Seminars and events

Seminars

2023 Seminar Coordinators: Alastair Fraser and Brendan Beare.

Our seminars regularly take place in Room 650, Social Sciences Building (SSB) and online via Zoom on Thursday 11am - 12.30pm, unless otherwise stated.

Find School Seminars on our events page and events calendar.

Econometrics Research Seminars

Our meetings provide a forum for ongoing research on econometric theory and application. Speakers from both within and outside the School are welcome. We intend to to use this platform to foster the exchange of ideas and maintain a collaborative econometrics research environment.

If you would like to contribute a presentation or have any queries, please contact Ye Lu.

Macro/Trade Seminars

The purpose of this seminar series is to create an environment for researchers from the fields of International Trade and Macroeconomics to present their ongoing research. The meetings normally take place fortnightly in Room 650, Social Sciences Building (SSB). Please contact James Graham if you would like to join the mailing list or contribute with a presentation.

Theory Seminars

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course Seminars

Theory Seminars

Theory seminars take place fortnightly on Tuesdays 4pm-5.30pm in the Social Sciences Building (A02) at the University of Sydney and online.

Contact Jingni Yang if you would like to contribute or join the mailing list.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course Seminars

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (the Life Course Centre) is a national research centre uniquely positioned to tackle the intergenerational transmission of deep and persistent disadvantage in Australian families.

The School of Economics (Life Course Centre Sydney node) runs seminars periodically, designed to provide a network and collaborative opportunities for academics from Australia and abroad.

Reading Groups

Microeconometrics and Public Policy Working Group

Sydney Macroeconomics Reading Group

Microeconometrics and Public Policy Working Group

The group provides an opportunity for academic staff working on empirical microeconomics and public policy, broadly understood, to present ongoing research, including at the earliest stages. Interested faculty and Ph.D. students with research relevant to the themes of the group are invited to present from time to time.

There can be more than one presenter in a given week, depending on how much material each presenter has ready. However, keeping in mind the need to allow ample time for discussion of early-stage work, we usually plan to have a single presenter present for 30-40 minutes, and allow the remainder of the time for questions and discussion.

For 2023, please contact Gregor Pfeifer if you would like to get on the mailing list or contribute a presentation. In Semester 1, 2023, MPP seminars will be held fortnightly on Fridays from 1 - 2pm.

Sydney Macroeconomics Reading Group

The purpose of the group is to meet on a regular basis and discuss major publications or presenter's own work-in-progress in dynamic macroeconomics. Further information can be found on the Sydney Macro Reading Group Webpage (https://sites.google.com/site/sydneymacroreading/home)

The group convenes on Tuesdays, 4.30-6pm every fortnight at the presenter's university. If you would like to receive announcements or contribute with a presentation, please contact christopher.gibbs@sydney.edu.au.

Reading Group in Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics

Centre of Behavioural Economics: Science and Policy

Reading Group in Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics

The main aim of the reading group is to create a collaborative environment for exchange of research ideas, presentation of early research work and research funding proposals among staff and research students with interest in agricultural, environmental and resource economics.

The group also aims to facilitate the establishment of new collaborations, and to foster existing research collaborations across disciplines with interest in these areas within the University of Sydney. The group also links with researchers that have interest in this area across several universities based in Sydney.

The reading group meets fortnightly during semester sessions, and at other times when the need or opportunity arises. The usual time and place for meetings is 11am-12pm on Wednesdays at the University of Sydney.

To register for the group’s mailing list or to suggest a presentation please contact alastair.fraser@sydney.edu.au.

Centre of Behavioural Economics: Science and Policy

The Centre of Behavioural Economics: Science and Policy (CoBE SaP) is a small group of academic staff at the School of Economics working on all topics related to behavioural economics and policy. CoBE SaP members meet informally to discuss current research and potential projects, and to share their passion for interesting data. A key goal of the group is to build collaborations with and between ECRs, Postdocs, Predocs, Honours and advanced undergraduate students interested in policy-relevant topics focused on the economics of behavioural economics. CoBE SaP members are especially interested in using novel data to enhance public policy decisions in the spheres of education, environment and health, among others. We believe that data advances scientific advances which leads to meaningful policy changes.

