Advancing Prosperity - Productivity Commission

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 30, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Victoria

The Productivity Commission’s ‘ Advancing Prosperity’ report, released on 17 March 2023, shows Australia falling behind globally, with labour productivity growing at its slowest pace in 60 years. This critically important issue has taken a back seat in recent years to more pressing matters like the Covid-19 pandemic and the rising cost of living. Members are invited to join us as Dr Lisa Gropp, Productivity Commission, discusses this report which has drawn some favourable and unfavourable reviews in the media.

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Michael Brennan Canvasses Australia's Productivity Performance and Prospects for Improvement. - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Thursday Mar 30, 2023, 1:30 pm

From: New South Wales

5 Year Productivity Inquiry: Performance and reform
  
The Productivity Commission has finalised this Inquiry and reported to Government its findings and recommendations. There are six interim reports covering: the context for performance and reform; digital technology and data; innovation for business; policy for productivity; education; and the labour market.

Join us to hear about our latest research

Date: Wednesday Mar 29, 2023, 4:00 pm

From: New South Wales

ESA Eminent Speaker Series event with Professor Joshua Gans

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: South Australia

Eminent Speaker Series: Speaker - Professor Joshua Gans, will give a talk for the ESA as part of our Eminent Speaker Series, entitled “ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for?”.  

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ZOOM: ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for? - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023, 5:30 pm

Timing of this event is ACDT  (South Australia) - check the time converter.

As part of the ESA Central Council Eminent Speaker Series, Professor Joshua Gans, University of Toronto, will be presenting "ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for"? 

You are in the right place to register for this event as a Zoom participant.

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Trivia Night 2023

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Mar 24, 2023, 6:00 pm

From: Victoria

Join the ESA Young Professionals at the Oxford Scholar as we kick off 2023! We are very excited to be hosting our annual trivia night for Melbourne’s young professional economists.

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Welcome to the Young Economists Network -ESA ACT

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 23, 2023, 6:00 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

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ANU Goldsmith Lectures: Adam Smith

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Thursday Mar 23, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

ESA invites members to attend the next Australian National University (ANU) Goldsmith Lecture on "Adam Smith’s Case Against the British Empire", presented by William Coleman, to be held at the ANU, Research School of Economics. Please see the ANU link for details and registration:

Goldsmith Lectures | Research School of Economics (anu.edu.au)

The Goldsmith Economic Research Endowment was established in 2004 through a bequest by the estate of Barry Goldsmith. The Endowment is used to support scholarships at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as academic posts in the ANU College of Business and Economics.

It also provides the opportunity to hold public lectures to advance the study in the discipline of economics.

WEN QLD - LinkedUp

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 23, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Queensland

It’s been a long time between drinks! The WEN Queensland branch invites you to join us for an informal networking evening.

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Prof Joshua Gans: ChatGPT and AI

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 23, 2023, 12:00 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

ESA wishes to invite Members of the ESA to meet with Professor Joshua Gans to talk about "ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for?" as part of the national ESA Eminent Speakers series 2023. 

Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto.

This event is open to all members.

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ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for?, Joshua Gans

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Mar 15, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Victoria

As part of the ESA Central Council Eminent Speaker Series, Professor Joshua Gans, University of Toronto, will be presenting "ChatGPT and other AI: whose job is it coming for"?  

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WEN NSW Branch - AGM 2023-24 - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 14, 2023, 12:00 pm

From: New South Wales

Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Women in Economics Network (NSW Branch).

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ABARES Outlook 2023

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 7, 2023, 8:30 am

From: Australian Capital Territory

ESA invites members to attend a partner event: The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Outlook 2023 conference. 

Register on ABARES website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/outlook/register-today

Outlook 2023: two days of conversation on economic trends and significant issues for the agriculture sector

WEN Graduate Program 2024 Online Panel Discussion - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Mar 6, 2023, 12:00 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

It’s hard to believe it is already time to apply for 2024 graduate programs!

The Women in Economics Network (WEN) wants to support university students studying economics to understand the opportunities available to undertake graduate programs, and how the application process works.

