LIST OF PAST SEMINARS FROM 2001

Date Speaker Topic
2001    
2 April John Pierce Careers Night
4 April David Begg Enlarging the Euro Zone Eastwards
2 May Tom Valentine Sir Humphrey and Economic Policy
31 May Mark Ronsisvalle The State Budget – 2001
6 June David Meredith The Impact of Federation on the Australian Economy
4 July Nigel Dews There is no escape: How the laws of economics apply in the new economy
10 July Governor Ian Macfarlane Key note speaker
13 Sept Ross Jones Mergers Policy and Branch Economy
19 Sept Chris Murphy The economic and fiscal outlook
7 Nov Keith Orchison The challenges of 2002 for electricity supply
6 Dec Governor Ian Macfarlane Key note speaker
13 Dec Alan Cameron Lessons for corporate governance in troubles times
2002    
7 Feb Alex Erskine Towards more active fiscal policy
28 Feb Peter Abelson Cost benefit analysis workshop
8 March Rory Robertson An outlook for the US economy
19 March Alison Tarditi Careers Night
17 April Hamilton & Withers Population Growth
1 May Richard Kirwan Forecasting the pattern of residential development and land use in Sydney
5 June John Piggott Superannuation and Pensions
6 June John Pierce The State Budget
3 July Elizabeth Savage Private health insurance coverage
22 July Laurence Moss The Contemporary Entrepreneur
4 Sept Raja Junankar Labour Market Policy
9 Oct Gordon Mills Customer-class pricing
20 Nov Ken Binmore Big Money Auctions
3 Dec Ron Bewley Modelling Risk in Equity Markets
2003    
5 Feb Graeme Hugo Measuring Access to Regional Government Services using ARIA
5 March Ross Garnaut Review of Commonwealth-State Funding
19 March Careers Night Rod Maddock
2 April Beth Webster What can the Job Network offer the very long term unemployed?
7 May Andrew Stoeckel Free Trade between Australia and America?
4 June Jeff Schubert Economic consequences of the war in Iraq
2 July Tom Valentine Can Superannuation survive
6 August Jeff Bennett Water allocation
24-25 July Peter Abelson Cost-Benefit Analysis: Training Workship
27 Aug Andrew-Hughes-Hallett Government Leadership and Central Bank Design
3 Sept Boyd Hunter The role of discrimination and the exclusion of Indigenous people from the labour market
8 Oct John Simon Three Australian Asset Price Bubbles
3 Dec Chapman & Weatherburn Unemployment duration, schooling and property crime
2004    
11 Feb Nigel Stapledon The long-run history of the Australian residential property market: some twists along the way.
17 Feb Glenn Stevens  
10 March Chris Murphy Monetary Policy Stance and its impact on the economy
7 April Michael Intriligator What Russia could learn from China in the Transition to a Market Economy
7 May Alison Tarditi Risks and Scenarios for Today's Financial Markets?
9 June Randall Ellis Predictability and Predictiveness in Health Care Spending
14 July Mende Gorgievski Commercial Property Markets
21 July Peter Abelson Survey of Student Standards
7 August Phil Lewis Why Study Economics?
8 Sept John Quiggin The risk premium for equity: implications for resource allocation, welfare and policy
13 Oct John Wanna Managing the Politics of Government Budgeting: Strategic Integration or Overloaded Systems?  
10 Nov Tom Valentine Superannuation
8 Dec Owen Covick Small Business: Dynamic Driver or Tax-Advantaged Dependant?
14 Dec Glenn Stevens Annual Forecasting Conference Dinner
2005    
9 Feb David Collins, A Four-Year Assessment of the Impact of the GST Arrangements on the States
9 March Satya Paul Trade Policy, Openness and Productivity
20 April Ric Symes Funding and Financing Public Infrastructure
18 May John Buchanan Labour market restructuring: What’s likely after the Federal Government’s latest round of labour market ‘reforms’?