If you and your students love to discuss economic research on behavioural economics and policy topics, please join our weekly discussions.

Previous Seminars

Semester 2 2021

Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Alastair Fraser	The University of Sydney	Why do people respond to success vs failure? Help me figure out a behavioural puzzle
Stefanie Schurer	The University of Sydney	The impact of a minimum unit price for alcohol on consumption and infant health: Evidence from Australia’s Northern Territory
Dan Hamermesh	The University of Sydney	How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?
Vladimir Smirnov	The University of Sydney	Conditions for efficient entry and clustering

Semester 1 2021

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

David Kaczan

World Bank

Management and/or investment? Modelling the costs and benefits of reform in Indonesia’s fishery sector

Anna Chorniy

Northwestern Feinberg

More Money, Fewer Problems? The Effect of Foster Care Payments on Children's Quality of Care

Mike Gilraine

New York University

Making Teaching Last: Long-Run Value-Added

Vinayak Alladi

University of Sydney

The Impact of Background Ambiguity On Risk Taking: Evidence From The Lab

Pablo Guillen Alvarez

University of Sydney

Can mutually destructive punishment foster cooperation?

Stephen Cheung

University of Sydney

Drivers of the choice to self-manage one's investments

Alexandra de Gendre

University of Sydney

Class Rank and Sibling Spillover Effects

David Ubilava

University of Sydney

Commodity Price Shocks and the Seasonality of Conflict

Emilia Tjernstrom

University of Sydney

The Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health:

Evidence from Australia

Jennifer Hunt

Rutgers University and NBER

Do Female--Named Employment Agencies Expand Opportunity for Women?

Jennifer Hunt

Rutgers University and The University of Sydney

Did JobKeeper Keep Australian Jobs?

Kevin Pugh

University of Sydney

Don’t sweat the test!

Do higher temperatures affect student test scores?

Evidence from Australia’s NAPLAN program.

Peter Siminski

University of Technology Sydney

Are we Richer than our Parents were?

Absolute Income Mobility in Australia

Rebecca McKibbin

University of Sydney

Does Research Save Lives? The Local Spillovers of Biomedical Research on Mortality

Rebecca Taylor

University of Sydney

If you build it, they will compost: The effects of municipal composting services on household waste disposal

Russell Toth

University of Sydney

The Impact of Liquidity Loans on

Mobile Money Volumes

Tiffany Ho

University of Sydney

Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results

Valentina Duque

University of Sydney

The Effects of Free Housing on Children

Andres Santos

University of California, Los Angeles

Inference for Large-Scale Linear Systems

with Known Coefficients

Gary Koop

University of Strathclyde

Tail forecasting with multivariate Bayesian additive

regression trees

Greg Kaplan

University of Chicago

Markups, Labor Market Inequality and the Nature of Work

Jiemai Wu

The University of Sydney

Correlated Information Cascades

Mert Kimya

The University of Sydney

Stability of Alliance Networks

Nicolas de Roos

The University of Sydney

Limited Vertical and Horizontal Compatibility

Onur Kesten

The University of Sydney

Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences

Vladimir Smirnov

The University of Sydney

Solo or Duo? Optimal operating modes in team production

Mengke Wang

The University of Sydney

Decision Making under Time Pressure

Suraj Prasad

The University of Sydney

Managing Innovation (and Conflict) through Mediation

Semester 2 2020

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Pablo Guillen Alvarez

University of Sydney

Evaluating Advice in a Matching Mechanism with Experienced Participants: An Experimental Study of University Applicant Behaviour in Australia

Semester 1 2020

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Aurelien Baillon

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Leveraging Probability Distortion to Target Prevention? Evidence from a Lottery

Experiment on Cardiovascular Risk

Guillaume Chevillon

ESSEC Business School

Long-memory prone priors for large systems within a finite-order VAR

Matteo Luciani

Federal Reserve Board

Measuring the output gap using large datasets

Gadi Barlevy

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Asset Price Booms and Macroeconomic Policy: a Risk-Shifting Approach

Jennifer Hunt

Rutgers University and NBER

Is Employment Polarization Informative About Wage

Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?

