News & Events

Congratulations to PhD Economics Students on Winning Scholarships!
Congratulations to Ryan Bacic, Sergei Filiasov, Andrew Leal and Oliver Loertscher on all winning scholarships!
Jun 23, 2021

Congratulations to Daniel Tingskou (PhD Economics) on winning the Jack Boan Student Essay Competition!
Congratulations to Daniel Tingskou on winning the Jack Boan Student Essay Competition with his Doctoral Essay, Tingskou, Daniel. “Income Splitting, Interprovincial Physician Migration in Canada, and Health Care Accessibility” (McMaster University).
Jun 17, 2021

The Economics Department will be offering some optional in-person components this Fall 2021 term!
More information can be found in the "Courses" section of the website
Jun 16, 2021

Members of the McMaster University Economics Faculty Awarded SSHRC Insight Grants
The following faculty members were awarded SSHRC Insight Grants: Chris Muris, Pau Pujolas, Seungjin Han and Youngki Shin
Jun 15, 2021

Now Hiring! Sessional Instructors for Fall 2021
The Department of Economics is looking to fill a number of Sessional positions for a variety of Undergraduate courses for this upcoming Fall 2021 term
Jun 08, 2021

Congratulations Economics I First Year Award Winners!
This years' winners for the Economics I First Year award are Weiyu Pan and Hao Jing for the Microeconomics award, and Abby Zhang and Liting Zhu for the Macroeconomics award.
May 27, 2021

Survey shows some bosses are using the pandemic as an excuse to push workers
Stephanie Ross of the School of Labour Studies and Wayne Lewchuk, Professor Emeritus School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics, McMaster University, have been published in The Conversation.
May 06, 2021

Rory McGee (Western University) "Old Age Savings and House Price Shocks”
Fri, March 19, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Mar 17, 2021

McMaster University PhD Student in Economics Thesis Published by the Economics Bulletin
"The Sun's wrath: economic effects of sunspot volatility" written by Michael Batu and McMaster's, Zichun Zhao was recently published by the Economics Bulletin.
Mar 15, 2021

Registration for Bank of Canada Webinar now open to Economics students!
Wednesday, March 17th 4:30pm - 5:30pm - EST via ZOOM
Mar 11, 2021


David Price (University of Toronto) "The Effects of Layoffs on Opioid Use and Abuse" (joint with Marius Opstrup Morthorst and Peter Rønø Thingholm)
Fri, March 5, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Mar 02, 2021

BC Basic Income Panel: Final Report - Collaborations from McMaster
McMaster's Katherine Cuff & Arthur Sweetman author and co-author some of the many underlying reports for the BC Basic Income Panel's Final Report Recommendations.
Feb 25, 2021

Tatsuro Sengha (Queen Mary University of London) "Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm’s Life Cycle"
Fri, February 26, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Feb 23, 2021

Econ Clinic: Office Hours
Additional Support for the following courses will be offered through the Econ Clinic: ECON 1B03, ECON 1BB3, ECON 2Z03, ECON 2ZZ3, ECON 2H03, and ECON 2HH3
Feb 16, 2021


James Graham (University of Sydney) "Age, Industry, and Unemployment Risk During a Pandemic Lockdown" (co-authored with Murat Ozbilgin)
Fri, February 5, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Feb 01, 2021

Sitian Liu (Queen's University) "The Geography of Jobs and the Gender Wage Gap" (co-authored with Yichen Su)
Fri, January 29, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Jan 25, 2021

Vegard M. Nygaard (University of Houston) "The Impact of Employer-sponsored Insurance in 20th Century United States" (joint with Gajen Raveendranathan)
Fri, January 22, 2021, 3:00pm - 4:30pm via ZOOM
Jan 18, 2021

2021 Graduation Photo Appointments Now Available!
Photos will be taken at Lifetouch Presitge Studios in McMaster Student Centre. For dates, sign up today!
Dec 17, 2020

Job Advertisement: Tenure-Track/Tenured, Assistant/Associate Professors
McMaster University is pleased to announce a cohort hiring initiative of up to twelve appointments of emerging and established academics and scholars who will contribute to the advancement of Black academic excellence across all six McMaster Faculties. McMaster seeks candidates whose scholarship and scholarly work forefronts or contributes to any of the following disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas of teaching and research.
Dec 04, 2020