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.
Faculty activities
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.
Profs. Harmon, Alpert, coauthors have paper accepted
Profs. Segerson and Ross members of AAAS
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Congratulations to Profs. Prof. Ahking interviewed by ctpost.com
Prof. Ahking was interviewed by Huge Bailey of ctpost.com about U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s opposition to the Tran-Pacific Partnership.
Professor Harmon Speaks on Instructional Uses of Social Media
Professor Oskar Harmon recently presented on the topic “Using Facebook as a Discussion Board in an Online Class” at the 2nd Annual Online Learning Conference, at Post University, Waterbury CT, April 20, 2012. The theme of this year’s conference was “Driving Innovation in Online Higher Education.” Prof. Harmon organized a panel of instructors teaching online courses at Uconn. The session was titled “Innovative Active Learning Instructional Activities.” The other panel participants were Dan Mercier, Director of the Institute of Teaching and Learning, Andy DePalma, Professor of Continuing Studies, and Roger Travis, Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
Professor Harmon Contributes to Starting Point
Professor Harmon was one of 16 invited participants to the Spring Workshop of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics, at Carleton College, MN (March 25-27, 2012).
Starting Point is an NSF funded project that seeks to introduce economists to pedagogical innovations developed witnin and beyond the discipline of economics. The project develops research based instructional strategies to promote student learning in economics.
The Workshop participants spent an intensive 3 days planning, writing, reviewing, and editing instructional modules. The goal of the project is to create an online open source database of classroom-tested examples for instructors of core undergraduate economics courses. Harmon, a new convert of the project, believes it is visionary and in time will become an often consulted, and often used resource. Both for graduate-student instructors looking for teaching ideas, and to experienced instructors looking for new ideas to try out in their classroom. To read more about the Starting Point Project, click here. To view the current inventory of examples click here.
Professor Richard Langlois speaks at George Mason University Law School
On February 24, Prof. Richard Langlois delivered a breakfast keynote address, entitled “Design, Institutions, and the Evolution of Platforms,” at George Mason University Law school. The presentation was part of a conference called “The Digital Inventor: How Entrepreneurs Compete on Platforms,” sponsored by the Law School’s Information Economy Project. Other speakers included David Teece from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley and Donald Rosenberg, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Qualcomm. Papers from the conference will appear later this year in a special issue of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Policy.