Events 2012
December
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar
Financial Frictions, Durable Goods, and a Two-Sector Financial Accelerator Model
Zulfiqar Hyder
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The recent global financial crisis highlights the importance of integrating the financial frictions faced by financial firms within the canonical New Keynesian monetary model. This paper extends Gertler & Karadi (2011) Financial A ...
November
30
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis & Centre for Economic History | Public Lecture
Conference on Commodity Price Volatility, Past and Present
The Australian National University
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis & Centre for Economic History | Public Lecture
The Gruen Lecture in honour of Fred Gruen, Commodity prices over two centuries: Trends, volatility and impact
Professor Jeffrey G Williamson, Harvard University, and University of Wisconsin
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Commodity price volatility has far reaching economic implications for countries such as Australia. What is the impact of price volatility on exporting and importing economies and how does it depend on economic institutions and mac ...
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar
Productivity and potential output before, during, and after the Great Recession
Dr John Fernald, Senior Research Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
At this seminar, Dr John Fernald will look at the recent dynamics of productivity and potential output in the United States. In the longer term, potential output plays a central role in determining living standards. In the near te ...
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar
On trend-cycle decomposition and data revision
Professor Simon Van-Norden, HEC Montréal
A well-documented property of the Beveridge-Nelson trend-cycle de-
composition is the perfect negative correlation between trend and cycle innovations. This paper gives a novel explanation for this negative cor-relation ori ...
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Workshop
Financial factors and monetary policy: Determinacy and learnability of equilibrium
Paul Kitney, Phd scholar, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
This paper explores whether a central bank should respond to financial factors in monetary policy rules. The criteria used are determinacy and learnability of Rational Expectations Equilibria. The benchmark Bullard and Mitra (200 ...
October
- 31 October 2012, Seminar: Professor Charles Engle, University of Wisconsin at Maddison and the NBER. “The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium”
- 26 October 2012, Second VUW Macro Workshop [PDF, 151 kB]
September
August
July
- ESAM 2012
The Langham Hotel Melbourne, Melbourne
3-6 July 2012
Paper submission: 1 November 2011 to 21 March 2012
June
- Twenty-third Annual EASE Conference
15-16 June 2012, Tapei
Paper
- "Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production", Jakob B Madsen (Monash University)
- NBER Japan Project Meeting
ADBI, Tokyo
29-30 June 2012, Tokyo
Key Date:
Paper submission: no later than 22 November 2011
May
- Understanding Commodity Prices (CAMA EVENT)
Bank of England
25 May 2012
Call for Papers
The Money, Macro and Finance Research Group, CAMA (ANU) and the Bank of England are organising a one-day workshop on issues related to commodity and energy prices. Papers could cover the determinants, the effects of increasing financialisation, commodities and energy in macroeconomic models, or indeed any subject relating to the title.
Please email paper submissions with your contact information to Simon Price (simon.price@bankofengland.co.uk) by 31 January 2012 but early submissions are encouraged.
The program is available.
Paper
April
March
- Public Forum (CAMA EVENT)
International Climate Policy for the Long Term
Presented by Centre for Climate Economics and Policy (Crawford) and
Centre for Applied Economic Analysis (RSE)
14 March 2012
- International Climate Policy for the Long Term: Workshop (CAMA EVENT)
Australian National University
14 March 2012
The event is by invitation.
For further information, contact Damien Hughes (damien.hughes@anu.edu.au)
- CAMA Workshop (CAMA EVENT)
"Issues in Monetary and Fiscal Policy After the Global Financial Crisis"
Australian National University
13 March 2012
Papers
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- "Stock Market Firm-Level Information and Real Economic Activity"
Filippo di Mauro (ECB) - "The Fiscal Multiplier and Spillover in a Global Liquidity Trap"
Ippei Fujiwara (ANU & CAMA) - "On the Correspondence Between Data Revision and Trend-Cycle
Decomposition"
Jan Jacobs (University of Groningen & CAMA) - "State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Policy"
James Morley (UNSW & CAMA) - "Long-Term Debt Pricing and Monetary Policy Transmission Under Imperfect
Knowledge"
Bruce Preston (Columbia University & CAMA)
- "Stock Market Firm-Level Information and Real Economic Activity"
- Public Lecture (CAMA EVENT)
Clean energy technology policy: The economics of Why and how
Australian National University
13 March 2012
February
- NZESG 2012
22nd New Zealand Econometrics Study Group Meeting
Wellington
Thursday/Friday 23/24 February 2012
Participants:
Peter C B Phillips (Yale University)
Leo Krippner (Reserve Bank of New Zealand and CAMA)
Yigit Saglam (University of Victoria, Wellington)
Key Date:
Paper submission: 16 December 2011
Full paper will be required (subject to acceptance) by 7 February 2012
- VAR Modelling Course and Workshop 2012 (CAMA EVENT)
School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania
In conjuction with CAMA, Australian National University
20-23 February 2012
The VAR course is based on Professor Pagan's lectures to the IMF and is suitable for graduate students
and interested academics. We have capacity for approximately 15 participants.
Workshop participation will be by invitation, and interested parties are asked to contact
Professor Mardi Dungey to express their interest in presenting or discussing a paper.
All participants are invited to both the course and modelling workshop.
Finally on February 23, Professor John Quiggin will be delivering a lecture to the Economic
Society (Tasmanian branch) to which you are cordially invited.
Please indicate interest to:
Professor Mardi Dungey
E: mardi.dungey@utas.edu.au
Key Dates:
Februrary 20 and 21: Macroeconomic Modelling and VARs course, presented by Professor Adrian Pagan (University of Sydney)
February 22 and 23: Macroeconomic Modelling and VARs Workshop, plenary speaker Professor Denise Osborn (Manchester University)
February 23 (evening): Economics Society Distinguished Fellow lecture, presented by Professor John Quiggin (University of Queensland)
January
- Conference AIB-MENA 2012
Managing in Uncertain Times
Zyed University, Dubai
13- 15 January, 2012
Participants:
Peren Arin (CAMA)
Key Date:
Paper submission: Before 10th of September 2012