CENTRE FOR APPLIED ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Conference on the Economic and Social Impacts of Outsourcing
4-5 December 2003
Venue: Rupert Myers Theatre
UNSW Kensington Campus
Program
Thursday, 4th December
8:30
Registration, tea and coffee.
9:00
Welcome:
Kevin Fox
Director, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW.
9:05
Opening Remarks
Greg Whittred
Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, UNSW
9:15
Keynote Speaker:
John Quiggin
University of Queensland
"Transfers and Efficiency in Outsourcing"
10:00
Discussant:
Stephen King
Melbourne Business School
10:30
Break
11:00 Chair: Richard Disney (University of Nottingham)
Trevor Stegman
University of New South Wales
"An Internal
Labour Market Approach to Assessing the Gains from Outsourcing"
12 noon
Lunch
1:00 Chair: Garry Barrett
Tony Eardley
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
"Outsourcing Employment Services: what have we learned from the Job Network?"
2:00
Robin Stonecash
Australian Graduate School of Management
"Outsourcing Services: How is efficient contract design affected by demand uncertainty?"
3:00 Break
3:30 Chair: Robert Hill
Joshua Gans and Catherine de Fontenay
Melbourne Business School
"Outsourcing in the Presence of Competitors"
Friday 5th December
9:15 Chair: John Nevile
Keynote Speaker:
Adrian O'Connell
National Secretary, Community and Public Sector Union
"The Union View of Outsourcing"
10:00
Discussant:
John Quiggin
University of Queensland
10:30 Break
11:00 Chair: Bill Schworm
Elizabeth Savage, Jane Hall and Glenn Jones
Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, UTS
"Contracting with Medical Providers in NSW Public Hospitals"
12 noon
Lunch
1:00 Chair: Glenn Otto
Elisabetta Magnani
University of New South Wales
"Outsourcing and Technological Change"
2:00
Hodaka Morita
University of New South Wales
"An Economic Analysis of Outsourcing under Japanese Management Systems"
3:00
Kevin Fox
Director, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW.
Concluding Remarks.