Seminars and events - Business School - The University of Auckland

The fair employment hypothesis: Reciprocity in unstable environments (All seminars, Economics)

17 February 2012 3pm- 4.30pm

We extend the well-known fair wage-effort hypothesis to situations in which firms suffer from negative productivity shocks and test experimentally whether a fair employment hypothesis exists. >>

A two-parameter model of dispersion aversion (All seminars, Economics)

18 November 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

The idea of representing choice under uncertainty as a trade-off between mean returns and some measure of risk or uncertainty is fundamental to the analysis of investment decisions. >>

Tax consolidation and the structure of corporate groups: Evidence from the Japanese tax reform of 2002 (All seminars, Economics)

11 November 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

A consolidated filing of corporate income tax may induce firms to manipulate ownership interests in subsidiaries but systematic examination of such behavioural responses has been limited. >>

A behavioural finance approach with fundamentalists and chartists in the gold market (All seminars, Economics)

4 November 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

The substantial increase in the price of gold in recent years appear to be a candidate for a potential asset price "bubble". >>

The effect of home country and host country corruption on foreign direct investment (All seminars, Economics, Research centres and groups)

2 November 2011 2pm- 3pm

Using FDI outflows from a sample of East European transition economies that had virtually no outward FDI before 1995, we observe FDI outflows based mainly on current investment decisions and less on the inertia of past investments. >>

Learning and collusion in new markets with uncertain entry costs (All seminars, Economics)

30 September 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

This paper analyses an entry timing game with uncertain entry costs. Two firms receive costless signals about the cost of a new project and must decide when to invest. >>

Price setting in a leading Swiss online supermarket (All seminars, Economics)

23 September 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

We study a newly released data set of scanner prices for food products in a large Swiss online supermarket. >>

The dynamics of credit default swap spreads and equity volatility (All seminars, Economics)

16 September 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

The aim of this paper is to study the Japanese and Australian credit default swap markets. In a first part, we perform a panel analysis in order to understand the determinants of the credit default swap spread. >>

Report launch: The effectiveness of public investment in Māori and Pasifika children (All seminars, Economics, Research centres and groups)

2 September 2011 1pm- 3pm

Māori and Pasifika children are more likely to live in poverty than other groups of New Zealand children. This report explores the contributing factors of Māori and Pasifika child poverty and presents a new paradigm for future planning. >>

Resource-based FDI and expropriation in developing economies (All seminars, Economics)

26 August 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

Expropriation of foreign direct investment (FDI) is more likely to occur in resource extraction compared to other sectors. >>

Romes without empires: Urban concentration, political competition and economic growth (All seminars, Economics)

12 August 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

Taking historical Rome as the archetype of a city that centralises political power to extract resources from the rest of the country, we develop two models of rent-seeking and expropriation. >>

Manipulative disclosure (All seminars, Economics)

5 August 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

We study verifiable information disclosure by an informed expert and show that the well known result (Grossman, 1981, Milgrom, 1981) that private information has no value to the expert depends on the expert’s bias being common knowledge. >>

Communication and efficiency in competitive coordination games (All seminars, Economics)

4 August 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. >>

Health shocks and net worth in the US (All seminars, Economics)

29 July 2011 3pm- 4.30pm

This paper builds on a growing literature that seeks to better document how and why wealth and socioeconomic status (SES) are related. >>

Oil prices, exchange rates and emerging stock markets (All seminars, Economics)

22 July 2011 3pm- 5pm

This paper proposes and estimates a structural vector auto regression model to investigate the dynamic relationship between oil prices, exchange rates and emerging market stock prices. >>

True profit shifting (All seminars, Economics)

8 April 2011 3:00 pm- 4:30 pm

Do multinationals exploit corporate tax differences across countries to their benefit? The answer that this paper gives is affirmative, and as such is similar to the answer given within the profit-shifting literature. >>

Financial imbalances and financial fragility (All seminars, Economics)

24 March 2011 2:00 pm- 3:30 pm

This paper develops an equilibrium model to analyse the link between financial imbalances and financial fragility. >>

Southern Workshop in Macroeconomics (SWIM) (All seminars, Economics)

18 March 2011 - 19 March 2011 18 March 2011 8:00 am- 19 March 2011 5:00 pm

The 2011 Southern Workshop in Macroeconomics (SWIM), sponsored by The University of Auckland, will be hosted by the Department of Economics from 18-19 March 2011. >>

Robustness, redundancy and validity of copulas in likelihood models (All seminars, Economics)

1 March 2011 3:00 pm- 4:00 pm

The paper considers likelihood-based estimation of multivariate models, in which only marginal distributions are correctly specified. >>

Contracting among founders (All seminars, Economics)

25 February 2011 3:00 pm- 4:30 pm

This paper develops a theory of when founders of a new venture should contract with each other, and what kind of contracts they can use. >>