Upcoming Workshops
Monday
September 20 |
Robert Leeson (Stanford
University)
"The Case for a Consumed
Income Tax Structure"
3:30 p.m., Room 4161
SSC |
EPRI |
Tuesday
September 21 |
Gian Luca Clementi (New York University,
Stern)
"Entry,
Exit, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuations"
(joint
with Dino Palazzo)
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Money/Macro
(Recruiting) |
Wednesday
September 22 |
John Whalley & Dana Medianu (University of
Western Ontario)
"Brazil's Adjustment to China"
11:30 a.m., Room 4161 SSC |
UWO/CIGI ORF
- A light lunch
will
be provided |
Wednesday
September 22 |
Prospectus Day
"TBA"
2:30-5:30
p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Thesis
Prospectuses |
Friday
September 24 |
Pascaline Dupas (University
of California, Los Angeles)
"Short-Run Subsidies and
Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products:
Evidence from a Field
Experiment"
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Applied
Economics/
Econometrics |
News and Announcements
Dean's Office - Annual Gathering
All Social Science faculty and staff are invited to join the Dean
for the faculty’s annual start of a new year gathering and get ready
for Homecoming on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 3:30 pm, Room
3036 SSC. Free refreshments and food.
Classroom Management Group - Information for Instructors
The Classroom
Management Group website contains useful information such as
interactive pictures of classrooms in various buildings and
instructions on the use of AV equipment.
Fall Convocation - Volunteers Needed
Social Science convocation will be the afternoon of Friday, October
29th at 3:30 pm.
Volunteers are required for the following roles:
- 4 Hooders: should be members of the Faculty of Graduate
Studies, as well as members of the graduating Faculty and may be
full-time or part-time faculty members
- 1 Assistant Marshall: may be full-time or part-time faculty
members
- 3 Orators: may be full-time or part-time faculty members and
should be reasonably well known to the members of the graduating
class. Orators should have a clear, strong, confident speaking
voice that will be understood by members of the audience
- 12 Ushers: may be members of either faculty or staff
Hooders, Assistant Marshals, and Orators must be available for
duties commencing at 2:15 pm in room 15, Alumni Hall on October
29th. Ushers must be available at 1:30 pm in the front foyer of
Alumni Hall.
Volunteers should let Jennifer
Chambers or Jeremy know as
soon as possible what s/he is volunteering to do.
Board of Governors - 2010 Fall Nominations for Membership
Elections for membership on the
Board of Governors
will take place on October 5 and 6, 2010. Nominations for membership
in the faculty and administrative staff constituencies will be
accepted until 4:00 pm on Thursday, September
23, 2010.
Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meetings
The
2011 Annual Convention of the ASSA has been scheduled for
January 7-9, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The headquarters hotel is the
Sheraton Denver Downtown. Program information as well as information
on hotels is available here or
in the Main Office. Registration will open Tuesday, September 21st.
Bank of Canada Fellowship Program - Invitation to Nominate
The
Bank of Canada Fellowship Program
has been established to encourage leading edge research and to develop
expertise in Canada in a number of areas critical to the Bank's
mandate: macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance,
financial markets and institutions.
There are two awards available for academics working at Canadian
Universities:
The application
deadline for both awards is November 15, 2010.
2010 Business & Economics Society International Conferences
- Call for Papers
The 2011 Business &
Economics Society International Conferences will be held:
- January 11-14, 2011 at the Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort & Spa, St.
Thomas, Virgin Islands. Submission
deadline September 30, 2010.
- July 6-9, 2010
at Le Meridien Lav Hotel, Split, Croatia. Submission deadline
March 15, 2011.
These conferences welcome academics (business/economics professors
and administrators), as well as corporation / government executives
and economists.
*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.
