President-Elect
Keith Coble, Mississippi State University
Board of Directors
Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota
Rodolfo Nayga, University of Arkansas
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all of the candidates for running.
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2018 AAEA Job FairThe Job Fair at the 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting is a half-day networking opportunity to connect employers and job seekers. It welcomes employers, even if they do not have current openings and job seekers, even if they are not currently on the market. The Job Fair is an in-person event.
“The trade deficit is increasing because we’re coming out of a recession and people are consuming more things in the United States,” said Kathy Baylis, an associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois. “The American farmers are nervous,” said Luis Ribera, a professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University. “When you lose market share, it’s very difficult to get it back.”
May 2018
Am I seriously “looking forward to Washington, D.C. in August”? You bet I am! This column should whet your appetite for a feast of professional learning, connections, and opportunity. With over 200 sessions, ten pre- and post-conferences, and a new job fair, the meetings have something for everyone. I’ll end the column with updates on other AAEA initiatives in progress.
Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Aug. 5-7
Home to the largest concentration of applied economists in the world, Washington, D.C., makes an ideal meeting venue for AAEA. This summer’s meeting will highlight economics that make a difference. The meeting will open with a keynote from African Development Bank, President Akinwumi Adesina. Dr. Adesina won the 2017 World Food Prize in large part for the way he designed and implemented incentive-compatible methods of targeting fertilizer and seed subsidies to Nigerian farmers. The meeting will close with the Galbraith Lecture by Paul Romer, professor of economics at New York University and recent Chief Economist at the World Bank. Dr. Romer has explored how the information economy is changing the role of cities, especially in the developing world. What will this transformation mean for the prosperity of rural areas?
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