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AEA News & NotesVisit our Bulletin Board for outside postings!To: Members of the American Economic Association Call for Papers for the 2013 AEA Meetings. The deadline for submissions to be considered for the January 2013 AEA Meeting program is April 1, 2012 for individual papers and April 15, 2012 for complete sessions. See: http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/call_for_papers.php. Econ-Harmony helps prospective AEA Annual Meetings individual paper submitters find others with similar interests who might join them to form a complete session submission, and provides an opportunity to volunteer as a session chair. Thirty-one percent of submitted complete sessions and 16% of submitted individual papers made it onto the 2012 Program; 39% of submitted complete sessions and 17 % of submitted individual papers made it onto the 2011 Program. Econ-Harmony is at http://www.aeaweb.org/econ-harmony/. Music Night 2013 in San Diego. The AEA is organizing several small performance groups for an evening of diverse music at the 2013 ASSA meetings in San Diego. We envision participants, who are primarily economists, from several broad genres. Examples include: Jazz; Latin (Samba/Bossanova/ Mambo/Bolero); Bluegrass/Country; Blues. The goal is a relaxed atmosphere and ample opportunity for conversation, implying the music will involve no loud amplification and no vocals. Webcasts are online. Four 2012 Annual Meeting sessions are available to Association members online: "The Euro: Challenges to Improve a Currency Union," "The Political Economy of U.S. Debt and Deficits," "Markets with Frictions" and "What Happened to the U.S. Employment Miracle?" Your AEAweb user ID and password provide access at http://www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/. Webcasts from 2009 through 2011 and Continuing Education Programs are available for members at the same website. Retired Faculty Available for part-time or temporary teaching. JOE now lists retired economists interested in teaching on either a part-time or temporary basis at http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/available_faculty/. Individuals can add or delete their name any time. Listings are deleted on November 30; the service is closed during December and January, re-opening February 12. 2012 Summer Training Program and the AEA Minority Scholarships. The University of New Mexico (UNM) hosts the 2012 AEA Summer Training and Minority Scholarship Program. The six-week program runs from June 17 through July 28 on the Albuquerque UNM campus. The Program provides undergraduates with study and research opportunities that prepare them with a better understanding of what doctoral level study of economics entails. Additional information, application, and nomination information is at http://healthpolicy.unm.edu or email center@unm.edu CEE Poster Session - Call for Proposals. The Committee on Economic Education will sponsor a poster session at the 2013 ASSA Annual Meeting in San Diego devoted to active learning strategies across the economics curriculum. Presenters will prepare large visual poster summaries of their work, which are mounted in an exhibition room to allow presenters to talk directly with session visitors. Proposals limited to two pages are due by April 1, 2012. More information is at http://www.aeaweb.org/home/committees/AEACEE/call_for.php AEAStat Call for Papers. The AEA Committee on Economic Statistics (AEAStat) will sponsor three sessions on economic measurement at the January 2013 Annual Meeting in San Diego. The Committee solicits both individual paper and complete sessions proposals concerning any economic measurement issue. One of the sessions organized by the Committee will be published in the AER Papers & Proceedings. Abstracts are due by April 17, 2012 to Robert Feenstra, chair, Committee on Economic Statistics, aea-stat@umich.edu. See also: http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/AEAStat/index.php. CSWEP Call for Papers/sessions. The AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) will sponsor six sessions at the January 2013 Annual Meetings in San Diego. Three sessions are on gender-related topics and three sessions are on health economics topics. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Papers & Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review. Individual papers and complete session proposals will be considered. E-mail a cover letter (specifying to which set of sessions the paper is being submitted) and a 1 -2 page abstract (250-1000 words), with the paper title, author(s) name(s) and contact information for all authors to CSWEP@econ.duke.edu by February 17, 2012. Nominations for American Economics Journal Best Article Prizes. Suggestions for nominations for "best paper" prizes for each of the American Economic Journals are solicited. Awards will be announced in April 2012, selected from articles published in the 2009 - 2011 volumes of each AEJ. Suggest nominations at http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/bestpapernominations.php by February 17, 2012. Discussion Forums: AEA members can participate in online discussion forums about articles published in AEJ: Applied Economics, AEJ: Economic Policy, AEJ: Macroeconomics, AEJ: Microeconomics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Members can comment about a particular article and post links to relevant published papers, datasets, Power Point presentations, etc. Each article has its own discussion forum. To comment, go to the article page for the paper and select "Post a Comment on This Article". To read comments, go to the articles page for a paper and select "View Comments on This Article." Publication updates on Twitter. Want to see forthcoming article previews as soon as they are available for the American Economic Review, American Economic Journals, and the Journal of Economic Literature? Follow us on Twitter! Download journals. Complete issues of AEA journals (beginning with 2012) are available for download in PDF format. Issues of the AEJs, AER, and JEL are available for AEA members as a member benefit; issues of JEP are publicly accessible at no charge. Enjoy the convenience of browsing AEA journals on your laptop or mobile devices. http://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php To: Members of the American Economic Association The AEA Annual Meeting registration deadline is December 1. Check AEA's website for hotel availability updates here. The preliminary program of the ASSA annual meeting in Chicago, IL. 2012 is available online. AEA Continuing Education Program; January 8-10, 2012 in Chicago, immediately after the annual meeting. The topics are:
