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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
New Brochure
A new brochure is available from N.C. State Extension Forestry that addresses the basic questions about who is responsible for maintaining trees in utility rights-of-ways and on public property. Tree removal and planting on private property are also addressed.
Written by Dr. Robert Bardon and Brandon King the brochure is entitled "Who is responsible for the trees? A citizen's guide to trees in the community." Copies are available in the lobby of the 4th floor and by contacting Brandon King.
New Appointment
CEnREP is pleased to announce that Xiangping Lui will be joining CEnREP this August for a two year post-doctoral appointment. Xiangping is completing her PhD in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. Xiangping's expertise is in land-use change, agricultural land preservation policies, and program evaluation.
Award
On behalf of the International Indian Statistical Association(IISA),Professor Sujit Ghosh is the winner of IISA Young Researcher Award for astonishing breadth of research activity with deep contribution to Bayesian generalized linear models, and for outstanding mentorship.
Grad School Academic Calendar
Apr 28 – May 6, Final Exams
May 10, Sat., Graduation Excercises.
Please review the complete Academic Calendar for Graduate Students at http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_catalog/calendar.htm
Milestones
Christina Robinson passed the preliminary oral for the Ph. D. in Economics April 24, 2008.
Leventer Timar passed the final oral for the Ph. D. in Economics April 29, 2008.
Presentations
Nothing to report.
Publications
Nothing to report.
Fall 2007 Workshops
Agricultural Economics Workshops
Workshops will be scheduled in 4210 Nelson, 3:00-4:15, except for 10/24 workshop, full details can be found on the web.
Papers will be posted as they become available at the workshop web site:
http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/fall07_schedule.html
Tuesday, May 6, Ying Zhu (NCSU) "Time-Varying Yield Distributions and the Implications for Crop Insurance Pricing"
Applied Microeconomics &Industrial Organization Workshop
Organizers: David Flath <mailto:david_flath@ncsu.edu>, Craig Newmark <mailto:craig_newmark@ncsu.edu>
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 at http://www4.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 Graduate students interested in Macro or Trade (or both) should attend
the Macro/Trade seminars regularly.
Nothing to report.
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.
