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Read about our media coverage, research and news updates. During the year, the Department also hosts many public lectures and events from our researchers and subject experts. For Economics staff, we have an upcoming departmental seminars calendar, ensuring that everyone is kept up-to-date.
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Latest news
31 Oct 2024
Hippie economist cruising into early retirement
When a former Otago lecturer recently popped by campus after many years abroad,...
22 Oct 2024
Budding economist wins 2024 Sir Frank Holmes Prize
When you hear Amelia Farrar describe economics as being “like the physics of soc...
23 Sep 2024
Otago student set to shine at Oxford
You’d be hard-pressed to find a teenage mind as sharp, questing and kind as the...
22 Aug 2024
Rowing for good
While most of his Otago peers were doing nothing more challenging over winter th...
29 Jul 2024
Embracing AI benefits highly skilled workers
Highly skilled workers would be wise to master artificial intelligence (AI) tool...
17 Jul 2024
World Bridge Games champ?
Come October, Department of Economics Associate Professor Murat Genç, will park...
14 May 2024
Marathon effort for cause close to heart
Five third-year Otago students went the distance this month in the name of a ver...
08 Nov 2023
Rhodes Scholarship for excellence, leadership and commitment to community
Huge congratulations to Otago graduate Isaac Heron who has been awarded a Rhodes...
02 Nov 2023
Instant rebates increase charity donations
New University of Otago research shows people will donate more money to charity...
06 Jun 2023
Background in biology helps economics research
Economics and neuroscience may seem like an unlikely combination, but Associate...
28 Jul 2022
Investigating how alcohol price changes affect consumption
Investigating how alcohol price changes affect consumption
13 Jun 2022
New Zealand’s role in space to take centre stage at Foreign Policy School
As New Zealand takes its place as a space-faring nation, this year’s Otago Forei...