Listen to our own Felipe Valencia C. on VoxTalks Economics latest podcast!

Explore Chapter 2 of World Happiness Report 2024 for a deeper dive into the factors which help to explain the variance between the world’s ‘happiest’ and ‘unhappiest’ nations.

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If you're hearing a lot about world happiness in your news feed today, that's no coincidence! Hear World Happiness Report's founding editor John Helliwell (@ubcVSE) introduce the work they've done for 2024! youtu.be/85dThpXpD_Q?si…

A note on the passing of former UBC Economics colleague Rhys Kesselman.

economics.ubc.ca/news/rememberi…

We're happy to announce three new hires, marking the end of a very successful recruiting year. Join us in welcoming Ying Gao, Charlie Rafkin (Charlie Rafkin), and Miguel Ortiz (@mortiz217 ) to Vancouver, and to UBC! Article: econ.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=32068

Our very own Reka Juhasz appeared on the latest NPR's Planet Money with Jeff Guo to discuss industrial policy!

Interested in majoring in Economics? Get answers to your questions at this information session! Email [email protected] for more info

In their recent The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, UBC Economics’s Gorkem Bostanci and Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim describe how negative advertising can backfire for consumer brands: on.wsj.com/47QkNMg

Calling student researchers! Represent the UBC Economics by entering a research competition through the Canadian Economics Association (@CanEconomics). Deadline: Feb 19th, link: economics.ca/cpages/epdc

*VSE in-person class meetings are canceled for THURSDAY Jan 18th.*

Students: please check your email for further guidance from your instructor.

Staff: please watch your email for further instructions from the VSE Manager.

Faculty: we will email updates on the seminar visitor.

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Congrats to UBC Economics's Kevin Song and Vadim Marmer, and Tilburg Econometrics & OR's Denis Kojevnikov (UBC PhD '19), for winning the Zellner Award for best theory paper in Journal of Econometrics!

Congrats to Yukinori and Noah (BIE grads '22), newest members of Forbes 30 under 30, for their company Plufl (Plufl), making giant dog beds for humans: forbes.com/profile/plufl/…

Since its founding, VSE’s Bachelor of International Economics (BIE) has built a community of talented professionals, leading their industries around Canada and the rest of the world. See how the BIE prepares its students to excel in the workforce: youtu.be/fw-RbsqD3zk

We are very happy to announce our 2024 Lima Summer School in Economics, organized in collaboration with Vancouver School of Economics UBC Economics, for more info visit our website limase.pe/summer-school-…

Congratulations to VSE’s Dr. Réka Juhász (Reka Juhasz) and Oxford’s Dr. Nathan Lane (@straightedge) for receiving a transformative grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation (@SloanFoundation) to expand The Industrial Policy Group. Read about the award here: econ.cms.arts.ubc.ca/news/ubc-and-o…