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Rice Public Finance Economists Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards
George Zodrow, Cline Professor of Economics, and Peter Mieszkowski, Professor Emeritus of Economics, were honored by the National Tax Association (NTA) with lifetime achievement awards during the organization's Annual Conference on Taxation in Denver in November, 2009. Mieszkowski received the Daniel M. Holland Medal, the NTA's most prestigious award, for "outstanding contributions to the study and practice of public finance." Zodrow received the Steven D. Gold Award for "making significant contributions to state and local fiscal policy and demonstrating the capacity to cross the boundaries between academic research and public policy making." For further details on the Rice Economics Department's "sweep" of the NTA's two awards, see
Rice Economists Serve as Editors of Scholarly Journals
Several Rice economists are currently serving as the editors of top journals in their fields of specialization. Robin Sickles is the editor in chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, a position he has held since 2002. George Zodrow has been editor of the National Tax Journal since 2007, and formerly served as an editor of International Tax and Public Finance. John Diamond has served as the forum editor of the National Tax Journal since 2007. Simon Grant served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Social Sciences, a position he held between 2007-2010 , when he replaced Herve Moulin, who served as editor-in-chief between 1993-2005.
Economics Graduate Alumni Lecture Series
The Rice University Department of Economics cordially invites you to a Graduate Alumni Lecture, featuring Purvez Captain (1994), Jorge Gonzales-Gomez (2009) and Valentin Krustev (2004). They will be presenting "Transfer Pricing - A Discussion on International Trade & Employment Opportunities for Economists". We believe this event will be in the interest of both our graduate and undergraduate students.
The event will take place at Rice University Media Center, on February 11, between 2:30 and 4 pm. A reception will follow.
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Rice economists quoted on CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com
Ken
Medlock, the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and
Resource Economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy and adjunct professor of economics, is quoted in articles on
CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com about movement to curb oil speculation.
Medlock is also quoted in articles on NGOilGas.com and RigZone.com
about the acquisition of BJ Services by Baker Hughes. Articles in the
Houston Chronicle, Oil and Gas Investor and Gas2.org discuss a recent
study on the effect of speculators on oil markets by Medlock and Amy
Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the
Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Individual attention a priority for Economics' Brown, winner of Rice's top teaching award
James Brown believes that the better he knows his students as individuals, the better he will be able to teach them. "What I try to do is come as close as I can to teaching each student as if it were a tutorial," he said.
Rice economists weigh effect of CO2 restrictions on world energy market
Moves to limit carbon-dioxide emissions will result in a shift toward natural gas, accompanied by increased reliance on Russian and the Middle Eastern sources, according to Rice economists Peter Hartley and Ken Medlock.