Past Events
FREE WORKSHOP ON CGE MODELLING
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2025, 6:00 pm
The WA Young Economists Network (WA YEN) have organised a free workshop which will be delivered by Zac Muscat (Curtin University PhD Candidate) on the evening of Tuesday, May 13th from 6pm to 8:30pm in Computer Lab 402.231 within Building 402 at the Curtin University Bentley Campus.
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View...Panel Discussion - The Impact of Trump's Tariffs - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
The tariffs announced on April 2nd have disrupted many firms' strategies and thrown financial markets into chaos. Further announcements have increased tariffs on China and reduced other tariffs pending negotiations. What will be the impact of greater uncertainty and volatility on world trade, business investment in Australia, the US and China and other macroeconomic variables?
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View...Economic and budgetary issues - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 pm
The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy is hosting a webinar at 4pm this Friday 11 April with well-known economic commentator Saul Eslake on “economic and budgetary issues which we should be talking about during the election campaign – but probably won’t be”. Registration is free, and closes at 10am on Friday.
View...Where Have All the Economics Students Gone - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Apr 8, 2025, 12:00 pm
The size and diversity of the economics student population has declined sharply since the early 1990s, raising concerns about economic literacy in society and the long-term health of the economics discipline. Interest in studying economics at university is low, even for those who studied economics in Year 12.
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View...Globalization and the Environment - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm
For many countries, the race to net zero interacts in complicated ways with trade policy. There has long been research on how globalisation and international economic policy affect the environment: How do tariffs affect greenhouse gas emissions? Does globalisation cause a “race to the bottom” in environmental policy?
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View...PANEL: Housing Affordability and Housing Policy: Where to Next? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 pm
Australia is in the grips of a housing crisis, driven by rising costs in construction, the adjustment to working-from-home, and other factors. Rental affordability has worsened in the last few years, and rental affordability had been growing worse for the bottom quintile of earners over the last decade.
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View...Economics on the Swan with Andrew Leigh
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Mar 11, 2025, 7:30 am
The Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) is delighted to welcome The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP as the keynote speaker for the first 2025 event in its Economics on the Swan series.
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View...Australia's Energy Future: Where Are We Headed? - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Thursday Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session Two
The Australian electricity sector is undergoing a transformation. Our energy demand is growing, and critical policy and investment decisions are needed to ensure our energy future is reliable, sustainable and affordable. With the 2025 federal election on the horizon, decisions made now will shape the nation’s economy, infrastructure and workforce for decades to come. They will also have budgetary outcomes for successive governments to come.
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View...POSTPONED Electricity Price Trends and Energy Wallet - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm
This event is postponed - the new date will be advised as soon as possible
Seminar Series on Energy Transition - Session One
The energy transition is unfolding rapidly. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has recently published a 10-year outlook for residential electricity prices, with a focus on projecting how each cost component might change over the next decade. Beyond just examining electricity costs, the analysis also considers how households' total energy costs (or their 'energy wallet’) will change as they electrify transportation, heating and cooking, transitioning from other fuel sources to electricity.
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View...Working from Home and the Gender Wage Gap, Alison Preston, UWA - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025, 11:00 am
Join us for this webinar during which Alison Preston examines the impact of working at home on the wages of men and women using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey.
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View...AGEW 2025
Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am
The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.
View...ESA / WEN end of year sundowner
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 3, 2024, 5:30 pm
We welcome members and non-members of all genders to join us for our end of year sundowner. Canapés will be served and drinks can be purchased at the bar.
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View...Green Innovation and Climate Policies, David Hémous - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7:00 pm
Climate change already has a negative impact on the environment and our societies, and this impact will get worse over the course of this century.
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View...Zoning and housing supply: empirics in search of a theory
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 28, 2024, 5:30 pm
Many empirical studies show that zoning policies can change urban outcomes such as the location and density of new housing. Some also suggest a link between zoning and the rate of housing construction. Empirical analysis must rest on a theoretical foundation, so what can explain this outcome? What theory of when, why and how land is developed can tell us why upzoning will accelerate the production of new housing? This seminar surveys and appraises theories of new housing supply in order to help interpret the empirical record in relation to zoning, outlining open questions in the search for a coherent theory of supply.
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View...Eminent Speaker Series - Prof. Dr. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
Industrial policy and competition policy
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View...Eminent Speaker Series: Susan Athey - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Nov 8, 2024, 12:00 pm
NEW TIME - NOW FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER AT 12.00PM AEDT (SYD/CBR/MEL)
Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Machine Learning
This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market transitions. The first project analyzes worker resilience in response to layoffs, using administrative data from Sweden.
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View...Trade and Industry Assistance as measured by the Productivity Commission: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 5:30 pm
The Economic Society of Australia (WA) is pleased to host Catherine de Fontenay, Commissioner at the Productivity Commission and President of the Economic Society of Australia, for a presentation titled “Trade and Industry Assistance as measured by the Productivity Commission: the good, the bad, and the ugly”. Her presentation will cover industry policy and the Commission’s role in measuring industry assistance.
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View...Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates in Economics in Australia - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 pm
The discipline of economics encompasses broad skill-sets with diverse applications in employment markets and industries. Studies of labour market prospects for economics graduates are relatively dated particularly in the light of developments such as declining interest in economics in high school and university. Join the discussion with our guest speaker, Professor Ian Li, Curtin University.
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View...WEN Mentoring Retreat 2024
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 am
The Women in Economics Network, part of the Economics Society of Australia, is hosting the 2024 Women in Economics Retreat as an in-person event, to be held from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 November at The Hilton, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
View...The impact of Industrial Relations changes on workers – do economists agree? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Oct 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
The last few years have seen significant legislation changes in the area of industrial relations. The prior decade also saw significant changes in firms’ hiring practices, and an explosion of platform work, considered by some to be a loophole in current labour legislation.
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View...Shann Memorial Lecture 2024 with Chris Richardson
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024, 4:00 pm
The 2024 Shann Memorial Lecture will be presented on Wednesday 16 October 2024. The event is hosted by The UWA Business School and The Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch). This year's lecture will be given by Chris Richardson, one of Australia’s best known economists. Chris will present Australia: Why we are where we are...
View...2024 Annual Dinner
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024, 7:00 pm
The AGM will be followed by a seated three-course meal.
Over the course of dinner, the ESA (WA Branch) sponsored student prizes will be presented along with other prizes. Emeritus Professor Ken Clements, recipient of the 2024 ESA Distinguished Fellow Award, will deliver an after-dinner speech.
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View...2024 Annual General Meeting
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024, 5:30 pm
You are cordially invited to attend the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) Annual General Meeting and the following Annual Dinner (register separately here) on Wednesday 18th September 2024 at Steves Bar and Cafe, Nedlands.
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View...Studying Economics at University in WA: Information Session for High School Teachers, Students, and Parents - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Aug 7, 2024, 5:00 pm
Are you considering studying economics at university in WA next year? Would you like to know more about your options for studying economics and where a degree in economics can take you? If so, you might be interested in an upcoming information session where you will have the opportunity to hear from academics from WA universities that offer degrees in economics.
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View...ACE 2024
Date: Tuesday Jul 9, 2024, 12:00 am
Registration is CLOSED. Bookings can be managed by Contacting Us.
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