A Newsletter of the Economics Graduate Program

ECONEWS - Vol. 108 (7) April 21, 2008,

Announcements

Economics Comprehensive Summer Exams

Macro Exam, Tuesday, June 10th, 9am – 1pm. Location: 2403 Nelson Exam Committee: Asli Leblebiciolgu & Pablo Guerron

Micro Exam, Tuesday, June 17th, 9am – 1pm. Location: 2403 Nelson Exam Committee: Barry Goodwin & Walt Wessels

Grad School Academic Calendar

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 Academic Calendar for Graduate Students at http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_catalog/calendar.htm .

Milestones Kosmas Marinakis passed the final oral for the Ph. D. in Economics April 18, 2008. Congratulations!

Presentations Nothing to report.

Publications Tullaya Boonsaeng and Michael Wohlgenant, "A Dynamic Approach to Estimating and Testing Separability in U.S. Demand for Imported and Domestic Meats," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Carlos Carpio, Michael Wohlgemant, and Tullaya Boonsaeng, "The Demand for Agritourism in the United States," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Spring 2008 Workshops

Agricultural Economics Workshops

All workshops are in Nelson 4210, 3:00-4:15. Graduate students: We have a pre-workshop meeting the day before each workshop to discuss the coming paper. If you are interested in participating, contact me.

Papers will be posted as they become available at the Ag. Econ. Workshop web page: http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/sprg08_schedule.html

Tuesday, April 22, Tom Vukina (NCSU) "Mitigating Contractual Hazards: Short-Term vs. Long-Term Contracting in Animal Agriculture"

Tuesday, April 29, Mykel Taylor (NCSU) "Does Food Safety Information Affect the Demand for Meat and Poultry? Evidence from U.S. Household Data"

Tuesday, May 6, Ying Zhu (NCSU) "Time-Varying Yield Distributions and the Implications for Crop Insurance Pricing"

Applied Microeconomics & Industrial Organization Workshop

Organizers: David Flath , Craig Newmark

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

Thursday, April 24, 3:00pm 4210 Nelson Hall Speaker: Richard Luger, Emory Topic: Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates.

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

Monday, April 21, 4210 Nelson Hall, 3-4:15pm Speaker: Barbara Rossi, Duke University Topic: Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? Link: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~brossi/

Graduate students interested in Macro or Trade (or both) should attend the Macro/Trade seminars regularly.

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, April 24 Ian Parry, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC.

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