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Join faculty, students and alumni of Woodsworth College at this lecture which is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources.

The 2021 lecturer is Prof. Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.

Thu, 25 NOV 2021 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Lecture to be delivered online. Please register here for details

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WINNER OF 2021 BERTRAM SCHOLARSHIP

PhD candidate Alison Taylor has been awarded a $15,000 Bertram Scholarship by the Canadian Foundation for Governance Research Read more

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ECONOMICS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Contributions from our experts. Updated August 24, 2021 (with Michael Smart) Read more

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C.D. HOWE INSTITUTE POLICY INTERNS

Half the IMCO policy interns hail from our department: Amira Higazy, Ivannia Irawan and Alexander Vanderhoof Read more

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NATIONAL BANK FINANCIAL MARKETS INTERNSHIPS AWARDED

Master of Financial Economics students Hailey Paget and Fanny Qifang Wu are recipients of the special opportunity provided by this prestigious internship program Read more

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ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP

Economics Specialist (1989) Mahmud Jamal is the first person of colour nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada – and almost certainly the first ECO alum to be so, too

Welcome

The Department of Economics at the University of Toronto ranks among the top economics departments internationally. The teaching and research of its 82 faculty members span a wide range of fields and cover theory, applied data analysis, and econometric methodology. Around 15 PhD students, 70 MA students, and 25 MFE students enter our programs each year, and the department has over 1,800 undergraduates, with an additional 800 undergraduates at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus. Collaborative programs with the Rotman School of Management and the Faculty of Law allow students to undertake interdisciplinary studies at the graduate and undergraduate level. Read more

Upcoming Seminars

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Today

Iain Bamford (Columbia University), "Monopsony Power, Spatial Equilibrium, and Minimum Wages". 11:10–12:30, Online. Organized by Kory Kroft

Tuesday

Lena Song (New York University), "The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Media Content on Racial Attitudes". 11:10–12:30, Online. Organized by Jim Goldman

Recent Working Papers

Working Papers page

Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei, Land Security and Mobility Frictions, Working Paper 717, 2022-01-09 Mike Gilraine, Jiaying Gu, Robert McMillan, A Nonparametric Approach for Studying Teacher Impacts, Working Paper 716, 2022-01-06 Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald Wolthoff, Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection, Working Paper 715, 2022-01-04

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