Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Department Convocation
Begins: 2:00 pm
Short Program: 2:15 pm
Refreshments will be available.
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2019
Description: The AAEA Early Career Professional Mentoring workshop is aimed at professionals in research positions in applied economics in academic and non-academic careers. The workshop will consist of a one and a half day program, beginning directly after the 2019 AAEA meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, starting on July 24 and ending by mid-day on July 25, 2019.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description: A copy of the call for papers can be found online at https://conference.nber.org/confer/2019/SI2019/call2019.html
Proposal submission deadline: March 30, 2019
The detailed meeting calendar may be found here.
There will be workshops on each of the following topics:
Location: Paris, France
Non-Credit Summer Program
Program Evaluation and Applied Policy Analysis
Application deadline: June 15, 2019
Location: Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris
Location: Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Location: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Description: The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis.
Submission deadline: Jan. 18, 2019
Location: San Francisco, California.
Description: CSWEP will be sponsoring sessions at the 2019 Western Economic Association International (WEAI) conference.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Somenath Bera (ISU)
"Are labor supply decisions Neoclassical or Reference-Dependent? Evidence from the Pacific Halibut fishery"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Application deadline: March 1, 2019
More information: www.lumenchristi.org
Location: Michigan State University
Description: ÊSTIMATE is an intensive weekend workshop taught by world class econometricians. The Michigan State University Department of Economics boasts a long tradition of excellence in econometrics. With a number of faculty members doing research in both theoretical and applied areas, the econometrics group at MSU is nationally ranked 12th by the U.S.
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
This open house event is a campus-wide opportunity to get to know the ISD specialists who will support you and your unit.
Location: University of Notre Dame
Application deadline: March 1, 2019
More information: www.lumenchristi.org
Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Description: Intensive 2-month residential program for advanced undergraduate and Ph.D. graduate students.
Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch, St. Louis, Missouri
Description:
Plenary Speakers include:
Location: Stephens Auditorium
Description: ISU Honors Comedy College presents a night of side-splitting laughter starring headliner Dr. Peter Orazem, ISU economics professor, former Ames city councilman, and the funniest Fullbright Fellow in the entire world on Tuesday, May 28 at 7:30 pm in the Celebrity Café – Stephens Auditorium.
Location: Memorial Union, Ames
Description: This summer school is designed as an intensive curriculum aimed at practitioners and researchers to get them started in data-driven research and development. The school will include full day lectures on topics ranging from: data acquisition, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, descriptive data analysis, data analysis tools and techniques, visualization and communication, ethical issues in data science, reproducibility and repeatability, and understanding of domain/context.
Location:
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Kansas City, MO
Description: The program will include two components. The first component is a three-day practical immersion to observe and participate in an annual convening of the Foundation, which brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship support organizations, policy advocates, and local policymakers. Bootcamp participants will have the opportunity to interact with stakeholders relevant to entrepreneurship, and to learn firsthand about complex and urgent needs.
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Contact Persons: Matthew Kotchen, James Stock, and Catherine Wolfram
Location:1022 Agronomy
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Please join the department in saying goodbye to a number of our colleagues who are either retiring or are leaving for other positions at Iowa State or other universities.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady
Description: Christian Moser
"The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Zhongzheng Zhou (ISU)
"Liquidity backup from commercial banks to shadow banks"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xiaogang Li (ISU)
“Does Innovation Increase Stock Returns? The Role of Innovation Efficiency”
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Devin Pope CV
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Shanto Iyengar
"The Intensification of Partisan Affect"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Lecturer/Senior Lecturer candidate Jeffrey DeSimone (University of Alabama Birmingham)
Ph.D. Economics, Yale University, 1998
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Vaidyanathan Venkateswaran
"The Tail that Wags the Economy: Beliefs and Persistent Stagnation"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Lecturer/Senior Lecturer candidate David Aadland (University of Wyoming)
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, 1997
Contact Person: John Crespi
Location: Athens, Greece
Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2019
More information: www.icntefconference.com
Location: Athens, Greece
Description: Like the previous three conferences, this conference serves as a forum for academics, practitioners, and central bank and government officials in Europe and all over the world to present and discuss research results about the evolution of the international economics and of the global financial system.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Pichittra Prapassornmanu (ISU)
"Three Essays on Foreign Exchange Rates"
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Lecturer/Senior Lecturer candidate Darin Wohlgemuth (Department of Economics)
Ph.D. Economics, Iowa State University, 1997
Second session from 1:00-2:30 pm
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Register by: April 8 at Learn@ISU
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Marla Ripoll
"The Patterns of Parental Intervivos Transfers to Adult Children"
Location:The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY
Description: Co-hosted by the University of Kentucky and Marginal Revolution University for one of the first ever econ education conferences focused on the science of learning.
Registration deadline: March 29
More information support@mruniversity.com
The speaker lineup includes some of the biggest names at the intersection of economics and the science of learning. This includes:
Location: 468D Heady Hall
Description: Bryan Jackson
"Missing Girls in the United States: Literature Review and Some Analysis"
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Qiong Wu
"Microstructure Theory Applied in RMB Exchange Rate and Bitcoin"
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Shakeeb Khan
"Dynamic Discrete Choice with Unobserved Heterogeneity"
The fifth annual European Student Conference (ESC) organized by European Horizons will be held at Yale University starting on the evening of April 4th, with the main conference programming occurring Friday, April 5th and Saturday, April 6th 2019.
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Presenters: Kipp Van Dyke, Assistant Dean and Director of Student Assistance, Dean of Students Office and Sara Kellogg, Assistant Dean and Director of the Office of Student Conduct, Dean of Students Office
To register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: Cornell University
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
You can register by logging in to Learn@ISU (with your Net-ID and password) and entering keyword: WorkCyte Faculty Forum, then click List Events, select Enroll next to the forum you wish to attend, and click Register. If you have any problems or questions, please contact WorkCyte_Change@iastate.edu. No need to attend more than one; each forum will cover the same material.
Location: 568B Heady Hall
Description: Albulena Basha
"The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes and Agricultural Trade Uncertainty on Midwestern Farmland Values"
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates and graduate students
Location: Memorial Union
Description:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Petra Moser
“Go North! Unintended Consequences on Science and Invention”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
When disruptive behavior takes place, a number of Iowa State University faculty members recommend
addressing it immediately. Their advice: remain calm, assess the situation, listen to student concerns.
Especially recommended: provide a clear, firm response that is consistent with responses you’ve given other
students. The strategies and resources in this workshop will help you prepare for these moments before they
occur.
