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29 November 2019
Room 005, Level 3 Dr Chau Chak Wing Building
CPMD WORKSHOP ON BEHAVIOURAL
INSIGHTS FOR POLICY AND
BUSINESS
Workshop Organisers: Peter Siminski, Lionel Page & Isa Hafalir
CPMD Workshop on Behavioural Insights for Policy and Business – November 2019 1
CPMD Workshop on Behavioural Insights for Policy and Business Friday, 29th November 2019
10:00 – 10:35 Registration & Morning Tea
10:35 – 10:45 Welcome & Opening Isa Hafalir Graduate Certificate in Behavioural Economics Lionel Page
10:45 – 12:15 Bob Slonim (The University of Sydney) ‘’Perspectives on Confusopoly, General Equilibrium and Trust’’
Michelle Baddeley (UTS) ‘’Behavioural insights for energy and the environment’’
Antonio Rosato (UTS) ‘’Behavioural Issues in Auction Design"
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 Keynote Speaker – Charles Noussair (The University of Arizona) ‘’Colors, Emotions, and the Auction Value of Paintings’’
Peter Siminski (UTS) ‘’Randomised and Natural Policy Experiments’’
14:45 – 15:15 Afternoon Tea
15:15 – 16:45 Rory Gallagher (The Behavioural Insights Team) ‘’Applying behavioural insights to improve public policy and service delivery’’
Lionel Page (UTS) “Rewarding performance or rewarding luck?”
Christine Eckert (UTS) ‘’Customer Relationship Management through Goal Setting’’
16:45 Questions & Answers
17:00 Networking, Drinks & Canapés
ABOUT US
RESEARCH
Economics at UTS is a dynamic research group that is committed to the pursuit of excellence in research, teaching and learning, and engagement with public and private sectors. Our mission is to create an internationally significant program of research and graduate education in Economics and Public Policy.
The Economics Department is recognised for producing research of the highest quality and its achievements are reflected by the national and international rankings. At the national level, research performed by the Economics Department at UTS has been highly rated within the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation undertaken by the Australian Research Council (ARC). In particular, UTS received the top rating of 5 out of 5 – well above world standard – in Economic Theory (ERA 2015 and ERA 2018), Applied Economics (ERA 2012), and Econometrics (ERA 2012, ERA 2015 and ERA 2018). Overall the Economics Department at UTS has received a rating of 5 in ERA 2012 and ERA 2015 and 4 in ERA 2018.
The Economics Department at UTS is highly ranked internationally. In 2019 UTS was ranked in the top 150 Universities worldwide for Economics in both the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the QS World University Rankings, and is ranked in the top 125 worldwide according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The Economics Department is rated No. 1 in Australia in the Thomson Reuters measure of research impact in Economics and Business.
In our research, we are committed to the pursuit of excellence. Our faculty members achieve this objective by publishing in best academic journals attracting external funding, contributing to public debates and engaging with the private sector and government. Furthermore, our teaching programs (Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PhD in Economics) are strongly informed by our research strengths.
We organize two weekly seminars where internationally recognized scholars present their research. Our academics also participate in reading groups and brown bag seminars organized along with other Sydney-based Universities and we regularly organise national and international events. Finally, the Economics Department hosts the Centre for Policy and Market Design (CPMD) Research Centre and has strong ties with the UTS Behavioural Lab.
RESEARCH STRENGTHS
Our major research strengths include Microeconomic Theory, Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Time Series Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, Agent-based and Nonlinear Dynamic Models, and Microeconometrics applied to Health, Labour and other areas of Public Policy.
Our research has been funded by the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, and the Economic & Social Research Council (UK).
PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows advised by academics of the Department of Economics occupy positions of leadership in major academic and research centres worldwide, e.g., NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Bonn, Nanjing Audit University, NSW Department of Labour, University of Queensland and University of Melbourne.
CPMD FOR POLICY AND MARKET DESIGN
The Centre for Policy and Market Design (CPMD) is an innovative hub for research, teaching, networking, and practical advice. Members from various disciplines within the Business School combine their different backgrounds and expertise in a single Centre to facilitate synergistic research collaborations, broaden the fields of research and expertise, and attract attention and funding from external organisations including businesses, policymakers, and governmental agencies.
Director: Isa Hafalir
Members: Mikhail Anufriev, David Goldbaum, Elif Incekara-Hafalir, Antonio Rosato, Elizabeth Savage, Toru Suzuki, Emil Temnyalov, Kentaro Tomoeda, John Wooders, Jingjing Zhang and Jun Zhang.
BEHAVIOURAL LAB
The UTS Behavioural Laboratory offers state-of-the-art equipment and technologies to support researchers to test theoretical models and to provide practitioners with policy recommendations that have been thoroughly tested in controlled studies.
DirectorDr Jingjing ZhangEmail: [email protected]
PhD PROGRAM
In 2014, the Economics Discipline Group launched its course-based PhD Program. The Program aims to produce independent researchers well-prepared for academic and research positions in the best universities and policymaking bodies.
The PhD Program offers a first-rate foundation in Economics through a variety of courses taught by internationally renowned scholars, as well as world-class research opportunities. This outcome is achieved via a program of core PhD subjects, taken by all students in the first year of the PhD. This sequence of courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics provides the concepts and analytical tools required of every economist. Students develop expertise through field study subjects taken in the second year of the program. Students spend the third and fourth year of the program engaged in research and producing a PhD thesis.
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