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The 2012 ASSA Annual Meeting is scheduled for January 6-8, 2012 in Chicago, IL.

Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting is published in the May issue of the American Economic Review. The guidelines for Papers and Proceedings are available online.

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Continuing Education Program 2012

The AEA’s Continuing Education Program is held immediately after the Annual Meeting in January. The program aims to help mid-career economists with heavy teaching loads or administrative responsibilities maintain the value of their human capital. It is tailored to faculty at liberal arts colleges and teaching-oriented state universities that may have fewer research opportunities than colleagues at universities with PhD programs. The lecturers are leading scholars who also are excellent expositors. The focus is on content to help improve teaching and research.

Each program is a dozen hours of lectures. The 2009 programs were on cross-section econometrics (Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge), monetary policy (Larry Christiano and Patrick Kehoe), and experimental economics (John Morgan and Charles Plott). The 2010 programs were on time-series econometrics (James Stock and Mark Watson), financial economics (Harrison Hong and Tobias Adrian) and behavioral economics (David Laibson and Matthew Rabin). The 2011 programs were on economic development (Angus Deaton and Anne Case), game theory (Avinash Dixit and David Reiley), and new developments in fiscal and monetary policy (Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo).

The three topics for January 2012 in Chicago are cross-section econometrics (Guido Imbens, Harvard University, and Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University), International Economics (Gene Grossman, Princeton University, and Gita Gopinath, Harvard University), and Advanced Interactive Teaching Methods in Economics (Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina; Tisha Emerson, Baylor University; KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Richmond; Michael Salemi, University of North Carolina; and William Walstad, University of Nebraska) THIS SESSION IS FULL.

The 2012 program will be held at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown on January 8, 9, and 10.  (The Teaching Workshop will commence at 1:00 pm on January 8 and end by 5:00 pm on January 9.) Individuals attending the Continuing Education Program should book into the Renaissance.  Registrants select one of the three simultaneous sessions. The econometrics and international economics programs begin with a two-hour session at 4:00 pm on Sunday, January 8, 2012, run all day Monday, January 9, and conclude at noon on Tuesday, January 10. The teaching workshop begins at 1:00 pm on Sunday, January 8, and will end by 5:00 pm on Monday, January 9.  Continental breakfast on January 9, and 10, and lunch on January 9 are provided. The International Economics Program will be videotaped and available to AEA members on the web. Videotapes of the 2009, 2010, and 2011 continuing education programs (including Cross-section Econometrics by Imbens and Wooldridge in 2009) are on the Association’s website. Click here for access.

Program participation is limited to 300.  Registration is $95 for AEA members, $295 for non-members.  Participants pay for their own hotel rooms.

2012 Continuing Education Program Lecturers

Cross-section Econometrics
Guido Imbens is Professor of Economics at Harvard University.  He taught previously at UCLA and California-Berkeley.  Together with Jeffrey Wooldridge he taught the successful "what's new in econometrics'' course at the 2007 NBER Summer Institute. He has taught short courses at the European University Institute in Florence, Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the University of Maastricht, CEMFI in Madrid, the University of Zurich, the University of Dar es Salaam, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Federal Trade Commission. He has published extensively in cross-section econometrics, in particular on methods for program evaluation and causality.
 
Jeffrey Wooldridge is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.  He previously taught at MIT, where he won several teaching awards. He has taught several short courses, including at the University of Helskini, the NIPE Summer School in Braga, Portugal, the CIDE Summer School in Bertinoro, Italy, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Professor Wooldridge is the author of Economic Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data and Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach.

International Economics
Gene Grossmanis the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at Princeton University.  He also holds an appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and where he serves as Director of the International Economics Section.  He earned his Ph.D. from MIT.  He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Fellow of the Sloan and Guggenheim Foundations.  Professor Grossman has served on the AEA Executive Committee and the boards of numerous economics journals.  His research focuses on international trade theory and policy.

Gita Gopinath is Professor of Economics at Harvard.  She earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 and taught at the Chicago Business School before joining the Harvard economics department in 2005. She is an NBER faculty research associate and an associate editor of the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics.  Professor Gopinath's research in international macroeconomics focuses international price setting, emerging market business cycles and sovereign debt. Her research has been published in the AER, QJE, JPE, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Workshop on Advanced Interactive Teaching Methods in Economics
Patrick Conway is the Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, where he has been on the faculty since 1983.  He has taught courses in introductory economics, international economics, development economics and macroeconomics both to undergraduate and graduate students.  He was awarded the university-wide William C. Friday Award for excellence in teaching, and has been inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society.  He received a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs from Harvard University for his innovative use of cases in instruction. 

Tisha Emerson is the Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at Baylor University.  She has been named to the first class of Baylor Fellows – Baylor professors recognized for their success and talents in the classroom.  She serves on the AEA's Committee on Economic Education, is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Education, andhas been an instructor at the NSF funded Teaching Innovations Program (TIP).  Her main research interests are in assessing the effectiveness of different pedagogical tools - with special interest in classroom experiments.

KimMarie McGoldrick  is the Joseph A. Jennings Chair in Business at the University of Richmond.  Her pedagogic research has covered topics including service-learning, cooperative learning, cheating in the classroom, economics as liberal education, and developing critical inquiry skills. With Mark Maier and Scott Simkins, she developed Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics, an economics pedagogical portal funded by NSF.  She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Education and a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Education.

Michael Salemi is Professor and Chair of Economics at the University of North Carolina.  He is the author of more than fifty published articles in macroeconomics, domestic and international monetary theory, and economic education.  Salemi was chair of the AEA Committee on Economic Education and CO-Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Teaching Innovations Program. He received the Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction by UNC in 1987 and 2004, the Bower Medal by the National Council on Economic Education in 1998, and the Villard Research Award by the Association of Economic Educators in 2001.

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