The HILDA report was released this week and Associate Professor Roger Wilkins was interviewed by ABC

Associate Professor Roger Wilkins on the release of the HILDA report . Log onto the Melbourne Instiute to download the report

GSBE student Cameron McKenzie-McHarg is part of Australia's team for the men's eight rowing. He will be providing an audio diary before and during the Olympics for B&E readers. Here in his first entry he describes the prep with three weeks before London 2012

GSBE student Adam Spencer was awarded a scholarship for outstanding performance in the Master of Economics. The value of the scholarship was the registration fee for the ADC Future Summit, which took place in Melbourne on the 14th and 15th May. Here Adam speaks about the summit.

"After the Great Recession: Recovery or Stagnation?" was the title of a public lecture at The Spot by Prof Dale Mortensen. This is the first part of this lecture.

"After the Great Recession: Recovery or Stagnation?" was the title of a public lecture at The Spot by Prof Dale Mortensen. This is the second part of this lecture.

At the recent Melbourne Institute Intergen conference, Professor Pagan questioned the forecasting ability of the Treasury in what was a heated debate. The Treasury brought this recent Senate economics committee meeting to our attention. It sheds light on what happened after the conference. Speaking first is committee member Senator Barnaby Joyce, followed by Dr. David Gruen of the Treasury.

Dr Brent Coker speaks about his research that has created a Branded Viral Movie Predictor algorithm to create the a successful viral video. Log onto B&E news for more details of this research.

Come to this talk about microfinance given by a former student at this Faculty.

Date, time, venue: May 17th, 5.30pm -7pm, ICT Theatre 3, ICT Building – refreshments provided