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List of Participants List of Conference Participants 367 List of Conference Participants Grant Belchamber Claudia Goldin Senior Research Officer Professor of Economics Australian Council of Trade Unions Harvard University and Leo Bonato Visiting Scholar The Russell Sage Foundation Adviser Economics Department Bob Gregory Reserve Bank of New Zealand Professor of Economics Jeff Borland Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Visiting Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research Stephen Grenville The Australian National University Deputy Governor John Buchanan Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Director David Gruen Australian Centre for Industrial Head of Economic Research Relations Research and Training Reserve Bank of Australia The University of Sydney Nicholas Gruen Bruce Chapman Assistant Director Professor of Economics and Director Business Council of Australia Centre for Economic Policy Research Keith Hancock The Australian National University Honorary Research Fellow Peter Dawkins The University of Adelaide Professor of Economics and Director Ann Harding The Melbourne Institute of Applied Professor of Economics Economic and Social Research and Director The University of Melbourne National Centre for Social and Guy Debelle Economic Modelling Senior Research Economist University of Canberra Reserve Bank of Australia Barry Hughes Mardi Dungey Chief Economist Department of Economics Credit Suisse First Boston La Trobe University Richard Jackman Jacqui Dwyer Professor of Economics Senior Economist Centre for Economic Performance (Prices, Wages and Labour) The London School of Economics and Reserve Bank of Australia Political Science Malcolm Edey Lawrence Katz Head of Economic Analysis Professor of Economics Reserve Bank of Australia Harvard University John Freebairn Michael Keating Professor of Economics Visiting Fellow The University of Melbourne The Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University 368 List of Conference Participants Peter Kenyon John Pitchford Professor of Economics and Director Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow Institute for Research into The Research School of Social Sciences International Competitiveness The Australian National University Curtin University of Technology Gary Potts Philip Lowe Deputy Secretary Head of System Stability The Treasury Reserve Bank of Australia John Quiggin Alison McClelland Professor of Economics Deputy President James Cook University of Australian Council of Social Service North Queensland Warwick McKibbin Chris Richardson Professor of Economics Director Research School of Pacific Access Economics and Asian Studies Sue Richardson The Australian National University Associate Professor of Economics David Maré The University of Adelaide Manager Steve Sedgwick Research and Monitoring Secretary Department of Labour, New Zealand Department of Employment, Education, John Martin Training and Youth Affairs Deputy Director Judith Sloan Directorate for Education, Professor of Labour Studies Employment, Labour and Social and Director Affairs National Institute of Labour Studies Organisation for Economic The Flinders University Co-operation and Development of South Australia John Nevile Glenn Stevens Emeritus Professor Assistant Governor (Economic) School of Economics Reserve Bank of Australia The University of New South Wales Mark Wooden Adrian Pagan Professor of Economics and Professor of Economics Deputy Director Research School of Social Sciences National Institute of Labour Studies Australian National University The Flinders University of South Australia.
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