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, 3:30-5:00pm
Location: TBA
Two members of the Department of Economics and Finance have recently been awarded research fellowships:
Fellows are appointed for a 5-year term and will be provided with a $50,000 grant to support their research activities.
The Warren Jestin Scholarship in Canadian Economic Policy was awarded to Rachel Maunder. This scholarship is awarded to the economics student with the highest cumulative average over all courses in economic policy. Rachel is a student in the MEIF program and will be graduating this year.
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 Friday, March 2nd from 3:00-4:30 pm (with reception to follow) in Rozanski 102.
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.
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 semester and/or since beginning at the University. The high academic standards set by these students place them in the top 12% of our economics undergraduates.
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Conference Theme: Perceiving Past the Paradigm
Date: February 12, 2012
Location: UoG
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, returning to academic studies the following semester, and have a minimum 70% cumulative average.
Talat Genc, "Industrial organization of wholesale electricity markets".
Louise Grogan, "Institutions and economic growth: Evidence from the Colombian Census data 1778-2005".