Calendar of Events:
January 8
March 12-16
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First day of classes, Spring 2007 semester
Spring Break |
Congratulations and Names in the News:
Terry Griffin, PhD, accepted a position as Assistant Professor – Extension Economist, University of Arkansas , Cooperative Extension Service.
Thought you Would Like to Know:
Raymond Florax will be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of "Papers in Regional Science", the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International, and has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal.
Edna Loehman will be working with researchers at the USGS Ft. Collins office for Feb. – April.She will be working with models of negotiation and conflict resolution for water issues.
The 11 two-day 2006 Purdue Income Tax School programs have been concluded with an enrollment of nearly 1,000 tax professionals. Coordinated by George Patrick , the program is conducted in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service and Indiana Department of Revenue. Three half-day programs on Agricultural Tax Issues had an enrollment of about 110 tax professionals.
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Raymond Florax has been working with students and faculty from other universities and presented a series of papers at the 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto , Canada , November 16-18, 2006:
-The Economic Valuation of Flood Risk: Long Term Divergence Between Ex-ante and Ex-post Hedonic Prices of the 1993 Meuse River Flooding in The Netherlands, with Vanessa E. Daniel and Piet Rietveld, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- U.S. Regional Development Policy in Perspective: An International Comparative Assessment, with Jason P. Brown, Purdue University
*-Economic Valuation of Communication on Flood Risk Management: Designated Emergency Floodplains as a Quasi-experiment, with Vanessa E. Daniel and Piet Rietveld, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
*-Growth and Technological Leadership in U.S. Industries: A Spatial Econometric Analysis at the State Level, 1963-2005, with Valerien O. Pede, Purdue University, and Henri L.F. De Groot, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
*-Multiplicative Heteroskedastic-Spatial Process Models: Monte Carlo Experiments and an Empirical Example, with Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee , and Kevin T. McNamara, Purdue University.
Wally Tyner was a featured speaker at the Indiana State Farm Bureau convention in December. He spoke on energy security, ethanol, and ethanol policy. In January he will be presenting a paper on US bioenergy policy at a European conference in Sweden .
Otto Doering will be meeting with other National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center evaluators in Washington Jan 11-12 and will also be speaking to the USDA Economist's group on Expectations for Economists in Valuing Environmental Goods and Services. He will be working with the agricultural committee chairs from the National Council of State Legislators the end of the month. He is also serving on EPA's Science Advisory Board Committee on Integrated Nitrogen.
Thomas Hertel presented "Analyzing Long Run Supply and Demand for Land" by Alla Golub, Thomas Hertel and Brent Sohngen at the EMF 22 meeting Tsukuba , Japan , December 12-14, 2006.
Publications:
John M. Connor , Global Price Fixing: 2 nd Updated and Revised Edition: Studies in Industrial Organization No. 26. Berlin and Heidelberg , Germany : Springer Verlag (Copyright 2007, released December 2006). 503 + xvi pages.
Raymond Florax - Does accessibility to higher education matter? Choice behavior of high school graduates in the Netherlands , Spatial Economic Analysis 1 (2), 2006, 155–74 (with Carla Sá and Piet Rietveld) Geographical and Institutional Determinants of Real Income: A Spatio-Temporal Simultaneous Equation Approach , Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, Working Paper #06-15, 2006 (with Guyslain Ngeleza and William Masters). Job Announcements:
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City – PhD level economist
Mississippi State University : Assist/Assoc Prof Natural Resource/Environmental Economics/Ag Policy
Virginia Tech: International Trade Position
University of California-Davis: Assist Prof – Economics of Agricultural Sustainability
West Virginia State University : Extension Specialist, Sustainable Economic Development
Brooks World Poverty Institute: Fellows and Post docs – www.manchester.ac.uk/bwpi or www.manchester.ac.uk/vacancies
Colorado State University : Assist Prof of Ag and Resource Economics and Assist Prof in Water Resource Econ
Kansas State University : Production and Natural Resources position Purdue Extension Service: www.ces.purdue.edu/careers/
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