The Mardi Dungey Memorial Research Conference was held on February 21, 2020. The event was named in honor of Mardi Dungey; Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Tasmania; Adjunct Professor and Program Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU; Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy at Cambridge University; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia. The event was organised by the Institute for International Economic Policy; the Research Program on Forecasting, the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis; University of Tasmania; and the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.