Chair: Sue Richardson
Director, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
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Research Questions on Ageing. A Panel Discussion

Bob Gregory
Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Garry Barrett
Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales

Lisa Magnani
Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales

Martin O’Brien
School of Economics and Information Systems, University of Wollongong

Bruce Felmingham
School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania
 

Chair: Hugh Sibly
Senior Lecturer, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania
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Welfare costs of household water restrictions
Quentin Grafton
Research Director and Director EDGES, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University

Households’ willingness to pay to avoid drought water restrictions: A case study of Perth, WA
Sorada Tapsuwan De Herrera
Policy and Economic Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water, CSIRO

Dealing with the perceived equity embodied in inclining block water tariffs: Some considerations in the implementation of demogrants
Lin Crase
School of Business, La Trobe University

Introducing competition into urban water networks - virtual water suppliers and enhanced third party access
Richard Tooth
ANU College of Law, Australian National University
Hugh Sibly
School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania
 

Chair: Chris Foster
Principal Advisor, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
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Why is labour market dynamic research of interest to policy makers?
Peter Boxall
AO, Secretary, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

Evaluating policies to foster human capital investment and labour supply: The key role of dynamics
Michael Keane
ARC Federation Fellow, Faculty of Business, University of Technology Sydney

Job and worker flows in Australia
Nick Carroll
Senior Economist, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

What are the policy implications from labour market dynamics research? - A Panel Discussion
Peter Boxall (DEWR)
Michael Keane (UTS)
Chris Pissarides (London School of Economics)
Steven Kennedy (Australian Treasury)
 

Chair: Lorraine Dearden
Director of the Centre for Early Years and Education Research (CEYER) and Deputy Director Centre for
the Economics of Education, (CEE) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK) and Professor of Economics and Social Statistics,
Institute of Education, University of London (UK)
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Recent methodological developments in the economics of education
Richard Blundell
Professor of Economics, University College London (UK) and Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK)

Dimensions of disadvantage and the educational outcomes of Australian youth
Chris Ryan
Director, Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Research School of Social Sciences, Australian
National University

Education subsidies and school drop-out rates
Lorraine Dearden
Director of the Centre for Early Years and Education Research (CEYER) and Deputy Director Centre for
the Economics of Education, (CEE) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK) and Professor of Economics and Social Statistics,
Institute of Education, University of London (UK)
 

Chair: Massimiliano Tani
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University and Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of
Labour (IZA)
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Productivity and deferring leisure among temporary workers
Uri Benzion
Department of Economics, University of Be’er Sheva (Israel) and IZA (Germany)

Business visits and productivity in Australia
Massimiliano Tani
Department of Economics, Macquarie University and IZA (Germany)

Brain drain’ or ‘brain circulation’: Evidence from OECD’s international migrationand R&D spillovers
Thanh Quang Le
School of Economics, University of Queensland

Occupational transition and country-of-origin effects in the early stage occupational assimilation of immigrants: Some evidence from Australia
Xueyan Zhao
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics and Centre for Health Economics, Monash University

Factors influencing transnational career choices for international and domestic economics and commerce students: A working paper
Marie Kelly
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
 

Chair: Bob Rutherford
Deputy Secretary, Policy Division, Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet
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Proposals for the National Emissions Trading Network

Anthea Harris
Project leader, National Emissions Trading Taskforce

Bob Rutherford
Deputy Secretary, Policy Division, Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet
 

Chair: Ken Clements
Director, Economic Research Centre, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
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Policies for reducing the costs of cigarette smoking
Harry Clarke
Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University
Louise Collis
Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University

Beer, wine, and spirits just don’t mix: A meta analysis of the demand for alcohol
James Fogarty
UWA Business School , University of Western Australia

Why parents worry: Initiation into cannabis use by youth and their educational attainment
Jenny Williams
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
Jan C van Ours
Department of Economics, Tilburg University (Netherlands) and IZA (Germany)

Marijuana and related drug consumption in Australia - some microeconometrics evidence
Xueyan Zhao
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics and Centre for Health Economics, Monash University Monash University
 

Chair: Chris Lock
Director, Economic Policy Branch, Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance
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Conceptual Challenges on the Road to the Second Intergenerational Report
David Gruen and Jim Thomson
Macroeconomic Group, Australian Treasury

Assessing the future distributional impact of population ageing and policy change: The APPSIM Model
Ann Harding
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra
 

Chair: Mardi Dungey
Deputy-Director and Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, University of Cambridge
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Exploring the role of permanent and transitory shocks in explaining the business cycle
Don Harding
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

An estimated medium scale DSGE model of Australia
Jarkko Jaaskela
Economic Research Department, Reserve Bank of Australia
Kristoffer Nimark
Economic Research Department, Reserve Bank of Australia

Extending an SVAR model of the Australian economy
Mardi Dungey
Deputy-Director and Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, University of Cambridge (UK)
Adrian Pagan
School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
 

Chair: Neil Campbell
Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University
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Corruption and peak oil: Incentives for graft
Raul Barreto
School of Economics, University of Adelaide

Corruption, extortion, reputation, and asymmetric information
Neil Campbell
Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University (New Zealand)

Studies of the effect of democracy on corruption
Shrabani Saha
Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University (New Zealand)
 

Chair: Yew-Kwang Ng
Director, Centre for Increasing Returns and Economic Organisation, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Happiness and wealth: Implications for public policy
Robert Cummins
School of Psychology, Deakin University

Relative income, happiness and utility: An explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles
Paul Frijters
School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology

Unhappy growth
Ian McDonald
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

Happiness studies: Some policy implications
Yew-Kwang Ng
Director, Centre for Increasing Returns and Economic Organisation, Department of Economics, Monash University