Jeff Pliskin, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the  Levitt Center, and Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, were invited attendees at the First International Economic Research Meeting of the Mondragon Cooperative Academic Community. The meeting was hosted by the Mondragon University business studies faculty in Oñati, Spain, Dec. 3-4. 

Jones also was an invited presenter and discussant at the "Economics of Cooperative Banking" workshop at the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland, Dec 7 - 8. He presented "The Effects of Training on Performance and Incomes: Econometric Evidence from Finnish Cooperative Banks" and was the discussant for "A Strength of Credit Unions: Employee Productivity of Credit Unions vs. Banks in the U.S."