Friday Research Seminars

Calendar

Semester 1, 2024

(To get an invitation, email Luciana Fiorini or Tushar Bharati)

Feb 16, 2024

Seminar 

Queensland University of Technology, U. of Bayreuth

Title: Who is the Boss of Legislators: Voters, Special Interest Groups or Parties?

Presentation video (unavailable)

Mar 1, 2024

Webinar 

University of Sydney

Title: Consumption Behavior Across the Distribution of Liquid Assets

Mar 6, 2024

Seminar 

University of Gottingen

Title: How Do We Age ? A Decomposition of Gompertz Law 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Mar 8, 2024

Seminar 

University of Michigan

Title: Using Machine Learning to Construct Hedonic Price Indices 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Mar 15, 2024

Webinar

Bocconi University

Title: Corporate Taxation and Carbon Emissions 

Mar 22, 2024

Webinar

National University of Singapore

Title: A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions 

Apr 5, 2024

Seminar 

University of Sydney

Title: The Birth Order Effect: A Modern Phenomenon? 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Apr 12, 2024

Seminar 

Macquarie University

Title: Women’s agency and HIV/AIDS knowledge deprivation: An analysis of married women in Bangladesh 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Apr 19, 2024

Seminar 

Monash University

Cancelled

Presentation video (unavailable)

Apr 26, 2024

Webinar

University of Oxford

Title: Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance

May 3, 2024

Seminar 

Peking University

Cancelled

Presentation video (unavailable)

May 10, 2024

Seminar 

University of Sydney

Title: Unemployment in a Commodity-Rich Economy: How Relevant Is Dutch Disease 

Presentation video (unavailable)

May 17, 2024

Webinar

CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India

Title: The Appraisal Gap: Disparity in Collateral Assessment 

May 31, 2024

Seminar 

University of Melbourne

Title: Information Provision with Milestones in Teamwork: External Governance versus Self Governance  

Presentation video (unavailable)

Semester 2, 2023

(To get an invitation, email Simon Chang or Shawn Chen)

Jul 28, 2023

Seminar 

Deakin University

Title: Impact of Civil Conflict on Household Energy Choices: Implications for the Clean Energy Transition 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Aug 4, 2023

Seminar 

University of New South Wales

Title: Food, Fuel, and Facts: Distributional Effects of External Shock

Presentation video (unavailable)

Aug 11, 2023

Seminar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: Invisible and Visible Hands. What Kind of Economist is Adam Smith, and Why is He Still Relevant? 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Aug 18, 2023

Seminar 

Bank of Italy

Title: Is the Government always greener? 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Aug 25, 2023

Seminar 

Monash University

Title: Does the Share of Female Judges Assigned to Supreme Court Cases Affect Trials’ Outcomes

Presentation video (unavailable)

Sep 1, 2023

Seminar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Sep 15, 2023

Seminar 

University of Warwick

Title: Skill Supply and the Organization of Production 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Oct 6, 2023

Seminar 

Academia Sinica

Title: Consumers’ Responses to Stimulus Payments with a Co-payment Design

Presentation video (unavailable)

Oct 13, 2023

Seminar 

Universitat d'Alacant

Title: Entrepreneurial Human Capital and Firm Informality 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Oct 20, 2023

Seminar 

University of Queensland

Title: Accessing U.S. Dollar Swap Lines: Macroeconomic Implications for a Small Open Economy

Presentation video (unavailable)

Oct 26, 2023

Seminar 

Griffith University

Title: TBA (Deferred)

Presentation video (unavailable)

Oct 27, 2023

Seminar 

University of Melbourne

Title: TBA (Deferred)

Presentation video (unavailable)

Semester 1, 2023

(To get an invitation, email Simon Chang or Shawn Chen)

Feb 8, 2023

Seminar 

National University of Singapore 

Title: Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica 

Presentation video (unavailable)

Feb 17, 2023

Seminar 

Ivan Aranzales Acero

Queensland University of Technology

Title: Academic Pleasing

Presentation video (unavailable)

Mar 3, 2023

Webinar 

Federation University, HESTA, Economic Society of Australia 

Title: Colin Clark: the Gypsy Economist

Mar 10, 2023

Webinar 

National University of Singapore

Title: Extrapolative Beliefs and Financial Decisions

Presentation video (unavailable)

Mar 24, 2023

Seminar 

University of Melbourne

Title: Product Cycles and Prices: Theory and Evidence

Presentation video (unavailable)

