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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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  • Department of Economics 2012 Distinguished Lecture
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    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.
  • Welcome
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    Dr. Ling-Yun (Leon) HE is an associate professor that is visiting the Department on sabbatical from the China Agricultural University in Beijing from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2013. Leon acquired his Ph. D. at University of Science & Technology of China in 2007. His current research interests include energy economics and environmental policy, computational and experimental economics, etc. Leon now focuses on the health impacts of harmful emissions, nonlinear dynamics of financial bubbles, etc. Leon is located in SS 426. Faculty members and students are welcomed to stop by SS 426 any time.
  • 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.

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Latest Department Working Papers

Paging Inspector Sands: The Costs of Informing the Public about Impending Events

by Kapoor, Sacha and Arvind Magesan

We study the effects of providing the public with information about impending events. Specifically, we draw on a natural experiment to evaluate the impact that pedestrian countdown signals - timers that indicate when traffic lights will change from green to yellow - have on the behavior and safety of road users. The experiment generates exogenous differences in when a countdown signal gets ins...
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The Social Rate of Return to Investing in Character: An Economic Evaluation of Alberta's Immigrant Access Fund Small Loan Progr

by Herbert Emery and Ana Ferrer

Skilled immigrants have been identified as a key source of labour supply for addressing the expected labour market shortages in Canada arising from an aging population and strong economic growth. The integration of immigrants into the workforce often requires that they have the necessary accreditation to work at their chosen occupation. However, credential recognition has proven to be a...
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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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