To: EEE members
From: Don Fullerton, Director
Our summer meeting is oversubscribed, and so we will only be able to invite few graduate students. In past years we asked those attending from each university jointly to select one nominee, but now:
1. We need to follow the procedure in Jim Poterba's email of May 6 (below), so please upload your letter of grad student nomination using the web-based system.
2. I will select students to be invited, but you are in a better position to rank the nominees from your school, so please talk to your colleagues, agree on one letter with one ranking, and state in that letter the names of your colleagues who agree to this ranking. Obviously we will not be able to include a student from every university (and, some universities might get two). If you have already submitted your nomination letter, then please just send me a short email with the info requested in this paragraph.
3. You saw the email sent a week ago from co-organizers John List and Kerry Smith (also in the new online EEE email archive) saying they intend to review abstracts and select about 10 students for the egg timer session. The students selected will get priority for the few slots available for student invitations.
Also, in my last email, I meant to express my own deep appreciation for all the extra work undertaken by the EEE steering committee: Michael Greenstone, Larry Goulder, John List, and Catherine Wolfram. Each year, the five of us review FRF and RA nominations and select new EEE members. Also, each spring and summer meeting is co-organized by one of the five of us (for some continuity) jointly with another EEE member not on the steering committee (for some diversity). I think this procedure has been working well, but as always, please let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or alternative ideas!
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, May 06, 2015 12:48 PM
To: family_at_nber.org
Subject: Graduate Student Nominations for NBER Summer Institute
Dear NBER Researchers -
This summer, as in past years, the NBER will welcome promising graduate students and new Ph.D.s to the Summer Institute on a space-available basis.
If you have a student who would benefit from attending, please nominate them using our web-based nominations system:
http://wwwdev.nber.org/nominate/backend/form?confid=N_G15
You will be asked to enter your student's contact information, a one-paragraph nomination statement, and the Summer Institute meeting for which you would like to nominate this student. Please make sure that you receive an email confirmation of your nomination, and please do not send student nominations directly to program directors. If you have any difficulties with the nomination system, please contact Rob Shannon (<mailto:rshannon_at_nber.org>rshannon_at_nber.org).
The closing date for nominations is Friday, May 15. Program directors will review the nominations, and students who are selected to participate will receive invitations from the NBER conference department in late May or early June. Participating students will need to cover their travel and lodging expenses; some NBER affiliates use their research funds, or other sources of support, to defray their students'
costs.
Several Summer Institute meetings are at the capacity of their rooms at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, so we will not be able to accept all student nominees.
Please understand that to avoid over-crowding in meeting rooms, and running out of space at lunch, only invited students may attend the meetings. To assist with our conference management, I must ask you to refrain from extending additional "informal" invitations beyond those facilitated by the NBER Conference Department.
The program directors will strive to be as inclusive as possible when they review the student nominations. Priority will be given to students who were on the job market this year, or who will be completing their Ph.D. in the coming 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 Sat May 09 2015 - 19:25:29 EDT
