ACT Branch
Current
| Position | Full Name | Mailing Address | |
|---|---|---|---|
| President | Paul J. Burke | Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University ACTON ACT 2601 |
paul.j.burke@anu.edu.au |
| Treasurer | Tony Webster | PO Box 1863 FYSHWICK ACT 2609 |
tony.webster@policypartners.com.au |
| Secretary | Kai Wakerman Powell | 16/15 Macpherson St O'CONNOR ACT 2602 |
Kai.Wakerman.Powell@aither.com.au |
| Committee | Ms Amara H. Steven | Unit 102 1 Mouat Street Lyneham CANBERRA ACT 2602 |
amara.h.steven@gmail.com |
| Committee | Jeff W. Bennett | Crawford School of Public Policy Lennox Crossing CANBERRA ACT 0200 |
jeff.bennett@anu.edu.au |
| Committee | Tim Capon | CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences GPO Box 1700 CANBERRA ACT 2601 |
tim.capon@csiro.au |
| Committee | Dr David Vanzetti | 3 Ramage Pl Flynn CANBERRA ACT 2615 |
david.vanzetti@uwa.edu.au |
| Committee | Jenny Eather | 17/103 Canberra Ave GRIFFITH ACT 2603 |
jennyeather@yahoo.com.au |
| Branch Councillor | Paul J. Burke | Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University ACTON ACT 2601 |
paul.j.burke@anu.edu.au |
Essay competition
The 2019 ACT AARES Student Economics Essay Competition is now open.
There are two categories, one for undergraduate students (including Honours), the other for postgraduate students. 5pm Monday 11 November 2019
The winners will be announced in late 2019.
Undergraduates (including Honours)
- Entrants must be enrolled at a university in the ACT
- Feel free to submit either an essay written for your university coursework or a new essay written specially for this competition
- Essays of any length can be submitted. Note that judges value the ability to express ideas concisely
- The winner of the undergraduate essay competition will receive $150 and be awarded one year of student membership of AARES
- Entries are to please be emailed to paul.j.burke@anu.edu.au. Please use “AARES ACT Essay competition – undergraduate student” as the subject heading. Your email should state your university and student number
Postgraduates (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Masters, or PhD students)
- Entrants must be enrolled at a university in the ACT
- Feel free to submit either an essay written for your university coursework or a new essay written specially for this competition
- Essays of any length can be submitted. Note that judges value the ability to express ideas concisely
- The winner of the postgraduate essay competition will receive $500 and be awarded one year of student membership of AARES
- Entries are to please be emailed to paul.j.burke@anu.edu.au. Please use “AARES ACT Essay competition – postgraduate student” as the subject heading. Your email should state your university and student number
Link to Essay Competition Flyer here.
Previous events:
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 19 Aug 2019 | Rohan Nelson | The evolution of ABARES’ forecasting services for agriculture |
| 3 Jun 2019 | Sorada Tapsuwan (CSIRO) | Valuing the ecosystem services of living infrastructure |
| 14 May 2019 | Mihir Gupta (ABARES) | A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling basin |
| 30 Apr 2019 | Andrew Reeson (CSIRO) | Emerging Australian carbon markets |
| 4 Dec 2018 | Nadia Streletskaya (Oregon State University) | Organic wine labels: how does information about production practices impact consumer demand? |
| 2 Oct 2018 | Jared Greenville (OECD) | Global value chains for agriculture and food |
| 15 Aug 2018 | Steve Hatfield-Dodds (ABARES) | Mind the gap: Some tensions in giving economic policy advice |
| 19 Jun 2018 | John Madden (Productivity Commission) | National water reform |
| 10 Apr 2018 | Ann Hillberg Seitzinger (USDA) | Estimating the potential economic impact of wheat stem rust in the US |
| 15 Feb 2018 | Peter Cramton (University of Maryland) | Markets for road use: eliminating congestion through scheduling, routing, and real-time road pricing |
| 27 Nov 2017 | Quentin Grafton (ANU) | The Next Great Transformation |
| 26 Oct 2017 | Alan Swinbank (University of Reading/ANU) | Brexit: Possible implications for UK agricultural trade policies |
| 17 Oct 2017 | Dodo Thampapillai (National University of Singapore) | Environmental macroeconomics: A neglected theme in environmental economics |
| 26 Sep 2017 | Kym Anderson (University of Adelaide; ANU) | Australia’s comparative advantage in wine: Why so slow to emerge? |
| 29 Aug 2017 | Syed Hasan (ANU) | Estimating price elasticities of demand for food in Australia: Implications for GST reform |
| 25 July 2017 | Tim Capon (CSIRO) | Economic resilience from the perspective of a decision-maker |
| 20 June 2017 | Robert Costanza (ANU) | Payment for ecosystem services and common asset trusts |
| 23 May 2017 | Gabriela Scheufele (ANU) | Pricing biodiversity protection: A payment for environmental services scheme in Lao PDR |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Neal Hughes (ABARES) | Climate adjusted productivity on cropping farms |
| 21 Mar 2017 | David Vanzetti (ANU), Rohan Best (ANU), Zsuzsanna Csereklyei (ANU) | Brexit: Implications for agricultural exporters The importance of government effectiveness for the electricity sector in developing countries Technology choices in the U.S. electricity industry before and after market restructuring |
| 15 Feb 2017 | Yu (Eric) Sheng (ABARES) | Exploring the relationship between farm size and productivity |
