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Seminars

Economics of Trade and Development Seminar Series

Arndt Room (Seminar Room B), Coombs Bldg 9, ANU
Tuesdays 2pm — 3.30pm (unless otherwise specified).

Convenor: Sambit Bhattacharyya (email: sambit.bhattacharyya@anu.edu.au), phone: 6125 2681

Current seminar program


DateTitlePresenter
Tuesday, 24 November
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
2.00-3.30
(Ref no: 719)
The making of pro-poor growthFabrizio Carmignani, University of Queensland
Tuesday, 9 February
Seminar Room D
3.30-5.00
(Ref no: 764)
The bright and dark sides of social capital: entrepreneurship networks and corruption effects on Indonesian manufacturing wealth creation, destruction and (re)-distribution
    Virginie Vial, Euromed Management

    Previous seminars in 2009


    DateTitlePresenter
    Wednesday, 28 January
    Seminar Room E
    12:30-2:00pm
    (Ref no: 400)
    The political economy of rice and fuel in IndonesiaArianto Patunru (University of Indonesia)

    Joint seminar with Indonesia Project

    Tuesday, 10 February
    Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
    2.00-3.30pm
    (Ref no: 411)
    The Global Financial Crisis and China
      Liqing Zhang, Dean, School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing
      Tuesday, 17 February
      Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
      2.00-3.30pm
      (Ref no: 402)
      Responses of Agricultural Prices, Industrial Prices and the Agricultural Terms of Trade to Money Supply Shocks in Bangladesh, 1973M1-2006M6
        Akhtar Hossain, The Universtiy of Newcastle
        Tuesday, 3 March
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30pm
        (Ref no: 418)
        Foreign ownership and liquidityJianxin Wang, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales
        Tuesday, 31 March
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30
        (Ref no: 455)
        On Fiscal Stimuli and Keynesian Lessons: Short-term Gains and Long-term Costs, If AnyMax Corden, Professorial Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
        Tuesday, 21 April
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30pm
        (Ref no: 521)
        Modelling Trends in Environmental and Energy ProductivityDavid I Stern, RSPAS, ANU
        Tuesday, 28 April
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30pm
        (Ref no: 522)
        Land-use Changes and Agricultural Growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1901-2004Prof Takashi Kurosaki, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
        Tuesday, 5 May
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30pm
        (Ref no: 415)
        Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort ExperimentLata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne
        Tuesday, 12 May
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00-3.30
        (Ref no: 414)
        Trade Costs and Skill Accumulation In China: Causes and International EffectsPeter Robertson, University of New South Wales
        Tuesday, 26 May
        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
        2.00pm-3.30pm
        (Ref no: 569)
        Impact of globalization on employment and poverty reduction in India: The case of big shopping malls and retailers
          Kaliappa Kalirajan, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Japan
          Tuesday, 9 June
          Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
          2.00-3.30pm
          (Ref no: 532)
          Market responses to climate stress: Rice in Java in the 1930sPierre van der Eng, Associate Professor School of Management, Marketing & International Business (MMIB) ANU College of Business and Economics
          Tuesday, 30 June
          Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
          2.00-3.30
          (Ref no: 613)
          Timing of capture of anti-poverty programs: Rural public works and food for work programs in rural India
            Sambit Bhattacharyya & Raghbendra Jha, ASARC

            Authors: Raghbendra Jha (ANU), Sambit Bhattacharyya (ANU), Raghav Gaiha (University of Delhi and Harvard University)

            Joint seminar with Australia South Asia Research Centre

            Tuesday, 7 July
            Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
            2.00-3.30pm
            (Ref no: 412)
            The architecture of growth: product space, growth acceleration, and "Small World" networks
              Raja Kali, Department of Economics, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas
              Friday, 10 July
              Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
              9.30am-11.00am
              (Ref no: 595)
              Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Direct Investment and Plant Productivity in IndonesiaBeata Javorcik, University of Oxford and CEPR, Department of Economics
              Tuesday, 28 July
              Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
              2.00-3.30pm
              (Ref no: 413)
              Multinational Companies from Emerging Economies
                Andrea Goldstein, OECD, Paris
                Tuesday, 11 August
                Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                2.00-3.30pm
                (Ref no: 410)
                Does the Evidence on Corruption Depend on how it is measured? Results from a Cross Country Study on Micro Data setsRanjan Ray, Monash University
                Tuesday, 18 August
                Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                2.00-3.30
                (Ref no: 647)
                Foreign Investment from Emerging East Asian Economies (joint with Juthathip Jongwanich of Asian Development Bank)
                  Hal Hill, RSPAS
                  Tuesday, 25 August
                  Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                  2.00-3.30
                  (Ref no: 657)
                  Economic Growth, Democracy and Financial StructureSambit Bhattacharyya, RSPAS
                  Tuesday, 1 September
                  Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                  2.00-3.30
                  (Ref no: 672)
                  Global production sharing: Implications for the Measurement of Price Elasticities in International Trade Prema-chandra Athukorala, RSPAS
                  Tuesday, 8 September
                  Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                  2.00-3.30pm
                  (Ref no: 417)
                  Parents and Children: Education Across Generations in India
                    Pushkar Maitra, Monash University
                    Tuesday, 15 September
                    Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                    2.00pm-3.30pm
                    (Ref no: 570)
                    Consistent Comparisons of Real Incomes across Time and SpacePrasada Rao, University of Queensland
                    Tuesday, 22 September
                    Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                    2.00pm-3.30pm
                    (Ref no: 571)
                    Endogenous Growth Accounting and the Asian Growth MiracleJakob Madsen, Monash University
                    Tuesday, 29 September
                    Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                    2.00-3.30
                    (Ref no: 658)
                    Some Labour Market Challenges in Vietnam: A Newcomers Perspective
                      Chris Manning, RSPAS
                      Tuesday, 6 October
                      Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                      2.00pm-3.30pm
                      (Ref no: 596)
                      Romes without Empires: Urban Concentration, Political Competition, and Economic Growth Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Economics and Finance, Deakin University
                      Tuesday, 13 October
                      Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                      2.00-3.30
                      (Ref no: 646)
                      Improving Educational Quality through Community Participation: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Indonesia
                        Daniel Suryadarma, RSSS
                        Tuesday, 20 October
                        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                        2.00-3.30
                        (Ref no: 689)
                        Productivity, Net Returns and Efficiency: Land and Market Reform in Vietnamese Rice Production Tom Kompas, CSEG, CAP
                        Tuesday, 27 October
                        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                        2.00-3.30
                        (Ref no: 712)
                        The evolution of income inequality in Vietnam, 1993 to 2006Brian McCaig, ANU College of Business & Economics
                        Wednesday, 4 November
                        Seminar Room C
                        3.30-5.00
                        (Ref no: 753)
                        The Financial Crisis, Global Imbalances, and the International Monetary SystemDavid Vines, University of Oxford; CAMA, ANU; & CEPR
                        Tuesday, 10 November
                        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                        2.00-3.30
                        (Ref no: 621)
                        Japanese aid and FDI in Southeast Asian countries
                          Severine Blaise, University of New Caledonia
                          Tuesday, 17 November
                          Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                          2.00-3.30pm
                          (Ref no: 416)
                          Living with your child again? The family decision of elderly IndonesiansMeliyanni Johar, University of Technology, Sydney

