Research Highlights

The Department of Economics and Finance is one of the most active economics research institutions in Canada, and is ranked in the top 4% worldwide by RePEc for research output.

Research Chairs and Fellowships

Three of our department members are holders of important research chairs or fellowships:

• Rene Kirkegaard is a Canada Research Chair in Risk Management and Regulation and a University Research Leadership Chair
• Yiguo Sun a Senior Research Fellow at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics

External Research Grants

Many DEF faculty are holders of external research grants:

Tri-Council Grants (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

• Talat Genc
  • $53,956 SSHRC Insight Development Grant; June 1, 2019 – May 31, 2021
  • Title: The Impact of the United Nations Sustainability Goals on Closed-loop Supply Chains
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Delong Li
  • $33,375 SSHRC Insight Grant (Sub-Award); April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2024
  • Title: Comparison of Information Structures & Role of Public Information
  • Role: Co-Applicant
• Kris Inwood
  • $2,495,100 SSHRC Partnership Grant; 2019 – 2026
  • Title: Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940)
  • Role: Co-Applicant
• Thanasis Stengos
  • $63,000 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals; March, 2019 – 
  • Journal: Review of Economic Analysis
  • Role: Editor
• Louise Grogan
  • $30,996 SSHRC Insight Development Grant; June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2020
  • Title: Indigenous Cultures, Extractive Colonialism
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Kurt Annen
  • $60,534 SSHRC Insight Development Grant; June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2020
  • Title: Democratization and Economic Growth
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Mike Hoy
  • $65,880 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2017 – March 31, 2022
  • Title: Social Evaluation, Risk and Information
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Alex Maynard
  • $94,000 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2017 – March 31, 2022
  • Title: Small Persistent Deviations from Long Run Equilibrium
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Ilias Tsiakas
  • $79,310 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2017 – March 31, 2022
  • Title: Carbon Emissions and Global Financial Markets
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Kris Inwood
  • $148,374 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2017 – March 31, 2021
  • Title: Quantitative Aspects of Well-Being and Inequality in British Settler Societies
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Rene Kirkegaard
  • $68,600 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2017 – March 31, 2021
  • Title: Endogenous Criteria Success and Multitasking
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Yiguo Sun
  • $96,430 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2016 – March 31, 2021
  • Title: Functional-Coefficient Spatial Autoregressive Models
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Thanasis Stengos
  • $76,875 SSHRC Insight Grant; March 15, 2016 – March 31, 2021
  • Title: Growth Convergence and Country Club Formation
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Thanasis Stengos
  • $85,000 NSERC Discovery Grant; March 15, 2015 – March 31, 2020
  • Title: A Long Memory Markov Switching Model
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Johanna Goertz
  • $31,500 SSHRC Standard Research Grant; Apr 1, 2011 – Mar 31, 2020
  • Title: Approval Voting in Diverse Voting Situations: Theory and Experiments
  • Role: Principal Investigator

Canada Foundation for Innovation

• Kris Inwood
  • $1,465,000 CFI; July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2022
  • Title: The Canadian Peoples project

Other Research Activities

DEF faculty are also actively engaged in important professional research activity, such as:

• Professor Michael Hoy is Editor of Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Inequality, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
• Professor Thanasis Stengos is Editor of the Review of Economic Analysis, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics and International Journal of Business and Economics.
• Professor Kris Inwood is Editor of Social Science History; Editor of the Australian Economic History Review; and Academic Director of the StatCan-UoG Branch Research Data Centre.
• Professor Rene Kirkegaard is an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior.
• Professor Ilias Tsiakas is an Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry and a Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
• Professor Nikola Gradojevic is an Assistant Editor of Panoeconomicus, and a Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
• Professor Ross McKitrick is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the John Deutsch Institute.
• Professor John Livernois is the founder of the Canadian Resources and Environmental Economics Study Group (CREE) and has hosted two of the annual CREE workshops at the University of Guelph
• Professor Louise Grogan is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Labor Economics (www.iza.org) in Bonn (IZA Bonn), and Senior Research Fellow at University of Central Asia. 
• Professor Brian Ferguson is an Editorial Board Member of Substance Use and Misuse
• Professor C. Bram Cadsby is an Associate Editor, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and a member of the Editorial Board of New Zealand Economic Papers
• Professor J. Atsu Amegashie is an Associate Editor of Defence and Peace Economics and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and European Journal of Political Economy