The University of Western Ontario
The Economics Newsletter
  January 29, 2010 Editor: Sharon Phillips  

Upcoming Workshops

Monday
February 1
Herb Emery (University of Calgary)
"Public Pensions and Elderly Mortality in Canada: Comparing Means
Tested and Universal Eligibility, 1921-1966"
12:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
EPRI
Luncheon Seminar
Tuesday
February 2
Arvind Magesan (University of Toronto)
"Human Rights Treaty Ratification of Aid Receiving Countries"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Recruiting
Wednesday
February 3
Yinghua He (Columbia University)
"Gaming the School Choice Mechanism"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Recruiting
Thursday
February 4
Jonathan Pogach (University of Pennsylvania)
"Efficient Auditing and Enforcement in Dynamic Contracts"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Recruiting
Friday
February 5
Sorawoot Srisuma (London School of Economics)
"Semiparametric Estimation of Markov Decision Processes: Continous
Control"

4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Recruiting


News and Announcements

Canadian Cancer Society Annual Daffodil Drive

There is a sign-up sheet available in the main office for the Canadian Cancer Society's Annual Daffodil Drive.

Faculty Mentor Program 2009-10

The Faculty Mentor Program will sponsor the seventh workshop/information session entitled Development of a Teaching Dossier and a Teaching Philosophy on Friday, February 5, 2010, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, Room 258, The D. B. Weldon Library. This session is a continuation of the sixth faculty mentor meeting held in January on "Tenure and Promotion Under the Collective Agreement, How the Process Works". Please register on-line.

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer 2010 Workshop - Call for Papers

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) will hold their annual Summer 2010 Workshop June 28-30, 2010. Submissions from junior faculty and scholars (defined as first or second year full-time faculty) as well as postdoctoral scholars and advanced graduate students will be given priority and but are also welcome from more senior faculty. The deadline for applications for Segments 1-7 is March 1, 2010 and for Segment 8 is April 5, 2010.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Conference - Registration Open

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's fourth biennial conference Rethink, Recover, Rebuild - Reinventing Older Communities will take place May 12-14, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA.  The conference brings together policymakers, community developers, bankers, researchers, funders, planners, and government representatives who are interested in the challenges and opportunities for older cities and towns. The early-bird registration deadline is April 9, 2010.

NIPE 7th Summer School

The NIPE (Economic Policies Research Unit) is pleased to announces its 7th Summer School on Regression Analysis with Discrete and Censored Dependent Variables, that will take place at the University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal, June 16-18, 2010. The purpose of the course is to provide practitioners and academics with a comprehensive coverage of statistical methods and their application in the econometric analysis of cross-section data using Stata. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2010.


Research Notices

UWO Foundation Western

Agnes Cole Dark Fund

Social Science Alumni Awards

Elaine Bjorklund Faculty Research Award

Department Deadline: February 15, 2010
Dean’s Office Deadline: February 22, 2010

Academic Development Fund

New Research and Scholarly Initiative Awards - Small Grants Program - 2010 Spring Competition

Dean's Office Deadline: March 1, 2010
University Secretariat's Office Deadline: 4:30 p.m. March 15, 2010
(These deadlines will be strictly enforced)

*Please submit a hard copy of all research grant applications, internal and external, to Karin for review and subsequent Chair signature prior to electronically submitting your applications.

**The newly enhanced Research On-line Administration (ROLA II) is now available and must be filled out by all grant applicants to obtain institutional approvals for their grant applications. Please see Karin if you need assistance.

Funding Announcements