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Upcoming Workshops
Monday
April 12 |
Val Lambson (Brigham Young
University)
"Sunk Costs,
Depreciation, and Industry Dynamics"
(joint with A.
Gschwandtner)
4:00 p.m., Room 4161
SSC |
Economic Theory |
Wednesday
April 14 |
Hye Mi You (University at
Buffalo, SUNY)
"The
Contribution of Rising School Quality to U.S. Economic Growth"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Applied Economics/
Econometrics |
Thursday
April 15 |
Kim Ruhl (Leonard N. Stern
School of Business)
"Trade Liberalization,
Growth, and Productivity"
(joint with Claustre Bajona,
Mark J. Gibson and Timothy J. Kehoe)
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Department
Colloquium |
Friday
April 16 |
John Knight (University of
Oxford)
"Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in
China?"
12:00 p.m., Room 4107 SSC |
ORF/EPRI |
News and Announcements
Annual Departmental Planning - Submission Reminder
The deadline for submission of the Annual Departmental Planning
document is Friday, April 16, 2010. Please
return
Administrative Arrangements and Planning Indicators to
Sharon and Teaching Preferences to
Jeremy.
Fluency in English Pronunciation for University Lecturers
The Teaching Support Centre is offering workshops for faculty for whom
English is a second language on Mondays and Wednesdays (May 17, 19,
26, 31; June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21), 4:30-6:30 pm in the Teaching
Support Centre, Room 120, The D.B. Weldon Library. Please register
on-line.
American Economic Association's Committee on Economic
Education - Call for Proposals
The American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education
invites proposals for a
poster session on
"Teaching Techniques that Promote Active
Learning" at the ASSA Meetings, January 7-9, 2011 in
Denver, CO. The session offers
opportunities for presenters to share new teaching ideas and talk
directly with participants and is devoted to active learning
strategies across the economics curriculum. Proposals limited to two
pages are due by May 15, 2010.
NBER Universities' Research Conference - Call for Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research, in conjunction with the
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD),
will host a Universities' Research
Conferences on
Economic Development, September 24-25, 2010,
in Cambridge, MA. Priority will be given to empirical research or
theoretical work with direct empirical applications. The deadline for submissions is
July 12, 2010.
4th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of
International Organizations - Call for Papers
Submissions are invited for the
4th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International
Organizations, to be held at the University of Zurich and ETH
Zurich, Switzerland, on January 27-29, 2011. The conference brings
together economists, political scientists and other scholars to
address political-economy issues related to international
organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the United
Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the
European Union, and other international organizations. Both empirical
and theoretical papers will be considered. The submission deadline is
September 20, 2010.
Research Notices
*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
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