UNSW Economics Dept
@unswecon.bsky.social
The School of Economics at the UNSW Business School.
UNSW Sydney.
UNSW Sydney.
Our PhD student Takeshi Yamamoto recently presented his research exploring how best to chair a committee using a model where a committee chair chooses the timing of their speech to try to achieve the best decision.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Our PhD student Takeshi Yamamoto recently presented his research exploring how best to chair a committee using a model where a committee chair chooses the timing of their speech to try to achieve the best decision.
This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
PHd student seminar: Zhuoran Du presented his research on credibility in economics publications, comparing what a "z curve" model predicts against what actually replicates.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
PHd student seminar: Zhuoran Du presented his research on credibility in economics publications, comparing what a "z curve" model predicts against what actually replicates.
Amazing keynote by the one and only @dynarski.bsky.social on what works for greater equity and inclusion in the education system 📊🎢🎟️✨💫🌟
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Amazing keynote by the one and only @dynarski.bsky.social on what works for greater equity and inclusion in the education system 📊🎢🎟️✨💫🌟
Day 2 of Step Up (“What works in education?”) is kicking off with our own @masyhurh.bsky.social talking about a randomised trial of vocational training in Indonesia 🇮🇩!
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Day 2 of Step Up (“What works in education?”) is kicking off with our own @masyhurh.bsky.social talking about a randomised trial of vocational training in Indonesia 🇮🇩!
STEP UP 2025 'What works in education? is underway!
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
STEP UP 2025 'What works in education? is underway!
This week’s PhD seminar featured Joanna Bleakley and her research on how best to estimate the effect of monetary policy on the macroeconomy using structural vector autoregressions (SVARs), evaluating which SVAR identification schemes are most effective in different contexts.
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This week’s PhD seminar featured Joanna Bleakley and her research on how best to estimate the effect of monetary policy on the macroeconomy using structural vector autoregressions (SVARs), evaluating which SVAR identification schemes are most effective in different contexts.
Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market.
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market.
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Our PhD student Sydney Chauwa Phir on the welfare impact of misclassifying demand and supply shocks in a New Keynesian framework where monetary policy reacts more to demand-driven than supply-driven inflation.
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our PhD student Sydney Chauwa Phir on the welfare impact of misclassifying demand and supply shocks in a New Keynesian framework where monetary policy reacts more to demand-driven than supply-driven inflation.
Today’s seminar: Our super PhD student (on the market this year 😉) @a-calder.bsky.social presenting her work uncovering the effects of the US civil war on the timing and geographical spread of the social and political movement for women suffrage.
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Today’s seminar: Our super PhD student (on the market this year 😉) @a-calder.bsky.social presenting her work uncovering the effects of the US civil war on the timing and geographical spread of the social and political movement for women suffrage.
PhD candidate Sharunya Gnanasubramaniam presented today on her design for a field experiment which will consider tank-irrigated farming as a 'coupled-commons system' and test whether the erosion of one public good (extent of cultivation) crowds out contributions to another (public good maintenance)
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
PhD candidate Sharunya Gnanasubramaniam presented today on her design for a field experiment which will consider tank-irrigated farming as a 'coupled-commons system' and test whether the erosion of one public good (extent of cultivation) crowds out contributions to another (public good maintenance)
Incredible talk by our wonderful lecturer Sasha Balyanova with all you need to know about Econ at UNSW — it was standing room only!
Will be happening again at 1pm, Mathews Theatre A !
Will be happening again at 1pm, Mathews Theatre A !
September 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Incredible talk by our wonderful lecturer Sasha Balyanova with all you need to know about Econ at UNSW — it was standing room only!
Will be happening again at 1pm, Mathews Theatre A !
Will be happening again at 1pm, Mathews Theatre A !
The whole gang or at least a representative sample of the gang is here for Open Day 2025 !! Stop by the Tyree room, top floor of the Scientia building, Kensington campus. We’re here all day!
