Professor Mikal Skuterud discusses the impacts of Covid-19 on Canadian labour markets in this webinar hosted by the UW Economics Society.
Corey Van de Waal is a continuing lecturer in the Department of Economics. After developing and teaching ECON 254: The Economics of Sport for the past eight years, he's ventured in the publishing world with the release of Economics and the Sports Industry. It is available through Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
Here is a short Q & A with Corey about the book.
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Please join us for the next PhD student seminar with Renliang (Jason) Liu on "A Domino Theory of Regionalism Revisited: The Role of Homogeneity/Heterogeneity in Institutions."
Renliang (Jason) Liu is an economics graduate student at the University of Guelph. His fields of interest are economic development, international economics, applied econometrics.
Join the seminar on WebEx.
Our Economics Society presents: Economics Alumni Panel
Curious about career opportunities your economics degree will give you after graduation? UWES is bringing you three brilliant alumni who have used their Economics degree from the University of Waterloo in unique and non-traditional ways, and have advanced in competitive and top-performing industries.
Please join us for the next PhD student seminar with John Baker on "Business Cycles, Immigration and Labour Markets: Analysis of a Policy Experiment."
John Baker is an economics graduate student at the University of Waterloo. His fields of interest are macroeconomics and policy evaluation.
Join the seminar on WebEx.
Professor Mikko Packalen and Stanford professor Jayanta Bhattacharya dicuss how policies that depress the world economy put millions at risk in The Spectator.
Read his co-authored op-ed piece with Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Financial Post.
Professor Mikko Packalen outlines why we must be cautious about our expectations of testing in this op-ed for the Financial Post.
Mikal Skuterud, who researches immigration economics, chatted with Media Relations at UW on the topic of temporary foreign worker programs. You can find the full article, Q and A with the experts: the future of temporary foreign worker programs, on the Waterloo Stories page.
The Economics department celebrated the accomplishments of its’ graduate students at a virtual celebration on Zoom held on Friday, June 26, 2020.