The annual FREE Bryant Park Summer Movie Festival on Monday evenings begins June 16th, so consider this a “save the date” card to your personal list of must see movies on your NYC summer calendar. Screenings are at sunset on the lawn.
John Travolta became a pop culture icon as Tony Manero on the dance floor in white polyester, trying to get off the mean streets of Brooklyn. John Badham directs and the Bee Gees’ best-selling soundtrack is packed with Disco hits. (1977) 119 min. R Rated (Paramount)
This big budget blockbuster from 1940 stars Tyrone Power as the ultimate Zorro, the masked avenger who uses his ingenuity and sword to fight the injustices of the ruling Spaniards and their nasty captain, Basil Rathbone, to rescue the old California townspeople. (1940) 93 min. (Fox)
Oscar nominee for Best Picture and Best Screenplay, Norman Jewison’s tense murder mystery is set on a Louisiana military base in the 1940s. Starring Howard Rollins Jr. and Denzel Washington, it’s based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play. (1984) 101 min. (Sony/Columbia) PG Rated
Mel Brooks directed and wrote (with Richard Pryor) this uproarious, sometimes crude, but always funny tale featuring some of the most outrageous characters in movies, led by Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff in the Old West and Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid. The campfire scene involving baked beans is one of the most hysterical bits ever filmed. No wonder this classic is #6 on AFI’s list of the 100 Funniest Movies. (1974) 93 min. Panavision (Warner Bros.) R Rated
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift star in Tennessee Williams’ lurid and disturbing psychodrama (with a Gore Vidal screenplay) directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. What really transpired during that European trip and is a lobotomy the only cure? (1959) 114 min. (Sony/Columbia)
The Griswolds, Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, set out cross-country with kids to a theme park and everything goes wrong. Co-starring Randy Quaid, John Candy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Eugene Levy, directed by New Yorker Harold Ramis, and written by John Hughes. (1983) 98 min. (Warner Bros.) R Rated
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the remarkable John Huston film noir about a WWII vet forced to confront a ruthless, murderous Edward G. Robinson who is as abusive to girlfriend Claire Trevor as he is to the rest of his gang. It all plays out at a seedy Florida hotel during hurricane season. (1948) 101 min. (Warner Bros.)
Ralph Macchio stars as a Jersey kid who is ostracized when he transfers to a high school in Southern California. Taught discipline and self-defense by Mr. Miyagi (Oscar nominated Pat Morita), he goes up against his bully in the finale. (1984) 126 min. (Sony/Columbia)
Doris Day and Rock Hudson plus Tony Randall team up for a frothy romantic comedy about competing Madison Avenue ad executives, willing to stoop as low as need be to score clients. Oscar nominated for story/screenplay. (1961) 107 min. (Universal)
Director Stanley Kubrick builds an unbearable tension until the end. Jack Nicholson is at his scary best as an unstable writer who takes a job in the off-season at an isolated resort, which may be haunted by guests who never checked out. Shelley Duvall is his wife and Danny Lloyd their young son who sees horrific premonitions. (1980) 142 min. (Warner Bros.) R Rated
[NO] air brakes is actually a restriction, not an endorsement. Hence, why it is worded the way it is, on the letter. You still need to take and pass the written test for air brake. So general knowledge (for your license), Passenger (for the endorsement) and Airbrakes (to not get the restriction) You actually need to take and pass the air brakes portion too. Buses do have an air brake system that you kinda have to know about.
When I had applied for Metro North a while back, they wouldn't give me an interview until they were able to verify a mismatch on my application. I was working for Academy Bus but the particular garage that I was at, was under a DBA name: #22 Hillside. 22 Hillside was the name on my paychecks, although they also had the Academy logo on it. So I had to give them my paystubs, explain the relationship between the two and provide contact info to the managers. It took a week or so to get everything done.
