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University House Common Room, March 26th and 27th 2009
For further details contact Chris Carey: cris.carey@anu.edu.au
Australian Economic History in the Long Run
PROGRAMME
Thursday 26th March
10.00-10.30: Welcome/Tea/Coffee
10.30- 12.30 Session 1: Economic Effects of Resource Booms
David Greasley (University of Edinburgh) and Jakob Madsen (Monash University)
“Curse and Boon: Natural Resources and Long Run Growth in Currently Rich Economies”
Sambit Bhattacharyya (ANU) and Jeffrey Williamson (University of Wisconsin and Harvard University)
“External Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation”
12.30-2.00: Lunch
2.00 -3.30 Session 2: New Researchers/Shorter Presentations
Anthony Goldbloom (RBA), John Hawkins (ANU) and Steven Kennedy (PM’s Office)
“A Quite Unprecedented Achievement? Responding to the 1950s Terms of Trade Boom”
Nicholas Brown (ANU)
“The stiletto man: Rick Farley and non-urban agendas for economic reform in the 1980s”
John Wilson and Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia)
“Lobbying and Trade Protection in Colonial Australia”
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.30 Session 3: New Researchers/Shorter Presentations
Sarah Carrington (Monash University)
“Financial Liberalisation and its Impact on Asset Markets in Australia”
Russell Hilberry and Andrew Clarke (University of Melbourne)
“Immigration and Trade in Recent Australian History”
Glenn Withers (Universities Australia)
“The Academic Life and Work of David Pope”
6.45 for 7.00: Conference Dinner: The Chairman and Yip Restaurant, 108 Bunda St., Civic
Friday 27th March
9.00-11.00 Session 4: Conflict over Resources
Lee Alston (University of Colorado), Edwyna Harris (Monash University), and Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)
“Property Rights, Land Settlement and Land Conflict on Frontiers: Evidence from Australia, Brazil and the U.S.”
Edwyna Harris, Robert Brooks and Yovina Joymungul (Monash University)
“The Impact of Low Water Prices on Agricultural Water Demand: Evidence from Victoria”
11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Session 5: Educational Development
Jeff Borland (University of Melbourne)
“The Rise of Mass Education in Australia”
12.30-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Session 5 Continued
Alison Booth and Hiau Joo Kee (ANU)
“The University Gender Gap: A Long-run Perspective”
3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee
3.30-5.30 Session 6: Business Development
Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
“Wage Adjustment in Large Firms: Evidence from the Victorian Railways”
David Merrett (University of Melbourne) and Simon Ville (University of Wollongong)
“Financing Growth: New issues by Australian firms, 1920-1939”
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