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Advanced Dissertation Research Assistantships
November 2, 2009
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce that it will award one or more doctoral research assistantships for spring semester 2010. With these RAships, WAGE aims to support the completion of graduate work that explores the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance.
The WAGE research assistantships will be granted to students who are completing doctoral dissertations on topics related to WAGE'’s agenda. Research assistantships will be for spring semester 2010 at a 50% time basis. They will provide a stipend of approximately $8,253 plus tuition waiver and health benefits. Budgets permitting one or more RAships will be awarded.
Application deadline is Friday, December 4th.
Graduate Student International Field Research Award Competition
September 8, 2009
The Division of International Studies is pleased to announce the 2009-10 competition for Graduate Student International Field Research Awards. These awards enable Ph.D. students to conduct exploratory summer field research abroad in order to develop their dissertation topics and be more competitive for extramural fellowships. Awards are intended to cover airfare and living expenses abroad, and are expected to average about $3,000 per student.
Chinn's Econbrowser in Wall Street Journal's Top 25
August 21, 2009
The Wall Street Journal rates WAGE affliliate and La Follette School Professor Menzie Chinn'’s Econbrowser blog among the top 25 economics blogs. Chinn and his co-blogger, James D. Hamilton, a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, have been analyzing current economic conditions and policy since June 2005.
Moynihan Wins Best Book Award
August 21, 2009
WAGE affiliate and La Follette School Professor Donald Moynihan'’s 2008 book, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, won the Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. Moynihan received the award August 9 at the academy’s meeting in Chicago. Books nominated for the award make a significant contribution to modern management theory and/or practice by exploring the public and nonprofit sectors, and the relationships among public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations.
Engel Awarded NSF Grant
August 8, 2009
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Charles Engel, Professor of Economics and WAGE Affiliate, over $274,000 to explore “Exchange Rates, Monetary Policy, and Trade Policy.” Professor Engel will examine to what extent economic performance can be improved if monetary policy pays attention to exchange rates as well as analyze the short-run cyclical effects of tariffs and trade policy. From 2005-2008, Dr. Engel led WAGE’s research collaborative on Current Account Sustainability.
Grand Strategy Program Develops New-Generation Leaders
August 3, 2009
What do American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan do in their "spare" time? This summer, 22 Army, Navy and Air Force officers took an online course through UW-Madison. The course, part of the Grand Strategy Program, was taught by WAGE Senior Fellow and history professor Jeremi Suri, who also directs the program. The course was made possible by a lead gift from the Hertog Foundation. The Grand Strategy Program is a new multi-course curriculum that traces U.S. foreign policy since 1901 to provide a foundation for interdisciplinary study, strategic problem-solving and leadership in a changing global landscape. It builds off the work of WAGE’s Governing Global Insecurities Collaborative and works in collaboration with WAGE’s Global Security Initiative, both also led by Suri.
Experts Discuss Mexico’s Business Environment
June 16, 2009
According to the featured speakers at “Uncertainties in Mexico: Update for Wisconsin Companies,” held on June 16, 2009, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education in Madison, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eased the way for U.S. companies to increase trade with and investment in Mexico, but concerns about drug-related violence remain.
First Export Workshop for Northern Wisconsin Businesses Held in Wausau
May 14, 2009
On May 14, 2009, UW-Madison partnered with Northcentral Technical College and the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to deliver the first in a series of in-depth workshops for northern Wisconsin businesses on increasing profits through export opportunities. “Navigating the Global Marketplace: Opportunities for Northern Wisconsin Business” was held at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau. CIBER and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) are leading the university’s participation in this effort.
Pre-dissertation Travel Award Winners
May 6, 2009
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 pre-dissertation travel awards sponsored by WAGE’s “Remaking the Developmental State” research collaborative. The graduate work of these students fits within a larger effort to understand what new strategies have worked, or might work, in today's competitive global environment to diversify and expand economic activities or to promote social well-being. Each of these five projects critically examines innovative development strategies or explores obstacles and opportunities presented by a rapidly changing global context. Please join us in congratulating the students!
Meina Cai, Political Science
“Unpacking the Miracle of Private Economy: The Micro-foundations of Chinese Business-State Relationships.” - Awarded $1,500.
Paulina Calfucoy, Developmental Studies
“Productive Development Policies in Chile: Constraints and Opportunities for Export Diversification in an Open Economy” - Awarded $1,500.
Rodolfo Elbert, Sociology
“Post-Neoliberal Development? A Labor-centered approach to the Argentinean Developmental Model (2003-08)” –Awarded $200 to supplement LACIS award.
Po-Yi Hung, Geography
“Constructing Landscape for Post-Socialist Development: Transnational Tea Trade, State Governance, and Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China.” - Awarded $1,300.
Julia McReynolds, Sociology
“Primary Care Centers in Argentina: Rebuilding the State’s Safety Net” - Awarded $1,500.
