Announcements for Friday, July 20, 2007
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
International Agricultural Internship Program_x000d_
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/iaip/index.htm_x000d_
Career Internship Program (CIP)_x000d_
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/newjobs/careerintern1.html
Announcements
- Nominations Sought for The 2008 Charles A. Black Award
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)_x000d_
Deadline: August 1, 2007_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/CharlesA.Bl... - Call for Nominations
The American Economic Association is looking for the next editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Recommendations can be sent to Rebecca Blank, Chair, JEP Editor Search Committee, jepeditorsearch@vanderbilt.edu._x000d_
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Conferences and Calls for Papers
- 15th World Congress of the International Economic Association
Istanbul, Turkey, June 25-29, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/IEA-WorldCo...
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/IEA-Callfor... - ATHGO International
"The Role of Good Governance in Economic Development"_x000d_
World Bank, Washington, DC, August 1-3, 2007_x000d_
http://www.athgo.org/ - American Economic Journal Call for Papers
Applied Economics_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-applied/_x000d_
Economic Policy_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-policy/_x000d_
Macroeconomics_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-macro/_x000d_
Microeconomics_x000d_
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-micro/
Funding Opportunities
- Iowa Energy Center
Research and Demonstration Projects_x000d_
Pre-proposal deadline: August 20, 2007_x000d_
http://www.energy.iastate.edu/funding/gp-research.html - Iowa Beef Industry Council
Request for Pre-Proposals_x000d_
Deadline: September 1, 2007_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/IowaBeef.pdf
Job Opportunities
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
International Agricultural Internship Program_x000d_
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/iaip/index.htm_x000d_
Career Internship Program (CIP)_x000d_
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/newjobs/careerintern1.html - Economic Research Service, USDA
- Food and Nutrition Service
Social Science Research Analyst, Food Stamp Evaluation Branch_x000d_
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=07-FNS-215P&salmin=&sal... - University of Nebraska Northeast Research and Extension Center
District Director_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/UnivofNebra...
Papers and Presentations
- Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion
Junjie Sun. "Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Agent-Based Computational Approach," presented at the 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Society for Computational Economics, Montreal, Canada, June 14-16, 2007 and at the 2007 North American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 21-24, 2007._x000d_
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Leigh Tesfatsion. "Agents Come to Bits: Towards a Constructive Comprehensive Taxonomy of Economic Entities," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 63, Issue 2, June 2007, 333-346. _x000d_
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Open-Source Software Release: The AMES Market Package (Java) - A Free Open-Source Test Bed for the Agent-Based Modeling of Electricity Systems. Copyright holders (GNU GPL): Junjie Sun, Hongyan Li, and Leigh Tesfatsion. Release Date: 14 July 2007._x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/AMESMarketHome.htm_x000d_
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Open-Source Software Release: DCOPFJ (Java) - A Free Open-Source Solver for DC Optimal Power Flow Problems. Copyright holders (GNU GPL): Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion. Release Date: 20 June 2007._x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/DCOPFJHome.htm


