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Economics

Head: W. Simpson
General Office: 504 Fletcher Argue
Telephone: (204) 474-6240
Fax: (204) 474-7681
Email: economics@umanitoba.ca
Website: umanitoba.ca/economics

Academic Staff

Program Information
The Department of Economics offers graduate instruction leading to MA and PhD degrees. Enrolment is limited in order to sustain the flexibility and other advantages of a small graduate program and to tailor the program to individual needs. Students in the program come from Canada and around the world. Departmental funding policies are geared to the maintenance of a broad, international student base.

The Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba is both heterodox and policy-oriented. Faculty are heavily involved in shaping policy locally as well as at the national and international levels. Faculty have strong ties to economic research and forecasting organizations, international aid agencies and institutes for social policy research. Faculty members include neoclassicists, Keynesians, post-Keynesians, Marxists, institutionalists, empiricists, and econometricians. In addition to the standard economics curriculum, graduate students can choose from a variety of approaches and research areas, as well as take advantage of the department's openness to research topics that extend beyond the bounds of the department itself.

Fields of Research
Faculty interests span the areas of labour economics, macro and micro economics, public finance, development, international trade, econometrics, environmental and resource economics, sustainable development, institutional economics, economic history, history of economic thought, health economics, alternative economic theory, and agricultural economics.

Research Facilities
The university has a Research Data Centre providing close access to Statistics Canada confidential data files. The department also maintains close links to other departments on campus in order to facilitate student learning in a wide range of areas. Graduate students are encouraged to do interdisciplinary research associated with the Transport Institute, the Natural Resources Institute, the Centre on Aging, and the Labour and Workplace Studies program. These centres offer academic expertise, facilities, grass roots connections, and, occasionally, funding opportunities. PhD fields in the department are classified as: agricultural economics, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics, development economics, and heterodox economics.

M.A. in Economics

Admission
Applicants with a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Economics from the University of Manitoba, or its equivalent, may be admitted to the M.A. degree program. All M.A. students must successfully complete ECON 6040, which will ordinarily be taken during a two-week period immediately preceding the first term of each academic year. However, applicants lacking the level of education normally required, i.e. B.A. (Hons.) in Economics or equivalent, for entry into the M.A. program or to the M.A. year of a Ph.D. program will be expected to acquire these qualifications in one or more pre-M.A. years.

Application Deadline Dates

Start Date	Canadian/ Canadian permanent residents/US	International
September Admission	May 1	January 15

Please send application and all supporting documentation to the Department of Economics. Please note that students applying to the Department of Economics must submit 4 letters of reference with their application.

Please note that the Department of Economics does not normally accept students in the January session as the required Math and Theory courses start in September.

Program Requirements
Minimum program requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies are found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this calendar. Department requirements can be found in the Departmental Supplementary Regulations available from the department.

MA including thesis: Master‘s in Economics students must complete ECON 6040 and 15 credit hours of coursework. Courses will be at the 700/7000 level, with the following exceptions. If deemed necessary by the Graduate Studies committee, a maximum of six credit hours may be permitted at the 400/4000 level in Economics or above the 300/3000 level in an ancillary field.... ,Students must also complete a suitable thesis.

MA, without a thesis: Alternatively, candidates may complete the M.A. degree by coursework and research paper. A minimum of 27 credit hours of coursework is required, including ECON 6040 andECON 7000. Courses will normally be at the 700/7000 level. If deemed necessary by the Graduate Studies committee, a maximum of six credit hours may be permitted at the 400/4000 in Economics or above the 300/3000 level in an ancillary field.

A minimum of six credit hours of coursework in economic theory at the graduate level is normally required. The theory requirement consists of ECON 7650 and ECON 7720. On the recommendation of the student’s advisor and with the approval of the Graduate Studies Committee, a student completing a thesis may be allowed to substitute an ancillary course for part of the theory requirement.

Ancillary courses are normally selected from disciplines related to Economics and to a candidate’s thesis (e.g., political studies, sociology, history, statistics, mathematics). An external ancillary subject is preferred but the ancillary may be taken within the department when appropriate (e

Second Language Reading Requirement: none

Expected Time to Graduate: one year

Ph.D. in Economics

Admission

1. Except as provided in 2) below, applicants for admission to the Ph.D. program must have completed the entrance requirements and the program requirements of an M.A. degree in Economics or in Agricultural Economics equivalent to that awarded by the University of Manitoba.

2. In exceptional cases, applications may be considered from students who have completed an Honours degree in Economics equivalent to that awarded by the University of Manitoba. In such cases, the applicant will be required to fulfil, in addition to the requirements below, all course work requirements for the M.A. degree by comprehensive examination option.

Fields of Concentration and Candidacy Examinations
Students must present themselves for one set of theory candidacy examinations. The theory examination consists of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, which are assessed separately. Students must choose two fields of concentration and complete a research paper in one of the fields: Fields from which a student may select are:

Agricultural Economics	Development Economics
Applied Econometrics	Heterodox Economic
Applied Microeconomics

The Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics is offered with the cooperation with the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics. For information on faculty, course offerings and specialization, contact the department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.

Second language requirement: none

Expected time to graduation: four years