Interstate (No K restriction). If you're not looking to work in Staten Island, then you can apply for the Medical Certificate Exemption. (A3 restriction)
You need to have one year in title and be off probation for you to be able to come back from another title. I'm not entirely sure how it applies to probationary employees, if at all. (Since I've had a classmate resign, come back and resign again)
You will be taken off the list for up to 1 year, until you reinstate. When you reinstate, you will be added back to the list and called with the next batch of hires to continue the employment process. (Or to start training, depending on where you deferred)
Made 4 months in October or November? Either way, you will have at least 1 week vacation accrued so whatever week that you're able to pick, will be yours. You can put your OTO/AVA requests in the book to put another week together too.
Alright. So first thing, top pay is after 5 full years of service. So when you start your 6th year, you'll be there. When it comes to scheduling, it depends on the type of work that you pick. You will get to choose your work four times a year, roughly every 3-4 months. Now, the type of work you pick will determine your scheduling. There are 4 different types of work: Fixed/Straight Run, Work Run, Extra List & Vacation Relief. When you first get out of line training, more than likely, you will be on the extra list (XL). With the XL, you are used to fill the open runs at the depot, if you are not on standby. Due to this, you won't have a fixed schedule. While they try to keep you in the same time frame (AMs, PMs, or overnights), this is not a guarantee. If you are in a PM slot and enough AM work is open, then you will be on an AM shift. XL assignments are usually posted by 3 PM at the depot, so you will know by then, what you will be doing the next day. If you are given a run, you will be given the start and finish time. If you are given a board job, then you will be on standby. I will explain the board job in a bit. Being on XL, you have the potential to do every route out of your depot, so you will be over the place. Now while on board, you will still have a start time and a finish time 8 hours after, PROVIDED that they do not send you out on a run that finishes past your original end time. Being on board, you will be used when someone calls out, doesn't show up on time or when they need help around on the road or at the depot. Sometimes, you do absolutely nothing for those 8 hours, sometimes you do some work (and still finish within those 8 hours) and sometimes you get a run that finishes past those 8 hours. For example, you report for the board job at 12 PM and you finish at 8 PM. 4 hours in, they give you a whole run, that finishes at 1230 AM. You'll be done at 1230 and you will be given 8 hours off before you have to come back in again. XL has the same days off each week. --------- Now with straight runs, you will be doing the same thing everyday, save for the weekends. However, you will either be dedicated to being AMs, PMs or overnights. Straight runs, you will come in at the same time, finish at the same time, same route, etc. The only exception to this, is if your run has a school trip at the beginning or end of your shift. When school is closed, your start and finish time respectively, will be different. You will have the same days off through the pick. Now some runs will have you around for 8 hours, some will have you for 12+. It depends on how the run is set up. Work runs are more or less the same way. Your work may be different day by day BUT it will be that same schedule every week. Same days off each week. -------- Finally, there is Vacation Relief. (VR) If you do pick this, then you will be covering the work of the operators on vacation for that week. You pick this work in seniority order (against everyone else on VR) in 3-5 week blocks. So your work AND days off will change every week but you will know what you will be doing, since because you picked it. (Unless you picked the extra list, in which then you're subjected to what I said above)
You will have to take the road test either which way. The MTA will schedule and take you to your road test after you pass the initial 10 day qualification. However, if you want to do the road test on your own before training starts, you are more than free to do so.
John McCain’s family should decide who attends his eventual funeral — but keeping Trump out sends ‘a clear message’ - NY Daily News
John McCain’s family should decide who attends his eventual funeral — but keeping Trump out sends ‘a clear message’
The arrangements for Sen. John McCain's eventual funeral have sparked a public debate in the days since it was revealed the cancer-stricken politician does not want President Trump at his service.
Family of the Arizona Republican reportedly told the White House he'd like to have Vice President Mike Pence represent the current administration at the funeral, but not Trump.
The move prompted protest from at least one fellow senator, Orrin Hatch of Utah, who slammed the decision as "ridiculous" given Trump – a political rival of McCain's – is "a very good man."
