Research Faculty
Amartya Lahiri
I work on things that I find interesting. These days those interests involve macro and microeconomic developments in India over the past three decades. But it changes...
My research area focuses are international economics, macroeconomics, and development economics. I obtained my Ph.D. from the U...Read more
Brian R Copeland
I am a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
I teach and do research in the the fields of Environmental Economics and International Trade. Most of my work has been on the interaction between globalization, the environment, and the sustainability of ...Read more
Claudio Ferraz
My research focuses on Political Economy and Development Economics, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. In particular, I work on issues related to governance and accountability, how politics affect public service delivery, the effects of electoral rules on political selection, and the state'...Read more
David Green
David Green
Professor
emailDavid.Green@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8216
location_onIona 161
Research Area
Labour EconomicsI am a professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC and an International Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.
My research interests centre around determinants of the wage and employment structure. This has entailed bridging between macro labour (worrying about general eq...Read more
Research Area
Labour Economics
Erik Snowberg
Erik Snowberg
Canada Excellence Research Chair (on leave)
emailErik.Snowberg@ubc.ca
phone604 827 0664
location_onIona Building 164
Renowned economist Erik Snowberg is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data-Intensive Methods in Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Snowberg is leading a cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research program aimed at linking disparate fields in...Read more
Florian Hoffmann
Florian Hoffmann
Associate Professor | BIE Director
phone604 822 4792
location_onIona Building 215
Research Area
Labour EconomicsI am an Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2010. Since 2012 I am a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group within the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.
Research Area
Labour Economics
Giovanni Gallipoli
Giovanni's research interests are in macroeconomics and applied microeconomics.
Gorkem Bostanci
My main research area is Macroeconomics. I study how market frictions impact aggregate productivity by distorting the allocation of workers and capital across firms. I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Area
Macroeconomics
Heather Sarsons (On Leave)
Heather Sarsons (On Leave)
Associate Professor
location_onIona Building 168
My research interests are in labour, behavioural, and social economics. I am particularly interested in understanding gender inequality and discrimination. I received my PhD from Harvard.
Henry Siu (On Leave)
Henry Siu (On Leave)
Professor
emailHenry.Siu@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2919
location_onIona Building 103
Research Area
MacroeconomicsI'm a Professor in Economics, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. I'm a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and the consequences of macroeconomic forces on the labour market. I've spent time as a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve B...Read more
Research Area
Macroeconomics
Hiro Kasahara
I am a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. My main research areas are econometrics, international trade, economic issues related to COVID. In econometrics, my research interests include structural estimation, finite mixture model...Read more
Jamie McCasland
Jamie McCasland
Assistant Professor
phone604 827 2247
location_onIona Building 158
Research Area
Development EconomicsJamie McCasland is an Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics. Prior to arriving at UBC, she completed a PhD in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
She has experience with field experiments in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Ghana. Her current research studies s...Read more
Research Area
Development Economics
Jesse Perla
Jesse Perla
Associate Professor
emailjesse.perla@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5721
location_onIona Building 201B
Research Area
MacroeconomicsI am an Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
My core interest is in macroeconomics and growth from the perspective of the firm, with an emphasis on the role of information diffusion.
I obtained my PhD in 2013 from New York University a...Read more
Research Area
Macroeconomics
Katherine Wagner
Katherine Wagner
Assistant Professor
location_onIona Building 211
Research Area
Environmental EconomicsMy research focuses primarily on Environmental and Energy Economics and Public Finance. I use a range of empirical tools to study questions related to environmental externalities, climate change, and natural resources. I completed my PhD in Economics at Yale University.
Research Area
Environmental Economics
Kevin Milligan
Kevin Milligan
Professor | Director, Vancouver School of Economics
phone604 822 6747
location_onIona Building 124
Kevin Milligan is a Professor of Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and is also affiliated with the CD Howe Institute and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Since 2011, he has served as co-editor of the Canadian Tax Journal.
He studied at ...Read more
Kevin Song
My main research interests are inference on various nonparametric or semiparametric models, optimal inference on nonregular parameters or set-identified parameters, and estimation of structural models based on interactions among economic agents.
I am originally from South Korea. I obtained my B.A...Read more
Research Area
Econometrics
Li Hao
He goes to University of C. To get his economics PhD. Coffee for tea, Starbucks for SOE. He's as lost as he can be. I've made up a complete plan. Wanna be a sequentially rational man. Trembling hand, perfect Bayesian. I am doing the very best I can. You've got private information. Gotta use direct r...Read more
Research Area
Theory
Marit Rehavi
Marit Rehavi
Associate Professor
emailMarit.Rehavi@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5226
location_onIona Building 155
Research Area
Public EconomicsMy research focuses on expert decision-making in medicine, criminal law and employment (hiring, compensation and promotion), particularly the exercise of discretion.
I obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan before coming to UBC....Read more
Research Area
Public Economics
Matt Lowe (On Leave)
Matt Lowe (On Leave)
Assistant Professor
emailmatt.lowe@ubc.ca
phone604 822 0672
location_onIona Building 166
Informed by social psychological and economic theory, I use field experiments and natural experiments to study the nature and malleability of relations between groups, whether relating to religion, caste, politics, race, or gender.
I received my PhD from MIT in 2018, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow...Read more
Mauricio Drelichman
Mauricio Drelichman
Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies (Faculty and Academic)
phone604 822 2527
location_onIona Building 109
Research Area
Economic HistoryMy main research area is economic history, with particular emphasis on Early Modern Spain. I am originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I obtained my Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
At UBC, I teach graduate and undergraduate courses, and I serve as the Director...Read more
Research Area
Economic History
Michael Devereux
I am a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics, and I have been at UBC since 1992. I obtained my PhD from Queen's University. My main research interests are in the field of international macroeconomics and international finance. I have ongoing research projects with co-authors in Canada, th...Read more
Michael Peters
I am a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics.
My research interests are in micro theory, especially the theory of competing mechanisms, and the theory of directed search.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Research Area
Theory
Michal Szkup
Michal Szkup
Associate Professor
emailMichal.Szkup@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5146
location_onIona Building 252
I am an Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
My research interest is in international macroeconomics, financial economics, and information economics with a particular focus on the role of coordination failures and financial frictions.
...Read more
Miguel Ortiz
Miguel Ortiz
Assistant Professor
My research interest are in political economy, development economics and behavioural economics. I’m particularly interested on conflict and intergroup relations. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.
Munir Squires
Munir Squires
Assistant Professor
emailMunir.Squires@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5062
location_onIona Building 107
Research Area
Development EconomicsMy research is in development economics and economic history, with a focus on kinship, culture, and the effects of cousin marriage. I obtained my Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Research Area
Development Economics
Nathan Nunn
Nathan Nunn is a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in political economy, economic history, economic development, cultural economics, and international trade. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the ...Read more
Nicole Fortin
I am a Full Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC in Vancouver, BC where I teach courses in labour economics and empirical economics, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I moved to UBC in 1999 after teaching for ten years at the Université de Montréal, in my hometown.
I am...Read more
Patrick Baylis
Patrick Baylis
Assistant Professor
emailpbaylis@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 827 2161
location_onIona Building 156
Research Area
Environmental EconomicsI study how people respond to environmental threats like wildfires, air pollution, and extreme temperatures. I received my PhD from the University of California Berkeley in 2016.
Research Area
Environmental Economics
Patrick Francois
I am a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics and a Senior Fellow of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Today my work focuses on problems in development economics, with a particular interest in Political Economy. I also work...Read more
Paul Beaudry
Paul Beaudry
Professor
emailPaul.Beaudry@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8624
location_onIona Building 157
Research Area
MacroeconomicsI am a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics interested in everything that relates to the macro-economy, both domestically and internationally. In particular I do research related to business cycles, inflation, financial markets, the macro-economic effects of technological change and global...Read more
Research Area
Macroeconomics
Paul Schrimpf
Paul Schrimpf
Associate Professor
emailPaul.Schrimpf@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5360
location_onIona Building 112
I am an associate professor at the Vancouver School of Economics. My research is in both theoretical and applied econometrics. I am currently working on projects about dynamic games, partial identification, and insurance.
I obtained my Ph.D. from MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Raffaele Saggio
Raffaele Saggio
Associate Professor
emailrsaggio@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 1418
location_onIona Building 111
Research Area
Labour EconomicsMy main research area is in labor economics. In particular, I study how alternative work arrangements impact the labor market outcomes of both firms and workers. I am also interested in applied econometrics, specifically in methods concerning the study of matched employer-employee datasets. I obtain...Read more
Research Area
Labour Economics
Reka Juhasz
I study industrial policy and industrialization, both past and current.
Sam Hwang
Sam Hwang
Assistant Professor
emailhwangii@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6282
location_onIona Building 204
Research Area
Industrial OrganizationMy main area of research is empirical industrial organization and market design. My current research project involves evaluating different school choice mechanisms. I received my PhD from University of Chicago in 2015.
Research Area
Industrial Organization
Sam Norris
I use economic tools to study topics in education, crime, and labour. I am particularly interested in criminal justice reform.
Sergei Severinov
Sergei Severinov
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5661
location_onIona Building 214
Research Area
TheoryMy research focuses on mechanism design, in particular, existence and construction of optimal mechanisms, competing auctions and mechanisms, as well as industrial organization theory. On the applied side, I have a keen interest in operations of water markets in developing nations, their further desi...Read more
Research Area
Theory
Siwan Anderson (On Leave)
My primary research area is applied development economics with a focus on micro-level informal and formal institutions. Much of my work studies women in developing countries.
