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Monday, March 16, 2020

Carleton University closes all non-essential services

Carleton University has closed all non-essential services in order to follow recommendations from Ottawa Public Health.  The Department of Economics is therefore operating online and staff are working remotely.  For assistance, please contact the office at: economics@carleton.ca, and your email will be redirected to the appropriate contact. ... More

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Economics alumna Amanda Mirizzi delivers workshop on personal finance

Economics alumna Amanda Mirizzi (M.A. 2017), Community Engagement Manager at Ratehub was on campus to deliver an interactive presentation: Know Your Worth: Personal Finance Basics with RateHub. The Know Your Worth workshop focuses on the basics of personal finance for student and also covered topics such as: Debt reduction strategies Financing... More

Friday, February 28, 2020

Professor Zhiqi Chen testified at CRTC hearing

On February 20, Professor Zhiqi Chen testified as an expert economist at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearing on mobile wireless services.  The public hearing, held in Gatineau, Quebec between February 18 and 28, was part of CRTC’s review on the state of the mobile wireless market and whether further... More

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Professor Lynda Khalaf’s paper accepted for publication into the Econometrics

Professor Khalaf’s paper “Simultaneous Indirect Inference, Impulse Responses and ARMA models” (with Beatriz Peraza Lopez) has been accepted for publication into the... More

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Congrats to Chair Khan for receiving the Carleton Research Achievement Award!

The Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) bestow the awards to recognize outstanding research achievements. Information on the project and award recipient Chair Hashmat Khan can be found on the Office of the Vice-President, Research and International... More

Monday, February 10, 2020

Congrats to Chair Khan and Professor Lee on Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards nominations!

Congratulations to Chair Hashmat Khan and Professor Minjoon Lee on being nominated for Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards! The Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards are sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International), these awards recognize faculty who render exceptional... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

Professor Lee and Instructor Joseph comment on Canada’s GDP growth

"Quarterly numbers, generally, are more volatile than annual figures and can be subject to temporary changes in demand, energy prices, exchange rates or situations in other countries, among others, says Minjoon Lee, an assistant professor in Carleton University's economics department. "The third-quarter numbers Scheer used as the foundation for... More

Monday, January 6, 2020

Professor Dana Galizia’s paper published in the American Economic Review

Professor Galizia's paper “Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis” (with Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier) has been published in the American Economic Review, Vol. 110, Issue 1, January... More

Monday, December 9, 2019

Professor Lynda Khalaf’s paper accepted in the Journal of Econometrics

Professor Khalaf's paper “Dynamic Panels with MIDAS Covariates: Nonlinearity, Estimation and Fit" (with Maral Kichian, Charles Saunders, and Marcel Voia) has been accepted for publication into the Journal of... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Alumnus Michael Benarroch to become president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manitoba

“University of Manitoba names new president, vice-chancellor,” Winnipeg Free Press at... More

Monday, November 25, 2019

Ph.D. candidate Matthew Strathearn’s paper accepted in Advances in Econometrics

Ph.D. candidate Matthew Strathearn's paper “A Spatial Panel Model of Bank Branches in Canada” (with Heng Chen) has been accepted for publication in Advances in... More

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Econ instructors Collins Ayoo and Samuel Bonti-Ankomah chapter published in Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries: Adding Value for Food, Feed, Pharma and Fuels

Ayoo, Collins and Bonti-Ankomah, Samuel, “Constraints to Value Addition to Agricultural Byproducts” Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries: Adding Value for Food, Feed, Pharma and Fuels, ed. Benjamin K. Simpson, Alberta N. Aryee, Fidel Toldrá, Wiley, October... More

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