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Evie Adomait, Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor for the Department of Economics and Finance, has devoted her career to making Economics manageable and entertaining for students.  After being a member of the University for nearly 30 years, Evie has established herself personally and professionally and will be awarded for her accomplishments with the University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA) Distinguished Professorial Teaching Award for CME in October. 

DEF faculty member Ross McKitrick has organized a workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology. This interdisciplinary workshop is aimed at sharing expertise and building opportunities for collaboration. Many economists are becoming interested in applying econometric methods (especially time series analysis) to geophysical and climatic data sets. In addition, many climate scientists are recognizing the value of developing and applying increasingly rigorous empirical methods to the rich data sets available in the Earth sciences.

The University of Guelph Alumni Volunteer Award was initiated in 1994. Through this award, the alumni association seeks to honour alumni who have demonstrated loyalty and commitment to their alma mater by supporting the University of Guelph through significant volunteer leadership. The recipient of this award  for 2012 was Warren Jestin. Warren earned a Master’s degree in Economics at the University of Guelph in 1971 and was awarded his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1977. He is currently the Department's Economist-in-Residence.

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, Burnaby, BC. Dr. Robson will be giving a series of lectures:

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 students, from 17 different Canadian universities, who demonstrate a high level of understanding and interest in finance through a combination of their academic studies, extracurricular involvement and work experience.

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 take you to a list of the economic institutions ranked in the 10% worldwide … http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.all.html

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 between scholars interested in economic history and to encourage all forms of research and publications relevant to the development and diffusion of economic history.

The Department of Economics and Finance will have two Visiting Scholars for the academic year commencing in Fall 2012: