/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Awards/rss en /channels/channels/news/congratulations-peter-howitt-ba-honours-68-2025-nobel-laureate-economics-368516 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Department of Economics is thrilled to celebrate one of our own. We extend our warmest and most heartfelt congratulations to Peter Howitt, ���������Թ� alumnus (Honours Economics 1968), on being awarded the <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/peter-howitt-nobel-prize/">2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</a> for his pioneering work on innovation-driven growth through creative destruction.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:20:14 +0000 webfull 212811 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-jean-marie-dufour-receives-prestigious-mike-mccracken-award-368515 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Department of Economics is proud to announce that Professor Jean-Marie Dufour has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Mike McCracken Award for econometric statistics from the Canadian Economic Association. This prestigious award recognizes Professor Dufour's groundbreaking contributions to the field of econometrics, particularly his pioneering work in resampling and simulation-based methods, identification-robust methods, and the analysis of causal relationships.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:19:29 +0000 webfull 212810 at /channels /channels/channels/news/francisco-ruge-murcia-awarded-senior-houblon-norman-fellowship-bank-england-2025-2026-368512 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This prestigious fellowship is awarded by the Bank of England to a tenured full or chaired professor to promote research into and disseminate knowledge and understanding of the working, interaction and function of financial business institutions in the UK and elsewhere and the economic conditions affecting them. The Houblon-Norman Fellowship was established in 1944 to celebrate the 250^th  anniversary of the Bank of England and it is named after the first Governor of the Bank, Sir John Houblon, and the Governor at the time of the anniversary, Montagu Norman.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:17:55 +0000 webfull 212807 at /channels /channels/channels/news/victoria-zinde-walsh-becomes-cea-fellow-368508 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In its most recent meeting in June 2024, the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) conferred the title of CEA Fellow to our dear colleague Vicky Zinde-Walsh. This award recognizes the achievements and contributions to our discipline of the most prominent economists who have spent a significant portion of their career in Canada. Congratulations to Vicky for this richly deserved award.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:15:31 +0000 webfull 212803 at /channels /channels/channels/news/victoria-zinde-walsh-awarded-2023-cweccfec-sylvia-ostry-award-368503 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Victoria Zinde-Walsh's academic achievements include role-modelling and mentoring of young female scholars in a male dominated field. Her distinguished work in econometrics has served as example and inspiration for younger female economists and econometricians.</p> <p>She has also played an important role in unifying the econometric community in Canada as Director of the Econometrics Study Group with its yearly conference. Her nomination letters from female scholars who grew and blossomed under Victoria’s wing are enthusiastic and full of genuine admiration of their mentor.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:12:27 +0000 webfull 212798 at /channels /channels/channels/news/raphael-langevin-awarded-cea-second-prize-embrace-day-graduate-student-posters-368502 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Raphaël Langevin<strong> </strong>has been awarded second prize for the 'Embrace Day Graduate Student Posters' competition at <a href="http://www.economics.ca/cpages/cea2023">The 57th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics</a> on June 1, 2023.  His poster is entitled <a href="https://cea2023.exordo.com/programme/preview/presentation/894">Consistent Estimation of Finite Mixtures: An Application to Latent Group Panel Structures</a>. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:12:00 +0000 webfull 212797 at /channels /channels/channels/news/graduate-student-miao-dai-wins-lasserre-renzetti-prize-368500 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Miao Dai, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, was awarded the <a href="http://sites.google.com/view/creeaacere/awards/lasserre-renzetti-prize">Lasserre-Renzetti Prize</a> for best student paper at CREEA | ACERE for his paper "Environmental Lobbying on Trade in Waste: Theory and Evidence." Miao's job market paper examines the effects of environmental lobbying on international trade in waste, finding that strengthening environmental NGOs can contribute to reducing international waste trade. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:10:31 +0000 webfull 212795 at /channels /channels/channels/news/congratulations-lou-naigeon-graduating-student-economics-one-two-recipients-governor-generals-silver-368497 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Selected by the Scholarship and Student Aid Office in a university-wide competition, the medal is awarded “to the graduating student who obtains the highest academic standing in a Bachelor degree program.”  The medal was presented to Lou Naigeon by Principal Suzanne Fortier at her convocation ceremony in May 2022.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:08:44 +0000 webfull 212792 at /channels /channels/channels/news/winner-upjohn-institute-2021-early-career-research-awards-368491 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Fernando Saltiel is one of the winners of the <a href="https://www.upjohn.org/about/news-events/upjohn-institute-announces-2021-early-career-research-awards">Upjohn Institute 2021 Early Career Research Awards</a>. The award is given to promising economists who have earned their PhD within the previous six years and who carry out policy-relevant research on labor market issues.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:46:25 +0000 webfull 212786 at /channels /channels/channels/news/sonja-solomun-named-2025-bishops-university-top-10-after-10-award-recipient-368457 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Max Bell School of Public Policy is proud to celebrate Sonja Solomun, Faculty Associate at the Max Bell School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at ���������Թ�, has been selected as one of Bishop’s University’s 2025 Top 10 After 10 Award recipients, one of the university’s highest honours recognizing outstanding alumni achievement.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/sonja_headshot.png?itok=IKqE5OL6" width="160" height="134" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:04:42 +0000 webfull 212750 at /channels