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WEN Graduate Program 2024 - ONLINE ONLY

Date: Monday Mar 6, 2023, 12:00 pm

From: Women In Economics

It’s hard to believe it is already time to apply for 2024 graduate programs.

The Women in Economics Network (WEN) wants to support university students studying economics to understand the opportunities available to undertake graduate programs, and how the application process works.

Equity to Equality: How to accelerate women’s financial progress - ONLINE ONLY

Date: Monday Mar 6, 2023, 9:00 am

From: New South Wales

You are invited to attend the virtual launch of the latest Financy Women’s Index, a quarterly measurement of women’s financial progress and the path to gender equity in Australia.

FIRST FRIDAY ECONOMICS - March

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Mar 3, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

Dr Gordon, Economics of Fast Rail

First Friday Economics (FFE) is an exciting initiative aimed at enriching the professional and social lives of Canberra economists. We aim to provide a congenial setting, on the first Friday of every month, to allow the interaction of mainly young Canberra economists, with a major Canberra economist invited to give a short address. Refreshments are provided free of charge. Please register one week in advance to assist with catering.

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Book Launch - Optimally Irrational, Prof. Lionel Page

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Mar 2, 2023, 5:15 pm

From: Victoria

In Optimally Irrational, Lionel Page proposes an ambitious overhaul of our understanding of behavioural “biases” and what they mean. While behavioural economics has been very successful to help us understand how people really make decisions in the real world, the discipline is often presented as having shown that people are “irrational” and poor at making decisions. Lionel argues against this vision.

Labour markets since Covid: the expected and the unexpected

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Mar 1, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Victoria

You are invited to join the ESA Victoria branch for an evening with the University of Melbourne's Professor Jeff Borland who will be discussing labour markets since COVID.

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WEN (South Australia) AGM & Women in Leadership Event (1 March 2023)

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Mar 1, 2023, 5:00 pm

From: South Australia

WEN (SA) networking event and AGM 2023

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ANU Goldsmith Lectures: Artificial Intelligence

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Tuesday Feb 28, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Australian Capital Territory

ESA invites members to attend the next Australian National University (ANU) Goldsmith Lecture on Artificial Intelligence, presented by Professor Thomas J. Sargent, to be held at the ANU, Research School of Economics. Please see the ANU link for details and registration:

Goldsmith Lectures | Research School of Economics (anu.edu.au)

The Goldsmith Economic Research Endowment was established in 2004 through a bequest by the estate of Barry Goldsmith. The Endowment is used to support scholarships at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as academic posts in the ANU College of Business and Economics.

It also provides the opportunity to hold public lectures to advance the study in the discipline of economics.

Book Launch: Economic Innovations: creating New Instruments to improve economic life

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Feb 21, 2023, 5:30 pm

From: Victoria

You are invited to join us for this event, where Professor Beth Webster and Bill Scales AO will discuss their recent book:  

Economic Innovations: creating New Instruments to improve economic life (Routledge 2022).

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Book Launch

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Feb 15, 2023, 5:00 pm

From: Queensland

The Economic Society of Australia (Queensland Branch) will host the launch of Professor Lionel Page's book Optimally Irrational at Queensland University of Technology’s Gardens Point campus on Wednesday 15 February at 5pm. The event is free to attend. Advance registration is required for catering purposes.

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Annual forecasting conference Outlook for policy, politics and markets. And energy

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Wednesday Feb 15, 2023, 7:15 am

From: New South Wales

Featuring three keynotes: Guy Debelle, Fortescue Future Industries; Marion Kohler, Reserve Bank of Australia; Chris Richardson, Rich Insight; and a panel of leading market economists. 

WEN Lunchtime online seminar on Violence Against Women in Australia - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Feb 9, 2023, 12:00 pm

From: South Australia

Economic Society of Australia (ESA) and Women in Economics Network (WEN) members and associates warmly invite you to a lunchtime event with special guest speaker, Professor Deborah Loxton, Director of both the Centre for Women’s Health Research and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health at the University of Newcastle.  Professor Deborah Loxton, will present on the following topic: Violence Against Women in Australia.

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