2019 - Semester 1

Speaker	Affiliation	Title
David Zilberman	University of California, Berkeley	The Economics of GMOs
Dan Friedman	University of California Santa Cruz	Order Protection through Delayed Messaging
Junior Maih	Norges Bank	State Space Models with Endogenous Regime Switching
Thijs Van Rens	University of Warwick	Inequality in Diet and Obesity
Ian Walker	Lancaster University	Choosing Schools and School Choice
Galina Hale	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Home Currency Issuance in International Bond Markets
Mushfiq Mobarak	Yale University	Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation
Nicholas Groshenny	University of Adelaide	Do we really know that US Monetary policy was destabilizing in the 1970s?
Todd Sanderson	CSIRO	Defining, Measuring and Valuing Economic Resilience
Richard Smith	University of Cambridge	Quasi-Maximum Likelihood and The Kernel Block Bootstrap for Nonlinear Dynamic Models
Dick Startz	University of Santa Barbara California	How Research Goes Astray: Paths and Equilibria
Emiliano Huet Vaugn	University of Sydney	Choice Architecture to Improve Financial Decision Making
Alessandro Sforza	University of Bologna	Shocks and the Organization of the Firm: Who Pays the Bill?
Steve Yeong	University of Sydney	Can pre-recorded evidence raise conviction rates in cases of Domestic Violence? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in New South Wales
Sylvan Herskowitz	IFPRI	Firm Response to Insecurity: Evidence from Afghan Phone Records
Pauline Grosjean	University of New South Wales	Corporate Gender Culture
Kentaro Tomoeda	University of Technology Sydney	Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications
Valentin Zelenyuk	University of Queensland	Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores
Leslie Martin	University of Melbourne	The Margins of Response to Road Use Prices
Luis Henrique Uzeda Garcia	Bank of Canada	Endogenous Time-Variation in Vector Autoregressions
Tom Cusbert	University of Sydney	Asset Pricing Models with a Drift in the Labour Share of Income
Pratiti Chatterjee	University of New South Wales	Uncertainty Shocks, Financial Frictions and Business Cycle Asymmetries Across Countries
Shang-Jin Wei	Columbia University	An Unhealthy Trade Surplus?
David Cooper	Florida State University and University of East Anglia	Why Join a Team?
Chengsi Wang	Monash University	Platform investment and price parity clauses
Ilya Serov	University of Sydney (HDR)	What Drives the Housing Market: Expectations or Credit Conditions? Evidence from the Australian Securitisation Market
Shengyu Li	University of New South Wales	Input Prices, Productivity and Trade Dynamics: Long-run Effects of Liberalization on Chinese Paint Manufacturers
Di Lan	University of Sydney (HDR)	The Education and Labour Market Pathway of Young Adults in Australia: The Role of Ethnic Background
Vance Martin	University of Melbourne	Measuring Financial Interdependence in Asset Markets with an Application to Eurozone Equities
Orla Doyle	University College Dublin	The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence & Update from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting
Andy Cheung	University of Sydney (HDR)	Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: A new perspective for the Chinese experience
Hayley Fisher	University of Sydney	The effect of future welfare eligibility on current relationship stability
Martin Berka	Massey University	Deviations in real exchange rate levels in the OECD and their structural determinants
David Rogers	University of New South Wales	Pensions and Participation: Evidence from WWII Veterans in Australia
Shingo Ishiguro	Osaka University	Relational Contracts and Savings
Michela Giorcelli	University of California Los Angeles	Not All Management Is Created Equal: Evidence from the Training Within the Industry Program
Russell Toth	University of Sydney	Banking on Persistence: The Impacts of a Credit Guarantee on Bank Lending in Indonesia

