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:     

  • Congratulations are extended to Diane Dupont, this year's recipient of the Brock University Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity.  Dr. Dupont has made many outstanding research contributions examining the relationships between economic activity and natural/environmental resources.  Dr. Dupont is a member of Brock's Environmental Sustainability Research Centre.
  • Summer Research Employment Opportunities with Professors Dupont and Renzetti. More information here.
  • Dupont, D and Bateman, I. 2012 "Political Affiliation And Willingness To Pay: An Examination of the Nature of Benefits and Means of Provision" Ecological Economics. 75:43-51. 
  • Day, B, Bateman, I, Carson, R, Dupont, D, Louviere, J, Morimoto, S, Scarpa, R, and Wang, P 2012 “Task Independence in Stated Preference Studies: A Test of Order Effect Explanations” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 63(1): 73-91. 
  • Adamowicz, W, Dupont, D, Krupnick, A, and Zhang, J 2011 “Valuation of Cancer and Microbial Disease Risk Reductions in Municipal Drinking Water: An Analysis of Risk Context Using Multiple Valuation Methods” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 61(2): 213-226. 
  • Renzetti, S., Dupont, D.P., and Wood, C. 2011. Running Through our Fingers. How Canada Fails to Capture the Full Value of its Top Asset. Written for the Blue Economy Initiative sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada, the Canadian Water Network, and the Water & Duncan Gordon Foundation. 31 pp.
  • 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.