Upcoming Workshops
Tuesday
March 19 |
Chenggang Xu (School of
Economics and Finance,
University of Hong Kong)
"Understanding China's Reform and Future: The Regionally
Decentralized Authoritarian Governance Structure"
12:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
PERG
Luncheon Seminar |
Tuesday
March 19 |
Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Tepper
School of Business, Carnegie
Mellon University)
"External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over
the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory"
(joint with
Ali Shourideh)
3:30
p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Money/Macro |
Wednesday
March 20 |
Jaap Abbring (Tilburg
University)
"Very Simple Markov-Perfect Industry
Dynamics"
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Short-Term Visitor
Applied Economics/
Econometrics |
Thursday
March 21 |
Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)
"Mixed
Hitting-Time Models"
3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
Short-Term Visitor
Applied Economics/
Econometrics
Graduate Seminar |
News and Announcements
Annual Departmental Planning - Submission Reminder
The deadline for submission of the Annual Departmental Planning
document is Monday, March 18, 2013.
Please return Administrative Arrangements and Planning Indicators to
Sharon and Teaching Preferences
to Maureen.
Research Grants - Agency Financial Reporting Deadline March
31, 2013
March 31st is the fiscal year end for all federally and
provincially funded programs (NSERC, SSHRC, CRC). Please ensure that
all charges for the period April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013 (travel
expenses/claims, invoices, etc.) are submitted no later than
4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 2013.
Professional Expense Reimbursement (PER) – Deadline March
25, 2013
The
2012 Professional Development Expense Reimbursement (PER) form
is now available. The submission deadline for 2012 is March 31, 2013
(receipts for the 2012 allocation year may be dated up to March 31,
2013). If you have any questions, please contact Karin.
Please submit your PER form and original receipts (can be returned
to you) to Karin by Monday, March 25th.
Economics Teaching Workshop - Save the Date
Bethany White, Teaching Fellow and member of the Department of
Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, will lead the next Economics
Teaching Workshop, Making Math Matter - The Challenge of Teaching
Math-Based Courses to Non-Math Majors, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
in Room 4161 SSC. Faculty from math and
math-based subjects will participate in the workshop. Economics
faculty Andrés Carvajal, Peter Streufert and Greg Pavlov will be on
a panel to discuss their teaching strategies in this regard.
Please RSVP if you would like
to participate by March 28, 2013.
Who's Doing What
Fabio Padovano and Ronald Wintrobe, “The
Dictatorship of the Popes” Kyklos, forthcoming.
Teaching Support Centre - Upcoming Faculty Events
Research on Teaching Symposium: Wednesday, March 20, 2013,
1:00-3:00 pm, Teaching Support Centre, Room 121, Weldon Library
Assessing Student Learning Online: A Panel Discussion: Monday,
March 25, 2013, 1:30-3:00 pm, Teaching Support Centre, Room 121,
Weldon Library
Senate Committees - Call for Applications and Nominations
The Senate Nominating Committee seeks nominations for Senate
Committees, Subcommittees, Councils and Boards. See the
Senate
Nominating Procedures document for more information. The
deadline for nomination submission is Friday, April 5, 2013.
The Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics - Call for
Nominations
The Mike McCracken
Award for Economic Statistics,
established in 2010,
recognizes both theoretical and applied contributions that are
important to the development or use of official economic statistics.
The Award is endorsed by the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) and will be presented at the annual meeting
of the CEA. The deadline for nominations is April
5, 2013.
Michigan State University - Econometrics Summer Tutorial
Econometrics has long been a strength of the Economics Department
at Michigan State University.
ÊSTIMATE
-- Early Summer Tutorial In Modern Applied Tools of Econometrics,
is an intensive weekend workshop taught by world class
econometricians
that gives empirical practitioners, academic researchers,
industry/government researchers/analysts, and graduate students,
access to econometrics training usually reserved for students formally
enrolled in PhD programs at MSU.
ÊSTIMATE
will take place May 31 - June 2, 2013 at Michigan State University.
The goal of the workshop is to broaden and improve the practice of
econometric methods throughout empirical research and data analysis in
academics, industry and government.
Quantitative Behavioural Finance Conference - Invitation to
Attend
Co-hosted by Waterloo Research Institute in Insurance, Securities &
Quantitative Finance (WatRISQ) at the University of Waterloo and
Sino-Canada Institute of Financial Engineering and Risk Management
(SCIFR) at Nanjing University, the
Quantitative Behavioural Finance Conference will be held at the
University of Waterloo on Friday, April 5, 2013. Internationally
recognized researchers in Quantitative Behavioural Finance will
present the latest developments and future challenges in quantitative
behavioural finance and how they impact the decision-making processes
of market participants, asset prices and investments.
EURAC Federal Scholar in Residence - Applications Accepted
The EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism is
now accepting applications for EURAC's Federal Scholar 2014.
Academics, post-docs and practitioners worldwide can apply for the
EURAC Federal Scholar in Residence Programme 2014. The deadline
for applications is July 1, 2013.
