Bates Econ
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The 2019 Maine Economics Conference will be held at Bates College
Charlie Kolstad ’69, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Economic Policy Research & Precourt Institute for Energy, and Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will be the keynote speaker for this event. He will talk on “Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change Using Weather Observations.”
RSVP for Attending Conference: If you are interested in attending the conference (but not in the capacity of a presenter), please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/
Click here for the conference program.
For more information: 7th Maine Economics Conference – April 27, 2019, Saturday
Recent News
March 2019
We are excited to host Amanda Bayer (Swarthmore) discuss Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem, on Friday March 22 at noon. pic.twitter.com/Q7lOtEgadM
— Bates Economics (@BatesEcon) March 8, 2019
Congratulations to Lucy Faust on her Fulbright Award!
This is my brilliant thesis student Lucy Faust who just received news of a Fulbright Award to Indonesia! Congratulations Lucy! Well deserved! I might also mention that she also qualified for Nationals in swimming! Go Lucy! Go Cats! @BatesEcon @BatesCollege @BatesAthletics pic.twitter.com/BRqSOtscxN
— Lynne Lewis (@lynnelewis20031) March 14, 2019
December 2018
Ngan Dinh ’02 with majors in economics and Asian studies, who graduated magna cum laude, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won the Ralph J. Chances Prize as the outstanding economics major while here at Bates is now a key figure in the creation of Fulbright University Vietnam, the first university to bring the liberal arts experience to Vietnamese students.
For more information: ‘JUST LIKE BATES’: NGAN DINH ’02 HELPS BUILD VIETNAM’S FIRST LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY .
November 2018
Lynne Lewis, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). AERE currently has more than 1,000 members from over thirty countries – academic insitutions, the public sector and private industry. AERE also host the top two journals in the field. More information can be found at HERE.