The following is a list of upcoming events - seminars, conferences, workshops, etc - that are of general interest to New Zealand economists. Most events are organised independent of the NZAE; the NZAE have simply collated the list (see list of organisations and their calendars at bottom of table). Please note:
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Last updated: September 8, 2010| Date/time | Event |
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| 08-Sep 19:00 | Robb lectures: Managing climate change and promoting development: risks, scale and values. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 08-Sep 19:00 | Video link to Robb lectures: Managing climate change and promoting development: risks, scale and values. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Lecture Theatre 1 (RHLT1), Ground floor, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington |
| 09-Sep 19:00 | Robb lectures: Policies for low-carbon growth and development: Creating a new era of progress and prosperity. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 09-Sep 19:00 | Video link to Robb lectures: Policies for low-carbon growth and development: Creating a new era of progress and prosperity. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Lecture Theatre 1 (RHLT1), Ground floor, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington |
| 10-Sep 08:30 | Rethinking welfare for the twenty-first century forum: Beyond the terms of reference --Various ...OGGB5, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 10-Sep 12:30 | Monetary policy, inflation and unemployment - In defense of the Federal Reserve --Nicolas Groshenny, Reserve Bank of New Zealand ...Rutherford House Boardroom, Level 12, Wellington |
| 10-Sep 15:00 | Otago seminar: The Bootstrap in Threshold Regression --Ping Yu, University of Auckland ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 10-Sep 19:00 | Robb lectures: Progress towards a global deal. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 10-Sep 19:00 | Video link to Robb lectures: Progress towards a global deal. --Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Formerly Chief Economist of the World Bank ...Lecture Theatre 1 (RHLT1), Ground floor, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington |
| 13-Sep 12:00 | The Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement and possible implications for New Zealand --Prof Sung-Hoon Park, Korea University ...Room 325, Level 3, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 13-Sep 12:30 | MOTU: Social Sciences, Public Policy, and Difficult Decisions --Len Cook, former government statistician ...Council Chamber, Auckland town hall, 301 Queen Street, Auckland |
| 13-Sep 13:00 | Otago seminar: Estimating the Effects of Permanent Oil Price Shocks Consistent with Optimal Factor Allocation --Emmanuel De Veirman, Reserve Bank Of New Zealand ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 14-Sep 12:30 | IPS: The Global Financial Crisis: A Crisis of Relevance for Universities --Dr Todd Bridgman, Victoria Management School ...Railway West Wing Room 501, Railway Station Building, Wellington |
| 14-Sep 16:00 | How important was inadequate banking regulation as a cause of the Global Financial Crisis? And what should we be doing about it now? --Dr Don Brash, Adjunct Professor of Banking at AUT University ...WA220, Lecture Theatre, Building WA - Level 255 Wellesley Street East, Auckland |
| 15-Sep 12:30 | Master of Public Policy Seminar Series: New Zealand's Untapped Potential - The Innovation Agenda --Dr Rick Boven, Director, New Zealand Institute ...University of Auckland campus: Old Government House, Women's Federation room, Auckland |
| 15-Sep 13:00 | Canterbury seminar: An Introduction to Behavioral Econometrics --Morten Lau, Newcastle University ...Lunchroom, Christchurch |
| 15-Sep 13:30 | Treasury seminar: No Reform Left Behind? Balancing Public Service Improvement with Government Priorities - Implications for New Zealand --Evert Lindquist, Professor University of Victoria's School of Public Administration ...Level 5, The Treasury, 1 The Terrace, Wellington |
| 15-Sep 16:00 | Way(s) forward in Asia-Pacific economic integration: A Korean perspective --Prof Sung-Hoon Park, Korea University ...The University of Auckland Business School, Case Room 3, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 16-Sep 12:30 | IPS: The Moran Report: An outsider's reflections on public management reforms across the ditch --Professor Evert Lindquist, VUW (Visiting Professor ANU/ANZSOG) ...Rutherford House Lecture Theatre 2 , " Wellington |
