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Dear EEE members:
I hope you are coming to the Summer Institute EEE meeting on Friday-Saturday, July 29-30, and to the regular Spring meeting of the whole EEE group Friday-Saturday March 9-10 (this year joint with the Health Care program). Future Summer Institute meetings will revert back to Monday-Tuesday of that last full week in July (23-24 July 2012, and again Mon-Tues 22-23 July 2013!). Mark your calendars.
This summer's meeting is organized by Catherine Wolfram and Scott Taylor, with the program at: https://www.nber.org/~confer/2011/SI2011/EEE/EEEprg.html . They have been working diligently to update and shorten the list of invitees, to avoid overcrowding. We will continue to invite non-NBER folks to the SI, but the room has finite size!
Besides those full meetings, some individual EEE members are planning smaller workshops on particular topics. Chris Costello is planning a small meeting on "Economics of Water Markets", and David Popp is planning one on "Integrated Assessment Models". Please let me know if you have a topic and want help to find funding, organize a meeting, and arrange for publication in an NBER book or special issue of a journal.
Finally I want to mention that I just returned from a terrific meeting of the AERE in Seattle. In the past, they have held sessions at the ASSA and a small summer workshop, but this was the first ever annual meeting of the whole Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, with 250 presentations in parallel sessions. I recommend that you join AERE and attend in future years (June 4-5, 2012, in Asheville, NC). This meeting serves a purpose different from that of the NBER-SI, and is therefore a complement rather than a substitute. The NBER meeting will be kept to one room, with 12 hour-long presentations where we dissect each paper carefully. The AERE meeting is a great way to see everybody and learn what else is happening - with only 20 minute presentations to make sure you don't get bored!
Go to http://aere.org/ to see the whole program and download papers.
Thanks, Don
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