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Call for Papers. A special issue of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues invites original empirical or theoretical research papers relevant to the Health Systems Strengthening Experience, Economics, and the Role of Individuals and the Families. Health strengthening policies and activities mainly focus on the governance, financing, resources, organization and management of healthcare systems.  These policies and activities may miss the intricate relationship between the individuals and families and their economic environments.  When the individuals’ and families’ choices and constraints, as well as, the self-interests of regulators and implementers are taken for granted, then sub-optimal outcomes are not unusual.  Subsequently, missing desirable health indicators instigates demand for further resources by the bureaucrats (public, private, or international) who usually define values, objectives, and strategies that might be aligned with their own interests, but may differ from those of the individuals’ and families’ in the economy. Policymakers, regulators and the bureaucrats are yet to comprehend, embrace and incorporate individual and family dynamics in generation, maintaining, and consuming health, such that, the nation’s welfare is maximized. This Special Issue will provide an opportunity to shed light on this vital issue. We would welcome papers which are related to any of the above themes or other related topics for our 2013 special issue of JFEI. Submit your paper electronically at http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/10834 before October 3, 2012. For further information contact the Guest Editor Manouchehr (Mitch) Mokhtari, mokhtari@umd.edu, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742.

Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Fourth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality
Minneapolis, October 11-13, 2012

Topics of interest include:

•The effectiveness of alternative approaches to remedying intra-group vs. intergroup inequality
•The role of entrepreneurship and self-employment in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in wealth
•The impacts of race-neutral strategies for eliminating disparities in public procurement and contracting, higher education, and public employment
•The evidence on the effects of school desegregation
•The impacts of investments in early childhood education on long-term racial and ethnic disparities
•The comparative effectiveness of quotas and affirmative action in India, Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere
•The impacts of minority preferences in college admissions, employment and exemptions from one-child rules in China
•The evidence on the effects of housing desegregation
•Community empowerment and transformation strategies as alternatives to conventional civil rights strategies
•Human Rights approaches to remedying racial and ethnic economic inequalities
•The intersectionality of race and gender in assessing the effectiveness of alternative remedies to inequality

Papers will be considered in two categories:

a) Concurrent sessions
b) Poster sessions

A limited amount of travel funding will be available to support posters by advanced graduate students and/or papers by junior faculty.

Submittal guidelines and due dates:
To present a paper at the World Conference an abstract should be submitted by May 15, 2012. Notification of selection will be sent by May 30, 2012. The length of the abstract is limited to 350 words and should be a MS Word or PDF file. Deadline for submittal of accepted papers is August 30, 2012. Authors need to list full name(s), telephone, complete address and email. Submittal should be sent electronically to rwilkins@umn.edu with the subject line: Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality. For more information on the conference: http://hhh.umn.edu/centers/rwc/conferences/WorldConference2012.html

CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ADD QUESTIONS TO THE 2014 GSS Summary. The General Social Survey invites proposals to add questions to its anticipated 2014 survey. Proposals will accepted on the basis of scientific quality and scholarly interest. Outside funding is not necessary. The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2012. For more details, visit http://publicdata.norc.org:41000/gss/documents/OTHR/Module%20Competition.pdf.
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Pending the availability of sufficient funds, the General Social Survey (GSS) project expects to include some items or topical modules designed by users in its 2014 survey, and invites users to submit proposals recommending such items or modules. Proposals submitted in response to this call need not be accompanied by funding that would support costs of data collection and data processing. They will be judged with their scientific merit as a primary consideration.

The GSS is a nationally representative survey of non-institutionalized adults in the United States, conducted primarily via face-to-face interviews. A National Science Foundation (NSF) award provides foundational support for the GSS, and if renewed would support inclusion of items submitted in response to this call; other sources provide supplementary support, typically to field topical modules. GSS data are collected every two years, and made available to the research community and the public as soon as possible after data collection is complete. Until 2004, the GSS was designed as a repeated cross-sectional survey. Beginning in 2006, the GSS design added a panel component. Through the use of appropriate sampling weights, each biennial GSS provides nationally representative estimates of distributions of survey items measuring a wide variety of social and political attitudes, opinions, and behaviors of U.S. adults. For additional information about the GSS and its study design, please consult the official NORC/GSS website at http://www.norc.org/GSS+Website/.

The Association for Social Economics (ASE), one of the founding member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations, together with the Review of Social Economy, would like to invite submissions for the 2013

Warren Samuels Prize

This prize is awarded to a paper, presented at the January ASSA meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that:

• Is of high quality,
• Is important to the project of social economics,
• Has broad appeal across disciplines.

It is preferable, but not required, that the paper is presented at one of the ASSA sessions sponsored by the Association for Social Economics. Papers will not normally exceed 6,500 words (inclusive of references, notes), and should follow the style guidelines for the Review of Social Economy.

The winner of the prize will be announced during the ASE presidential breakfast, to which the winner is invited. The winning paper may, subject to peer review, be published in a subsequent issue of the Review of Social Economy. The winner of the Warren Samuels Prize receives a $500 stipend.

The selection committee consists of:

A Past-President of ASE;
A Co-editor of the Review of Social Economy (Chair);
A member of the Editorial Board, Review of Social Economy.

This prize is awarded to a paper, being presented at the January, 2013, ASSA meetings in San Diego, Ca., in sessions not restricted to sessions in the ASE programme. Please send your paper electronically, as a word or pdf attachment, to Wilfred Dolfsma, Corresponding Editor, Review of Social Economy, before December 5th, 2012 to w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.

Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice
University of Minnesota
CONFERENCE ANNOUCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA, will host its Fourth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality, October 11-13, 2012 at the University of Minnesota. Previous World Conferences on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality were held in South Australia, Durban, South Africa and Minneapolis. Topics of interest for this year's conference include:
 The effectiveness of alternative approaches to remedying intra-group vs. intergroup inequality;
 The role of entrepreneurship and self-employment in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in wealth;
 The impacts of race-neutral strategies for eliminating disparities in public procurement and contracting, higher education, and public employment
 The evidence on the effects of school desegregation
 The evidence on the effects of housing desegregation
 The impacts of investments in early childhood education on long-term racial and ethnic disparities
 The comparative effectiveness of quotas and affirmative action in India, Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere
 The impacts of minority preferences in college admissions, employment and exemptions from one-child rules in China
 Community empowerment and transformation strategies as alternatives to conventional civil rights strategies
 Human Rights approaches to remedying racial and ethnic economic inequalities

Papers will be considered in two categories:
a) Concurrent sessions (October 13, 2012)
b) Poster sessions (October 11-13).

A limited amount of travel funding will be available to support posters by advanced graduate students and/or papers by junior faculty.

Submittal guideline and due dates:
To present a paper at the World Conference an abstracts should be submitted by May 1, 2012. Notification of selection will be send by May 15, 2012. If abstract is chosen, then the deadline for draft of paper is August 30, 2012. Authors need to list full name(s), title, affiliation, telephone, complete address and email. Submittal should be sent electronically to rwilkins@umn.edu with the subject line: Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality.

CASiM Conference  2012 "The Role of Trust in Business Economics"
on June 28, 2012, in Leipzig, Germany

Trust is one of the crucial foundations for the successful exchange and interplay of economic actors. Trust has a great influence on the intra-firm and inter-firm interaction of employees, management, customers and financiers, and hence on the efficiency and prosperity of the national economy. In spite of the necessity of economic rules, regulations, compliance and contracts within firms, on the market and in the national economy, there can be no doubt that true efficiency and sustainability require trust. Our current economic and financial crisis demonstrates clearly how important trust is and which problems arise on the market and in the national economy if trust is violated or even lost.

We believe that trust has not been adequately discussed in the economic sciences and that the trust research in other scientific disciplines has not been sufficiently incorporated into economics. To remedy this problem, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management and the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), located at HHL, will organize a one-day scientific conference on "The Role of Trust in Business Economics" on June 28, 2012. The conference will take place in Leipzig and will run three panels with talks on the following topics:  
Panel 1: Trust and the Theory of the Firm
Panel 2: Trust and Markets
Panel 3: Trust in Innovation  

The detailed program, as well as all other information (registration, travel advice and accommodation), for the conference is online at: www.hhl.de/casim-conference-2012. The registration has opened at the end of March 2012, and there is an early bird rate for the registration fee until April 30, 2012. There is a call for papers for a special issue of the Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) on the topics of the conference. Please see: http://www.hhl.de/service/events/casim-conference-2012/call-for-papers/ 

Conference website: www.hhl.de/casim-conference-2012 Email: casim-conference-2012@hhl.de
Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) in Founding
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Society of Government Economists Annual Conference: Call for Papers, Professional Training Seminar on Integrity and Leadership, and New Research on Indian Country (Native American) Economics

The Society of Government Economists is pleased to announce its annual conference to be held in Washington, DC on November 5-6, 2012, cosponsored by the George Washington University Economics Department.   Distinguished speakers at the conference will include Deidre McCloskey, Barry Chiswick, George DeMartino, Susan Offutt, and other leading economists (who have not yet been established at this writing – see the Society’s website for more recent information). 

Call for Papers and Sessions:  There is no fee for submitting an application for paper presentations or for entire proposed sessions.  However, applications will only be accepted from current SGE members or from individuals purchasing a membership (for $25 per year) in their application.  Anyone can join SGE who shares an interest in the work of government economists.   Papers and sessions will be selected based on an open, objective, “double-blind” peer review process, where there will be no favoritism based on affiliation or seniority.  The conference is intended to provide valuable contributions to existing knowledge and understanding of economic ideas, or to foster potential improvements in how economics is practiced.  Proposals require only a 500-word (maximum) abstract and 300-word (maximum) justification statement. 

Deadline for paper and session proposals: September 30, 2012. 

Training Seminar (and Certificate) for Professional Economists:  As a separate event within the conference, participants may also register for a special, one-day training seminar on “Integrity, Ethics, and Responsible Leadership in Economics."  The seminar will be led by Deirdre McCloskey (author of The Cult of Statistical Significance), George DeMartino (author of The Economist's Oath), Susan Offutt (Chief Economist, GAO), and Bryan Roberts (Senior Economist, Nathan Associates).  This unique seminar will go where no economics seminar has gone before to examine the most timely, challenging, and controversial issues that face economists today.  Participants will also have opportunities to express and share candidly their own experiences and concerns, which might help us all better understand the issues, inform others, and directly address the importance of integrity, ethics, and responsible leadership in economics.   Thus, participants will not only be learning from distinguished experts in this area, but will be helping to play a part in this worthy effort to address some of the most important issues facing the economics profession. 

Special Sessions on Indian Country (Native American) Economics:   The Society of Government Economists is collaborating with a newly formed network of Indian Country Economists to promote economic research that will benefit tribal governments and other Native American organizations.  Anyone interested in this area of research is encouraged to respond to SGE’s call for papers.

NBES GOES TO COSTA RICA!!!
The National Business and Economics Society
Call for Papers
14th Annual Conference

The National Institutes of Health (NIA) adds genetic data to Health and Retirement Study (HRS) A 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans(50 +), has added genetic information from consenting participants to its database. The HRS is a database for studying retirement and the baby boom generation.   On March 15, genetic data from approximately 13,000 individuals were posted to dbGAP, the NIH’s online genetics database. The data consist of approximately 2.5 million genetic markers from each person and are available for analysis by qualified researchers. Data were obtained from saliva samples collected from HRS participants since 2006. Specific information on the data can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000428.v1.p1 and http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu.

The NIA’s scientific program seeks to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. For more information on research, aging and health, go to www.nia.nih.gov.

