Focus: Stochastic Volatility, Interest Rate Term Structure, Credit Risk, Pensions, Insurance, Portfolio Optimisation, Commodity and Emissions Trading and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

The course will use examples from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey and will include a hands-on lab session using Stata. The topics covered include: - Basic introduction to panel data. - Introduction to statistical modelling (within and between group analysis,...

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the conference is open to all, but should be of special interest to both users of the HILDA Survey data and persons with an...

A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 30 September – 2 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne, just before the HILDA Survey Research Conference on 3-4 October 2013. The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right...

The progam will consist of both Invited Sessions and Contributed Sessions. We welcome submissions to the Contributed Sessions in all areas of Economics.

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

Manuscripts are invited on any topic relevant to the conference, including agricultural economics, natural resource economics, environmental economics, ecological economics, natural resource management, multi-disciplinary studies and policy issues.