Learning Objectives
• Recognize the appropriate responses to classroom disruption
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
You can register by logging in to Learn@ISU (with your Net-ID and password) and entering keyword: WorkCyte Faculty Forum, then click List Events, select Enroll next to the forum you wish to attend, and click Register. If you have any problems or questions, please contact WorkCyte_Change@iastate.edu. No need to attend more than one; each forum will cover the same material.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
You can register by logging in to Learn@ISU (with your Net-ID and password) and entering keyword: WorkCyte Faculty Forum, then click List Events, select Enroll next to the forum you wish to attend, and click Register. If you have any problems or questions, please contact WorkCyte_Change@iastate.edu. No need to attend more than one; each forum will cover the same material.
Submission deadline: Nov. 16, 2018
The tutorial will introduce third year and higher graduate students to overviews of this area of research and provide graduate students face-to-face time with research leaders. The final day of the meeting will involve presentations of frontier research by six researchers and discussants, as part of the winter meeting of the NBER Digitization group. The meeting will be held at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Location: Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, MO
Description: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Association
This year's speakers are Dr. Kerwin Charles, president of the Midwest Economics Association and Edwin A. and Betty L. Berman Distinguished Service Professor and former interim Dean, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the distinguished C. Woody Thompson Lecturer, Dr. William Evans, Keough-Hesburgh Professor and Department Chair, University of Notre Dame.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
You can register by logging in to Learn@ISU (with your Net-ID and password) and entering keyword: WorkCyte Faculty Forum, then click List Events, select Enroll next to the forum you wish to attend, and click Register. If you have any problems or questions, please contact WorkCyte_Change@iastate.edu. No need to attend more than one; each forum will cover the same material.
THE “PUBLIC CLASSROOM” (for all faculty)
Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Seemingly every week, university faculty comes under fire for statements or material presented in the classroom. Join University Counsel, Michael Norton, for a review of the current environment, and its implications for freedom of speech, and academic freedom.
Light refreshments will be provided.
To register for on-campus training or professional development events, please follow these steps.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ismael Mourifie
"Sharp Bounds and Testability of a Roy Model of Stem Major Choices"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Matthew Gibson
"Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism"
Location: Memorial Union
Description: This comprehensive forum on race and ethnicity is free and open to the Iowa State University community (students, staff, and faculty).
Registration deadline: Feb. 28, 2018
PRE-CONFERENCE: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
11:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The pre-conference is open to faculty and staff only.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Robin DiAngelo
"White Fragility, Why is it So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism"
Location: Scheman Building
Description: This year's conference, Cultivate Your Adventure: Planting the Seeds of Success, will feature TWO keynote speakers. We hope that through this conference, you will experience growth, encouragement, and positive social interactions with your colleagues, as well as gaining skills and knowledge you can use as you continue your adventure at Iowa State University.
Location:368A Heady Hall
Description: Christian Hansen
"Inference for Heterogeneous Effects Using Low-Rank Estimations"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
“Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment"
Contact Person: Desire Kedagni
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Description: Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
Intended for faculty who are considering academic administration as a career path, this discussion will borrow from the leadership journeys of Dr. Reginald Stewart, VP for Diversity and Inclusion, and Dr. Sarah Nusser, VP for Research. They will share their personal stories, reflect on what they enjoy as well as the gritty truth of lessons learned, and provide participants with real-world advice on some of the issues they face as administrators in higher education.
Location: Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Description: DOCUMENTING YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT AND INCREASING VISIBILITY (for all faculty)
Presenter: Lorrie Pellack, Professor, library
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Marc Bellemare
"Producer Attitudes toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence from the Lab and from the Field"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Alex Imas
“The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence”
Location: Oak Room, Memorial Union
Description: "Discover How You Can Make an Impact Abroad"
A free workshop on Fulbright opportunities for administrators, faculty members, and professionals.
Individual faculty and professionals can reserve a 30 minute slot to visit with the Fulbright Program representative from 8:00-9:30 am and from 1:00-5:00 pm in the Oak Room. To reserve a time for a meeting, please contact Megan Peterson meganmp@iastate.edu by Feb. 6.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Curtiss 0105
Description: Spring 2019 Ivy College of Business Speaker Series: CEO of Scoular, Paul Maass, ('88 ag bus)
"Finding the Right Cultural Fit for Your Career"
In partnership with the Agricultural Business Club
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rhiannon Jerch CV
"The Local Consequences of Federal Mandates: Evidence from the Clean Water Act"
Contact Person: GianCarlo Moschini
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Hao Zhao CV
"Solving the Common-Pool Resource Problem Using Markets?"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: For faculty on adjunct, clinical, and research tracks
To register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Dylan Brewer CV
"Equilibrium Sorting and Moral Hazard in Residential Energy Contracts"
Contact Person: GianCarlo Moschini
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rumen Kostadinov CV
"Renegotiation of Long-Term Contracts as Part of an Implicit Agreement"
Contact Person: Peter Orazem
Location: Oak Room, Memorial Union
Description: For lecturers and senior lecturers
To register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Honorees in the awards program will be recognized during the CALS Fall Semester Convocation and wine-and-cheese reception on Sept. 17, 2019, in the Gallery, Memorial Union.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Mengke Wang CV
"Self-Similar Beliefs in Games with Strategic Substitutes"
Contact Person: Peter Orazem
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jian Li CV
"Ambiguous Persuasion"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jiekai Zhang CV
"Regulating Advertising Quantity: Is It Efficient?
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Minghao Li
"Education equity and intergenerational mobility: Quasi-experimental evidence from court-ordered school finance reforms"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Chelsea Crain CV
"Price and Quality Responses of the Restaurant Industry to Increases in the Minimum Wage"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Justin Leung CV
"How Do Government Transfer Payments Affect Retail Prices and Welfare? Evidence from SNAP"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Donghyuk Kim CV
"Government Incentives and Firm Location Choices"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Jiaoting Shi (ISU)
"Unemployment and Sovereign Risk"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: For lecturers and senior lecturers
To register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Katherine Harris CV
"The Effect of Online Shopping on Grocery Demand"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Kim Ruhl
"Offshore Profit Shifting and Domestic Productivity Measurement"
Location: Atlanta Marriott Marquis, A703-704, Atlanta, GA
Description: The American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
Location: Hilton Coliseum
Description: The Iowa State University fall undergraduate commencement ceremony
Location: Hilton Coliseum
The fall-semester CALS Convocation for graduating seniors will be held Friday, Dec. 14, beginning at 10 a.m. in Hilton Coliseum. The Friday event reflects the university’s new schedule for college convocations and university commencement that was initiated last spring semester (May 2018). The positioning of CALS Convocation on Friday morning helps accommodate the other ceremony changes and will better serve our CALS graduates and families.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Shaobai Jiang
"An Analysis of House Price Using Machine Learning and Text Mining Techniques"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Description: Presenters: Bill Graves, Dean of the Graduate College; Carolyn Cutrona, Associate Dean of the Graduate College
Register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: Cambridge, MA
Contact Person: Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department 617/868-3900 or rshannon@nber.org.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Jae Hyoung Kim
“Financing R&D, Financial Constraints, and Employment”
Contact Person: John Winters
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Eric Hanushek
"The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance"
Location: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Description: The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC)
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Pichittra Prapassornmanu
"Heterogeneous Informational Horizons and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle"
Contact Person: Amy Emmett
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Yulong Chen
"Air Pollution and Academic Performance: Evidence from China"
Contact Person: John Winters
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Sicheng He
"Endogenous Growth: Innovation, Credit Constraints, and Stock Price Bubbles"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Come join us as we ring in the holidays at the Department of Economics Holiday Party on Tues., November 27th.
