Economics

Economics News

David Brown appointed as the President of the Canadian Association for Energy Economics

February 21, 2020

David Brown appointed for a two-year term.
Beyza Ural-Marchand publishes two new papers in 2019

February 19, 2020

Beyza Ural-Marchand, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Economics published two papers last year, one in Quantitative Economics and the other in Review of Income and Wealth. Read more and link to her papers.
Applying the scientific method to labour markets Joseph Marchand

January 30, 2020

After years of working on labour markets during energy booms and busts, Future Energy Systems economist Joseph Marchand is expanding his focus to include energy transitions. Read article by Kenneth Tam - News, University of Alberta Future Energy Systems.
Melville McMillan Co-Authors Book "Local Public Finance and Economics An International Perspective"

November 26, 2019

Harry Kitchen (Professor Emeritus, Economics, Trent University), Melville McMillan (Professor Emeritus, Economics, University of Alberta), Anwar Shah (Senior Fellow (non-resident) Brookings Institution, Washington, DC) publish new book on Local Public Finance and Economics.
Opioid crisis has cost Canada nearly $5 billion in lost productivity - Alexander Cheung, Economics Graduate Student

November 1, 2019

Economic Master's student, Alexander Cheung estimates financial toll of a drug epidemic that has claimed more than 11,000 lives since 2016.
Mesbah Sharaf publishes new study "Does income inequality increase violence against women?

October 4, 2019

(New study published in The European Journal of Development Research)
Alexander Cheung's Roger S Smith 2019 Research Project

September 24, 2019

Alexander Cheung, MA Economics student researches loss in labour productivity from Opiod Crisis in Roger S Smith 2019 Research Project.
Economics Welcomes 3 New Faculty Members!

September 17, 2019

The Department of Economics welcomes our 3 new Faculty members: Dodge Cahan, Laurel Wheeler and Jiatong Zhong. Read more on their research areas and backgrounds.
Expert Panel to Assess Minimum Wage Includes Joseph Marchand

September 10, 2019

“The effects of Alberta's 47 per cent minimum wage increase over the past four years and the elimination of the liquor server differential deserve to be studied. I am pleased to be leading a panel of experts to address that need." Joseph Marchand, chair, minimum wage expert panel
Claudia Landeo discusses her theoretical work on the design of optimal law enforcement policies with ordered leniency at the Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association

September 9, 2019

Her study will be published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics, the top journal in the field of Law and Economics

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