Events and Conferences

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Lowe-Athenaeum Speaker Series 2012-13

The Lowe Institute and the Athenaeum co-sponsor an economics lecture series to bring distinguished speakers to CMC to discuss important public policy issues. Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:00 p.m. Unless noted, all programs begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Athenaeum and end at 8:30 p.m.  For reseravations, click here.

November 27 - Kris Mitchener, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick

February 22 11:30 a.m. - Mushfiq Mobarek, Associate Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management

April 19 noon - Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics at UC Davis

Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics - Friday, April 19, 2013


The Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College would like to invite paper submissions for the fourth annual Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics (SCCAM). The one-day conference will be held at the Claremont Colleges Friday, April 19, 2013. We encourage paper submissions in all areas of applied microeconomics including environmental economics, experimental economics, labor economics, health economics, population economics, law and economics, urban economics, and public economics. Paper presenters will be paid an honorarium of $300 to cover travel expenses. TheLowe Institute will provide a continental breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The keynote address will be given by Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics at University of California at Davis and Co-editor of the American Economic Review.

The deadline for paper submissions to the conference is January 31, 2013. The Board Members of the SCCAM will select the papers to be presented at the conference. Please send all paper submissions to The Lowe Institute at Claremont McKenna College at kspetnagel@cmc.edu. We invite paper submissions from all colleges and universities in southern California. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to submit papers to the conference. For more information, please contact Professor Heather Antecol at hantecol@cmc.edu.


Supporting Research Institute:

Marc Weidenmier, Director, Lowe Institute of Political Economy
Claremont McKenna College Organizing Committee:

Heather Antecol (CMC)
Kelly Bedard (UC-Santa Barbara)
JR DeShazo (UCLA)
Mireille Jacobson (Rand)
Christopher Carpenter (UC-Irvine)
Michelle White (UC-San Diego)

Click here to visit the Conference Registration page.