Professor Nishith Prakash presented his paper titled, “Do Criminally Accused Politicians Affect Economic Outcomes? Evidence from India” at various places including Dartmouth College, Yale University and Wellesley College during the past spring semester.
Faculty activities
Couch Serves on APPAM Strategic Planning Committee
Professor Kenneth Couch is participating in a Strategic Planning Committee of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).
APPAM is a scholarly association representing roughly 90 member institutions and 2000 individual members. The committee is charged with developing a five-year strategic plan for APPAM and is chaired by a Harvard Professor and the Chief Economist of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Other members of the committee include representatives of Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, Mathematica, MDRC, Pepperdine and the University of Minnesota.
Professor Naknoi Presents at the Society for Economic Dynamics meeting in Poland
Professor Naknoi presented her paper on exchange rate pass-through in the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, which was held in Warsaw, Poland, June 25-27.
Professor Harmon on ‘Nontraditional Magic’ Panel
Professor
Harmon took part in the panel “Nontraditional Magic: Online and Service-Learning Pedagogy and Teaching,” joining panelists: Diana Rios, UConn Professor of Communication and El Instituto, and UConn Professor Carl Salsedo, Extension Educator, Horticulture, at the 2015 American Association of University Professors Conference on the State of Higher Education, Washington, D.C. June 11, 2015.
The roundtable focused on reconfiguring traditional “live” ways of learning and lecturing into another kind of “magic.” Contemporary “magic” refers to dynamic inspiration to share knowledge and to instigate learning among Millennials.
Professor Langlois at UConn’s First Science Salon
Professor Langlois took part in the first UConn Science Salon, joining panelists from across disciplines to discuss “3D Printing: Living Tissue to Human Organ.”
See pictures and highlights from the event at UConn Today.
Prof. Ahking presents paper at conferences
Prof. Ahking presented a paper “The Economies of the Great Lakes States” at the 54th Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association in Mobile, AL, March 26 – 28. He also presented the paper at the 2014 Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, GA, in November 2014. The conference paper is available for download from ResearchGate.
Prof. Naknoi has paper accepted by JME
Prof. Naknoi and co-author YiLi Chien (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) have their paper “The Risk Premium and Long-Run Global Imbalances” accepted for publication in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The paper examines the sustainability of U.S. trade deficits, given the assumption that U.S. investors take on more aggregate risk than foreign investors. It predicts that half of US trade deficits is sustainable. A copy of the working paper is available for download from RePEc.
Prof. Couch Appoints New Members of JPAM Editorial Team
Since becoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 2014, Professor Ken Couch has invited a number of prominent researchers to join its editorial team. Scholars from American University, Berkeley, Cornell, Duke, Indiana, George Washington, Michigan, Oxford, NYU, Penn, RAND, UConn, USC, the Urban Institute, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin are among this group. JPAM is a leading outlet for applied research on innovations in policy and management.
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