School of Economics Assistant Professor Volodymr Lugovskyy will present papers at two international conferences this summer.

At the Public Economic Theory 10th Annual Conference in Galway, Ireland (June) Lugovskyy will present An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation in Asset Markets Using the Tatonnement Pricing Mechanism (with Daniela Puzzello and Steven Tucker). Read more about Lugovskyy's research on this subject in the April 2009 Newsletter Faculty Profile.

At the Empirical Investigations in Trade and Geography Conference in Melbourne, Australia (July), Lugovskyy will present Quality Choice: Effects of Trade, Transportation Cost, and Relative Country Size (with Alexandre Skiba).

Additionally, Lugovskyy has received a 2009 CIBER Research Grant for the project entitled An Experimental Investigation of the Persistence of Comparative Advantage.