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ECONEWS - Vol. 108 (9) May 21, 2008

A Newsletter of the Economics Graduate Program

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

Summer I 2008 May 21, Census Day May 26, Memorial Day Holiday (University Closed) June 20, Last day of Classes June 23-24 Final Exams June 30, Option B Deadline- Non-Thesis Students

July 4, Independence Day (University Closed)

Summer II 2008 July 8, First day of classes July 10, Census Day Aug 8, Last day of classes Aug 11-12 Final Exams

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

Milestones Chris Moore passed the final oral for the Ph. D. in Economics April 30, 2008.

Congratulations! Presentations Nothing to report.

Publications Goodwin, Barry K. and Roderick Rejesus. "Safety Nets or Trampolines? Federal Crop Insurance, Disaster Assistance, and the Farm Bill," forthcoming in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008.

Goodwin, Barry K. "Payment Limitations and Acreage Decisions under Risk Aversion: A Simulation Approach," accepted for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008.

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

Nothing to report.

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 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

Nothing to report.

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.

Nothing to report.

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