbourne    
Macroeconomic Workshop Series 2007 [Go to Website]
Co-ordinator: Ian King Phone: 8344 3833 Email: ipking@unimelb.edu.au
January
Fri, 25/01/08
TBA
  Kenneth Kuttner (tentative), Oberlin College
3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
March
Tue, 11/03/08
TBA
  Mark Weder, Adelaide
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
July
Tue, 24/07/07
"Prices, Rents and Speculative Bubbles in the Sydney Housing Market"
Paper available
  Glenn Otto , (UNSW)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 31/07/07
"Filling a Gap in the Literature: Estimation of some RBC Models for Australia"
  Don Harding , (Melbourne)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
August
Tue, 07/08/07
"The Impact of Internet Job Boards on Newspaper Job Advertisements"
  Kelly Jarvis , (Melbourne PhD student)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 14/08/07
"Generally General Equilibrium: Imperfect Common Knowledge and New Keynesian Models"
  Leon Berkelmans , (Harvard)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 28/08/07
"Local Linear Impulse Responses for a Small Open Economy"
Paper available
  Alfred Haug , (Otago)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
September
Tue, 04/09/07
"Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization"
Paper available
  Jie Zhang , (Queensland)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 11/09/07
"An Estimated Small DSGE Model for Australia: Insights from Alternative Monetary Policy Rules"
Paper available
  May Li , (Melbourne)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 18/09/07
"Institutions, Trade and the Political Economy of Financial Development"
Paper available
  Roland Hodler , (Melbourne)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Wed, 26/09/07
"The Effects of Trade Liberalization on R&D, Industry Productivity and Welfare When Firms are Heterogeneous"
Paper available
  Frank Stahler, University of Otago
3:00-4:30p.m THEATRETTE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
October
Tue, 02/10/07
"A Behavioural Model of House Prices"
Paper available
  Jakob Madsen, (Monash)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 09/10/07
Information Acquisition, Dissemination and Transparency of Monetary Policy
Paper available
  Jacob Wong, (Adelaide)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
Tue, 16/10/07
"Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Limited Government Commitment and Heterogeneous Agents"
  Timothy Kam , (ANU)
1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
November
Tue, 13/11/07
“In defence of dinosaurs – the usefulness of introducing industry and structural detail into a macroeconomic model of the Australian Economy”
  Peter Downes, Centre for International Economics
3:30p.m. - 4:45p.m Economics and Commerce Lecture Theatre 1
December
Fri, 14/12/07
TBA
  Harris Dellas (tentative), University of Bern
3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m COMMERCE THEATRE 1, Ground Fl, Eco & Comm Building
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