Online Australasian Seminar in International Economics (OASIS)
Deakin University, James Cook University, Melbourne University, Monash University, University of Auckland
Online Australasian Seminar in International Economics (OASIS)
Deakin University, James Cook University, Melbourne University, Monash University, University of Auckland
Welcome to the OASIS! OASIS is co-organized by A/Professor Reshad Ahsan, Professor Phillip McCalman, Dr. Krisztina Orbán, Dr. Cong S. Pham, Dr. Maria Ptashkina, A/Professor Laura Puzzello, A/Professor Asha Sundaram, Dr. Haiping Zhang, and A/Professor Sizhong Sun.
This is a seminar series on international economics-related topics for economists based in Australia and New Zealand and invited international speakers from around the world.
The format of the seminar is a 60-minute talk followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Unless otherwise specified, seminars will take place on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. To convert the AEST or NZST time to your time zone, please click here.
Please email oasis.intlecon@gmail.com to sign up for the OASIS mailing list.
UPCOMING OASIS SEMINAR:
September 10, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Speaker: Lidya Cox (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: The Macroeconomic Effects of the Buy American Act (with Miguel Acosta)
Abstract:
We ask whether Buy American restrictions on government procurement lead to stronger macroeconomic effects of government spending. We propose a methodology based on a comprehensive understanding of Buy American regulations to identify government spending that is more and less constrained by domestic content restrictions. We validate our methodology in a novel firm-level dataset, and then apply it to federal spending at the state level. We show that government dollars that are not constrained by domestic content restrictions have a higher cross-sectional fiscal multiplier than constrained contract dollars. We rationalize our findings in the context of a New Keynesian model of U.S. regions. Though Buy-American restrictions reduce direct leakage of government dollars abroad, they cause government spending shocks to behave like negative labor supply shocks to the private sector, dampening the GDP response.
PROGRAM - 2025 - Semester 2
September 24, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Lidya Cox (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
October 8, Time TBD
Réka Juhász (University of British Columbia)
October 22, Time TBD
Isabella Manelici (LSE)
November 12, Time TBD
Jonathan Dingel (Columbia University)
November 26, Time TBD
Anais Galdin (Dartmouth College)
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August 13, Time 16:30 AEST (18:30 NZST)
Feodora Teti (Princeton University, LMU Munich, Ifo Institute)
Title: Missing Tariffs
August 27, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Anca Cristea (University of Oregon)
Title: Organized Labor When Things Go South: Unions and the Labor Market Consequences of NAFTA
September 10, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Jim Tybout (Penn State University)
Title: Two-sided Search in International Markets