7/6/00

Contacts:
Arne Hallam, Economics, 515/294-6741
Susan Thompson, Agriculture Information, 515/294-0705

NEW CHAIR FOR IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

AMES, Iowa -- A new chair of the Iowa State University Department of Economics has been named. Arne Hallam assumed the position July 1. He succeeds John Miranowski who has served as chair for 5 1/2 years. Miranowski will return to the department to conduct research in environmental and resource economics.

Hallam, a professor of economics, has been with the department since 1983. He is a native of Spanish Fork, Utah, but has lifelong ties to Ames, because his father received a Ph.D. in agronomy at ISU in the early 1950s.

Following undergraduate work at Brigham Young University, Hallam received master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He has held a number of administrative posts in the Iowa State economics department, including director of graduate programs, director of undergraduate programs and interim department chair.

Hallam has taught a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in production, market structure, and mathematical and statistical methods in economics. His research interests include firm size and organization, technological change, risk and uncertainty, agricultural production practices, optimal decision making by farm firms, and comparison of efficiency among agricultural enterprises.

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