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Dear alumni and friends of the department,
This has been an extraodinary and eventful year for the department. The
popularity of our major keeps growing: the number of declared majors has
recently crossed the 600 mark. The overall demand for our classes this
year has also been extraordinarily large. On the supply side, we were
fortunate to make three new excellent faculty hires, Associate Professor
Daniela Puzzello and Assistant Professors Filomena Garcia and Volodymyr
Lugovskyy, and received authorizations from the College to recruit more
new faculty in the coming year. The department organized conferences,
including a major international conference in Public Economic Theory,
research seminars and brought in outstanding external speakers for the
benefit of our students and faculty. There were sad news too: the passing
of Professor Roy Gardner. Please read about some of these events below,
and please keep coming back to the site as its is being regularly updated.
Yours Truly,
Michael Kaganovich
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
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Intensive Writing and Research Course r />
for Students from Pusan
National University, Korea
On July 18 a group of thirteen students, led by Professor Lee, arrived at
the Department of Economics at Indiana University to participate in an
intensive 16 day course. The students majors are mostly Economics, but
Accounting, Management Information Systems, Marketing and Finance are also
represented. The purpose of the course is to help the students prepare
their research for publication in international English language journal
and for presentation in English language conferences.
Each day the
students spend 4 to 5 hours in class. Classes consists of presentations by
the instructor of record, Professor Glomm, discussions of research topics
and research strategies, presentations by professors Alexeev and Lee, and,
of course, multiple presentations by the students themselves. The high
lights of the course include a field trip to St Louis with a visit to the
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, a trip to the top of the Gateway Arch, a
St Louis Cardinals baseball game and victory over the Cubs, and a visit to
the Meramec campus of St Louis Community College where the Campus
President, George Wasson (an alumnus of the IU Department of Economics)
and his staff welcomed us with incredibly generous hospitality.
The
students will give their final research presentations on August 2 and 3.
Each student will be awarded a certificate for completing the course. |
The 12th Annual PET11
Conference concluded June 4th, 2011, at I.U. Bloomington. It was a
great success and much appreciated by all.
Thanks to the many participants that sent us their feedback, some of which
you can read here.
See
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Opening session with Elinor Ostrom | |
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Professor Eric Leeper's research on Fiscal Stress and
Inflation is receiving more and more national and international attention.
For a nice non technical description of this research program as well as a
short bio of Professor Leeper see
http://www.nber.org/reporter/2011number2/2011no2.pdf. The National
Bureau of Economic Research is widely considered to be the most
prestigious research organization in the country and perhaps the world.
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Professor Hans Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and
Public Finance, University of Munich, President of Ifo Institute for
Economic Research, Director of CES – Center for Economic Studies,
University of Munich, and of the IIPF (International Institute of Public
Finance) will be presenting a series of lectures based on his
recent book The Green Paradox. Appeal for an
illusion-free climate policy, Econ: Berlin, 2008. These lectures will take
place Monday October 3 at 4 pm, Tuesday October 4 at 4 pm in Wylie Hall 005.
Professor Sinn's third lecture will be a part of a mini-conference on
Environmental Policy on Friday, October 7. Location: Tocqueville
Room, Political Theory Workshop, 513 North Park Avenue.
Click Here for Conference
Program »
Click here for Professor Sinn's and CESifo's profile, and
here for an article about him.
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 Congratulations
to Sue Medland who received the 2011 Advisor of
the Year award from the College for her work with the ever
growing number of students in Economics; the award nominations are made by
students. We always knew she was the best!
Excerpts from Chair’s Recommendation letter:
From the very first day Sue has jumped into her new position with
enthusiasm. When Sue was hired, Economics as an academic discipline was
something totally new to her. With seemingly endless energy and an
untiring spirit she set out to learn about the peculiarities of the
discipline, the content of the classes, the reason for the highly
structured curriculum with strict prerequisites, internship opportunities,
the job market prospects, and the linkages to other departments and
programs. Sue attended classes and meetings, and she met frequently with
me and the Director of Undergraduate Studies to learn about our program.
