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Department News Archive Professor Raymond Robertson presented a paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute Workshop in August. The paper is titled "Did NAFTA Increase Wage Convergence Between U.S. and Mexico?" Professor Karl Egge prepared and presented a paper on international entrepreneurship for the Hawaii International Conference on Business in Honolulu. The paper, based on research in Malaysia, was written with two co-authors, one from Singapore and one from Malaysia, and was titled "Boosting Technopreneurship Through Business Plan Competitions." Click here to read the abstract. Professor Sarah West continued her research on market-based incentives for the control of vehicle pollution. In particular, she presented new work on how gas taxes can be set to both reduce pollution and minimize the burden placed on poor households. West, along with coauthor Rob Williams, presented "An Econometrically Based Assessment of the Optimal Second-Best Gasoline Tax in a Setting with Heterogeneous Consumers," at the American Economics Association Meetings in Washington D.C. Professor West continues to work with Macalester graduate, Soren Anderson ('01) on research on the effect of open space on property values. This research will help policymakers to balance urban development with greenway and park preservation. Professor West presented this work at the University of Minnesota's Environmental Economics seminar. For more information on her research, click here. 2002 - Professors Karl Egge and Jeff Evans participated in an international faculty development seminar in Malaysia. Past faculty participants have traveled to South Africa (Prof. Sukhatme, 2000), Brazil (Prof. Ferderer, 1997) and Hungary (Prof. Krueger, 1995). Professor Sarah West presented the paper "Empirical Estimates of a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes" at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Environmental Economics in Newport, Rhode Island. Professor Karl Egge presented a paper, "The View From There and Their: Insights on International Entrepreneurship in Singapore and Malaysia," for the Babson College - Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, at the University of Colorado. Professor Karine Moe presented a paper entitled "Redefining Work for Mexican Girls" at the "Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics" conference at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Professor Raymond Robertson was promoted to the rank of Associated Professor with tenure. Professor Raymond Robertson went to Brazil to collect household survey data as part of his NSF grant. The grant funded him and two students, Jason Heil ('03) and Vini Pabon ('03), to work on a research project on the effect of globalization on trade and wage inequality. Professor Gary Krueger was in the Ukraine with a group of other distinguished economists. They participated in a program created by EERC ( the Economics Education and Research Consortium), revising and supervising research proposals from young Russian and Ukrainian economists.
2001 - The department welcomed the editorial staff of the Journal of Economic Perspectives to Macalester. The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) is one of the flagship journals of the American Economic Association. The JEP attempts to fill a gap between the general interest press and most other academic economics journals. The journal offers readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art economic thinking. Tim Taylor, editor of the JEP, moved his office to Macalester from the University of Minnesota. We are very excited to welcome Tim and his assistantCarmen Largaespada! Professor Karine Moe was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Moe attended a conference in Norway where she presented her paper entitled "Marking Time: Gendered Definitions of Work and Implications for Schooling of Mexican Youth". Professor Sarah West presented three papers at three conferences. She presented "Distributional Effects of Alternative Vehicle Pollution Control Policies," at the Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop in Ames, Iowa; "Empirical Estimates of a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes," at the National Bureau of Economic Research Pre-Conference on Environmental Economics, in Boston; and "Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second Best Setting," at the annual meetings of the American Economics Association in Atlanta. Professor Raymond Robertson visited Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico. He presented a paper at the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association in Montevideo, Uruguay and was invited to evaluate study abroad programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. He also worked as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank. Professor Pete Ferderer presented a paper titled, "Liquidity Provision by Market Makers and Financial Crises: The Case of the Great Depression," (co-authored with Kyle Richey '00) at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in Philadelphia. He also traveled to Atlanta to attend the American Economic Association Meetings and presented a paper titled, "Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of Bankers' Acceptances, 1914-1934." James Sallee and Ghaith Hiary worked with Professors Moe and West to compile a database that will be used to enrich class assignments and to aid student research. Their project was funded by Keck and Mellon grants. Go to Web Resources for a link to this and other helpful pages.
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