Department News

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November 3, 2009. Congratulations to Thomas Snyder and Dhimitri Qirjo, recipients of Dissertation year Fellowships for 2010.
November 2, 2009. Peter Thompson presented his paper with Jing Chen, "Employee Spinoffs and the Solipsistic Entrepreneur", at the University of Houston.

November 1, 2009.At this year's Mid-West Trade and Economic Theory meetings, Jesse Bull presented "Third-Party Budget Breakers and Side Contracting in Team Production," and Harun Onder presented "International Cooperation in Trade and Investment: When Does Linking the Agreements Help?"

September 22, 2009. Peter Thompson presented his paper with Jing Chen, "Employee Spinoffs and the Solipsistic Entrepreneur", at HEC Paris.
September 19, 2009. Mira Wilkins has just published "Dutch Multinational Enterprise in the United States: The Cases of Philips, Shell and Unilever," in Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, edited by Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (Amsterdam/Albany: Boom Uitgevers/State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 797-807. In 1609, the Englishman Henry Hudson joined the Dutch East India Company and sailed to the new world -- thus beginning the Dutch involvements with American history. Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009 covers Dutch-American political, economic, social, and cultural history. Professor Wilkins's contribution deals with one small aspect of that interaction.
September 15, 2009. Jing Chen presented her paper, "Spinoffs and the Solipsistic Entrepreneur" [co-authored with with Peter Thompson] at the Copenhagen Business School.
July 16, 2009. We are pleased to announce that PhD candidates Harun Onder and Jing Chen have been awarded Dissertation Year Fellowships beginning August 2010. 
July 8, 2009. Mira Wilkins has been recognized for her groundbreaking scholarship by the Business History Conference, which has created a prize named in her honor,  “The Mira Wilkins Prize for the Best Article on International Business History,” whioch will be awarded to the author of the best international and comparative business history article published in “Enterprise & Society.” Click here for more information.
July 7, 2009. Jungmin Lee's paper "American Idol: Evidence on Same Race Preferences" has been accepted for publication in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions).
June 23, 2009. Mira Wilkins has just published "Multinational enterprise in insurance: An historical overview," Business History 51:3 (May 2009), 334-363. The essay breaks new ground in providing the first overall historical snapshot of multinational enterprise in insurance.
June 8, 2009. Mihaela Pintea attended the North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting in Boston  where she presented her paper, "A Quantitative Exploration of the Golden Age of European Growth."

May 20, 2009. Mihaela Pintea attended the Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings where she presented her paper, "A Quantitative Exploration of the Golden Age of European Growth."

May 12, 2009. Prasad Bidarkota and Zhiguang Wang's paper, "A Long Run Risks Model of Asset Pricing with Fat Tails" [co-authored with Zhiguang Wang], has been accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.

May 11, 2009. Zhiguang Wang has been accepted into the Institute for Computational
Economics 2009 two-week summer program for young scholars interested in
applying computational methods to economics
(http://ice.uchicago.edu/index.htm). ICE09 will be held at the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, August 3 – August 14, 2009.
May 8, 2009. Jing Chen presented her papers, "Wealth Constraints and Self-Employment: Evidence from Birth Order", and "Stars and Misfits: A Theory of Occupational Choice" at the annual conference of the Society of Labor Economics, in Cambridge, MA

May 8, 2009. Prasad Bidarkota's paper, "Asset Pricing with Incomplete Information and 
Fat Tails" [co-authored with Brice V. Dupoyet J. Huston McCulloch], appears in the latest issue of  the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 33, No.6, pp. 1314-1331 (June 2009).

May 7, 2009. Welcome to Dr. Kigon Nam from Hanbat University, who will be a visiting professor in our department until February 2010. He is interested in labor economics and economics of education, and will be working on two projects concerning Korean labor markets.
May 3, 2009. At this year's Midwest International Economics Meetings, Harun Onder presented his paper, "Starting Small in Free Trade Agreements", and Richard Chisik presented "Limited Incremental Linking and Unlinked Trade Agreements".
April 20, 2009. Jungmin Lee attended a conference at Duke on the "Applications of Economic Analysis in Law", April 17-18, where he discussed a paper by Nicola Persico on Racial Profiling. April 17, Peter Thompson presented his paper with Jing Chen, "Employee Spinoffs and the Solipsistic Entrepreneur", at Carleton University
March 1, 2009. Sheng Guo presented his paper, "Switching Regression Estimates of EIS for Stockholders and Non-stockholders" at the Southwestern Finance Association annual meetings,  in Oklahoma City.
March 1, 2009. Mira Wilkins' essay, "The History of Multinational Enterprise," has been published as Chapter 1 in The Oxford Handbook of International Business, edited by Alan M. Rugman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
February 25, 2009. Mira Wilkins has just published, "Disjunctive Sets?  Business and Banking History," a chapter in Edwin Green and Monika Pohle Fraser, eds., The Human Factor in Banking History: Entrepreneurship, Organization, Management, and Personnel (Athens: Alpha Bank, 2008), pp. 147-167.
February 10, 2009. Mihaela Pintea's paper, "“A Quantitative Exploration of the Golden Age of European Growth” (co-authored with Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
January 23, 2009. Prasad Bidarkota's paper, "Asset Pricing with Incomplete Information and Fat Tails" [co-authored with Brice V. Dupoyet and J. Huston McCulloch], has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
January 14, 2009. Mira Wilkins has published, “US Business in Europe: An American Perspective,” in Hubert Bonin and Ferry de Goey, eds., American Firms in Europe (Geneva:: Droz, 2009), Chap. 2  (pp. 35-67).
January 8, 2009. Mira Wilkins was a panelist at a session on "Understanding Globalization through the History of Multinational Enterprise," at the American Historical Association, in New York City, on January 4, 2009.
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