The remarks drew the ire of Meghan McCain, who returned as co-host of "The View" on Tuesday after taking a few days to visit her father.
"I'd like everyone to take a collective breath and chill out on my dad for a second," she said, "especially Orrin Hatch."
While McCain's desire to control the guest list for his farewell service is not uncommon, funerals are normally open to all interested in attending.
"Unless there are specific requests, it's typically understood that the funeral is a venue to offer last respects for anyone who wants to attend," said Diane Gottsman, a national etiquette expert, author of "Modern Etiquette for a Better Life" and founder of The Protocol School of Texas.
.@MeghanMcCain on @TheView: "I'd like everybody to take a collective breath and chill out on my dad for a second—especially Orrin Hatch." https://t.co/ojEtuKyKVp pic.twitter.com/16zrLowHUj
"A private funeral assures (to some degree) the service will be controlled by whom the family members and the deceased wish to be in attendance."
Gottsman acknowledged that McCain's status and the public nature of his funeral "complicates things," but said his candor is the best bet in situations like this.
"When you're alive and you want to dictate your visitors, you make your wishes known to your family, who then typically abide by your wishes."
When the day of the funeral arrives, it falls on the family to decide who is welcome and who is not, she added.
"On a national platform, when someone is left out, particularly the President of the United States, it's sending a clear message as to the feelings towards that particular individual," Gottsman said.
"A funeral is highly personal — much like a wedding and other special ceremonies, and stress levels are high under normal circumstances."
McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, has endured a rocky relationship with the President, who he has openly criticized.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump notoriously mocked the 81-year-old politician's military service. McCain spent six years as a prisoner during the Vietnam war after his plane was shot down over Hanoi.
In recent weeks, McCain's friends and family have been traveling to his Arizona ranch, where he continues to undergo cancer treatment and battle his grim diagnosis.
"He's doing really good, making jokes, talking, standing you know, doing a great recovery," Meghan McCain said Tuesday. "He's got a great team around him."
Excerpts from the last, unfinished article of Anna Politkovskaya, as published Thursday in Novaya Gazeta, and translated by The New York Times.
Before me everyday are dozens of files-copies of the criminal cases of people jailed for "terrorism" or of those still under investigation.
Why is the word "terrorism" in quotation marks? Because the overwhelming majority of these people are designated terrorists. The practice of "designating terrorists" did not simply supplant in 2006 some kind of earnest anti-terrorist war. It came to breed on its own potential terrorists and a desire for vengeance. When prosecutors and the courts work, not for the sake of the law, but on political commission and with the only goal of providing good reports for the Kremlin, then criminal cases are baked like pancakes.
"...Essentially, these correctional colonies are concentration camps for convicted Chechens. They are exposed to ethnic discrimination. They are not allowed to leave solitary cells or isolation wards. The majority-almost all-are convicted on fabricated charges with no proof. They are held under cruel conditions; they are subjected to degradations of human values and they develop hatred for everyone. It seems that there is a whole army that returns to us with spoiled fates and corrupted understanding."
Honestly I am frightened of their hatred. I am frightened because sooner or later it will leave the fringes. And then all will become the fringes, and not just those who were tortured. The practice of designating terrorists is the area in the sphere of "counterterrorist operations in the North Caucasus" where, head to head, two ideological approaches clash: Are we, the lawful, fighting against the unlawful? Or, are we battling "their" lawlessness with "ours?"This clash of approaches is guaranteed to exist for the present and future. The result of this "designation of terrorists" is the increase in number of those who won't put up with it.
Recently, Ukraine extradited, upon Russian request, Beslan Gudaev, a Chechen. He was arrested in the beginning of August during a document check in Crimea, where he was living as a forced migrant.
