Marie Rekkas has been awarded the Harry Johnson Prize with Kevin Milligan for their paper "Campaign spending limits, incumbent spending, and election outcomes" published in the November 2008 issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics. This Prize awards the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in the preceding calendar year. Past Harry Johnson Prize winners affiliated with SFU are Rick Harris (1985) and Steeve Mongrain (2002). [September 2009]
SSHRC Standard Research Grant Competition: About $120,000 of new research money has been awarded during the 2007/2008 competition to the following principal investigators: David Jacks and Arthur Robson [April 2008]
Arthur Robson has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society [November 2007].
NSERC and SSHRC Standard Research Grant Competition: About $240,000 of new research money has been awarded during the 2005/06 competition to the following principal investigators: Doug Allen, David Andolfatto, Alex Karaivanov and Pascal Lavergne [April 2006].
CRABE maintains facilities, materials, personel and other resources dedicated to the study, teaching and practice of behavioral economics.
Metropolis BC (Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity)
MBC is one of five Canadian research centres dedicated to studying the impact of Canadian immigrants on local economies, the family, educational systems and the physical infrastructure of cities.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA MEMBERS
Election to Fellowship in the Society is the highest academic accolade in Canada that is available to scientists and scholars. The Department of Economics currently boasts four members: Professor Lawrence Boland; Professor Richard Harris; Emeritus Professor Richard Lipsey and Professor Arthur Robson.