News and Events
Economics News
Friday, March 23, 2007
In This Newsletter
- Graduate Student Announcements
- Department Seminars / Workshops
- External Seminars / Workshops
- Conferences and Calls for Papers
- Funding Opportunities
- Job Opportunities
- Papers and Presentations
Newsletter Archives
Current News
- Graduate Student Announcements
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8th International Student Symposium
Prague, Czech Republic, June 24-29, 2007
http://www.student-symposium.com/ -
Argonne National Laboratory
Computational Economics Summer Internship
Application deadline: April 13, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/Argonne-Intern.pdf - Department Seminars / Workshops
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Macro/International Workshop
Benoit Mojon, European Central Bank and FRB-Chicago, "Fast Micro and Slow Macro: Can Aggregation Explain the Persistence of Inflation?" Friday, March 23, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/paperAMZ_FRBC_WPSeries.pdf -
Department Seminar: Bob R. Holdren Memorial Seminar
Sara Fisher Ellison, MIT, "Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition," Monday, March 26, 4 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/ellison.pdf -
Financial Economics Workshop
Jingtao Wu, ISU, "Do CEO Stock Options Encourage Risk Taking?" Tuesday, March 27, 3:40 pm, 368A Heady Hall
- External Seminars / Workshops
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Water Usage in Ethanol Plants: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Molecular Biology 1414, 12:00-1:00 pm, April 10, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/waterusageseminar2.pdf - Conferences and Calls for Papers
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Kiel Institute Summer School on Public Policy
"Reforming the Welfare State: Balancing Efficiency and Equity"
Kiel, Germany, July 1-8, 2007
http://www.ifw-kiel.de/konfer/kiss07/index.htm -
Summer Program in Applied Econometrics
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Tenth Annual International Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
Honolulu, Hawaii, June 28-30, 2007
Proposal deadline: May 20, 2007
http://www.asbbs.org/call__int.html - Funding Opportunities
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Deere & Co.
Deadline: April 16, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/RFP_Deere.pdf -
National Pork Board
Categories of Animal Welfare, Environment and Swine Health
Deadline: April 17
http://www.pork.org/ -
National Science Foundation
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs Phase I Solicitation FY-2008 (SBIR/STTR)
Deadline: June 13, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07551 - Job Opportunities
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J.W.Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany)
Visiting Professor of Macroeconomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=5348 -
Louisiana State University
Assistant/Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Application deadline: April 2, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/LSU.pdf -
Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)
Visiting Professor in Economics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=5349 -
Millersville University
Instructor/Assistant Professor, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=5288 -
University of Minnesota Duluth
Instructor/Assistant Professor of Economics
http://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=175231910 - Papers and Presentations
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Wallace Huffman
(with Robert Evenson and Xing Fan) "U.S. State Agricultural Productivity from 1970 to 2010 and Factors that Make a Difference," presented at the USDA-Economic Research Service Workshop on "Trends & Forces in International Agricultural Productivity Growth," Washington, DC, March 15, 2007.