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Monday's Department Seminar: David Just, Cornell University

[Posted Oct 25, 2012]
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"Feeding Kids or Feeding the Garbage: Fruits and Vegetables in the School Lunch Program," with David Just, Cornell University. October 29, 3:40 pm - 5:30 pm, 368A Heady Hall.

David Just is an associate professor at Cornell University, and received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests center around the use of information, and more particularly, how differences in human capital and information availability affect decisions. Some research questions addressed by his research include: Why do individuals and firms use the information they do? Do firms with greater informational resources take advantage of smaller firms? How do problems with information updating affect risk-averting behavior? How can economists' interpretations be tainted by ignoring issues of information?

Wednesday's Charles Sivesind Memorial Lecture: Ben Malin, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

[Posted Oct 25, 2012]
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"Testing for Keynesian Labor Demand," with Ben Malin, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Wednesday, October 31, 4:10 PM-5:30 PM, 368A Heady Hall.

Ben Malin joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a senior economist in 2012, after spending 6 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. His current research focuses on firms' price-setting behavior, business cycles, and economic growth. Ben's work has appeared in the Handbook of Monetary Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics,and other journals. Ben holds a B.S. in economics from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Weekly Media Connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Oct 19, 2012]
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Mike Duffy spoke with the Congressional Quarterly about the farm bill. He also spoke with National Public Radio on land values and impacts on beginning farmers.

Chad Hart spoke with Philip Brasher, Executive Briefing – Agriculture and Food, on proposition 37 in California.

Lee Schulz spoke with Allison Suesse, Northwest Iowa Review, regarding pork production and the outlook for hog and pork prices. He also spoke with Zoe Martin, Iowa Farmer Today, about this year’s drought and its impact on farmers, food prices, and consumer demand.

Hayes participates in US-China agricultural investment group

[Posted Oct 18, 2012]
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Dermot Hayes, professor of economics and finance and the Pioneer Chair in Agribusiness at ISU, is participating in a recent collaboration supported by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Paulson Institute, designed to discuss opportunities and constraints in U.S.-China agriculture-related cross-investment, examine successes and failures, and explore potential investment models. Learn more about their work at: http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/files/About_Us/Press_Releases/FY13_Releases/121015.aspx

Thursday's Human Resources Workshop: Qiqi Wang, Iowa State University

[Posted Oct 17, 2012]
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"The Diffusion Effect of Group Identity on Social Cooperation," with Qiqi Wang, Iowa State University. Thursday, October 25, 3:40 PM-5 PM, 360 Heady Hall.

Abstract: The recent literature on in-group/out-group bias has demonstrated that subjects who participate in group-identity building games are more likely to cooperate in subsequent experiments (for example, Chen and Chen ($2011$), Eckel and Grossman ($2006$)).

Weekly Media Connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Oct 15, 2012]
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Chad Hart, grain Extension economist, spoke with or participated in the following:

Tuesday's Pioneer Policy Lecture: Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

[Posted Oct 15, 2012]
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"Does Information from Online Markets for Contract Labor Help or Hinder Applicants from Less Developed Countries?" with Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto. Tuesday, October 23, 3:40 PM, 368A Heady Hall.

Nicola Lacetera is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Toronto, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He joined the faculty of the university of Toronto in 2010 after having served four years as Assistant Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, and having earned his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.

Thursday's Human Resources Workshop: Juan Murguia, Iowa State University

[Posted Oct 15, 2012]
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"Old Peer Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Mixing up vs Keeping Classmates in Elementary School," with Juan Murguia, Iowa State University

Thu, Oct 18, 2012 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm @ 360 Heady Hall

Babcock discusses lack of farm bill

[Posted Oct 11, 2012]
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ISU professor of economics Bruce Babcock spoke with Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about this year’s farm bill, or rather the lack thereof, on Tuesday, Oct. 9.

The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 officially terminated at midnight on September 30. The current session of Congress, being heralded as one of the most unproductive sessions in recent history by some, failed to pass a new farm bill, or to even offer a short-term extension on the old bill.

Weekly Media Connections for the Department of Economics

[Posted Oct 09, 2012]
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Dave Swenson spoke with Sarah McCammon, IPR (Marketplace) on the impact of field worker campaign spending in Iowa.

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