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The department continues its search for an experienced health economist. Contact Anne Royalty royalty@iupui.edu for further information. The department is also searching for a junior economist in applied microeconomic theory. Contact Subir Chakrabarti at imxl100@iupui.edu for further information.

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THIRD ANNUAL MIDWEST HEALTH ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

The Center for Health Economics Research at IUPUI and the IUPUI Department of Economics will host the 3rd Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 10-11, 2012. For details see the Center for Health Economics Research.

Congratulations Archana Dube! Mrs. Dube, Econs undergraduate advisor, has been selected as the IUPUI Faculty Advisor of the Year!

2011 Recipients of Department and campus Awards at IUPUI

The economics department would like to congratulate the recipients of university and departmental awards for 2011. Our students are doing an amazing job not only in their academic area but are also actively involved in civic engagement and community services. It is really an honor to be winners of these awards. Keep up the good work!

Econ Departmental Awards Please click here for full details.

Robert Kirk Award: Chris Henderson
The Junior Achievement Award: Travis Mobley
The Senior Achievement Award: Lucas Wolf

University Awards
Jessica Sacks: Civic Engagement Plater Medallion
Daniel Murphy: TOP 100 recipient and Anna Suter Scholarship Award

A second edition of Games and Decision Making, by Professor Subir Chakrabarti, was recently published by Oxford University Pess, New York.

Economics major Jessica Sacks is one of twenty-two Liberal Arts majors newly appointed as Student Ambassadors for 2010-2011. The students will represent the School at special events and functions and participate in student recruitment efforts as well as alumni and donor relations. Applicants for the program, now in its fourth year, must be nominated by a faculty or staff member, complete an application, and participate in an interview before being appointed by the dean.

Assistant Professor Jaesoo Kim attended the 9th Annual Duke-Northwestern-Texas IO Conference, November 20-21 where he presented Reverse Price Discrimination with Bayesian Buyers coauthored with Se Hoon Bang and Young-Ro Yoon

In July of this year Professor Mark Wilhelm presented Making complex data easier to use: The PSID Journal and graduate education at the National Science Foundation’s meeting on "Future Investments in Large-Scale Survey Data Access & Dissemination - ANES, GSS, and PSID"

Professor Jisong Wu attended the 2010 World Congress of the Econometric Society from August 17-21 in Shanghai, China and presented his working paper, Simple Estimators of Switching Regimes Models with Normal Mean-Variance Mixture Copulas and Average Treatment Effects, coauthored with Yangin Fan.

Professor Martin Spechler attended the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference on October 28-30 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. He presented his paper, The Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan and served both as a discussant and session chair.

Professor Richard Steinberg and Assistant Professor Ye Zhang will be attending the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) conference November 17-20 in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Steinberg will present his paper, What Should Social Investors Invest in, and With Whom?