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The most recent Steine Lecture was Friday, February 17th, 2011. The guest speaker was Matt Jackson of Stanford University.

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The most recent lecture was held Thursday, March 24, 2011. The guest speaker was Janet Currie of Columbia University

Faculty News

	Mario Crucini has been elected President of the International Economics and Finance Society, a professional association of economists founded in 1992. He will serve a two-year term beginning in January 2013.
	Andrew Daughety has been appointed to the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Economics.
	Economists Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, found that diverse parallel importing policies among countries today make it possible to analyze for the first time how competition between firms and allowing or banning parallel imports can influence competition in foreign and domestic markets. Click here to read the article.
	William J. Collins has received a three-year National Science Foundation Grant to study internal migration in the United States by creating new datasets of linked census records. This is a collaborative project with Marianne Wanamaker of the University of Tennessee, a former Vanderbilt undergraduate.
	William J. Collins has been appointed to the Terrence E. Adderley, Jr. Chair in Economics. This is a new chair sponsored by the parents of Mr. Adderley, who died in the World Trade Center on 9-11 in his second week of work post-graduation (from Vanderbilt as an Econ major). To read more about Terrence Adderley, click here.
	Professor Mario Crucini's paper on tariffs in the Great Depression (American Economic Review 1994) is featured in a new volume of "Seminal Works of the Great Depression," edited by Randall E. Parker for Edward Elgar Publishing (2011). Click here to view online.
	On Sept. 10, 2011, Jeremy Atack became president of the Economic History Association. Atack will be responsible for organizing the program of the EHA’s 2012 meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he will also deliver the presidential address. Read the full story »
	Professors Jennifer Reinganum and Myrna Wooders have both been selected as Economic Theory Fellows by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement. The research contributions of fellows exist in many areas of theoretical economics, including pure and applied research, and government service. The primary qualification for fellowship is to have substantially advanced economic theory. This achievement may be evidenced by an outstanding publication record; strong editorial board service; honorary, scientific, educational and professional achievements, or through the training of graduate students. More details of the program can be found on the Society for Advancement of Economic Theory website http://www.saet.illinois.edu/index.html
	New Faculty for AY 2011-2012
	Springer publishes a new book 'Social Ethics and Normative Economics', edited by Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Economics John Weymark, Marc Fleurbaey (Université Paris-Descartes), and Maurice Salles (Université de Caen). To go to the Springer website for more information about the book, click here.
	On April 14th Professor Myrna Wooders delivered the Colloquium Jacques Morgenstern lecture at INRIA, the Institute of Sciences and Technology of Information and Communication, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.Click here to view more information about the lecture. Professor Wooders took advantage of her European trip to give a seminar at the Catholic University of Lisbon, which will host the international conference on Public Economic Theory (PET 13) in 2013.
	GPED Director Dr. Kamal Saggi was the guest speaker at University School of Nashville's annual Buhl lecture on April 26, 2011. To learn more about the Buhl Lecture, click here.
	Three economics faculty have been appointed named chairs beginning the spring semester 2011. Tong Li and John Weymark are both appointed as Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Economics; Yanqin Fan is appointed as Centennial Professor of Economics. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/giving/why-give/faculty/
	William J. Collins is now the Co-Editor of Explorations in Economic History, a leading journal in the field.
	Myrna Wooders delivered a keynote lecture at The Second Lisbon Conference on Game Theory in November 2010 (http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~uece/lisbonmeetings2010/). The other keynote speakers were Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, and Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Columbia University.
	Joni-Hersch-elected-a-Vice-President-of-Southern-Economic-Association
	Area business owners greet news of Wal-Mart's imminent arrival, Professor Malcolm Getz is interviewed
	Vandy study says Mexican immigrants’ jobs more dangerous The “Immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life” study, conducted by Department of Economics and Vanderbilt Law School professors Joni Herschand W. Kip Viscusi, found that Mexican immigrants are in jobs with fatality rates more than one-third higher than other workers, but they are not compensated accordingly.
	Mario Crucini, Associate Professor of Economics, and Moto Shintani, Associate Professor of Economics, have received National Science Foundation Grant SES-1030164 “International Cities as the Economic Unit of Account: Theory and Measurement.” with the third Co-PI Hakan Yilmazkuday, a former Vanderbilt Ph.D. student who is now an assistant professor at Temple University. The grant is for 2010-2013, with total amount $513,111.
	Saggi wants to answer 'the big questions' How do you solve poverty? How do developing countries catch up? How does a nation grow? These “big questions” are what inspired India-born Kamal Saggi to take up economics as an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan University. He’s devoted his career to chipping away at solutions, and going forward, he’ll do his research from Nashville. [more]
	Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University) was appointed to a three-year term as co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics, effective July 1, 2010. Mototsugu Shintani (Vanderbilt University), Kevin Huang (Vanderbilt University), Sylvain Leduc (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) and Margarida Duarte (University of Toronto) are serving as Editorial Advisors.
	During August 2010, Myrna Wooders gave a plenary lecture at the Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society (Sao Paulo) and a keynote lecture at the General Equilibrium Theory Workshop in Asia (Hanoi). At both these evens she presented her work studying the properties of diverse economies -- including economies with clubs or local public goods, for example -- which ensure that price-taking outcomes cannot be improved upon by any coalition of players. Besides delivering her plenary lecture, Myrna Wooders also chaired a panel discussion with an illustrious group of panelists including Nobel Laureates Robert Aumann (Hebrew University), Eric Maskin (Princeton) and Roger Myerson (University of Chicago).
	In honor of John Siegfried, who officially retired at the end of the past academic year, the Eocnomics Honors Student Reserch Fund has been re-named the "John Siegfried Economics Honors Student Research Fund". For more information about this fund and other opportunites to support the department, click here.
	John Siegfried, professor of economics, is now professor of economics, emeritus. Siegfried joined the economics faculty in the College of Arts and Science in 1972 and also taught at Vanderbilt Law School and in the Executive MBA program of the Owen Graduate School of Management.
	Tong Li, professor of economics and chair of the department, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation 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.
	Jennifer F. Reinganum has been named the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Law and Economics Association. The ALEA includes academic and professional economists, practicing lawyers and legal scholars, political scientists, and others who share an interest in the interdisciplinary field of law and economics. The Association holds an annual two-day meeting in May at which members present papers dealing with a wide variety of topics. Since 1999, the Association has published the American Law and Economics Review, a refereed journal. Following her one-year term as Secretary/Treasurer, Reinganum will become the Vice President of the association for one year and then, ultimately, the President. During her term as President, the annual meeting will be held at Vanderbilt (in May, 2013).
	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.
	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 Grand Colloque de l'Association pour le Développement de la Recherche en Économie et Statistiques 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'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 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.
	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.
	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.
	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 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