<i>After I was extradited from Ukraine to Grozny, I was brought into an office and immediately asked whether I had killed members of the Salikhov family, Anzor and his friend, a Russian truck driver. I swore that I did not kill anyone, nor did I spill any blood, not Russian, not Chechen. They said, assertively: "No, you killed them." I again denied this. After I told them a second time that I did not kill anyone, they immediately started beating me. They first punched me in the region of my right eye. When I came to after the blow, they tied me up and put handcuffs on me. They also shoved a pipe between my legs so that I could not wiggle with my hands, though I had handcuffs on. Then they grabbed me-well actually the end of the pipe to which I was tied-and hung me between two meter-high tables.
Immediately after they put me up there they attached an electrical lead to my little finger. After a few seconds, they turned on the current and at the same time began to beat me with clubs wherever they could. Unable to take the pain, I began to scream, calling the name of God, praying that they would stop. To keep me from being heard, they put a black bag over my head.
I do not know exactly how long it lasted, but I started to loose consciousness from the pain. Seeing that I was loosing consciousness, they snatched the bag from my head and asked weather I would talk. I said that I would, but that I did not know what I would tell them. I only answered this way so that they would stop their torture if only for a little while.
Then they took me from the hanging position and took the pipe and placed me on the floor. They said, "Speak." In reply I said that I had nothing to say to them. To my words they replied by beating me in the same eye with the same pipe from which I was hanging. From that blow, I fell on my side, and, nearly unconscious, felt how they continued to beat me. ...They again hung me up and repeated what they had done before. I don't remember how long this lasted. They poured water over me again and again.
The next day, they tried to cover up what they had done. They spread something on my face and body. Around lunch time a worker came to me and said that journalists had arrived. He said that I needed to admit to three murders and an assault, and threatened that if I did not agree they would repeat everything and also threatened that I would be subjected to sexual abuse. I agreed. After I gave the interview to journalists, they again threatened the same punishment if I did not admit that they beat me after I attempted to run away.</i>
Zaur Zakriev, a lawyer who is representing Beslan Gudaev, told the human rights group Memorial that on the territory of a local police precinct in Grozny, his client endured physical and psychological violence. According to the lawyer's statement, his client as good as confessed to a 2004 attack on armed forces officials. Police officials in Grozny wanted to extract further evidence that he committed crimes in Stary Atagi and Grozny Region.
According to the attorney, his client has visible wounds on his body after enduring severe violence. In the medical wing of Grozny's pre-trial detention center, where Gudaev is currently detained, charged with "banditry," his client underwent a medical examination which proved multiple beatings. He had wounds in the form of welts, abrasions, bruises, broken ribs, and also damage to internal organs.
For all these ugly violations of human rights, Mr. Zakriev filed a complaint with the prosecutor of the Chechen Republic.
A restored three-bedroom house on Greenwich Street in Alloway, in Salem County, has been on the market for six months and is now priced at $186,000. Credit Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
FOR whatever reason, homes sales picked up in New Jersey in the latter part of 2011. A new statewide market report shows contract signings increased in six of the seven months from May through November, compared with 2010.
Also, the inventory of homes for sale shrank every month since May, according to Jeffrey G. Otteau, an analyst, whose Otteau Valuation Group in East Brunswick does monthly reports for the real estate industry; he called the latest news a concrete sign that the market was “stabilizing.”
His December report was the first one in several years to sound a hopeful note. Until the state’s huge foreclosure backlog comes back on the market — and how fast that happens is important — the market may improve sometime this year to the point that prices stop declining and perhaps even modestly start to rise.
But that is the statewide picture. A great division in market fortunes between northern and southern Jersey — and urbanized areas close to Manhattan and more rural regions — became clear during the recent recession and remains stark in the fresh statistics. Mr. Otteau predicted that the gap would shape the timing and pattern of potential recovery, and several agents in the field agreed with him.
“Simply put,” said Dawn Rapa, a Coldwell Banker Elite agent working in rural Salem County, “the only people I’ve seen selling their houses recently are those who absolutely had to — because they were in financial disarray, a job change, divorce or death.”