The festivities will take place in 368A Heady, starting at noon and lasting until 2:00 p.m. Come for tasty treats and fun!
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
"The Value of Water Quality: Separating Amenity and Recreational Benefits"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Sher Afghan Asad, Ph.D. grad student, Iowa State University
"Reverse discrimination: Evidence from an online labor market"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Lee Branstetter
"Does offshoring manufacturing harm innovation in the home country? Evidence from Taiwan and China"
Contact Person: GianCarlo Moschini
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Alex Zhylyevskyy, professor, Iowa State University
"Investigating Treatment Effects of Participating Jointly in SNAP and WIC when the Treatment is Validated Only for SNAP"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Carol Shiue
"Social Mobility in the Long-Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900"
Location: Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jing Cai CV
"Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ebonya Washington
"The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?"
Location: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Description: The Faculty Experience Workgroup, led jointly by the Faculty Senate and the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, is working to identify and take action on issues of concern raised by faculty in the recent Campus Climate Survey.
Location: Beijing Friendship Hotel, No. 1, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Description: Under the background of China's poverty-alleviation efforts, combining the small-scale farmers' development and poverty alleviation practices in the Asia-Pacific region, the focus will be on improving the ability of smallholders to survive and develop, especially on the experiences and frontiers of smallholders' development and poverty reduction in various countries.
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2018
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sam Bird (U.C. Davis)
“Technology Adoption, Market Participation, and Smallholder Endowments in Western Kenya”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Price V. Fishback
"The New Deal and Cotton Agriculture During the Great Depression"
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Michael McCormick
"Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire with the Science of the Human Past"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Pierre Mérel
"How Big is the `Lemons' Problem? Historical Evidence from French Appellation Wines"
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: The Rise of the Mega-firm: Causes and Consequences for Labor and Product Markets
Contact Person: NBER will cover the hotel and travel cost for two authors per paper. Other participants may also attend the meeting if space permits. Anyone interested in attending the meeting, but who does not have a paper to submit, may email Carl Beck in the NBER Conference Department (cbeck@nber.org). Questions about the conference should also be directed to him.
Location: Stephens Auditorium, 1900 Center Drive, Ames, Iowa 50011
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Amanda Ross
"Home Equity and the Timing of Claiming Social Security Retirement Income"
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: 2018 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration
The NIH Regional Seminar serves the NIH mission of providing education and training for the next generation of biomedical and behavioral scientists. This seminar is intended to:
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
This is an opportunity to find out more about using open textbooks is your courses as a way of making ISU more affordable for our students. Here’s a link to the subject areas covered by the Open Textbook Library.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Tom Vogl
"Intergenerational Associations and the Fertility Transition"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: Kildee Hall Pavilion
Description: Meet your CALS P&S Council representatives at a meet and greet ice cream social and raffle.
RSVP here: https://iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78nAGoNryFQhovX
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Susan Sayre
"Groundwater Externalities with Endogenous Well Deepening"
Location: Curtiss 0013
Description: Sustainable Agriculture Graduate Program colloquium series
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: John Winters, associate professor, Iowa State University
"Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Alberto Galasso
"How does product liability affect innovation? Evidence from medical implants"
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: One of the most important skills for future economists to developing is good communication. Many of the faculty, overall, feel like English communication is an area where we need to improve. Dr. Zhang has kindly offered his time to come and speak about the importance of English skills on the US job market. He'll speak about his own experience in improving his own English skills and answer student questions.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth
"Do Liberal Arts Colleges Maximize Profit?"
Location: Webinar (or Weill Hall 224, Cornell University)
Description: The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, the Center for Carbon Removal (CCR), and the New Carbon Economy Consortium (NCEC) invite you to connect with scholars working at the intersection of carbon removal and human dimensions research in order to develop a research agenda on the integration of the social sciences, humanities, and arts in the creation of an economy that is carbon-sequestering rather than carbon-emitting.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ali Shourideh
“Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach”
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Wallace Huffman, professor, Iowa State University
"Wellbeing: Models, Measurement and International Comparisons"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Brookside Park, Maple Shelter, 1325 6th St.
Contact Person: jwlee@iastate.edu
Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff, family, friends, and pets.
Please help us estimate how much food to provide by filling out the attached RSVP form by Wednesday, Sept 5.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Kaffine
“Microclimate effects of wind farms on local crop yields”
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem, University Professor, Iowa State University
"Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia"
Location: 13 Curtiss Hall
Description: The sustainability of our food system depends on ensuring that everyone has a seat at the table. Recognizing this, agriculture and food businesses, organizations, and educational institutions are increasing their diversity and inclusion efforts — from the classroom to the field to the fork. But what does diversity and inclusion mean? What is its relevance for the agriculture and food system, including here in Iowa? Why is it important for CALS students to engage in these issues at ISU?
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Tom Vilsack served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for eight years and is currently president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council. He was Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.
"Trade Relations and U.S. Agriculture"
More information: E-mail the Lectures Program
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
The program will include brief comments from Interim Dean Joe Colletti and recognition of the College’s new faculty and staff since last fall. A reception will follow.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Pioneer Policy Lecture
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Harvey Lapan
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Blockade Runner Resort, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Qiong Wu
"Bitcoin, A New Era or Another Bubble?"
Contact Person: Rajesh Singh
Location: Cambridge, MA
Location: Webinar - Register Here
Description:
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Description: The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis.
Paper submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2018
More information
Location: Scheman Building, Ames, IA
Description: "Grow Your Adventure"
Our technical program will provide a rich and varied selection of professional development including oral and poster sessions, workshops, and tours of local agriculture enterprises and sites unique to central Iowa. There will also be ample opportunities to meet old friends, make new ones, and build your professional network. In essence, a chance to grow your professional adventure!
Location: Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Description: Designed to help college instructors plan courses on the causes, consequences, and cures of poverty. The workshop is open to college faculty and instructors in any postsecondary institution—university, college, or community college. Applicants need not have prior experience in poverty studies, but should plan to include material from the workshop in future courses.
Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2018
Location: 2117 Gerdin (June 11 and 13), 3164 Gerdin (June 12)
Description: A 3-part series. The research-based flipped classroom and team-based learning (TBL), an increasingly-popular form of flipped-classroom where small-group learning that can be implemented effectively in small or large classes.
Location: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Location: 206 Durham
Description: The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using the University Learning Management System (LMS).
Location: 2030 Morrill
Description: The "Improving Your Online Course" workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan.