Call for papers: First LSE / BOE conference on Macroeconomics
Unemployment, productivity and potential output: the aftermath of the crisis
11-12 October 2012

The BOE and LSE are holding a joint conference in the autumn, the first of an annual series. It will be held in London at the Bank of England on 11 and 12 October 2012.

The aim is to ask what economics can tell us about unemployment, productivity and potential output, with a particular focus on the effect of the financial crisis and recession. The conference will bring together academics and policymakers to assess what theory and rigorous empirics can tell us about this hugely pressing issue. Confirmed keynote speakers include Philippe Aghion, Bart Hobijn and Fabien Postel-Vinnay.

We envisage that papers on the impact of uncertainty, reallocation of resources, matching in labour and other markets and financial sector dislocation would fit, but anything relevant will be considered for the programme.

Travel and accommodation costs of presenters and discussants will be covered by the organisers. There is no conference fee.
Submissions should be made by sending papers to Sarah Bushell (sarah.bushell@bankofengland.co.uk) before 31 May 2012. Decisions will be notified by 30 June 2012.

Call for Abstract / Papers. The January 2012 Business & Economics Society International (B&ESI) Conference will be held January 7-10, 2013  in Perth, Australia. Deadline for abstract submission and participation: December 10, 2012. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one or two papers, chair, moderator, discussant, or observer. All papers will pass a blind peer review process for publication consideration in an anthology of selected papers titled
‘GLOBAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ANTHOLOGY’. For more information, please contact Helen Kantarelis as follows: B&ESI, 64 Holden Street, Worcester, MA 01605-3109, USA.  Tel: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089, Email: hkan@besiweb.com, Web: www.besiweb.com

Call for Abstract / Papers. The July 2013 Business & Economics Society International (B&ESI) Conference will be held July 6-9, 2013  in Monte Carlo, Monaco (French Riviera.) Deadline for abstract submission and participation: March 30, 2013. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one or two papers, chair, moderator, discussant, or observer. All papers will pass a blind peer review process for publication consideration in an anthology of selected papers titled
‘GLOBAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ANTHOLOGY’. For more information, please contact Helen Kantarelis as follows: B&ESI, 64 Holden Street, Worcester, MA 01605-3109, USA.  Tel: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089, Email: hkan@besiweb.com, Web: www.besiweb.com

In recognizing its heritage and in keeping with its traditions of operational research and analysis, CNA is announcing the CNA Award for Operational Analysis. This competitive award is open to all researchers and analysts outside of CNA and will be presented to the individual or team whose submitted work is judged as providing the most creative, empirically-based solution to a real-world problem or in support of a real-world decision. The winner of the CNA Award will be recognized at the CNA 70th Anniversary banquet in November 2012 and will receive $10,000.

The criteria for submission for consideration for the CNA Award are as follows.
• A real-world problem or decision needs to have motivated the analysis.
• Results of the analysis need to have addressed the problem or been considered during the resultant decision-making.
• The analysis also needs to have been empirically based using operational data and information.
• The submitted work need not be quantitative; qualitative analysis can be submitted for consideration as long as the qualitative information used in the analysis was derived from observation of real-world operations.
• The analysis needs to be creative: approaching a problem in a novel way, developing a new technique or methodology for addressing a problem, or applying known techniques or methodologies in a different way or to a different set of problems than normal.
• Work must be submitted in the form of a research paper or report that is well written and capable of being published. Classified or for-official-use-only work will be considered for submission as long as a publishable, cleared-for-public-release version of the report is also submitted. Any such cleared-for-public-release version must be fully informative and faithful in representing the problem that motivated the work, the analysis used to address the problem, and how the results of the analysis were used.
• Submissions must be received at CNAaward@cna.org by June 29, 2012. To request instructions for submitting DoD classified work, or for answers to other questions, send an email to that same address, or call Ms. Patricia Sanders at 703-824-2038.

Call for papers: The 14th annual conference of the National Business & Economics Society will be held March 6-9, 2013, at the Marriott Los Suenos Resort in Herradura, Costa Rica. NBES is a multidisciplinary academic association that focuses on promoting research of both a theoretical and practical nature. See the NBES website at www.nbesonline.com. Interested authors should submit the full paper or a 1-2 page abstract of the research in question to info@nbesonline.com  Submission deadline: July 1st 2012

GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON S&T POLICY. The 7th Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy will take place August 5-10, 2012, on the theme “S&T Policy in Global Context.” Speakers from around the world will explore the meaning of national S&T policies in a globalizing world. Sheila Jasanoff (USA) and Raphael Kaplinsky (UK) will make keynote presentations. All participants are encouraged to present their own work or their organization’s in the poster sessions. Buses are available from the Boston airport to the conference site in New Hampshire. For details, see the conference listing on the GRC web site.  (Note that a student-led, early career Gordon Research Seminar will take place the two days ahead of the main GRC at the same site on a related theme.)

Registration for the Philadelphia Fed's Reinventing Older Communities Conference

Register now for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s fifth biennial Reinventing Older Communities conference, which will be held Wednesday, May 9, to Friday, May 11, 2012. This year’s theme is building resilient cities, with a particular focus on smaller cities that were once manufacturing centers.

Innovative Date Sources for Regional Economic Analysis
May 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM – May 8, 2012 at 4:30 PM (ET)

The George Washington Institute of Public Policy invites members of the AEA to “Innovative Data Sources for Regional Economic Analysis,” a conference at George Washington University on May 7-8, 2012. Attendees will be able to engage representatives of over 35 innovative federal, commercial, and academic economic data sources in a data fair format at GW’s Marvin Center, 800 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC.  The conference, free to participants, is hosted by the GW Institute of Public Policy in cooperation with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Department of Public Policy, under a grant from the Kauffman Foundation.

