Programme

11th July 2008

Session Time Details (order by speaker) Paper No.
08.30 - 10.00 Title: A Comparison Of Methods For Spatial-Temporal Forecasting With An Application To Real Estate Prices (50.1)
  Speaker: Rambaldi, Alicia  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Forecasting Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy: A Dynamic Factor Model for Singapore (50.2)
  Speaker: Chow, Hwee Kwan  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Combining Inflation Density Forecasts: Some Cross-Country Evidenc (50.3)
  Speaker: Kascha, Christian  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Advice, Information and the Reputation of CEOs (51.2)
  Speaker: Walton, Nina  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: The FDI Chain: from Host to Parent: An Empirical Analysis (52.1)
  Speaker: Ragoussis, Alexandros  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (52.2)
  Speaker: Stahler, Frank  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Reversing the Lead, or a Series of Unfortunate Events? NYMEX, ICE and Amaranth (73.1)
  Speaker: Kofman, Paul  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Are Men More Optimistic? (73.2)
  Speaker: Jacobsen, Ben  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: The Econometrics of Estimating Unexpected Accruals (73.3)
  Speaker: Christodoulou, Demetris  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Background Risk and Household Portfolio Choice: Bayesian Analysis of a Generalized Selection Model (54.1)
  Speaker: Stavrunova, Olena  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Climbing the Drug Staircase: An Analysis of Accessibility, Proneness and Previous Cannabis Use on the Initiation of Hard Drug Use (54.3)
  Speaker: Jacobi, Liana  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Estimating Nairu in Small Open Economies: Models with Adaptive and Rational Expectations (65.2)
  Speaker: Nemec, Danie  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Business Expenditure on Research and Development in New Zealand - Future Potential and Future Industries (56.1)
  Speaker: Williams, Julian  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Multi-Product Exporters and Product Switching Behaviour of New Zealand Firms (56.2)
  Speaker: Adalet, Muge  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Will a BERD Model Fly? Estimating Aggregate R&D Expenditure Using a Micro Model (56.3)
  Speaker: Fabling, Richard  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration (57.1)
  Speaker: Iranzo, Susana  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Workforces on the move: An examination of commuting patterns to the cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch (57.2)
  Speaker: Goodyear, Rosemary  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Network Effects on Domestic Migration Flows Across Germany - A Spatial Autoregressive Perspective with Spatially Structured Origin and Destination Effects and Heteroskedastic Innovations (57.3)
  Speaker: Zimmer, Markus  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Relative Income Position, Reference Groups, and Performance: The Impact of Closeness (48.2)
  Speaker: Torgler, Benno  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Progress and Challenges in the Measurement of Productivity (59.3)
  Speaker: Fox, Kevin  
08.30-10.00 Title: Posterior Distributions for Welfare Changes in Agricultural Commodity Markets (54.2)
  Speaker: Griffiths, William  
08.30-10.00 Title: New Evidence On The Marginal Product Of Capital (59.2)
  Speaker: Swan, Anthony  
08.30-10.00 Title: A Property Right Theory of Capital Structure (51.1)
  Speaker: Bel, Roland  
08.30-10.00 Title: Inference in Models With Adaptive Learning (65.3)
  Speaker: Chevillon, Guillaume  
08.30-10.00 Title: Wage Gaps in the New Zealand Labour Market (48.3)
  Speaker: Genç, Murat  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Posterior Distributions for Welfare Changes in Agricultural Commodity Markets (54.2)
  Speaker: Griffiths, William  
08.30 - 10.00 Title: Cyclical Earnings Variation and the Composition of Employment (48.1)
  Speaker: Hyslop, Dean  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Long Run and Cyclical Dynamics in the US Stock Market (P2.2)
  Speaker: Caporale GA & Gil-Alana LA  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Does Competition Reduce the Risk of Bank Failure? (61.1)
  Speaker: Repullo, Rafael  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Modelling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries (62.1)
  Speaker: Rault, Christophe  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Demography, Financial Openness, National Savings and External Balance (62.2)
  Speaker: Graff, Michael  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Asymmetric Trade Integration, Expectations, and Growth (62.3)
  Speaker: Turunen-Red, Arja  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Forecasting Euro Area Quarterly Real GDP: Optimal Pooling of Information (64.1)
  Speaker: Mayr, Johannes  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Transparency and Communication in Monetary Policy: A Survey of Asian Central Banks (64.3)
  Speaker: Filardo, Andrew  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Time-Varying U.S. Inflation Dynamics and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (55.1)
  Speaker: Lansing, Kevin  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Understanding The Flattening Phillips Curve (55.2)
  Speaker: Robinson, Tim  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Evaluating the German (New Keynesian) Phillips Curve (55.3)
  Speaker: Scheufele, Rolf  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Coordination Costs: A Drawback for Research Joint Ventures? (66.1)
  Speaker: Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Venture Capital Syndication and Termination of Viable Projects (66.3)
