Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

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Yanqin Fan & Chancellor Zeppos	Yanqin Fan received the Chancellor's Research Award at the University's Fall 2009 Faculty Assembly. This award recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression, and acknowledges recent significant accomplishments presented or published in the preceding three calendar years. Yanqin's recent paper with X. Chen, "Estimation of Copula-based Semiparametric Time Series Models" won the 2008 Zellner Award by the Journal of Econometrics. Having one of our colleagues winning such a prestigious award through a university wide competition is also a recognition of the quality of the economics faculty by the University. Congratulations to Professor Fan for winning this award, and for her contribution to the department, the University, and the profession.
	Tong Li has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his work on analyzing auction data, studying bidders’ strategic behavior, and addressing policy related questions using game-theoretic models and state-of-art econometric methods. Despite stiff competition for NSF funding in social science areas, the economics faculty at Vanderbilt have fared quite well in getting funded by the NSF. Recent NSF grantees from the economics faculty include Jeremy Atack, Rick Bond, Bill Collins, Mario Crucini, Andrew Daughety, Yanqin Fan, Jennifer Reinganum, Peter Rousseau, Moto Shintani, and John Siegfried.
Heather Luea	New Faculty for AY 2008-2009 Please welcome our newest faculty members: Heather Luea (Ph.D. Kansas State University) and Scott Davis (Ph.D. Vanderbilt Univesrity). http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/visiting.html
	John Weymark delivered a plenary address to the 2009 Grands Colloque de l'Assocation pour le Développement de la Recherche en Économie et Statistique held at the University of Caen, France, June 10 to 12th. The theme of the conference was: New Developments in Social Choice and Welfare Theories. The conference was a tribute to Maurice Salles, one of the founding Editors of the journal, Social Choice and Welfare. Weymark's talk, "Dominant Strategy Implementation with a Convex Product Space of Valuations, was based on joint research with Katherine Cuff, Sunghoon Hong, Jesse Schwartz, and Quan Wen.
	Forthcoming book by John Siegfried Expected release date for the book Better Living Through Economics, edited by John Siegfried, is Fall 2009 through the Harvard University Press. Click here to read an abstract.
Yanqin Fan	Yanqin Fan wins the 2008 Zellner Award Yanqin Fan's paper with X. Chen "Estimation of Copula-based Semiparametric Time Series Models" has won the 2008 Zellner Award by the Journal of Econometrics for the best theory paper published in 2006 and 2007. The Zellner Award was established by the Journal of Econometrics in honor of the Journal's founding editor Arnold Zellner in 2002 and is given every other year to the best theory paper published in the Journal over the past two years. Tong Li ‘s coauthored work won the inaugural Zellner Award in 2002.
	Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum to deliver keynote address Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum were keynote speakers at the 5th Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, held February 26-27, 2009.
	Weymarks receive Faculty Award Professors Diana and John Weymark were presented with the Student Athletics' Distinguished Faculty of the Game Award on February 5, 2009 at Vanderbilt's varsity basketball game against the University of Alabama.
	Jeremy Atack releases new book about Financial Markets Jeremy Atack has a new book available through Cambridge Press entitled "The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions From the Seventeenth Century to the Present". The book was edited by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Click here for the abstract. Click here for a pdf of the book cover.
Mario Crucini	Mario Crucini is distinguished speaker at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics Mario Crucini delivered the lecture: "Flat World Fictions, Real World Frictions," as a distinguished speaker at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, on November 14, 2008 and as a distinguished alumni speaker at the Wegman's Conference, University of Rochester, October 20, 2008.
Stephen Buckles	The 2008 Henry H. Villard Research Award was presented to Stephen Buckles in October, 2008. The Henry H. Villard Research Award was established to encourage and recognize outstanding contributions in economic education research. Villard was the first editor of the Journal of Economic Education. His contributions to early research in the discipline were notable and set the tone and pace for later research. Steve has been a hard working, dedicated, and highly respected researcher. His imprint is clearly planted on economic education research, especially in the area of assessment. It was Steve’s initial article published in the Journal of Economic Education that brought the connection between learning theory and economics to the forefront among traditional economists. For his contributions to economic education research, we honor Steve Buckles with the 2008 Henry H. Villard Research Award.
	GPED Director Suhas Ketkar releases new book titled Innovative Financing for Development, published by the World Bank in September, 2008. Ketkar is a recognized expert on the emerging markets of Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
	Mario Crucini becomes an R.A. at NBER Mario Crucini was selective as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, effective September 2008. Mario Crucini was the Weatherall Visiting Scholar at Queen's University, July and August, 2008.
Tong Li	New Department Chairs as of AY 2008 Tong Li and John Weymark become Department Chair and Vice Chair effectively July 1, 2008. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/new-chairs.html
	Mario Crucini was appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of Monetary Economics, as Associate Editor, effective July 2008.
Hyeok Jeong	Hyeok Jeong delivers a plenary speech Hyeok Jeong delivered a plenary speech at the Korean Econometric Society Macroeconomics Meeting, Seoul (Korea), June 2008.
Stephen Buckles	Stephen Buckles is honored with the The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for 2008 at the Spring Faculty Meeting held on April 18th, 2008. Names of winners of the Madison Sarratt Prize are mounted on a permanent plaque in the Sarratt Student Center. The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching was established by the Board of Trust in 1964. Final selection is made by the Chancellor on the basis of nominations made on-line by undergraduates. Students are asked to rate a nominee according to the nominee's concern for an individual student's learning, the organization and engagement of classroom presentation, the clarity and fairness of criteria for awarding grades, and accessibility and helpfulness outside of class.
John Weymark	John Weymark was elected President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare for the term January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2009. Weymark's Presidential Address, "Must One Be an Ogre to Rationally Prefer Aiding the Nearby to the Distant Needy?", was presented on June 19th, 2008 at the 9th International Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare at Concordia University in Montreal.
	Mario Crucini becomes senior fellow at the FRB, Dallas Mario Crucini was appointed as a Senior Fellow at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, effective January 2008.
	John Weymark releases new book titled, Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls along with Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles. The book was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. More information can be found at: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521640930