Calendar of Events:
June 9
July 27-29
August 2
August 21-22
August 25
October 13-14
December 20
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Regular Summer Session begins
AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
Summer Commencement
Fall Graduate Student Orientation
Fall classes begin
October Break
Fall semester ends
Fall Commencement
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Congratulations to Sarahelen (Sally) Thompson (B.A.;M.S., 1978), awarded the 2007-2008 Outstanding Alumni Award given annually to past graduates of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota.
Thought You Would Like to Know:
The Center for Food and Agricultural Business will hold a Sales Management and Leadership program on campus, June 17-18. Find out more at: https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/programs/sml/index.asp.
Indiana Council for Economic Education:
The Indiana Council for Economic Education's (ICEE) latest curriculum product - a set of colorful "Interest" Posters - is now available. The two posters illustrate how regular savings and investing can result in a significant future "nest egg." The posters also illustrate how too much high-interest debt can be a severe financial burden. The new posters, which come with a 24 page Teachers Guide, are available at the ICEE's KidsEcon Posters web site (www.kidseconposters.com). ICEE will also distribute the posters to teachers in workshops throughout Indiana.
News from GTAP – The Center for Global Trade Analysis
The Center for Global Trade Analysis will hold two important events in the month of June in Helsinki, Finland: the GTAP Advisory Board Meeting and the Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis.
GTAP Advisory Board Meeting
The annual GTAP Advisory Board Meeting will be held at the House of the Estates (Säätytalo) in Helsinki, Finland from June 9-10, 2008. The purpose of this meeting of GTAP Consortium members is to advise the Center on matters of policy, research agenda, and funding.
More information on the Advisory Board Meeting can be found on the GTAP website at: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/Board_Meetings/default.asp.
Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
The Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis  will be held at the Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland from June 12-14, 2008. The goal of the conference was to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues.
Purdue University will be represented at the conference with the following presentations (presenters are underlined):
Economic Analysis of U.S. Immigration Reforms by Aguiar, Angel and Terrie Walmsley
The Non-MFN Effects of US MFN Specific Tariffs by Chowdhury, Sohini
Biofuels Mandates, Land Use and Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Golub, Alla, Thomas Hertel, Steven Rose and Brent Sohngen
Dairy TRQ Liberalization: Contrasting Bilateral and Most Favored Nation Reform Options by Grant, Jason, Thomas Hertel and Thomas Rutherford
Biofuels for all? Understanding the Global Impacts of Multinational Mandates by Hertel, Thomas, Wally Tyner, and Dileep Birur
Modeling Endogenous Trade Facilitation by Mirza, Tasneem
A Nested PE/GE Model for GTAP: Simulating the Disaggregated Impacts of Tariff-Liberalization on Automotive Industry in India by Narayanan, Badri, Thomas Hertel and Mark Horridge
Biofuels and their By-Products: Global Economic and Environmental Implications by Taheripour, Farzad, Thomas Hertel, Wally Tyner, Jayson Beckman and Dileep Birur
Estimation of Missing intra-African trade by Villoria, Nelson
Economic and Poverty Impacts of Agricultural Price Distortions in China by Zhai, Fan and Thomas Hertel
More information on the Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis can be found on the GTAP website at: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/conferences/2008/default.asp
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
John M. Connor, Optimal Deterrence and Private International Cartels: Revision of August 2008, paper presented at the 35th Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Toulouse, France, September 4-7, 2008.
Benoit Delbecq and Kosuke Tamura, Rome for a 4-week course entitled "Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute" offered by the Spatial Econometrics Association at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" from May 25 until June 25. Professors who will be teaching at this course are Dr. Guiseppe Arbia, Dr. Harry Kelejian, Dr. Ingmar Prucha, Dr. Badi Baltagi, Dr. Riccardo Cappellin and Dr. Gianfranco Piras.
Will Masters and Andres Garcia will be presenting their work on the political economy of agricultural policy at a World Bank workshop, part of their project on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, May 23-24 in Washington, DC.
Wally Tyner will be presenting a paper on “The Prospects for Biofuels in the Future” at the Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy, June 22-25, Merida, Mexico.
David Ubilava and Jay Akridge: “PRECISION SERVICE OFFERINGS AND PROFITABILITY OF RETAIL CROP INPUT DEALERS” – Poster. 18th Annual World Food and Agribusiness Forum, Monterey, California – June 14-17
David Ubilava, Ken Foster, Jayson Lusk and Tomas Nilsson: “EFFECTS OF INCOME AND SOCIAL AWARENESS ON HETEROGENEOUS CONSUMERS WTP FOR INFORMATIONAL ATTRIBUTES” – Selected Paper. Western Agricultural Economics Association 2008 Annual Meeting. Big Sky, Montana – June 25-27
Waldorf, B. 2008. “Is Human Capital Accumulation a Self-propelling Process? Comparing Educational Attainment Levels of Movers and Stayers.” Annals of Regional Science, Onlinefirst: http://www.springerlink.com/content/7350712v0746kr0l/fulltext.pdf
Publications:
John Connor:
The Great Global Vitamins Conspiracies, 1985-1999: SSRN Working Paper (April 9, 2008). [Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1120936]
Latin America and the Control of International Cartels: SSRN Working Paper (April 14, 2008). [available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=XXXXXX ]
The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Cartel Enforcement: Appraisal and Proposals: SSRN Working Paper. (Revised April 26, 2008). [available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1130204]
A Critique of Cartel Fine Discounting by the U.S. Department of Justice: SSRN Working Paper (revised April 24, 2008). [available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=]
Kosuke Tamura and Ariaster B. Chimeli, “The Demand for Solid Waste Collection in Accura: A Willingness-to-Pay Study”, Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. (April 17, 2008) http://www.amazon.com/Demand-Solid-Waste-Collection-Willingness/dp/3836487519/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211567485&sr=8-1
Tenkorang, Frank, and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, “On-Farm Profitability of Remote Sensing in Agriculture,” Journal of Terrestrial Observation, 1 (2008), p. 50-59 (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jto/vol1/iss1/art6/).
Job Announcements:
University of New England: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics
Cornell University: Assist Professor/Dake Family Professorship of Marketing
University of New Hampshire: Tenure Track Position in Organic Dairy Agriculture
Kansas State University: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=31
Agricultural Marketing Service: : http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/ftva.asp?seeker=1&JobID=70148255
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 Agribusiness and Applied Economics
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htm
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
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