Faculty and graduate students have conducted research on topics such as:
- The interaction between the stringency of environmental regulations and the structure of the eco-industry that supplies goods and services for pollution control.
- An examination of the barriers faced by immigrants in finding jobs using a longitudinal analysis of Canadian labour force survey data.
- Effects of the minimum wage on poverty in Canada.
- Effects of border restrictions enacted post 9/11 on trade flows between Canada and the United States.
- An empirical analysis of the costs and unintended potential benefits of fragmentation in patent ownership.
- Optimal decisions in natural resource investments using a regime-switching model of commodity price dynamics.