                          H.W. Arndt Lecture Series


                          DateTitlePresenter
                          Thursday, 19 March
                          Finkel Theatre, Bldg 131 Garran Road, ANU
                          5.30pm-7.00pm
                          (Ref no: 288)
                          Vanishing Third World Emigrants? Professor Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin

                          PhD Workshop Seminars


                          DateTitlePresenter
                          Friday, 27 February
                          Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                          9.30-11.00am
                          (Ref no: 450)
                          Measuring Returns on Agricultural Research: What are the payoffs to Thai agriculture?
                            Waleerat Suphannachart, PhD Candidate, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

                            Discussant: Raden Purnagunawah Supervisor: Peter Warr

                            Friday, 13 March
                            Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                            9.30am-11.00am
                            (Ref no: 451)
                            Coordinated Trade and Tax Reforms in Developing Countries
                              Swarnim Wagle, PhD Candidate, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

                              Discussant: Khalid M Jamil; Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala

                              Friday, 17 April
                              Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                              9.30-11.00
                              (Ref no: 495)
                              A Randomized Study Investigating State-Run Newspaper Bias on Political Opinions in Sri Lanka
                                Dinuk Jayasuriya, PhD Candidate, CSEG

                                Supervisors: Andrew Leigh and Satish Chand; Discussant: Dominic Meagher

                                Friday, 29 May
                                Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                9.30-11.00
                                (Ref no: 585)
                                Unit roots and structural breaks in the time series data of Pakistan Discussant
                                  Khalid M Jamil, PhD Candidate, The Arntd-Corden Division of Economics

                                  Supervisor: R Jha; Discussant: Swarnim Wagle

                                  Friday, 19 June
                                  Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                  9.30-11.00
                                  (Ref no: 582)
                                  Why are Muslim Children Left Behind? Evidence from School Progression in Indonesia
                                    Daniel Suryadarma, PhD Candidate, RSSS

                                    Discussant: R Purnagunawan

                                    Friday, 16 October
                                    Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                    9.30-11.00
                                    (Ref no: 741)
                                    Constructing an ASEAN-SAM
                                      Ditya Nurdianto, PhD Candidate

                                      Discussant: Moses Lee

                                      Friday, 23 October
                                      Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                      9.30-11.00
                                      (Ref no: 740)
                                      Nominal and Actual Objectives of Economic Policy-making in Indonesia
                                        Sitta Rosdaniah, PhD Candidate

                                        Discussant: Ditya Nurdianto

                                        Friday, 30 October
                                        Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                        9.30-11.00
                                        (Ref no: 742)
                                        The Determinants of Indonesian Exports
                                          Titik Anas, PhD Candidate

                                          Discussant: Andrew Kam

                                          Friday, 6 November
                                          Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                          9.30-11.00
                                          (Ref no: 743)
                                          Implications of Foreign Labour for Income Inequality in Malaysia
                                            Moses Lee, PhD Candidate

                                            Discussant: Ditya Nurdianto

                                            Friday, 13 November
                                            Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                            9.30-11.00
                                            (Ref no: 744)
                                            Minimum wages, employment and hours of work in Indonesia
                                              Raden Purnagunawan, PhD Candidate

                                              Discussant: Daniel Suryadarma

                                              Friday, 27 November
                                              Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                              9.30-11.00
                                              (Ref no: 745)
                                              to be announced
                                                Moekti Soejachmoen, PhD Candidate
                                                Friday, 4 December
                                                Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
                                                9.30-11.00
                                                (Ref no: 746)
                                                to be announced
                                                  Shuhei Nishitateno, PhD Candidate
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