page_title: Vancouver School of Economics
section_title: Faculty and alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Vancouver School of Economics / Faculty and alumni
caption_attribution_description: Robert Mundell
context_page_description: The Vancouver School of Economics 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. The school exhibits high research activity and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees.
context_section_description: The VSE (and its predecessor, the Department of Economics) has many reputable faculty and alumni, including:
  Nobel Prize-winning economist, Robert Mundell, who studied economics as an undergraduate at UBC. Mundell received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell laid the groundwork for the introduction of the euro through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics. Mundell is also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect.
  Dominic Barton is the worldwide managing director and head of McKinsey & Company. Graduating with an undergraduate degree in economics at UBC in 1984, Barton received the Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford at Brasenose College. He was previously McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004–2009, based in Shanghai and led McKinsey's office in South Korea from 2000–2004. Barton is an established author in topics of financial services and economic development in Asia. He is also a trustee of the Rhodes Trust and the Brookings Institution, and an honorary fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.
  James Brander graduated from UBC in 1975 with a degree in economics. He is known as co-author of a seminal 1986 article in The American Economic Review, with Tracy R. Lewis, on “Oligopoly and Financial Structure: The Limited Liability Effect”, as well as his work in international trade with Barbara Spencer, particularly the Brander Spencer model.
  Paul Beaudry is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in the UBC VSE at the University of British Columbia. His main fields of research are macroeconomics, the economics of technical change and labour economics. He is also a Fellow of the Bank of Canada.
  Marina Adshade is a lecturer at VSE and is the author of The Love Market: What You Need to Know About How We Date, Mate and Marry and Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love. She has also written a chapter titled Sexbot-Induced Social Change: An Economic Perspective in Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications by John Danaher and Neil McArthur.
  Gideon Rosenbluth (born 1921), Canadian economist and professor at the department (his concentration ratio Rosenbluth index)
  Chris Fowler is an alumnus from the department. He is the Chief operating officer of the Canadian Western Bank, a multi-billion asset Canadian bank.
  Robert C. Allen was a professor in the VSE from 1980-1985 and 1985-2000. He is a Professor of Economic History at Oxford University. He is the author of: 'Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (1992), Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (2009). He was awarded the Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association for his 1992 and 2003 works.
  Thomas Fujiwara is an alumnus from the VSE. He is a professor at the Department of Economics at Princeton University, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
caption: Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economics
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