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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONSUMER * Call For Papers
CREDIT AND PAYMENTS
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR POPULATION * Call For Papers
ECONOMICS 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPETITION, * Call For Papers
AND GROWTH (RPE)
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA* Post-Doc in Economics
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY * Faculty Position
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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONSUMER CREDIT AND PAYMENTS
A Conference Sponsored by the Research Department and Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
September 29-30, 2005
This conference will bring together researchers working on issues related to consumer credit and payments. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. We also encourage researchers to submit papers on consumer credit or payments outside the U.S.
TOPICS:
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Personal bankruptcy and default
- Contractual and informational issues in consumer credit markets
- Credit scoring and credit-reporting agencies
- Regulation of consumer credit
- Securitization of consumer debt
- Consumer payments networks and their regulation
- Pricing of retail payment services
- Innovations in consumer payments
- Cross-country comparisons of consumer credit and payments
The conference organizers will provide accommodations and partial financial support for travel expenses to one author of each paper accepted for the program.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Please submit three copies of your paper by June 1, 2005 to:
CONTACT: Ronel Elul
ATTN: Conference on Consumer Credit
and Payments
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ten Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Email: MAILTO:ronel.elul@phil.frb.org
Please see our conference website at:
www.phil.frb.org/econ/conf/conferences.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR POPULATION ECONOMICS (ESPE) NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Paris
June 16-18, 2005
The Nineteenth Annual Conference will take place on June 16-18, 2005, at the Cite Universitaire, Paris. The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labor economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender issues, intrahousehold distribution, aging and social security, taxation, population and economic growth, domestic and international migration, income distribution and redistribution within and between generations, technological change and the environment.
Patricia Apps (University of Sydney, Australia) will serve as the program chair, Catherine Sofer from Paris I Sorbonne University and Olivia Ekert-Jaffe from l'Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques (INED), Paris, as the local organizers. Other members of the program committee are Alison Booth (Australian National University), Olympia Bover (Bank of Spain), Valerie Lechene (Oxford University) and Francois-Charles Wolff (University of Nantes).
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
All submissions should be sent by e-mail to the program committee:
Email: MAILTO:ESPE2005@law.usyd.edu.au
Submissions should include an abstract and, when possible, the paper itself. Preference will be given to submissions that include a completed paper, other things being equal. Please send:
- an electronic version of an abstract (250 words maximum) in MS Word format for inclusion in the Book of Abstracts.
- an electronic version of the paper (or a detailed abstract) as attachment in pdf format, as one file (including tables and figures).
The submission deadline is February 1, 2005. Acceptance decisions will be communicated in March. We particularly encourage graduate students to apply. Waivers of the conference registration fee will be provided for 10 graduate students. To apply for a waiver the submission of a full paper together with a confirmation of student status by the dissertation supervisor is required. ESPE wants actively to increase participation from East European countries. Presenters from these countries who are within ten years of having completed their PhD can apply for a 50% reduction in the registration fee. Information on conference location, registration, and hotel reservations will be available at:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Rivista di Politica Economica
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPETITION, AND GROWTH
Like in the past for natural resources and, later, for industrial establishments, the codified knowledge of new products and processes is currently the economically most valuable resource. The extent to which such knowledge may be treated as a public good has an impact on individual microeconomic decisions, as well as on the macroeconomic performance of the regions and nations, since an access to this good and the incentives to its production are relevant for competitiveness at all levels.
Moreover, the ownership rights on ideas during processing are not always properly acknowledged and protected. A productive process based on new knowledge, in fact, is rather complicated, in that it involves a formal and informal interaction of multiple agents, whose individual marginal contribution is hard to evaluate. Current international legislations are mostly heterogeneous, and the implementation of the existing rules may result into distortions, sometimes restrictive, sometimes permissive. For such reasons, a review of public and institutional interventions in this area turns out desirable in order to recommend corrections of market and non-market failures, as well as to contribute to an effective harmonization of rules between nations and between continents.
Every year, Rivista di Politica Economica ( www.rivistapoliticaeconomica.it ) publishes two monographic issues (in Italian and/or in English). For 2005 or 2006 it will publish a monographic issue in English on "Intellectual Property, Competition, and Growth". Such monograph will then be submitted to the Palgrave-Macmillan publishing company, which will consider its release in the Series "Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy", managed by Prof. Gustavo Piga.