The 2012 program will be held at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown. Individuals attending the Continuing Education Program should book their ASSA reservation at the Renaissance. Nominations for American Economic Journals' Best Paper Prizes. Suggestions for nominations for the annual "Best Paper" prizes for the AEA's four American Economic Journals are solicited. The awards will be announced in April 2012, selected from articles published in the 2009 through 2011 volumes of each AEJ. To suggest nominations go here. Deadline is February 15, 2012. The Committee on Economic Education (CEE) announces its 2nd annual conference on teaching undergraduate and graduate economics, and research on economic education at all levels (including precollege). The conference, cosponsored by the Journal of Economic Education, will be at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Boston, May 30th - June 1, 2012, with a dinner at the Boston FED. Plenary speakers include:
Concurrent sessions will also be scheduled, featuring research and pedagogy papers, panel discussions, and workshops on teaching economics at the college level (undergraduate and graduate). See Call for Papers. Deadline is December 1, 2011. To: Members of the American Economic Association Registration and Housing for the ASSA Meetings, January 6-8, 2012 in Chicago opens September 13th. Headquarters is the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Job Placement interview tables are in the Palmer House Hilton. The Continuing Education Program is located in the Renaissance Chicago Downtown. To see the preliminary program and to register click on http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/index.php. Follow us on Twitter @ASSAMeeting. Twitter will announce last-minute changes before and during the meetings. Send questions to assa@vanderbilt.edu or 615-322-3509. AEA Continuing Education Program;January 8-10, 2012 in Chicago, immediately after the annual meeting. The topics are:
The 2012 program will be held at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown. Individuals attending the Continuing Education Program should book their ASSA reservation at the Renaissance. Registration opens on September 13th. See: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) is accepting applications for the 2012 CSWEP Mentoring (CeMENT) National Workshop, held immediately after the ASSA meetings in Chicago, on January 8-10, 2012. This workshop is aimed at junior faculty at institutions where promotion is based primarily on research output. It addresses the unique challenges that women face at the beginning of their careers. Application deadline is October 1, 2011. To learn more and apply go to http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/mentoring/index.php. The Second Annual National Conference on Teaching Economics (at the undergraduate and graduate levels) and Research in Economic Education (all levels, including precollege) will be held May 30 to June 1, 2012 in Boston, hosted by the Committee on Economic Education, in cooperation with the Journal of Economic Education. The conference is at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, with a dinner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The call for papers, posters, and other presentation formats in concurrent sessions is at http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/AEACEE/CallFor/Call_for_Papers_2012_Boston.pdf. Send submissions to KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Richmond, kmcgoldr@richmond.edu by December 1, 2011. More information is at http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/AEACEE/index.php. Reference Letters for Job Candidates. In order to better coordinate the transmission of job application materials from economics job candidates to prospective employers, the Association encourages both job candidates and employers to use EconJobMarket.org, a not-for-profit organization that collects economics job application materials centrally and transmits them to designated employers, or a similar centralized application transmission service. The goals are to reduce the time required of reference letter writers who are often asked to tediously submit information to individual employer web sites, and also to transmit the information to prospective employers electronically so that they can conduct more efficient job searches. Advertising Requirements for Academic Jobs Filled by Foreign Nationals. The US Department of Labor has issued new guidelines regarding the use of electronic publications to advertise for academic jobs that are filled by foreign nationals who seek permanent visa status in the US. After many years of requiring print advertisements, freely available electronic-only publications now satisfy the job advertisement requirement. American Economic Association (AEA) 2012 Summer Training Program and Minority Scholarships. After a one year hiatus, the AEA's Summer Program resumes in 2012, hosted by the Department of Economics and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. The Program will be held from June 17 through July 28 on the Albuquerque UNM campus. It provides undergraduate students with instruction and research opportunities to enable them to better understand