The Erskine Fellowships are used to bring distinguished visitors from around the world to University of Canterbury, including the Department of Economics.
Fellows normally stay for between one month and three months.
The department has up to four Erskine visitors each year. Visitors in recent years include, R. Arnott, R Bade, T Bergstrom, R Bewley, V Crawford, N Ericsson, R Froyen, G Harrison, D Hendry, A Kapteyn, P Kennedy, N Mark, P B Morgan, M Osborne, M Parkin, D Pearce, J Peek, M Peters, M Salemi, D Starrett, M Veall, T D Wallace, K White, and A Zellner. Details of the 2001 Erskine visitors are available via our visitor page. The Erskine Fellowships are funded from a bequest from John Angus Erskine. When he died in Melbourne in 1960, aged 88, Erskine left shares, then worth about 250,000 to Canterbury College, now the University of Canterbury.