Department of Economics

Announcements for Friday, January 30, 2009

Conferences and Calls for Papers

Global Market Integration and Financial Crises
Hong Kong, July 12-13, 2009_x000d_
Submission deadline: April 1, 2009_x000d_
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1369-412x
2010 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
Atlanta, Georgia, January 3-5, 2010_x000d_
Abstract deadline: May 5, 2009_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/ES2010Wintermeeting.pdf
NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp
Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 22-25, 2009_x000d_
Application deadline: March 31, 2009_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NBERBootCamp.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Higher Education for Development
CAFTA-DR Environmental Law Capacity Building Initiative_x000d_
Deadline: March 11, 2009_x000d_
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/66/itemid/174/CAFTADR-Environmental-Law-...

Job Opportunities

West Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor, Agricultural Business and Economics_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/WestTexasA&MAGBE.pdf

Papers and Presentations

Wallace E. Huffman
(with K. Fukunaga). "The Role of Risk and Transactions Costs in Contract Design: Evidence from Farmland Lease Contracts in U.S. Agriculture." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(February 2009): 237-250.