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.
Latest Department Working Papers
Interest Rates, Leverage, and Money
by Apostolos Serletis, Khandokar Istiak and Periklis GogasThe 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 BruceCreating 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 MagesanThis 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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