2019 - Semester 2

Speaker	Affiliation	Title
John Stachurski	Australian National University	Stability of Equilibrium Asset Pricing Models: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition
Andrew Schotter	New York University	Trust Me: Communication and Competition in Psychological Games
Yanhui Wu	University of Southern California	Social Media, Information Networks, and Protests in China
Martin Huber	Universitat Freiburg	Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes
Moshe Haviv	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Social cost of deviation and its applications to queueing games
Edwin Jiang	University of Sydney (HDR)	Shadow Oﬀshoring and Complementarity in Product Space
Hannah Schildberg-Horisch	Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf	Does the provision of time resources reduce stress? Causal evidence
Ngo Van Long	McGill University	The Curse of Knowledge: Having Access to Customer Information Can Reduce Monopoly Profit
Dan Hamermesh	University of Texas	“O Youth and Beauty:” Childrens looks and children's cognitive development
Daniel Kamhofer	Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf	Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
Tristan Truuvert	University of Sydney (HDR)	Do low interest rates make financial crises more likely?
Michael (Qingliang) Fan	WISE, Xiamen University	Estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional Data
Christopher Hoy	Australian National University	How does Information about Inequality Shape Preferences for Redistribution and Voting Intentions? Evidence From a Randomized Survey Experiment in Indonesia
Peyman Khezr	University of Queensland	Entry and social efficiency under Bertrand competition and asymmetric information
Nigel McClung	Bank of Finland	Performance of Simple Interest Rate Rules Subject to Fiscal Policy
Jonathan Newton	Kyoto University	Conventions Under Heterogeneous Choice Rules
Maruge Zhao and Xiru Li	University of Sydney (HDR)	Water portfolio facing climate change & Evaluation of the targeted poverty alleviation program in China, an example of Gansu province
Alan Rai	Australian Energy Market Commission	Australia’s National Electricity Market after twenty years
Dick van Dijk	Erasmus University	Uncertainty and the macroeconomy: A real-time out-of-sample evaluation
Vlad Smirnov	University of Sydney	Preemption with a Second-Mover Advantage
Arthur Lewbel	Boston College	Social Networks with Misclassified or Unobserved Links
Cyn-Young Park	Asian Development Bank	Financial Inclusion: A New Measurement and Cross-Country Impact Assessment
Pengzhi Xia	University of Sydney (HDR)	Political Job Assignments and Incentives
Bram de Rock	ECARES	A new year, a new you? A two-selves model of within-individual variation in food purchases
Juan Carlos Carbajal	University of New South Wales	Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis
Fabio Canova	Florence School of Banking and Finance	Mind the Gap! Stylized Dynamic Facts and Structural Models
Michael Keane	University of New South Wales	Evaluating Consumers’ Choices of Medicare Part D Plans: A Study in Behavioral Welfare Economics
Manfred Lenzen	University of Sydney	Marrying Economics and Environmental Science: Investigating climate-change disasters and what drives them
Gabriella Conti	University College London	(Growing) Up in Smoke? The impact of prenatal and postnatal maternal smoking on child development
Matthew Ho	University of Sydney (HDR)	Democracy and Development in America: Evidence from counties in the United States, 1790 to 1990
Rohan Nelson	ABARES	Modernising ABARES forecasting services for agriculture
Shuping Shi	Macquarie University	Common Bubble Detection in Large Dimensional Financial Systems
Tomer Siedner	Hebrew University	Optimal Pricing by a Risk-Averse Seller
Elif Incekara Hafalir	University of Technology Sydney	The Effect of Payment Medium on Effort
Gordon Leslie	Monash University	Dynamic Costs and Market Power: The Rooftop Solar Transition in Western Australia
Haishan Yuan	University of Queensland	National Representation and Local Public Expenditure: A Natural Experiment from Japan
Didier Nibbering	Monash University	Panel Forecasting with Asymmetric Grouping
Jeremy Fox	Rice University	Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy: Estimating a Matching Game with Externalities
Massimo Franchi	Sapienza Università di Roma	Autoregressive processes, cointegration and related results
Mikhail Anufriev	University of Technology Sydney	Planar Beauty Contests
David Frazier	Monash University	Weak Instruments in Discrete Choice Models
Marco Castillo	Texas A&M	Detecting drivers of behavior at an early age: Evidence from a longitudinal experiment
Christopher Woodruff	Oxford University	Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico’s Labor Courts
Joeri Smits	Yale University	Too Much of a Good Thing? The Encouraging and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers
Damian Clarke	Universidad de Santiago de Chile	Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Participation

2018 - Semester 1

Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Justus Wesseler	Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Francisco Rosas	ORT University, Uruguay
Morten Lau	Copenhagen Business School
David Ribar	University of Melbourne	Daughters and Divorce
Sarah Zubairy	Texas A&M University	Homeownership and Housing Transitions: Explaining the Demographic Composition
Helmut Lutkepohl	DIW Berlin, Germany	Bootstrapping Impulse Responses of Structural Vector Autoregressive Models with GARCH Residuals
Markus Brueckner	Australian National University	Non-Gravity Trade
Vera Eichenhauer	ETH Zurich	December Fever in Public Finance
Julian Kuan	University of Sydney (HDR)	Conflict and Stalemate
Michael Anderson	University of California, Berkeley	School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance
Tibor Besedes	Georgia Institute of Technology	Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics
Hayden Dimes	University of Sydney (HDR)	The interplay between voter turnout and egalitarianism
Adeline Delavande	University of Essex	Perceived returns from early-life investments and maternal investments in children
Kai Liu	University of Cambridge	The Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform
David Smerdon	University of Queensland	Trust and Inequality: Just bad luck?
Ning Xu	University of Sydney (HDR)	Nonparametric confidence bands for the cross-validation Errors
Angus Holford	University of Essex	Subjective returns to academic and non-academic investments: Evidence for a final-year cohort of undergraduates
Lata Gangadharan	Monash University	Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default break the Glass Ceiling?
Chun Yi	University of Sydney (HDR)	Measuring Market expansion, Business stealing and Cannibalization effects of new movie’s entry
Federico Masera	University of New South Wales	Economic Incentives, Cultural and Institutional Change: The Evolution of Slavery in the Antebellum South
Maria Recalde	University of Melbourne	Leadership and risk-taking: A field experiment on the mechanisms underlying social influence
Jonathan Kearns	Reserve Bank of Australia	Explaining Monetary Spillovers: The Matrix Reloaded
Donna Ginther	University of Kansas	Do State TANF Policies Affect Child Abuse and Neglect?
Filippo Massari	University of New South Wales	Ambiguity, Learning, and Raiffa's critique
Xiangyi Kong	University of Sydney (HDR)	An empirical study on pre-auction estimates: Are they unbiased? How should them be interpreted?
Efrem Castelnuovo	University of Melbourne	Uncertainty-Driven Comovements in Booms and Busts: A Structural Intepretation
Eamon McGinn	University of Technology Sydney	Why doesn’t everyone vote? Evidence from compulsory elections in Australia
Krishnan Narayanan	Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai	Paradigm shift in irrigation and its impact on irrigation efficiency and drought induced loss of crop productivity: A Study of Andhra Pradesh in India
Stephane Verani	Federal Reserve Board	Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
Yoosoon Chang	Indiana University Bloomington	A structural investigation of monetary policy shifts
Yves Zenou	Monash University	Crime, Broken Families and Punishment
Anne Gielen	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Daniel Tregeagle	University of California, Berkeley	The Optimal Management of Orchards
Anandi Mani	Oxford University	Cognitive Droughts
Prabal Roy Chowdhury	Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi	MFI Competition in the presence of moneylenders: Theory and evidence

