Eminent Speaker Series: Prof. Nick Bloom - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday May 14, 2026, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

This presentation will discuss how working from home has fared post-pandemic and what the future is. Using US and international data the presentation will show how hybrid working has become common post-pandemic for managers and professionals.

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Federal Budget 2026-27 Analysis

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday May 14, 2026, 7:30 am

The ESA ACT Branch invites you to attend a presentation on the 2026-27 Federal Budget Anaylsis.

This year's briefing will be delivered by Pat Bustamante from Westpac.

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YE Network: Careers in Economic Consulting

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday May 6, 2026, 6:30 pm

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WEN Book Club

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Apr 30, 2026, 7:30 am

WEN ACT committee warmly invites you to the next instalment of our quarterly book club.

This is a free, in person event.

See the attached poster for more details.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Alicia and Mary

Your WEN Book Club Hosts

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YE Network: The many sides of Intergenerational equity

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 31, 2026, 5:30 pm

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YE Network: Academic careers in Economics

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Mar 23, 2026, 6:30 pm

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Eminent Speaker Series: Prof. Jesse Rothstein - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Mar 17, 2026, 1:00 pm

From: Central Council

How do neighborhoods and firms affect intergenerational mobility?

Children’s incomes tend to resemble their parents', a relationship that is particularly pronounced in higher-inequality societies like the United States. However, the mechanisms behind this intergenerational earnings transmission are not well understood. We use a new data resource to study intergenerational economic transmission in the U.S., focusing on two potentially important factors: neighborhoods and firms.

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WEN: Launching your career in Economics

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Mar 16, 2026, 6:00 pm

WEN ACT : Launching your career in Economics

You are invited to join ACT Women in Economics (WEN) at ANU on Monday 16 March 2026 6-8pm at the Fred Gruen Room, H.W. Arndt Building 25A, the Research School of Economics.

This is an in person event only.

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Meet the Author

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Thursday Feb 26, 2026, 6:00 pm

ESA members are invited to attend the ANU event - Meet the author. 

Dr Andrew Leigh will be in conversation with Anna -Maria Arabia on his new book The Shortest History of Innovation.

This event is free but registration is required

Register here.

Transport Economics - Where are we headed?

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Feb 26, 2026, 5:30 pm

You are invited to a book launch of Dr Cameron Gordon's latest book:

Transport Economics: Understanding transport economics through economic first principles

Transport economics in its most widely applied form is drawn from an elaborated system of theory, (typically labelled neoclassical economics), which models the choice of whether to engage in transport or not; and also the closely related choice of where to locate activity.

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Grounds for Growth

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Thursday Feb 26, 2026, 5:30 pm

WEN ACT is excited to kick off our 2026 Grounds for Growth series in February, with a timely conversation on the macroeconomic outlook with Dr Angelia Grant, Deputy Secretary of the Macroeconomic Group at the Australian Treasury.

Registration is via linkedin 

Eminent Speaker Series: Prof. Alan Manning - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Feb 11, 2026, 8:00 am

From: Central Council

Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do much better.

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AGEW 2026

Date: Wednesday Feb 11, 2026, 12:00 am

From: Central Council

The Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW) is a premier conference dedicated to advancing gender economics in Australia. Now in its ninth year, AGEW is held in collaboration with the Women in Economics Network (WEN), and brings together a diverse mix of scholars and policymakers from both Australia and abroad.

Meet the Author

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Tuesday Feb 3, 2026, 6:00 pm

ESA members are invited to attend the ANU event - Meet the authors. This is a new book on the first Albanese Government. 

This newly published book covers a wide range of issues including the government's economic policies.  

This event is free but registration is required

Register here.

ESA ACT: Christmas Drinks 2025

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Dec 11, 2025, 5:30 pm

ESA ACT Branch Christmas Drinks 2025

The Economic Society of Australia (ACT) would like to invite our members to Christmas Drinks. Its a final chance to network with other members and chat about our shared vision for the ACE Conference next year. We would love your ideas and input.

This is a free event for financial members. Bookings required.