Salem County, rich in historic houses and farmland but short on well-paying jobs or a quick commute to an urban center, has the largest inventory of all 21 counties surveyed: 44.5 months’ worth of houses, the preponderance of them priced under $400,000.
That compares with a statewide inventory of 13 months, both over all and in the under-$400,000 category.
Several other counties in southern New Jersey have inventories about twice the size of the state average — 29 months’ worth in Cumberland County, 26 in Cape May County, and 24 in Atlantic County.
In Cape May and Atlantic, the primary backlog is for more expensive homes, many of them built in the boom years to appeal to shoreline vacationers. Atlantic has just shy of six years’ worth of inventory in the $600,000-to-$1 million range.
For homes priced from $1 million to $2.5 million, the Otteau report predicted, it will take more than four years to sell the inventory in Atlantic County and close to seven years in Ocean County.
In Cumberland County, which like Salem is part of the Delaware Valley area that extends eastward from Pennsylvania, the homes are mostly priced under $400,000. There are not enough homes priced higher to be statistically significant, according to the report. Ms. Rapa said she sold 37 houses in Salem County last year, but prices were down “considerably.” And multiple listing numbers indicate that although inventory dipped 10 percent, there were 14 percent fewer sales over all compared with the year before.
Two of the Coldwell Banker agent’s listings that have sat on the market for many months despite price drops: a restored and modernized 1851 colonial in the historic hamlet of Alloway with three bedrooms and two baths, now offered at $186,000; and a four-bedroom two-bath house on a horse farm with a barn and 10 acres in Pilesgrove, now listed for $349,900.
“We just had an offer for $312,000 on the Pilesgrove house,” first listed in February 2011, said Ms. Rapa, “but the owners won’t go there.”
The market misery is not all concentrated in the south, however. In the northernmost county, Sussex, the inventory is 20 months. In the $400,000-to-$599,999 bracket, five and a half years’ supply is already on the market.
In the town of Vernon, which is home to several popular ski areas, and where construction was booming in the mid-2000s, the average sale price of a home was $250,000 in 2007, according to the real estate Web site Trulia. Now the site has it at $100,000.
A large house set on 1.3 acres there, with a view of ski slopes from the deck, was built and sold in 2004 for $392,000. The house, with three bedrooms and three and a half baths on Cherokee Trail, has been on the market since October, and the asking price is now $358,000.
Nearby in the somewhat more affluent town of Sparta, a number of large houses built about a decade ago on one-acre or larger lots are now being offered at reduced prices or as short sales.
“Houses are selling,” said Catherine Kut, an agent at Weichert Realtors in Sparta, “but they have to be in fabulous condition and still occupied, as a rule.
“I had a closing yesterday,” she said earlier this month. “The house was $438,000, and it sold in less than 90 days, but it was a cream puff. It had almost five acres of land, a finished walkout basement, brand-new granite counters — everything.”
Another of her listings was in great shape when it went on the market for $525,000 last February after the owner lost his job. A four-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath house, it is set on 1.3 acres and has a pool, and it was attractively decorated.
But the seller had to relocate for new employment. Now the vacant house is on the market as a short sale, in which a lender agrees to accept less than the amount owed on the mortgage, and listed at $445,000.
An ice dam formed on the roof earlier this winter and caused exterior damage, so a credit is being offered on the sale price to cover the cost of repairs.
A version of this article appears in print on January 15, 2012, on Page RE6 of the New York edition with the headline: Rural Rebound Still Elusive. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
The comic book writer Peter J. Tomasi’s passion has resulted in the graphic novel, “The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York.”CreditCreditJames Estrin/The New York Times
The comic book writer Peter J. Tomasi has the fervor of an evangelist in discussing the laborers and engineers responsible for the Brooklyn Bridge.
“It’s important to show the people who built these things as real, breathing people, who suffered and succeeded and did the impossible,” he said in an interview. “They carved the air. They made something from nothing.”
