The Department of Economics places a very high priority on academic research.
The Department currently has seven research chairs/professorships:
Curtis Eaton – University Professor
Herb Emery – Svare Professor in Health Economics
David Keith – Joint with Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, CRC I in Energy and the Environment
Joanne Roberts – CRC II in the Economics of Organizations
Apostolos Serletis – University Professor
M. Scott Taylor – CRC I in Trade and the Environment
Jack Mintz – Joint with Haskayne School of Business and Faculty of Law, Palmer Chair in Public Policy
Four of our faculty members are current or former members of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The department also has four past winners of the Harry Johnson Prize for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Economics; three past winners of the Doug Purvis Prize for the best Canadian publication in policy research; and one past President of the Canadian Economics Association.
A list of our faculty members and their research interests follows.
Atkins, Frank
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, World Oil markets, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy
Beaulieu, Eugene
Research Interests: International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Development
Boyce, John
Research Interests: Natural Resources, Environmental Economics, Public Choice, Industrial Organization
Bruce, Christopher
Research Interests: National Parks/Protected Areas, Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury Damages, Automobile Insurance, Labour Economics
Carbone, Jared
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Computable General Equilbrium Models
Choo, Eugene
Research Interests: Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of the Family, Applied Econometrics
Church, Jeffrey
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Regulatory Economics
Dugar, Subhasish
Research Interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization
Eaton, B. Curtis
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Evolutionary Economics, Applied Game Theory, Social Theory
Emery, J. C. Herbert
Research Interests: Economic History, Labour, Appied Econometrics
Ferrer, Ana
Research Interests: Labour Economics, Economics of Immigration, Economics of the Household
Gaisford, James
Research Interests: International Trade Theory and Policy, International Trade and Development, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Trade, Transition in Former Command Economies
Gonzalez, Francisco
Research Interests: Political Economy of Growth and Development, Social Conflict, Unemployment, Economic Fluctuations
Gordon, Daniel
Esearch Interests: Econometrics, Natural Resources, Labour Economics, Agricultural Economics
Hollis, Aidan
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Microcredit
Horbulyk, Ted
Research Interests: Public Finance and Public Policy, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Cost-Benefit Analaysis, Industrial Organization, Applied Welfare Economics, Economic Development
Keith, David
Research Interests: Applied Environmental and Energy Economics
Kneebone, Ronald
Research Interests: Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Public Sector Finances, Political Economy
Lu, Mingshan
Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Magesan, Arvind
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Political Economy
Mansell, Robert
Research Interests: Regulatory Economics, Regional Economics (Fiscal Issues, Alberta)
McKenzie, Kenneth
Research Interests: Public Economics, Resource Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Mintz, Jack
Research Interests: Public Economics, Tax Policy, Corporate Taxation and Comparative Tax Systems
Oxoby, Robert
Research Interests: Behavioural Economics, Microeconomics and Applied Game Theory
Roberts, Joanne
Research Interests: Economics of Organizations, Microeconomic Theory
Serletis, Apostolos
Research Interests: Macroeconometrics, Monetary and Financial Economics, Nonlinear and Complex Dynamics
Smulders, Sjak
Research Interests: Economic Growth, Environmental Economics, Innovation
Taylor, M. Scott
Research Interests: International Trade, Environmental and Resource Issues, Economic Growth
Tombe, Trevor
Research Interests: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development
Tsuyuhara, Kunio
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Search Theory, Contract Theory, Labour Economics
Walls, W. David
Research Interests: Empirical IO, Applied Microeconomics, Energy Economics, Transportation Economics, Motion Picture Industry
Wen, Jean-Francois
Research Interests: Public Finance, Macroeconomics
Wilman, Elizabeth
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Yuan, Lasheng
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Trade, Applied Microeconomics