Economics Graduate Research Day: Friday, April 4, 2025
The Economics Graduate Research Day is an annual event in the Department of Economics which provides an opportunity for graduate students to showcase their research. MA and PhD students in Economics were invited to participate by presenting a completed or ongoing research project, whether it is the MA research paper or thesis, research expanded from a course assignment, one or more chapters of the doctoral dissertation, or any other research project pertaining to Economics.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 edition 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
Thank you to the jury for their careful consideration of each participant's entry:
- Javier Cano-Urbina
- Julius Owusu
- Axel Watanabe
- 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 |