2018 - Semester 2

Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Kiminori Matsuyama	Northwestern University	Engel’s Law in the Global Economy: Demand-Induced Patterns of Structural Change, Innovation, and Trade*
Juan Dubra	Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	Overconfidence, Illusion of Control, or Unskilled and Unaware?
Bruce Preston	University of Melbourne	On the Limits of Monetary Policy
Keith Ericson	Boston University	Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences using Choice from Insurance Menus: Theory and Evidence
Mohammed Abdellaoui	HEC Paris, France	Temporal Risk Resolution: Utility versus Probability Weighting Approaches
Jonathan Newton	Kyoto University	The Deconstruction of Conventions
Ran Abramitzky	Stanford University	Cultural Assimilation during the Two Ages of Mass Migration
Maryam Abdolrahimi	University of Sydney (HDR)	The Economics of Natural Disasters: The Case of Income Effect of Floods in Queensland
Omer Moav	University of Warwick	The Emergence of Hierarchies and States: Productivity vs. Appropriability
Paul Scott	New York University	Linear IV Regression Estimators for Single-Agent Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Greg Kaplan	University of Chicago	What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News and Loans
Xuan Rong Lu	University of Sydney (HDR)	A Model of Market Expansion
Colin Cameron	UC Davis	Cluster-Robust Inference: Recent Developments
Pablo Guerron Quintana	Boston College	On Regional Borrowing, Default, and Migration
Stone Shi	University of Sydney (HDR)	The Economics in Container Shipping
Jana Mareckova	University of Konstanz	Shrinkage for Categorical Regressors
Peer Skov	Auckland University of Technology	Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity
Saroj Bhattarai	University of Texas, Austin	A Unified Model of International Business Cycles and Trade
Moriah Bostian	Lewis & Clark College	Assessing the Productivity Consequences of Agri-Environmental Practices When Adoption Is Endogenous
Benjamin Young	University of Technology Sydney	Contract Design with Framing Effects and Endogenous Cognition
Edwin Jiang Xueting Wang	University of Sydney (HDR)	Destination Biased Export Spillovers What do laboratory measures of self-control in the monetary domain tell us about self-control for healthy and unhealthy food rewards?
Pierre Sarte	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Sectoral and Aggregate Structural Change
Chun Yi	University of Sydney (HDR)	Entry, Exit, expectation and performance over the movie life cycle
Federico Mandelman	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Search Complementarities, Aggregate Fluctuations and Fiscal Policy
James Colin Bishop	University of Sydney (HDR)	Is Declining Union Membership Contributing to Low Wages Growth?
Di Lan	University of Sydney (HDR)	The Education and Labour Market Pathway of Young Adults in Australia: The Role of Cultural Characteristics
Eben Lazarus	MIT Sloan School of Management	The Size-Power Tradeoff in HAR Inference
Vladimir Tyazhelnikov	University of Sydney	Spillovers in Global Value Trees
Nico Salamanca	University of Melbourne	Parents’ Behavioral Response to Teacher Qualifications
Gregor Jarosch Laura Pilossoph	Princeton University Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Labor Market Search With Imperfect Information and Learning
Joshua Miller	University of Alicante	The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy
Rigissa Megalo-konomou	University of Queensland	Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study
Esther Girsberger	University of Technology Sydney	The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa
Costas Azariadis	Washington University, St. Louis	Corruption and Rent-Seeking in Economic Growth
Rebecca Taylor	University of Sydney	Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
Tara Sinclair	George Washington University	Forecast Evaluation and Macroeconomic Policy
Nadia Streletskaya	Oregon State University	Social Presence and Wine Shopping Behavior: Evidence on Signaling and Guilt Reciprocity from Video Data
Gianni Amisano	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Model-based output gap estimation and nowcasting at the Federal Reserve Board
Conor Walsh	Yale University	Growth, Demand, and Deleveraging
Juan Pablo Nicolini	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Is There a Stable Relationship between Unemployment and Future Inflation? Evidence from U.S. Cities

