February 2008

Calendar of Events:

Thought You Would Like to Know:

This spring, the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) will offer the Indiana Stock Market Game (SMG) free to Indiana schools.  The SMG is a stock simulation in which teams of 4-5 students invest a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks or mutual funds over a ten week period.  By participating in SMG, students are introduced to financial markets, factors that affect stock prices, stock selection criteria, the mathematics of investing in stocks, team building skills, and much more.  For information go to http://www.stockmarketgame.org/  or visit the ICEE website ( www.econed-in.org ).

The department will feature New Ventures and the MS-MBA distance delivered program at the upcoming Mid-America Ag Show on February 5-6 in the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

Arrived:  Luciano Castro, a Visiting Scholar from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is now in residence working with Prof. Jay Akridge on benchmarking how U.S. firms consider marketing channels in designing agrifood business models.

Departure:  Ayman Shelaby, a Visiting Scholar from Fayoum University, Egypt, is departing on Jan 31, after working with Prof. Maria Marshall on small business development issues.

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:

Hertel, T.W. “Working at the Extensive Margin of CGE Analysis”, Paper presented to the EAAE Conference on Modeling Agriculture and Rural Development Policies, Sevilla, Spain, January 29, 2008.

Hertel, T.W. “The Biofuels Boom:  Implications for World Food Markets”, based on a joint paper with D. Birur and W.E. Tyner, presented at the IATRC meetings, Washington, D.C., January 9, 2008.

Edna Loehman presented a paper: Instream Flow as a Public Good: Possibilities for Economic Organization and Voluntary Local Provision, at the AAEA session at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans Jan. 3-6.

Dr. Wally Tyner:

January 4 he presented a paper at the Allied Social Science Meetings in New Orleans, LA.

January 10 th he presented a seminar at DOE/NREL in Washington, D.C. on “Policy Alternatives for Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets.”

On February 5 he will have a presentation at the Farm Foundation Forum in Washington, D.C. The topic will be “Policy Impacts on Global Markets in an Environment of Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets.”

February 12 he will present a paper at Farm Foundation conference "The Bio Economy - Today and Tomorrow" in Atlanta, GA.

February 14 he will present a paper at the Advancing Science, Serving Society (AAAS) Conference in Boston, MA.

February 18-19 he will present papers at a FAO conference in Rome on “Impacts of US Biofuels Policies” and “Global Impacts of US and EU Biofuels Policies.”

David Ubilava will present a paper at SAEA meeting in Dallas, TX, in the beginning of February. The title of the paper is “Analysis of the Soybean-to-Corn Price Ratio and its Impact on Farmers' Planting Decision-Making in Indiana”.

Publications:

John M. Connor. Evolution of the Global Lysine Industry, 1960-2000, Chapter 8, pp. 237-66 in Innovation in the Food & Drink Industry, Ruth Rama (ed.).  New York: Haworth Press (2008).  

John M. Connor. The Impact of Collusion on Price Behavior: Empirical Results from Two Recent Cases. International Journal of Industrial Organization (electronic publication January 15, 2008). [ doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.12.008 ] [with Yuliya Bolotova and Douglas Miller].

Narayanan, G.Badri  (2008). “Indian Textile and Apparel Sector: Performance, Employment and Demand”. chapter in India Development Report: 2008, edited by R. Radhakrishna, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp 157-177.

Job Announcements:

Bismark State College: Assistant Professor of Agriculture, Technology and Natural Resources

Purdue Extension: Warrick County and Vevay County

University of Tennessee-Martin: Assist/Assoc Professor of Agricultural Economics

APHIS/USDA: Economist Position

Kansas Farm Management Position: http://www.kmar105.com/kfma

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=31#bachelor

Purdue Extension Service: www.ces.purdue.edu/careers/

Career and Job Sites on the Internet:

For further information, see the Job Posting File in Room 651

Contact Lou Ann Baugh concerning information to be included in future issues of KT

Keeping Track Monthly Newsletter Archive

November 24, 2009

Introducing a Special Issue of Agricultural Economics on the World Food Crisis of 2007-08

Now accepting applications for Natural Resources Leadership Development Institute

Considering becoming an Agricultural Economics student? Please visit our Future Student pages.

USDA National Needs Fellowships In The Economics Of Alternative Energy are available. For more information, download the pdf.