Economics

This class comprises research and experimental development in economics.

Parent Category

Sub-Categories

Economic history and heterodox economics
Macroeconomics (including monetary and fiscal theory)
Microeconomics
Comparative economic systems
Econometrics
Agricultural economics
Economics of development and growth
Economics of innovation and technical change
Economics of education
Economics of health care
Environment and natural resources economics
Financial economics
Industry economics and industrial organization
International economics and international finance
Indigenous economics
Labour and demographic economics
Public economics
Transport economics
Urban, rural and regional economics
Economics of international development
Welfare economics
Economic systems
Circular economy
Social and solidarity economics
Collaborative economy and sharing economy
Real estate economics
Experimental economics
Economics, n.e.c.

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Antweiler, Werner

Division of Strategy and Business Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; International economics and international finance; environmental economics; energy economics; electricity markets; climate change; natural resource economics; international trade policy; urban transportation

Atleo, Tara

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous economics; Indigenous peoples environmental knowledge; Sustainability management; Sustainable development and policy; Sustainability Management; Communities and Indigenous Knowledge; Stewardship Economics

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Barichello, Richard

Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Agricultural economics; trade policy, evaluation of policy instruments, rural labour markets, agricultural development

Baylis, Patrick

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Climate Changes and Impacts; Economic Planning of Energy; climate change economics; energy economics; environmental economics

Bena, Jan

Division of Finance, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Financial economics; Finance, n.e.c.; Stock markets; International economics and international finance; Economics of innovation and technical change; Industry economics and industrial organization; Innovation; Corporate innovation; Asset pricing of technological progress; Private equity; Corporate ownership structure; Frictions in raising external finance; Entrepreneurship; Ownership of startup companies; Finance and industrial organization; Product market interactions

Black, Thomas Andrew

Applied Biology, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric sciences; Environment and natural resources economics; Natural resource management; Soil sciences; Biometeorology; Microclimate modification; Soil physics; Greenhouse gas emissions; Evapotranspiration

Bostanci, Gorkem

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Macroeconomics (including monetary and fiscal theory); Industry economics and industrial organization; Firm Dynamics; Input Allocation and Productivity; Labor Demand; intellectual property

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Gallipoli, Giovanni

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Macroeconomics (including monetary and fiscal theory); Economic Policies; Economic Phenomena on a National or International Level; Economic Phenomena on an Individual or Organizational Level; applied microeconomics; computational economics; Labor markets; macroeconomics; Consumption theory and measurement; Trade; Insurance

Gantois, Joséphine

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; Ecological applications; Sociology; Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation; environmental economics; Applied Ecology; Rural Sociology; Causal inference; Applied Deep Learning

Gulati, Sumeet

Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Agricultural economics; Wildlife and habitat management; Ecological policy; Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict; Economics of Urban Transportation; Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes; Effectiveness of Environmental Policy; International Trade and its Effect on the Environment; Political Economy of Environmental and Trade Policy

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Jaccard, Torsten

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; international trade

Juhasz, Reka

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; international trade; Economic History; Development and Growth; industrial policy and industrialization

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Khanna, Tarun

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Renewable energy systems (except smart systems engineering); Environmental policy; energy economics; Evidence synthesis; policy evaluation; electricity markets; energy in development; decarbonization of the energy sector

Kikkawa, Ayumu

Division of Strategy and Business Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

international trade; Industrial Organization; International trade, Industrial Organization

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Lee, Gene

Division of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics of innovation and technical change; Management information systems; Artificial intelligence, n.e.c.; AI in Business; Business Analytics; Information Systems

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Milligan, Kevin

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Labour and demographic economics; Public economics; Economic Policies; Children; Inequality; Pensions; Public Finance; Taxation

Morgan, Steve

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health policy; Economics of health care; Health services and systems; Access to medicines; Health care policy; Pharmacare; Pharmaceutical pricing; Prescribing appropriateness; Comparative policy analysis; Health care financing

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Noack, Frederik

Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; Economics of Biodiversity; Economics of Conservation; Fisheries Economics; economic development; Forests

Nunn, Nathan

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Political economy; Economic History; economic development; cultural economics; international trade

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Pratap-Singh, Anubhav

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization

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Rehavi, Marit

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Law; Health Care Organization; Public Finances and Taxation; Algorithms; applied econometrics; criminal law; decision support (algorithms); discrimination; maternal health

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Wagner, Katherine

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Environmental and Energy Economics; Public Finance

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Yan, Han

Division of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Banking; Climate Finance; Voluntary Disclosure; Earnings Quality; Reduced Form and Structural Estimation; Banking, Climate Finance, Voluntary Disclosure, Earnings Quality, Reduced Form and Structural Estimation

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Zerriffi, Hisham

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental geography; Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Modelling and applications of systems; Environment and natural resources economics; Environmental policy; Biomass (Energy); Energy Transformation and Energy Using; International development; Environment and Society; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; energy poverty

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Elaine Williamson

Student

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Jeffrey Hicks

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)

Using large-scale administrative data to study the long-term causes and consequences of social assistance use
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Blair MacDonald

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology (PhD)

The prioritization of shared decision-making opportunities for medication choices within the context of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
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Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)

Can machine learning enhance economic models with heterogeneity?
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Sebastian Gomez Cardona

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)

Household finance, portfolio choice and financial literacy
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Saattvic Saattvic

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Strategy and Business Economics (PhD)

The effect of digital distribution platforms on experience and credence goods industries, with a focus on the media
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Meryem Belkadi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

The gendered impact of a nationwide slum clearance program in Morocco on the interrelationship between housing markets and employment outcomes

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Zeina Waheed

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Identification and evaluation of implementation strategies to advance the adoption of pharmacogenomic testing to help guide antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder
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Brandon Hillier

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

How engineers learn to labour: Elite technology work across borders in the United States and Canada

Rishika Selvakumar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Resource allocation within youth mental health systems in BC
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Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Analyzing data and policy outcomes for repair, reuse, and recycling for end-of-life electronics

French Name

Sciences économiques

French Description

Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en sciences économiques .