Navigating the Global Marketplace Workshop
April 27, 2009
UW-Madison will partner with Northcentral Technical College and the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to deliver the first in a series of in depth workshops for Northern Wisconsin businesses on increasing profits through export opportunities. The UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) will lead the university’s participation in this effort.
“Navigating the Global Marketplace: Opportunities for Northern Wisconsin Business” will be held Thursday, May 14, from 7:45 a.m.-3:45 pm., at Northcentral Technical College, E101/102, 1000 West Campus Drive, Wausau, WI. The event will feature as keynote Jeff Pharris, director of Asia-Pacific Regions at Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
Click here to learn more about the agenda and registration.
WAGE Awards Four Individual Research Awards Related to Globalization
April 16, 2009
The UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide support to four research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Menzie Chinn (Public Affairs and Economics), Ian Coxhead (Agricultural and Applied Economics), Steven Deller (Agricultural and Applied Economics), and Christina Ewig (Gender & Women’s Studies and Political Science) will pursue important research respectively on exchange rate and current account reversion, trade opening and African industry, foreign exports and the WI economy, and gender and health reforms in Latin America.
CFP - Pre-dissertation Travel Grants
February 23, 2009
As part of a larger effort aimed at rethinking what scholars have long termed 'the developmental state’, the WAGE research collaborative on "Remaking the Developmental State" expects to offer support for pre-dissertation travel in the summer of 2009, for up to six projects which critically examine innovative development strategies, or which explore obstacles and opportunities presented by a rapidly changing global context. Applicants must be doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Moynihan wins grant for symposium on flood prevention in Wisconsin
February 1, 2009
Donald Moynihan, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and a WAGE Affiliate, has won a prestigious Baldwin grant for a symposium that will focus on improving state policies before the next disaster and providing better information on everything from hydrology to climate change and intergovernmental collaboration.
Called "From Sandbags to Sanity: Lessons from the Midwest Floods of 2008," the symposium will be held Monday, April 20, in Madison and feature national experts, University of Wisconsin-Madison experts and top leaders from state agencies. They will discuss topics ranging from floodplain management to crisis management.
WAGE wins grant to support International Workshops for Wisconsin Businesses
January 22, 2009
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and its campus partner, the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), together with international area studies centers, have received a grant for their proposal "Growing Wisconsin Business Globally: International Business Workshops for Wisconsin Businesses." The proposal will be funded under the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea project, with additional funding from CIBER, the Division of International Studies, and other campus units.
The WAGE/CIBER project will design and deliver a series of international business workshops to firms with untapped export potential in Wisconsin communities that have limited access to information about global business. The workshops are intended to help increase small and mid-sized companies’ awareness of and ability to successfully engage in global trade. The initiative will tap UW-Madison faculty expertise to deliver some of the workshop sessions. WAGE and CIBER staff will work with the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, UW System schools, regional economic development organizations, and chambers of commerce to reach its audience. The first series of workshops will focus on the Wausau, Janesville/Beloit, and Eau Claire areas. Please contact Suzanne Dove, CIBER/WAGE Outreach Director, for more information at sdove@bus.wisc.edu or 608-265-4938.
2009 International Economic Forecast
January 17, 2009
In the midst of the worst recession since World War II, U.S. businesses and consumers face uncharted economic conditions in 2009. On January 14, 2009 WAGE and its campus partner CIBER, together with the Madison International Trade Association (MITA), sponsored a luncheon program about what these challenges mean for Midwestern firms.
William Strauss, senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Jane Mezera, vice president and corporate trader in the Currency Exchange Department of US Bank in Milwaukee, discussed economic figures for 2008 and talked about their expectations for the year ahead. Strauss and Mezera agreed that 2009 will be difficult for economies around the world. While Wisconsin’s unemployment rate remains one of the lowest in the Midwest, there are signs that it may rise during the course of 2009. Strauss said that in 2008, manufacturers of consumer goods faced declining sales overseas. For 2009, he predicted that falling commodity prices worldwide will affect heavy equipment manufacturers’ sales, possibly resulting in more job losses. Mezera focused on the sharp drop in economic activity in emerging economies and predicted continued currency volatility. In this environment, she emphasized the importance of a hedging strategy for U.S. companies doing business overseas.
Audio recordings and PowerPoint slides of these presentations are available here.
Call for Proposals: WAGE Individual Faculty Research Award
January 16, 2009
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) announces an individual grant competition to support research projects on globalization and the international economy. All University of Wisconsin Madison faculty are encouraged to apply. We anticipate awarding 1-3 grants of up to $10,000, which will be available for use from June 1, 2009 thru June 30, 2010. We hope to offer this competition annually thru June 2011.
With this call for proposals we aim to support research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. The primary criteria to be used in judging proposals are the relevance of the topic and the quality of the research.
Applications should be submitted no later than noon on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Please review the Call for Proposals for more detailed application guidelines. To learn more about WAGE, we invite you to visit our website at http://wage.wisc.edu/.
