Past events

28
Aug
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

The elephant in the ground: managing oil and sovereign wealth

Dr Samuel Wills, University of Oxford.

In this seminar Dr Samuel Wills will discuss his recent research on oil exploration and sovereign wealth.

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12
Jun
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

The environment and economic growth: modelling heterogeneity of ecosystems and technologies

Akshay Shanker, PhD student, Crawford School, ANU.

This seminar will be Akshay’s first thesis presentation. His thesis looks at the issue of economic growth on a finite planet. He is interested in finding out how the heterogeneity of technical change relates to the possibility of sustainable growth.

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24
Apr
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

Global public goods and coalition formation under matching mechanisms

Larry Liu, PhD student, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School, ANU.

In this seminar, Larry Liu will provide an overview of his recent paper Global Public Goods and Coalition Formation under Matching Mechanisms.

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10
Apr
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

Estimating fiscal multipliers: news from a non-linear world

Gabriela Nodari, PhD student, University of Verona.

In this seminar Gabriela Nodari will discuss non-linear VARs to assess to what extent fiscal spending multipliers are countercyclical in the United States.

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03
Apr
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

Implicit central bank preferences: nominal GDP and the great moderation

Dony Alex, PhD student, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School, ANU.

In this seminar, Dony Alex estimates a forward looking nominal GDP rule for the US spanning from 1960-2007 and tries to reconsider the preferences of the Federal Reserve during this period.

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20
Mar
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

The (ir)relevance of alternative savings mechanisms: borrowing constraints and the durable goods co-movement puzzle

Chris Perks, PhD student, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

In this seminar Chris Perks will provide an overview on monetary policy with a focus on alternative savings mechanisms.

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20
Mar
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Conference

Conference on judgement and combination in forecasting and policy models

Todd Clark, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Centre for Economic Policy Research; Barbara Rossi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Centre for Economic Policy Research; Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania and Centre for Economic Policy Research; and plus many more.

Judgement and expert knowledge is widely thought to be important in the successful practice of forecasting. For policymakers, forecasts also embody judgments about the state of the economy, the transmission of shocks and optimal policy responses which necessitate the use of structural models. This conference aims to bring together policymakers and academics interested in these issues.

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04
Mar
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Workshop

International workshop on scenarios for a fragile world economy

Various speakers.

This two-day workshop will bring together leading scholars on the economics and politics of key regions with an eye to weaving together a consistent view of the likely global economic outlook over the coming decade. It will explore regional dimensions of the global economic outlook, linkages between them, and the implications for global economic modelling scenarios.

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25
Feb
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

The impact of unconventional monetary policies on the overnight interbank market

Dr Morten Bech, Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland.

In this seminar, Dr Morten Bech discusses his recent paper, The impact of unconventional monetary policies on the overnight interbank market, in which he reviewed six markets in the developed world.

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13
Feb
2014
Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis | Seminar

Guarantees, transparency and the interdependency between sovereign and banking risk

Frank Heinemann, Berlin University of Technology.

In this seminar Frank Heinemann will discuss the coordination problem between banks’ and sovereign’s creditors induces a functional interdependence between the likelihood of a government default and banks’ liquidity.

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