Research Workshop – 2026 Women in Macroeconomics Workshop 24 July 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia will host the Fifth Women in Macroeconomics Workshop on Friday 24 July 2026. Its objective is to showcase high-quality research and provide participants with a supportive environment to strengthen their work, receive feedback, and build professional networks. The workshop will bring together women in macroeconomics, broadly defined and will provide an informal setting for participants to discuss their research. Early career researchers and PhD students are encouraged to participate.
The keynote speaker will be Jing Cynthia Wu from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Call for papers
Submission details
- Please submit your paper by 31 May 2026 to wim@rba.gov.au.
- Authors will be notified by 15 June 2026.
To attend
Registration information will be available shortly. There is no participation fee.
Program
| Time | Program item |
|---|---|
| 8:45 | Arrival and Coffee |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Keynote Introduction Meredith Beechey Osterholm, Reserve Bank of Australia |
| Session 1: Keynote | |
| 9:15 | Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign LLM Survey Framework: Coverage, Reasoning, Dynamics, Identification |
| 10:15 | Morning Tea |
| Session 2: Costs and Inflation | |
| 10:30 | Jing Tian, University of Tasmania Disagreement over the Nature of Macroeconomic Shocks |
| 11:00 | Qinzhuo Gong, The University of Sydney Dispersion in Borrowing Costs and its Aggregate Implications: Evidence from India |
| 11:30 | Elyse Dwyer, e61 Institute Do rents hold workers back? Housing costs, income gains and domestic migration in Australia |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3: International Finance and Trade | |
| 13:00 | Claire Liu, Reserve Bank of Australia Trading on Tension: Geopolitical Motives and Market Distortions |
| 13:30 | Begona Dominguez, The University of Queensland U.S. Dollar Swap Lines and QE: Implications for a Small Open Economy |
| 14:00 | Ayushi Bajaj, Monash University Trade, Liquidity and Monetary Spillovers under Dollar Dominance |
| 14:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| Session 4: Structural Trends | |
| 15:00 | Taj Khandoker, CSIRO Assessing Australia’s energy transition macrodynamics through an ecological Stock-Flow Consistent Input-Output model |
| 15:30 | Solmaz Moslehi, Monash University Parenting Style and Fertility: A Cross-country Analysis |
| 16:00 | Break |
| Session 5: PhD Student Session | |
| 16:15 | Hang Duong, Australian National University Price Effects of US–China Trade Wars |
| 16:30 | Shietal Ramesh, Bond University Time-Varying Volatility Spillover Dynamics Across Crises: Evidence from Australian Stock Sectors |
| 16:45 | Huong Vu Ngo, Victoria University of Wellington and NZ Treasury Family support payments and childbirth impacts in a life-cycle model |
| 17:00 | Break |
| Session 6: Panel Discussion | |
| 17:15 |
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| 18:00 | Concluding remarks Claude Lopez, Reserve Bank of Australia |
| 18:15 | Pre-dinner drinks |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
More information
For any questions, please email wim@rba.gov.au.
Program Committee
Ekaterina Shabalina, Reserve Bank of Australia
Xuan (Ada) Zhou, Reserve Bank of Australia
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