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Department of Economics & Finance News
Mark Zschocke, partner at Waterloo based Open Options Corporation, will give a guest lecture in ECON*3100 Game Theory. Open Options uses game theory to advise their clients.
Time: Thursday Feb. 28, 2:30-3:50pm
Location: MacKinnon 115
On behalf of the Department of Economics and Finance and the College of Management and Economics, we are pleased to announce the upcoming visit of the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Dr. Arthur John Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution from Simon Fraser University...
The Guelph Finance Conference provides the top students in finance programs across Canada with the opportunity to compete in a trading competition, learn from guest speakers in field-specific workshops, and network with industry professionals. The U of G will host 100...
According to rankings released by RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) in August 2012, the Department of Economics and Finance at UoG is among the top 5% of economic institutions worldwide. This ranking is based on 5858 institutions with 33,138 registered authors. The following link will...
The Department and the College will be hosting a workshop for PhD students in economics. A total of 15 students from Guelph, Western, and Toronto are presenting. For details of the workshop please see the attached file.
At a recent meeting of the International Economic History Association, DEF Professor Kris Inwood was elected to its Executive Committee. The IEHA was established in 1960, and unites economic historians from almost 40 countries. The aims of the IEHA are to maintain and develop personal contacts...
The Department of Economics and Finance will have two Visiting Scholars for the academic year commencing in Fall 2012:
- Bradley Ruffle, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dr....
The Department of Economics and Finance, with the generous support of Alumni and friends, provides this $1000 scholarship to a full-time graduate student registered in the MA program in Economics. The award is granted to the student who has attained...
The convocation address at the Department’s undergraduate convocation ceremony was given by the honorary degree recipient, Dr. Sylvia Maracle. Dr. Maracle has contributed to the enhancement of the aboriginal community in many ways, and has set a standard of excellence in community service that...
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics and Finance – Marcel Oestreich – has won the Best Presentation Award at the 1st Canadian PhD Workshop in Environmental Economics & Policy for his talk on “Firms’ Emissions and Self-reporting under Competitive Audit Mechanisms”. The workshop ran...
Speaker: Zara Liaqat, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
Title: The End of MFA and Firm Performance in Textile Industry
Date: Friday May 11...
- Speaker: Li Gan, Dean, Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, China; and Texas A&M University
- Title: A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Market with Heterogeneous...
Two members of the Department of Economics and Finance have recently been awarded research fellowships:
- Dr. Mike Hoy, CME Fellow in the Management of Knowledge and Risk
- Dr. Ross McKitrick, CME Fellow in Commerce for a Sustainable World
Fellows are...
The Warren Jestin Scholarship in Canadian Economic Policy was awarded to Rachel Maunder, shown here receiving the award from Dr. Jestin. This scholarship is awarded to the economics student...
Dr. Luc Moers will be giving a talk entitled, "Wealthier, Healthier?" This talk is part of the International Development Studies Speaker Series. Dr. Moers is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics and Finance (on leave from IMF). The seminar will be held on...
Luciano de Castro from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University will present "A New Approach to Correlation of Types in Bayesian Games" in the Visiting Speakers Series on Friday March 2 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in Mack 313.
Meghan Pohl is the 2011 recipient of the John Vanderkamp Memorial Scholarship in Economics. The scholarship is awarded annually to the honours student in economics who has completed between 12.5 and 15 credits and who has the highest academic standing. Check out the pictures from the Chair's...
On February 7th the Department hosted a reception to recognize the accomplishments of undergraduate students on the Chair’s Honours List. These are the students registered in the Department’s majors which have achieved a cumulative average of 80% or higher during the fall 2011...
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas. At TED's international conferences speakers are challenged to give the talk of their lives in under 18 minutes. Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities,...
Four department members that applied to the CME-Research Assistant Program for the summer 2012 have received awards. (See below for the award holders and project titles.) A person interested in applying for one of these positions must be a CME student, eligible to work in Canada,...
On January 1st Professor Ross McKitrick began a new administrative appointment. Ross is now the Acting Associate Dean of Research for the College of Management and Economics.
As of January 1st Professor John Livernois has switched roles, from Chair of the Department of Econoimcs and...
There have been many success stories in the past year. Economics and Finance faculty won 5 prestigious research grants from SSHRCC; and many faculty published their research in some of the top scholarly journals. Most recently, three of our faculty published in very prestigious journals....
Dr. Aurangzeb, a recent PhD graduate from Guelph, will present his paper "The Role of FDI and Exports in a Dualistic Growth Model Framework: An Application of Smooth Coefficient Semiparametric Approach" on Friday at 3:30 pm in Mack 720. All are welcome.
