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• Conferences and Calls for Papers
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities

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Department Seminars / Workshops

Agricultural Economics/Econ 693 Workshop

Xiaodong (Sheldon) Du, Iowa State University, "The Impact of Ethanol Production on U.S. and Regional Gasoline Prices and on Welfare," Friday, November 14, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall

William G. Murray Memorial Lecture

Vivian Z. Yue, New York University, "A Solution to the Default Risk-business Cycle Disconnect," Monday, November 17, 160 Heady Hall, 3:40 p.m.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13861.pdf

Human Resources Workshop

Sonya Huffman, ISU, "Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia,"
Thursday, November 20, 4:00 p.m., 468D Heady Hall

Conferences and Calls for Papers

Agribusiness Research Emphasizing Competitiveness and Profitability

Las Vegas, Nevada, June 7-9, 2009
Abstract deadline: February 27, 2009
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/WERA72.pdf

Funding Opportunities

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

2009 Steven H. Sandell Grant Program
Proposal deadline: January 30, 2009
http://crr.bc.edu/opportunities/steven_h._sandell_grant_program_2.html

Job Opportunities

Inter-American Development Bank

Research Economists/Political Scientists
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail&nr=7606

Purdue University

Assistant Director, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service
Deadline: December 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PurdueAsstDirector.pdf

Technische Universitat Munchen

Chair, Agricultural and Food Economics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/files/Technische.AgEcon.pdf
Chair, Horticultural Economics
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/files/Technische.Hort.pdf