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2008-2009 News:
In November 2008, Andreea Balan Cohen presented her paper "Sobering Up: The
Impact of the 1985-1988 Russian Prohibition on Child Health" at the Harvard
School of Public Health and the Southern Economic Association. In January 2009,
she chaired a session entitled "Natural Experiments in Health" at the American
Economic Association annual meeting. At the AEA meeting, Andreea also presented
two papers, the above-mentioned paper on Russian prohibition, and a paper on
"The Causal Impact of Income on Health: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance
Program in the United States."
Marcelo Bianconi was a participant at the Conference on "Micro and Macroeconomic
Effects of Financial Globalization,” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
National Universities Conference, Cambridge, MA, December 5 and 6, 2008, and was
invited to present his paper on "Firm Value, Investment and Monetary Policy" at
the graduate series of the Department of Economics of the University of Sao
Paulo (FEA-USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 7, 2009. His paper "Transfer Programs
under Alternative Insurance Schemes and Liquidity Constraints," was accepted for
in the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development.
At the end of December 2008, David Dapice went to Indonesia to discuss the
global economic crisis with a large number of public enterprise executives and
Bank Indonesia experts. Then he went to Myanmar for two weeks to investigate the
state of agriculture there for an NGO. The trip included discussions with the
government, and involved extensive travel to cyclone-hit areas and other areas
from Yangon to north of Mandalay. In spring 2009 David Dapice was active in half
a dozen symposia, meetings, etc. as panel member, chair, or discussant,
including as discussant for the Reichschauer Lecture at Harvard in April
Ekaterina Gnedenko was awarded the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship award.
Yannis Ioannides was a discussant at a conference on "The
Challenge of Reform in Greece: 1974-2009: Assessment and Prospects,"
Yale University, in May 2009. In June he was invited to discuss "The
World Development Report, 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography" at the
"Innovative City" Seminar, Argumenta, University of Helsinki,
Finland, in June 2009, and participated in the conference "Housing
Markets - A Shelter from the Storm or a Cause of the Storm?"
sponsored by the Bank of Finland and SUERF, in Helsinki, where he
also served on the panel "Political Economy of Housing Markets."
Gilbert Metcalf presented seminars at the University of Illinois,
Champagne-Urbana, the National Center for Environmental Economics at the U.S.
EPA, and Cambridge Energy Research Associates this past year. In addition, he
was an invited presenter at various conferences including the Global Energy
Choice Partnership Conference in Washington, DC, MIT's Center for Energy and
Environmental Policy Research annual meeting, Brookings Institution and Urban
Institute's Conference on Tax Reform's Challenges and Opportunities, the
Virginia Tax Study Group Conference at the University of Virginia Law School,
and the University of Illinois Environmental Change Institute Symposium on Cap
and Trade Policies held in Chicago. He also organized and presented in an
American Economic Association session at the Annual Meetings in San Francisco on
climate policy.
Metcalf gave other presentations including a Capitol Hill Briefing on Carbon
Taxes held last December and a workshop for the Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection. He was also an invited witness for a House Committee
on Ways and Means hearing on Price Volatility in Climate Change Legislation held
in March.
Metcalf currently serves as a member on the National Academy of Sciences
Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of
Energy Production and Consumption that is completing a study on this topic to be
published this fall. He is also organizing a conference on energy tax policy for
the American Tax Policy Institute to be held in Washington in October. At Tufts
Metcalf serves as a member of the Tufts University Retirement Investment
Committee, a special committee tasked to provide advice and fiduciary oversight
for Tufts University's 401(a), 403(b) and 457(b) Retirement Plans.
Various media have cited Metcalf's research on energy issues including the New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Albuquerque Journal among other
sources. Metcalf was the subject of a feature interview in the January 2009
issue of Technology Review.
Stelios Michalopoulos was a Visiting Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin
(Italy) in Spring 2009. He was invited to present at various seminars held at
Bocconi University, Brown University, Athens University of Economic and
Business, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Bologna, University of
Connecticut, University of Modena. He also participated in several conferences,
including the 2009 Royal Economic Society conference at Surrey University,
England in April 2009, a conference on "Rethinking Ethnicity and Ethnic Strife",
University of Budapest, Hungary, in September 2008, and a conference on "Borders
and the Economics of Fragmentation", University of Warwick May 2009.
George Norman, Lynne Pepall, and Dan Richards are winners of a competition for
15,000 euros in grant funds from the Tilburg Institute for Law and Economics
(TILEC) at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The award was made for
proposed research on innovation, intellectual property, and competition policy
that builds on recent work of Professors Norman, Pepall, and Richards on entry
by established firms into markets with new products created by innovative
startups.
Enrico Spolaore gave a lecture on "Efficiency and Stability of National Borders"
for the opening of VIVES (Vlaams Instituut voor Economie en Samenleving) at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in October, 2008, and a research seminar
talk on Geography, History and Trade at the Graduate School of Economics of the
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in December 2008. His
paper on the Diffusion of Development (with Romain Wacziarg of UCLA) was
published in May 2009 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Chih Ming Tan presented his paper "Is God in the Details?: A Reexamination of
the Role of Religion in Economic Growth", coauthored with Steven Durlauf of the
University of Wisconsin and Andros Kourtellos of the University of Cyprus, at
the Rimini Workshop on Economic Growth at RCEA in Rimini, Italy in May 2009. His
paper "No One True Path: Uncovering the Interplay Between Geography,
Institutions, and Fractionalization in Economic Development", has been accepted
for publication in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
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