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TO: EEE members:
In this email, I'd like to welcome our new members, and provide some information that might be useful to everybody. First, we're happy to announce that the NBER just approved Faculty Research Fellow (FRF) appointments for five new members: Soren Anderson (MSU), Max Auffhammer (UCBerkeley), Erich Muehlegger (Harvard), Roger von Haefen (NCSU), and Jim Sallee (Chicago). The NBER also approved cross-listing EEE memberships for two FRF's from other programs: Nolan Miller (Illinois) and Doug Almond (Columbia). By the way, if you missed the welcome email a year ago, the new FRFs were: Spencer Banzhaf, Rema Hanna, Mark Jacobsen, Ryan Kellogg, Andreas Lange, and Steven Puller.
Welcome! See the list of all members at: http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html . You can also see a list of recent working papers. As a new program, we have been able to appoint unusually high numbers in recent years, but that number may fall in the future.
I'd also like to point out that this appointment is not honorific! The NBER will pay for your travel to our two meetings each year, at which you'll be able to work with all the best environmental and energy economists in the world. In return, as Jim Poterba explains in his appointment letters each year, we want each member to participate in various forms: submit working papers, come to meetings, and think about submitting a grant proposal through the NBER. It has excellent fringe benefits for you as a PI, and the overhead helps support program activities. Let me know if you are thinking about it, as I can help with hints about how to structure it.
Update your website and CV with NBER by sending info to updates@nber.org<mailto:updates@nber.org> . To see what they have now for you, go to http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html and click on list of members. Then click on your own name.
You should now go to the NBER website to "personalize" your view of it and to find some key services. First, go to the main page at http://www.nber.org. Click to "log in", where your username is ordinarily in the format [firstname_lastname]. If you don't know your password, you can click to have it sent to your email. For other login issues, please contact Mohan Ramanujan at mohan@nber.org<mailto:mohan@nber.org>. Then, once the NBER website recognizes you as a member, you can "Change preferences": Various options include a choice of how many notices you want to receive. You can hear about all new working papers, or just those in your program(s) such as EEE and other program such as PE or IO.
>From your personalized version of the NBER website, which recognizes you as a member, you can click on "Info for NBER Family Members", which has names and numbers for all the key personnel at NBER who can help you. On that page you can also click to submit a new research paper to the NBER Working Paper Series. (Don't forget, it cannot make policy recommendations; you can say "this policy would have these various effects", but not "this policy would be a good one"). At that page you can also get forms for travel reimbursement and lots of useful stuff, so I recommend you click around, to see what's available. (PS, Here is one small point: when my computer goes to the submission page, it is not just http, but https, where the "s" stands for secure, and that does not work properly, so I have to change the https to http to get the form to work properly.)
You can also click on the conference calendar, and the Summer Institute calendar, where it says our next meeting is July 29-30. (Submissions were due March 15; the program is being selected by Charlie Kolstad and John List, but is not yet available.)
In past years we have had one other winter/spring meeting, which often has been joint with other programs like IO, LS, or PR. Next year our mid-year meeting will be joint with PE, held April 7-9, 2011, at Stanford California. The PE meeting is Thurs-Friday April 7-8, where the last three papers on that Friday afternoon are joint with EEE. Then EEE continues Saturday morning with papers that are not necessarily related to public economics. The program is being organized by Larry Goulder. Mark your calendars.
I'll look forward to seeing you at the next meeting, in July. Thanks, Don
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