The University of Western Ontario
The Economics Newsletter
  October 24, 2008 Editor: Sharon Phillips  

Upcoming Workshops

Monday
October 27
Javier Cano-Urbina (University of Western Ontario)
"TBA"
12:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Brown-Bag
Lunch Seminar
Monday
October 27
Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)
"On the Benefits of Costly Voting"
(joint with John Morgan)
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Economic Theory
Wednesday
October 29
Flavio Cunha (University of Pennsylvania)
"TBA"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Applied Economics/
Econometrics
Thursday
October 30
Stan Winer (Carleton University)
"Closing the 49th Parallel: An Unexplored Episode in Canadian
Economic and Political History"

(joint with Jim Davies)
12:30 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
PERG
Luncheon Seminar
Friday
October 31
Stan Winer (Carleton University)
"Explaining Variation in the Degree of Electoral Competition in a
Mature Democracy: U.S. Senate Elections, 1922-2005"

(joint with Larry Kenny and Bernard Grofman)
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
PERG


News and Announcements

Panel on Financial Crisis - Reminder

The Department of Economics and the Economics Students’ Association (ESA) will host a panel discussion entitled "The Financial Crisis: Past, Present and Future" on Thursday, October 30th, 4:00-5:30 pm, Spencer Engineering Building, Room 1200 (second floor). The panel will feature David Laidler, Jim MacGee and Nathan Sussman.


Research Notices

**All funding applications or proposals by UWO researchers must be accompanied by a completed Research Data and Approval Form (RDAF). Forms can be obtained and submitted using Research On-Line Approvals
(ROLA).

Funding Announcements