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Evaluating the Impact of Social Housing

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Nov 11, 2025, 8:00 am

ESA ACT invites you to hear from Professor Guyonne Kalb on

The Importance of Evaluating the Impact of Social Housing:

NSW Future Directions as a Case Study

Providing social housing is expensive, but crucial for a growing proportion of the Australian population who are being priced out of the market.

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Public Sector Economics Conference

Event Type: Partner Event

Date: Monday Nov 10, 2025, 8:30 am

CLOSING SOON - BOOK NOW

The Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra and the APS Economics Community of Practice is pleased to bring you the

Public Sector Economics Conference

The conference will be held in person and take place in Canberra on

Monday 10 November 2024

This is a conference for federal and state-based public service economists and those working in the field of public sector economics, organized by the Chief Economists from across the APS. It is an opportunity to meet and reconnect with other economists from across the public service, see what others are working on, as well as present and showcase your work. The conference is a one-day event, run as a series of sessions and plenaries.

Ticket Price $230 GST Exclusive

Registrations taken by ESA ACT Branch on behalf of the conference organisers.

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ESA ACT: AGM 2025

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Nov 6, 2025, 6:30 pm

ESA ACT is pleased to invite you to our 2025 Annual General Meeting.

A FREE event.

We welcome our active members to participate and contribute to the peak professional organisation and hear about our plans for the year ahead. We are stronger together as we plan to host the ACE conference in Canberra in 2026. 

Light refreshments provided. Registration required

WEN ACT AGM at 5.30 - 6.30 followed by nibbles and drinks

ESA  ACT AGM at 7.00pm-7.30pm. Networking till 8.00pm

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WEN ACT: AGM 2025

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Nov 6, 2025, 5:30 pm

Women in Economics Network (WEN ACT) is pleased to invite you to the 2025 Annual General Meeting.

We welcome active members to support the work of the WEN ACT and hear about the plans for the year ahead.

The WEN AGM is at 5.30-6.30pm, followed by the  ESA ACT AGM starts at 7-8pm.

This is a free event. Registration and active membership required.

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The [new] economics of cancer

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Nov 5, 2025, 5:30 pm

The [new] economics of cancer with Guest speakers 

Professor Steve Robson, Surgeon and Health Economist and Discussant - Professor Emily Lancsar,

Chief Health Economist (Department of Health, Disability and Aging)

Your chances of dying from cancer are one in three, and half a million Australians are living with cancer at any given time.  More than 160,000 new cancers are diagnosed in Australia every year. Every Australian is touched by cancer in some way, and all of us have a loved one who has succumbed to cancer.

An in person event only.

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Eminent Speaker Dinner - Ufuk Akcigit

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Oct 8, 2025, 5:45 pm

As part of Central Office's Eminent Speaker Series, Professor Ufuk Akcigit from the University of Chicago is visiting Canberra.

This is a rare opportunity to hear him speak.

 “When More Isn’t Better: Talent Misallocation and the Productivity Puzzle”.

This event is open to all members and non-members. Seating is limited.

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A Future for Private Health? - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Oct 1, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Australia’s private health sector is confronting a period of significant challenge, marked by rising operational costs, persistent workforce shortages, stagnant demand, and increasing out-of-pocket expenses for consumers. These pressures have resulted in declining profitability, hospital closures, adversarial insurer-provider relationships, and a lack of transparency, with confidence further undermined by the collapse of Healthscope. There are growing concerns that instability in the private sector will increase pressure on Australia’s already overburdened public system.

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YE Network - Intergenerational equity

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Sep 25, 2025, 5:30 pm

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In Conversation with Rod Maddock - Young Economist Event - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025, 11:30 am

From: Central Council

The Productivity Commission Seminar Team is organising an event which may be of interest to young economists, who are invited to join this session via Teams.  

Rod Maddock is one of very few economists who has worked across major corporates, government, universities, and lobbyists. He has pursued economics from econometrics to macroeconomics, and then to economic history, economic development, regulatory economics, public policy, finance, and regional planning.

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The Future of Money - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Rapid changes in technology and in the preferences of firms and households are features of the Australian economy, nowhere else more so than in the payments system. How are central banks, including the RBA, thinking about the future of money, both digital and physical cash? What could be the role of central bank digital currencies, stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits in supporting innovation, and what are the financial stability risks? And how could the demand for physical cash evolve in the future? 

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