Mr. Tomasi’s passion has resulted in the graphic novel, “The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York.” As its subtitle suggests, this retelling of the origin of the famous suspension bridge shines a spotlight on the family who made it possible: the German-American engineer John A. Roebling, his son Washington A. Roebling and Washington Roebling’s wife, Emily Warren Roebling.
The book, which will be published by Abrams ComicArts on April 17, is drawn by Sara DuVall, colored by Gabriel Eltaeb and John Kalisz and lettered by Rob Leigh. It opens in 1852 with a scene in the East River, where ice is impeding the ferry on which the Roeblings are traveling. They join forces to construct an icebreaker to save the day. It is one of the few relaxed interactions between father and son. Washington’s struggle to forge his own path was a part of the story that appealed to him, Mr. Tomasi said.
The younger Roebling had reason to feel stifled. He had distinguished himself at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in the military. “He was in every major Civil War battle,“ Mr. Tomasi said. “The fact that he survived was mind-boggling. He went from that to the pressures of living in the shadow of his father.” The book’s depiction of his wartime exploits — which included his helping to construct pontoon bridges — is a necessary digression: he meets his wife, Emily, through her brother, Gen. G.K. Warren, under whom he served.
With the principal players in place, “The Bridge” quickly shifts to 1869, the beginning of construction. Mr. Tomasi and Ms. DuVall depict the highs and lows: the doubt of the trustees overseeing the project, the escalating cost, the political corruption, the shady contractors and suppliers and the dangers to the workers. Near the start, the elder Roebling has what proves to be a fatal accident on a Fulton Street pier in Brooklyn: a ferry’s hull pushes against the dock, crushing his foot. Within a month, he was dead.
“The Bridge” meticulously depicts the enormity of the project, from meeting room intrigues to the sometimes perilous construction site. A scene in which the trustees consider naming the younger Roebling chief engineer (Their question: “You’ve never supervised anything of this scale and magnitude, Mr. Roebling, is that right?” His response: “No one has.”) is followed a few pages later by a presentation on caissons — hollow, waterproof boxes made of wood and iron and filled with compressed air that allow workers to dig the riverbed. Roebling notes, “These will be the largest caissons ever built.”
The book is Ms. DuVall’s debut as a graphic novelist. She was approached during her final year at the School of Visual Arts. “‘How do you feel about drawing bridges?’” she recalled being asked. “I had never, never actually drawn many bridges before, but I didn’t want to turn it down,” she said. One of her favorite scenes is when Roebling and the workers get to the bedrock for the first time, for which Mr. Tomasi supplied reference images. “It looked so eerie,” she said. “I can’t believe people worked down there.”
Reviews of “The Bridge” have been favorable. “Rather than being a story of a singular genius overcoming adversity, the book is a paean to collaboration,” noted Publishers Weekly. “Iconic structures often have fascinating stories behind them, but rarely do the tellings emphasize the human as this one does.”
It makes sense that this presentation of events, as conveyed by Mr. Tomasi, sounds like the makings of a Hollywood biopic. It was conceived as a screenplay. “I wanted to write this story so I could see it visualized by a filmmaker,” he said.
The inspiration for the project was the George Washington Bridge, which Mr. Tomasi could see from his childhood bedroom. He turned his attention to the Brooklyn Bridge in the mid-1990s, but found excuses not to pursue it. “Once 9/11 happened, it really set my focus,” he said. “I wanted to write something uplifting and hopeful.”
A reader can imagine a tense action scene when an excavation water chamber is clogged and Roebling dives in to clear it. Upon reading the news, his wife asks, “Do you have a death wish?” He tells her: “I need to lead by example, Em. You know the dangers ahead better than anyone. They need to be fearless for $2 a day.” It proves to be a harbinger of doom: Many of the laborers — and Roebling himself — would be stricken with decompression sickness or “caisson disease.” “The slightest noise and intense lights would set him on edge. His nerves would go crazy,” Mr. Tomasi said. Roebling “had intense pain that he would have to deal with from his mid-30s until he died.”
