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 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".  Last week, Professor Tim Vogelsang from Michigan State University gave a paper entitled "Multivariate Trend Comparisons between Autocorrelated Climate Series with General Trend Regressors".  

 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 Thursday September 22 starting at 2 PM at the Arboretum. He will speak for approximately half an hour, and then take questions until about 3:10. He will then stay for a reception with attendees of the lecture until 3:40. Please register at 

 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 hired away by the Computing and Communications Services Department at the University of Guelph where he rose to become Deputy CIO and Associate Director.    

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,” which was published in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics and co-authored with Vincenzo Caponi (Ryerson University, IZA & RCEA) and Guelph PhD alumni Professor Burc Kayahan (Acadia University).

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" that was published in the June 2010 edition of Canadian Public Policy.   This prize, which is awarded annually to the best paper, is named for the late John Vanderkamp who was a member of the Department of Economics at Guelph and Dean of the College of Social Sciences.  Dr.

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 continuously monitor every polluter’s pollution emissions.  Therefore, market-based instruments, as well as command-and-control programs, must rely heavily on a requirement for polluters to self-report their pollution emissions. Designing the policy to encourage truthful reporting then becomes an important challenge.