Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture in Economics
The Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture Series brings some of the world’s top economists to Calgary to lecture on an important public policy topic to a mixed audience of undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty, and alumni. Its purpose is to enrich the undergraduate and graduate experience at the University of Calgary, raise the Department’s international profile, and share thought provoking lectures with the University community.
The 2025 Distinguished Lecturer is TBA.
The 2025 Distinguished Lecturer will be on March 7, 2025.
Past distinguished lectures
The Wage Standard
Dr. Arindrajit Dube, NBER
Regulation, Innovation, and the Climate Transition
Dr. Meredith Fowlie, the Energy Institute at Haas
Understanding and Reducing Inequality in Education
Dr. Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan
Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
Dr. Joshua Angrist, MIT
Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump
Dr. Robert Staiger, Dartmouth College
The Economics of Immigration
Dr. David Card, UC Berkeley