TOPICS:
A few possible themes relevant to the general topic include:
- Pre-patent protection of ownership rights;
- Relation between collective ownership rights and individual intellectual property rights;
- Different approaches (e.g. EU vs. US) to the protection of individual and collective intellectual property rights and their implications for competition and growth performance;
- Spreading of information and knowledge and implications for supply and demand behaviours.
The articles to be included in such monographic issue shall focus on the relation between the protection of intellectual rights (both individual and collective), competition, and the implications for growth performance. The articles - not longer than 30 pages - may have a theoretical or applied content; specific case studies may also be considered. The description of implications for economic policies will be appreciated.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The essays, drafted in English, shall be sent, in the Word or Acrobat format, to Rivista di Politica Economica by email to:
Email: MAILTO:rpe@confindustria.it
no later than March 31st 2005 and shall be reviewed by and not later than June 30th 2005 by a team of editors, members of the Scientific Committee of Rivista di Politica Economica, for a final decision.
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UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
Department of Economics (http://www.up.ac.za/academic/ems/economics/eng/index.htm)
Post-Doc in Economics
The Department of Economics, University of Pretoria has a vacancy for a Post-Doc that it wish to fill.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Suitable candidates should have completed or complete their doctoral thesis in either 2003 or 2004 in any one of the following fields of study: International Trade and Investment, Public Finance, Economic Development or Econometrics in general. The candidate should be willing to collaborate with a faculty member on a research theme within one of these focus areas and be based in Pretoria, South Africa. Additionally, candidates should be prepared to take the responsibility for teaching undergraduate courses.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Candidates will be compensated within the Post-doc programme for up to two years. The extension of the contract, but under other arrangements, is possible and to be negotiated at that stage. Candidates should take up this position in January 2005 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Those interested are welcome to contact:
CONTACT: Prof JN Blignaut (PhD) Email: MAILTO:james.blignaut@up.ac.za for further particulars, but no later than by 31 August 2004.
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OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Stillwater OK
Department of Economics
College of Business Administration
Assistant/Senior Assistant Professor to start Fall 2005
The Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business seeks outstanding applicants for a tenure track position at the assistant or senior assistant level beginning August 2005.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
The required field of specialization is macroeconomics. The successful candidate must have a strong potential for outstanding research and professional growth.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT:
The Department is part of the College of Business Administration and offers Ph.D., M.S., B.S. and B.A. programs in Economics. The CBA is composed of six academic departments with an average undergraduate student body of 3,900 students pursuing 15 degree programs, approximately 800 students pursuing six master degree programs, and an average of 85 students pursuing Ph.D.s, 60 in business administration and 25 in economics.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
Oklahoma State University is a comprehensive, land-grant university located in Stillwater, a north-central Oklahoma community with a population of 42,000. Stillwater offers affordable small-town living with the recreational and cultural advantages found in larger cities. Located approximately 60 miles from both the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metropolitan areas, it is an easy commute to international airports, shopping, entertainment and business districts. The University, which is the safest in the Big 12 Conference, has an enrollment of approximately 26,000 students on its four campuses. OSU offers bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in a large number of fields, as well as the professional doctor of osteopathy and doctor of veterinary medicine degrees.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Applications should include transcripts, a curriculum vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample of research and three letters of recommendation. The required materials must be received by December 1, 2004, for full consideration. Selected candidates will be scheduled for interviews in Philadelphia at the ASSA convention. No electronic submissions will be considered.
CONTACT: Macroeconomics Search Committee
Department of Economics and
Legal Studies in Business
339 College of Business Administration
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078-4011
OSU is an equal-opportunity affirmative action employer.
Department of Economics website:
www.bus.okstate.edu/ecls/dept/index.html
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
Faculty Position in International Economics
The International Management and Economics Group at MIT Sloan invites applications and nominations for a junior tenure-track faculty position in the international arena, either in International Management or International Economics beginning July 2005, or as soon thereafter as possible. Outstanding senior applicants will also be considered.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates should have a research focus on the firm in an international context, ideally with a strong grounding in economics, in industrial organization, international trade, and/or organizational economics. We seek to attract and foster a diverse community of the most outstanding faculty to carry our mission of educating effective and principled leaders for the global economy and conducting rigorous pioneering research to advance management theory and practice.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
The deadline for applications is November 15, 2004. For assistant professor positions we give priority to applicants who submit completed research. To apply, please send a brief cover letter, up-to-date curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to:
CONTACT: Professor Roberto Rigobon
Co-Chair, Applied Economics Group
Search Committee
MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive, E52-434
Cambridge, MA02142-1347
MIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities.
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