The University of Western Ontario
The Economics Newsletter
  September 24, 2012 Editor: Sharon Phillips  

Upcoming Workshops

Monday
September 24
Haomiao Yu (Ryerson University)
"Strategic Uncertainty and the Ex-post Nash Property in Large Games"
(joint with Ali Khan, Kali Rath and Yeneng Sun)
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Economic Theory
Tuesday
September 25
John Jones (University at Albany)
"Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education"
(joint with Fang Yang)
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Money/Macro
Wednesday
September 26
Robert A. Miller (Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University)
"TBA"
Related Material
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Short-Term Visitor
Applied Economics/
Econometrics
Graduate Seminar
Thursday
September 27
Robert A. Miller (Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University)
"Ascending Auctions with Costly Monitoring"
(joint with Joachim Groeger)
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Short-Term Visitor
Applied Economics/
Econometrics


News and Announcements

Minutes of Departmental Meeting

The Minutes of the Departmental Meeting held on Monday, September 17, 2012, are posted on the Economics Intranet.

Staff Representation on Faculty of Social Science Council - Call for Nominations

Nominations for Staff Representation on the Faculty of Social Science Council should be forwarded to the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Social Science, no later than Monday, October 8, 2012. Please refer to the Terms of Reference.

4th Workshop on Game Theory in Energy, Resources and Environment - Call for Papers

Organized by GERAD and HEC Montreail, the 4th Workshop on Game Theory in Energy, Resources and Environment will take place November 29-30, 2012 at HEC Montreal. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 10, 2012.

Productivity Conference

The Department of Economics at McMaster University, in conjunction with Industry Canada, a SSHRC-funded network of productivity researchers from across Canada and TD Bank Financial Group, are organizing a Workshop on Research Methods to Study Productivity Determinants within Firms and the Role of Policy to be held November 1-2, 2012 in Ottawa. If you wish to attend, please reply at your earliest convenience by email.

Statistics Canada has organized a related workshop on October 31st.


Research Notices

Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform
Call for Proposals
RD&S Deadline: October 15, 2012

Western Internally Funded Award

Western Humanitarian Award
RD&S Deadline: November 1, 2012

*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 Research On-line Administration (ROLA II) 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