Innovative Research Highlighted at Seven Gatherings This Fall

Innovative Research Highlighted at Seven Gatherings This Fall

03 September 2010 12:00AM

Beginning in September, the Department of Economics will be busy hosting five economics conferences and two economics jamborees. Top senior and junior researchers will be presenting their work in a wide range of areas including but not limited to macro- and microeconomics, finance, econometrics, census research, industrial organization theory and historical scholarship on economics.

Following are descriptions of these upcoming events: 

The NBER-NSF Time Series Conference, held October 8-9, is the premier international meeting on the statistical analysis of time series data and attracts leading researchers from the U.S., Europe and Asia. More details.

The History of Political Economy Fall Conference will be held October 16. This conference titled "From History of Economics to Histories about Economics" will examine historical scholarship on economics from a non-disciplinary standpoint. More details.

The 3rd annual Triangle Census Research Data Center (TCRDC) Conference on October 19-20 will explore social sciences research opportunities with the use of confidential microdata collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies. More details.

The Housing Market Dynamics Conference, held October 29-30, will bring together researchers working on housing market dynamics from the perspectives of microeconomics, macroeconomics and finance to allow sharing across fields of the central ideas that have emerged concerning housing dynamics as well as the associated empirical facts and methodology. More details. 

The 9th annual Industrial Organization Theory Conference, held November 20-21, will bring together leading researchers from around the country to hear presentations of cutting edge research in industrial organization theory with special emphasis on work by young up-and-coming scholars. For more information, contact Curtis Taylor.

In addition to these conferences, the department is also hosting two economics jamborees, which highlight the research of young professors.

An Econometrics Jamboree on Sept. 24 will offer a series of five seminar presentations by cutting edge junior researchers in the field of Econometrics. For more information, contact Barbara Rossi or Shakeeb Khan.

A Macroeconomics Jamboree will be held Oct. 15-16 for top junior macro economists to present their latest work and interact. For more information, contact Cosmin Ilut or Francesco Bianchi.

Most events are part of the Economics Research Initiative at Duke (ERID).