She always looks at the positive and bright side of things and brings out
the best in her colleagues and in the students. The number of econ majors
has risen substantially from about 200 when Sue started here in Economics
to over 600 actively enrolled Econ majors now. I attribute a good portion
of this increase in majors to Sue, her thoughtful and caring attitude.
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 The Conference on "Games:
Theory and Applications" in memory of Professor Roy Gardner, who
passed away on January 19, 2011, took place April 15, 2011. The invited
speakers Frank Page, Christopher Waller, Subir Chakrabarti, Claudia Keser,
and Jürgen von Hagen covered a wide spectrum of topics ranging from
international capital flows, to the measuremnt of the shadow economy,
experimental economics and game theory. At the reception the department
announced a fund raising drive to establish the Roy L. Gardner Memorial
Lecture Series in Microeconomics.
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 Congratulations:
Kyle Fletcher wins Palmer-Brandon Prize in the
Humanities! Kyle is a double major in Philosophy and Economics and is on
track to graduate this coming May.
The Palmer-Brandon Prize is one of the major awards
in to College of Arts and Sciences at IU. It is named for the late Ralph
Graham Palmer of Washington, Ind., and his wife, the late Barbara Brandon
Palmer, both IU alumni. The award was made possible by a gift to the
College of Arts and Sciences in the 1980s. Winners can choose to apply the
prize money directly to their tuition costs.
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 Volodymyr
Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology, has accepted our offer for a
position as an assistant professor and will be joining our department in
the fall. His research focuses on international trade and experimental
economics. For more information see his CV at
http://www.econ.gatech.edu/people/faculty/lugovskyy. We are delighted
that he has accepted our offer and look forward to having him join our
department.
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 Filomena
Garcia, Technical University of Lisbon, has accepted our offer for a
position as an assistant professor and will be joining our department this
coming fall. Her research focuses on industrial organization, game theory,
matching and networks. For more information see her CV at
http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~fgarcia/ . We are delighted that she has
accepted our offer and look forward to having her join our department.
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 Professor
Roy J. Gardner passed away unexpectedly on Monday, January 10, 2011 at his
residence in Bloomington. He was 63 years old. He recently
retired from Indiana University where he had been since 1983. He
held the titles of Chancellor’s Professor of Economics (since 1996) and
Henry H. H. Remak Professor of West European Studies (since 2004).
Roy specialized in the theory of games and economic behavior.
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 Professor
Todd Walker's research attracts national attention. His article on
the Rooney Rule in the NFL was recently cited in the
New York Times Freakonomics blog and in the
IU News.
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Daniel Schuster wins HHC Burnett/Masters Junior Scholars Award!
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 Economics
Department Awards Presentations for 2010.
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 Former President of Ecuador, Jorge Jamil Mahuad spoke at I. U.
Bloomington on March 25th, explaining the complex economic conditions he
faced as President of Ecuador from 1998-2000, and drawing many parallels
to many conditions being faced by President Obama in the United States
today.
Full Story »
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 Elinor (Lin) Ostrom, Arthur F.
Bentley Professor of Political Science was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize
in Economic Sciences "for her analysis of economic governance,
especially the commons".
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 Professor
Rubiana Chamarbagwala was awarded a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute Of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) Grant for
2009-2011 to study "Sub-Caste Identity, Inter-Generational Transmission,
and Offspring Sex-Selection in India".
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 Themester is a
new and exciting initiative in the college of Arts and Sciences for the
undergraduate students. The theme for fall 2009 was "Evolution,
Diversity, and Change"
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 The department organized
its first Alumni Reunion in November. The department hosted a brunch and
Dr. Dale Henderson delivered a policy lecture on The Financial Crisis:
The Ins and the Outs. While the size of the first alumni reunion was
modest, we are already working on preparations for the second reunion on
October 16, 2010, so please mark your calendars.
Full Story »
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 The last few years have seen a
tremendous increase in the number of economics majors.
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