50th Annual Carly Snyder Memorial Lecture	posted Apr 23, 2008
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that the 49th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture will feature Dr. Robert Townsend, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. This important event will take place on Tuesday, May 29 at 2:30pm in Corwin Pavilion. For more information, please see website.

10th Annual South West Economic Theory Conference	posted Feb 13, 2008
The 10th annual South West Economic Theory conference will take place on March 1 and 2, 2008 in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB, University of California, Santa Barbara. Papers will be presented on a variety of topics in economic theory. Special guest speakers are Hal Varian of UC Berkeley and David Levine of Washington University in St. Louis.

2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Experimental and Behavioral Economics	posted Jan 15, 2008
The 2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Experimental and Behavioral Economics will take place on February 8 and 9, 2008 in the Harbor Room at the University Center. The main topics of this conference are networks, group decision-making, and field interventions. There will be approximately eight papers each day presented by leaders in the field of behavioral and experimental economics.

The 10th Occasional Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics

posted Dec 11, 2007

The 10th Occasional Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, organized by Bob Deacon and Gary Libecap, will be held at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management on March 21-22, 2008, ending around noon on the 22nd. The primary focus of the workshop is on graduate students, faculty and researchers at universities, public or private institutes, or government involved in research in environmental and natural resource economics. The program provides researchers the opportunity to share their work and/or ideas in a relaxed, workshop environment. Please mark your calendars. Please see the conference website for more information.

Olivier Deschenes Wins the Albert Rees Prize

posted Oct 26, 2007

UCSB Economics is delighted to announce that Olivier Deschenes has been awarded the Albert Rees Prize, jointly with Assistant Professor Erica Field of Harvard University. The prize is awarded every two years for the Princeton Ph.D. dissertation, completed within the last six years, judged to have made the greatest contribution to labor economics. The prize commemorates Al Rees's great contributions to labor economics at Princeton as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. More information can be found at http://www.irs.princeton.edu/students/ReesPrize.php or at Olivier Deschenes' homepage http://econ.ucsb.edu/~olivier/

AEA Summer Program with Minority Scholarships to be Hosted Here

posted Sep 21, 2007

The department is proud to announce its recent selection by the American Economic Association as the next host institution for its Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program. The American Economic Association Summer Program is a research- and mathematics- intensive, 8-week course of study that prepares highly motivated undergraduate students from all over the United States for successful PhD study in economics. Attached to the program is a scholarship program that supports the participation of students from historically disadvantaged minorities who have demonstrated financial need. The current host institution is Duke University; UCSB is scheduled to take over as host for the summers of 2008-2010. Funding for the program comes from a number of sources, including the American Economic Association, National Science Foundation, and UCSB's Division of Social Sciences. Information about the program is available at: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/aeastp/

49th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture	posted Apr 25, 2007
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that the 49th Annual Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture will feature Dr. Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. This important event will take place on Tuesday, May 22 at 2:30pm in the MultiCultural Center Theatre. For more information, please see website.

Auctions with Resale Conference

posted Mar 27, 2007

Auctions have become a common way to sell items. EBay auctions now total over $US30 billion a year in annual sales. The recent high-profile Google IPO was conducted by auction. The auctions for spectrum licenses conducted by the FCC have earned over $US32 billion for the U.S. Treasury. Because of the prominent role auctions now play in everyday life there is increased interest in understanding them. In particular, people are interested in understanding aspects of real auctions that might overturn conventional wisdom regarding revenue and efficiency properties of auction mechanisms. One real-world aspect that has recently received much attention is resale. While there is an extensive literature on auctions as one-shot games, the impact of resale opportunities for auction winners has only been actively addressed in the last decade. The 2007 Auctions with Resale Conference will showcase theoretical and experimental research on this exciting and important topic.

10th Annual Herbert C. Kay Undergraduate Lecture	posted Mar 06, 2007
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that the 10th Annual Herbert C. Kay Lecture will feature "A Global Exchange with Jerry Putnam, Founder of Archipelago Holdings and current President of the NYSE Group" This important event will take place on Thursday, April 12 at 2:30pm in the MultiCultural Center Theatre. For more information, please see website.

Inaugural Meeting of the Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar	posted Feb 07, 2007
The UCSB Economics Department, the Suntory Foundation, and Colgate University are proud to present the inaugural meeting of the Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar. The seminar will be held at UCSB on March 9-10th, 2007. For an agenda please click here.