ECONEWS - Vol. 108 (3) February 11, 2008,
A Newsletter of the Economics Graduate Program
Announcements
Grad School Academic Calendar
Feb 20, Wed,, Option B Deadline
March 3-7, Mon-Fri., Spring Break – no classes
March 11, Tues., Registration for the 2008 Summer & Fall 2008 Semester
March 21, Fri., Spring Holiday – no classes
March 28, Fri., Date by which a graduate student must (1) successfully pass the final oral exam and (2) complete a thesis review wit the Thesis Editor in order to graduate at the end of the current semester
Apr 28, Fri., Date by which a graduate student who is expecting to graduate at the end of the current semester, must submit the final, error free PDF file of his/her Electronic Thesis/Dissertation (JETD) in order to graduate at the end of the current semester.
Apr 28 – May 6, Final Exams
May 10, Sat., Graduation Excercises.
Please review the complete October Academic Calendar for Graduate Students at http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_catalog/calendar.htm .
Milestones
Nothing to report.
Presentations
Nothing to report.
Publications
Nothing to report.
Spring 2008 Workshops
Agricultural Economics Workshops
Workshops will be scheduled in 4210 Nelson, 3:00 - 4:15, except for 10/24 workshop, full details can be found on the web.
Papers will be posted as they become available at the workshop web site:
http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/fall07_schedule.html
Thursday, March 13
Alex Pfaff, Duke (joint with Triangle Environmental Economics Workshop Series)
The Effects of Roads on Deforestation in the Amazon.
Tuesday, March 25
Ying Zhu, NCSU
Time-Varying Yield Distributions and the Implications for Crop Insurance Pricing.
Tuesday, April 8
Anton Bekkerman, NCSU
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Soybean Rust in the United States.
Tuesday, April 22
Tom Vukina
Mitigating Contractual Hazards: Short-term vs. Long-term Contracting in Animal Agriculture.
Applied Microeconomics & Industrial Organization Workshop
Organizers: David Flath <mailto:>, Craig Newmark
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All workshops will be held in Nelson 4210, 3:00-4:15pm unless otherwise
noted. Papers will be posted when available.
Nothing to report.
Econometrics Workshop
Copies of the papers, when available, will be posted on the Econometrics workshop’s webpage
http://www.4.ncsu.edu/~dpellet/workshop/index.html
Nothing to report
Macro/Trade Seminar
Organizers: Pablo Guerron (Macro) and Ivan Kandilov (Trade)
All seminars start at 3:00 p.m. in 4210 Nelson Hall unless otherwise indicated.
The complete seminar schedule for Fall'07 are available on-line at:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~itkandil/seminar/seminar.html
Graduate students interested in Macro or Trade (or both) should attend
the Macro/Trade seminars regularly.
March 3, (Mon.):
Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University
Topic: TBA
March 10, (Mon.):
Jon Faust, John Hopkins
Topic: TBA
Triangle Resource & Environmental Economics Seminar Series
CenRep has joined with RTI International and Duke University to present the Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series. The workshops are coordinated by Dan Phaneuf and Roger von Haefen, CEnREP’s Associate Directors, Subhrendu Pattanayak of RTI International and Chris Timmins of Duke University.
The workshops series meets at RTI International (room & locations are announced the week before the workshop) on Thursdays from 3:30pm t0 5:00 pm. Papers presented at the workshops, when available , are posted on this website http://www.ncsu.edu/cenrep.
Thursday, Feb 21
Wally Thurman, NCSU
Topic: TBA
Thursday, March 13
Alex Pfaff, Duke University
Topic: TBA, seminar will be held in 4210 Nelson Hall, NCSU, 3:00pm.
Thursday, March 20
Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon
Topic: TBA
Monday, March 24
Randy Walsh, University of Colorado
Topic: TBA , Seminar will be held in Room 311, Social Science Building, Duke University campus at 4:15pm.
Thursday, April 3
Matt Turner, University of Toronto
Topic: TBA
Thursday, April 17
Frank Asche, Stavanger (Norway)
Topic: When Will Trade Restrictions Affect Producer Behavior: Oligopsony Power in International Trade
Thursday, April 24
Ian Parry, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC.
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