Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, December 12, 2008

Announcements

Main Office Semester Break Hours
During semester break, December 22-January 9, rooms 260 and 266 Heady will be open 7:30 am-4:00 pm with the exceptions of December 24, December 29-31, and January 2 when hours will be 7:30 am-11:30 am. All university offices will be closed December 25-26 and January 1.
Economics Holiday Reception
There will be a department holiday reception on Friday, December 12, 3:00-4:30 p.m., 368A Heady Hall.

Funding Opportunities

The International Monetary Fund Institute
Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies in Economics_x000d_
Deadline: December 31, 2008_x000d_
http://www.imf.org/external/np/ins/english/scholar.htm#Japimfa

Job Opportunities

University of Minnesota
Assistant/Associate Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and Environment_x000d_
Deadline: February 16, 2009_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/UofMinnesotaAsstAssoc.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace Huffman
(with K. Fukunaga). "Sustainable Land Use over Time: Landlord-Tenant Contracting in the United States of America." NJAS-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 55(2008):379-396 (a journal of the Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Sciences)._x000d_
http://www.njas.nl