Victoria Zinde-Walsh giving her presidential address to the Canadian Economics Association (Ottawa, June 4, 2011)
Prof Richard Schultz (Political Science) presenting Graduate Program Coordinator Elaine Garnham with the Faculty Award of Excellence for Administrative and Support Staff, April 26, 2011 - Owen Egan
Erin Strumpf and Markus Poschke - Owen Egan
Do big crises generate bad policy?
From left to right: Mel Cappe, Antonia Maioni, Senator Leo Kolber, Heather Munroe-Blum, Hon. James Flaherty, William Watson, Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, and Kevin Lynch (Thursday, March 25, Maude Abbott Room, Faculty Club) - Owen Egan
Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Monroe-Blum, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and then-Department Chair William Watson before Mr. Flaherty's talk to the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (March 2009) - Owen Egan
Ngo Van Long - Owen Egan
Russell Davidson, Jean-Marie Dufour, Victoria Zinde-Walsh and John Galbraith - Owen Egan
Professors Licun Xue, Daniel Parent and Kenneth Mackenzie - Owen Egan
Professors Lee Soderstrom, Kenneth Mackenzie (partly obscured), William Watson, Maxim Sinitsyn, Jean-Marie Dufour, Russell Davidson and Ngo Van Long - Owen Egan
Professor William Watson - Owen Egan
Chris Green and Kari Levitt - Edith Breiner
Chris Green, Jagdish Handa, Kari Levitt, Myron Frankman, and Tony Deutsch - Edith Breiner
Paul Dickinson and Ken Mackenzie - Edith Breiner
Franque Grimard and Jenny Hunt - Edith Breiner
Chris Green, Bob Cairns, Takashi Kunimoto and Hassan Benchekroun - Edith Breiner
Jean-Marie Dufour, with Tony Deutsch to his left and (L to R) Jenny Hunt and Sonia Laszlo in background - Edith Breiner
Daniel Parent, Paul Dickinson and Ken Mackenzie - Edith Breiner
John Galbraith and Jean-Marie Dufour, with (L to R) Daniel Parent, Paul Dickinson and Franque Grimard in the background - Edith Breiner
Sonia Laszlo - Edith Breiner
Victoria Zinde-Walsh and John Galbraith - Edith Breiner
Sonia Laszlo and Dee Sutthiphisal - Edith Breiner
Myron Frankman and Kari Levitt - Edith Breiner
Convocation: Nov. 2008 - William Watson
McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum "capping" new graduate Michael Dineen, 2007-8 Economics Students Association president, at Fall Convocation 2008 - William Watson
Robin Rowley speaking at the Department dinner in his and Tony Deutsch’s honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner
Members of the Department listening to Robin Rowley at the Department dinner in his and Tony Deutsch's honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner
Tony Deutsch listening to Robin Rowley at the Department dinner in their honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner
Tony Deutsch speaking at the Department dinner in his and Robin Rowley’s honour (June 2009) - Edith Breiner
Robin Rowley opening the gift given him by the Department (June 2009) - Edith Breiner

Department of Economics

Photo of Prof. Victoria Zinde-Walsh

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)

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 [.pdf], awarded second place in the Copenhagen Consensus Climate Change Project competition.