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Invited Speakers

- Gary Banks
- Chairman of the Productivity
- Commission
- (Productivity Commission)

- Kathryn Dominguez

- Professor of Public Policy and
- Economics
- (Federal Treasury)

- Ian MacFarlane
- Former RBA Governor 
- (Goldman Sachs)

- Charles Perrings
- Professor of Environmental
- Economics
- (UQ)

- John Quiggin
- Head of RSMG
- (UQ)

- Adonis Yatchew
- Editor ‘The Energy Journal’
- (courtesy QUT)

- Joshua Gans
- Professor of Management
- (Information Economics)
- (University of Melbourne)


Major Sponsors

QIC

Queensland Treasury Corporation

Reserve Bank of Australia

Queensland Government

Queensland University of Technology

Goldman Sachs

The University of Queensland

Griffith University

Australian Government

Queensland Treasury Copropration


Other Sponsors

The International Review of Economics Education

 

 

 

List of Papers

A geometric comparison of the Delta and Fieller confidence intervals

A multivariate analysis of savings, investment, foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India

A re-evaluation of the relationship between drinking and earnings

Accounting for uncertainty in choice modelling: A case study of the perceived health risks from mosquito borne diseases

Adaptation investments to offset the effects of climate change

Allocation of authority when a person is not a robot

An economic analysis of the Aldo Moro kidnapping and assassination

An economic analysis of the public-private-community partnership: The case of solid waste management

An empirical analysis of sustainability of trade deficit: Evidence from South Asian countries

An empirical analysis of the mean-reversion property of real interest rates

Analyzing the impact of trade reforms on Bangladesh economy: A CGE approach

Australian housing market: Causes and effects of rising price

Australia's disappearing market for life annuities

Business perceptions, fiscal policy and growth

Can fishers target individual species in the northern prawn fishery? Implications for TAC setting.

Child labour and schooling responses to access to microcredit in rural Bangladesh

Child work and other determinants of school attendance and school attainment in Bangladesh

Contributions of longitudinal data to poverty measurement in Australia

Dairy farming under water scarcity and increasing land prices: Will improved irrigation efficiency sustain their survival?

Decomposing CO2 emission from fossil fuel combustions in Indonesia to understand the options for mitigation

Distorted agricultural incentives and Australian economic development

Does monetary policy matter in a less developed economy? Evidence from Bangladesh

Education reforms in China: The implications of rapid skill accumulation

Efficiency and equity in the assemblage of land for public use: The L2H2 auction

Energy consumption and economic growth: Empirical results for New Zealand

Expecting the stork: child subsidies and fertility plans in Australia

Explaining the decline in unemployment benefit numbers in Australia: The role of registration, exit and re-entry

Exporting out of poverty: Provincial poverty in Vietnam and U.S. market access

Financial satisfaction of African immigrants in Australia

Forecasting macroeconomic variables using a structural state space model

Gauging economic performance under changing terms of trade: Real gross domestic income or real gross domestic product ?

Government expenditure size and happiness: Empirical evidence

Growth and productivity in Australia

Happiness and the Sustainable Wealth of Nations

Has international trade in saving improved US economic welfare?

How much do improvements in health contribute to economic growth: long-run evidence from the OECD countries

Human capital and growth

Immigration, public funding and private schooling: A cross-country investigation

Improving work incentives for mothers: The national and geographic impact of liberalising the family tax benefit income test

Incorporating household behaviour into the iSDP model: A scenario analysis of projected demand

Indigenous Australians in the labour market: Exploring the role of social capital

Internet Diffusion in Australia

Is ignorance bliss? Exploring the links between, education, expectations and happiness

Is there a causal relationship between parental income support receipt and child mortality? An analysis of a cohort of australian children

Labour market success and skill acquisition in the host country: Effects on the duration and the labour force status of Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians migrants returning home from the European Union

Local diversification of income sources versus migration: Complements or Substitutes? A case study from rural Senegal

Long run relationship between real stock return and inflation in Australia

Looking awkward when winning and foolish when losing: Inequity aversion and performance in the field

M3 money demand and excess liquidity in the euro area

Measuring economic returns to post-school education in Australia: Evidence from the 1981-2006 full Australian censuses

Measuring global poverty: why PPP methods matter

Measuring housing affordability: Looking beyond the median

Modelling asset market dynamics under a fixed exchange rate and an application to the Chinese economy

Modelling price and volatility relationships in the Australian wholesale spot electricity markets using constant and dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH models

Modelling the composition of government expenditure in democracies

Monopolistic screening with boundedly rational consumers

Motivations of home-grown tobacco (chop-chop) smokers

Nature-based tourism in lesser known species and their implications for conservation

Oil shocks and the great moderation: Different sources, different effects

On closure in Economics

Overeducation, overskilling and second generation Australians

Ownership structure, performance and determinants of share diffusion in family businesses: Evidence from China

Panel data evidence of human development convergence

Portfolio allocation and the endogeneity of wealth in Australian households

Price incentives and payment patterns: Money for nothing and your flights for free

Price responsiveness of residential water demand in Sri Lanka

Public and private expenditures on health in the presence of inequality and endogenous mortality: A political economy perspective

Public-private wage gap in Australia: variation along the distribution

R&D, strategic delegation and market share competition

Real options: Applications in public economics

Recycling versus landfilling: A cost minimization approach to municipal waste management

Reducing illegal migrants in the US: A dynamic CGE analysis

Representations and identities for homogeneous technologies

Role of foreign assistance in economic development of Pakistan

Strategic environmental policy under free trade with transboundary pollution

Stuck in the middle: An experimental study on sharing a strategic advantage in a binary choice game

The "negative" assimilation of immigrants: A special case

The allocation of development aid assistance: Do new donors have old motives?

The determinants of household risky asset holdings: Background risk and other factors

The determinants of New Zealand migration: Comparing migration to and from Australia and the United Kingdom

The Dynamic Causal Relationship between Financial Liberalization and Income Inequality in India

The dynamics of Australian poverty persistence

The Effect of a Collective Exchange Rate Adjustment on East Asian Exports

The financial sector and economic growth

'The history wars': The near death experience of the history of economic thought

The impact of monetary policy: The high frequency responses of Australian financial futures to cash rate target announcements

The impact of trading-restricted, business days and trading, non-business days on Australian small-cap, large-cap and market returns

The paradox of national water savings

The personal discount rate of high school children

Theory competition and selectivity are all economic facts greatly exaggerated?

Underlying seasonality in the presence of increasing returns to information: Empirical evidence from the Australian motion picture industry

Vulnerability of natural gas supply in the Asian gas market

What creates abnormal profits: Collusion, efficiency or strategy?

What is the optimal rate of public and private R&D investment to maximize productivity growth?

What would the average public sector employee be paid in the private sector?

Who benefits from the growing market for Indigenous Art? Evidence of Indigenous differences and creative achievement in Australia