Making Canadian healthcare systems "AI Ready" was a hot topic at the recent “Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence in Health Data: Advancements and Challenges Conference," organized by Economics Prof. Anindya Sen in cooperation with several other important stakeholders.
Is Canada doing immigration wrong?
Economics Professor Joel Blit provides insight in an interview on CBC's The National.
Our own Iuliia Nesterova, PhD candidate in Economics, explains her conspicuous consumption theses and "Keeping up with the Joneses' in an interview.
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.
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.
Inflation in Canada is at the highest rate weve seen in decades says Jean-Paul Lam, a professor in the University of Waterloos Department of Economics and former assistant chief economist and principal researcher at the Bank of Canada.
Graduating Economics students are recognized for their hard work and dedication each year. There are several awards given out to students who have demonstrated outstanding work in their academic performance. The awards given are:
Research by Waterloo Economics PhD grad Sara Aghakazemjourabbaf and faculty member Margaret Insley has been featured in Science for Environment Policy, a news service published by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General. The article recommends stringent environmental bonds to cover clean-up costs for mining waste.
On April 12, 2022, Professor Derek Stacey was on CBC Up North. In the interview, he discusses blind-bidding in the housing market, and he shares his thoughts on what open-bidding might mean for house prices and housing affordability.