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May 14
Congratulations to professors @serenacanaan and @PMouganie on this most recent publication!
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21449
Authority Figures and the Polarization of Gender Norms
Ali Abboud @AUB_Lebanon, Samuel Bazzi @SamuelBazzi @UCSDEcon, Serena Canaan @SFUEcon, Antoine Deeb @WorldBank, Pierre Mouganie @SFUEcon
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📢#CallForPapers - 3rd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC)
⌛Deadline: 19 June
📆9-10 Oct 2026 | 📍McGill University
Event partners: @EBRD @HEC_Montreal @KingsCollegeLon @mcgillu
Organisers: @Nicolas_Ajz @cevatgirayaksoy @clpennec
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May 5
📢Publication alert!
Congrats to @SFU economics PhD student Merve Intisah on a new paper in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Examines how auction order affects losses for global bidders in sequential auctions.
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Apr 22
Professor @MinjieDeng will represent @SFU on a panel of experts for a conversation on rules-based international order at the May 12th @SFUFASS Parasiuk Dean's Symposium. At Vancouver campus, reserve your free ticket:
eventbrite.ca/e/parasiuk-dea…
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Mar 9
Recently professor Randall Akee (@Harvard Kennedy School) delivered the 2026 Ting BMO Public Lecture on the Economic and Social Well-being of Indigenous Children at SFU.
Watch the recording now: youtube.com/watch?v=gnbGqcQh…
Thanks to our sponsors, David and Cecilia Ting and BMO.
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📢#CallForPapers - The Economics of Longevity and Ageing
9-11 July 2026 | @Cambridge_Uni
Deadline: 27 February 2026
Organisers: Martin Ellison @UniofOxford, Tiernan Evans @eitoxford, Eric French @Cambridge_Uni
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Feb 23
CTV interviewed #SFU professor emeritus Nicolas Schmitt on the US Supreme Court's recent ruling on tariffs. He predicts indirect effects on Canadian prices as well as additional market uncertainty.
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Feb 11
We are excited to be hosting the @CanEconomics CEA conference @SFU this May! Submit your abstracts by Feb 13.
🚨 Submissions for the 2026 CEA Conference are open!
We are currently accepting papers for the upcoming conference in May! See our submission page for more details:
🔗 economics.ca/submissions
Don't forget to check our current events page:
🔗 economics.ca/competitions...
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Feb 5
Congratulations professor Deng!
4 May 2024
😀Happy to see my JMP in print! This paper incorporates government redistributive motives and endogenous worker choices into a sovereign default model. The insight is that inequality will interact with taxation decisions in ways that will drive default risk and sovereign spreads.
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Feb 5
📢 Call for Papers!
Submit to the inaugural Vancouver Applied Microeconomics Conference (May 21–22, 2026, Vancouver, BC).
Theme: Education, children & human capital
Organized by @serenacanaan @PMouganie @KSchnepel & Mike Gilraine
🗓 Deadline: March 1
🔗 tinyurl.com/7b7dkrp4
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Jan 21
On Feb 25 Randall Kekoa Akee from @Harvard Kennedy School will deliver the 2026 TING BMO Public lecture on the @SFUVan campus. He'll share recent research into how poverty shapes the long-run economic and social outcomes of Indigenous children.
Register: tinyurl.com/ymmc3byy
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9 Dec 2025
Congratulations to doctoral student Uzair Azmat on a successful PhD thesis defence. His research advances our understanding of faith-based financial decision-making by comparing Islamic and Western mortgages and measuring faith-based debt aversion using a real-options model.
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18 Nov 2025
Celebrating alumnus Pamela Yoon! From hosting an annual student visit at @RBC’s downtown Vancouver offices to sharing career advice and creating a student scholarship, her support has impacted hundreds of SFU Econ students. Thank you, Pamela!
Read more: tinyurl.com/2p9pwu6b
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18 Sep 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Samuel Basoah who won the FASS Teaching Assistant Award this year!
18 Sep 2025
We are pleased to announce the winners of this year's Cormack Teaching Awards and FASS Employee Achievement - Teaching Awards.
Learn more about them: sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/09/tea…
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2 Sep 2025
Congratulations to profs Arthur Robson, Carolyn Lesjak, Jeremy Brown & Jeremy Carpendale for receiving the FASS Dean's Medal in recognition of their academic excellence in research, teaching, and service.
Learn more: sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/08/dea…
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21 Aug 2025
Welcome to our new lecturer Gustavo Albuquerque! Originally from Brazil, Gustavo's research interests include the economics of development, history, crime, and political economy. He's also creating a computer game to teach #MonetaryPolicy
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19 Aug 2025
Please join us in welcoming @gguillaumeblanc to @SFU's Department of Economics as an assistant professor! His research explores economic history and development, focusing on how culture and institutions shape long-run growth.
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9 Jul 2025
Congratulations to seven of our FASS researchers who have been awarded Insight Development Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Read more about our researchers and their innovative projects: sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/07/ssh…
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9 Jul 2025
Considering graduate school in public policy? Don't miss this info session! Sign up ends today.
9 Jul 2025
Today is the last day to register for our Master of Public Policy info session! Join us for a virtual info session at noon tomorrow. You’ll learn all about the program, and we’ll answer all your questions.
Don’t delay, RSVP now: tinyurl.com/mv5cbcj8
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