University of Calgary
2007
News Archive - 2007 | |
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| October 15 | · Congratulations to Peter Tracey on his promotion to Senior Instructor and Herb Emery on his promotion to Full Professor.
· Congratulations also to Prof. Emery for his appointment as the Svare Chair in Health Economics, joint with the Centre for Health Policy Studies in the Faculty of Medicine. |
| September 24 | Congratulations to MA student Jason Strauss, who was recently awarded a MITACS Internship for the study of automobile insurance markets. |
| September 20 | Welcome to Eugene Choo, who has been appointed as an Associate Professor as of September 1, 2007. |
| September 20 | New Web Site: We have updated our web site. Please bear with us while we are fixing a few bugs. Please send any suggestions to econweb [at] ucalgary [dot] ca . |
| July 23 |  Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Water Resource Allocation Strategies, September 7-9, 2007. Departmental researchers Ted Horbulyk and Collins Ayoo, along with colleagues from the Alberta Research Council, are holding a research workshop that links computational economic modeling with water policy analysis. The workshop will allow invited researchers to discuss alternative methodological approaches and to establish a base for more effective collaboration in future. Professors Richard Howitt and Jay Lund of the University of California at Davis and Professor David Zilberman of the University of California at Berkeley have agreed to help facilitate this workshop and to share their experiences on how the California research community has met these challenges. The workshop is being held with the financial support of the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, ISEEE and the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Water Research. The workshop is "sold out" and registration is now closed. |
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We are also pleased to announce the following appointments to the department: Eugene Choo, Associate Professor, as of September 1, 2007; |
| July 5 | Announcement: New Expanded Writing Program: The Department of Economics has expanded the writing program following the great success of the program that was introduced last year. You may be wondering, "What does writing have to do with economics?" The answer is that a large part of what economists do is write. Although we tend to think of economics as involving problem sets and equations, the fact is that the results of economic research must be communicated effectively. This program provides the skills needed to communicate economics. For more information consult the links on the Undergraduate web page. |
| July 5 | Announcement: Improvements to the Applied Energy Program: After 10 years of providing students with direct training in the economics of the energy sector, The Department of Economics has made some exciting changes to improve the popular Applied Energy program. The changes are designed to update the curriculum to make it more relevant to students and perspective employers. For more information about the Applied Energy program follow the link from the Undergraduate page to the Applied Energy Program. |
| June 1 | Seminar: Dr. Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon University, "Electricity Deregulation: USA Lessons on How Not to Do It", June 6, 2007 at 12:00 - 2:00 pm in SS 423 |
| May 3 | Congratulations to the following SSHRC Grant recipients: Aidan Hollis for his research on Patents and Prizes; Mike McKee on "Laboratory Experiments in Economic Decision Making"; and Eugene Beaulieu with Jen Baggs (University of Victoria) and Loretta Fung (University of Alberta) on "Large Real Exchange Rate Movements on Firm Performance and Productivity". |
| April 23 | Seminar: Sheryl Kennedy, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada will discuss the Bank's latest Monetary Policy Report and Research Agenda. Monday, April 30, 2007 at 10:00 - 11:00 am in SS 423. |
| April 18 | Congratulations to Afshin Honarvar who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. His dissertation title is "Econometric Investigation of the Asymmetric Relationship between Retail Gasoline and Crude Oil Prices". His supervisor was Dr. Herb Emery. |
| April 17 | Congratulations to Geoff Kerr, male winner of the Dr. Dennis Kadatz Athlete of the Year award after going undefeated against CIS competition in both cross country and track and field in 2006-07, earning the rare distinction of being named CIS athlete of the year in two sports in the same season. |
| 'April 17 | Congratulations to Jesse Matheson, whose was awarded a SSHRC doctoral scholarship. |
| April 13 | Congratulations to Ron Schlenker and Mike McKee who were awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences Teaching and Research Awards respectively for 2006. |
| April 3 | Announcement: Fadi Guirgis Scholarship worth $500 is offered annually to a continuing undergraduate student with a major in Economics in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Applicants must submit a letter describing their extra-curricular activities involving service to the Economics department and a supporting letter of reference to the Department of Economics by April 15, 2007. |
| April 2 | Seminar: Dr. Partha Deb, SUNY, Hunter College, "Weak Identification in Models with Binary Endogenous Regressors" , Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:30 - 5:00 pm in SS 423. |
| April 2 | Seminar: Dr. Denise Doiron, University of New South Wales, "Family Formation and the Demand for Private Health Insurance", Monday, April 2, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30 pm in SS 423. |
| March 26 | Congratulations to Chris Auld, who has been successful in the AHFMR Health Scholarship Competition with his project "Econometric Analysis of the Private and Social Causes of Body Weight. Chris has been promoted from a population Health Investigator to a Health Scholar. |
| March 26 | Seminar: Dr. Peter Thompson, Florida International University, "Desperate Housewives? Communication Difficulties and the Dynamics of Marital (un)Happiness", Friday, March 30, 2007, 3:00 - 4:30 pm in SS 423. |
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| March 19 | Seminar: Dr. Ujjayant Chakravorty, University of Central Florida, "Ordering the Extraction of Polluting Nonrenewable Resources", Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 3:30 - 5:00 pm in SS 423. |
| March 6 | Seminar: Dr. Douglas S. West, University of Alberta, "Firm Survival and Chain Growth in a Privatized Retail Liquor Store Industry," Monday, March 12, 2007, 3:15 - 5:00 pm in SS 423. |
| March 1 | Congratulations to Xing Huang and Ashley Martin who were awarded the Economics Alumni Graduate Scholarship. Kenneth Wyllie won the Professor Z.m. Kubinski Prize in Economics for Fall 2006. |
| February 22 | Seminar: Dr. Aidan Hollis, University of Calgary, "Mechanisms for Innovation", Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 3:30 - 5:00 pm in SS 423. |
| February 20 | Congratulations to Dr. Ken McKenzie who has been named to the Government of Alberta's Royalty Review Panel, an independent panel of experts who will review all aspects of the oil and gas royalty system. |
| February 20 | Announcement - Summer 2007 Internships in Regulatory Economics - Students must have completed Econ 471 and Econ 477 |
| January 29 | Welcome to Dr. Olga Uritskaya who is an Associate Professor of Mathematical Economics at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia. She is a Visiting Scholar in our department for 2007. |
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| January 17 | Congratulations to David Walls elected Vice President of the Canadian Association for Energy Economics, the Canadian affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics |