Workshop Program
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Venue
Merewether Lecture Theatre 1, Lecture Rooms 4 and 5
Speakers
Wednesday March 26, 2008
| 8.30-9.00 | Registration & Coffee | |
| 9.10-9.30 | Welcome and Opening the Workshop (in MLT1) | |
| 9.30-11.00 | Session B-1: Business Cycle I (chair: Tony Phipps) |
Session G-1: Growth I – New Issues (chair: Graham White) |
| 9.30-10.00 | Kalvinder Shields (Melbourne) ‘Nowcasting, Business Cycle Dating and the Identification of Policy Shocks’  481Kb |
Paul Burke (ANU) ‘Economic Growth and Democratisation’ 125Kb |
| Discussant: Don Harding (La Trobe) | Discussant: Paul Oslington (Notre Dame) | |
| 10.00-10.30 | N. Photphisutthiphong (Adelaide) ‘Business Cycle Accounting: The propagation mechanism for the recessions in Australia?’ 179Kb |
Hong Thi-Dieu To (Ottawa) ‘Economic Growth and Climate Change’ 275Kb |
| Discussant: David Kim (Sydney) | Discussant: Kam Ki Tang (UQ) | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Michael Graff (SEI) ‘International Business Cycles: Detection and Properties’ 335Kb |
Debdulal Mallick (Deakin) ‘The Role of the Elasticity of Substitution in Economic Growth’ 395Kb |
| Discussant: Viv Hall (VUW) | Discussant: Florian Misch (Nottingham) | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Morning Tea | |
| 11.30-13.00 | Session B-2: Open Economy (chair: Glenn Otto) | Session G-2: Growth II – Role of Saving (chair: Nigel Stapledon) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Heidi Ryoo (La Trobe) ‘A Microeconomic Analysis of the Aggregate Disconnect between Exchange Rates and Exports‘ 240Kb |
Kam Ki Tang (UQ) ‘Estimating the Effects of Demography on Saving, Investment and the Current Account’ 141Kb |
| Discussant: Jeff Sheen (Macquarie) | Discussant: Otto Reich (Massey) | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Maxym Chaban (U. of Saskatchewan) ‘Commodity Currencies and Equity Flows’ 216Kb |
Debajyoti Chakrabarty (Sydney) ‘Why Do the Rich Save More? A Theory and Australian Evidence’ 223Kb |
| Discussant: Pim Chanthapun (ANU) | Discussant: Jacob Madsen (Monash) | |
| 12.30-13.00 | Stanley Cho (UNSW) ‘The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Slovenian Households’ 252Kb |
Alberto Posso (ANU) ‘Top Incomes and National Savings’ 273Kb |
| Discussant: Prasad Bhattacharya (Deakin) | Discussant: Graham White (Sydney) | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch (in Merewether Courtyard) | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Session B-3: Business Cycle II (chair: Lance Fisher) | Session G-3: Search (chair: Debajyoti Chakrabarty) |
| 14.00-14.30 | Viv Hall (VUW) ‘Unobserved Components Business Cycles for New Zealand 612Kb |
Richard Dutu (Waikato) ‘Money, Capital and Unemployment’ 189Kb |
| Discussant: Michael Graff (SEI) | Discussant: Gautam Bose (UNSW) | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Jaromir Benes (RBNZ) ‘Monopolistic Banks and Fixed Rate Contracts: Implications for Open Economy Inflation Targeting’ 336Kb |
Abhijit Sengupta (Sydney) ‘Search and Intermediation: Toward a Model of the Merchant Trader’ 221Kb |
| Discussant: Jeremy Lawson (RBA) | Discussant: Nori Tawara (Nihon) | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Shawn Leu (La Trobe) ‘A Small State Space Model of the Australian Economy’ 301Kb |
Nori Tawara (Nihon) ‘Entry Costs, Worker Productivity and the Value of Job Search’ 318Kb |
| Discussant: Renee Fry (ANU) | Discussant: Stella Huangfu (Sydney) | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 16.00-17.30 | Plenary Session (in MLT1) - (chair: Jeffrey Sheen) | |
| 16.00-17.30 | Professor Gary Hansen (UCLA) ‘Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation?’ 216Kb Professor Adrian Pagan (QUT) ‘Limited Information Estimation and Evaluation of DSGE Models’ 199Kb |
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| 18.30 | Drinks and Dinner at Sydney Harbour | |
Thursday March 27, 2008
| 9.00-9.30 | Coffee | |
| 9.30-11.00 | Session B-4: Business Cycle III (chair: Viv Hall) |
Session G-4: Growth III - Public spending (chair: Tony Aspromourgos) |
| 9.30-10.00 | Michele Lenza (ECB) ‘Explaining the Great Moderation: It is not the shocks’ 222Kb |
Bernhard Eckwert (Bielefeld) ‘Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Scheme’ 213Kb |
| Discussant: Jaromir Benes (RBNZ) | Discussant: Geoffrey Kingston (UNSW) | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Don Harding (La Trobe) ‘Estimating baseline real business cycle models of the Australian economy’ 209Kb |
Florian Misch (Nottingham) ‘Growth and welfare maximization in endogenous growth models with public spending’ 1.47Mb |
| Discussant: Gary Hansen (UCLA) | Discussant: Debajyoti Chakrabarty (Sydney) | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Tomoya Suzuki (Ryukoku) ‘Credit Channel of Monetary Policy between Australia and New Zealand’ 127Kb |
Shishir Saxena (Monash) ‘Decreasing Returns to R&D or Production Proliferation’ 423Kb |
| Discussant: Glenn Otto (UNSW) | Discussant: Hong Thi-Dieu To (Ottawa) | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Morning Tea | |
