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Dear EEE members:
1.) I hope you are coming to the HC/EEE meeting March 9-10; see the email below.
2.) I hope you are coming to the EEE Summer Institute July 23-24; see the other email below, which says that submissions are accepted until March 30.
3.) In past years, we used an EPA workshop grant to pay for Summer Institute travel of a limited number of grad students. Because of EPA budget cuts, funding for all EPA sponsored workshops has been eliminated. Thus, we will not be asking you to nominate grad student for NBER travel. A limited number of grad students CAN be invited to the meeting without travel covered, under normal NBER rules that apply to other NBER SI meetings.
4.) Here is some information about the selection of new NBER members. First, appointments at the senior level (Research Associate) are extremely rare. Basically, EEE is allowed to appoint three new junior folks per year as Faculty Research Fellow (FRF). All nominations were due to NBER by February 2. We received 16 excellent nominations, all carefully reviewed by the EEE steering committee, and we just made our three recommendations to Jim Poterba and the NBER. The names will be announced when those final decisions are made in a few weeks. For now, just note that the odds are against anyone you might have nominated, with only 3 out of 16.
So please don't be disappointed; your excellent suggestions are not being ignored. Those folks can be nominated again next year. Generally those who do get appointed are well past their first year as an assistant professor. In the meantime, you should tell any candidate TO SUBMIT A PAPER FOR THE SUMMER INSTITUTE, AND *COME* WHETHER THEIR PAPER IS ACCEPTED OR NOT. Bear in mind, the appointment as FRF is not "honorific". We are choosing colleagues! A nomination might have a better chance if the person is known to our members, gives a good presentation, serves as discussant, and is generally a good colleague.
Thanks, Don
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TO: Invitees
On behalf of Jon Gruber, Don Fulllerton and Nolan Miller, I would like to invite you to participate in the NBER's Health Care Program Meeting and Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting. The Health Care meeting will begin on March 8 and continue until lunchtime on March 9. After lunch the Health Care group and the Environmental and Energy Economics group will have a joint meeting. The joint meeting will end at 5:00 pm on March 9. The Environmental and Energy Economics program will continue on March 10. You will are invited to all three days of meetings.
The meetings will be held at the NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. The preliminary program can be found at http://www.nber.org/~confer/2012/EEEHC12/program.htm
Group dinners will be held on March 8 (for the Health Care meeting
For participants traveling to the meetings, the NBER will reimburse travel and hotel expenses in accordance with the NBER's travel regulations which can be found at http://www.nber.org/~confer/travelreg.html. We strongly suggest that you book your reservations through the Bureau's official travel agency, American Express Travel in Cambridge, 800/964-7409. Your airfare will be billed directly to the NBER. If you book through your own travel agency please be advised that the maximum amount the Bureau will reimburse is the discounted fare quoted to us by American Express Travel. Please note the NBER requires reimbursements requests to be submitted within 90 days of the meeting. A reimbursement form is available at http://www.nber.org/forms/travexpconf.pdf.
Hotel reservations will be made, as requested, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd in Cambridge. Depending on your point of origin, the NBER will pay your room and tax charges for up to three nights. If you wish to extend your stay, the rate at the hotel will be $189.00 plus 14.45% tax per night.
Please reply via email through the Conference Department's web reply form at
. Be sure to note which meeting(s) you plan to attend. Please reply no later than February 7, 2012.
If you have any questions or need additional information please contact me at 617/868-3900 rshannon_at_nber.org.
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TO: Researchers in Environmental and Energy Economics
The NBER's Environmental and Energy Economics program will meet on Monday July 23 and Tuesday, July 24 in Cambridge, MA.
We plan to assemble a set of papers on diverse topics in environmental and energy economics. Although the main foci are environmental and energy we welcome papers that invoke concepts or tools from public economics, labor economics, development economics, industrial organization, law and economics, international economics, and development economics. Submissions can be applied theory, or purely empirical, but some preference will be given to papers that draw connections between the theory and empirics.
If you have a paper that you would like to present, please upload a copy here by March 30,
If you know of others, especially junior faculty, who might have papers suitable for this meeting, please encourage them to submit their papers to us. While we have space for only a fraction of the submissions, we give each our careful consideration.
Since this announcement goes to a large group, we cannot invite everyone who receives it. Formal invitations and logistical information will be distributed by the end of April.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Rob Shannon in the NBER's Conference Department at
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