  Speaker: Fabrizi, Simona  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany (67.2)
  Speaker: Sinning, Mathias  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand (67.3)
  Speaker: Stillman, Steve  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: The Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase in a Model with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria (58.1)
  Speaker: Beugnot, Julie  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Age Effects on Equilibrium Unemployment (58.2)
  Speaker: Ochsen, Carsten  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked (58.4)
  Speaker: Mavromaras, Kostas  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Is Diversity Bad for Economic Growth? Evidence from State-level Data in the US (69.1)
  Speaker: Ratna, Nazmun  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: What Makes Growth Sustained? (69.2)
  Speaker: Ostry, Jonathan  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Quantile Regression (69.3)
  Speaker: Hsu, Chih-Chiang  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Collective Rights Organizations and Investment in R&D (66.2)
  Speaker: Schiff, Aaron  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Information and Market Price Manipulation in the unique Equilibrium of a Sequential Trade Model - Preliminary and Incomplete (61.2)
  Speaker: Takayama, Shino  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Heterogeneous Expectations, Adaptive Learning, and Forward-Looking Monetary Policy (60.2)
  Speaker: Fukac, Martin  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: The Distributional Impact of Kiwisaver (P2.14)
  Speaker: Hector, Chris  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: National accounts: An optimisation approach for balancing supply and use tables (00240)
  Speaker: Statistics NZ  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Fiscal Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Some Evidence For Latin America (P2.1)
  Speaker: Corporalea GM,Ciferrib D & Girardib A  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: An Efficiency Wage – Imperfect Information Model of the Phillips Curve (P2.16)
  Speaker: Carl Campbell III  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: How the Distribution of Unemployment by Duration Affects the Unemployment Rate (P2.17)
  Speaker: Carsten Ochsen  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Did U.S. Wages become Stickier between the World Wars? (P2.19)
  Speaker: Ranjit Dighe  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: It never rains but it pours: Modelling the persistence of spikes in electricity prices (P2.8)
  Speaker: Christensen TM,Hurn AS & Lindsay KA  
11.40 - 13.10 Title: Statistical Significance and Policy Significance (P2.13)
  Speaker: Birks, Stuart  
13.10-14.10 Title: Estimating Short Term Exchange Rate Exposure for New Zealand Firms (53.3)
  Speaker: Randal, John  
14.10-15.40 Title: Spurious Regressions in Time Series with Long Memory (70.1)
  Speaker: Wang, Gaowen  
14.10-15.40 Title: Threshold Model of the Exchange Rate Pass through Effect: the Case of Croatia (70.3)
  Speaker: Tica, Josip  
14.10-15.40 Title: Threshold Autoregressive Models For Testing Asymmetric Roots: Extensions And Empirical Evidence From G7 Countries Real Interest Rates (70.4)
  Speaker: Parveen, Tahera  
14.10-15.40 Title: Organizational Design and Environmental Volatility (71.2)
  Speaker: Rantakari, Heikki  
14.10-15.40 Title: Firm Size and Innovation: Evidence from European Panel Data (71.3)
  Speaker: Patacconi, Andrea  
14.10-15.40 Title: Forecasting New Zealand’s Patterns Of Comparative Advantage (72.2)
  Speaker: Lattimore, Ralph  
14.10-15.40 Title: Informational Efficiency, Expectation Heterogeneity and Signaling Effects of Foreign Exchange Interventions (53.1)
  Speaker: Iwatsubo, Kentaro  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Over the Hedge or Under It? Exporters'™ Optimal and Selective Hedging Choices (53.2)
  Speaker: Grimes, Arthur  
14.10-15.40 Title: In Search Of An Optimising Agent With Cyclical Behaviour (74.2)
  Speaker: Stemp, Peter  
14.10-15.40 Title: The Phillips Curve and the Italian Lira, 1861-1998 (75.1)
  Speaker: Trecroci, Carmine  
14.10-15.40 Title: Estimating Open Economy Phillips Curves for the Euro Area with Directly Measured Expectations (75.2)
  Speaker: Paloviita, Maritta  
14.10-15.40 Title: Human Capital, Graduate Migration and Innovation in British Regions (76.1)
  Speaker: McCann, Philip  
14.10-15.40 Title: Does Immigration to Thailand Reduce the Wages of Thai Workers? (77.1)
  Speaker: Bryant, John  
14.10-15.40 Title: Family Formation and the Demand for Private Health Insurance (78.1)
  Speaker: Fiebig, Denzil  
14.10-15.40 Title: Demand for Hospital Care and Private Health Insurance in a Mixed Public-Private System: Evidence from Australia (78.2)
  Speaker: Cheng, Terence  
14.10-15.40 Title: Past, Present, and Prospects for Thailand’s Growth: A Labour Market Perspective (79.2)
  Speaker: Nakornthab, Don  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Miles and More: A Quantitative Assessment of the ‘Food Miles’ Movement (72.1)
  Speaker: Ballingall, John  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Substitution between Public and Private Consumption in Australian States (74.1)
  Speaker: Wells, Graeme  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: The Impact of R&D Alliance on the Survival and Profitability of Newly Listed High Tech Firms (76.3)
  Speaker: Valencia, Vicar  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Victimisation on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being (78.3)
  Speaker: Velamuri, Malathi  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy (79.3)
  Speaker: Zhang, Wei  
14.10 - 15.40 Title: An Analysis of Developments in Skills Shortages that Hampered Innovation using the 2003 and 2005 Australian Innovation Surveys (76.2)
  Speaker: Orzechowska-Fischer, Ewa & Brunker, Donald