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• Announcements
• Department Seminars / Workshops
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
• Papers and Presentations

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Announcements

Economics Holiday Reception

There will be a department holiday reception on Friday, December 12, 3:00-4:30 p.m., 368A Heady Hall.

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.

Department Seminars / Workshops

Agricultural Economics/Econ 693 Workshop

Mindy Baker, Iowa State University, "Welfare Changes from the U.S. Ethanol Tax Credit: The Role of Uncertainty and Interlinked Commodity Markets," Tuesday, December 16, 12:30 pm, 368A Heady

Funding Opportunities

The International Monetary Fund Institute

Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies in Economics
Deadline: December 31, 2008
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
Deadline: February 16, 2009
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).
http://www.njas.nl