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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.

Regular Weekly Seminars

The department offers regular weekly seminars. The usual schedule is:

The Dornbush/Roby Seminar Series: including departmental, empirical, statistical and international economic seminars are held in room 423, Calhoun Hall at 3:10 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated)
The Steine Lecture Series: The most recent lecture was Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 4 p.m. Wilson Hall, room 103 The guest speaker was John Taylor of Stanford University.
The McGee Lecture Series: The most recent lecture was held Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4 p.m. Wilson Hall, room 103. The guest speaker was Robert Hall of Stanford University.

Conferences

In cooperation with Vanderbilt University the Association for Public Economic Theory (APET) hosted PET 07 Nashville, held July 6th-8th 2007.Click here for more information.
The GPED celebrated their 50th Anniversary with the conference, "Globalization and the Developing Countries" from November 10th-12th, 2006. Click here for more information.
April 22nd-24th, 2005, the Economics Department hosted the 2005 Midwest International Economics and Economic Theory Meetings.
The Economic History Association held it's annual conference on September 19th-21st, 2003 at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt Law School and Owen Graduate School of Management cosponsored the Baseball Economics Conference, February 21, 2003.

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