Economics Graduate Research Day
An annual event hosted by the Department of Economics, offering graduate students a platform to showcase their research.
MA and PhD students were invited to present completed or ongoing projects, from MA papers and theses to course-based research, dissertation chapters, or other Economics-related work.
The Department thanks the Economics Graduate Students Association (EGSA) for its valued support.
2025 award recipients
Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the Economics Graduate Research Day!
- First prize: Israa Hashem, Transmission of Educational Outcomes: A comparison between Immigrant and Native Families in Canada
- Second prize: Meriam Arifa, Bootstrapping Robust Estimators of Time Dependent Moment Condition Models
- EGSA special prize: Ibrahim AlSoussy, Domestic Drivers of Environmental Multilateralism: Evidence from Environmental Treaties
Jury
Thank you to the jury for their careful consideration of each participant's entry.
- Javier Cano-Urbina
- Julius Owusu
- Axel Watanabe
Graduate Research Day Participants
- Yifei Xia, The Silver Economy in China
- The Anh Vo, The Impact of Local Market Conditions on Sectoral Choices and Wages
- Xiao Zhang, Delegation and Endowment Heterogeneity in a Threshold Public Goods Game
2024
- First place: Hosam Alarabi (co-first author: Sati Semnani), The Silent Barrier to Education: Unveiling the Impact of Adolescence Mental Health on Academic Success
- Second place: Lauren Cosenza, Vertical Interactions in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in the Presence of a Generic Substitute
- EGSA award: Meriam Arifa, Analysis of Immigration Patterns Pre and Post Democratic Transition: Evidence from Tunisia
2022
- Best MA poster: Mubina Hirani, The Impact of Rental Control on Housing Quality across Provinces in Canada
- Best PhD poster: Munkh-Ireedui Bayarjargal, Social Security Disability Insurance in an equilibrium search model
- Best poster, EGSA vote: Siming Xie, Cultural activities and social segregation: An economic analysis on friendship networks
2021
- Best MA poster: Jijia Cao, A Game Theoretic Study of Soccer
- Best PhD poster: Olha Hnatyshyn, Multiple International Environmental Agreements: an alternative approach to tackle climate change
- Best poster, EGSA vote: Hangyeol Seo (MA student), Comparison of the COVID-19 Impacts on Labour Markets in Canada and South Korea
2019
- Best MA poster: Manuel Michael Lepage Lévesque, Limited-Action Processing (LAP) games
- Best PhD poster: Karla Iskandar, Employment Insurance across Canadian Regions and Labor Mobility
- Best poster, EGSA vote: Samuel F. Pichette (PhD student), Let me persuade you
2018
- Best MA poster: Marco Ioffredi, Inequality Profile: Differing Effects on Growth?
- Best PhD poster: Asefeh Salarinezhad, Matching with Consecutive Acceptance Intervals
- Best poster, EGSA vote: Rouzbeh Ghouchani (PhD student), Preference Aggregation for Couples
2017
- Best MA poster: Yiwen Chen
- Best PhD poster: Farrokh Darvishi
