2017

CAMA Macroeconomics Brown Bag Seminars

Date: 29 June
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Benjamin Wong (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
Topic: An Open Economy Model of Trend Inflation

Date: 22 June
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Anil Savio Kavuri (PhD Student, CAMA)
Topic: The Impact of Social Justice on Economic Performance

Date: 15 June
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Wei Jin (Research Fellow, UNSW)
Topic: Optimal Growth with Resource Exhaustibility and Pollution Externality

Date: 18 May
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Beili Zhu (CAMA, PhD Student)
Topic: Forecasting the real price of oil under alternative specifications of constant and time-varying volatility

Date: 11 May
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Bao Nguyen (Crawford School of Public Policy)
Topic: Asymmetric Reactions of the US Natural Gas Market to its Fundamental Shocks

Date: 20 April
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Kai-Yun Tsai (CAMA, PhD Student)
Topic: Taiwanese Macroeconomic Fluctuations: What are the Determinants and What Role does China Play?

Date: 24 March
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: SR2
Presenter: Bao Nguyen (CAMA, PhD Student)
Topic: Time varying macroeconomic effects of energy price shocks: A new measure for China

Date: 9 February
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Venue: SR8
Presenter: Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan)
Topic: How Individuals Smooth Spending: Evidence from the 2013 Government Shutdown Using Account Data

Public lectures organised by CAMA

Date: 24 July
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Venue: Barton Theatre
Presenter: Carol Graham (The Brookings Institution)
Topic: Happiness for All? Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream

Date: 28 June
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venue: Acton Theatre
Presenter: John C. Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Topic: The Global Growth Slump: Causes and Consequences

Date: 13 June
Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue: Weston Theatre
Presenter: Catherine Mann (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Topic: OECD’s Economic Outlook
Slides: The slides for this presentation can be found here

Date: 19 April
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Venue: Barton Theatre
Presenter: Ross Hammond (Brookings Institution)
Topic: “Precision Prevention”: Designing effective strategies for healthy communities

Date: 29 March
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venue: Barton Theatre
Presenter: David Vines (University of Oxford)
Topic: International Economic Cooperation in the Post-Trump-Post-Brexit era
Slides: The slides for this presentation can be found here.

International conferences organised by CAMA

Date: 21-22 August
Location: Hyatt Hotel, Canberra
Topic: Structural Changes in the Global Economy: Trends, Puzzles and Implications
Program: The program can be found here

Date: 31 March - 1 June
Location: The Brookings Institution
Topic: Global Economy: Drivers for the Next Decade
Program: The program can be found here

Date: 1 March
Location: The Brookings Institution
Topic: Global Economy: Stocktake of New Drivers for the Next Decade
Program: The program can be found here

Date: 27-28 February
Location: The Brookings Institution
Topic: Korean Unification: Prospect and Global Implications
Program: The program can be found here
Presentations: Copies of the papers can be found here.

RSFAS and CAMA joint seminar

Date: 1 May
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Venue: CBE Lecture Theatre 1 (Building 26C)
Presenter: Alistair Milne (Loughborough University, UK)
Topic: Cryptocurrencies from an Austrian perspective

AJRC and CAMA joint seminar

Date: 21 March
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue: SR3
Presenter: Ryuzo Miyao (University of Tokyo)
Topic: The Macroeconomic Effects of Japan’s Unconventional Monetary Policies