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Announcements for Friday, April 19, 2013

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  • EGSA spring picnic

    Join EGSA for the annual spring picnic. Enjoy international foods, drinks, socializing, and sports. It will be a great break from all the studying.

    • Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
    • Time: 5:00 PM
    • Location: Brookside Park (Maple Shelter)
    • (Rain date: Saturday, April 27 at 3:00PM)

    Please RSVP by TUESDAY, APRIL 23. If you do not RSVP we will assume you do not plan on attending. We need to make sure we get enough food for everyone who plans on attending.

    The link to RSVP is below. Fill out the survey with the amount of people, including yourself, that will be attending. If you are attending with someone else in the department please coordinate your responses so we do not have a double response. Please include any diet restrictions in the comment section.

    All are welcome; significant others, children, friends, family. The more the merrier!

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vPOM9N35h918HvxPHW-MTRUA3sfhBMX9OxC1zNcOh1Q/viewform

    If you have problems with the link, please email kmlacy11@iastate.edu with your response.

News

  • Duffy honored by American Agricultural Editors’ Association

    Mike Duffy will be presented the Distinguished Service Award this summer by the American Agricultural Editors’ Association.

    “Mike’s leadership in helping beginning farmers for nearly 20 years has helped to facilitate the transfer and transition of farm operations between multiple generations,” said Dan Zinkand, an agricultural journalist and AAEA member who led Duffy’s nomination effort.

    Read the full news release at: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/news/releases/1085/

  • Friday's George Fuller Memorial Seminar: Massimo Morelli, Columbia University

    “Re-Election Through Division,” with Massimo Morelli, Columbia University. Friday, April 26, 3:40 PM-5 PM, 368A Heady Hall.

    Massimo Morelli is a professor of political science and a professor of economics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1996, has been a research fellow at the Center for Operation Research and Econometrics in 1997, has taught at Iowa State University, University of Minnesota and Ohio State University, and has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In economic theory, he has made contributions to coalition and network formation, market games, bargaining theory and the theory of contracts. His main political economy contributions have been on party formation, electoral systems, international organizations, legislative bargaining theory and experiments, politicians' incentives in institutional reforms and constitutional design. His most recent research projects on the rational choice approach to conflict include the role of natural resources and geography, dispute resolution mechanisms, mediation and strategic militarization. In terms of institutional design, he is working on transparency, quorum rules, separation of powers and optimal organization design in the presence of career concerns.

    This seminar is provided by a generous gift from George A. Fuller, a native of Muscatine, Iowa, who received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Iowa State University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Iowa. His career included work in the export and transportation industries, time in the Air Force as a flyer and a transportation economist, extensive travel and teaching, and numerous awards. He received a Danforth Fellowship at Harvard and was a Fulbright's lecturer and a visiting professor at the Swedish School of Economics and the Helsinki School of Economics. He taught at the USDA Graduate School, the University of Iowa, UCLA, USC, University of North Carolina, and the University of Utah. He studied economic conditions in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Dr. Fuller's career truly spanned the practice and theory of economics. 

  • Weekly Media Contacts for the Department of Economics

    Dave Swenson spoke with Donnell Eller, The Des Moines Register, regarding a Brookings Institution report on the rate of job change in central metropolitan areas and outlying suburban regions, comparing Des Moines to the national average.

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