Mme Presidente
Prof. Victoria Zinde-Walsh delivered her presidential address to the Canadian Economics Association annual meetings at the University of Ottawa on Saturday, June 4, thus bringing to a close her year as president of the association. Her subject was “Mathematics in Economics and Econometrics.”
McGill Economics was well represented at the meetings, which ran from Friday, June 3, through Sunday, June 5. In addition to Prof. Zinde-Walsh’s address, Markus Poschke, Robert Cairns, Mathieu Chemin, Russell Davidson, and Sonia Laszlo presented papers. So did PhD students Eesha Sen Choudhury, Zongye Huang, Farnaz Taherkhani, Rami Tabri and Taweewan Sidthidet. Several other Department members, including Jennifer Hunt, Franque Grimard and Christopher Ragan, organized sessions, chaired them or served as discussants or panelists.
The CEA also featured an invited lecture in honour of Prof. Mary MacKinnon, organized by Prof. Ian Keay of Queen's University, her former student (MA 2003), and presided over by Prof. Christopher Minns of the London School of Economics, who worked with Mary when he was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill from 2000-2002 and was also a frequent co-author and colleague on research teams.
The CEA conference program is available here.
(Photos of Prof. Zinde-Walsh by Owen Egan and Jean-Marie Dufour)
Prof. Ngo Van Long wins Faculty of Arts Award for Distinction in Research
The full citation is available online [.pdf]
Prof. Christopher Ragan Assumes Dodge Chair
The Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute has appointed Associate Professor Christopher Ragan as the inaugural holder of the Institute's David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy. The Howe Institute's press release announcing the award is available here. Prof. Ragan returned to McGill in July 2010 after 18 months as the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist in the federal Department of Finance. In 2007, he won the Faculty of Arts' H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Department members in the news
- Chris Green cited in the Financial Times: Europe needs real vision on climate by Bjorn Lomborg.
- Chris Green and Isabel Galiana’s work on climate change written up by Bjorn Lomborg in the Australian.
- Chris Green and Isabel Galiana's research on environmental economics is showcased in "A New Direction for Climate Change," available online in the Spring 2010: The Science of the Arts issue of Arts Insight.
- Jennifer Hunt featured in Time Magazine, Why Women Leave the Engineering Field.
- Chris Green Isabel Galiana's paper, An Analysis of a Technology-led Climate Policy as a Response to Climate Change, awarded second place in the Copenhagen Consensus Climate Change Project competition.
