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Thursday, February 2, 2023

Dept. of Economics Welcomes Visiting Undergraduate Scholar Maria Suarez Fernandez from Colombia

The Department of Economics at Carleton University is pleased to announce that we are hosting Maria Suarez Fernandez (Undergraduate Student, Universidad Externado de Colombia) for the Winter 2023 academic term. Maria is the recipient of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship, which is offered through the Global Affairs... More

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

CD Howe Institute Publishes Intelligence Memo by Professor Maya Papineau

The C.D. Howe Institute has published an intelligence memo written by Professor Maya Papineau and co-authored with Erica Myers of the University of Calgary. The piece discusses the implications of her recent research on observed energy savings from home retrofits, particularly when it comes to meeting climate change commitments. Since it's... More

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

First Female Economics Full Professor Marks Her Legacy at Carleton

The newly dedicated boardroom in Carleton University’s Department of Economics is graced with decor that an economist can truly appreciate. Desk-sized sheets of yellowed graph paper, covered with numbers and symbols, have been framed for posterity. To the knowledgeable, it is clearly an equation, which took then-PhD student Kanta Marwah two days... More

Monday, January 23, 2023

Welcome to Vivian Hoffmann, Associate Professor

The School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) and the Department of Economics welcome Vivian Hoffmann in a joint-appointment as Associate Professor at Carleton University. "We are excited to have Vivian join us," says Jennifer Stewart, director of the School of Public Policy and Administration. "Her significant contribution to research in... More

Monday, December 5, 2022

Professor Minjoon Lee’s Research on Nursing Home Aversion Garners Media Attention

Professor Minjoon Lee’s recent research on nursing home aversion in Canadians has been garnering media attention recently. His paper “Nursing Home Aversion Post-Pandemic: Implications for Savings and Long-term Care Policy" is a joint work with Bertrand Achou, Philippe De Donder, Franca Glenzer, and Marie-Louise Leroux that was published last... More

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Professor Minjoon Lee Featured on Most Recent Episode of Research Shop Talk Podcast

Professor Minjoon Lee is featured on the most recent episode of Kyla Reid’s podcast Research Shop Talk, alongside Dale Spencer (Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University). The episode is called “Mentoring the Next Generation” and Professors Lee and Spencer detail their former experiences as graduate students and current experiences... More

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Carleton Ph.D. Alumnus Joshua Brault Stirs Up Econ Twitter by Identifying Coding Error in Recent Paper

Joshua Brault stirred up economists on Twitter over the weekend when he attempted to replicate the results of a recently published economics paper by Daniel J. McDonald and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and got vastly different results than the researchers. After posting his results for others to read and attempt to replicate, he was given... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

Congrats to Associate Professor Ana Dammert on Co-Chairing LACEA – LAMES 2022 in Lima, Peru!

Associate Professor Ana Dammert of Carleton University is one of two Program Chairs for the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and she just had the honor of welcoming guests to the opening of the LACEA – LAMES 2022 Annual Meeting. The LACEA – LAMES Annual Meeting is the largest economics and econometrics... More

Friday, October 28, 2022

Chair Hashmat Khan Named as a Featured Researcher for SSHRC Real Insight Campaign

Chair Hashmat Khan has been named as one of fifteen featured researchers for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Real Insight campaign. Chair Khan's featured research is titled "Modelling Human Behaviour to Forecast Pandemics: Using Both Epidemiology and Economics Data to Better Predict Future Waves of COVID-19." Check out... More

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Professor Maya Papineau featured in the energy, environment, and economics podcast Ergs and Equilibrium!

Professor Maya Papineau was recently featured in the podcast Ergs and Equilibrium, hosted by Brandon Schaufele (Director of the Ivey Policy and Management Centre and an Associate Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy at the Ivey Business School). In the episode titled “Flying Over the Trap Door,” Maya discusses her Journal of... More

Friday, August 19, 2022

Professor Ba Chu’s paper accepted for publication by Computational Economics!

Congratulations to professor Ba Chu on his paper titled "Comparing Out-of-Sample Performance of Machine Learning Methods to Forecast U.S. GDP Growth" joint work with Carleton Ph.D candidate Shafiullah Qureshi. The paper has been accepted for publication by Computational Economics -- a leading and official journal of the Society for Computational... More

Monday, August 8, 2022

Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Canadian Press Press on the Prospects for a Successful Conclusion of the Canada-India Trade Agreement

Professor Vivek Dehejia speaks to the Canadian Press on the prospects for a successful conclusion of the Canada-India trade agreement, which has been under negotiation between the two countries since 2010. For a link to the full article, click here.... More

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