what studying for a Ph.D. in Economics entails. It includes courses in economic theory, mathematics, and econometrics as well as research seminars intended to acquaint students with economic concepts and issues. The Program is open to all qualified students, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender. Minority fellowships are open to qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents, with preference for members of historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic minority groups. Additional information, and application and nomination information is at http://healthpolicy.unm.edu. Send inquiries to center@unm.edu. To: Members of the American Economic Association ASSA Meetings, January 6-8, Chicago, Illinois. Current plans are to open registration and hotel bookings for the ASSA meetings on September 13th. See http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting. Job Openings for Economists has been published only electronically for the past decade. Starting with the August 2011 issue, the Association resumes publishing JOE in print format, in order to ensure compliance with Department of Labor regulations for obtaining work visas for non-citizen economists. Print issues will be distributed via the U.S. Postal System two to three weeks after they are published electronically. Annual subscriptions will run from August through the following June of each year, and are $50 each. To subscribe go to http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/subscribe/. Single issues are available for $45 each. The AEA Continuing Education Program will feature three concurrent programs on January 8, 9, and 10, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois: Cross-section econometrics (Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge); International Economics (Gene Grossman and Gita Gopinath); and Advanced Interactive Teaching Methods in Economics (Patrick Conway, Tisha Emerson, KimMarie McGoldrick, Michael Salemi, and William Walstad). AEA Government Relations Committee has published an electronic announcement which includes: over fifty white papers written for NSF by economists on grand challenge research questions; new research funding opportunities at NSF, Census, USDA and NIH; and free webinars on the Census Research Data Centers and the American Community Survey. To sign up for future announcements or to read the current announcement see http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/Govt_Relations/index.php. The Committee on Economic Education (CEE) announces its 2nd annual conference on teaching undergraduate and graduate economics, and research on economic education at all levels (including precollege). The conference, cosponsored by the Journal of Economic Education, will be at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Boston, May 30th - June 1, 2012, with a dinner at the Boston FED. Plenary speakers include: The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) seeks nominations for the 2011 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. Submit a nomination letter, current CV and at least two supporting letters by September 15, 2011. More information, including past winners, is at http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/awards/. Junior Faculty Mentoring Workshops. CSWEP will hold a National CeMENT workshop in conjunction with the ASSA meetings in Chicago, 2012, aimed at mentoring junior faculty at institutions where promotion is based primarily on research productivity, with a focus on addressing the unique challenges that women face at the beginning of their careers. Application materials at http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/mentoring/; deadline is October 1, 2011. To: Members of the American Economic Association Journal Publication Policies. On April 15, 2011, the Executive Committee voted to drop "double-blind" refereeing for the Association's journals. The change to "single-blind" refereeing (the referees' identity remains undisclosed) is effective July 1, 2011. Easy access to search engines increasingly limits the effectiveness of the double-blind process in maintaining author anonymity. Double-blind refereeing also increases administrative costs of the journals and makes it harder for referees to identify an author’s potential conflicts of interest arising, for example, from consulting. To insure conformity with copyright laws, the Association has begun to screen all articles accepted for publication through CrossCheck, a service provided by CrossRef. The American Economic Review has evaluated the quality of the data and processing code contained in its online data archive in order (1) to assess the extent to which authors of empirical articles complied with the Review's data submission policy, (2) to evaluate how easily the results could be replicated, and, (3) when the submission was complete, to attempt detailed replications. Results of the evaluation are in an appendix to the 2010 Report of the Editor of the American Economic Review, published online in the Supplemental Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-Third Annual Meeting (pp 695-699). Job Openings for Economists has been published only electronically for the past decade. Starting with the August 2011 issue, the Association will resume publishing JOE in print format, in order to ensure compliance with Department of Labor regulations for obtaining work visas for non-citizen economists. Print issues will be distributed via the U.S. Postal System two to three weeks after they are published electronically. Annual subscriptions will run from August through the following June of each year, and are $50 each. To subscribe go to http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/subscribe/. Single issues are available for $45 each. Ad Hoc Committee on Ethical Standards for Economists. Following a decision by the Executive Committee on January 7, 2011, President Orley Ashenfelter has appointed an Ad Hoc Committee to