Location: 1204 Kildee Hall
Description: "Science Policy in an Age of Public Conflict" NUTRS 505
Lecturer: Dr. Catherine Woteki, Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics 2010-2016 and Under Secretary for Food Safety 1997-2001, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Harvey Lapan
Location: 368A Heady
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
The 2018 Midwest Big Data Summer School for Early Career Researchers will be held from May 14-17, 2018 in Ames, Iowa. This summer school is designed as an intensive curriculum aimed at early career researchers to get them started in data-driven research. The school will include full day lectures on topics ranging from: data acquisition, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, descriptive data analysis, data analysis tools and techniques, visualization and communication, ethical issues in data science, reproducibility and repeatability, and understanding of domain/context.
Early registration: March 14
Regular registration: March 15-April 14
Location: St. Petersburg
Abstract submission deadline: March 30, 2018
More information
Turkish Airlines is now our official airline partner and provide discounted flight tickets for conference participants. More information is available at http://icntefconference.com/flight-tickets/
Location: Howe Hall
Description: A strong program of invited speakers presenting on interesting Machine Learning topics. We are accepting poster presentations for the event and the registration fee for ISU people is quite reasonable (essentially at marginal cost).
Location: Howe Hall
Description: This national meeting organized by the ISU Statistics Department features some of the very top scholars in the country and world. It is accepting poster presentations.
More information: https://predictiveinference.github.io/
Graduating seniors in agricultural business, economics, and business economics and their families:
Location: Gallery Room, Memorial Union
Description: This year, we will be hosting an open house reception in honor of our graduating seniors from all three majors and their families.
Please stop by so we, as the Department of Economics faculty and staff, may thank you for sharing your student with us for a few years!
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: The Role of Immigrants and Foreign Students in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2017
Location: Alanya, Turkey
Description: ICFAEC 2018 aims at disseminating new knowledge in the field economics and provides a forum for deliberations and exchange of knowledge among academics, organizations, and researchers. ICFAEC 2018 encourages submission of theoretical and empirical papers in the different domains of food and agricultural economics and related disciplines, within and across different levels of analysis.
Location: 468D Heady Hall
Description: Zehui Jiang
"Predicting County Level Corn Yields in Iowa Using Machine Learning"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: Central Campus, just north of the Campanile
Description: “A World Intellectual Property Day celebration, hosted by The Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) and the Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (OIPTT) will be held just north of the Campanile on Central Campus, Thursday, April 26, 2018, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Department of Economics cordially invites you to a reception celebrating University Professor Harvey Lapan's 46 years of distinguished service to the department.
Location: 008 Curtiss Hall
Description: The roundtable will be discussion format for peers to provide hints or tips to others, share concerns, exchange ideas, and demonstrate what works in Canvas for them/their classes. In addition, there will be a short introduction to the Canvas Mobile Apps (Canvas Teacher & Canvas Student). Please bring your laptop. A light lunch will be provided.
Location: Drop off location, 260 Heady Hall
Description: The 10th Annual Live United Food Drive will take place on campus from April 23 to May 4. Donations will benefit the food pantries of Story County and ensure children have food during the summer months.
Non-perishable items and monetary donations will be accepted. Monetary donations may be provided online or via cash/check. Online donations may be provided on the United Way of Story County website.
Location: Maple shelter in Brookside Park
Description: We plan on serving hamburgers, chicken, hot dogs, vegetables, fruits, chips, and cookies. If you are interested in preparing something else or if you have any suggestions, please let us know in the comments of the RSVP form below Please RSVP by April 18.
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: "Where is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?"
Location: 368A Heady
Description: Lala Ma
"Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water?"
Location: University of Berkely, CA
Location: University of Georgia in Athens, GA
Description: The theme of the conference is “Regulatory Impact Analysis: Methods, Applications, and Implications for Emerging Economies”. The conference includes invited keynote speakers, roundtable forums, and parallel sessions. Arrival and registration of participants will start in the afternoon of April 5. All speeches and sessions are on April 6 and 7.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jay Shimshack
"Does mandatory labeling of outfall points influence pollution and compliance? Evidence from a natural experiment in Ohio"
Location: Cambridge, MA
Description: Capital Flows, Currency Wars and Monetary Policy conference
Submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2018
Contact Person: rshannon@nber.org.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: V. Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin)
"Marriage Market Equilibrium, Education and Ability"
Location: 1951 Food Sciences Building – CCUR Auditorium
Live webinar: https://zoom.us/j/298365885
Join by phone: (669) 900-6833 – ID# 298365885
Location: 568B Heady Hall
Description: Xiangou Deng
"Brokerage Preference, Dual Agency and Housing Market Strength"
Contact Person: Somenath Bera
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Valentin Verdier
"Welfare effects of dynamic assignment without money: An empirical analysis"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Katherine Lacy (ISU)
"Farmers use of herbicide resistance management practices"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: Memorial Union
Description: Whether you are a chemist, artist, performer, engineer, or historian, if you are involved with research, scholarship or creative activity at Iowa State, we invite you to register and participate on March 27. Let’s “Discover. Create. Together.”
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Kathrin Zippel
"Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through International Collaboration"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jason Abrevaya
“Interval Censored Regression with Fixed Effects”
Location: Memorial Union Gold Room
Live webinar: https://zoom.us/j/295238679
Join by phone: (669) 900-6833 – ID# 295238679
Description: The sessions are an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to learn more about the search, as well as provide input on characteristics they would like to see in the next dean. Questions may be submitted during each session by using the chat window in the webinar, or via email to calsforum@iastate.edu.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Registration deadline: March 23
Description: ISU Advance Workshop
Award-winning author and associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, Dr. Kathrin Zippel is an expert on gender, science and organizations.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
“Impact of the Global Gag Rule: New Estimates”
Contact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Hilton Orrington, Evanston, Illinois
Description: MEA's 82nd Annual Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 6, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Stephie Fried
"Storm Drains and Seawalls: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation"
Location: 0013 Curtiss Hall
Description: The Brenton Center Instructional Development Team will be holding a roundtable that will be discussion format for peers to provide hints or tips to others, share concerns, exchange ideas, and demonstrate what works in Canvas for them/their classes. In addition, we will share some general data retrieved from a recent student & faculty survey on the Canvas conversion. Please bring your laptop. There is no set agenda - just a free flow of ideas and information.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Description: Handling Classroom Disruption: From Senseless Side Conversations to Shouting and Slamming Doors (for all faculty)
To register:
Location: 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-5398
Paper submission deadline: Jan 19, 2018
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: The program will include brief comments from Interim Dean Colletti and recognition to all of our 2018 CALS faculty and staff award recipients. Please come and congratulate this year’s winners.
A wine-and-cheese reception, including Block & Bridle Summer Sausage, will follow the program.
