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Introduction to the Department

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Calgary.  Our department is among the top research-oriented departments in the country.  Faculty members have expertise in a broad range of fields but we are best known for our work on Energy, Environmental and Natural Resource Management; Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Health; Industrial Organization; Institutions and Growth; International Trade; Money and Banking and Public Finance.

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  • Summer 2012 Internships in Regulatory Economics
    Deadline for receipt of completed applications is February 1, 2012.
  • Welcome
    Jeremy Clark is visiting the Department on sabbatical from the University of Canterbury for 2012. His current research interests include collaborative bargaining as a method for setting environmental policy, the effects of social diversity on social capital indicators such as volunteering or tax compliance, and the effects of housing prices on fertility. Jeremy is located in Room 420.
  • Fall 2011 Newsletter
    Check out the Department's Fall 2011 Newsletter.
  • Department of Economics 2012 Distinguished Lecture
    March 15, 2012 in ENA 201 at 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Frederic S. Mishkin is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-director of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, and a member of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Reform. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and Columbia.

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Latest Department Working Papers

Imposing Local Curvature in the QUAIDS

by Dongfeng Chang and Apostolos Serletis

In this paper, we build on Ryan and Wales (1998), Moschini (1999), and Serletis and Shahmoradi (2007) and impose curvature conditions locally on the quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model of Banks et al. (1997), an extension of the simple AIDS model of Deaton and Muellbauer (1980) that can generate quadratic Engel curves [that is, a rank-three demand systems, in the terminology of...
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A Theory of Top Income Taxation and Social Insurance

by Francisco M. Gonzalez and Jean-Francois Wen

The development of the welfare state in the decades following the Great Depression ...
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Transitions in the Chinese Market for Refined Petroleum Products

by G. Leung, R. Li and W. D. Walls

China’s rapidly rising crude oil consumption has been a cause of concern, both for China’s own energy security and because of the effects of this rising demand on world oil markets. However, one must disaggregate the domestic Chinese demand for petroleum products to reveal what sort of policy options might be sensible. In this research, we provide a simple empirical characterization of recent...
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