Seminar Series 2013

Jinhu Li is the program coordinator of these seminars. A time table for forthcoming seminars is presented below. If you would like to subscribe to the Melbourne Institute seminar electronic mailing list please email Jinhu Li.

SPEAKER TOPIC LOCATION DATE

Prof. Bobbi Wolfe, Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

The Link from Poverty to Health

 Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday 17th January, 2013 3.30pm

Associate Professor Duncan Ironmonger, The University of Melbourne

US Household Production and the Global Financial Crisis

 Melbourne Institute Seminar Room** Thursday 7th February, 2013 3.30pm

Dr Jordi McKenzie, School of Economics, The University of Sydney

File Sharing and Film Revenues: An Empirical Analysis (Paper)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 14th February, 2013 3.30pm

Prof. Hugh Gravelle, Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Does Access to Walk-in Centres Affect Attendance at Accident and Emergency Departments?

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Tuesday 5th March, 2013 3.30pm

Ryan Lampe, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, DePaul University

Patent Pools, Competition, and Innovation - Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal (Paper)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 14th March, 2013 3.30pm

Professor David Ribar, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina

Editorial Confessions: What Really Happens at an Academic Journal (Staff Development Workshop)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 21st March, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Carol Propper, University of Bristol, Imperial College London

Herding Cats? Management and University Performance (Paper)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 18th April, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Paul Frijters, School of Economics, University of Queensland

Career Advice for Young Economists (Staff Development Workshop)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 9th May, 2013 3.30pm

Dr Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Inequality and Mortality in the U.S.: New Evidence from Country-Level Data

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 23rd May, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Thomas Bauer, University of Bochum, RWI Essen

Fukushima and the German Housing Market

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 20th June, 2013 3.30pm

Julia Witt, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba

Measuring Physician's Preferences for rural recruitment and retention

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 27th June, 2013 3.30pm

Dean Lillard, Associate Professor, College of Human Ecology, Ohio State University

Does Migration to the US Cause People to Smoke? Evidence Corrected for Selection Bias

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 4th July, 2013 3.30pm

Joseph Sabia, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, San Diego State University

When War Comes Home: The Effect of Combat Service on Domestic Violence

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 18th July, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Richard Freeman, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Contribution of Immigrant Scientists to Source and Destination Country Scientific Output

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 25th July, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Arye Hillman, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Trust and Identity in a Post-Socialist Post-Crisis Society

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 1st August, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Marco Caliendo, University of Potsdam

Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed, Personality Traits and Business Development: A New Evaluation Approach

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 29th August, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Paul Makdissi, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa

Freedom, Economic Resources and Wellbeing: A Stochastic Dominance Approach

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 5th September, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Fabrice Etilé, French Agricultural Research Institute (INRA) and Paris School of Economics

Mandatory Labels, Taxes and Market Forces: An Empirical Evaluation of Fat Policies

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 19th September, 2013 3.30pm

Dr Olena Kaminska, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Real-world Eye-tracking in Face-to-face, Web and SAQ Modes (Paper)

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 10th October, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Keith Maskus, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Impacts of Post-TRIPS Patent Reforms on the Structure of Exports

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Monday 14th October, 2013 11.00am

Dr Marian Vidal-Fernandez, Lecturer, School of Economics, University of New South Wales

Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 31st October, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Xueyan Zhao, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University

Partial identification of treatment effect in binary outcome models with endogenous treatment with an application in health economics

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 7th November, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Peter Lynn, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Sequential mixed-mode survey designs: small differences in protocol can make a big difference to panel attrition

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 14th November, 2013 3.30pm

Professor Garry Barrett, School of Economics, University of Sydney

The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 21st November, 2013 3.30pm

Dr Hee-Seung Yang, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University

Do Social Security Dependent Benefits Reduce Labor Force Participation amony Prime-aged Married Women?

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 28th November, 2013 3.30pm

Thor Thoresen, Senior Research Fellow, Statistics Norway

Validation of Structural Labor Supply Model by the Elasticity of Taxable Income

Melbourne Institute Seminar Room**

 Thursday 5th December, 2013 3.30pm

 

** Melbourne Institute Seminar Room is located on the 6th Floor, Room 6.05, Faculty of Business & Economics Building (formerly ICT Building), 111 Barry Street, Carlton.