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2012 AEA Awards

John Bates Clark Medalist:
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Distinguished Fellows:
   Truman F. Bewley, Yale University
   Marc L. Nerlove, University of Maryland
   Neil Wallace, Penn State University
   Janet L. Yellen, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Honorary Members:
   Aloisio Araujo, Brazil
   Kenneth George Binmore, UK
   Lars E.O. Svensson, Sweden

AEJ Best Paper Prizes:
AEJ: Applied, 2 (4) "Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India" Petia Topalova AEJ: Economic Policy, 1 (2),"Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance" Raj Chetty		AEJ: Macro, 3 (1), "Simple Analytics of the Government Expenditure Multiplier" Michael Woodford AEJ: Micro, 3 (1), "Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration" Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

At its meeting on January 5, the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association adopted extensions to its principles for authors' disclosures of potential conflicts of interest in the AEA's publications.

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Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have been named as co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The prize recognizes their contributions to "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Chris Sims is the current President of the AEA, having taken office in January 2012. Tom Sargent served as President of the Association in 2007.

Committee on Economic Education (CEE):

CEE will co-sponsor a Conference on "Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education" with the Journal of Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. To be held in Boston, May 30 - June 1, 2012.

Registration for the conference opened on March 1, 2012.

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"Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility"by Markus Kitzmueller and Jay Shimshack has received considerable attention since its publication in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature. The AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article]

"Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy," by Nicholas Muller, Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus, has been in high demand since its August 2011 publication. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article] [Executive Summary]

"Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector," by Christopher R. Knittel, has received a considerable amount of pay per view activity since its appearance in the December 2011 AER. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article][Executive Summary]

American Economic Association Adds Three Years of Online Access for Subscribers: The American Economic Association (AEA) is pleased to announce that it has added three earlier years of online access to the American Economic Review (AER), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) for its online institutional subscribers."