8 June Neville Norman The 3 Rs – Rates of inflation, interest and exchange. Tips and traps for economists and their audiences
13 July Brian Fisher Climate, Energy and Technology
17 August   Infrastructure, Economic Regulation and the Future of National Competition Policy
13 Sept Jay Horton Contracts – Homage to an Economic Innovation
12 Oct Peter Abelson Taxation and Subsidies for Housing and Land: Market Impacts and Economic Efficiency Implications
9 Nov Geoffrey Kingston Retirement Incomes Policies: What Can Australia Learn from Other Anglosphere Countries?
7 Dec John Edwards Australia’s External Balance: New Perspectives and Challenges
2006     
8 Feb Rod Maddock Using Industrial Economics as the Key Driver of Equity Valuations – Changing the Perception of Microeconomics
8 March Jonathan Pincus Productive Reform in a Federal System
12 April Denise Doiron Health Status and the Demand for Private Health Insurance
17 May David Hensher Sydney: The city of cities – Informed Thinking on Accessibility and Geographical Proximity
14 June Robert Smith The Economics of Energy Efficiency – The NSW Experience and the Efficiency Gap
12 July Kerry Barwise Infrastructure Investment Priorities and Returns
31 July James Bushnell Electricity Markets – Lessons from the Past and Implications for the Future
9 Aug Abhijit Sengupta Forging Efficient Multilateral Cooperation: Incentives and Impediments
13 Sept Tony Makin The External Deficit Re-visited
4 Oct Dennis Trewin Developments in Macroeconomic Statistics
8 Nov Peter Swan Are CEOs and other exectutives paid too much? The role of disclosure, pay levels and incentives
2007    
Feb Kevin Fox Returns to Scale and Economic Growth: History, Theory and Econometric Evidence
March Sinclair Davidson Research and Development in Australia
April Peter Robertson Skilled Migration Policy
May Dean Parham Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?
June Ron Bewley Market volatility in time and space - who's driving the bus?
August Xin Meng Has China run out of Surplus Labour?
Sept Judy Yates The Housing Affordability Challenge
Oct Christopher Caton Twenty years after the stock market crash: what have we learned and how has the world changed?
Nov Saul Eslake The sub-prime mortgage market crisis: what it means for the global and Australian economies
Dec Steven Kennedy Achieving full employment in Australia and the implications for policy
2008    
Feb Andrew Leigh Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
Feb Adrian Pagan Workshop on DSGE Modelling
Feb Ross Gittins
Rod Sims
John Edwards
New Directions in Economic Policy
March Tim Harcourt From the sub-prime to the ridiculous - how are Australian exporters faring in the new global environment
April Mark Pearson The ACCC's approach to cartel investigations
May Joshua Gans Choosing Birthdays
July Mark Wooden The Changing Distribution of Working Hours in Australia
August W. Michael Hanemann Adaptation in Action: New Climate Change and Water Policy in California
August John Quiggin The Grandfather Clause: Evaluating Free Permits for Carbon Emissions
October Bill Evans The Credit Crisis and the Australian Economy
Dec Ian McDonald Behavioural Economics Workshop 
 2009    
Feb Nigel Roberts The Role of the World Bank in the Pacific Region
March Nick Gruen Are you still feeling lucky punk? Why Ken Henry’s hunch is right – we should abolish dividend imputation and cut company tax to 19%
April Alex Erskine Short selling
May Kieron Meagher Imperfect Competition in Incomplete Contracts: Public-Private Partnerships
June    
July Brian M. Pollins Global Political and Economic Order: The End of Hegemony?
August    
September Anthony (Tony) D Owen Energy technology perspectives
October Dr John Laker Weathering the Financial Crisis - The Australian Experience
November Saul Eslake Outlook for 2010
2010    
February Adam McKissack Topic: Structural effects of a sustained rise in the terms of trade – an update
March Mahmood Pradhan Perspectives on recovery: global and regional
Design by Streetline Media Login My account Create Content Edit Content Administer