Aussie econobloggers deliver down under

Australian economists held their 34th Annual Conference of Economists at the University of Melbourne earlier this week. Aussie John Quiggin caught up with fellow econobloggers Stephen Kirchner and Andrew Leigh, "and lots of old friends and sparring partners". First, the econobloggers contributions:

* John gave a keynote address (written with Simon Grant) on Learning and Discovery (PDF), "an attempt to unravel the knotty problem of unknown unknowns".

* Stephen delivered a paper on Japanese Monetary Policy under Quantitative Easing: Neo-Wicksellian versus Monetarist Interpretations (PDF), which argued that "central bank policies are unlikely to be credible in the absence of a compelling account of the underlying monetary policy transmission mechanism at the zero bound".

* Andrew gave a paper (written with Justin Wolfers) on Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets (PDF), which found that during the last Australian election betting markets wre much better at predicting the outcome than opinion polls.

The keynote speeches included:

* James G. MacKinnon, Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics (PDF).

* James Robinson, with Daron Acemoglu and others, Income and Democracy (PDF).

* James Galbraith, Global Inequality and Global Macroeconomics (PDF).

* Charles Noussair, et al, The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps (PDF).

* Patrick Rey, et al, Resale price maintenance and horizontal cartels (PDF).

* Patrick Rey and Thibaud Verge Slotting Allowances and Conditional Payments (PDF).

* Ross Williams, Fiscal Federalism: Aims, Instruments and Outcomes (PDF).

Several other keynote speeches were give, but only the one-page abstract is available online, so I've not included them. You can find the whole programme here.

Comments

[Andrew Leigh]

Thanks for the publicity! We'll have to get you down here for the next one. Perhaps you'd like to attend the Australasian Econometric Society meetings in July 2006. Venue: Alice Springs (see http://esam06.anu.edu.au/).

[New Economist]

Thanks Andrew. I'm sure I'll make it to Oz some time in 2006, though not so sure about Alice Springs!

[Andrew Leigh]

Beaut, please get in touch when you do.

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