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Faculty in the News
- Professor Chauvet uses model to assess the real time probability of an economic recession – article in the New York Times.
- Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera is one of the four
faculty members who have been honored in 2006-07
with University Scholar awards, bringing to nine
the total number of University Scholars on
campus. Selected and awarded by the Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the awards
recognize UCR's rising stars: early-career,
tenured faculty of outstanding
merit. Gonzalez-Rivera studies time series
econometrics and is renowned nationally and
internationally for her work in the field of
volatility modeling. Her widely cited research
papers appear in the top econometrics journals;
one of her papers has become a "classic" in time
series literature. Gonzalez-Rivera's
methodological expertise has been applied to
diverse research areas, including agricultural
markets, developing countries, regulatory
financial practice, and environmental measurement of quality of life.
- R. Robert Russell has received the UC Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer Award for the 2006-2007 academic year. This award is the highest of faculty honors within the UC Riverside campus. A more detailed description of Professor Russell's accomplishments and contributions that helped earn him this prestigious award is available at http://senate.ucr.edu/agenda/060530/_FRL_REPORT _FRL.pdf.
- Richard Sutch has been elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005.
- Aman Ullah has been awarded the title of "Journal of Econometrics Charter Fellow", 2005.
- Jang-Ting Guo has been named "Outstanding Referee" for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005.
- Tae-Hwy Lee's paper "Diagnostic Checking for Adequacy of Nonlinear Time Series Models", Econometric Theory, Vol. 19, December 2003, 1065-1121 (co-authored with Yongmiao Hong) has been awarded the Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize 2006. This prize was established as a memorial to Tjalling C. Koopmans, the 1975 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science. The Advisory Board of the journal selects a paper every three years among the papers published in the Econometric Theory. Lee's paper is the winning article for the past three year period (2003-2005 inclusive).
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, has invited Prasanta Pattanaik to give a public lecture in November 2006. Created by Royal Charter in 1783, the Royal Society of Edinburgh is an educational organization with 1400 Fellows from different disciplines. One of its many functions is to organize 'lectures, debates and conferences on topical issues of lasting importance'. Pattanaik's lecture will outline how the economists' notion of social welfare has evolved over time.
- Prasanta Pattanaik has been invited to deliver the 2006 Condorcet Lectures in the University of Caen, France. Named after Marquis de Condorcet, the famous 18th century French mathematician, philosopher and voting theorist, and delivered annually, the Condorcet lectures are devoted to welfare economics and the theory of social choice. Pattanaik is the fourth lecturer in the series, the earlier lecturers being K. J. Arrow, D. Saari, and A.K. Sen. Pattanaik's lectures will be on individual rights, freedom, and social welfare.
- Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics honors Aman Ullah for Outstanding Contributions in Mathematical Sciences at the Eleventh International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics(December 27-29,2004) on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques at Sherwood College of Management, India.
- Marcelle
Chauvet named committee member of Dating Business Cycles in
Brazil
- Prasanta K.
Pattanaik is awarded a Carnegie Centenary Professorship for
Fall 2006 by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- UCR
economics professor gets USAID grant to study pathways from
poverty in Brazil
- UC
Riverside Earns $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant
to Examine How Engineered Crop Genes Stray
- Professor
Anil Deolalikar Named Director of the Public Policy Initiative
- Professor
David Fairris Appointed Associate Dean for Student Academic
Affairs
- Economics
Professor Prasanta Pattanaik to be Next President of the Society
for Social Choice and Welfare
Students in the News
- A recent graduate of our undergraduate program, Charles Ludd, Jr., was selected as a 2006-07 Judicial Administration Fellowship Program at the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State. For more information on this program, see the Program's website at: http://www.csus.edu/calst/judicial/.
- Jaehee Son has been invited to participate, as a Fellow, in the Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The program, which will consist of a course and an international conference, will be held during the period from 26 May 2005 to 13 June 2005.
- Shatakshee Dhongde, a graduate student at the Department of Economics, received one of the five Graduate Research Awards (2004-05) awarded by the Graduate Student Association, University of California, Riverside. The award intends to highlight the excellent quality of research being done at University of California Riverside (UCR) by graduate students. The awardees presented a summary of their research at the award ceremony on April 25, 2005. Chancellor France A. Córdova and Dallas Rabenstein, Dean of the Graduate Division, and other UCR faculty attended the ceremony. Shatakshee's presentation was entitled, "An Analysis of Effects of Growth and Income Distribution on Poverty". Shatakshee's dissertation co-chairs are Prasanta Pattanaik and Aman Ullah. In her dissertation, Shatakshee has decomposed and measured separately the effect of a rise in the income level and a change in the income distribution on poverty levels. This is the first ever attempt to decompose poverty levels in India across different states and over a period of time.
- David Vazquez-Guzman has been invited to attend the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Economics and Psychology in Germany in August 2005. The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Economics and Psychology is organized jointly by the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Strategic Interaction Group of the Max Planck Institute for Research into Human Systems, Jena, Germany. David is one of a small number of scholars from various countries, who have been invited to attend the Summer Institute.
Recent Distinguished Visitors
- Akmal Hussain, Sussex University.
- Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 12:00-1:30pm, HMNSS 1500
"India, Pakistan and the
Future of South Asia"
- Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 4:10-5:30pm, Sproul Hall
2206
"Poverty, Power and Asymmetric
Markets in Pakistan"
- Kaushik Basu, Cornell University, C. Marks
Professor & Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development
Department of Economics
- Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 2:10-3:30 p.m., Sproul Hall room
2206
"Globalization & Marginalization, A Re-examination
of Development Policy"
- Thursday, May 27, 2004, 4:10-5:30 p.m., Sproul Hall room
2206
"Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity"
Recent Conferences
- SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF AZIZUR R. KHAN
(10 June 2005; Sproul 2206)
- Economic Implications of the South Asian Tsunami Roundtable Discussion
Risk, Response, Resources
Friday January 14, 12:10-1:20
1500 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
- Southwest Economic Theory Conference
Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2005
University of California, Riverside
- Development Symposium for Keith Griffin
May 28, 2004, Sproul Hall room 2206
10:00 a.m. Azizur Rahman Khan, Economics, UCR, "Income
Distribution in Post-Reform China"
2:00 p.m. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, "Gender &
Water: Poverty, Mortality & Access to Water"
4:00 p.m. Jim Boyce, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
"Green
and Brown? Globalization and the Environment"
- Graduate Student Conference for Keith Griffin
The
Challenge of Development in the 21st Century
Friday, June 4, 2004, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sproul Hall room
2206
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