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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, 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, 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

Friday, March 11, 2022

Congratulations to Professor Minjoon Lee on receiving the Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Minjoon Lee, who received the Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award for the 2021-2022 academic year.  The award recognizes faculty members who render exceptional service to graduate students as supervisors and research mentors. The effect of such faculty on the careers of students is frequently transformational. More... More

Friday, February 25, 2022

Congratulations to Dawn Bjornson on receiving the Betty Weiss Service Excellence Award!

Congratulations to Dawn Bjornson, who received the Betty Weiss Memorial Award at the 2021 Annual Service Excellence Awards!  The award recognizes employees who demonstrate service excellence. More information about the award can be found here: here:... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Professor Minjoon Lee’s paper accepted at the Journal of Empirical Finance!

Congratulations to Professor Minjoon Lee! His paper "Forced Retirement Risk and Portfolio Choice" (with Guodong Chen and Tong-yob Nam) has been accepted at the Journal of Empirical Finance — a leading journal in the field of Finance. Congratulations, Minjoon, for your continued success with high-quality peer-reviewed... More

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Canadian Journal of Economics Special Issue on COVID-19 Related Research

Canadian Journal of Economics Special Issue on COVID-19 Related Research. Guest Editors: Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto, victor.aguirregabiria@utoronto.ca) Siwan Anderson (Vancouver School of Economics, siwan.anderson@ubc.ca) Hashmat Khan (Carleton University, hashmat.khan@carleton.ca) Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 To find out... More

Monday, May 25, 2020

Congratulations to Professor Frances Woolley on receiving the CEA Distinguished Service Award!

Congratulations to Professor Frances Woolley who has received the Canadian Economic Association’s Distinguished Service Award! Previously, France had served first as the Secretary Treasurer and then as the President of the Association. More information concerning the award is... More

Friday, March 29, 2019

Congrats to economics undergraduate student Frohan Foroutan recipient of 2019 Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement!

Economics undergraduate student Frohan Foroutan dedicated to peer support awarded Board of Governors top honour for Outstanding Community Achievement. “It is this great passion and dedication that led Foroutan to being selected as this year’s recipient of the Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement, which recognizes a... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

Congrats to Professor Matthew Webb 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 Professor Matthew Webb can be found on the Office of the Vice-President, Research and International site. FPA feature story by Karen Kelly, "Economics and Political Science... More

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