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 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.
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UPCOMING OASIS SEMINAR:
November 11, Time 10:00 AEDT (12:00 NZDT)
Speaker: Peter Schott (Yale)
Title: Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Upstream and Outside Manufacturing
Abstract:
We find that US workers outside manufacturing exhibit relative earnings increases after US trade liberalization with China. These relative gains cumulate over time as the beneficial effect of a worker’s upstream exposure—increased competition from China in input markets—more than offsets the detrimental impact of her own and downstream (customer) exposures. These relative gains are smaller for non-manufacturing workers with less ex ante firm tenure and lower initial earnings, and are absent among manufacturing workers due to a lack of upstream gains and stronger downstream losses.
PROGRAM - 2026 - Semester 2
November 11, Time 10:00 AEDT (12:00 NZDT)
Title: Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Upstream and Outside Manufacturing
October 28, Time 18:00 AEDT (20:00 NZDT)
Title: Landlords in Space: Housing Concentration, Affordability and Welfare
October 14, Time 10:00 AEDT (12:00 NZDT)
Title: The Interpersonal Transmission of Bias in Expert Judgement: Evidence from International Ski Jumping
September 23, Time 16:00 AEST (18:00 NZST)
Andreas Moxnes (BI Norwegian Business School)
Title: Follow FDI: Production Networks and the Geography of Globalization
September 9, Time 10:00 AEST (12:00 NZST)
Yong Tan (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics)
Title: Information Frictions, Geographic Indication and Washington Apple Effects
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2026 - Semester 1
June 24, Time 10:00 AEST (12:00 NZST)
Sang Min Lee (University of South Carolina)
Title: Tariff Front-Running
June 17, Time 10:00 AEST (12:00 NZST)
Title: Quality Incentives and Upgrading in Uganda’s Coffee Supply Chain
June 10, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Title: Collective Learning in the Global Semiconductor Industry
May 13, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00 NZST)
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (UC Berkeley)
Title: Carbon Taxes in the Global Economy: A Quantitative Analysis
April 22, Time 10:00 AEST (12:00 NZST)
Enze Xie (Zhejiang University)
Title: Washing Away the US: Tariff Evasion Under China’s Retaliatory Tariffs
April 8, Time 10:00 AEST (12:00 NZST)
Title: Exclusions for Sale? Tariff Exclusions in the US-China Trade War
March 11, Time 10:00 AEDT (12:00 NZDT)
Alina Mulyukova (Georg-August-University of Göttingen)
Title: Services Liberalization and Product Variety of Manufacturing Firms. Evidence from India
Feburary 25, Time 10:00 AEDT (12:00 NZDT)
Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA Economics)
Title: Strategic Trade Infrastructure: Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative