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News
Iuliia Nesterova, PhD Candidate, Economics
Our own Iuliia Nesterova, PhD candidate in Economics, explains her conspicuous consumption theses and "Keeping up with the Joneses' in an interview.
Margaret Insley named CREEA | ACERE Fellow
Congratulations to Economics Faculty member Margaret Insley for being inducted as a Fellow to the CREEA |ACERE! Created in 2020, the title of CREEA|ACERE Fellow is conferred upon individuals who have advanced the profession of environmental and resource economics and made significant contributions to CREEA|ACERE and its operations.
Memorial University Professor visiting to conduct research
Dr. Nahid Masoudi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Memorial University of Newfoundland whose research interests focus on Environmental and Resource Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Game Theory, and Public Economics. She will be visiting and collaborating with researchers in the Department of Economics for the next 4 months while on sabbatical from her position at MUN.