Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, February 1, 2008

Conferences and Calls for Papers

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Summer Workshop
Application deadline: March 1, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/StanfordInstituteWorkshop2008.pdf
Annual M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition
This competition is open to undergraduates and graduate students. Papers will be presented at the 2008 Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Conference, June 5-7, 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colorado._x000d_
Submission deadline: April 1, 2008_x000d_
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/mcrsa/student_paper_competition.htm

Funding Opportunities

Higher Education for Development (HED)
Increasing Institutional Capacity in Agricultural Economics_x000d_
Deadline: April 11, 2008_x000d_
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/66/itemid/149/Albania-Agriculture.aspx
Iowa State University
Plant Sciences Institute Innovative Research Grants Program_x000d_
Deadline: March 5, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PSIResearchGrant.pdf
The National Bureau of Economic Research
Innovation Policy and the Economy_x000d_
Proposal deadline: March 31, 2008_x000d_
http://www.nber.org/ipe/01_2008_ipecall.pdf

Job Opportunities

North Dakota State University
Assistant/Associate Professor, Agribusiness/Applied Economics_x000d_
Deadline: February 15, 2008_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NDSUcropeconomist.pdf
Centrec Consulting Group, LLC
Agribusiness Consultant_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Centrec.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wally Huffman
Wally Huffman spent this past week visiting the Department of Economics at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and presented the following paper in the Microeconomics Seminar on January 28: "Over-Nutrition and the Changing Health Status in High Income Countries." Wally has been in The Netherlands since January 1, 2008, on a six-month faculty improvement leave at the Department of Economics, Erasmus University - Rotterdam.