Contact Person: Trina Zimmer 515-294-3830
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: JunJie Wu (Oregon State University)
"Agglomeration Economies and Efficient Environmental Regulation"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Speaker: Dr. Pamala Morris, Assistant Dean/Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and an Associate Professor for the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education, in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University
“Privileging the Privileged; How bias, power, and privilege impact graduate school funding and admissions”
Location: Memorial Union
Description: The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) is the university’s local initiative designed to provide an ongoing platform of sharing and applying new knowledge through presentations and workshops. The conference support the university's Mission to "create, share, and apply knowledge... and make Iowa and the world a better place.”
Information on last year's pre-conference and conference here
Location: Memorial Union
Description: The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) offers a professional development opportunity for all faculty, professional and merit staff. These sessions provide a structured environment to enhance your understanding and sensitivity to cultural differences. Many of the sessions will focus on providing tools to improve employee interactions and create inclusive workspaces.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Anita Schiller
"The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Small Geographies"
Presentation slides
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Description: In addition to time to network and discuss career options over hors d'oeuvres, the event will feature a review of the research and data on women in economics, a panel featuring women from various career fields who majored in economics, and unique perspectives from leaders in the field.
Special speakers will include:
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Nick Mullins
"Coal, Climate and Environmental Backlash"
Part of the 2018 Iowa State University Symposium on Sustainability, Feb. 19-20, and the National Affairs Series
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
“Engines of Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Geography and Path Dependence
UContact Person: Joydeep Bhattacharya
Location: Scheman Building
Description: The 2018 Professional and Scientific Council Professional Developent Conference will include 32 sessions and 47 speakers and will be held at the Scheman Building of the Iowa State Center on Wednesday, February 14th!
Registration: Early: $90, Regular, $105
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Jessica Schnabel, International Finance Corporation
"Banking on Women: The Next Emerging Market"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: You are invited to this inaugural data symposium underscoring Iowa State’s commitment to student success, with a special focus on leveraging best practices across the university to close the gaps in persistence and completion among underrepresented students.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Charlene Cosandier CV
"Intermediaries versus Trolls in Contests for Patents
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Karun Adusumilli CV
"Bootstrap Inference for Propensity Score Matching"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Description: Free webinar on the Impact of the 2017 Tax Reform and Jobs Act on Agricultural Cooperatives.
Presenters: Phil Kenkel, Bill Fitzwater Cooperative Chair, Oklahoma State University, Keri Jacobs, Iowa Institute of Cooperatives Endowed Economics Professor, Iowa State University, and Brian Briggerman, Director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, Kansas State University.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Vishal Kamat CV
"Identification with Latent Choice Sets: The Case of the Head Start Impact Study"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 116 Durham
Description: Course Design in Canvas
January 22, 2018
Assignments and Gradebook in Canvas
January 23, 2018
Groups and Collaborative Work in Canvas
January 24, 2018
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rohan Dutta CV
"Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't: Two Masters"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Désiré Kédagni CV
"Identifying Treatment Effects in the Presence of Confounded Types"
Contact Person: Brent Kreider
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Fei Li CV
"Revenue Management without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales"
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: University of Puerto Rico School of Business, Main Campus, Puerto Rico
Description: The objective of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, educators, doctoral students and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial and economic crisis.
Submission deadline: Sep. 15, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prescott Scholarship Reception
Awardees: Pichittra Prapassornmanu and Ginger Zehui Jiang
Location: Molecular Biology Building Room 1102
Description: VPR leaders will give an overview of this impactful internal funding opportunity, as well as information and tips on how to apply. Pre-proposals are due Jan. 31.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Ming Jin
"Wage information, job satisfaction, and perceived social status in China."
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Yun Chang
"Per Capita Income Convergence and Structural Change in Income Inequality in China"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Description: Faculty, retired faculty, staff, grad students:
You are invited to join the department in celebrating the joys of the season at the 2017 Holiday Party.
Thurs., Dec. 7th
Noon-2 p.m.
368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Shirui Wang
" An Experimental Study of Alternating Bargaining Game with Uncertainties"
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Union
Description: "Understanding and Implementing Physical and IT Protection for Controlled Unclassified Information”
To register: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/595f181024694ec8bc03357287dcacd8
Location: Food Sciences Building Room 1951
Description: Office of the Vice President for Research leaders will give an overview of this impactful internal funding opportunity, as well as information and tips on how to apply. Pre-proposals are due Jan. 31.
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA 50011
Discussion Leader: Mark Rasmussen, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Title: “Sustainable Agriculture: What Now Leopold?”
Please register by noon, Nov. 30, 2017 to jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Donna Ginther
"Does Federal Funding of Scientific Research Matter?"
Contact Person: Peter Orazem.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Tannenbaum
"The Evolving U.S. Occupational Structure"
Contact Person: Wallace Huffman
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Yang He (ISU)
"Robust Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prashant Bharadwaj
"Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India"
Location: Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii
Paper Submission deadline: July 2, 2017
Each symposium has its own organizing committee and its own call for papers! One registration gets you access to all 32 symposia and tutorials and all symposia events.
More information
Location: Scheman Building
Description: For women involved in farming, agribusiness, or students interested in a career in agriculture. Establish a leadership role, expand your professional network, enhance your career.
Register at www.aep.iastate.edu/leadership
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Joyee Deb
"Gambling with Public Opinion"
Location:368A Heady Hall
Description: Dakshina De Silva
"An Evaluation of a Bidder Training Program"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ryan Kellogg
"Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 013 Curtiss
Description: New Canvas Training Opportunity Exclusively for CALS Faculty and Staff
To help you prepare for the upcoming semester, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is providing an exclusive training opportunity for CALS faculty and staff to learn Canvas, ISU’s new learning management system.
Training that would normally take at least four hours to complete, has been condensed into an hour and a half. In that short time, you will learn how to use:
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Connecting Faculty to Translate Research
Tues. Nov. 7
4:30-6:00 pm
0198 Parks Library
Vice President for Research Sarah M. Nusser and Interim Vice President for Extension and Outreach John D. Lawrence will provide brief comments and introduce the program at 5:00 pm. Complementary appetizers and beverages will be served.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Daniel Sumner
"Supply effects of crop insurance and compatibility with WTO rules"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Garance Genicot
"Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks"
Location: 568B Heady Hall
Description: Final Oral Exam, Xiaoguang Feng
"Three Essays on Agricultural Insurance and Farm Real Estate Investment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: “If These Walls Could Talk” - CALS multicultural students discuss their perspective of life on campus. Their stories are emotional and raw, filled with incredible tenderness, courage and pain. The diversity issues that they challenge us to look at are equally provocative, begging to be heard and confronted.
RSVP by Oct. 16 to Theressa Cooper. Lunch Provided.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: James Sullivan
"Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Owen Ozier
"A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice"
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Description: We are now issuing a call for original research papers from graduate students of all fields of economics. Selected applicants will be expected to present their papers at the 12th Annual Economics Graduate Student Conference of Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, October 28, 2017.
