BATON ROUGE- R. Kelley Pace, professor of finance and director of LSU’s Real Estate Research Institute, will be a speaker at the Southern Regional Science Association mini conference titled “Poverty and Regional Analysis,” which will be held Thursday, February 3, 2011, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in LSU’s Energy, Coast & Environment Building.
The half-day conference will serve to promote and highlight poverty research within LSU, Louisiana and the Deep South. Additionally, the conference will feature Bruce Weber from Oregon State University and Mark Partridge from Ohio State University as keynote speakers for the event.
SRSA has teamed up with the J. Norman Efferson Lecture Series, the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and the Louisiana Center for Rural Initiatives to cosponsor the mini-conference. There is no fee to attend to the event and pre-registration is not required.
Pace will speak beginning at 10:15 a.m. and will give a presentation titled “The Influence of Foreclosure Delays on Future Default, Loan Losses, and Contract Rate.”
For a full agenda of the conference, visit http://srsabr2011.wordpress.com/agenda/.
The Department of Finance at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business offers high quality programs for undergraduate and graduate students interested in careers in corporate finance, asset management, real estate, insurance, banking, financial planning and business law. Aiming to create exciting educational opportunities for its students, the department employs tools such as the Securities Markets Analysis Research and Trading (SMART) Lab. This 44-station simulated interactive trading floor enables students to gain practical experience in the fast-paced world of securities analysis, research and trading. Additionally, the Department of Finance encourages, supports and conducts research in real estate by housing the nationally renowned Real Estate Research Institute. For more information, visit www.bus.lsu.edu/finance, call 225-578-6291, or e-mail finance.lsu.edu.
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