RSSS Theme events for 2008

Public Lecture
Tuesday 8 April, 12.30-2.00pm
Law Sparke Helmore Theatre 2
Building 6a, Fellows Road, ANU

Attendance is open to the public. No bookings required.
Enquiries to andrew.leigh@anu.edu.au

The New Economics of Smoking
Dr Francesca Cornaglia
Queen Mary University of London & LSE

Two facts have been influential for the design of public health policies aimed at reducing smoking. First, the price of tobacco has a significant effect on the number of cigarettes smoked. Second, smoking bans have an effect on smoking. In a series of papers, I argue that these conclusions may have been based on an imprecise measure of smoking. This measure is the quantity of cigarettes smoked, which may have led other researchers to ignore important aspects of smoking. In my research, I show that, as a reaction to changes in prices, smokers adjust not only the quantity of cigarettes smoked, but also the intensity with which they smoke them, thus offsetting part of the price effect on the number of cigarettes through compensatory behaviour. Further, and related to passive smoking, smoking restrictions in public places may induce smokers to displace smoking to private places where they contaminate non smokers, and in particular young children.

Francesca Cornaglia is an economist at Queen Mary University of London. Her main interests are in health economics, labour economics, and applied micro-econometrics. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Turin, a Master in Economics from Coripe Piemonte, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin, and has previously worked for Pirelli and Confindustria. She holds a researcher position at the Centre for Economic Performance - LSE, and is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and an IZA Research Affiliate. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review. This talk is based on joint research with Jérôme Adda.

This public lecture is presented by the Economics Program and the ‘Productive Australia in the World Economy’ theme in the Research School of Social Sciences.
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MEMORIES LOST & FOUND: A RECESSION WE HAVE TO HAVE & WHAT THEN?
Professor R.G. Gregory
Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Thursday 17 April 2008, 6pm
Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra, ACT

This lecture is part of the Blake Dawson Public Lecture Series.
Registration is essential.
Please contact Blake Dawson.

GLOBALISATION & THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
Jeffrey Williamson
Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Harvard University
 Wednesday 23 April, 4.30–6pm Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building 124, Eggleston Road, ANU

This lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. The lecture is part of the ANU Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics. Presented by the ANU College Of Business & Economics, the Crawford School of Economics and Government and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Workshop
Friday 9 May 2008
9:00 - 5:00
The Drawing Room, University House
Free - but numbers are limited

The Australian National Party: Re-thinking rurality in a post-agrarian society
The National Party is undertaking an internal review of its role and its position in Australian society and politics; the implications of current political, financial, demographic, and media trends; and future options for the Party, including an analysis of current and alternative strategies, roles and Party structures.

Although the Nationals and their predecessors have been part of Australian politics for nearly a century, there is limited academic scholarship on the party, its role and its future and little recent work.

Under the RSSS theme of ‘Comparative Public Policy and Government’ this Workshop will address that gap. The Workshop is the first step in the preparation of an interdisciplinary book on the Party and will take the form of presentations by the contributors to the book and invited expert discussants.

Other scholars with an interest in the National Party are invited to participate in the discussion - to ensure the effectiveness of the Workshop, numbers will be limited. Morning and afternoon tea/coffee will be provided along with a sandwich lunch.

RSVP: Dr Linda Botterill
Political Science Program
Research School of Social Sciences
Linda.Botterill@anu.edu.au
(02) 6125 7664

Last Monday Seminar

Mon 30 June 2008
4-6pm, Seminar Room A, Coombs Bldg 9, ANU

Workshop on Housing Affordabilty

Brian Howe
(Public Policy, University of Melbourne)
Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister for Health, Housing & Community Services

Stephen King
(ACC & Economics, University of Melbourne)
Author of Finishing the Job: Real-world Policy Solution sin Health, Housing, Education & Transport (with Joshua Gans)

Rob Taunton
(NATSEM, University of Canberra)
Author of Wherever I lay my debt, that's my home, accessible at http://www.canberra.edu.au/centres/natsem/

All welcome, no booking required
Enquiries to:
Mary Hapel, tel. 6125 2257 or
Bob Goodin, tel. 6125 2156

Economics & Democracy
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference

Hosted by the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra
8-10 December 2008