| 17-Sep 12:30 | IPS: A growing need for links between society, policy and research on climate change --Professor Marting Manning, Climate Change Research Institute, VUW ...Railway West Wing Room 501, Railway Station Building, Wellington |
| 17-Sep 15:00 | Otago seminar: The Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior: International Evidence --Jon Klick, University of Pennsylvania ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 20-Sep 00:00 | LEANZ: The case against compulsory saving in New Zealand --Michael Littlewood, Retirement Policy and Research Centre, University of Auckland ...Simpson Grierson, Level 24 HSBC Tower, 195 Lambton Quay, Wellington |
| 21-Sep 18:00 | Future energy issues in NZ --Dr Stephen Poletti ...Design Lecture Theatre, NICAI Conference Centre, 22 Symonds St, Auckland |
| 23-Sep 12:30 | MOTU: General Equilibrium Analysis of CO2 Mitigation Options --Adolf Stroombergen, chief economist Infometrics ...Spectrum Theatre, BP House, 20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington |
| 23-Sep 15:00 | MOTU course: Economic approaches to causal inference (from 23-Sep) --Dr Steve Stillman & Dr David Maré, Motu Senior Fellows ...tba, Wellington |
| 24-Sep 12:30 | IPS: Organisational Performance Management in the New Zealand Public Sector --Derek Gill, Institute of Policy Studies, VUW ...Railway West Wing Room 501, Railway Station Building, Wellington |
| 24-Sep 15:00 | Otago seminar: How important are omitted variables, Censoring and self-selection in analysing high-school academic achievement? --Sholeh Maani, University of Auckland ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 24-Sep 15:10 | Canterbury seminar: tba --Jonathan Klick, University of Pennsylvania ...Room 534 Commerce Building, Christchurch |
| 28-Sep 12:30 | Pension Contributions, Investment, and Firm Value: Evidence from Frozen Defined Benefit Plans --Prof. Shamtaram Hegde, Professor of Finance, University of Connecticut ...Rutherford House Boardroom, Level 12, Wellington |
| 29-Sep 12:30 | IPS: Can Public Policy be Christian and Should it Be? --Jim Wallis, Founder and CEO of the Sojourners Community ...Government Building Lecture Theatre 4, Wellington |
| 01-Oct 13:00 | Canterbury seminar: Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence --Cary Deck, University of Arkansas ...Room 534 Commerce Building, Christchurch |
| 05-Oct 00:00 | RPRC Breakfast Briefing: KiwiSaver turns 3. Are we celebrating? -- ...tba, Auckland |
| 08-Oct 15:00 | Otago seminar: Does strategic play explain the decay in voluntary contributions to a public good? Some experimental evidence --Ananish Chaudhuri, Auckland University ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 15-Oct 12:30 | Master of Public Policy Seminar Series: New Zealand and the World - Building Effective Partnerships --Hon Murray McCully, Minister of Foreign Affairs ...University of Auckland campus: Old Government House, Women's Federation room, Auckland |
| 15-Oct 15:00 | Otago seminar: Instrument vs Target Rules under CPI Inflation Targeting: An Appraisal --Alfred Guender, University of Canterbury ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 15-Oct 15:10 | Canterbury seminar: The impact of unemployment rates on marriage and divorce --Susmita Roy, University of Canterbury ...Room 534 Commerce Building, Christchurch |
| 21-Oct 08:15 | Re-setting Science and Innovation for the next 20 years Conference --Various ...Wellington Town Hall, Civic Suites, 2nd floor, 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington |
| 28-Oct 12:30 | Master of Public Policy Seminar Series: New Zealand and the Pacific - The Leadership Challenge --Amanda Ellis, Deputy Secretary for New Zealand's Aid Programme, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...University of Auckland campus: Old Government House, Women's Federation room, Auckland |
| 01-Nov 13:00 | Otago seminar: tba --Devashish Mitra, Syracuse University ...CO. 520, Dunedin |
| 17-Nov 18:00 | 2010 Aotearoa New Zealand Māori business leaders awards -- ...The University of Auckland Business School, Level 1 foyer, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland |
| 25-Nov 15:10 | The pension reform policy in Mongolia --Nyamaamaa Avirmed ...J.G.17, University of Waikato, Hamilton |
| 16-Dec 00:00 | RBNZ Workshop: The transmission of international shocks to open economies --various ...Level 2, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 2 The Terrace , Wellington |