EEE program updates

From: Fullerton, Don <dfullert_at_illinois.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 02:41:40 +0000

Dear EEE members:

Here are a few updates for our program (so please read to the bottom for news and dates). First of all, we are extremely happy to announce and to welcome new members. As you know, we are usually allowed three new junior members as Faculty Research Fellows (FRF's) per year, but this year for various complicated reasons we were allowed four new members, including one new senior Research Associate, Antonio Bento (http://dyson.cornell.edu/people/profiles/bento.php). Two new FRF's were appointed a month or two ago, including Reed Walker (http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rwalker/) and Joe Shapiro (http://economics.yale.edu/people/joseph-s-shapiro). The third new FRF is Steve Cicala (http://home.uchicago.edu/~scicala/). Those four are new to NBER, congratulations and welcome!

In addition, we were able to cross-list with EEE a few others who were already in other NBER programs: Mike Anderson (http://are.berkeley.edu/~mlanderson/ARE_Website/Home.html), Alan Barreca (http://econ.tulane.edu/profile_barreca.shtml), and Mar Regaunt (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mreguant). Finally, we congratulate Matt Kotchen on his promotion from FRF to RA (http://environment.yale.edu/profile/kotchen/).

Once you each get your NBER "password" to customize your view of the NBER website, you can click on the archive of old emails to the whole EEE group, to see some prior news alerts. This email, too, will be archived there, so you can find it again to check dates of the Summer Institute or the next EEE meeting. See a list of all EEE members at: http://www.nber.org/programs/eee/eee.html. The people on that list are YOUR colleagues not just for meetings but for research, grant writing, and all kinds of scholarly exchange. We all benefit from your participation.

The EEE workshop of the Summer Institute will be Monday-Tuesday July 21-22, 2014, organized by Meredith Fowlie and Michael Greenstone. The program will be available soon. Please plan to attend! We no longer have funding to pay for travel of graduate students, and the room is overfull, so even graduate students who are willing to pay their own way will be limited to about a dozen total from all universities! Please see Jim Poterba's email pasted below for how to nominate your graduate student to attend. Meredith and Michael will choose from all nominations. (They will also circulate instructions later about how to request a five-minute eggtimer slot on the program.)

The NEW news is that the Spring 2015 EEE meeting will be Thurs-Friday March 26-27, 2015, at the NBER offices in Cambridge, organized by Matt Kahn and me. Mark your calendars. A portion of that meeting will be joint with the NBER's Urban Economics Working Group, directed by Ed Glaeser. The call for papers will appear in about December and will ask for submissions that might be of interest to both EEE and the Urban group for those joint presentations, plus other EEE papers for the other EEE-only portions of our meeting.

Have a nice rest of your semester and a great summer. See you in July. Please let me know if you have any questions, or any ideas about how to improve the program.

Thanks, Don
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Prof. Don Fullerton, Finance Dept & IGPA
University of Illinois, Champaign IL 61820
512-750-6012, http://works.bepress.com/don_fullerton/
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Poterba [mailto:poterba_at_nber.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:07 AM
Subject: Nominating Graduate Students to Attend 2014 Summer Institute

Dear NBER Researchers -

     As in past years, the NBER will welcome promising graduate students to
  this year's Summer Institute on a space-available basis. If you have a
  student who you think would benefit from attending, please visit our new
  nominations webpage

  and enter your student's contact information, a one-paragraph nomination
  statement describing the student's research and when he or she will be
  finishing graduate studies, and the program at Summer Institute to which
  this nomination applies. Please make sure that you receive a confirmation
  email after you complete your nomination, and please do not send nominations
  directly to program directors. If you have difficulties with this system,
  please email Rob Shannon (rshannon_at_nber.org).

     The closing date for nominations is Friday, May 9. Program directors
  will review the nominations shortly thereafter, and students who are
  selected to participate will receive invitations from the NBER conference
  department in late May. Participating students will need to cover their
  own travel and lodging expenses. In the past, some NBER affiliates have used
  their own research funds or secured university funds to help students to
  defray their travel costs.

     Please be mindful that several of our Summer Institute meetings are
  approaching the size limits of the rooms at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, and
  that we may not be able to accept all nominated students. To avoid
  situations in which there is no space for our registered participants, it is
  important for graduate students who are attending the meetings to be
  registered for Summer Institute. I would especially ask Boston-based
  researchers to remind their students that the Summer Institute is not an
  open meeting and that registration is required for attendance. Although
  some programs will be able to accept only a fraction of the student
  nominations as a result of space constraints, we will strive to be as
  inclusive as possible. Priority will be given to students who were on the
  job market this year, or who will be completing their Ph.D.s next year.

     Thank you for your help in making the Summer Institute an exciting and
  vibrant gathering. I look forward to seeing you in July. All best wishes.

  Jim Poterba
Received on Fri May 02 2014 - 07:04:21 EDT