I obtained my PhD from UBC.
Terry Moon
Terry Moon
Assistant Professor
emailtsmoon@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 0762
location_onIona Building 163
Research Area
Public EconomicsMy research fields are in public economics and corporate finance. My current projects study the effects of capital gains taxes on firms' investment and the spillover effects of political patronage on the allocation of bank credits in private markets. I am also interested in how firms' makret power a...Read more
Research Area
Public Economics
Thomas Lemieux (On Leave)
Thomas Lemieux (On Leave)
Professor
phone604 822 2092
location_onIona Building 205
Research Area
Labour EconomicsI am a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. I was born in Quebec City and obtained my Ph.D. from Princeton University. I taught at MIT and the Universite de Montreal before coming to UBC in 1999.
Most of my recent research revolves around the issue...Read more
Research Area
Labour Economics
Torsten Jaccard
Torsten Jaccard
Assistant Professor
emailtjaccard@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 0203
location_onIona Building 152
My research is in international trade, which I approach from an empirical perspective. My work uses micro-data to understand demand for imported goods and the various economic forces that shape consumer gains from trade. I am from New Westminster, BC, and completed my undergrad at UBC before pursui...Read more
Vadim Marmer
Vadim Marmer
Professor
emailVadim.Marmer@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8217
location_onIona Building 259
Research Area
EconometricsI came to UBC in 2005 after completing my Ph.D. at Yale University. My main area of research is Econometrics, where I have been working on topics such as estimation and inference for auctions, weak identification, misspecification, non-stationary time series, and inference with network-dependent dat...Read more
Research Area
Econometrics
Viktoriya Hnatkovska
My work focuses on topics in international finance and macroeconomics, as well as development economics, with a particular focus on India. I obtained my Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA.
Vitor Farinha Luz
My main research interests are Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design and Public Finance.
Wei Li
Wei Li
Associate Professor
emailWei.Li@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2839
location_onIona Building 154
Research Area
TheoryI became deeply interested in the interaction of information and incentives in various economics and political environment during my master studies at Harvard University. I continued to pursue this topic at MIT, where I obtained my Ph.D.
My research fields consist of contract theory, applied game...Read more
Research Area
Theory
Ying Gao
My research studies topics in economic theory, primarily models of disclosure, signaling, and reputation. I am interested in applications of game theory to questions in markets and organizations, and in intersections with approaches in computer science. I obtained my Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
Educational Leadership Faculty
Clive Chapple
Clive Chapple
Associate Professor of Teaching
emailClive.Chapple@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9367
location_onIona Building 212
I am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I teach a wide variety of courses including cost-benefit, environmental economics, and microeconomics at both the introductory and intermediate levels.
I am ori...Read more
Jonathan Graves
Jonathan Graves
Associate Professor of Teaching | Director of Undergraduate Studies (Curriculum and Students)
phone604 822 2202
location_onIona Building 104
I am the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Curriculum and Students) at the VSE, where I help students with their economics program, and develop our curriculum for economics education. I also teach a wide range of undergraduate courses here at the VSE, focusing on how we can use economic intuition...Read more
Marina Adshade
Dr. Marina Adshade has spent the last ten years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an ...Read more
Emeritus Faculty
Angela Redish
Angela Redish
Professor Emerita
emailAngela.Redish@ubc.ca
location_onIona Building 141B
Research Area
Economic HistoryAngela Redish is Professor Emerita, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. She has published extensively on the history of monetary and banking systems in Europe and North America. More recently her research has focused on the economic history of Indigenous peoples in North America.
Professor Redish...Read more
Research Area
Economic History
Ashok Kotwal (In Memoriam)
Ashok Kotwal (In Memoriam)
Professor Emeritus
Research Area
Development EconomicsDr. Ashok Kotwal passed away in April 2022, after teaching at UBC for almost 40 years. He is missed dearly by faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Research Area
Development Economics
Gordon R Munro
Gordon R Munro
Professor Emeritus
emailGordon.Munro@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5452
location_onIona Building 102A
Research Area
Environmental EconomicsI am a Professor Emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics and an Associate of the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.
My main research interest is in the economics management of world fishery resources, which has led me to do work for the FAO of the UN, ...Read more
Research Area
Environmental Economics
Hugh M Neary
Hugh M Neary
Professor Emeritus
emailHugh.Neary@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4505
location_onIona Building 102B
Research Area
Industrial OrganizationI am Professor Emeritus.
My current research is focused on evolutionary approaches to property rights.
I obtained my Ph.D. from the University of California in Berkeley, California, USA.
