Games Night!

The UW Economics Society is hosting a Games Night

*May 24 @ 7 pm in HH124*
ATTN: date has been changed to thursday!

We will be playing some good old fashioned board games with your fellow Waterloo econ students! We will provide snacks and refreshments. Games will include: Monopoly, Settlers of Catan, cards, Risk, etc. If you have a specific game you want to play, bring it!

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UW Economics Society Games Night

Can't make it out?  Check out our next event in the making: King Street Tour

Library Help

UW Economics Society Recap!

If you missed out on the super informative session on CANSIM and ODESI with the Economics Librarian Sandra Keys we have got you covered!  Our website has what you need to complete your Senior Honours Essay or Economics other projects!

The relevant links are below:

Basic Instructions on Retrieval

Basic Instructions on Files

Subject Guides

Info Session

Economics

Statistics & Data

We plan on having this information session at the beginning of every term so be on the look out if you are interested in a more hands-on experience!

If you have any questions be sure to contact Sandra, she's got your back!  You can also ask me @uWaterlooEcon but I will offer genuine shoulder shrugs and share in your confusion.

Sharing our Loonie

A while back there was some talk about Iceland adopting the Loonie.  I read an article on The Economist declaring that few barriers exist for Iceland adopting the Loonie.  Also for the most part, Icelanders were split down the middle between adopting the Euro vs the Loonie.

There is a link back to the University of Waterloo here!  Robert Mundell, famous for the Mundell-Fleming Model we learn in ECON 202, won a Nobel prize for his work on Optimal Currency Areas.  How is this a connection?  He taught here! 

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

How can one country just adopt our Loonie?  What does this mean for Canada?  Where would we find more information about this?  A great place to start is ECON 231. Ah HA! You thought this article would be enlightening but you were wrong!

I have taken ECON 231 with Prof Bloemhof and I enjoyed it.  It's a bit different than the courses we are used to as university students but experiencing something different, new and exciting can't be all bad, right?  If you want more of the regular flavour I have spoken with Prof Blit and he seems like a cool guy.

So if you are interested in Trade Theory and International Economics ECON 231 is offered every term!

Sources

http://www.economist.com/node/21549967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mundell