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Probability of eradicating poverty is getting closer to 1.

November 4, 2019

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Introduction to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group

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Trade War between US and China And its Impact on the Global Economy

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Probability of eradicating poverty is getting closer to 1.

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Economic Outlook on the U.S and Global Economy in 2019

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William Nordhaus and the Economics of Climate Change

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Probability of eradicating poverty is getting closer to 1.

Economics News November 4, 2019

Introduction to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group

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Trade War between US and China And its Impact on the...

Global Topics June 16, 2019

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Economics News

Probability of eradicating poverty is getting closer to 1.

November 4, 2019

Poverty has always been holding mankind from achieving its potential. The inability to maintain the basic levels of survival is still high among 1.85...

Finance

Introduction to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group

June 23, 2019

The CME Group Inc. is distinguished as one of the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace. It owns large derivatives, options and futures...

Department Updates

PhD student participates in the Bank of Canada PIVOT program
Friday, September 27, 2019 John Baker, an Economics PhD student, was the recipient of one of the grants from the Bank of Canada for their PIVOT program. John used search-query data to process the impact of policy measures on household spending in real-time. J-P Lam helped supervise some of his work.
Professor Ana Ferrer featured on IZA World of Labor
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Economics Professor Ana Ferrer, who is also Interim Associate Vice President, Research Oversight and Analysis at the University of Waterloo, has had an article featured in the IZA World of Labor. You can check out the article titled, "Are married immigrant women secondary workers?". Congratulations, Ana, on this excellent achievement!
Qidi Hu awarded Governor General's Silver Medal
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The Economics department is extremely pleased to announce that Qidi Hu, an Economics 2+2 student from Shandong Normal University, has been awarded the Governor General's Silver Medal for outstanding academic achievement.
Roy Brouwer awarded SSHRC funding
Friday, July 19, 2019 Congratulations to Professor Roy Brouwer for being awarded SSHRC funding for the “Payments for wetland ecosystem services as a nature-based solution to sustainably manage urbanized watersheds" project. Professor Alain Nimbona will be a collaborator on this three year project as well. For the full story, see the article on the Water […]
Associate Professor Kate Rybczynski wins Gender Equity Grant
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Congratulations to Associate Professor Kate Rybczynski, who has been awarded a Waterloo Gender Equity Grant, as part of the He for She campaign. PhD student Annie Pan will be working on the project with Professor Rybczynski.