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
How does democracy cause growth? Evidence from firms during Indonesia's democratic transition
Mukherjee investigates how democratization affects growth, using firm-level data in combination with the timing of district-level political regime change in Indonesia.
Green steel in cars: would consumers be willing to pay?
Mousami Prasad investigates consumers’ potential willingness to pay for cars made with ‘green steel’ produced using fossil-free fuel technologies.
Personalisation of disability care in Australia
Chand builds on the literature on product variety in order to investigate the personalisation of disability care under Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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.
Economics of green hydrogen
Longden investigates the viability of green hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel, identifying conditions under which it will be cost-competitive with traditional fuels.
Problems in climate science from the viewpoint of an historical geologist
Howard Brady will present arguments and evidence on climate change and global warming, questioning whether prediction of future climate states is possible.
Are non-pharmaceutical interventions effective? The Japanese textile sector during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920
Ilan Noy investigates the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions in determining the economic impact of the 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Japan.
Emission reduction and foreign direct investment nexus in China
Yanrui Wu investigates the association between city-level environmental regulation and changes in the pattern and structure of foreign direct investment in China.
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.
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