Past Conferences and Workshops

2021

39th annual Australasian Economic Theory Workshop 2021

18 - 19 November 2021
Keynote presentations: Tilman Borgers (University of Michigan), Leslie Marx (Duke University) and Jay Lu (UCLA).
Download the program (pdf,141KB)

2020

14th Joint Economics Symposium of Six Leading East Asian Universities

16-17 January
Download the symposium program (pdf, 694KB)

This unique symposium brings together academic economists from six esteemed univerisities within the Asia-Pacific region: Fudan University, Keio University, National Chengchi University, National University of Singapore, University of Sydney and Yonsei University. The theme for the 14th symposium is 'Growth and Policy in an Era of Slowing Globalization'. The symposium will host keynote speaker, Doowon Lee (Yonsei University).

2019

Life Course Centre Mini Workshop

13 March
Download the workshop program (pdf, 169KB)

This workshop will be presented by Shelly Lundberg (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Simon Burgess (University of Bristol).

4th Productivity Research Network Conference

16-17 May
Download the conference program (pdf, 409KB)

The theme for the 4th PRN conference is 'Productivity, Financial Constraints and Labour Decisions of SMEs'. This conference will host keynote speakers, Lin Tian (INSEAD), Joann Wilkie (NSW Department of Industry) and Warwick McKibbin (Australian National University).

Sydney Workshop on Experimental Economics and Theory

25 - 26 July
Register via the SWEET website

This workshop will host keynote speakers, Professor Onur Keston (Carnegie Mellon University), Professor Bettina Klaus (University of Lausanne), Professor Peter Moffatt (University of East Anglia) and Professor Andy Schotter (New York University).

History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference

2 - 4 October
Register via the HETSA website

This conference will host keynote speaker, Professor Fabio Petri (University of Siena).

Life Course Centre Health Economics Workshop

14 November
Download the workshop program (pdf, 136KB)

This workshop will host speakers, Andrew Jones (University of York), Jenny Williams (University of Melbourne), Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne) and Rebecca McKibbin (University of Sydney).

Macroeconomic Reading Group Workshop

26 November
Download the workshop program (pdf, 109KB)

Organizational Economics Summer Symposium

28 November
Register by email to Andrew Wait
Download the workshop program (pdf, 98KB)

The workshop will host keynote speaker, Kieron Meagher (Australian National University).

CUHK Partnership Collaboration Award Workshop

9 December
Download the workshop program (pdf, 43KB)

The second project workshop for this collaboration between the University of Sydney and the Chinese University of Hong Kong will focus on the theme, 'Evaluation of Environmental Effectiveness and Economics Efficiency of Incentive Based Instruments for Pollution Control in China and Australia'.

2018

Labour Econometrics Workshop

17-18 August 2018
Download the workshop program (pdf, 82KB)

The School of Economics hosted the 21st Labour Econometrics Workshop (LEW 2018) at the University of Sydney on 17-18 August 2018. This year’s keynote speakers were Associate Professor Jessica Pan (NUS) and Professor Colin A. Cameron (UC-Davis).

Behavioural and Experimental Economics and Finance Workshop

26-27 July 2018
Download the workshop program (pdf, 198KB)

Keynote speakers for this workshop included Mohammed Abdellaoui, HEC Paris, Peter Bossaerts, University of Melbourne, Catherine Eckel, Texas A&M University and Keith Ericson, Boston University.