Economics

Economics News

Professor Emeriti Connie Smith and Stuart Landon Publish Paper in CD Howe Institute Commentary

February 6, 2019

"Managing Uncertainty: The Search for a Golden Discount-Rate Rule for Defined-Benefit Pensions" looks at the discount rate - the interest rate pension plan sponsors use to determine the value of assets they must set aside today to pay for promised benefits in the future.
Awards and Holiday Celebration 2018

January 9, 2019

The latest student award recipients were honored at the Annual Department of Economics Awards and Holiday Celebration held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Read more about the event and view photos.
Economics students advance to finals of Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge 2019

December 6, 2018

Top performing teams are invited to the Bank's head office in Ottawa to take part in a final round. The winning team is crowned The Governor's Challenge National Champion and receives their award from the Governor.
U of A student hopes her app will entice more people to try vegetarian dishes when dining out

December 5, 2018

Hazel Foerstner's app will list vegetarian dishes in all local restaurants; hopes to launch by end of year
On financial frictions and the rule of law in development

October 25, 2018

Ashantha Ranasinghe Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics and Diego Restuccia Professor of Economics, University of Toronto publish article in VoxDev. "We quantify the importance of weak financial market development and rule of law for aggregate productivity and output."
Is a $15 minimum wage worth it? Joseph Marchand

October 18, 2018

Is a $15 minimum wage worth it? Here's what the numbers say. Joseph Marchand comments (Globe and Mail)
Claudia Landeo discusses her work at the NBER Summer Institute in Law and Economics

October 10, 2018

Claudia Landeo presented her papers “Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency” and “Ordered Leniency: An Experimental Study of Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting” at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute in Law and Economics.
Working moms and well fed children - What's needed? (New study published in Oxford Development Studies)

October 9, 2018

Mesbah Sharaf finds that maternal employment negatively affects child nutrition status. A new study published in Oxford Development Studies.
Joseph Marchand "A Guide to Alberta's new $15 minimum wage and what it will mean for the economy"

October 2, 2018

Joseph Marchand presented a seminar on September 26, 2018 as part of the IPE Workshop Series "Still Thinking about Minimum Wage Increases in Alberta: Theoretically, Empirically, and Regionally" He was interviewed by Kieran Leavitt StarMetro Edmonton and Brennan Doherty StarMetro Calgary. Read the article....
Distinguished Alumni Award Anwar Shah '83 PhD, Economist -"For Giving People a Voice" New Trail Autumn 2018

August 27, 2018

"Shah pursued an education in economics, motivated by growing up in a society where the rich lived alongside people who cold hardly feed themselves and were denied basic rights and services."

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