The Department of Economics and Finance, with the generous support of Alumni and friends, provides this $1000 scholarship to a full-time graduate student registered in the MA program in Economics. The award is granted to the student who has attained the highest cumulative average in the first two semesters of the graduate program. Congratulations Amit!
Speaker: Zara Liaqat, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
Title: The End of MFA and Firm Performance in Textile Industry
Date: Friday May 11, 3:30-5:00pm
Location: TBA
Two members of the Department of Economics and Finance have recently been awarded research fellowships:
Fellows are appointed for a 5-year term and will be provided with a $50,000 grant to support their research activities.
The Warren Jestin Scholarship in Canadian Economic Policy was awarded to Rachel Maunder. This scholarship is awarded to the economics student with the highest cumulative average over all courses in economic policy. Rachel is a student in the MEIF program and will be graduating this year.
Dr. Luc Moers will be giving a talk entitled, "Wealthier, Healthier?" This talk is part of the International Development Studies Speaker Series. Dr. Moers is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics and Finance (on leave from IMF). The seminar will be held on Friday, March 2nd from 3:00-4:30 pm (with reception to follow) in Rozanski 102.
Luciano de Castro from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University will present "A New Approach to Correlation of Types in Bayesian Games" in the Visiting Speakers Series on Friday March 2 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in Mack 313.
Meghan Pohl is the 2011 recipient of the John Vanderkamp Memorial Scholarship in Economics. The scholarship is awarded annually to the honours student in economics who has completed between 12.5 and 15 credits and who has the highest academic standing.