WAGE Affiliate Charles Irish Receives Awards
January 12, 2009
WAGE affiliate Charles Irish, Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center, received two honors in the fall of 2008. He was honored by the Shanghai Municipal Government with The Magnolia Award in September. This is the highest award that the Shanghai Municipal Government gives to foreigners. The prize honors those overseas friends who have made great contributions in the advancement of various areas of Shanghai. Professor Irish was nominated for the award by the president of East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL), President He, for the tremendous efforts Professor Irish has made to help the Shanghai judiciary train its judges and to build an accountable and transparent government and for his help to district governments to train the government officials, as well as his efforts to build a friendly and cooperative relationship with ECUPL.
Later in September, Professor Irish was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree by the Far Eastern National University (FENU), Vladivostok, at the time of FENU’s 50th anniversary celebration. The award was presented by First Vice President Sergey Knyazev and the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Igor Soppa. The Mayor of Vladivostok, Deputy Governor of Primorsky Region, the American Consul in Vladivostok, and representatives from Russian and foreign academic institutions, courts and government offices attended the ceremony.
In presenting the award, Vice President Soppa recognized Professor Irish's long and enthusiastic commitment to the establishment of academic cooperation between FENU's Law Institute and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Soppa noted that as part of the cooperation, more than 30 FENU faculty now had visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his acceptance speech, Irish said that the award was less a personal achievement and more a signal of the strong cooperation now existing between the two institutions.
WAGE Awards RAship
January 7, 2009
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winner of our WAGE Advanced Dissertation Spring 2009 Research Assistantship.
Danielle Berman
Sociology
"Fast Food, Market Institutions, and Shifting Governance in Russia's Agri-food Sector"
Berman explores how the forces of economic globalization affect the development of market institutions in contemporary Russia’s agri-food sector. The project considers how the demands of fast food corporations, and the methods used to ensure they are met, reshape business networks, quality standards and production practices throughout their supply chains. Using comparative case studies, her dissertation will address: (1) how fast food companies make use of and alter the market institutions they encounter in Russia’s post-Soviet transformation; (2) the degree to which the imposition of corporate standards represents a shift in the locus of governance from the state to the market; and (3) whether relationships between U.S. and Russian businesses result in convergence on an American model of capitalism.
WAGE Presents: The Global Economic Crisis
November 24, 2008
On November 20th the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) convened a panel of distinguished UW-Madison professors who offered different perspectives on the causes, consequences, and potential solutions for the global economic crisis. Experts from economics, business, law, public affairs, and political science provided insight into the following questions: How did a crisis in the U.S. housing market grow into a full blown global economic crisis? What do these events mean for the global economy, governments, businesses and average people around the world? How might we evaluate proposed solutions here and abroad?
The professors discussed a range of pertinent topics including the financial underpinnings of the housing bubble and its subsequent failure, restructuring options for the global economic system, the unprecedented speed with which the macroeconomic situation has deteriorated, the effects of recessionary pressures, the future of free trade agreements and the role of regulation, and how the financial crisis has changed American political economy. Click here to view full news article on this program. Video and powerpoint presentations can be accessed by clicking here.
Economic Policy Platforms of the Presidential Campaigns Webcast
October 10, 2008
On Friday, October 10, WAGE hosted Ike Brannon and Austan Goolsbee, senior economic advisors of the McCain and Obama campaigns, for a debate on economic issues. The two advisors discussed the candidates' positions on critical areas of economic policy including financial market reform, government spending and taxation, free trade and globalization, health, and energy. WAGE and the other event sponsors invite you to view this stimulating debate, which is available here at least thru the election. Wisconsin State Journal Menzie Chinn's blogChicago Tribune
TMJ 4 Milwaukee
NBC 15
UW Receives Large Grant for EU Studies
September 9, 2008
The European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a grant for €300,000 (ca. $450,000) from the European Commission in Brussels, renewing its funding through 2011. The renewal process was led by Jonathan Zeitlin, WAGE Director and co-founder of the EUCE, and Jeremi Suri, WAGE Senior Fellow and current EUCE Director.
"This renewal strengthens our university's position as a leading institution investigating the origins, contemporary manifestations, and future prospects of the European Union—and international society in general,"” says Suri. The three core themes for 2008-2011 are “The EU as a Global Actor” led by Professor Jeremi Suri of History, “Transformations of European Law and Governance,” led by Assistant Professor Nils Ringe of Political Science, and “Exporting EU Governance, led by Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History.““
China-US Water Symposium
August 1, 2008
About 35 Chinese scientists, experts and officials from universities, government agencies and national research institutes attended the China-US Water Symposium in Wisconsin from July 18-25, 2008. The idea originated with UW-Madison Chinese students who believe applying the Wisconsin Idea in China can help their nation address its water and other environmental issues. The Legislature approved a pilot project that ultimately involved business, government and private and public university partners, including the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy.
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