September 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The whole gang or at least a representative sample of the gang is here for Open Day 2025 !! Stop by the Tyree room, top floor of the Scientia building, Kensington campus. We’re here all day!
Steven Callander (Stanford) revealing the secrets of the strategic interaction between seeking expert advice and accumulating own experience.
Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)
Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Steven Callander (Stanford) revealing the secrets of the strategic interaction between seeking expert advice and accumulating own experience.
Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)
Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)
Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)
August 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)
Here we go! First plenary event at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney.
August 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Here we go! First plenary event at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney.
Welcome to Sydney, @sioecon.bsky.social!
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Welcome to Sydney, @sioecon.bsky.social!
Daniel Robbins presented his research on the US college wage premium, which found that larger firms now pay a significantly higher premium than their smaller counterparts due to a shift in labour market sorting patterns.
August 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Daniel Robbins presented his research on the US college wage premium, which found that larger firms now pay a significantly higher premium than their smaller counterparts due to a shift in labour market sorting patterns.
What a pleasure hosting Antonio Nicolò (Padova) presenting his work exploring the frontier of our understanding of dynamic matching markets!
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
What a pleasure hosting Antonio Nicolò (Padova) presenting his work exploring the frontier of our understanding of dynamic matching markets!
this is our favourite quote
![Dobrescu and Motta began working on the prototype for PlayConomics more than a decade ago. After years teaching large first-year economics classes, they became frustrated with the conventional wisdom that education couldn’t be delivered to a mass audience without the quality declining.
“[According to the literature] if you wanted to have stellar education, then you need to shrink the size of a class, or hire better teachers or offer intensive one-to-one tutoring … which is basically saying that we cannot scale education because all of this is very expensive,” Motta says.
“We just didn’t believe it.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3otfpgkgatsldsg2glb5xiof/bafkreicf7tiqwx6nhyp2nglhybzxtdg7fmnmbvpu2mldh3vfzyw7qzhurq@jpeg)
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this is our favourite quote
Our seminar speaker today, Gianluca Russo, and our very own Pauline Grosjean discussing Gianluca’s amazing work uncovering the intended and unintended effects of transitional justice programs using aggregate and individual data from South Africa.
August 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Our seminar speaker today, Gianluca Russo, and our very own Pauline Grosjean discussing Gianluca’s amazing work uncovering the intended and unintended effects of transitional justice programs using aggregate and individual data from South Africa.
🚨Call for Papers 🚨
Macroeconomic Policy Workshop
19 September 2025
In partnership with e61 Institute
Focus: Policy-relevant macroeconomics (empirical & theoretical)
Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
📧: [email protected]
Macroeconomic Policy Workshop
19 September 2025
In partnership with e61 Institute
Focus: Policy-relevant macroeconomics (empirical & theoretical)
Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
📧: [email protected]
August 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🚨Call for Papers 🚨
Macroeconomic Policy Workshop
19 September 2025
In partnership with e61 Institute
Focus: Policy-relevant macroeconomics (empirical & theoretical)
Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
📧: [email protected]
Macroeconomic Policy Workshop
19 September 2025
In partnership with e61 Institute
Focus: Policy-relevant macroeconomics (empirical & theoretical)
Deadline: 27 Aug 2025
📧: [email protected]
Check this out: we’ve got a new look!
August 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Check this out: we’ve got a new look!
From our PhD seminar series this week: Yaxin Liu presented her work using tennis matches data to explore gender differences in a particular form of loss aversion: the fear of losing status.
August 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
From our PhD seminar series this week: Yaxin Liu presented her work using tennis matches data to explore gender differences in a particular form of loss aversion: the fear of losing status.
Terrific talk today by Lukas Wellner (Monash) on a sadly timely topic, using rich data from WWI and interwar Germany: how war losses in human capital affect postwar economic structural changes.
August 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Terrific talk today by Lukas Wellner (Monash) on a sadly timely topic, using rich data from WWI and interwar Germany: how war losses in human capital affect postwar economic structural changes.