Apr 21, 2023

Seminar 

University of New South Wales 

Title: Customer acquisition, business dynamism and aggregate growth

Presentation video: unavailable

May 5, 2023

Webinar 

University of Hong Kong

Title: Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap

Presentation video: unavailable

May 12, 2023

Webinar 

Stanford University 

Title: Tax Planning and Multinational Behavior

Presentation video: Unavailable

May 19, 2023

Webinar 

University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga

Presentation video: TBA

May 26, 2023

Seminar 

University of Melbourne

Title: Information Sharing and Oligopoly Pricing: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline

Presentation video: TBA

Jun 2, 2023

Seminar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: TBA

Presentation video: TBA

Semester 2, 2022

(To get an invitation, email Simon Chang or Shawn Chen)

Jul 29, 2022

Webinar 

Curtin University

Title: The Language of Pluralism from the History of the Theory of Price Determination

Aug 5, 2022

Webinar 

Reserve Bank of Australia 

Title: The Unit-effect Normalisation in Set-identified Structural Vector Autoregressions

Aug 12, 2022

Webinar 

University of British Columbia 

Title: Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires 

Presentation video: N.A.

Aug 19, 2022

Webinar 

University of Melbourne 

Title: Unbundling Labor


Aug 26, 2022

Webinar 

Victoria University of Wellington 

Title: The case for super studies—with an example of role-model effects in education

Presentation video: N.A.


Sep 2, 2022

Webinar 

University of New South Wales 

Title: The Competitive Woman: Evolutionary Insights and Cross-Cultural Evidence into Finding the Femina Economica

Presentation video: N.A.


Sep 16, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, Davis 

Title: In-Kind Transfers as Insurance


Presentation video: N.A.


Sep 23, 2022

Webinar 

INSEAD 

Title: Geographic Spillovers and Firm Exports: Evidence from China

Sep 30, 2022

Webinar 

Cambridge University 

Title: Capability Accumulation and Conglomeratization in the Information Age

Oct 7, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego 

Title: Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China


Oct 14, 2022

Webinar 

 Örebro University 

Title: Do Recessions Occur Concurrently Across Countries? A Multinomial Logistic Approach

Presentation video: TBA


Oct 21, 2022

Webinar 

 Macquarie University 

Title: TBA


Presentation video: TBA


Semester 1, 2022

(To get an invitation, email Simon Chang or Shawn Chen)

Mar 4, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego 

Title: Poverty Traps, Structural Transformation, and Rural Land Concentration in India

Presentation video not available

Mar 11, 2022

Webinar 

University of New South Wales

Title: The Power of Narratives: Anti-black Attitudes and Violence in the US South

Mar 18, 2022

Webinar 

Università del Salento  

Title: Monopoly power and competition from the Italian marginalists' perspective 

Presentation video (TBA)

Mar 25, 2022

Webinar 

University of Manchester 

Title: Long-Run Impacts of In-Utero Ramadan Exposure: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records 

Apr 1, 2022

Webinar 

University of New South Wales 

Title: Retirement Eggs and Retirement Baskets

Apr 8, 2022

Webinar 

Australian National University 

Title: Effectiveness of electric vehicle subsidies in China: A panel study

Apr 22, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego 

Title: Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior 

Apr 29, 2022

Webinar 

University of Oxford

Title: Asset Diversification versus Climate Action 

May 6, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, Los Angeles

Title: The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel 

May 13, 2022

Webinar 

University of Melbourne

Title: Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives 

Presentation video (TBA)

May 20, 2022

Webinar 

London School of Economics 

Title: Women and Asylums 

Presentation video (TBA)

Jun 3, 2022

Webinar 

University of California, Berkeley

Title: Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

Semester 2, 2021

(To get an invitation, email Tushar Bharati or Simon Chang)

Oct 29, 2021

Webinar 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

Title: Echo Chambers: Does Online Network Structure Affect Political Polarization?

Presentation video not available

Oct 22, 2021

Webinar 

Monash University

Title: Gender, Beliefs, and Coordination with Externalities

Oct 15, 2021

Webinar 

RMIT University

Title: The Impact of Restricting Access to Government Cash Assistance on Newly-arrived Migrants 

Oct 8, 2021

Webinar 

Queen Mary University of London

Title: Mobile Internet and Political Tribalism in Europe

Sep 24, 2021

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego

Title: Intergenerational Persistence in Child Mortality

Sep 10, 2021

Webinar 

University of California, Los Angeles

Title: How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap

Presentation video not available

Sep 3, 2021

Webinar 

University of Zurich

Title: The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Chile 

Presentation video not available

Aug 27, 2021

Webinar 

University of Cambridge

Title: Learning in Canonical Networks 

Aug 20, 2021

Webinar 

University of California, Los Angeles

Title: The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy

Aug 13, 2021

Webinar 

Alphacrucis College 

Title: The Theory of International Trade: A History 

Aug 6, 2021

Webinar 

University of Sydney

Title:  Encouragement and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers 

