Past Events
Half Yearly Budget Review 2019-20
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Thursday Dec 12, 2019, 7:15 am
Australian Business Economists (ABE) are pleased to present a briefing and discussion at breakfast with The Hon Dominic Perrottet MP, Treasurer New South Wales.
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Special General Meeting of ESA
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Dec 4, 2019, 6:00 pm
A Special General Meeting of the Economic Society of Australia (NSW) will be held on Wednesday 4 December.
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Changing Fortunes: A History of the Australian Treasury - Paul Tilley seminar
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Thursday Nov 28, 2019, 5:30 pm
The School of Economics at the University of Sydney is pleased to invite you to a talk and discussion with author, Paul Tilley on his latest book, Changing Fortunes: A History of the Australian Treasury.
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ABE Annual Dinner
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Tuesday Nov 26, 2019, 6:45 pm
Australian Business Economists (ABE) are pleased to present a briefing and discussion at our annual dinner with Dr Philip Lowe, Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia - Unconventional Monetary Policy: Some Lessons from Overseas
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Book Launch: Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Thursday Nov 21, 2019, 6:00 pm
The book argues that inequality isn’t simply ‘the price of progress’. Instead, the authors make the case that it’s possible to pursue policies that will make society more entrepreneurial and more equal. By Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh, Foreword by Lawrence H. Summers, Published by MIT Press.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Workshop Presented by Dr. Peter Abelson
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 20, 2019, 9:00 am
Peter Abelson will provide a comprehensive 2-day workshop on CBA. The 8 sessions over the 2 days will include power point presentations covering all major issues, discussion questions and contemporary case studies.
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ABC Q&A
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Monday Nov 11, 2019, 8:45 pm
Q&A is shaping up to to explore the Australian economy, the future of our energy and the future of work and innovation.
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Stephen Koukoulas, MD, Market Economics EES Lunch
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Nov 11, 2019, 12:15 pm
This is the final Emerging Economist Series lunch for 2019. Stephen Koukoulas has a rare and specialised professional experience over more than 25 years as an economist in government, as Global Head of economic and market research, a Chief Economist for two major banks and as economic advisor to the Prime Minister.
Follow this link to attend lunch with Stephen Koukoulas.
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Workshop on Economics of Health, Inequality and Behaviour
Event Type: Workshops/Conferences
Date: Monday Nov 11, 2019, 8:00 am
This multidisciplinary conference aims to foster a series of dialogue among social scientists on the nexus between health, behaviour, and inequality across developed and developing societies.
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Trivia Night 2019
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 7, 2019, 6:00 pm
ESA's Trivia Night promises a night of fun, networking, general knowledge and trivia. The Young Economists Network invites its members, Economic Society of Australia members, young professionals, academics & students, and friends to a night of trivia fun and networking. The trivia will cover general knowledge questions and economics questions. Finger food will be provided.
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32nd PhD Conference in Economics and Business
Event Type: Workshops/Conferences
Date: Thursday Oct 31, 2019, 8:30 pm
32nd PhD Conference in Economics and Business will be held at the Crawford School, ANU from 31st October – Friday 1st November 2019.
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WEN Panel Event: Engaging with the media
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Oct 31, 2019, 5:00 pm
To address the imbalance in female representation in the economics profession in the media, our exciting panel will share their insights on how to engage with the media and build your profile. Our panel will include economists with experience talking to the media, and representatives from the media who regularly engage with economists.
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Australia - Collateral damage in a trade skirmish? - Craig Emerson, Gorana Grgic and Lai Ha Chan
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Tuesday Oct 29, 2019, 12:30 pm
Australian Business Economists (ABE) are pleased to present a lunchtime briefing and discussion with a panel featuring
Dr Craig Emerson, Dr Lai Ha Chan and Dr Gorana Grgic. The expert panel will discuss current trade hostilities and implications for Australia.
Women in Economics Retreat 2019
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Oct 17, 2019, 9:00 am
The Retreat provides an opportunity for around 20 junior and mid career women economists to develop their networks, receive mentoring and strengthen their leadership skills.
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The Property Market
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Wednesday Oct 16, 2019, 6:00 pm
The University of Melbourne Alumni Association in Sydney is proud to present a panel discussion on the Australian property market, featuring three different perspectives from a panel of alumni subject matter experts.
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Nobel Night
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Oct 14, 2019, 6:30 pm
Who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics this year? Who should win? Do any Australians stand a chance? What does it say about the state of the economics profession?
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Lunchtime Seminar: The Digital Revolution and the State. The Great Reversal
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Oct 9, 2019, 12:15 pm
All the components of the Digital revolution, from silicon to software, were spawned by the American State, echoing previous state contributions to the development and deployment of transformational technologies.
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Policy Mix: a public lecture by Dr Perry Warjiyo
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Tuesday Oct 8, 2019, 9:00 am
The School of Economics at the University of Sydney is pleased to invite you to attend ‘Policy Mix’, a public lecture by Dr Perry Warjiyo, Governor of Bank Indonesia.
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The 2019 History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference
Event Type: Workshops/Conferences
Date: Wednesday Oct 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
The 32nd HETSA Conference will be held at the University of Sydney.
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Prof. Emeritus Geoff Harcourt, UNSW - EES Lunch
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Sep 27, 2019, 12:15 pm
For our fifth lunch in the Series (of six) we welcome Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Harcourt. If you can't make all six of the Emerging Economist Series lunches but would like to attend this lunch, you may book your place here.
The final lunch will host Stephen Koukoulas, MD, Market Economics as our special guest on 11 November.
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Lunchtime Seminar - Social Discount Rate
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Sep 20, 2019, 12:15 pm
The choice of discount rate in cost benefit analysis has the potential to significantly affect project choice.
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ABE Briefing and Discussion - Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Tuesday Sep 3, 2019, 12:30 pm
ABE presents a lunchtime briefing and discussion with Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance.
WEN Lunch & Learn: The role of women in shaping economic policy
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 28, 2019, 12:00 pm
Join the NSW Women in Economics Network at our next “Lunch and Learn” session on the role of women in shaping economic policy. Our panel of Joann Wilkie (NSW Treasury), Danielle Wood (Grattan Institute) and Jeremy Thorpe (PwC) will talk about the role of women – as citizens, economists and policy-makers – in shaping economic policy and how this might change with more women in leadership roles.
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Lunchtime Seminar: A Partial Review of Seven Jurisdictional Guidelines for Cost-Benefit Analysis
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Aug 27, 2019, 12:15 pm
This paper reviews seven contemporary jurisdictional guidelines to cost-benefit analysis (CBA) with respect to eight major cost-benefit issues drawing on the latest edition of the major CBA textbook (Boardman et al, 5E, 2018) for guidance, though not complete authority.
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ESA NSW Branch - AGM 2019
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 21, 2019, 6:30 pm
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of the ESA NSW Branch will be held on Wednesday 21 August 2019
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