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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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Read the top stories and announcements within the Department of Economics at Otago.

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Find out about the upcoming seminars  for the Department of Economics.

Latest news

David Gough, Krupali Patel and David Koshy relishing some downtime afloat on a boat on the Danube River in Budapest.

19 Dec 2024

Otago trio crack business cases in Budapest


Three Otago tauira were given the opportunity to pit their case-cracking skills against business school students from ac...

Paul Hansen standing on a skateboard

31 Oct 2024

Hippie economist cruising into early retirement


When a former Otago lecturer recently popped by campus after many years abroad, she was so cheered by the familiar visio...

Amelia Farrar (centre) receiving her prize from Motu Executive Director John McDermott and Motu Senior Fellow Trinh Le.

22 Oct 2024

Budding economist wins 2024 Sir Frank Holmes Prize


When you hear Amelia Farrar describe economics as being “like the physics of society”, you get some sense of the keen mi...

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 one that sits sparkling away inside Alex...

A man sitting in a row boat in Zambezi

22 Aug 2024

Rowing for good


While most of his Otago peers were doing nothing more challenging over winter than surviving on two-minute noodles, Jack...

Dr Murat Ungor

29 Jul 2024

Embracing AI benefits highly skilled workers


Highly skilled workers would be wise to master artificial intelligence (AI) tools now to gain a competitive edge in the...

Murat Genc

17 Jul 2024

World Bridge Games champ?


Come October, Department of Economics Associate Professor Murat Genç, will park his usual deep thinking around microecon...

Otago students who ran the Southern Lakes Half Marathon in Wanaka this month as part of their Running for Alice campaign to raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

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 very worthy cause.

Isaac Heron thumbnail

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 Scholarship to study at the University...

Coins spilling out of a glass jar thumbnail

02 Nov 2023

Instant rebates increase charity donations


New University of Otago research shows people will donate more money to charity if they receive a rebate immediately, wh...

Trent Smith - image

06 Jun 2023

Background in biology helps economics research


Economics and neuroscience may seem like an unlikely combination, but Associate Professor Trent Smith is delving into th...

28 Jul 2022

Investigating how alcohol price changes affect consumption


Investigating how alcohol price changes affect consumption

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