Réka Juhász Selected by the Bank of Canada for the 2025 Governor’s Award
The Vancouver School of Economics proudly congratulates Dr. Réka Juhász on being honoured with the prestigious 2025 Bank of Canada Governor’s Award. From the Bank of Canada, “The Governor’s Award provides financial support to academics who are recognized for their expertise and research in areas important to the Bank’s core functions.” This prestigious award is […]
The Econometric Society Elects Paul Beaudry as 2024 Fellow
October 11th, 2024-Professor Paul Beaudry of the Vancouver School of Economics was elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society, alongside 41 other economists from research institutions around the world. From the Econometric Society: “Founded in 1930, the Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics […]
Dr Brian Copeland recognized as fellow of the Canadian Economics Association
Dr. Brian Copeland, in recognition of significant contributions to the field of Economics over the course of his career, has been inducted as one of the three new CEA fellows to be awarded in 2024. These awards recognize the scholar’s contribution to the field of economics, and are given to economists who have spent a […]
Remembering Dr. J. Rhys Kesselman
Dr. Jonathan Rhys Kesselman passed away on Sunday, February 25th, following a short illness. Rhys was our colleague in the UBC Department of Economics from 1972 to 2003, so many of VSE’s longer-tenured colleagues have treasured memories of him. Myself, I remember his excitement to talk to me about tax policy during my fly-out recruiting […]
Three hires mark end of successful faculty recruiting year for VSE
The Vancouver School of Economics welcomes Ying Gao (PhD MIT ‘24), Miguel Ortiz (PhD Berkeley ‘24) and Charlie Rafkin (PhD MIT ‘24) to join the faculty, marking the end of a successful recruiting year for the VSE. Ying Gao’s research focuses on economic theory and organizational economics. Her job market paper titled, “Inference from Selectively […]
UBC Professors Kevin Song and Vadim Marmer win Zellner Award for paper in Journal of Econometrics
Professors Kevin Song and Vadim Marmer, along with Tilburg’s Denis Kojevnikov (VSE Phd ‘19), have won the 2023 Zellner award for their paper in the Journal of Econometrics
UBC and Oxford researchers receive transformative Sloan Foundation grant to pursue research on industrial policy
Researchers Réka Juhász and Nathan Lane have been awarded a prestigious grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in order to expand their research on industrial policy.
Distinguished economist rejoins UBC from Harvard as VSE Professor
Dr. Nathan Nunn taught at UBC before embarking on an illustrious career at Harvard. He is now returning to UBC.
Dr. Mauricio Drelichman receives 2021 Earl J. Hamilton Prize
The prize honours the best research article on Spanish economic history published in an international journal in the previous year.