ISEAPA selects Erwin Diewert for 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Emeritus Erwin Diewert has been selected as the recipient of the ISEAPA Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026.
UBC Professor Raffaele Saggio receives Aigner Award from Journal of Econometrics
We’re proud to congratulate Dr. Raffaele Saggio on his recent receipt of the 2025 Aigner Award from the Journal of Econometrics, along with coauthors Sabrina Di Addario (Bank of Italy), Patrick Kline (Berkeley) and Mikkel Sølvsten (Aarhus University). This award is given each year for the best empirical paper published in the Journal. The paper, […]
Video: Mauricio Drelichman Explains why Joel Mokyr Deserved the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics
In 2025, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. Mauricio Drelichman (Vancouver School of Economics at UBC) delivered this lecture, which describes the work which merited the prize this year, as well as a deeper dive into the research career […]
Congratulations to the VSE’s 14 SSHRC grant recipients!
The Vancouver School of Economics is proud to congratulate fourteen of our researchers on receiving the SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants, totaling $1.64 million.
Celebrating VSE Student & Faculty 2025 Awardees
As the academic year comes to a close, the Vancouver School of Economics congratulates the Class of 2025 on their graduation, as well as recipients of numerous awards on their incredible service, performance, and innovation. Student Awardees Isabel Bengson – W. Erwin Diewert Prize, Outstanding paper in Applied Economics The W. Erwin Diewert prize is […]
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.
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 […]