New and Noteworthy
Department of Economics
The Department will be moving to Hanson Hall in May 2008.
The new building is on Riverside and 19th Avenues South on the West Bank Campus of the University.
The Carlson Undergraduate expansion will also have space in the building.
The department has a new working paper series, MERR - Minnesota Research Reports.
Faculty News
Congratulations to José-Víctor Ríos-Rull who has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Other faculty members who are fellows of the Econometric Society include Beth Allen, V. V. Chari, John Chipman, Zvi Eckstein , Leo Hurwicz, Larry E. Jones, Patrick Kehoe, Timothy Kehoe, Marcel K. Richter, Narayana Kocherlakota, and Aldo Rustichini. Former faculty members who are currently fellows of the Econometric Society include Andrew Atkeson, Michele Boldrin, Ed Green, Hide Ichimura, Michael Keane, Nobu Kiyotaki, and Andrew McLennan.
Narayana Kocherlakota will give the Sixth Toulouse Lectures in Economics on March 17-19. Previous givers of the lectures include Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin, Nemmers Prize winner and Minnesota Ph. D. Lars P. Hansen, and Clark Medal winner Susan C. Athey.
Tim Kehoe has been notifed that he will be awarded an honorary doctorate from from the Universidad de Vigo in Spain.
Leo Hurwicz, with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2007.
Alumni News
Stockpiling, Webisodes and a Reality Check: The Economic Impact of the 2007 Writer’s Strike on LA was sent to us by Jerry Nickelsburg ('80).
Congratulations to Fernando Alvarez ('94) and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull ('90) who have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society. Other alumni who are fellows of the Econometric Society include Masahiko Aoki, Zvi Eckstein, Martin Eichenbaum, John Geweke, Lars Peter Hansen, Hugo Hopenhayn, Richard Kihlstrom, Andreu Mas-Collell, Rosa Matzkin, Daniel McFadden, Per Krusell, John Roberts, Richard Rogerson, Joaquim Silvestre-Benach, George Tauchen, Robert Townsend, Harald Uhlig, Myrna Wooders, and Randall Wright.
Aleh Tsyvinski ('03 ) has won a 2007 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Adam Galambos ('04) has won a postdoctoral Lawrence Fellowship. The Lawrence Fellows program is intended to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with mentoring relationships, teaching opportunities, and research collaborations designed to better prepare them for professorial careers at selective liberal arts colleges.
Lars Peter Hansen ('78) won the 2006 Nemmers Prize. Now four out of the seven Nemmers winners have Minnesota connections: Tom Sargent and Ed Prescott as former faculty and Daniel McFadden ('62 ) and Lars Peter Hansen as alumni.
Masahiko Aoki ('67) has recently become the President-Elect of the International Economic Association and will become President for 2008-11.
Geir H. Haarde (MA '77 ) is currently serving as the Prime Minister of Iceland.
Ed Schuh was inaugurated into the National Order of Scientific Merit by the Brazilian Academy of Science and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He will receive the award from the President of Brazil for his efforts in strengthening educational and research institutions in Brazil.
Kudos to Donald John Roberts (Ph.D. '72) who has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
