Department of Economics

Department of Economics



Department of Economics

The Brock University Department of Economics is committed to the advancement and dissemination of economic knowledge through research, publishing and high quality instruction at all levels from principles to the master's degree, in an atmosphere of active learning and free inquiry.

Departmental News: 

  • Professor Lamarche publishes two papers with other members of the Department. One with Professor Koustas, "Instrumental variable estimation of a nonlinear Taylor rule" in Empirical Economics and one with Professor Veloce (and co-author Professor Faroque) "Have Structural Changes Eliminated the Out-of-Sample Ability of Financial Variables to Forecast Real Activity After the Mid-1980s? An Application to the Canadian Economy", in Applied Economics.
  • Nowshin Jahan (MBE Fall 2009) has published her MBE research with Professor Diane Dupont. The article will appear in the Journal of Water and Health under “Defensive spending on tap water substitutes: the value of reducing perceived health risks” by Diane P. Dupont and Nowshin Jahan. The link is here.
  • Professor Diane Dupont, member of the Department of Economics and of the Brock Environmental Sustainability Unit (BESRU), is involved in research on the future of water in the Niagara Region. More on this at www.brocku.ca/brock-news/.
  • The Department is pleased to introduce a new program B.A. Honours in Applied Economic Analysis. For further information about the program, follow this link.