The rationale for the conference is straightforward. The nation’s economic health depends in large part on the competitiveness of its regional economies. Building and sustaining regional competitive advantage—through, for example, innovation, business startups, and education and training—relies on access to reliable data and insightful analysis. Recent advances in information technology and statistical methods have greatly increased the capacity to collect, organize, analyze, visualize, and disseminate large volumes of economic data, including from nontraditional sources, in a timely manner. Data efforts emerging from these advances have the potential to transform our understanding of regional economic dynamics and the ways that policy can stimulate and support competitiveness.

Consequently, the conference’s primary aim is to raise the awareness of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about the wide array of innovative private and public data sources and tools useful for regional economic development analysis and policy. Its second purpose is to offer data users the opportunity to offer product improvement suggestions to data providers.

Conference details, on-line registration, and links to innovative data sources are available at http://www.gwu.edu/~gwipp/innovregstats.htm.

Soon to be launched, International  Journal of Economics and Business Studies (IJEBS) will hold its first international conference in Techno India Campus in Salt Lake City, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) India, on December 20-21, 2012.  Deadline for paper abstracts is July 31, 2012 and for completed paper is November 15, 2012.  Registration fee is $350.00.  Please submit the abstracts to Prof. Debasish Chakraborty, chakra1d@cmich.edu  (or dchak@yahoo.com) Phone:  989-859-1499  or to Prof. Kishore G. Kulkarni,  (kulkarnk@mscd.edu)  Phone:  303-556-2675.  More information is available at www.ijebs.com.

The 2nd Annual Faculty Development in International Business Conference
The Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

May 1-4, 2012

The Penn Lauder CIBER announces its second annual interdisciplinary Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Conference. This event will address the pressing need for more highly qualified international business faculty with expertise in the cross-cultural, institutional, and political aspects of management. Fifteen to twenty-five participants will be selected from a national pool of junior faculty and PhD candidates from both business and nonbusiness fields, including scholars with disciplinary training in economics, political science, sociology, law and psychology. The four-day program will include presentations by leading international business faculty with interdisciplinary training, a career workshop, and extensive interactions among participants.
 
The sessions will cover the theoretical, methodological, and empirical tools available to faculty to do research and teach topics related to international business, with an emphasis on cutting-edge applications in the areas of foreign-market entry, organization of the multinational enterprise, cross-border knowledge transfer, multinational human resource management, strategic corporate social responsibility, corporate diplomacy and the overall competitive strategy of firms that operate in multiple markets.

Application Information
The conference will be organized as a series of in-depth seminars for a select group of 15-25 participants who aspire to move from a background in a disciplinary-based education or program into the field of international management. Applicants should email a current CV, up to three working papers or publications on international topics and any syllabi of courses taught or for which the applicant served as a teaching assistant to lauderciber@wharton.upenn.edu. The deadline for applications is April 2, 2012. Please distribute this announcement to other interested scholars.

Please visit http://www.regonline.com/2012LauderFDIB for more information.  For inquiries regarding program content please contact Witold Henisz henisz@wharton.upenn.edu or Mauro Guillen guillen@wharton.upenn.edu. For logistical or administrative questions please contact Kathryn Homa khoma@wharton.upenn.edu.

Expenses
The registration fee of $1,000 includes housing which is offered from April 30th to May 4th at the Sheraton Hotel University City a few blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus. Breakfast, lunch, and one group dinner are also provided. Other expenses including transportation to/from the University of Pennsylvania campus are the responsibility of the participants. A limited number of $500 scholarships are available for participants from underrepresented groups or underfunded colleges and universities.

"Investing in Rural: Population Change and Human Capital"
T.W. Schultz Symposium Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
South Dakota State University
Call for abstracts for presentation at the
Third T.W. Schultz Symposium
October 2 and 3, 2012

The Third T.W. Schultz Symposium Committee invites proposals for manuscripts to be presented at its 2012 celebration that will be held at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. Theodore W. Schultz won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on human capital that showed how investments in people, specifically education and health, lead to economic development. Influenced by his childhood on his family's farm near Badger, SD, the welfare of those in rural communities throughout the world--especially in developing nations--was a life-long focus of Dr. Schultz's academic career.

In 2009, on the thirtieth anniversary of Dr. Schultz's receipt of the Nobel Prize, SDSU organized a symposium on human capital. The following year a second symposium was held that focused on rural development. In 2012, the Third T. W. Schultz symposium will address the relationship between human capital and population change in rural areas. Its keynote speaker will be Prof. Daniel T. Lichter, a prestigious scholar at Cornell University in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. He also serves as Director of Cornell's Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and is a past editor of Demography. He has published widely in the areas of family sociology, demography, poverty and inequality, immigration, and race and ethnicity.

We invite, for a competitive review, abstracts of papers for presentation at the 2012 T. W. Schultz Symposium that address the symposium's central theme of rural population change and human capital. This invitation extends to abstracts that address the following subtopics as related to rural populations

 poverty
 education
 health
 child and family welfare
 racial or ethnic minorities
 geospatial distribution
 social networks
 community development
 cultural development
 rural heritage
 intergovernmental relations
 business policies
 discrimination
 immigration
 work and occupations
 labor mobility
 regional integration
 land tenure

The Symposium Committee encourages the submission of abstracts describing innovative approaches, concepts, and theories that investigate human capital and rural population change throughout the world. The aim is to create an inclusive program for scholars and students from all social science disciplines, including anthropology, criminal justice, demography, communication, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, social work, sociology, political science, psychology, and public administration. Breakout sections specifically for student presentations will be hosted. Undergraduate and graduate students are warmly invited to submit abstracts for the symposium.

