Conference Program
Wednesday, 26 November
17:30–20:00 — Welcome Reception and Welcome by the Dean, Frederik Anseel @ UNSW Business School Lounge
Thursday, 27 November
08:30–09:00 — Registration and coffee/tea @ Foyer, F10 June Griffith building
09:00–09:20 — Welcome by the Head of School of Economics, Isabella Dobrescu @ Room M18
09:20–10:50 — Parallel session 1
10:50–11:15 — Morning tea
11:15–12:45 — Parallel session 2
12:45–14:00 — Lunch
14:00–15:15 — Keynote by Richard Holden (UNSW) on the Future of (Cognitive) Economics @ Room M18
15:15–15:35 — Afternoon tea
15:35–17:05 — Parallel session 3
17:05–17:30 — Break
17:30 — Bus to conference dinner at Gate 2
18:00–21:00 — Conference dinner @ Prince Henry Centre, Waterfront, Little Bay
Friday, 28 November
08:45–09:00 — Coffee/tea @ Foyer, F10 June Griffith building
09:00–10:30 — Parallel session 4
10:30–11:00 — Morning tea
11:00–12:30 — Parallel session 5
12:30–13:40 — Lunch
13:40–15:10 — Parallel session 6
15:10–15:30 — Afternoon tea
15:30–17:00 — Parallel session 7
17:00–17:15 — Break and voting for the best presenter/discussant
17:15–18:15 — Job market panel: Angelina Bruno (RBA), Robert Annabel (U Sydney), chaired by Simon Chang (UWA) @ Room M18
18:15 — Walk to conference dinner
18:30–21:00 — Conference dinner and award ceremony @ the UNSW Lounge, Level 11, Library Building.
Parallel sessions
Location: F10 June Griffith building, rooms M10, M11
Thursday, 27 November
09:20–10:50 — Parallel session 1
Econometrics I, room M10
· Taiga Saito (Monash): “A Semiparametric Approach to Treatment Effect Estimation with Neural Networks” — Discussant: Tim Neal (UNSW)
· Han Wang (UQ): “The Effects of Job Placements on Earnings: A Sparse Finite Mixture approach” — Discussant: Denzil Fiebig (UNSW)
Macroeconomics I, room M11
· Apphia Jin (UWA): “Sovereign Spread Reactions to U.S. Monetary Policy: A Long-Term Analysis” — Discussant: Bruce Preston (UNSW)
· Richard Dwumfour (Curtin U): “Negative Interest Rate Policy and Corporate Financing Decisions” — Discussant: Ben Wang (Macquarie U)
11:15–12:45 — Parallel session 2
Gender and Economics, room M10
· Yaxin Liu (UNSW): “A game of status: gender asymmetry in loss aversion” — Discussant: Elif Incekara‑Hafalir (UTS)
· Xinran Hu (U Melbourne): “Disentangling Kinship: Matrilocality and Intra‑Household Interactions in Timor‑Leste” — Discussant: Adeline Delavande (UTS)
International Economics I, room M11
· Hannie Huang (U Auckland): “Data‑driven innovation and privacy concerns in a Schumpeterian growth model” — Discussant: Petr Sedlacek (UNSW)
· Abyaya Neopane (ANU): “Dynamics and determinants of exporter survival: A machine learning approach” — Discussant: Jasmine Jiang (U of Sydney)
15:35–17:05 — Parallel session 3
Macroeconomics II, room M10
· Tunye Qiu (ANU): “Retirement Income, Consumption and Home Equity in China” — Discussant: Xiaodong Fan (Monash)
· Shu Hu (ANU): “An impossibility theorem for consumption and wealth in heterogeneous agent models” — Discussant: James Graham (U Sydney)
Empirical Economics, room M11
· Gan Xu (UTS): “Money’s Identity Crisis: A Behavioral Perspective on Heterogeneous Consumption Responses” — Discussant: Lisa Chan (U Sydney)
· Sinan Deng (U Sydney): “Geographic Diversity in Economic Research: The Core‑Periphery Pattern” — Discussant: Kevin Fox (UNSW)
Friday, 28 November
09:00–10:30 — Parallel session 4
Labour Economics I, room M10
· Jiu Lian (ANU): “Racial Disparities in Crime and Wealth” — Discussant: Gonzalo Castex (UNSW)
· Daniel Robbins (UNSW): “Firm Heterogeneity and the College Wage Premium” — Discussant: Linxi Cai (U Adelaide)
Financial Economics, room M11
· Jiali Gao (U Sydney): “Reconsidering Luck in Mutual Fund Performance: Luck versus Skill? or Luck and Skill” — Discussant: Lorenzo Casavecchia (UTS)
· Usman Arief (UWA): “Bitcoin’s Narrative” — Discussant: Robby Akerlof (UNSW)
11:00–12:30 — Parallel session 5
Labour Economics II, room M10
· Ashiq Hussain (Deakin University): “Minimum Working Age, Education and Labor Market Outcomes” — Discussant: Simon Chang (UWA)
· William Connell (QUT): “Differential Impact of Disability Onset on Australians’ Labour Market Outcomes across Cohorts” — Discussant: Tess Stafford (UNSW)
Health Economics, room M11
· Sai Saranya Gedipudi (ANU): “Imperfect Protection and Strategic Vaccination” — Discussant: Steffen Lippert (U Auckland)
· Meimei Chen (Macquarie U): “Causal Inference with Time‑to‑Event Outcomes and Real‑World Policy Evaluation” — Discussant: Xueyan Zhao (Monash)
13:40–15:10 — Parallel session 6
Econometrics II, room M10
· Balaji Dasari (Swinburne UT): “Context‑Aware Episodic Memory for Financial Forecasting: Structured causality‑annotated retrieval and Bayesian density inference” — Discussant: Rachida Ouysse (UNSW)
· Zhiruo Zhang (U Adelaide): “Adaptive Bayesian Shrinkage of High‑Dimensional Panel VARs” — Discussant: Rafe Meager (UNSW)
International Economics II, room M11
· Abdulrasheed Zakari (U Wollongong): “Sectoral Trade Effects on Environmental Degradation in Africa: Does Local Knowledge Matter?” — Discussant: Scott French (UNSW)
· Van Anh Tran (Monash): “Where the Giants Go, Do Locals Grow? Upstream Responses to Foreign Firm Expansion” — Discussant: Girish Bahal (UWA)
15:30–17:00 — Parallel session 7
Development Economics, room M10
· Mike Zhiren Wu (Monash): “Wings of Growth: A Mindset Intervention in Rural China” — Discussant: Jayanta Sarkar (QUT)
· Dean Hoi (U Melbourne): “Paving Over Streets of Gold: The Economic Impact of Emigration and Restriction on Sending Regions” — Discussant: Charlotte Zhan (U Auckland)
Economic Theory, room M11
· Xinghao Yao (UQ): “Incomplete Information and Private‑value Auctions” — Discussant: Tom Wilkening (U Melbourne)
· Yunjie Shi (U Auckland): “Waiting and Preemption in Public Good Contributions” — Discussant: Idione Meneghel (ANU)