Teaching

COMM 172 – Managerial Economics (BCom)
This course covers the economic foundations of managerial decision-making. Topics include cost estimation, demand estimation and forecasting, price determination under monopolistic competition, oligopolistic competition, and monopoly, strategies for pricing with market power, competition policy, decision making under uncertainty, adverse selection, moral hazard, and incentive contracts. The course uses a variety of mathematical techniques, particularly algebra and calculus.

COMM 307 – Canadian Business-Government Relations (BCom)
This course is an analysis of public policies as represented by laws and regulatory governmental activities, and their effects on business decision-making. The course will deal with such topics as: government interventions, externalities and environmental policies, international trade, anti-competitive practices and competition policy, price and entry regulation, corporate social responsibility, innovation and intellectual property, and labour unions.

MGMT 885/985 – Managerial Economics and Policy Seminar (MSc and PhD)
This course first provides an overview of the different types of principal-agent models and their applications within a managerial context. This includes objective versus subjective performance evaluations, relative performance measurements, multi-tasking, optimal job design, and collusion and organizational design. This course will then introduce students to the process of developing and writing publishable research articles. This includes identifying suitable research questions, searching for and discussing the related literature, developing economic models, and structuring and writing papers. The course is designed for graduate students (MSc and PhD) with a solid background in microeconomics.