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Economics Seminars - 2012

These seminars are open to academic and professional economists. To attend seminars, please contact the Co-ordinator of the Economics Research Network Initiative (ERNI).

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Date

Visitor and Affiliation

Seminar

26 January

Graeme Guthrie

Victoria University of Wellington

US Housing prices: The role of fundamentals

26 January

Jeremy Chiu

Duke University

A quantitative assessment of loanable fund in business cycle fluctuations

1 February

Giovanni Melina

Birkbeck

Fiscal policy and lending relationships

9 February

Dean Hyslop

Victoria University of Wellington

Measuring the compositional bias in earnings growth over a cyclical upswing

13 February

Sandra Eickmeier

Deutsche Bundesbank

How are credit supply shocks propagated internationally: a GVAR approach

13 February

Sandra Eickmeier

Deutsche Bundesbank

Global liquidity: Concept, measurement and policy implications

16 February

Dave Liu

Stellenbosh University

Business cycle and bank capital regulation :Basel II procyclicality

1 March

Brian Easton

The course of prices in New Zealand since 1862

8 March

Chris Waller

Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

Quantifying the shadow economy: Measurement with theory

14 March

Dan Thornton

Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

The unusual behavior of the Federal Funds Rate and Treasury Yields

15 March

Prasanna Gai

The University of Auckland

Biased banking

21 March

Michael Bordo

Rutgers University

Deep recessions, fast recoveries and financial crises: Evidence from the American record

22 March

Ilan Noy

Victoria University of Wellington

What happened to Kobe? A reassessment of the impact of the 1995 earthquake in Japan

29 March

El-hadj Bah

The University of Auckland

Entry cost, financial friction and cross-country differences in income and TFP

4 April

Sherrill Shaffer

The University of Wyoming

Assessing competition with the Panzar-Rosse model: The role of scale, costs, and equilibrium

11 April

Peter Sinclair

Bank of England

Financial frictions and their implications for the monetary transmission mechanism

26 April

Ippei Fujiwara

Crawford School, ANU

Global liquidity trap

30 April

Gianni Amisano

European Central Bank

A nonlinear DSGE model for the term structure with regime shifts

30 April

Gianni Amisano

European Central Bank

Prediction with several macromodels

3 May

Chia-Ying Chang

Victoria University of Wellington

Banking crisis, sudden stops and the effectiveness of short-run lending

10 May

Gazi Hassan

Waikato University

Sovereign credit rating and growth volatility

18 May

Toby Daglish

Victoria University of Wellington

US bond markets and credit spreads during the Great Depression

12 June

Larry Kotlikoff

Boston University

Jimmy Stewart is dead

21 June

Denny Lie

University of Sydney

TBA

26 June

Lutz Kilian

University of Michigan

Forecasting oil prices and forecast scenarios

19 July

Efrem Castelnuovo

University of Padova

TBA

26 July

Mardi Dungey

University of Tasmania

TBA

16 August

Richard Dennis

Australian National University

TBA

6 September

Ben Marshall

Massey University

Liquidity measurement and commonality in commodities

14 September

Alfred Gunder

University of Canterbury

TBA

20 September

Nicolas Jacquet

University of Adelaide

The liquidity effects of monetary policy on asset prices

27 September

Tara Sinclair

George Washington University

TBA

18 October

Daryna Grechyna

The University of Auckland

TBA

15 November

Tim Kam

Australian National University

TBA

27-28 November

Adrian Pagan

University of Sydney

Macroeconomic modelling with VARs (part I - II)

29 November

Aarti Singh

University of Sydney

TBA

3 December

Adrian Pagan

University of Sydney

Macroeconomic modelling with VARs (part III)