consider issues regarding ethical standards in the economics profession. Robert Solow chairs the Committee. The other members are: Derek Bok, David Card, William Nordhaus, and Nancy Stokey. The Committee welcomes pertinent comments and suggestions from AEA members. Send them to regina.montgomery@vanderbilt.edu by June 30, 2011. EconLit Now Starts with 1886. The AEA has added records to EconLit for journal articles from 1886-1968 that were previously in the Index of Economic Articles, Vols. 1-10. EconLit on library web sites now includes older articles from 146 journals, 95 of which are currently indexed. Many of these journals are available through libraries' full text subscriptions and may be linked to/from EconLit. The Association's 2012 Continuing Education Program will feature three concurrent programs on January 8, 9, and 10, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Participants can choose from among: Cross-section econometrics (Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge); International Economics (Gene Grossman and Gita Gopinath); and Advanced Interactive Teaching Methods in Economics (Patrick Conway, Tisha Emerson, KimMarie McGoldrick, Michael Salemi, and William Walstad). The AEA Committee on Government Relations invites comment on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) "vision" workshop reports. These reports and comments will help determine what research will be supported by NICHD over the next decade. Most of the workshops do not have economist participants, so comments from economists on gaps in the white papers could make a difference for future support by NICHD of economic research. You can access the reports and comment (one or two paragraphs) at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/vision/comments/. Submit comments no later than June 11, 2011. AEJ: Macroeconomics Call for Papers: Papers are now being considered for a conference on "The Financial Crisis: Lessons for International Macroeconomics" sponsored by the Paris School of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Banque de France, ECARES and CEPR. See http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/mac/MAC_call_for_papers.pdf for details. The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) seeks nominations for the 2011 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. Nominations should include a nomination letter, current CV and at least two supporting letters. More information, including past winners, is at http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/awards/. Send nominations to: Barbara M. Fraumeni, AEA CSWEP Chair, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Wishcamper Center, PO Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104-9300, FAX: (207) 780-4060, cswep@usm.maine.edu by September 15, 2011. Junior Faculty Mentoring Workshops. CSWEP will hold a National CeMENT workshop in conjunction with the ASSA meetings in Chicago, 2012. It is aimed at mentoring junior faculty at institutions where promotion is primarily based on research productivity. Application material will be available August 1st. The deadline for applications will be around October 1, 2011. Check the website for updates: http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/mentoring/. CSWEP is conducting a Regional Mentoring Workshop (after the Southern Economic Association meetings) November 19-21, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The application process is now open. Applications will be accepted until June 10. More information and a link to the application is at: http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/mentoring/. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Publication updates on Twitter. Want to see forthcoming article previews as soon as they become available for the American Economic Review, American Economic Journals, and the Journal of Economic Literature? Follow us on Twitter! Call for abstracts. The AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession (CSWEP) will sponsor sessions at the January 2013 American Economic Association meetings in San Diego. We will be organizing three sessions on gender-related topics and three sessions on health economics topics. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review. Abstracts of individual papers and complete session proposals will be considered. E-mail a cover letter (specifying to which set of sessions the paper is being submitted) and a copy of a one- to two-page abstract (250-1000 words), clearly labeled with the paper title, author(s) name(s) and contact information for all the authors to cswep@duke.edu Deadline for abstract is February 17, 2012. Meeting Minutes
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Contents of Current Issues AEA in the News: "Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility"by Markus Kitzmueller and Jay Shimshack has received considerable attention since its publication in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature. The AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article] "Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy," by Nicholas Muller, Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus, has been in high demand since its August 2011 publication. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article] [Executive Summary] "Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector," by Christopher R. Knittel, has received a considerable amount of pay per view activity since its appearance in the December 2011 AER. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article][Executive Summary] American Economic Association Adds Three Years of Online Access for Subscribers: The American Economic Association (AEA) is pleased to announce that it has added three earlier years of online access to the American Economic Review (AER), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) for its online institutional subscribers." |
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