Economics
Master of Arts
Vancouver School of Economics
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Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Anderson, Siwan | Micro-level institutions, role of gender, studies of rural governments |
| Baylis, Patrick | Economics; Climate Changes and Impacts; Economic Planning of Energy; climate change economics; energy economics; environmental economics |
| Beaudry, Paul | National and International macroeconomic issues, Business cycles, inflation, financial markets, the macro-economic effects of technological change and globalization, and the determinants of aggregate employment and wages |
| Bostanci, Gorkem | Macroeconomics (including monetary and fiscal theory); Industry economics and industrial organization; Firm Dynamics; Input Allocation and Productivity; Labor Demand; intellectual property |
| Copeland, Brian | International trade, environmental economics, interaction between globalization, the environment, and the sustainability of renewable resources |
| Couture, Victor | Economics; Urban economics and transportation; Efficiency of urban transportation systems; Potential for e-commerce to reduce spatial inequality; Preferences for social interactions; Consequences of gentrification |
| Devereux, Michael | Economics, Macro and Monetary Economics Economic Policy, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Deficits, Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, Financial Crises, International, monetary |
| Drelichman, Mauricio | Economic history, Spain, Argentina |
| Farinha Luz, Vitor | Microeconomic Theory, |
| Ferraz, Claudio | governance and accountability in developing countries; how politics affect public service delivery; the effects of electoral rules on political selection; the role of the state in high crime and violence environments |
| Fortin, Nicole | Wage inequality and its links to labour market institutions and public policies, including higher education policies economic progress of women, gender equality policies, and gender issues in education |
| Francois, Patrick | African Autocracies, Economics of Developing Countries, Indian Village Governance, Macro, development, problems in development economies, political economy and non profits |
| Gallipoli, Giovanni | 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 economics; macroeconomics; Consumption theory and measurement |
| Green, David | Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Determinants of the wage and employment structure bridging between macro labour and micro labour identification issues |
| Hnatkovska, Viktoriya | International finance, macroeconomics, development economics in India |
| Hoffmann, Florian | Labor Economics, Macro Economics, Income Inequality, Education, Mobility |
| Hwang, Il Myoung | empirical industrial organization and market design; evaluating different school choice mechanisms |
| Jaccard, Torsten | Economics; international trade |
| Juhasz, Reka | Economics; international trade; Economic History; Development and Growth; industrial policy and industrialization |
| Kasahara, Hiroyuki | Econometrics and international trade |
| Lahiri, Amartya | Exchange rates and monetary policy, growth and development, international economics, macroeconomics, and development economics |
| Lemieux, Thomas | labour market issues, Applied, labour, earnings inequality in Canada and other countries I am also interested in econometric methods used to analyze the earnings distribution and regression discontinuity designs |
| Li, Wei | Contract theory, applied game theory, and information economics I am deeply interested in the interaction of information and incentives in various economics and political environments |
| Li, Hao | Microeconomic theory, theory of contracts and organizations, and games and decisions |
| Lowe, Matthew | preference formation; social integration; political selection |
| Marmer, Vadim | Econometrics, fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, international business cycle models |
| McCasland, Jamie | small firm hiring, job training, and network-based technology adoption in low-income countries |
| Milligan, Kevin | Labour and demographic economics; Public economics; Economic Policies; Children; Inequality; Pensions; Public Finance; Taxation |
| Moon, Seok Min | public economics; Corporate Finance; the effects of capital gains taxes on firms’ investment; the spillover effects of political patronage on the allocation of bank credits in private markets; how firms’ market power affects their investment, capital structure, and employment decisions |
| Norris, Samuel | Economics and business administration; Education; Crime; labor economics |
| Nunn, Nathan | Economics; Political economy; Economic History; economic development; cultural economics; international trade |
| Perla, Jesse | macro-economics and growth from the perspective of the firm, with an emphasis |
| Peters, Michael | micro theory, especially the theory of competing mechanisms, and the theory of directed search |
| Rehavi, M. | Economics; Law; Health Care Organization; Public Finances and Taxation; Algorithms; applied econometrics; criminal law; decision support (algorithms); discrimination; maternal health |
| Saggio, Raffaele | Labour Economics; Alternate Work Arrangements; applied econometrics; Matched employer-employee datasets |
| Sarsons, Heather | Economics; labour, personnel, and behavioural economics |
| Schrimpf, Paul | theoretical and applied econometrics; dynamic games, partial identification, and insurance |
| Severinov, Sergei | Auctions, industrial organization theory, water markets in developing nations |
| Siu, Henry | business cycle, recession, unemployment, Business cycles and the consequences of macroeconomic forces on the labour market |
| Snowberg, Erik | Political economy; Behavioural Economics; Experimental Design; Data-Intensive Methods in Economics |
| Song, Kyungchul | Estimation of structural models based on interactions among economic agents |
| Squires, Munir | Development Economics, Firms and Productivity |
| Szkup, Michal | international macroeconomics, financial economics and information economics with a particular focus on the role of coordination failures and financial frictions. |
| Valencia Caicedo, Felipe | Development Economics; Economic History; Economic Growth; Latin America |
| Wagner, Katherine | Economics; Environmental and Energy Economics; Public Finance |
