updates for EEE

From: Fullerton, Don <dfullert_at_illinois.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:27:29 -0500

Dear EEE members (cc Perloff and Berndt):

Here are a couple of reminders, and a schedule for 2010. First, use your email address to get a password at http://www.nber.org/, where you can click on "info for family members." Update your website and CV with NBER by sending info to updates@nber.org . To see what they have now, go to http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html and click on list of members.

Second, to see the upcoming schedule and papers, you can always go to: http://www.nber.org/~confer/ (but that cannot be reached via the main NBER page, so save it separately in your favorites/bookmarks).

Third, also at "info for family members", you can upload a working paper, get travel reimbursement forms, etc.

The next date to save is January 1, 2010, deadline for submissions to the Spring meeting, organized by David Popp, Ernie Berndt, and myself, joint with Productivity. The PR group meets Friday morning, March 5, followed by lunch (12:30-1:30), and both PR and EEE meet together starting at 1:30 for three joint papers. Then EEE continues Saturday 8am til 2 pm (with 4 more EEE papers that do not have to be productivity/technology related). Please plan to stay til 2. You are also invited to the PR meeting Friday morning.

Moreover, you are also invited to an NBER meeting Thursday March 4 through Friday morning March 5, organized by Jeff Perloff on agricultural policy (5 papers Thursday) and biofuels (two Thursday and three Friday morning). See all ten papers listed at the bottom below. These seem directly related to our interests in EEE, so I hope you'll take advantage of this wonderful opportunity, even if though means coming earlier Thursday.

Then, finally, John List is organizing the EEE meetings at the NBER Summer Institute on Thursday and Friday July 29-30. We moved from the prior Mon-Tues dates to avoid a conflict with AEAA/AERE meetings. The deadline for submission of papers for the SI will be March 15, 2010.

Thanks, Don
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Agricultural Policy NBER Conference

Agricultural Policy

1. Jeffrey T. LaFrance, UC Berkeley, and Rulon D. Pope, Brigham Young
University, "Risk Response in Agriculture"

2. Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University, "The Politics and Economics of the U.S. Crop Insurance Program"

3. Rachel Goodhue, University of California, Davis, and Carlo Russo, "Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy: An Exploratory Approach to the Behavioral Model Selection Problem"

4. Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley, "The Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance on Prices for Fruits and Vegetables"

5. Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University, "Effect of Policy Benefits on Asset Values and Distribution to Non-Farmers"

Biofuels

1. Michael J. Roberts (USDA) & Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia), "Estimating Commodity Supply and Demand Using Weather-Induced Yield Shocks
with Implications for the Economic Feasibility of Large-scale Ethanol
Production"

2. Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use, Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Social Welfare"

3. John Beghin, Amani Elobeid, and Simla Tokgoz, Iowa State University , "The Trade and Environment Nexus in Biofuel Markets"

4. Thomas W. Hertel and Roman Keeney, Purdue University, "Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era: An Examination of the Linkage between Energy and Agricultural Markets"

5. Steve Sexton and David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, "The Productivity Effect of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Economics of
Biofuels"
Received on Mon Sep 07 2009 - 14:27:29 EDT