When Roebling gets the disease (which causes him intermittent paralysis and blindness), at about the book’s halfway point, his wife becomes his eyes and ears. He communicates details involving the bridge’s towers, the suspensions cables, the anchorages, the roadways and the electrics for her to administer. The reaction to her role by trustees and workers evolves from shock to bemusement to acceptance.
Mr. Tomasi and Ms. DuVall capture many historic moments: Frank Farrington crossing the span by cable and tipping his hat to the crowd below; Emily Roebling riding a horse-drawn carriage (with a rooster, an apparent symbol of good luck) on completion of the project; and a two-page spread of the Brooklyn Bridge in the glow of fireworks on the night it opened.
But the book ends on a quiet moment of artistic license. Weeks after the official opening, Roebling walks across the bridge with his wife. “You did it, Wash,” she says. He responds: “We did it, Em. Together.”
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: A Family, a Vision and a Bridge: Retelling a Piece of New York History. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
The New Zealand Association of Economists is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 57th Annual Conference. Abstracts can be submitted here.
Submitters need to submit an abstract of not more than 250 words of their paper for either an oral presentation or the poster session. Full papers are not required at this stage, but for a paper to be considered eligible for the Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand Economic Policy, or Seamus Hogan prizes, a full paper must be submitted by 13 June.
Submitters are welcome to submit up to three papers. If we are only able to accept one of the submissions, we will contact presenters to ask which paper they would prefer to include. This limit applies to the number of papers presented by any one person, and not to the number of papers on which he or she is a co-author.
Please note that presenters whose papers are accepted for an oral presentation or poster MUST REGISTER by 16 MAY in order to remain on the programme. After this date, the registration fee is non-refundable.
The Auckland Centre for Financial Research at the Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology is hosting its 5th Auckland Finance Meeting on 17-19 December 2015. The main focus will be on empirical/econometric studies in finance. Topics include (but are not limited to): Asset Pricing; Behavioral Finance; Empirical Corporate Finance; Derivative Markets; Financial Econometrics; Financial Markets; International Finance; Market Microstructure; Risk Management; Volatility Models; Banking; etc. The academic part of the meeting will commence in the afternoon of 17 December and finishes in the afternoon of 19 December.
The 2016 Conference will follow the highly regarded 2014 conference held in the Sir Paul Reeves Building at AUT, Mayoral Drive, Auckland. Keynotes speakers include David Teece, James K. Galbraith, John Gibson and Janet Currie.
James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book, The End of Normal, was published in September, 2014 by Free Press. Other books include Inequality and Instability, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Inequality.
He holds degrees from Harvard (A.B., 1974) and Yale (Ph.D. in Economics, 1981) and won a Marshall Scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge. He has served on the congressional staff, including as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee, is chair of Economists for Peace and Security and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute.
In 2010 he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2012, he was President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. He is the 2014 co-winner of the Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought.
Professor David J. Teece is an authority on subjects including the theory of the firm and strategic management, the economics of technological change, knowledge management, technology transfer, and antitrust economics and innovation. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University, and has also received three honorary doctorates. Dr. Teece has testified before Congress on regulatory policy and competition policy, is author of over 200 books and articles, and is the editor of “Industrial & Corporate Change” (Oxford University Press). According to Science Watch, he is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide, 1995–2005. He is also one of the top 10 cited scholars in economics and business for the decade, and has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world’s top 50 business intellectuals.
John Gibson is Professor of Economics at the Waikato Management School. A graduate of Lincoln University, John has a doctorate from Stanford University in the United States. His teaching and research interests are in microeconomics and in the micro econometric aspects of development, labour and the international economy. John is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust. His other research interests include poverty measurement, where he is a member of an expert group advising the United Nations Statistical Division, the design and analysis of household survey data, and economic development, especially in China and other Asian and Pacific economies.
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