Please submit a pdf file that includes a 500-word abstract and the names of the author(s) with complete contact information, including institutional affiliation, to Prof. Michael McCurry at michael.mccurry@sdstate.edu before March 23 (Friday). A review committee will communicate with the primary contact of each abstract by the end of March. Four selected session presenters will receive $500 scholarships. Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation must submit a finalized copy of their manuscripts by August 10, 2012.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Schmalenbach Business Review
CASiM Conference “The Role of Trust in Business Economics” on June 28, 2012

The Organizing Committee of the first CASiM Conference “The Role of Trust in Business Economics” (on June 28, 2012, in Leipzig) invites submissions of original research papers for a special issue on “The Role of Trust in Business Economics” of the Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr). The professorial members of the Organizing Committee act as the guest editors of this special issue, and any articles submitted for the special issue will be subject to the usual peer review process and quality standards of the Schmalenbach Business Review.

The special issue of the Schmalenbach Business Review will cover the following three topics of the CASiM Conference “The Role of Trust in Business Economics”:

This topic concentrates on methodological issues. The papers deal with trust in a formal way: fairness games, information theory, game theory, dynamic production functions, and dynamic contract theory. The purpose of this topic is to stimulate discussion about future work at CASiM.

Trust is a central prerequisite for successful market transactions und customer loyalty. The conditions for and effects of trust on markets for physical goods and financial markets need to be analyzed. Submissions for this topic can consider business connections between firms (B2B) or business connections between firms and end costumers (B2C). In particular, the role of trust in a brand and the risks of contractual arrangements should be considered. In this context, differences between the trustworthiness and reputation of the different groups of stakeholders could also be investigated.            

Trust is often seen as a key driver for open collaborative innovation within organizations and across organizational boundaries. The topic “Trust in Innovation” explores and discusses the role of trust for individual creativity, corporate innovation cultures as well as national and international innovation systems. We invite submissions with a strong conceptual, theoretical, methodological or empirical lens and especially welcome outcome from collaborative research initiatives.

Deadline for Pre-Submission of an Abstract: June 10, 2012 (by email to casim@hhl.de)
Deadline for Submission of the Full Paper: August 31, 2012 (by email to casim@hhl.de and under Cc: also to sbr@bwl.uni-muenchen.de)

Guidelines for Submission are available here.

Conference Website: www.hhl.de/casim-conference-2012
Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) in Founding
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Email: casim@hhl.de, Phone: +49 (0)341 9851-820

CONFERENCE TITLE: Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy
CONFERENCE DATES: August 16, 2012 – August 18, 2012

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the RCEF 2012 conference “Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy”.   

The conference will be held at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF) is a biennial conference series that alternates between Italy and Canada, but with a different focus each time. This year’s theme will draw researchers from urban economics, with a micro focus on long run development, trade, and the environment, and from international macroeconomics with a focus on business cycles, financial markets, and monetary policy. Intersecting these two fields will be researchers on public policy, that is, economists who study the levers that national governments typically wield: taxes, transfers, education, and labor mobility (migration and immigration). We also invite papers in other areas of economics, including general equilibrium, industrial organization, and quantitative methods.

The conference is organized by Canadian and Italian economists under the sponsorship of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) but invites scientific contributions from all over the world. Authors should submit an extended abstract of up to 500 words. Please include with the submission JEL classification codes for the paper, keywords as well as JEL classification codes of the author(s) specialization field(s). Complete papers may be submitted but the extended abstract is required. In case of more than one author, please note the corresponding author. The submissions should be sent in PDF format to the address provided below.

Proposals for sessions, consisting of three papers, are particularly welcome. If you are interested in submitting a session please send the session topic, paper titles and names of authors and arrange for the abstracts to be sent to the address provided below.

Student submissions. We welcome paper submissions from graduate students. The registration fee will be waived for Canadian students whose papers are accepted.

The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2012.  Authors will be notified by April 22, 2012 whether their papers have been accepted.

Fees. There are no submission fees. The registration fee for the conference is

The late fee will be applied to all registrations received after May 14, 2012.
The fees include HST and all meals at the conference site, including (except for students) a reception on August 16 and a banquet dinner on August 17.

To submit a paper please use the conference website www.rcef.ca  
Questions about the conference should be addressed to rcef@economics.utoronto.ca.

Heribert Meffert Awards for Master Theses 2012

The Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) at HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management announces the Heribert Meffert Awards for Master Theses 2012 for excellent master theses, containing original research in one of the following three areas: Trust and the Theory of the Firm, Trust and Markets, Trust in Innovation.

The Heribert Meffert Awards for Master Theses are advertised in 2012 for the first time and will be awarded on an annual basis for master theses in the areas covered by the annual CASiM Conference. The first CASiM Conference “The Role of Trust in Business Economics” will take place on June 28, 2012 in Leipzig, and the winners of the Heribert Meffert Awards for Master Theses will be invited to attend the conference. Each award is endowed with a monetary award of EUR 1,000, and there will be financial support of up to EUR 650 for attending the conference (for travel and accommodation). This year there are three awards available, one for each of the areas listed above, but the selection committee reserves the right to withhold an award if no master thesis of adequate quality in the respective area is submitted.

Submission Guidelines:

• Submission deadline: May 01, 2012. Please submit your master thesis with accom-panying documentation (see details below) as pdf files via email to casim@hhl.de.
• The master thesis must have been completed in 2011 or 2012 and have been submitted to the applicant’s university by May 01, 2012.
• The master thesis must be original research of high quality and must include a clear theoretical foundation. Master theses that only contain empirical work without any theoretical foundation are not eligible. By “original research” we mean that the master thesis must contain an element of novelty, such as new ideas or a novel combination / application of existing ideas (transformative aspect).
• The master thesis must focus on a topic in one of the following areas: Trust and the Theory of the Firm, Trust and Markets, Trust in Innovation. A more detailed description of each of these areas is given above.
• Please attach the following documents to your application:
  (a) your master thesis,
  (b) an accompanying letter of motivation from the applicant (max. 3 pages),
  (c) a curriculum vitae of the applicant,
  (d) a letter of support from the supervisor of the master thesis,
  (e) an application form (template on next page).
• The master thesis must be written in English or German.

For more details, visit http://www.hhl.de/fileadmin/texte/center-casim/Heribert_Meffert_Awards_for_Master_Theses_2012.pdf.

NSF Funding Opportunity

Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR.)
This opportunity is aimed specifically at building communities and teams for new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques. Informally, think of this one as being about “I need funding to get people together to start thinking about what we might propose to NSF for a big data effort” and not "I need funding for the big data effort”.
Specifics:
Proposal Deadline:          May 22, 2012.
How much funding:        $5 million available for all the awards
Read the full program announcement at: http://1.usa.gov/x5Hr9V

This program is being funded by two parts of the NSF, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and also by a branch of the NSF called the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. The program is one piece of a broader effort that is going on across the NSF called the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21). 

"Investing in Rural: Population Change and Human Capital"
T.W. Schultz Symposium Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
South Dakota State University
Call for abstracts for presentation at the
Third T.W. Schultz Symposium
October 2 and 3, 2012

The Third T.W. Schultz Symposium Committee invites proposals for manuscripts to be presented at its 2012 celebration that will be held at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. Theodore W. Schultz won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on human capital that showed how investments in people, specifically education and health, lead to economic development. Influenced by his childhood on his family's farm near Badger, SD, the welfare of those in rural communities throughout the world--especially in developing nations--was a life-long focus of Dr. Schultz's academic career.

In 2009, on the thirtieth anniversary of Dr. Schultz's receipt of the Nobel Prize, SDSU organized a symposium on human capital. The following year a second symposium was held that focused on rural development. In 2012, the Third T. W. Schultz symposium will address the relationship between human capital and population change in rural areas. Its keynote speaker will be Prof. Daniel T. Lichter, a prestigious scholar at Cornell University in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. He also serves as Director of Cornell's Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and is a past editor of Demography. He has published widely in the areas of family sociology, demography, poverty and inequality, immigration, and race and ethnicity.

We invite, for a competitive review, abstracts of papers for presentation at the 2012 T. W. Schultz Symposium that address the symposium's central theme of rural population change and human capital. This invitation extends to abstracts that address the following subtopics as related to rural populations

 poverty
 education
 health
 child and family welfare
 racial or ethnic minorities
 geospatial distribution
 social networks
 community development
 cultural development
 rural heritage
 intergovernmental relations
 business policies
 discrimination
 immigration
 work and occupations
 labor mobility
 regional integration
 land tenure

The Symposium Committee encourages the submission of abstracts describing innovative approaches, concepts, and theories that investigate human capital and rural population change throughout the world. The aim is to create an inclusive program for scholars and students from all social science disciplines, including anthropology, criminal justice, demography, communication, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, social work, sociology, political science, psychology, and public administration. Breakout sections specifically for student presentations will be hosted. Undergraduate and graduate students are warmly invited to submit abstracts for the symposium.

Please submit a pdf file that includes a 500-word abstract and the names of the author(s) with complete contact information, including institutional affiliation, to Prof. Michael McCurry at michael.mccurry@sdstate.edu before March 23 (Friday). A review committee will communicate with the primary contact of each abstract by the end of March. Four selected session presenters will receive $500 scholarships. Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation must submit a finalized copy of their manuscripts by August 10, 2012.

Call for Papers
Conference: “Inequality across Multiple Generations”
September 13-14, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan announce a call for papers that contribute to our understanding of inequality dynamics across multiple (at least three) generations. Proposed papers must study social, economic, demographic, or health outcomes and include at least three generations of families. We encourage empirical contributions that make use of the PSID data but also welcome contributions based on other data sources, including non-U.S. and administrative data, as well as relevant methodological contributions.

Paper proposals must be submitted by April 1, 2012.
All relevant details can be found at http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Publications/Workshops/Multigen2012_CfP.pdf
For additional administrative questions please contact Patty Hall (pathall@umich.edu)

Call for Papers 2013

The annual meeting of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) will be held January 4-6, 2013, in conjunction with the AEA annual meetings in San Diego, California. The TPUG invites papers in areas related to transportation, energy, telecommunications, and water and wastewater. If you would like to submit a transportation paper for consideration, please send an electronic copy of the paper title, one-page abstract, and author contact information to Professor Peter Loeb at the following address: ploeb@andromeda.rutgers.edu. If you would like to submit a public utility paper for consideration, please send an electronic copy of the paper title, one-page abstract, and author contact information to Professor Carolyn Freidman at the following address: carolyn.gideon@tufts.edu.  All program participants must register for the AEA convention and become TPUG members ($20 TPUG membership fee).

The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. 

Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months orless) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. Scholarly/Professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have not previously worked in India. Eligible applicants include 1) U.S. citizens; and 2) citizens of other countries who are students or faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities (this rule does not apply to U.S. citizens).

For almost 50 years, the American Institute of Indian Studies has provided funding to pre- and post-doctoral scholars and artists in pursuit of knowledge about India.

• Junior Fellowships are for graduate students conducting research for their doctoral dissertations in India.
• Senior Long- and Short-term Fellowships are for those holding the PhD degree. 
• Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships are available to accomplished practitioners of the arts to conduct their projects in India. 

The AIIS fellowship competition is not restricted to those from its member institutions. Non-U.S. citizens may apply as long as they are either graduate students or full-time faculty at colleges and universities in the United States. Approximately 35 fellowships are awarded each year.

Applications from scholars who are part of a collaborative project involving other scholars are welcome, though AIIS fellowships are granted to individuals, not to teams. Amounts awarded to successful applicants who are members of group projects will be equivalent to fellowships awarded to scholars who submitted applications for individual projects.

Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Smithsonian Institution. Some fellowships for non-U.S. citizens and artists are supported by AIIS Rupee funds in India. Fellowships for six months or more may include support for dependents.

Applications can be downloaded from the www.indiastudies.org. Inquiries should be directed to  (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu. Application deadline is July 1, 2011. 

Scholarship & a Free Society Seminarfor Graduate Students

Call for papers and applications: the Institute for Humane Studies is hosting a graduate-level seminar on the future of classical liberal scholarship and it’s applications to society June 23-29, at Towson University near Baltimore, MD. The seminar features talks from today’s thought leaders on how they apply classical liberal principles to their current research and student presentations for peer review.

Graduate students at all levels will gain valuable insight and get inspiration for their own work:

• Early-Stage Graduate Students: Opportunities to network with top faculty and future co-authors and brainstorm dissertation ideas.
• Late-Stage Graduate Students: Sessions offering insight on how to take research to the next level. Accepting submissions to present current research for peer-review

Presenting faculty include economist Peter Boettke from George Mason University, philosopher David Schmidtz from the University of Arizona, and historian Steve Davies.

Apply by March 31 to be part of conversations that will define the intellectual agenda for the coming decade.

Learn More: http://www.theihs.org/AEA_ScholarSeminar

Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics: Annual conference of the International Transport Economics Association. The Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School 2012 will be held in Berlin, Germany June 18-22, 2012. The aim of the Conference, June 21 - 22, is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific exchange. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport investment and funding, congestion pricing, time and risk, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, transport safety, aviation, competition, privatization etc. Prior to the conference, the Kuhmo Nectar Summer School takes place from 18-20 June. It offers a high-quality programme, primarily targeted at PhD students and practitioners who are looking for a condensed programme that introduces them to recent advances in academic research in Transport Economics. The main themes for the Conference and the Summer School match each other. Delegates are free to follow either the Summer School, or the Conference, or both. For more information and for registration go to: www.diw.de/kuhmo2012. 

Call for Papers

“Time-Varying Correlation and Volatility Symposium”

To be hosted by the Management Research Centre, University of Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Friday 18th May 2012.

Current volatility and contagion in the World’s financial markets is unprecedented. There has been much focus placed upon the time-varying nature of correlations and volatility in finance, economics and accounting. The theme of the forthcoming year’s symposium is “Living with Volatility”. This symposium provides a possible opportunity to interact with academics, practitioners and policy-setters and place contributions within the context of the ongoing Global Economic and Financial Crisis. It is hoped that possible pathways can be identified for world economic and financial recovery.

Submitted papers are welcome in the following areas:

• New measurement, modelling and forecasting of correlation and volatility
• Theory and Applications in
• Banking
• Developed and Emerging Markets
• Commodity Markets
• Energy Markets
• Macroeconomic Modelling
• International Finance

Papers can be submitted electronically to Dr Vince Hooper, Vincent.Hooper@wlv.ac.uk.
The deadline for submission is Friday 20th April 2012. There is free registration for this Symposium.

Save the date: CASiM Conference "The Role of Trust in Business Economics" on 28 June 2012

Trust is one of the crucial foundations for the successful exchange and interplay of economic actors. Trust has a great influence on the intra-firm and inter-firm interaction of employees, management, customers and financiers, and hence on the efficiency and prosperity of the national economy. In spite of the necessity of economic rules, regulations, compliance and contracts within firms, on the market and in the national economy, there can be no doubt that true efficiency and sustainability require trust. Our current economic and financial crisis demonstrates clearly how important trust is and which problems arise on the market and in the national economy if trust is violated or even lost.

We believe that trust has not been adequately discussed in the economic sciences and that the trust research in other scientific disciplines has not been sufficiently incorporated into economics. To remedy this problem, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management and the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) will organize a one-day scientific conference on the topic "The Role of Trust in Business Economics" on 28 June 2012. The conference will take place in Leipzig and will run three panels with talks on the following topics:

Panel 1: "Trust and the Theory of the Firm"
Panel 2: "Trust and Markets"
Panel 3: "Trust in Innovation"

We would like to ask you to note the date of the conference in your diary. An official invitation with detailed information will be sent out in February.

Best regards,
Andreas Pinkwart (Dean of HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management)

The Organizing Committee:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Albach (em. Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Board Member of CASiM)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Heribert Meffert (em. Professor and em. Director of the Marketing Center Münster at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Board Member of CASiM)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart (Dean of HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Board Member of CASiM)
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald (em. Professor at the Technische Universität München, Aca-demic Director of the research center CLIC at HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Board Member of CASiM)
Dr. Kerstin Hesse (Executive Director of CASiM, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management)
Carmen Gebhardt (Event Manager, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management)

Conference website: www.hhl.de/casim-conference-2012

Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) in Founding
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Email: casim@hhl.de

The New York State Economics Association (NYSEA) 65th Annual Conference

Friday and Saturday, October 5-6, 2012. Friday reception 6:00 – 7:30pm: Saturday conference: Farmingdale State College, 7:30am – 5pm. CALL FOR PAPERS and PRE‐ARRANGED SESSIONS: One page abstracts and proposals for a complete session on a single theme or topic are invited. The submission deadline is June 15, 2012. The “Call for Papers” and registration forms are available at http://nysea.bizland.com/. Submit “Call for Papers” form, abstracts and session proposals to: Richard Vogel, President, New York State Economics Association, Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY 11735, Email: Richard.Vogel@Farmingdale.edu; Voice: 631-420-2063, Fax: 631-420-2235.

You are invited to submit your papers until February 2, 2012 for our parallel conferences in Faro, Algarve, Portugal (Supported by the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal), May 2-4, 2012

• Lakes, Rivers, Groundwater and Sea 2012
   
• Sustainable Cities, Urban Sustainability and Transportation 2012
   
• Forests, Mountains, Valleys and Volcanoes 2012
   
• Science Parks and Technology Parks 2012
   
• Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Heritage 2012
   
• Biologically Inspired Computation 2012

or via  www.naun.org
Submission Deadline: February 2, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2012
Registration Deadline: April 12, 2012

Proceedings will be distributed in luxurious volumes (hard-copy) and CD-ROM and will be included (indexed) in the ISI, SCOPUS, ACM, WSEAS E-Library, IET (IEE), ASM, ACS, CSA, ELSEVIER, ZENTRALBLATT, MATHSCINET, DPP, EI, CSBA, Ulrigh, DEST, EBSCO, EMBASE, GEOBASE, BIOBASE, BIOTECHNOBASE.