Professor Osman Ozaltin, University of Waterloo, will present his research on "Optimizing the Strain Selection for the Annual Influenza Vaccine Design" on Friday at 3:30 pm in Mack 311. All welcome.
Professor Jean Guillaume Forand, Univeristy of Waterloo, will present "Keeping Your Options Open" in the Friday seminar at 3:30 in Mack 311.
Professor Marcel-Cristian Voia from Carleton University will present his research on "The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Tipping Points and Uncertainty" in the next seminar slot on Friday at 3:30 pm in Mack 311.
Professor Ray Rees of the University of Munich will present a paper in the Friday seminar (3:30 pm Mack 311) on "Approaches to Inequality Measurement Within and Between Households". ...
Professor Thanasis Stengos will appear on CNN at 6:30 pm to discuss the financial and political situation in Greece and Italy.
Professor Ross Hickey from UBC Okanagan will present his paper "Connections or Human Capital: What Matters when Lobbying the Government of Canada" on Thursday Nov 3 at 3:30 in Mack 313.
Professor Andrew Ching from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management will present "The Effect of Publicity on Demand: The Case of Statins" in the Visiting Speakers Series on Friday October 28 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in Mack 311.
Dr. Peter Matthews from Middlebury College in Vermont will present his paper "Buckets and Other Auctions for Charity" in Mack 311 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm October 24.
The Department hosts a visitor most Fridays during the fall and winter semesters. Professor Lisa Kramer from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management will give a paper this Friday at 3:30 in Mack 311 entitled "Seasonal Asset Allocation: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows...
The Department of Economics and Finance is pleased to announce that Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, will be our Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Lecturer for fall 2011. He will deliver a talk entitled "The Serious Challenges Faced by the European Union" on...
Congratulations to Bo Wandschneider (MA 1987) who has accepted the position of Associate Vice Principal (Information Technology Services) and Chief Information Officer at Queen's University. Bo was the Computer Coordinator in the Department of Economics for 10 years before being...
Congratulations Miana! Berkeley Electronic Press announced that Professor Miana Plesca of the University of Guelph is the winner of this year’s Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists for her article “The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions,...
Congratulations go to Guelph Professors Emeriti Louis Christofides and Robert Swidinsky. They have been awarded the John Vanderkamp Prize for their paper "The Economic Returns to Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest of Canada"...
Congratulations go to Marcel Oestreich and Fraser Summerfield who have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships. Marcel's dissertation is on the economics of environmental enforcement policy. His research is motivated by the fact that it is often prohibitively costly to...
Congratulations go to University of Guelph Professor Miana Plesca and former PhD student Burc Kayahan (now Assistant Professor at Acadia University). Their paper, "The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions" has been selected as one the two finalists for...
The Department of Economics & Finance is the new name for the department. The name change reflects changes that have occurred in recent years in the department to include faculty whose research interests lie in the areas of Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics as well as the...
Professor Marie-Claire Villeval from the University of Lyon visits the department for the week of April 18 - 22. She will present a public lecture on Tuesday at 3:00 pm entitled "From Freakonomics to Neuroeconomics: the Role of Incentives" in MacDonald Institute 300 and will...
Congratulations go to Mehmet Pinar for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation entitled "Stochastic-Dominance-Efficient Welfare Indices in Development". Mehmet has accepted a research position in Italy to develop a sustainability index that can be incorporated into...
Professor Kris Inwood was featured in the Vancouver Sun yesterday. His CFI-funded research project on digitizing the 1891 Canadian Census has produced an accurate picture of the demographic and socio-economic make up of urban and rural Canada at that time. The city of Vancouver,...
Professor John Maxwell from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will present his paper entitled "Label Confusion: The Groucho Effect of Uncertain Standards" in Mackinnon 314 on Friday at 3:30.
Management Economics and Finance students Mike Ackland and Kenneth Bache have organized the CME Trading Simulation. Teams from more than a dozen universities will compete on Saturday April 2 in a trading simulation designed to provide experience to students and an opportunity to meet...
The official launch of Professor Adomait's book Cocktail Party Economics will be held on Wednesday March 30 from 5:30 pm to 6:50 pm in Rozhanski Hall 101. Panelists Evie Adomait, her co-author Richard Maranta and Pearson Publishing Vice-President Gary Bennett will discuss the...
Professor Ilias Tsiakas received an Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Research for his paper entitled "The Economic Gains of Trading Stocks Around the Holidays" which appeared in the Spring 2010 edition. The award comes with a monetary prize and...
