Family Day Holiday

The Department of Economics will be closed for Family Day on Monday, February 16, 2009.

Resource Centre Hours

Hours during Reading Week:

Monday February 16th - Family Day: closed
Tuesday February 17th to Friday February 20th inclusive: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Resource Centre’s February Acquisitions

The Resource Centre’s February book acquisitions are now on display in the Reading Room. Please feel free to come and browse. All new books are available for regular loan.

Professional Expense Reimbursement (PER) - Upcoming Deadline

Regular Full-Time Faculty: The base amount of the PER for 2008 and 2009 is $900.00 (plus any carryforward from 2007). By election, in November, 2007 for 2008 and November, 2008 for 2009, additional flexible credits up to $400.00 can be allocated to the PER in $100.00 increments. If you did not make an election, $200.00 in flexible credits were automatically allocated to your PER. To verify your individual allocation of flexible credits to your PER, sign on to myHumanResources and select "Benefits".

Part-Time Teaching Faculty (including Graduate Students): The base amount of the PER for 2008 and 2009 is $200 for the first full year course (or after 2 half courses) taught plus $67 for each additional half course to a maximum of $602 per calendar year plus any carryforward from 2007.

Your deadline to submit expenses for 2008 is March 31, 2009. You are welcome to carryforward any unspent funds to 2009, but not beyond December 31, 2009. However, receipts for the 2009 allocation may be dated up to March 31, 2010. Please submit your completed expense claim form to Karin Feulgen.

CEA 2009 Conference - Applied Econometrics Course & CWEN Sessions

The Canadian Economic Association and the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) are co-sponsoring a short applied econometrics course that will take place at the University of Toronto from Tuesday May 26 to lunch on Thursday May 28. The CEA meetings begin on May 29, also at the University of Toronto. The course will focus on panel data techniques for applied researchers. It will be suitable for 2nd year and advanced graduate students, and also faculty members who do empirical analysis.

The Canadian Women Economists Network Sessions (CWEN) at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the CEA are planned for the morning of Friday, May 29, to be followed by the annual CWEN luncheon. This year, CWEN will also organize a panel discussion on the status of women economists across different countries. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 20, 2009 and must be submitted online. Please note: under the "Comments" section of the form, submitters MUST make reference to CWEN or the paper will be considered for other sessions. For more information, please contact Yanling Wang.

The Innovation Policy and the Economy Group of the NBER - Call for Proposals

The Innovation Policy and the Economy (IPE) Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research seeks to foster research by economists and other social scientists on the interactions between public policy and the innovation process. The IPE Group of the NBER is able to make grants to support research into innovation policy and entrepreneurship and is seeking proposals for 2 grants of $20,000 each and a post-doctoral fellowship of $60,000, for the academic year of 2009-10. The deadline for submission of proposals is April 1, 2009.

NBER Entrepreneurship Initiative - Travel Grants for 2009

The NBER Working Group on Entrepreneurship meets twice each year to present and discuss research in the field and are seeking scholars at the graduate and pre-doctoral level who are interested in the growing field of entrepreneurship research. The Travel Grants (up to a total of $1,000) will pay the travel expenses of successful candidates to attend the two meetings held at the NBER's offices in Cambridge, MA. The summer 2009 meeting date is July 21, 2009. The winter meeting date will be announced later. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2009.

Business & Economics Society International 2009 Hawaii-USA Conference - Call for Participants

The Business & Economics Society International 2009 Hawaii-USA Conference will be held in Kona, Hawaii, July 15-19 at the Sheraton Hotel. The conference welcomes academics (business/economics professors and administrators), as well as corporation/government executives and economists. The abstract/paper submission and registration deadline is March 15, 2009. Final paper submission deadline is April 30, 2009.