2005 Australian Conference of Economists and Business Symposia

The Economic Society of Australia (Victorian Branch) invites you to participate in the 34th Australian Conference of Economists to be held at the University of Melbourne from 26th - 28th September 2005. There will be keynote lectures, special sessions with invited speakers and contributed paper sessions. We aim to have a number of high quality papers covering the whole range of economic theory and policy, econometrics, Australian economic history and the history of economic thought. A call for papers will be made in late 2004.

The 2005 Conference will also feature poster sessions for PhD students.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a Special Issue of The Economic Record in September 2006. The joint editors will be John Freebairn and Bill Griffiths.

The Stan Kelly Memorial Lecture, to be given by Peter Lloyd, will take place on the evening of the 26th of September.

Business symposia will be held on the afternoon and evening of the 28th September 2005. One will focus on 'Cartels and the Law: Identifying and Punishing Cartels' and another on 'The Basel II standards for capital requirements and their implications for Australian banks and other financial institutions'. There will also be a Business Dinner on the night of the 28th with RBA Governor Ian Macfarlane as the guest speaker.

To contact the organisers, you can email ace-2005@unimelb.edu.au or Robert Dixon at r.dixon@unimelb.edu.au.