| 11.30-13.00 | Session B-5: Macroeconometrics (chair: David Kim) | Session G-5: Housing and Wealth (chair: Heidi Ryoo) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Renee Fry (ANU) ‘The Identification of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Structural VAR’ 1.2Mb |
Jacob Madsen (Monash) ‘A Model of House Prices’ 335Kb |
| Discussant: Lance Fisher (Macquarie) | Discussant: Michele Lenza (ECB) | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Martin Fukac (RBNZ) ‘Local and Global Identification of DSGE Models’ 140Kb |
Peren Arin (Massey) ‘Politics, Stock Markets, and Model Uncertainty’ 173Kb |
| Discussant: Kalvinder Shields (Melb) | Discussant: Hajime Katayama (Sydney) | |
| 12.30-13.00 | Pu Chen (New School) ‘Causal Analysis in Economics’ 317Kb |
Nigel Stapledon (UNSW) ‘Housing Prices in Australia 1901 – 2007: Macroeconomic and Other Influences’ 1.05Mb |
| Discussant: Adrian Pagan (QUT) | Discussant: Shawn Leu (La Trobe) | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch (in Merewether Courtyard) | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Session B-6: Monetary Policy (chair: Shawn Leu) | Session G-6: Applied Models and Methods (chair: Hajime Katayama) |
| 14.00-14.30 | Jan Libich (La Trobe) ‘Welfare Improving Coordination of Fiscal and Monetary Policy’ 251Kb |
Prasad Bhattacharya (Deakin) ‘Revealing Australia’s Underground Economy’ 289Kb |
| Discussant: Abhijit Sengupta (Sydney) | Discussant: Jyoti Rahman (Treasury) | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Timo Heckel (ANU) ‘Central Bank Credibility Under Inferential Expectations’ 358Kb |
Peter Stemp (ANU), ‘Solving a Non-linear Model’ 220Kb |
| Discussant: Bernhard Eckwert (Bielefeld) | Discussant: Martin Fukac (RBNZ) | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Mariano Kulish (RBA) ‘Monetary Transmission and The Yield Curve in a Small Open Economy’ 164Kb |
Paul Oslington (Notre Dame) ’Micro vs Macro Explanations of Post-War US Unemployment Movements’ 268Kb |
| Discussant: Alexandre Dmitriev (UNSW) | Discussant: Maxym Chaban (Saskatchewan) | |
| 15.30-15.45 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 15.45-16.15 | Announcements: Best Discussant Award and 2009 AMW (MLT1) |
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| 16.30-18.30 | Farewell Drinks at the Royal Hotel | |
Speakers
| Name | Institution | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Abhijit Sengupta | University of Sydney | Presenter |
| Adrian Pagan | QUT | Plenary Speaker |
| Alberto Posso | ANU, RSSS | Presenter |
| Bernhard Eckwert | Bielefeld University | Presenter |
| David Kim | University of Sydney | Chair/Discussant |
| Debajyoti Chakrabarty | University of Sydney | Presenter/Discussant |
| Debdulal Mallick | Deakin University | Presenter |
| Don Harding | La Trobe University | Presenter |
| Florian Misch | University of Nottingham | Presenter |
| Gary Hansen | UCLA | Plenary Speaker |
| Gautam Bose | UNSW | Discussant |
| Geoffrey Kingston | UNSW | Discussant |
| Glenn Otto | UNSW | Chair/Discussant |
| Graham White | University of Sydney | Chair/Discussant |
| Hajime Katayama | University of Sydney | Chair/Discussant |
| Heidi Ryoo | La Trobe University | Presenter/Chair |
| Hong Thi-Dieu To | University of Ottawa | Presenter |
| Jakob Madsen | Monash University | Presenter |
| Jan Libich | La Trobe University | Presenter |
| Jaromir Benes | RBNZ | Presenter |
| Jeff Sheen | Macquarie University | Chair/Discussant |
| Jeremy Lawson | RBA | Discussant |
| Jyoti Rahman | Treasury | Discussant |
| Kalvinder Shields | University of Melbourne | Presenter |
| Kam Ki Tang | University of Queensland | Presenter |
| Lance Fisher | Macquarie University | Chair/Discussant |
| Mariano Kulish | RBA | Presenter |
| Martin Fukac | RBNZ | Presenter |
| Maxym Chaban | University of Saskatchewan | Presenter |
| Michael Graff | Swiss Economic Institute | Presenter |
| Michele Lenza | European Central Bank | Presenter |
| Nigel Stapledon | UNSW | Presenter |
| Nopphawan Photphisutthiphong | University of Adelaide | Presenter |
| Nori Tawara | Nihon University | Presenter |
| Pim Chanthapun | ANU | Discussant |
| Otto Reich | Massey University | Discussant |
| Paul Burke | ANU, RSSS | Presenter |
| Paul Oslington | University of Notre Dame | Presenter |
| Peren Arin | Massey University | Presenter |
| Peter Stemp | University of Melbourne | Presenter |
| Prasad Bhattacharya | Deakin University | Presenter |
| Pu Chen | New School | Presenter |
| Renee Fry | ANU, CAMA | Presenter |
| Richard Dutu | Waikato University | Presenter |
| Shawn Leu | La Trobe University | Presenter |
| Shishir Saxena | Monash University | Presenter |
| Stanley Cho | UNSW | Presenter |
| Stella Huangfu | University of Sydney | Discussant |
| Timo Heckel | ANU, CAMA | Presenter |
| Tomoya Suzuki | Ryukoku University | Presenter |
| Tony Phipps | University of Sydney | Chair |
| Viv Hall | VUW | Presenter |
| Tony Aspromourgos | University of Sydney | Chair |
| Russell Ross | University of Sydney | Chair - Opening |
| Alexandre Dmitriev | UNSW | Discussant |
