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Dear EEE members:
1. First I want to welcome three new members to EEE, congratulate each of them on a great start to their research career, and invite everybody to talk to them about future joint research:
Solomon Hsiang, http://www.solomonhsiang.com/
Koichiro Ito, http://www.stanford.edu/~itok/
Arthur van Benthem, https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/21174/
You can see the entire list of members at http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html
2. On the NBER website, you can "login" to see the link to info for members (how to submit working papers, and who to ask for help at NBER). You can click on "Forgot your password?", type in the email address that NBER has for you, and receive your username and password.
3. Our next event is the Summer Institute (SI) on Monday-Tuesday July 22-23. Please always plan to attend the Spring and Summer meeting each year! The "call for papers" for the SI goes to 300+ economists, not just those in EEE. That call comes early, in January or February, because we need to allow a month for submitters to prepare their paper for the deadline in March. The organizers need sufficient time to read *75* submissions, choose a dozen for the program, get discussants, and send out the program by early May, for attendees to get flights a couple months ahead of the July meeting.
4. The next Spring 2014 meeting is not yet planned, but could be in February, March or April. The call for the Spring meeting goes only to EEE members, but you can forward it to a non-EEE author of a great paper that ought to be considered. You may receive only one email call for papers from NBER, so save it in your NBER folder! For EEE members without their own grant or travel funds, the NBER will pay for your travel to the Spring meeting, hotel, and a group dinner.
5. Funding for travel to the Summer Institute is a little more limited. We used to have an EPA grant, but we now face the usual NBER travel reimbursement rules<http://www.nber.org/~confer/2012/SI2012/traveregbs.html> , which cover only NBER-affiliates (RAs and FRFs), and only for "$100 per day of participation, up to a maximum of $500." Many in EEE are joint with other programs and are encouraged to stay for more than just the two-day EEE program (to get more than $200 toward your travel reimbursement). NBER rules do not pay for travel of non-NBER-affiliates, even if they are on the program as an author or discussant. Also, we used to have an EEE-only dinner at the SI in July, in connection with the EPA grant, but now we revert to the usual practice of NBER, which provides one SI-wide group clam-bake dinner per week, on a Wednesday, for all programs meeting that week.
6. For any meeting, please encourage submissions from young scholars we ought to consider for NBER Faculty Research Fellow. We can normally appoint about three new FRF's per year. Jim Poterba sends an email in January asking for nominations by February for appointments in the Spring, but you can always suggest names to Jim or to me. Any FRF recently promoted should remind me, as tenure is required for promotions to "Research Associate" (which also must be approved by the Board of Directors, which meets each April and September).
1. Please let me know of any other feedback or ideas you have for improvement of our program, including research projects that might involve joint efforts at funding, research, meetings, and publications! The NBER has great benefits and support for grants run through NBER. A research "project" might involve a conference, but it does not have to result in a conference volume. The goal of a research project is the research, not just a conference or a conference volume!
1. Save this email in your NBER folder, as it contains key info you might need later!
Thanks, Don
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