2005 Seminar Series
External Scholars
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 10 March | Kim Economides | University of Exeter School of Law (Visiting Professor, Flinders University School of Law) | Lawyers' Access to Justice (outline) |
| 17 March | Marvin McInnis | Queen's University Economics Department | The Great Emigration from Canada |
| 24 March | Kris Inwood | University of Guelph Economics Department | Productivity, Market Density and Family Labour in the Overseas Industrial Revolution (abstract) |
| 28 April | Andrew Leigh | The Australian National University - Research School of Social Sciences | Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor? (abstract) |
| 12 May | Kurt Klein (bio) | University of Lethbridge | Two Issues in Canadian Agriculture: Financial Devastation in the Beef Industry as a Result of BSE; and Implementation of the Kyoto Accord |
| 19 May | Nisvan Erkal | University of Melbourne Economics Department | Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore (abstract) |
| 26 May | Tim Prenzler | Griffith University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice | Comprehensive Police Integrity Management |
| 2 June | Jeff Connor | CSIRO | Using Experimental Economics to Design a Diffuse Source Salinity Credit Trade Policy (abstract and bio) |
| 21 July | Susan Laury | Georgia State University | Does Confidentiality Affect Tax Compliance? (abstract) |
| 28 July | Laurence Lester | National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University | Immigrant Satisfaction - Subjective Measures in Economics |
| 4 August | John J. Siegfried | Vanderbilt University Economics Department | The Undergraduate Origins of New PhDs in Economics |
| 11 August | Russell Hillberry | University of Melbourne Economics Department | Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data (paper) |
| 18 August | Natalie Goodpaster | Duke University Economics Department | Married Moms at Home: The Effects of the FMLA on a Mother's Labor Force Participation (paper) |
| 25 August | Roger Burritt | The Australian National University - Faculty of Economics and Commerce |
Corporate Sustainability |
| 1 September | Bob Cairns | McGill University, Department of Economics | Sunk Costs and Cost Functions (paper) |
| 8 September | Tina Kao | Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics, the Australian National University |
Licensing of Sequential Innovations (paper) |
| 13 October | The Honourable Justice Raymond Finkelstein | Justice of the Federal Court of Australia | White collar crime and theories of penalties |
| 27 October | James Giesecke | Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University | Structural Change and the Australian Economy, 1996/97 - 2001/02 (paper) |
Research Lunch
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Date |
Speaker | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| 3 March | Anna Hurlimann | Water Recycling - Community Attitudes, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay (abstract) |
| 10 March | Peter Rossini | Using a hybrid automated valuation model to estimate capital and site values incorporating krigging and trend surface techniques to estimate locational parameters (abstract) |
| 17 March | Brita Pekarsky | Price Effectiveness Analysis |
| 31 March | Arnab Gupta | The Political Economy of Resources and Development in India (abstract) |
| 7 April | Henning Bjornlund and Peter Rossini | Tracing Evidence of Rational Investor Behaviour in Water Markets |
| 21 April | Sarah Wheeler | Factors Influencing Agricultural Professionals' Attitudes towards Organic Agriculture and Biotechnology (abstract) |
| 28 April | Chris Clarkson, SAS Corporation, and Gigi Foster | Using SAS for Data Analysis |
| 5 May | Rick Sarre | Legislating to Punish Corporate Killing: An update on the criminal law in Australia |
| 12 May | Erik Meyer (University of Durham) (bio) |
The UK Research Assessment Experience: an informal discussion
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| 19 May | Gweneth Norris | Grounded Theory: A Practical Approach |
| 26 May | crma members | Informal research directions discussion |
| 2 June | Elvia Shauki | The Effects of Cash Management Practices on Profitability, Liquidity, and Survival of Banks using the Miller-Orr and Orr Models: A Case Study in the Indonesian Banking Industry (abstract) |
| 9 June | David Round | What a Difference a Year Makes: A Dogfight Across the Tasman. A discussion of the Qantas-Air New Zealand strategic alliance |
| 28 July | Alec Zuo/Zakir Machmud | Host region attractiveness and backward linkages of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Two complementary aspects of FDI project appraisal/Collusion in the Indonesian cement industry |
| 4 August | Tung Dao | The policy and practice of corporate governance in Vietnam's privatized companies (abstract) |
| 25 August | Hoa Nguyen |
Impact of board size and board diversity on firm value: Australian evidence (abstract) |
| 1 September | Ron McIver |
Accumulation, management and rehabilitation of NPLs at Chinas SOCBs |
| 8 September | Pauline Halchuk | Differences in Employment Outcomes for Indigenous and Non-indigenous Australians |
| 15 September | Jeremy Tustin | Measuring the distortionary effect of breaches of consumer protection law - a choice modelling approach |
| 6 October | Gigi Foster | Social Influence on Learning Economics at UniSA |
| 20 October | Rick Sarre | The law of private security in Australia (abstract) |
| 3 November | Simon Marsden | Back to Basics?: Statutory Interpretation & Judicial Independence in Hong Kong |