ACDE Seminar
The ACDE Seminar is ANU’s oldest and most distinguished seminar series in applied economics. It has been held during the Tuesday afternoon timeslot for several decades and has featured seminars from many leading economists and upcoming scholars from ANU, Australia, and overseas.
To join the mailing list for this seminar series, please email seminars.economics@anu.edu.au.
Convener: Ross McLeod
Local crowdfunding for low-emission agriculture
Marit Kragt reports on an experiment in which farmers were encouraged to adopt climate change mitigation actions using crowdfunding finance.
Measuring economic development with daytime satellite imagery
Raschky uses satellite imagery and corresponding ground truth data to predict regional fixed capital and then to construct regional GDP per capita.
Diagnosing housing fever with an econometric thermometer
Shi presents a new econometric method for identifying housing bubbles, with an empirical application to Australian housing markets.
Islam and the state: Religious education in the age of mass schooling
Bazzi investigates the market response to the policy of expanding public schooling, designed in part to foster nation-building and to curb religious influence in society.
Skill transferability, migration, and development: Evidence from population resettlement in Indonesia
Arya Gaduh investigates the long-run impacts of Indonesia’s transmigration program on rice productivity, night-time light intensity and migrants’ adaptation to agroclimatic change.
Australian budget policy and COVID-19: a model-based analysis
Murphy models the economic effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the Australian economy and the effectiveness of budget policy responses, and considers options for budgetary reforms.
Heroes and villains: The effects of combat leadership on collaboration in war-time France
Grosjean investigates how loyalty to a WWI military leader has shaped political preferences and influenced collaborationist and political behavior during and beyond WWII.
Taking financial access to remote and insecure areas: impacts of a comprehensive financial inclusion intervention in Papua New Guinea
Hoy reports on the impacts of a comprehensive financial inclusion program in PNG, failing to detect any significant effects from the intervention.
Contemporary economics and contraindications for climate maladies: Lessons from environmental macroeconomics
In the context of concerns about climate change, Thampapillai proposes an approach to analysing economic growth that explicitly includes environmental capital as a productive factor.
Commodity price shocks and the seasonality of civil unrest
Ubilava investigates the influence of seasonal variation in cereal crop prices on internal conflict, and violence involving civilians, in low-income countries in Africa.
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