Vancouver School of Economics

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The Vancouver School of Economics is located in the Iona Building at UBC.
TypeSchool
Established1915 [1] (formerly known as the Department of Economics)
DirectorPatrick Francois [2]
Academic staff
77
Undergraduates 1,238
Postgraduates 45
67
Location, ,
49°16′0.92″N123°14′50.88″W / 49.2669222°N 123.2474667°W / 49.2669222; -123.2474667
Affiliations University of British Columbia
Website economics.ubc.ca

The Vancouver School of Economics (also known as VSE) is a school of the University of British Columbia located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The school ranks as one of the top 25 in the world and top in Canada. [3] [4] [5] The school exhibits research activity and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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International rankings and recognitions

The Vancouver School of Economics is ranked:

The school's faculty have won five of the eleven John Rae Prizes given by the Canadian Economics Association. This prize is awarded to the Canadian economist with the best recent research. [10] In 2018, Siwan Anderson, a development economist at the VSE, received the Rae prize, becoming its first woman recipient. [11]

Research

The School manages the British Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centre. The RDC provides access, for approved projects, to selected confidential Statistics Canada micro-level data. [12]

Additionally, the School operates the Experimental Lab, a centre for research in experimental economics; and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Economics, a teaching and research initiative by the Vancouver School of Economics and the Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business.

Admissions

In 2002, UBC's Faculty of Arts expanded the number of full-time equivalent undergraduate student spaces in economics by 50%. Academic programs in economics in UBC's Faculty of Arts are all administrated by the Vancouver School of Economics (formerly the Department of Economics). For instance, for the September 2013 intake for the 85 spaces in the BIE program over 2,100 applications were received, and over 480 applications were submitted for the 284 third-year spaces available in the Majors program.

Faculty and alumni

Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economics Rmundell.jpg
Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economics

The VSE (and its predecessor, the Department of Economics) has many reputable faculty and alumni, including:

Students

Student activities supported by the Vancouver School of Economics include the Iona Journal of Economics, an undergraduate economic research journal published annually. [20]

Faculty

In September 2013, the school had 67 faculty members. Faculty members include eight researchers affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, six researchers affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, two current and one former research fellow of the Bank of Canada, two elected fellows of the Econometric Society, four fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and one of the Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association.

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