Paper Submission deadline: Aug. 14, 2017
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Peter Orazem, Brent Kreider
"Minimum Wages and the Return to Occupational Skills Acquired During High School"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xianjun Qiu (Iowa State University)
"The Conservation Reserve Program and Nutrient Pollution in Groundwater"
Location: Hansen Learning Center
Description: Dr. Matthew Helmers
"Nutrient Reduction to the Mississippi River: We are all in this together"
Contact Person: Julie jrober@iastate.edu
Meal will be $15 per person payable at the door.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Aubhik Khan
"Large recessions in an overlapping generations model with unemployment risk."
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Alanya, Turkey
Description: ECONALANYA aims at disseminating new knowledge in the field economics and provides a forum for deliberations and exchange of knowledge among academics, organizations, and researchers. ECONALANYA encourages submission of theoretical and empirical papers in the different domains of economics and related disciplines, within and across different levels of analysis.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Benjamin Moll
"Monetary Policy According to HANK"
Contact Person: Juan Carlos Cordoba
Location:1951 Food Sciences, CCUR Theater
Description: Breaking Bias, The focus of this interactive workshop is to provide a safe space for students, faculty and staff to explore the concept of Unconscious Bias. Specifically we will focus on what bias is and how you can nudge your unconscious to counter bias in your day to day activities.
RSVP by Oct. 16 to Theressa Cooper. Lunch Provided.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Durham Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate
"Betting on Africa to Feed the World"
A reception and student poster display will precede the lecture at 7 pm in the South Ballroom.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Derek Lemoine
"Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply"
Location: 013 Curtiss
Description: New Canvas Training Opportunity Exclusively for CALS Faculty and Staff
To help you prepare for the upcoming semester, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is providing an exclusive training opportunity for CALS faculty and staff to learn Canvas, ISU’s new learning management system.
Training that would normally take at least four hours to complete, has been condensed into an hour and a half. In that short time, you will learn how to use:
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Ttopics are designed with women in mind.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA 50011
Description: “State of Agriculture in Iowa and the World”
Come and enter into a discussion of the state of plant and animal agriculture in Iowa and the world with Mr. Northey who is awaiting confirmation as the next USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation. Congratulations to Mr. Northey for three terms as Secretary of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship!
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Lorenzo Caliendo
"Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock"
William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Joe Kerns ('86 ag business)
"A Tale of Resiliency, Entrepreneurship and the Value of Mentors"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Don Fullerton
"Vertical and Horizontal Redistributions from a Carbon Tax and Rebate"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 142 Curtiss Hall
Description: Reading Circle - “White Like Me” by Tim Wise. As a follow up to the Sept. 13 University Lecturer given by Tim Wise, join us for a book discussion on “White Like Me” written by Tim Wise. A limited number of books is available for free in the CALS Dean’s Office, room 138. Pick up books any time before the event. Lunch will be provided for this event.
RSVP by Sept. 20 to Theressa Cooper
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Matthew Wiswall
"Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: "Leveraging NSF Programs for Big Data Research." Dr. Chaitanya Baru, senior advisor for data science, CISE directorate, will discuss agency priorities and initiatives, and answer your questions about funding programs related to data science and data-driven discovery.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Sheryl Ball
"Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Decision Making Under Uncertainty"
Title: Using the Competitive Storage Model to Explain Natural Gas Price
Location: Heady 368A
Contact Person: Quinn Weninger
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Kerwin Charles
“Sexism and the Outcomes of American Women: Internalized Norms or Market Discrimination?”
Location: 1306 Elings Hall
Description: Empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions:
The series brings a number of influential women to campus with the goal of empowering female graduate students and post-docs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to achieve their career ambitions. Topics are designed with women in mind.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Rahul Deb
"Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Stochastic Testing"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Location: 386A Heady Hall
Description: Jason Brown
"Response of Consumer Debt to Income Shocks: The Case of Energy Booms and Busts"
Location: Scheman Building, Iowa State Center
Description: Keynote Presentation: Data Science for Transforming the US Food Systems
All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
Registration is required to attend the All-Hands Meeting. Register here.
Location: Scheman Building
Description: As part of the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, the UASPSE Digital Agriculture Spoke is devoted to building partnerships and resources that will address emerging big data issues related to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Plant Sciences, and Education, including
Location: Room 1951 Food Sciences (CCUR Theater)
Description: Parag Chitnis, Deputy Director, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Registration is not required to attend this seminar
Location: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Description: Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students interested in learning how the I-Corps program can help you explore the commercial potential of your research discovery or innovation and increase its impact are encouraged to attend. In this presentation we will overview the I-Corps program and our process for participation by students, post-docs, staff, and faculty. One may choose to attend either session (Sep. 11 or Sep. 12).
Location: Gallery, Memorial Union
Description: Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students interested in learning how the I-Corps program can help you explore the commercial potential of your research discovery or innovation and increase its impact are encouraged to attend. In this presentation we will overview the I-Corps program and our process for participation by students, post-docs, staff, and faculty. One may choose to attend either session (Sep. 11 or Sep. 12).
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Pamela Jakiela
"How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments"
Location: 206 Durham (60-person capacity)
Live webcast: 116 Durham (30-person capacity)
Description: Canvas Faculty and Staff Breakout Sessions
with Canvas trainer Erin Wasson
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. - Assignments and Discussions
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Grading and Assessment
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. - Quizzes and Question Banks
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. - Modules and File Management
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 206 Durham (60-person capacity)
Live webcast: 253 Durham (12-person capacity)
Description: Canvas Faculty and Staff Breakout Sessions
with Canvas trainer Erin Wasson
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. - Modules and Files Management
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Communication and Collaboration
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. - Assignments and Discussions
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. - Grading and Assessment
Location: Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center
Description: Make plans to attend the college’s annual BBQ on Sep. 2 at the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, prior to the ISU vs. UNI football game! Visit fellow alums, students, faculty and friends from 3 - 6 p.m. with a program by Dean Wendy Wintersteen at 4:30 p.m. Bring your family and enjoy fun for all ages including a Hickory Park meal and more!
Enjoy the CALS Corner:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Ivan Rudik
"Calibrating Informational Dynamics: Learning the Sensitivity of Climate to Emissions"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Economics Department Convocation
Begins: 3:15 pm
Remarks: 3:40 pm
Refreshments will be available.
Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom
Location: Brunnier Art Museum
Description: Welcome reception sponsored by University Museums to celebrate the Faces of Iowa State exhibition’s premiere. Open to all faculty, staff, and students, this is an opportunity to greet colleagues and network while also celebrating the opening of the new portrait exhibition.