Authors will be invited to submit extended versions to a NAUN Journal or WSEAS Journal or University Press or Springer. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for the Special Issues or Regular Issues of several journals (some of them belong to ISI category). The selection will be carried out during the review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision will be made based on peer review reports by the guest editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly.

Call for Papers.  The International Journal of Happiness and Development is soliciting papers for the inaugural as well as subsequent issues. IJHD seeks to broaden our understanding of “happiness” and how it may relate to development from economic, political, psychological, and/or sociological perspectives. The Journal entertains all definitions of happiness and interprets development at both micro and macro levels.  For additional information, see the Journal website: www.inderscience.com/ijhd. 

Hayek Fund
The Hayek Fund for Scholars offers grants up to $750 to cover the practical costs of career-advancing activities for graduate students and untenured faculty who support Classical Liberal principles. The fund is dedicated to academic work that contributes to a deeper understanding of the foundations of a free society.

Apply at least one month in advance for funding to cover costs associated with: grad school application fees, conference and seminar presentations, travel to job interviews, travel for research purposes, article publishing and distribution, and more.

Apply now at www.TheIHS.org/AEA_Hayek (applications are accepted on a rolling basis)

International Conference on Business and Management ICBM http://www.icbmconference.net

International Conference on Economics and Finance ICEF http://www.icefconference.net/

International Conference on eBusiness and  eGovernment ICEBEG http://www.icebeg.net/

International Conference on Social Sciences: ICSS http://www.icssconference.net

International Conference on Business, Management, Economics and Finance ICBMEF http://www.icbmefconference.net/

Istanbul International Conference on Business and Economics http://www.icbeconference.net/

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 ASSA Conference in San Diego

The National Association of Economic Educators and the Council on Economic Education will conduct three sessions at the January 2013 meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) in San Diego, California.  New research papers on any relevant topic in economic education will be considered. Those interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract, or the complete paper, no later than May 11, 2012 to John R. Swinton, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, Georgia College & State University, CBX 14, Milledgeville, GA, 31061. Alternatively, papers and/or expressions of interest in serving as a discussant may be sent via email to: john.swinton@gcsu.edu.   

Invitation to Participate in IARPA-funded Forecasting Research - The System for Prediction, Aggregation, Display, and Elicitation (SP♠DE) team would like to invite you to participate in an interactive, online research study aimed at exploring the field of forecasting. This is a federally funded research effort sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to learn how judgments made by a widely dispersed and diverse group of individuals may be used to increase forecast accuracies. 

Your participation will include providing forecasts to questions relating to economic, political, cultural, and global security domains via an interactive website. You will be paid $575 for responding to approximately 100 forecast problem sets listed on the study’s website over the course of one year.

U.S. citizens 18 years of age or older with expertise in specific subject matter may be eligible to participate.  Additionally, individuals with diverse educational levels (e.g., bachelor’s degrees to Ph.D.s) across a range of disciplines are preferred. To register as a participant or learn more about this unique research opportunity, please visit the SP♠DE website at www.iSPADE.net.

Call for Abstract / Papers. The July 2012 Business & Economics Society International (B&ESI) Conference will be held July 6-9, 2012  in Salzburg, Austria. Deadline for abstract submission and participation: March 30, 2012. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one or two papers, chair, moderator, discussant, or observer. All papers will pass a blind peer review process for publication consideration in an anthology of selected papers titled
GLOBAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ANTHOLOGY . For more information, please contact Helen Kantarelis as follows: B&ESI, 64 Holden Street, Worcester, MA 01605-3109, USA.  Tel: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089, Email: hkan@besiweb.com, Web: www.besiweb.com

SOUTH ASIAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN PRACTICE
Call for papers

The South Asian Journal of Evaluation in Practice is the first of its kind with a focus on the Practice of Evaluation in the South Asian region. It has been promoted as an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that would solicit contributions from academics as well as practitioners on research and practice of evaluation in South Asia. It is envisioned that the journal would be reviewed, abstracted and indexed by EBSCO database and the likes. It is also envisaged that the journal would be a pioneer in facilitating contextual knowledge building as well as knowledge sharing on theory and practice of evaluation. The journal would enhance and update knowledge of theorists, practitioners and users to ameliorate evaluation effectiveness for better delivery of development results. The journal would include:

• Full length papers on research and practice of evaluation in South Asia
• Articles on theory, practice and use of evaluation in regional context
• Book reviews relevant to evaluation practice in South Asia

INCLUSIONS
The journal would bring to the readers state-of-art research and latest practice with regional perspective covering an array of sectors viz. Livelihoods, Population, Health and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, Natural Resource Management, Climate Change, Gender, etc. The interdisciplinary journal would cover topics that would include but would not be limited to:

• Evaluation in practice
• Challenges in designing and implementing evaluations
• Evaluation theory and latest advancements
• Development in evaluation methodologies
• Evaluation capacity building
• Ethics and standards
• Meta evaluations
• Evaluation and development effectiveness
• Evidence based policy formulation

Conference on the Economics of Ultrapoverty: Causes and Remedies
March 22-23, 2012

Interarea price indices.  Paul Carrillo, Dirk Early, and Ed Olsen have produced a panel of price indices for housing services, other produced goods, and all produced goods for all U.S. metropolitan areas that have existed since 1982 and the non-metro part of each state. It will be updated every year and is available together with complete documentation at http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/economics/facultystaff/eoo.html#price .

This page last updated 5/14/12

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