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September 30, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam,
I hope
everything is fine with you. In this newsletter, I have the pleasure to share
with you the following information. I hope that you will have time to
participate in some of these activities.
(1)
Asia-Pacific Economic Association conferences in 2008 and 2009.
(2)
Advanced Training
Program in Seattle (August 2008) and two theory surveys.
(3)
International trade workshops, Beijing, November 22, 2008 and Hong
Kong, February 28, 2009
(4)
KEBA conference
in Daegu, Korea, November 14-15, 2008
(5) “Korea
and the World Economy, VIII,” Hong Kong, July 9-10, 2008
(6)
Job openings
at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong and National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan
Best
regards,
Kar-yiu.
(1)
Asia-Pacific Economic Association (APEA) conferences in 2008 and 2009
(a) APEA conference, Beijing, December 13-14, 2008.
This
conference, the fourth annual conference of the association to be hosted by the
Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), will be held on the campus
of the university. For accommodation information and a tentative list of
participants, please visit the home page of the conference:
http://apeaweb.org/confer/bei08/index.htm
The program of
the conference, papers to be presented, online registration, and other
information will be posted soon.
(b) APEA conference, Santa Cruz, June 26-27, 2009 –
Call for Papers
The fifth
conference of APEA will be hosted by
Department of Economics
and
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics
(SSCIE),
University of California, Santa Cruz,
USA. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Bank of Korea are the
sponsors of the conference.
Economics are
invited to submit papers or extended abstracts for presentation considerable or
to organize sessions of common themes. Papers in all economic fields, empirical
or theoretical, not necessarily related to the Asia Pacific, will be welcome.
Please send (preferably via e-mail, with a subject “APEA 09 submission”) a paper
or an extended abstract to either
Joshua Aizenman
or
Shin-ichi Fukuda.
The deadline for submission is January 1, 2009.
To organize a session, please send the information, including the theme of the
session, papers to be presented, and information (e-mail address, affiliation,
and mailing address) of authors, co-authors, and discussants (if any). The
deadline for submitting session-organizing information is
February 28, 2009.
(2)
Advanced Training Program in Seattle, 2008 and 2 Theory Surveys
The second
Advanced Training Program on Research and Publication was held in Seattle from
August 11 to 29, 2008. 28 junior faculty and graduate students from Korea,
Japan, Taiwan, China, and Mexico attended the program. There were 17 speakers
giving lectures on how to do research and how to write and publish papers in
international journals. Three of the speakers acted as mentors of a group of
junior faculty, giving comments on their work. Two of the mentors presented the
following surveys, which are scheduled to be published by World Scientific
Publishing Company:
·
“Financial
Aggregation and Index Number theory: Implications for Monetary Policy and
Financial Modelling, A Survey,” by
William A. Barnett and Marcelle
Chauvet
·
“A Survey of
Dynamic Games in Economics,” by Ngo Van
Long
(3)
Trade workshops in Beijing, November 22, 2008 and Hong Kong, February 28, 2009
The Research
Center of International Economics at the University of Washington (RCIE @ UW),
the Research Center of International Economics at the University of
International Economics (RCIE @ UIBE), and the Department of Economics, Hong
Kong Baptist University (HKBU) are jointly organizing a workshop series on
international trade and related fields. The first one will be held on the campus
of UIBE, Beijing, on November 22, 2008 and the second one on the campus of HKBU
on February 28, 2009. Economists are welcome to come and present their previous
work and current research in a relaxing and friendly atmosphere. For more
information, please visit
http://www.rcie-cn.org.
(4)
KEBA-DGI conference in Daegu, Korea – Call for Papers
The
Korea Economics and Business Association
(KEBA) and
Daegu-Gyeongbuk Development Institute
(DGI) are organizing an international conference on
“Knowledge Economy, Regional
Development, and Free Economic Zones” in Daegu, Korea on
November 14-15, 2008. Economists are invited
to submit papers to the conference organizers. For more information, please
visit
http://faculty.washington.edu/karyiu/confer/daegu08/index.htm
(5)
“Korea and the World Economy, VIII” conference – Call for Papers
The eighth conference on “Korea
and the World Economy,” which is being jointly organized by the Association for
Korean Economic Studies, Research Center for International Economics, and the
Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University, will be held in Hong Kong
on July 9-10, 2009. More information about the conference will be posted.
Economists are invited to submit papers for presentation consideration.
(6)
Job openings – Hong Kong Baptist University and National Cheng Kung University
The Department of Economics,
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong
Kong has an opening for next academic year. Field is open, but some preferences
are given to managerial economics and international economics. Rank is open.
The Department of Economics,
National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan is looking for a new junior/senior faculty. Rank is open.
For more information about these
positions, please visit
http://depts.washington.edu/rcie/jobopenings/
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