Conference Programme
The theme for the 2010 conference is: "Frontiers in economics teaching".
The two-day program will consist of contributed papers, with a keynote presentation from Peter Kennedy (Simon Fraser University). Peter is a top econometrician and associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, Economics Bulletin, and the Journal of Economics Education. His plenary address will be titled: "Common mistakes made in classroom research."
Abstract: In my twenty years editing the research section of the Journal of Economic Education I have been favorably impressed with the wide range of imaginative ideas for research based on classroom data. I have been unpleasantly surprised, however, by how often this research suffers from faulty logic or statistical blunders. This presentation will discuss several examples of these, with an eye to improving the quality of such research.
The conference program (updated with abstracts included) is now available for download:
Conference Papers
Due to popular request, Wayne Geerling's paper on "Dismal Science: Using Popular Culture to Make Economics Engaging" can be downloaded here (requires Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 or later):
Other papers from the proceedings will be made available shortly, but in the meantime they may be obtained by sending an email request to atec.2010@waikato.ac.nz.