Presentation video not available

July 30, 2021

Webinar 

University of Melbourne

Semester 1, 2021

(To get an invitation, email Tushar Bharati or Simon Chang)

May 21, 2021

Webinar 

University of New South Wales

Title: Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

May 14, 2021

Webinar 

University of Cambridge

Title: Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis

May 7, 2021

Webinar 

Bocconi University

Title: Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Worker-level Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program 

May 5, 2021

Webinar 

University of Houston

Title: Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants

April 30, 2021

Webinar 

Peking University

Title: What's in a Face? An Experiment on Facial Information and Loan Approval Decision

Presentation video not available

April 23, 2021

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego

Title: Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling

Presentation video not available

April 16, 2021

Webinar 

Jonkoping University 

Title: Algorithmic Selection and Ideological Diversity of News on Facebook

March 26, 2021

Webinar 

University of Southern California

Title: Achieving Scale Collectively

March 19, 2021

Webinar 

Boston University

Title: Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries? 

March 12, 2021

Webinar

University of Tartu/Birmingham

Title: The Moral Sciences Tripos and Cambridge Political Economy

March 5, 2021

Webinar 

Monash University

Title: Measuring Economic Development Using Daytime Satellite Imagery 

February 26, 2021

Webinar 

Australian National University

Title: Money, Credit and Equilibrium Imperfectly Competitive Banking

Semester 2, 2020

(Organizers: Tushar Bharati or Michael Palmer)

October 23, 2020

Webinar 

Stanford University

Title: Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream over Two centuries 

Presentation video not available

October 16, 2020

Webinar 

University of Cambridge

Title: The Exchange Rate Insulation Puzzle

October 09, 2020

Webinar 

National University of Singapore

Title: Public Finance and Cyclical Properties of R&D and Household Saving 

September 25, 2020

Webinar 

Jinan University-Birmingham University Joint Institute

Title: Is Female Competitiveness Influenced by Gender Identity?

Presentation video not available

September 18, 2020

Webinar 

Harvard University

Title: Leaderboards: Training, Multitasking, and Performance in the Fast Food Industry

September 11, 2020

Webinar 

University of Bristol

Title: Animal spirits: The natural geography of economic behaviour

Presentation video coming soon

September 04, 2020

Webinar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors

August 28, 2020

Webinar 

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Title: Firm Technology Upgrading Through Emerging Work

August 21, 2020

12:00 pm Australian Western Standard Time 

Webinar 

Monash University

Title: Shallow Christianity and the Rise of Hitler

Presentation video not available

August 14, 2020

12:00 pm Australian Western Standard Time 

Webinar 

China Agricultural University

Title: Weight Gains from Multinational Fast Food Restaurants: Evidence from China

August o7, 2020

12:00 pm Australian Western Standard Time 

Webinar 

University of Melbourne

Title: The Australian labour market and the early impact of COVID-19: An assessment

July 31, 2020

9:00 am Australian Western Standard Time 

Webinar 

University of California, San Diego

Title: Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education

Semester 1, 2020

(Organizers: Tushar Bharati or Michael Palmer)

May 29, 2020

Webinar 

Former Premier, WA University of Western Australia.

Title: Don’t Poke the Panda’ – Australia-China Relations

May 22, 2020

Webinar 


University of Technology Sydney

Title: How Market Prices React to Information: A Quasi-Experiment

May 14, 2020

Webinar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: Social distancing and contagion in a discrete choice model of COVID-19

May 8, 2020

Webinar 

Rutgers University

Title: Is Employment Polarization Informative About Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?

May 1, 2020

Webinar 

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Title: Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar 

April 24, 2020

Webinar 

University of Freiburg

Title:  Supernatural beliefs and conflict 

March 13, 2020

University of Strathclyde

Title: On the Quantity and Quality of Children

March 6, 2020

University of Gottingen

Title: Nepotism, Schooling Outcomes and Economic Development

February 28, 2020

Curtin University

Title: Increasing returns to scale in (i) the theory of economic growth; and (ii) geographical economics

February 7, 2020

University of Luxemburg

Title: Migration Interest and Risk and Time Preferences: A Natural Experiment in Albania

Jul 29, 2022

Webinar 

Curtin University

Title: The Language of Pluralism from the History of the Theory of Price Determination: Natural Price, Equilibrium Price and Administered Price

Aug 11, 2023

Seminar 

University of Technology Sydney

Title: TBA 

Presentation video (unavailable)