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MA student opinion piece on Single Use Plastics
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Current MA student Chuanmo Jin has written an opinion piece called, "Single-use plastics: Do we need to ban them?". This piece originated from an ECON 606 assignment and is just a taste of the potential of our MA students.
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 […]

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Mechanisms of the Digital Transformation; A Cause for Policy Reform

Single-use plastics: Do we need to ban them?

Germany Tumbles Down Into Recession

Probability of eradicating poverty is getting closer to 1.

Introduction to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group

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