Research Area
Industrial Organization
John Helliwell
John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus
phone604 822 4953
location_onIona Building 141C
Research Area
Measurement and Well-being EconomicsMy research uses measures of subjective well-being from around the world to help understand what makes lives better, with special attention to social factors.
Research Area
Measurement and Well-being Economics
Margaret Slade
Margaret Slade
Professor Emeritus
emailMslade@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 2518
location_onRoom 141A Iona Building
Research Area
Industrial OrganizationI am a professor emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at The University of British Columbia. I taught at UBC for 20 years before going to the UK to become the Leverhulme Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Warwick. After six years in the UK, I retired and returned to Cana...Read more
Research Area
Industrial Organization
Mukesh Eswaran
Mukesh Eswaran
Professor Emeritus
phone604 822 4921
location_onIona Building 102B
Research Area
Development EconomicsI am a professor emertius in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I am a Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association, an Associate of Theoretical Research in Economic Development (ThReD), and a Senior Fellow of the Bureau of Research and Econ...Read more
Research Area
Development Economics
Nancy Gallini
Nancy Gallini
Professor Emeritus
emailNancy.Gallini@ubc.ca
location_onIona Building 141B
Research Area
Industrial OrganizationI am a Professor Emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics and graduate (PhD, 1980) of the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to coming to the VSE, I was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto (1979-2002) and Dean of Arts at the University of Britis...Read more
Research Area
Industrial Organization
Robert Evans
Robert Evans is a Professor Emeritus of the Vancouver School of Economics and is currently a Professor of Economics and Health Care and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.
Professor Evans is an internationally renowned leader in the field of Health Economics and was the founding direc...Read more
W Erwin Diewert
W Erwin Diewert
Professor Emeritus
emailErwin.Diewert@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2544
location_onIona Building 102C
Research Area
Measurement and Well-being EconomicsI have been a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia since 1970. I have a B.A. degree and a M.A. in mathematics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. I also have a part ti...Read more
Research Area
Measurement and Well-being Economics
W. Craig Riddell
W. Craig Riddell
Professor Emeritus
emailCraig.Riddell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2106
location_onIona Building 141D
Research Area
Labour EconomicsW. Craig Riddell is Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. He has published widely on topics in labour economics, labour relations and public policy, including income inequality, education, skill formation, unemployment, social programs, immigration, and unionization.
Professor R...Read more
Research Area
Labour EconomicsAssociate Member
Frederik Noack
I’m an Associate Professor of Food and Resource Economics, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Environmental Economics, and an Associate Member of the VSE. My personal website is available here.
My research focuses on the interaction of economic development and the environment. Specifically, I am...Read more
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Associate Member
I'm a Professor of Computer Science and an Associate Member of the VSE. My main research area is artificial intelligence, mostly at the intersection of machine learning and (1) market design and analysis; computational game theory; behavioral models; and (2) the design of heuristic algorithms. I obt...Read more
Affiliated Faculty
Margaret Schabas
Margaret Schabas
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, UBC
location_onBuchanan E Bldg. 358
Research Area
Economic HistoryResearch Interests
My research is mainly on topics in the history and philosophy of economics. A number of these articles examine economics as it drew upon or impinged upon other disciplines, notably mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics. I have been motivated to understand, bot...Read more
Research Area
Economic HistoryLecturers
Emrul Hasan
Emrul Hasan
Lecturer
emailemrul.hasan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5003
location_onIona Building 262
Research Area
Financial EconomicsMy primary teaching areas at VSE are Macroeconomics, Econometrics, International Trade, and International Finance. Before joining VSE, I used to teach economics and finance courses at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). I did my Ph.D. in Finance fro...Read more
Research Area
Financial EconomicsSessional Lecturers
Geoffrey Newman
My principal affiliation has been the University of Toronto, where I started as an Assistant Professor and then returned in the late 1990's. In between, I had substantial stays at Drew University and the London School of Economics. I have previously been Visiting Research Economist, University of Ca...Read more
Michael Vaney
Michael Vaney
Sessional Lecturer (Continuing)
emailMichael.Vaney@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3223
location_onIona Building 261
I am a sessional lecturer at the Vancouver School of Economics, and I currently teach a variety of undergraduate courses in the areas of microeconomic theory, econometrics and industrial organization.
Ratna Shrestha
Ratna Shrestha
Sessional Lecturer (Continuing)
phone604 827 0012
location_onIona Building 256
Research Area
Environmental EconomicsI lecture at the Vancouver School of Economics and Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC). Before joining UBC, I was an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. I did my PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii, Ma...Read more
Research Area
Environmental Economics
Robert Gateman
My teaching includes principles of micro and macroeconomics, as well as topics in economic policy and in the economic analysis of law.