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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Deciphering Digital Assets team successful in MRCF competition!

Congratulations to Professor Lynda Khalaf! She is part of the Deciphering Digital Assets Team that has been successful in the 2021-22 Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF)... More

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Washington Post!

Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Washington Post about the contributions of Nobel Economist Robert Mundell who passed away over the weekend. Access full... More

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Dr. Munir’s Op-Ed featured in the Globe and Mail!

Congratulations to Dr. Munir Sheikh on his Op-Ed page in the Globe and Mail! The full editorial, titled, "Ontario’s COVID-19 failure stems from politicians’ inability to understand how people behave," can be accessed... More

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Professor Ana Dammert’s paper accepted for publication in Economics Letters!

Congratulations to Professor Ana Dammert! Her paper titled “Assessing Adult Farm Labor Statistics: Evidence from a Survey Design Experiment in Ethiopia”  (joint with Professor Jose Galdo) has been accepted for publication in Economics Letters –  a leading peer-reviewed economics journal for short papers. Abstract Agricultural labor... More

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Professor Vivek Dehejia appears in Global National News!

Congratulations to Professor Vivek Dehejia! He appeared in Global National News for a story on the ongoing farmer protests in India. Link to video... More

Friday, March 5, 2021

Professor Matthew Webb receives a CIHR grant!

Congratulations to Professor Matthew D. Webb on receiving a $371,971 CIHR grant! The grant title is Making the most of Canada's "natural laboratory": advancing difference-in-differences methods for unpoolable data with investigators: E. Strumpf, N. Austin, J. Daw, M. Webb, D. Rudoler, P. Saha Chaudhuri (collaborators: K. McGrail, D. Miller, J.... More

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Professor Vivek H. Dehejia quoted in the Wall Street Journal!

Congratulations to Professor Vivek H. Dehejia! He was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on economic reforms in India. Access full article here Read excerpt below: Nor is it clear that the international environment is welcoming. In a phone interview, Vivek Dehejia, a trade economist at Ottawa’s Carleton University, points out that India... More

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Professor Louis-Philippe Beland awarded the FPA Research Excellence Chair in 2020!

Congratulations to Professor Louis-Philippe Beland! He was awarded the FPA Research Excellence Chair in 2020 at the assistant professor level. Thank you for your continued dedication and leading research in applied microeconomics. Read full article... More

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Professor Dana Galizia’s paper accepted in Quantitative Economics!

Congratulations to Professor Dana Galizia! His paper titled "Saddle Cycles: Solving Rational Expectations Models Featuring Limit Cycles (or Chaos) Using Perturbation Methods” has been accepted for publication in Quantitative Economics –  a leading peer-reviewed economics journal aimed at empirical research that is rigorously informed by... More

Monday, December 21, 2020

Professor Konstantinos Metaxoglou’s paper accepted in Canadian Journal of Economics!

Congratulations to Professor Konstantinos Metaxoglou! His paper, "Canadian Journal of Economics: A Historic Overview,” has been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Economics – Canada’s leading peer-reviewed economics journal. Abstract The paper provides a 50-year overview of the Canadian Journal of Economics, Canada’s... More

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Professors Richard Brecher and Zhihao Yu’s paper accepted in the Review of International Economics!

Congratulations to Professor Richard Brecher and Professor Zhihao Yu! Their paper titled  "Unemployment Effects of Trade with a Low-Wage Country: A Minimum-Wage Model with Sector-Specific Factors” has been accepted for publication in the Review of International Economics - a leading journal in the field of International Economics. Abstract... More

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Professor Louis-Philippe Beland cited in “La Presse+”!

Congratulations to Professor Louis-Philippe Beland for your citation in the COVID-19 article "Agir Collectivement Pour Sauver Des Vies" (English: Acting Collectively to Save Lives) featured in La Presse+. Thank you for bringing further awareness to our... More

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