Location: University of Iowa Campus - Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Iowa State University Campus – Room 240, Scheman Building
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: University of Northern Iowa Campus – Slife Ballroom, Commons
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Chicago Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL
Description: "Recent Developments in Experimental Economics"
Location: Grace Meeting Room, 4th floor, Chicago Marriott Downtown
540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Description: 2017 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting Reunion and Reception
This is a joint reception with the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Location: Webinar
Description: You are invited to attend a webinar for social, behavioral, and economic scientists. It will address the steps to obtain research funding. We will discuss challenges for research faculty working toward the goal of tenure, and the proposal process for SBE researchers.
Location: John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center, 1200 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa
Description: The Board of Regents Tuition Task Force has announced dates and times for four public stakeholder meetings. The Tuition Task Force was established this year by the Board to facilitate a public discussion examining core issues and strategies central to the process of setting tuition at Iowa’s public universities.
Location: Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL
Description: The Econometrics of Derivatives Markets
Application deadline: April 10, 2017
Days/Times: Weds., July 19, 2017 AND Weds., July 26, 2017, 8 am-12 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Days/Times: Tues., July 18, 2017 AND Tues., July 25, 2017, 1 pm-5 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Location: University of London, UK
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
Description: Today's university classrooms are more diverse than in the past. With this diversity of students comes the need to ensure the learning environments associated with courses are inclusive and designed to support all students. This faculty workshop includes pre-workshop online learning modules and an interactive face-to-face workshop focused on creating an inclusive classroom environment.
Days/Times: Tues., July 11, 2017 AND Thurs., July 13, 2017, 8 am-12 pm (total of 8 hours)
Location: Hach Hall atrium
Description: RESPOND is an 8-hour training that teaches participants how to help someone who is in distress and may be experiencing a mental health issue. The training will provide information and decrease stigma about mental health issues, teach helpful ways to assess the needs and support the individual, and advise how to refer to appropriate campus or local resources.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contact Person: Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department at 617/588-0384 or rshannon@nber.org.
Abstract deadline: March 20, 2017
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The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and
Location: Scheman Building, ISU
To register, visit (http://www.aep.iastate.edu/iowaswineday/registration) and choose the student portal.
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Location: National Academies of Science headquarters
2101 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC
"Global Economic Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities"
Location: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Location: University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, Florida.
Description: First author(s) must be a graduate student. GRADCONF will also have a career fair and workshops for graduate students. GRADCONF 2017 aims to bring together graduate students and their faculty advisors together to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of business and economics and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
Abstract deadline: Feb. 1, 2017
Location: University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, FL
Description: This is going to be double-blind, peer-review conference. First author(s) must be a graduate student. GRADCONF will also have a career fair and workshops for graduate students.
Description: IIBA Conference Lecture Series
Ravi Dhar, Director of Consumer Insights Center & George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing, School of Management, Yale University
"Lessons from Behavioral Economics for Understanding Consumers"
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description: 2017 Universities Research Conference on Understanding Productivity Growth in Agriculture, part of the ongoing NBER Universities' Research Conference series.
Paper submission deadline: Dec. 31, 2016
Upload papers to http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=PGAs17
Location: 2622 Lagomarcino
Description: "Introduction to Learning-Centered Classes and Meetings"
Participants will be engaged in activities that will cause them to examine their beliefs about learning. They will be asked to focus on their own thinking and learning. After experiencing learning-centered strategies for themselves, participants will discuss the implications and applications as they plan learning for students and clients.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xiangou Deng (ISU)
"Short and Distort"
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Iowa Cattlemen’s Association, 2055 Ironwood Court, Ames, IA 50014
Description: “Current challenges and research priorities of the Iowa Animal Commodity Organizations”
Meal will cost $15/person payable at the door.
Please register to jrober@iastate.edu by noon on Thursday, April 27, 2017.
Location: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Description: Penn Institute for Economic Research
This unique week-long program provides essential training on state-of-the-art quantitative tools for analyzing macroeconomic policy from the world’s leading experts at the University of Pennsylvania
Registration deadline: Mar. 10, 2017
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nick Muller
"Pollution, Mortality Risk, and the Distribution of Income"
Location: Sokos Hotel Presidentti, Helsinki, Finland
In the conference emphasis will be placed on the developments in emerging market economies, on the fate of the recent trends and of the impact of these developments on international trade, finance and regulation as well as on national economies and financial systems. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented papers are all welcome.
Abstract deadline: March 24, 2017
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Description: This conference serves as a forum for academics, practitioners, and central bank and government officials in Europe and all over the world to present and discuss research results about the evolution of the international economics and of the global financial system.
Abstract submission deadline: March 24, 2017 aioc.econometrics@gmail.com
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Current Trends in U.S. Farm Income, Farm Income Volatility, and Farmland Values: What's the Story?
Presenters: Moderator: Christopher Burns, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Kevin Patrick, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Daniel Prager, Ag Economist, USDA ERS
Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Xiaoguang Feng (ISU)
“Re-evaluating Farmland Investment Characteristics from a Forward-looking Perspective”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University)
"Gender in Financial Markets"
Location: Hickory Shelter in Brookside Park - 1325 6th St., Ames, IA
Description: The Economics Grad Student Association will hold their spring picnic at Brookside Park. The picnic is free and open to everyone in the department (staff, faculty and students), their family and friends.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Eric Young
"The Politics of Flat Taxes"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Imperial College London, UK
Abstract submission deadline: March 24, 2017
Registration deadline: April 7, 2017
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Location: 468D Heady Hall
Description: Yoonho Choi (ISU)
“Currency Devaluation, Foreign Debt, and Unemployment in an Open Economy.”
The Department of Economics cordially invites you to a reception honoring Dr. John Schroeter, who retires on May 31, 2017, after 34 years of distinguished service as professor, interim chair, and director of graduate education.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: James Feigenbaum
"Taxes, Imperfect Capital Markets, and Illegal Immigration"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Koichiro Ito
"Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice"
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Join Sigma Xi to celebrate the impact of Iowa State research! Hear what your campus colleagues are discovering and creating – and learn how you can help spread the word about the value of Iowa State’s research.
Location: Scheman Building
Description: Dean Wintersteen appointed the CALS Sustainability Task Force last year to begin a college-wide dialog on sustainability to consider how the college can focus and more fully engage in sustainability across our research, education and extension and outreach missions.
Location: 1148 Gerdin Building
Description: Alan Barkema
“Pursuing Questions: Prospects for the Economy in Agriculture”
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Economic Forum Series: "How to Build Financial Security in a Changing World"
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: "My Personal Journey with Diversity - A Conversation with TIAA President Roger W. Ferguson, Jr."
Location: Kocimski Auditorium, 0101 College of Design
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Hyunseok Kim (ISU)
“U.S. Corn and Soybean Supply Response in the Renewable Fuel Standard Era”
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Webinar
Description: Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research
ET for a short how-to on ROAR participation and an open Q&A session
Location: Gallery Room, MU
Description: ISU Department of Environmental Health and Safety hosts Severe Storm Spotter Training presented by the National Weather Service, Des Moines.
