Seminar Series 2007

Dr Paul H Jensen is the programme coordinator of these seminars. A time table for forthcoming seminars is presented below.

SPEAKER TOPIC LOCATION DATE
Cameron Hepburn (Oxford) "Economics, Ethics and Climate Change" - (pdf 685k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Monday, 10th December, 11am
Christopher Kent (RBA) "The Rise of Household Indebtedness" - (pdf 220k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Tuesday 20th November, 2pm
Joachim Frick (DIW Berlin) "The Distributional Impact of Non-Cash Income Components in Germany" Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Tuesday 6th November, 11am
Frank Vella (Georgetown) "The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation" - (pdf 257k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Wednesday 24th October, 1pm (Joint with Microeconometrics Centre)
Christine Greenhalgh (Oxford) "A Comparison of the Use and Value of Patents and Trade Marks in Large and Small Firms" - (PowerPoint 290k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 18th October, 11am
Jakob Madsen (Monash) " Semi-Endogenous versus Schumpeterian Growth Models: Testing the Knowledge Production Function using International Data" - (pdf 290k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 11th October, 11am
Alistair McGuire (LSE) "Inferring the Value of Medical Research to the UK" - (pdf 608k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Wednesday, 26th September, 11am
Richard Smith (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Globalisation and the Macroeconomics of Health Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Friday, 7th September, 11am
Eric Brousseau (Paris X) "The Governance of Contracts: Empirical Evidence on Technology Licensing Agreements" - (pdf 185k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 30th August, 11am
David Ribar (North Carolina) "How do Adolescents Spell Time Use?" - (pdf 207k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 2nd August, 11am (Joint with Microeconometrics Centre)
Joachim Frick (DIW Berlin) "Representative Wealth Data for Germany: The Impact of Methodological Decisions Around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit" - (pdf 514k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 26th July, 11am
Ian Walker (Warwick) "The Returns to Observable and Unobservable Skills over Time: Evidence from a Panel of the Population of Danish Twins" - (pdf 278k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 28th June, 11am
Tom van Ourti (Erasmus) "The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel" - (pdf 529k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 14th June, 11am
Thomas Buchmueller (Michigan) "Community Rating and the Cost of Adverse Selection: Evidence from Australia" [Paper (pdf173kB)] Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 17th May, 4pm
Peter Sloane (Wales)

"The Dynamics of the UK National Minimum Wage"

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 10th May, 11am
Mark Rogers (Oxford) "Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation" (pdf 1MB) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday, 29th March, 11am
Sir Tony Atkinson (Oxford) "The Evolution of the Distribution of Individual Earnings in OECD Countries" - (PowerPoint 120k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Monday, 19th February, 11am
Professor Alison Booth (ANU) "Modeling the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labor Supply and Education in an Economy with Household and Market Production" - (pdf 498k) Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Wednesday, 7th February, 11am

** Melbourne Institute Seminar Room is located on the 6th Floor, Alan Gilbert Building (Building A), 161 Barry Street, Carlton (enter via 7th floor reception).