Calendar of Events:
April 7-11
April 11
April 12-13
April 25
April 26
April 28
May 3
May 9-11
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Graduate Student Appreciation Week
34th Annual James C. Snyder Memorial Lecture
Springfest 2008
Seminar: Ron Mittelhammer 3:30 pm KRAN 661
AGEC Spring Barbeque
Classes End
Exam schedule begins
Semester ends
Commencement exercises
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
David Perkis, PhD candidate received a Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2007 – 2008.
Sandy Dottle retired from the Department after many years of clerical service.
Raymond Florax has been appointed as Member of the Scientific Committee of the III World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, in Barcelona (Spain) in 2009.
Otto Doering has been appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency's Farm, Ranch, and Rural Community Advisory Board.
Benoit Delbecq has been awarded the Ludwig J. Kruhe Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
Otto Doering will be the NSF Evaluator for the Center for Bioprocessing Research and Development and will be attending their first meeting March 25 th
Midwest Student Summit
Space, Health and Population Economics
Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Friday and Saturday, April 18–19, 2008
Conference Announcement
Purdue University will host the first Midwest Student Summit on Space, Health and Population Economics on April 18 and 19, 2008. Organized by graduate students of the Space, Health and Population Economics ( SHaPE ) Group at Purdue University 's Department of Agricultural Economics, the summit will bring together young scholars from Michigan State University , the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Ohio State University, and Purdue University . The conference presentations address a variety of topics of growing importance to community planning and regional development, including, for example, manufacturing investment, food security, obesity, and immigration. The public is welcome to attend the presentations. For more information visit the conference website at http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/academic/agec691t/summit.htm .
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Joe Balagtas organized the Spring 2008 Conference of the NEC-63 (Commodity Promotion Research Committee), held March 14-15, 2008 in Hilton Head, SC. In addition, he presented his paper, co-authored with graduate student Metin Cakir, “Estimating Cross-market Demand Effects of Generic Advertising.”
Otto Doering will be speaking to the National Academies' Committee on 21 st Century Systems Agriculture in Kansas City March 27 th .
Germaine Ibro, Ramatou Seydou, Kaka Saley, Kira Everhart-Valentin, Joan Fulton and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, “Testing the Market Potential for a New Value-Added Cowpea Product to Improve the Well Being of Women Entrepreneurs in West Africa,” Association for International Agricultural Education and Extension (AIAEE) Conference, EARTH University, Costa Rica, March, 2008.
Hertel, T.W. “Implications of US and EU Biofuels for Global Land Use”, based on a joint paper with W.E. Tyner and D. Birur, presented to the Global Bio-Energy Partnership, The United Nations Foundation, Washington, D.C., March 7, 2008.
Hertel, T.W. “Working at the Extensive Margin of CGE Analysis”, Plenary paper presented to the EAAE Conference on Modeling Agriculture and Rural Development Policies, Sevilla, Spain, January 29, 2008.
Will Masters, “Accelerating innovation with prize rewards”, presented at the IFPRI Conference on Advancing Agriculture in Developing Countries , April 7-9, 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Presentations by Wally Tyner:
February 5 – Farm Foundation Forum, Washington, D.C. “Policy Options for Interpreted Energy and Agricultural Markets and Global Biofuels Imports.”
February 12 - Conference on Interpreting Agricultural and Energy Systems at Atlanta, GA., “Policy Options for Interpreted Energy and Agricultural Markets.”
February 15 – Presentation at AAAS meetings in Boston, “Policy Options for Interpreted Energy and Agricultural Markets.”
February 18 – 19 – Presentation at EAO event meeting in Rome, Italy on “The Impact of Biofuels Policies on Agricultural Markets, Production, Trade, and Prices.”
Holly Wang presented “Estimating Farm Level Multivariate Yield Distribution Using Nonparametric Methods” at SCC76 multi-state research conference at Orange Beach, AL, 3/13-15.
Holly Wang will travel to Tianjin, China on April 16, to participate in the Annual International Conference of The Chinese Economist Society (CES) in the capacity of President. She will moderate a plenary session, “Left Behind? Rural Economic Development, Food Security and Migration.”, moderate another organized symposia “Agricultural Risks and Rural Income Security in China”, present a paper, “Evaluating Chinese Farm Level Yield Risks with Nonparametric Methods” , and will address at the closing ceremony. She will be accompanied by David Ortega who will conduct a marketing survey in Beijing in collaboration with faculty at China Agriculture University. Also on this trip, Dr. Wang will prepare for a new study aboard in China course for Purdue student beginning in 2009.
Publications:
Craig, L.A. and Holt, M.T. 2008. “Mechanical Refrigeration, Seasonality, and the Hog-Corn Cycle in the United States: 1870-1940.” Explorations in Economic History. 45, 30-50.
De Dominicis, Laura, Raymond J.G.M. Florax and Henri L.F. de Groot, A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Income Inequality and Economic Growth, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55 , 2008.
Koetse, Mark J.J., Henri L.F. de Groot and Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Capital-Energy Substitution and Shifts in Factor Demand: A Meta-Analysis, Energy Economics , 2007 (available online).
Withagen, Cees A., Raymond J.G.M. Florax and Abay Mulatu, Optimal Environmental Policy Differentials in Open Economies under Emission Constraints, Journal of Economics 91 (2), 2007, 129–149.
Poomthan Rangkakulnuwat, Sung K. Ahn, H. Holly Wang, and Susan He. “Extended Generalized Purchasing Power Parity and Optimum Currency Area in East Asian Countries.” Applied Economics , 40 (March 2008):816-832.
Job Announcements:
University of Copenhagen: Associate/Assistant Professor in Applied Microeconomics
North Carolina State: Ag Law position
Colorado State University: Environmental Econ Position
North Dakota State University: Research Assistant Professor in Agricultural Trade and Marketing
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htm
University of the West Indies – St. Augustine: Professor – Health Economics and Natural Resource Mgmt
University of Hawaii – Associate/Assistant Professor of Economics
Chinese University of Hong Kong: Positions in Economics
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
For further information, see the Job Posting File in Room 651
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