Pre-register at Learn@ISU
Location: Des Moines Marriott Downtown, Des Moines, IA
Description: Hosted by the Iowa State University College of Business
For professionals in the field of analytics who work in finance, insurance, retail, cybersecurity, and transportation. Participants will be immersed in high-level information that is sure to benefit careers of all levels. Registration: $30
Location: Des Moines Marriott Downtown, 700 Grand Ave.
Description: This is the must-attend event for professionals in the field of analytics who work in finance, insurance, retail, cybersecurity, and transportation. Participants will be immersed in high-level information that is sure to benefit careers of all levels.
Engaging sessions will be led by highly qualified experts in their fields, will boost participant skills, and enhance capabilities for company analytics.
Location: Hansen Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road, Ames, IA
Description: Dr. Robert C. Brown, ISU Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
“Renewable Energies: Options and Opportunities, Iowa’s Role, and the Future”
Register by March 29, 2017: Julie at jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Javier Bianchi
"Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Risk, and Unemployment"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: Gallery, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Nancy Wayne, UCLA
"The Need for Self-Promotion"
9-11 am
"Work-Life Balance"
1-3 pm
Registration deadline: March 21
Contact Person: Carla Persaud cpersaud@iastate.edu
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: David Weiman
"Main Street vs. Wall Street: An Historical Perspective"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Steve Miller
"Estimating Heterogeneous Effects of Transferable Quota Programs Using Causal Trees"
Location: Gallery Room, Memorial Union
Description: Federal Statistical Research Data Centers Day: Opportunities for Researchers to Use Restricted Access Data
We are sponsoring an event at the end of March targeted toward researchers in the social sciences. Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are all welcome to attend.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)
"Apps, Maps & Models, The Digital Revolution & History"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jeremy Weber
"Asset Ownership, Windfalls, and Income: Evidence from Oil and Gas Royalties"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Joseph Cullen
“Market Dynamics and Investment in the Electricity Sector”
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Posters and poster sessions are a major vehicle for presenting new research, both in academics and industry.
Designing a good poster—one that communicates your research clearly and succinctly—can be intimidating at first. Therefore, the communications staff of Economics (and CARD) are offering a small workshop on how to approach poster design.
Contact Person: RSVP to kkovarik@iastate.edu
Office of the Vice President for Research
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
This event will feature Iowa State’s faculty research across disciplines, offer tables for networking discussions, and end with a hosted reception. Faculty from all Iowa State departments, colleges, centers, and institutes are encouraged to attend. Faculty are also invited to present their research, scholarship, or creative activity in timed lightning talks and/or poster sessions.
Program
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Wade Brorsen
"Times Series Analysis of Cash and Futures Prices"
Location: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
The theme of the conference is “New Normal of the Chinese Economy: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Implications.”
CES invites both members and non-members to submit papers and/or to propose organized sessions at the 2017 North America Conference. All fields of specialization within Economics will be considered, but papers focusing on the Chinese economy will be given preference.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Description: William Graves, Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Ann-Marie Fiore, University Professor in Apparel, Events & Hospitality Mgmt. and Mufit Akinc, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, will lead the session.
Register: Learn@ISU page https://training.ehs.iastate.edu/IowaSU/site/
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
7th Economics & Finance Conference, Tel Aviv
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28th International Academic Conference, Tel Aviv
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Location: Kildee Hall Ensminger Room
Description: Attendees at this session will learn how to strategically search for foundation funding using the Foundation Directory Online and other sources. This session will inform you about the next steps to take once a match is found, as well as the university resources available to you to assist with completion of your submission. The event will be beneficial to all faculty and staff who are interested in funding smaller projects or diversifying their funding sources.
Location: Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research at Stanford University
Description: NBER project on the Economics of Digitization
On March 1 and 2, the meeting will involve a tutorial for economics graduate students.
Application deadline: Nov. 18, 2016
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Greg Kaplan
"Micro Heterogeneity and Aggregate Consumption Dynamics"
Location: New York Sheraton Hotel at Times Square, NYC, NY
Paper submission deadline: Nov. 15, 2016
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Adam Davidson
"It's the Economy"
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union
Description: Dr. Keisha N. Blain
"In the Shadow of Charleston: Race, Racism, and Racial Violence"
Location: Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, 2508 Mortensen Road
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Zabid Iqbal (ISU)
“Aggregate Agricultural Intensive and Extensive Land Supply Response to Price and Non-Price Factors”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Description: Panel: "Shaping Environmental Policy, Improving Water Quality and Environmental Health"
Location: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Description: Financial Education and Planning Research
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Kristy Buzard CV
"Self-enforcing Trade Agreements and Lobbying"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Woan Foong Wong
"The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Carolina Pan CV
"From Ideas to Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jialing Yu CV
"Welfare Effects of Publicly Subsidized Crop Insurance Programs: The Sufficient Statistics Approach"
Location: 2030 Morrill Hall
Description: Workshop series meets for 5 Tuesdays:
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Gary Lyn
"Grounded by Gravity: A Well-Behaved Trade Model with Industry-Level Economies of Scale"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Edward Balistreri
"Optimal environmental border adjustments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Guilherme DePaula
"Technological Diffusion and Bundled Contracts: Soy Boom in Brazil"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Jeff Luckstead
"US Immigration Policies"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov
"Production Clustering and Offshoring"
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: David Weil (Brown University)
"The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade"
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis headquarters or its branches, also webcast live
Description: Conversation with the Chair: A Teacher Town Hall Meeting
Educators are invited to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s first town hall for teachers. After opening remarks, Chair Yellen will take questions from audiences across the country.
Join us to participate in this free event, which will include hors d’oeuvres in St. Louis and dinner at the Little Rock, Ark., Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn., branches.
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Prescott Scholarship Reception
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Georgetown University's Fourth Winter School on the Analytics and Policy Design of Migration
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Doha, Qatar
Application deadline: Oct. 15, 2016
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Location: 360 Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Paul Glewwe
“What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries?”
Location: Olde Main Brewing Co, 316 Main St., Ames, IA
Description: Robert C. Brown, Distinguished Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Renewable energy and complementary biofuels. Practicality and politics for Iowa, U.S. and World"
Register by email to jrober@iastate.edu
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Ziran Li (ISU)
“The Pre-Harvest Hedging practices of U.S. Corn Producers”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Sandip Agarwal (ISU)
"Unfolding the Bias in Farm Nutrient Management”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 386A Heady Hall
Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Description: Nicolas Ziebarth
"Student Debt and Labor Market Outcomes."
Location: Webcast
View these sessions to gain key insight into a wide range of current issues at NSF including: the state of current funding; new and current policies and procedures; and pertinent administrative issues.
Register here.
Location: 360 Heady Hall
Description: Chao Li (ISU)
“The Supply Curve of Cellulosic Ethanol”
Contact Person: John Schroeter
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location:368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall
Location: 368A Heady Hall