This week's speaker is Maros Servatka from the University of Canterbury, NZ. The paper is entitled "Acts of Commission and the Status Quo in Fairness Games". The time and location are Friday, 3:30 pm in Mack 314.
PhD Candidate Mehmet Pinar will defend his dissertation entitled "Stochastic-Dominance-Efficient Welfare Indices in Development" on Wednesday March 23 at 11:30 am in Mackinnon 720.
A new book, Cocktail Party Economics, by Economics Professor Evie Adomait and co-author Richard Maranta, was released today. The book is published by Pearson Canada and is available in the University Bookstore.
Dr. Christopher Longo of McMaster University will present a paper on "Pharmaceutical Markets: Innovation, Pricing, Policy Options and their Options" On Friday March 18 at 3:30 pm in Mack 314.
Professor Jason Fletcher from Yale University will present "Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use" in the Department of Economics Visiting Speaker series on Wednesday at 3:30 in Mack 226.
The third edition of Mathematics for Economics by Guelph Economics Professors Michael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, Ray Rees and Thanasis Stengos, published by MIT Press, was released today. This...
The Warren Jestin Scholarship in Canadian Economic Policy was awarded to Marleigh Gilbert, shown here receiving the award from Dr. Jestin. This scholarship is awarded to the economics student with the...
Tony Arrell will give a guest lecture in the Economics of Equity Markets class on Thursday March 10. Mr. Arrell is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of...
Mr. Paul Redman will deliver a public lecture on "What Role Can Financial Regulators Play in Stabilizing Financial Markets?" on Wednesday March 9 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in RozH 101. Mr. Redman is the Principal Economist at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). He holds...
Jeff Stacey will give a guest lecture on Thursday in the Economics of Equity Markets class. Jeff is the founding partner of Stacey Muirhead Capital Management firm with over 25 years of investment industry experience. Jeff holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration...
Mark Zschocke of Open Options, an international strategy firm based in Waterloo, is a guest lecturer on Thursday in two game theory classes. Open Options consultants work with the top corporations around the world –...
We would like to thank you for your interest in the graduate Economics program at the University of Guelph. The deadline for the first round of applications was January 31, 2011 for the Fall 2011 semester. If you still wish to be considered for entry into the Fall 2011 semester, the...
This week's seminar is by Janet Jiang, University of Manitoba. More information can be found here.
The Visiting Speaker's seminar this week is Management Matters by Michelle Alexopoulos, University of Toronto.
Today's seminar is "Bidding Coalitions for the Financially Constrained" by Charles Zheng from UWO at 3:30 in Mack 314.
Michael Hoy was honoured at the CME Awards reception on February 3 for receiving the University of Guelph Faculty Association's Distinguished Professorial Teaching Award for the College of Management and Economics. Professor Hoy was cited for achieving excellence in classroom...
The alphaville blog of the Financial Times picked up a note published on the VoxEU.org website about Ilias Tsiakas's forthcoming paper in the Journal of Financial Economics. The website publishes research-based analysis and commentary by leading economists. For more information, see...
Due to the weather, Paul Redman's lecture has been cancelled and will be re-scheduled in the near future.
Mr. Redman will deliver a public lecture on "What Role Can Financial Regulators Play in Stabilizing Financial Markets?" on a date to be announced. Mr. Redman is...
A graduate of the BA and MA programs in Economics, Sean has just been named Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Northwestern University in Chicago. For more information, see ...
Congratulations to the Economics students that earned a spot on the Department of Economics Chair's Honours List for 2011. The reception to honour these deserving students was well attended and some photos can be viewed at...
Professor Eveline Adomait, Department of Economics, College of Management and Economics, challenges her second year Industrial Relations students by holding a mock arbitration case. Industry professionals attend to evaluate the student presentations. ...
Department of Economics Professor Ross McKitrick's new book explores the complex relationship between economic growth and the environment and how environmental targets cannot be met without considering the economics. Published this month, McKitrick's book Economic Analysis...
Andrew Ross, post-doctoral researcher in the Departments of Economics and History, is studying the history of hockey; the sport and the commercial enterprise. Read more...
...Welcome to Professor Ilias Tsiakas who joined the Department on July 1. Dr. Tsiakas was most recently Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick’s Business School. We are delighted that he is...
May 10 Update: Preliminary Quantitative Methods (PQM) Online Course
To help students prepare for the M.A. Economics program, the Department of Economics offers an on-line pre-MA mathematics and statistics course. Students work at their own pace. A teaching assistant will be...
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