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Meeting Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Registration
Continental breakfast

Potential exhibitors:

  • Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
  • Economics Center for Education and Research (UC)
  • Applied Economics Research Institute (UC)
  • Center for Economic Analysis and Development (NKU)
  • iClicker
  • Dismal Scientist
  • Worth Publishers
  • Aplia

Foyer, Great Hall, Tangeman University Center

8:30 - 8:45

Welcome
Sourushe Zandvakili, Head, Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati
Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

8:45 - 9:45

Can Real Business Cycle Theory Explain Business Cycles?
Tyler Cowen, Holbert C. Harris Chair of in Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University
Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

- Break
10:00 - 11:30

Concurrent Workshops

Session 1

The Evolving Macro Course ITeaching the Inflation Model in the Principles Classroom
Tyler Cowen, George Mason University

Session 2

Teaching the Theory of Market Efficiency Efficiently
Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Jose J. Vazquez, University of Illinois
Student Senate Room or Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

11:45 - 12:45

The Current Financial Crisis
Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics Johns Hopkins University
Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

12:45 - 2:45

Luncheon

Keynote Address: The Return of Depression Economics
Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, University, Winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
Great Hall, Tangeman University Center

- Break
3:00 - 4:30

Session 3

Teaching Economics in Turbulent Economic Times
Presenter: TBD
Student Senate Room or Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

Session 4

Playing Games: Teaching game theory to majors and non-majors
Presenter: Joe Harrington, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Student Senate Room or Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

4:30 - 4:45

Concluding Remarks
Sourushe Zandvakili, Head, Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati
Tangeman University Center, 400 B & C

4:45 - 6:30

Hors d'oeuvres with Larry Ball, Tyler Cowen, Joe Harrington, and Paul Krugman
Sponsored by Worth Publishers
Great Hall, Tangeman University Center (back of hall with access to patio)

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