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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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News

  • Congratulations Rob!
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    Robert Oxoby was awarded the "Exemplary Administrative Support" for Administration by the University of Calgary Graduate Students' Association. This award recognizes the exemplary hard work, dedication and support he provided to his graduate students.
  • Congratulations Ted!
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    Ted Horbulyk has been awarded three years of research funding to participate in the Secure Source Waters Consortium organized by the Canadian Water Network. A research grant for this work is provided by SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR through their Networks of Centres of Excellence program, with additional matching funds from partners in government and industry. This research will identify, assess and compare interventions and policies that can protect groundwater from contamination.
  • Congratulations
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    M. Scott Taylor, whose Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in International Energy and Environmental Economics was renewed with $1.4 million in funding over the next seven years..
  • Congratulations
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    Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research Awards Celebration was held on April 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the MacEwan Hall Ballroom. The winners of this prestigious award s are: Suzette Mayr (Department of English); Greg McDermid (Department of Geography); Apostolos Serletis (Department of Economics) and Michael Taylor and Annette Timm (Deparmtent of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian Studies).

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Latest Department Working Papers

Interest Rates, Leverage, and Money

by Apostolos Serletis, Khandokar Istiak and Periklis Gogas

The current mainstream approach to monetary policy is based on the New Keynesian ...
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The Use of Collaborative Bargaining in Agricultural Policy-Making

by Christopher Bruce

Creating a policy that balances the needs of different interest groups and economic sectors presents challenges for policy makers. While many different methods have been developed to address this issue, this report will provide a critical review of the process that is commonly known as collaborative bargaining - a technique in which public policy is developed by stakeholders, not government, using...
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Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games when Players' Beliefs Are Not in Equilibrium

by Aguirregabiria, Victor and Arvind Magesan

This paper deals with the identification and estimation of dynamic games when players’ beliefs about other players’ actions are biased, i.e., beliefs do not represent the probability distribution of the actual behavior of other players conditional on the information available. ...
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