The Ninth International Economics Convention sponsored jointly by the Korea-America Economic Association and Korea Economic Association will be held in the Ho-Am Building, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, August 18-20, 2000. This Convention will present recent advances in all aspects of information technology-information age, as a preferred topic. But papers on other topics, either empirical or theoretical, are welcome.

To be considered,

(1) Papers with abstracts of 200-400 words should be submitted in triplicate (or through e-mail), including the JEL codes, by April 1, 2000 to the Vice President of the KAEA,
 

(2) The KAEA membership fee ($20 a year) for both 1999 and 2000 should be paid. If not, please enclose the membership dues with the KAEA application (Annual Membership Application Form in the pdf format) to the Treasurer of the KAEA,
 

Abstracts without papers will be considered, but the chance for acceptance will be better with the paper accompanied. The abstract and paper will be grouped by the JEL code and sent to the appropriate members of the Program Committee for a blind review. Notification of the selection of the papers for presentation will be made by April 20. For the accepted abstract, a complete paper should be submitted by May 10.

The KAEA provides partial support of travel expenses at this point at minimum $400 per paper and lodging at the Ho-Am House. Student members of the KAEA may also apply: The KAEA may award a very small number of Student Prizes for the best Conference papers of young ABDs. The prize will be the equal amount of travel support of $400 and lodging at the Ho-Am House.
 

The annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association (SEA) will be held in Washington, DC at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, November 10 - 12, 2000. The SEA meeting is large in scope with about 170 organized sessions and is participated by many other associations. The Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) will sponsor two sessions at this meeting, and KAEA members are invited to submit papers/proposals for presentation. A wide range of topics, both empirical and theoretical, are welcome which do not have to be related to Korea.

Please send a completed paper or a one page abstract in duplicate, with a cover sheet containing the author's name, address, professional affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address, to Professor H. Youn Kim, Department of Economics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, Phone: (270) 745-3187, Fax: (270) 745-3190, and E-mail: youn.kim@wku.edu

Also indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a discussant if your paper is accepted for presentation.

KAEA will subsidize any direct cost of organizing a session and one group dinner for the participants up to a reasonable amount, upon the approval of the program by the Executive Committee. If anyone is interested in organizing sessions in other regional economics conferences, please contact the President of KAEA, Dr. Bong-Joon Yoon.

The International Atlantic Economic Society will hold their annual meeting in October 15-18, 2000, in Charleston, South Carolina, and they are soliciting additional sessions. If you are interested in organizing a session please contact Dr. Bong-Joon Yoon immediately.

Below is the letter from John M. Virgo, Executive Vice President of the IAES to KAEA's inquiry about organizing sessions for the KAEA.

Sungkyunkwan University

The Department of Economics of Sungkyunkwan University has secured a sizable amount of financial resources through the project named Brain Korea 21 (a.k.a. BK-21) administered by the Ministry of Education of Korea. By giving a head-start to a few promising graduate programs in the country, it aims to develop top-notch graduate schools with superb research capability to train highly qualified human resources. The program commences this year and is expected to last for seven consecutive years.

The main theme of our program is "Economics which leads economic development in the new millennium: Theory, History and Policy." This program consists of four teams: 1) Economics of Competition and Cooperation, 2) Toward an Advanced Market Economic System, 3) Public Economy and Public Policy in the New Millennium: Efficiency, Equity and Quality of Life, and 4) Outward Economic Strategies in the Era of Globalization.

An important aspect of the BK-21 project is that active interaction with leading universities and research institutes abroad is stipulated. Participating groups will run joint education/research programs with world-class universities and institutes to enhance their competitiveness. Under the program, faculties and students of the selected universities will form collaborative research teams with their counterpart universities. Credit exchange programs may be arranged as well.

To achieve the stated goal, we are currently developing following couple of programs:

1. Recruiting Contract Professors and Post-Doc.
   We are recruiting 2 contract professors and 6 post-doc. Compensations are 15 million Won per year for post-doc and 24 million Won per year for contract professors. Depending on career, compensation is negotiable. And the Department would provide an office and housing for the duration of the visit. The positions begin March. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Send resume with a list and copies of recent publications and one letter of recommendation.
    
2. Sister relationship
   We are looking for counterparts who have program matching up to our program and show interest in our research agenda. We would like to propose sister relationship including research collaboration and faculty and student exchange program. We would like to provide some grants for setting up this program.

I believe it is desirable and of benefit to all to build a strong partnership in research and education. It will be an important opportunity to expand the breadth of our research programs through visits, collaboration and the exchange of graduate students. I urge you to give serious consideration on this matter. Your positive response and constructive inputs will be greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

For more information, contact Prof. Jun Young Kim, BK-21 Program Director, Department of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea at e-mail: jykim@skku.ac.kr, Fax: +82(2)744-5717, Tel: +82(2)760-0430. Also check out our website; http://ecostat.skku.ac.kr
 

Soongsil University

The College of Business & Economics of Soongsil University has been awarded the honor of BK21 nomination from the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education will financially support the establishment of world-standard graduate (Ph.D.) program at Soongsil University for the forthcoming years, two years at least and 7 years at maximum. The title of our program is "Education and Research Program Dedicated to the Fostering of Entrepreneurial Small Business," nicknamed EnSB.

The EnSB program consists of three education and research teams: entrepreneurship-studying team, market-institutional-infra-studying team, and business-innovation-studying team. I belong to the second team, market-institutional-infra-studying team. This team adopts rather the approach of institutional economics or law & econ approach.

For the successful promotion of the program, research activities should be vitalized and curricula operation should achieve world standard. For this purpose, our plan can be summarized as follows.

1. We are looking for counterparts who have similar research interests, with whom ways of collaboration may be sought for.
2. One or two visiting position at Sooongsil University is available from Spring semester (from March). The obligation is teaching two courses per semester and research collaboration with Soongsil professors. Monthly payment of 2 million won is the pecuniary compensation.
3. If any program at U.S. universities does match up to Soongsil's EnSB program, we are quite willing to propose sister university relationship, which may include research collaboration and faculty and student exchange program.

For more information, contact Prof. Sung-Sup Rhee, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at rheess@saint.soongsil.ac.kr , or check out the web site http://www.soongsil.ac.kr/!www/guesi/gongji/index.html
 

This year Korea University has got government fund (BK21) that provides visiting research opportunity to Korea University. There are openings for post-docs (6 posts) and contract professors (2 posts) at Economics Department, Korea University.

• Application period:    January 25 - Feburuary 10, 2000
• Contact person:   Prof. Nam, Jong-Hyun (tel) 82-2-3290-2207, (fax) 82-2-928-4948, e-mail chnam@kuccnx.korea.ac.kr
• Required documents: (1) resume (photo attached, career docs attached) (2) list of publications (3) self-introduction (A4, 2 sheets), (4) academic transcripts (BA, MA, PhD), (5) one reference.
• Pays are 15m Won per year for a post-doc and 24m Won per year for a contract prof (but depending on career, it may go up).

Suk-Hi Kim a the University of Detroit at Mercy has been selected as an editorial review board member of the following two journals: Managerial Finance and Journal of International Business and Economics